Bad beat/Moan/Venting Thread - BBV Archive 1

[Keane]

How many posts do you think you could put up on boards in a day?
How long before it would get noticed?

Has to be a 30 second delay between posts (though you could write posts during this down time). So there are 2880 * 30 second time periods in 24 hours, obviously you aren't going to manage to post every 30 seconds on the money everytime.

You'd also probably be suicidal after 41 minutes.

I would be totally up for the challenge if I didn't have a life.

As it is I'm doing a bit of spamming today to see if we can entice anyone to the headsup league with my free money sig.

I reckon you could probably put up 1000 posts in a day.

[CHDad]

How many posts do you think you could put up on boards in a day?
How long before it would get noticed?

Has to be a 30 second delay between posts (though you could write posts during this down time). So there are 2880 * 30 second time periods in 24 hours, obviously you aren't going to manage to post every 30 seconds on the money everytime.

You'd also probably be suicidal after 41 minutes.

Time for bed Lottie

[Keane]

prop bet. Over under 2k maybe

Seems high to me - you'd run the risk of being banned because posting at that rate you'd be posting absolute nonsense more than likely.

I assume threads like count to a million would be banned.

[Lord Sir Banter]

What about G. Neville?
Or Neville Neville for that matter.

[Keane]

In case anyone has missed The Situation's music game over on the community forum...

[CHDad]

Seems high to me - you'd run the risk of being banned because posting at that rate you'd be posting absolute nonsense more than likely.

I assume threads like count to a million would be banned.

SOTS could do 1k a day easily

[Lazare]

What is the international equilavent of taking 10p out of your ma's purse when they weren't looking ?

Or robbing a pound note from your Da's pocket for 10 blue and a box of matches.

[Keane]

SOTS could do 1k a day easily

His posts per day ratio was up around 300 iirc.

[ArmaniJeans]

His posts per day ratio was up around 300 iirc.

18 per day

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=244240

though thats only taking into account one of his accounts.

[Lazare]

no need for the anti-semitism lads.

[Lord Sir Banter]

Think 2k is doable.
But that is ignoring getting banned for it, not sure how easily it would be picked up on, probably very.

According to wiki, there are 1350 forums on boards, but this both public and private forums.

Time for bed Lottie

This.

[Raoul Duke III]

my horse in Cork NC has tightened up again (4/1 into 3/1)

Mick Barry (Socialist)

should give us a decent sweat

[Lazare]

Eh, am I right in thinking Sky Atlantic is only available with a Sky dish and not on NTL? I had been really looking forward to it dammit

Great shows, but the ads are a disgrace, 4 minute ad break every 8 or 9 mins.

You have to sky plus shows otherwise you would be driven mad.

I was driven mad watching boardwalk empire the other night, and I was able to FF the ads!

Even having to fast forward the ads every 8 minutes is a pain in the hole.

Meant to send a complaint email actually, thanks for reminding me.

[Emmet]

Results

77
80
88

SPOILER

45

Nice timing I think, first day I'm planning on drinking since 2011 started and the results come along

[hotspur]

It's hard to believe that in 2001 Fowler was only 26! In his mid twenties and he was already struggling with fitness, and Houllier wasn't starting him because he couldn't justify it (indeed Fowler was regularly benched during the treble season) on the basis of his form or motivation.

Lol

[ArmaniJeans]

It's hard to believe that in 2001 Fowler was only 26! In his mid twenties and he was already struggling with fitness, and Houllier wasn't starting him because he couldn't justify it (indeed Fowler was regularly benched during the treble season) on the basis of his form or motivation.

Its a bit morbid, but I often wonder how Fowler would have been remembered if he'd died in a car crash age 21.
I'd suspect that up to South Africa 2010 England would have been talking about how Fowler would have been their star forward in his 5th World Cup, almost certainly having set a new record of goals scored for an English player. And who knows what they would have won.

And us Liverpool fans would be talking about the jewel we were robbed of, and how huge swathes of the 90s and 00s MUFC dominance would have been different if only he'd lived.
He'd probably be talked of in terms of top10/20 players who ever lived.

[RichieM]

Results

77
80
88

SPOILER

45

Nice timing I think, first day I'm planning on drinking since 2011 started and the results come along

Average gives you a first so enjoy the piss up

[Keane]

18 per day

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=244240

though thats only taking into account one of his accounts.

That's waaaaay diluted by the amount of time he's been banned for.

[NewApproach]

Lads, last bump for the Fantasy Six Nations comp, link is in my sig. Signup by about 6 this evening! Only $20 in, and we are all rugby fish!

[Keane]

Good job Emmet.

[The Aul Switcharoo]

Well done Emmet...so spending 24/7 on this hasn't affected your grades!!

Lol at mine..

68
52
67
68
57

SPOILER

40

Pretty happy in fairness for the lack of effort I put in. In my defence too, the 40% one was on a wednesday and Thursday morning, was chronically boring and I couldnt do it while hungover. I tried to go in still shitfaced but alas I passed out in a friends gaf bout 10 minutes before it

[Keane]

These won't last long when the biting starts...

[Lord Sir Banter]

4 mins, 33 seconds imo

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHEtpT3UL4[/ame]

[Guest]

I have a Senate vote.

christ!
burn down the fucking senate!

Personally I reckon he should stay out of it, along with all the other people who are no longer involved with the club.
Sure he stayed at Liverpool and didn't want to leave. Leaving the rumours aside, he didn't really maintain a great fitness level.

It's hard to believe that in 2001 Fowler was only 26! In his mid twenties and he was already struggling with fitness, and Houllier wasn't starting him because he couldn't justify it (indeed Fowler was regularly benched during the treble season) on the basis of his form or motivation.

I mean, Fowler and McManaman* were were only 28 and 31 respectively when they arrived at City in 2003 and both looked used up and washed out!

I will say this: when he returned in January 2006 he did well. But even then he was only 31, and being so limited physically was just wrong.

A real underachiever.

People do tend to forget the the serious knee injury he suffered in the 98 season where the keeper nearly cut his leg in half

For all the "spice boy" guff he was never the same physically after that

As for Ged, He didn't fit into Ged's :cough: style of play

[Emmet]

Well done Emmet...so spending 24/7 on this hasn't affected your grades!!

Multi-tasking, time management etc.

All life skills that you should learn as soon as possible! Balancing distractions/work so that you can give both your fullest attention.



Man there are some incredible songs that not enough people have heard...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-0OSK9UK7M[/ame]

[Goose]

Interviewer: So I see there is a recent three month gap on your CV. Would you mind talking about what you were doing during that period?

Interviewee:> I went to over 20 interviews and dind't get anything not a sniff, lost all my confidence, I took to making clay models of my previous boss's face- and then just stamping on them. This morning I had a shower for the first time in 60 days. Oh, I went to Florida for two weeks,spending all of my savings..hence why I'm here. Did I mention I like the cinema, reading and sports?

[Keane]

Interviewer: So I see there is a recent three month gap on your CV. Would you mind talking about what you were doing during that period?

Interviewee:> I went to over 20 interviews and dind't get anything not a sniff, lost all my confidence, I took to making clay models of my previous boss's face- and then just stamping on them. This morning I had a shower for the first time in 60 days. Oh, I went to Florida for two weeks,spending all of my savings..hence why I'm here. Did I mention I like the cinema, reading and sports?

[AndyFatBastard]

I really think poker on the CV would depend on how much you need a job. I mean if you've been making a living playing poker for the last while and are just experimenting with the idea of going back to being a wage slave, then you'll be wanting to get the right job, not just any job. If you're busto and not sure where your next meal is going to come from then cover it up with some lies.

To the right boss - a guy who can recognise that feeding and sheltering yourself off the back of poker for any decent length of time is an achievement and demonstrates lots of admirable qualities - this would be a massive boon.

But a random boss in a random job might think you're a seedy degenerate with possible mob connections and the only reason you're looking for a job is because you went busto... well, that's something you'd like to avoid.

[DeadParrot]

Multi-tasking, time management etc.

All life skills that you should learn as soon as possible! Balancing distractions/work so that you can give both your fullest attention.



Man there are some incredible songs that not enough people have heard...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-0OSK9UK7M

Clarence Carter is a fucking legend
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVnH39UzI8[/ame]

[ionapaul]

Very interesting Vanity Fair article on Ireland and our woes:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103

Some great quotes in there about how we've given away our freedom, by selling houses to each other at obscene prices!

I've a few gaps between 'real jobs' on my CV and haven't had problems in the past (when jobs were easier to find), I'm guessing they might be a bigger issue now that employers have the power. Remember though that there will come a time when the balance of power shifts back to us wage slaves though!

It is a sick world where we must live our life in a manner that first and foremost makes us attractive to future employers; if I save a few years' salary and subsequently decide to take a year off to travel, read, watch TV and generally take it easy, I'm might be now practically unemployable! Our society wants us to be productive and tax generating little citizens until we are 65 (and probably rising to 70 in the future), only then can we have our fun... Fuck that shit.

[Sledgejammer]

Controversial statement, and I'm genuinely not trolling here but here goes...Robbie Fowler was never that good and only scored goals in an English league that was at it's lowest ebb in decades. He struggled at higher levels, bar one season his European record was awful, and he never made it at international level. His drop in form was more in the standard of the league improving and passing him by than anything else. Discuss.

It's worth an argument imo, yes he was a great finisher but how much of that was down to a league that was weaker in the mid 90s than any time in my memory and if results in Europe are a gauge then it was one of the weakest top flights in England in decades. Though of course his injury had a massive impact too, so I'm not stating an opinion either way, just trying to stimulate a bit of debate really.

Not expecting alot of love for this one...

[RasTa]

[Angry-Ball]

interviewer so i see after you graduated there is a 3 year gap in you employment history, would you care to elaborate on what you were doing during that time.

interviewee yeah no problem, see after i graduated i got offered a 3 year contract in the porn industry (then reach across the table for the for the admiring/jealous/envy/and in the case of a woman imagination filled knuckle touch)

[BobSloane]

Exciting turn and river

No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (2 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB (t1400)
Hero (SB) (t1600)

Hero's M: 53.33

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, 7
Hero bets t50, BB raises t140, Hero calls t100

Flop: (t320) A, A, 2 (2 players)
BB bets t1240 (All-In), Hero calls t1240

Turn: (t2800) 5 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t2800) A (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t2800

Results:
Hero had A, 7 (four of a kind, Aces).
BB had 5, 5 (full house, Aces over fives).
Outcome: Hero won t2800

[reilly110]

could anyone advise me on the best/most reliable mobile broadband packages
will be using it for poker mainly and browsing and downloading the odd tv series

living in leixlip(dont know whether this makes a difference)

thanks

[kakak1]

Tried the patches myself a few months ago, bought a 6 week supply and only got to use 2 patches, they were giving me a terrible rash around the area I was applying them.
Gonna give the gum a whirl next I think.

Danny I had the same problem with the patches & that gum is really sickening.

As you know I smoked all my life (about 45 years, but don't tell Richie Lawlor) & coming home from the Killarney poker festival in early October 2010 I could hardly draw my breath I smoked so much & also had a cold the same time. I said fcuk this, went on the Nicorette inhaler the next day & haven't smoked a cigarette since.

I find them great because smoking is a habit & with the inhaler you're doing something with your hand & your mouth (at my age the choices get limited).

Give them a go I think they are the business

[AndyFatBastard]

Very interesting Vanity Fair article on Ireland and our woes:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103

Some great quotes in there about how we've given away our freedom, by selling houses to each other at obscene prices!

Saw this on a mate's blog this morning. It's a little hyperbolic to say the least, but was a good read.

I've a few gaps between 'real jobs' on my CV and haven't had problems in the past (when jobs were easier to find), I'm guessing they might be a bigger issue now that employers have the power. Remember though that there will come a time when the balance of power shifts back to us wage slaves though!

It is a sick world where we must live our life in a manner that first and foremost makes us attractive to future employers; if I save a few years' salary and subsequently decide to take a year off to travel, read, watch TV and generally take it easy, I'm might be now practically unemployable! Our society wants us to be productive and tax generating little citizens until we are 65 (and probably rising to 70 in the future), only then can we have our fun... Fuck that shit.

Agreed 100%.

[LuckyLloyd]

Lol

You're right, excuse me. It is actually correct to refer to it as the "quintuple calendar year".

[Aya14]

A tentative bit of word to make some money for the weekend.

Captain Dimitrios 4.00 Lingfield

[LuckyLloyd]

Controversial statement, and I'm genuinely not trolling here but here goes...Robbie Fowler was never that good and only scored goals in an English league that was at it's lowest ebb in decades. He struggled at higher levels, bar one season his European record was awful, and he never made it at international level. His drop in form was more in the standard of the league improving and passing him by than anything else. Discuss.

It's worth an argument imo, yes he was a great finisher but how much of that was down to a league that was weaker in the mid 90s than any time in my memory and if results in Europe are a gauge then it was one of the weakest top flights in England in decades. Though of course his injury had a massive impact too, so I'm not stating an opinion either way, just trying to stimulate a bit of debate really.

Not expecting alot of love for this one...

Meh, 22 goals in 71 appearances at the International / European club level doesn't hurt your argument.

That said, he did have a habit of scoring in the toughest Premiership games at crucial times. He wasn't merely padding his record against Swindon or Norwich, etc.

[RoadSweeper]

Any one have any experience from http://swappa.com ?

[Valor]

Lol, Union of Students in Ireland announces campaign to register 50000 students to vote ahead of the Elections, they will be in Colleges across IReland for a 2 weeks period starting from January 28th. Guards would be onsite to speed up the registration process and make it legal etc. I emailed UCD SU 2 days ago asking when they would be in UCD, and they said well actually USI were just co ordinatig the publicity for the campaign, and that I could go in and get a form in UCD SU and bring it go a Guarda station and yesterday was the last day for sending the form off

I was like, wtf, the press release said it would have Guards present on campus to avoid the hassle of having to do that etc? Response is that "Unfortunately the Gardaí were too stretched to be of much assistance as the schools rugby has been on this week apparently, which was unfortunate."

Priorities imo

[Lazare]

A tentative bit of word to make some money for the weekend.

Captain Dimitrios 4.00 Lingfield

Stuck a score on at 9/4 gl gl

[hotspur]

You're right, excuse me. It is actually correct to refer to it as the "quintuple calendar year".

Well I suppose the Charity Shield and UEFA Super Cup wins were in the vaunted Liverpool tradition of winning cups where they didn't have to play many games. Harkens back to the glory days when Liverpool would take down the European Cup by beating the champions of Luxembourg, Norway, and then a tricky final against some Belgian giants.

[Flushdraw]

Great shows, but the ads are a disgrace, 4 minute ad break every 8 or 9 mins.

You have to sky plus shows otherwise you would be driven mad.

I was driven mad watching boardwalk empire the other night, and I was able to FF the ads!

Even having to fast forward the ads every 8 minutes is a pain in the hole.

Meant to send a complaint email actually, thanks for reminding me.

Watch it on Sky Anytime. No ads

[Lazare]

Stuck a score on at 9/4 gl gl

Gick. 3rd

[hotspur]

A tentative bit of word to make some money for the weekend.

Captain Dimitrios 4.00 Lingfield

I'm gonna have to request that the horse tipsters keep it to the horse tips thread. You're costing me too much impulsive money.

[Aya14]

Gick. 3rd

Ya poor run

[CHDad]

Controversial statement, and I'm genuinely not trolling here but here goes...Robbie Fowler was never that good and only scored goals in an English league that was at it's lowest ebb in decades. He struggled at higher levels, bar one season his European record was awful, and he never made it at international level. His drop in form was more in the standard of the league improving and passing him by than anything else. Discuss.

It's worth an argument imo, yes he was a great finisher but how much of that was down to a league that was weaker in the mid 90s than any time in my memory and if results in Europe are a gauge then it was one of the weakest top flights in England in decades. Though of course his injury had a massive impact too, so I'm not stating an opinion either way, just trying to stimulate a bit of debate really.

Not expecting alot of love for this one...

Correct as usual imo.

[Guest]

Controversial statement, and I'm genuinely not trolling here but here goes...Robbie Fowler was never that good and only scored goals in an English league that was at it's lowest ebb in decades. He struggled at higher levels, bar one season his European record was awful, and he never made it at international level. His drop in form was more in the standard of the league improving and passing him by than anything else. Discuss.

It's worth an argument imo, yes he was a great finisher but how much of that was down to a league that was weaker in the mid 90s than any time in my memory and if results in Europe are a gauge then it was one of the weakest top flights in England in decades. Though of course his injury had a massive impact too, so I'm not stating an opinion either way, just trying to stimulate a bit of debate really.

Not expecting alot of love for this one...

can't see why liverpool fans would give a toss

You are however undermining the achievements of Arsenal and United in that period

[Zuroph]

This torrent episode downloader thing is brilliant! Automatically bringing in all the shows as the new episodes are released, I'm doing away with sky altogether next month.

[RasTa]

C'mon the draw on Sunday anyway. How long is Carrol out for?

2-2

[Wesley Harms]

http://www.wrestlingname.com/

[Guest]

You're right, excuse me. It is actually correct to refer to it as the "quintuple calendar year".

Jesus Llyod, yer a bit shite at this arn't ya

I supposes that is why I had to stop beating you with the Rafa shaped stick and posting (some) stuff I didn't believe about Roy to put you in your Rafa shaped box

Watch!

Lol

Well I suppose the Charity Shield and UEFA Super Cup wins were in the vaunted Liverpool tradition of winning cups where they didn't have to play many games. Harkens back to the glory days when Liverpool would take down the European Cup by beating the champions of Luxembourg, Norway, and then a tricky final against some Belgian giants.

ya ya, come back to me when spurs have actually won some shitty meaningless cups, are no longer some shower of 1 in the year DVD producing dreamers who have to kick little kids off there running track in the hope of EVER being a club worth talking about

Jimmy Greaves still playing for ye?
I heard he was good!

see!

[Zosma]

found it.

[The C Kid]

http://www.wrestlingname.com/

Cowboy the ambassador. I like it.

Finishing move will be The Diplomatic Press, or the Ferrero Rocher.

[CHDad]

C'mon the draw on Sunday anyway. How long is Carrol out for?

2-2

5-0 Chelsea

[Wesley Harms]

Cowboy the ambassador. I like it.

Finishing move will be The Diplomatic Press, or the Ferrero Rocher.

I got The Grand Bear. Suppose my finishing move woulf be obvious then.

[Lazare]

Watch it on Sky Anytime. No ads

Balls, didn't know it was there. I wonder will they stick tomorrow nights ep up there, doubt it though.

Good show so far I likes.

[GingerMilla]

Danny I had the same problem with the patches & that gum is really sickening.

As you know I smoked all my life (about 45 years, but don't tell Richie Lawlor) & coming home from the Killarney poker festival in early October 2010 I could hardly draw my breath I smoked so much & also had a cold the same time. I said fcuk this, went on the Nicorette inhaler the next day & haven't smoked a cigarette since.

I find them great because smoking is a habit & with the inhaler you're doing something with your hand & your mouth (at my age the choices get limited).

Give them a go I think they are the business

Ditto on the use of the nicotine inhaler as a crutch here. I'm surprised not to see more of them in use, particularly at poker tournaments where the smoking habit is very prevalent amongst the players. I played the deepstack on Wednesday and there must have been a hundred people outside smoking during the break. For a ex-smoker its murder after the break particularly when the smokers return to the tables and this is where the inhaler kicks in.

I smoked for thirty years and like yourself, kakak, gave them up in mid October after getting up one morning and finding it difficult to breathe properly. It was diagnosed a week later that I had a number of small clots on my lung. I spent a week in hospital and am now on a blood thinner for at least six months. I had been off the cigs for four months in 2007 after a previous scare but in a moment of madness or extreme weakness I went back on them despite a warning from my gp, and I kid you not ,that I was better off injecting myself with heroin on a daily basis than going back on the cigs. Ok maybe he was exaggerating but at the same time he was obviously conveying a serious message regarding my future well being which I choose to ignore. I ended up having a sly cigarette under the railway bridge on Townsend st at lunch time as I knew I'd lose the respect of my work colleagues if I was seen smoking again.

Someone posted yesterday that they were giving up in a weeks time. I was saying that to all and sundry for twenty years. Seriously my message is, do it now! Smoking is a curse and will undoubtedly cause serious health issues and subsequent loss of quality of life for those addicted, in the future. Also if there are underlying health problems, the smoking habit will exasperate them. I wish I had never smoked and still remember the 'na caitheamh tabac' add on rte from the 70's. Its not as If I didn't know what I was doing to myself at the end of the day.

Anyone who read Moneymakers' recent log update will have been impressed at how hard he worked for 10 months to get himself back in shape after basically 'letting himself go'.
Alas, the long term effects of cigarette smoking are not reversible, damge to the lungs and arteries.

Maybe I'm a bit over the top here but I hope someone gets the message. I was knocked out of the deepstack the other night on the 4th last hand and boy did I need that nicotine inhaler.