This Clare Maguire one is awesome. She opened for Hurts last week and is seriously powerful. This is a remix of her first tune and she concedes it's better because she played this one. Awesome track.
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So in full this time. Gotta love this sort of stuff, Stars rock.
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The plan is
Card + my usual levels of off the cuff poetic brilliance
Chocolate. Butlers cafe or something similar
Flowers....god knows but I'm not paying 60 quid for a dozen roses
M&S meal thing, perpared and ready for her when she gets home (about 9.30)from work after cleaning the house.
A few ballons???? (insert senor chang gif here)
some kind of present?
def get a card, us wimmin hate the card being forgotten. I went down to look at the M&S meal and ALL the starters are fish, I am not a fan of fish so was disappointed. Getting a nice meal prepared and a clean house is +++ brownie points. Balloons, not a big fan, bit cheesy
When it comes to flowers, a nice 12 quid bunch from M&S with lilies etc is just as nice and more fragrant.
As for a present. How about a nice wee necklace?
If you are getting choccies, make sure she not on a diet as there is nothing worse than getting a box and feeling obliged to ear them.
Make the table all nice and romantic and a nice bottle of vino and dim the lights and make her feel special and you will be rewarded
def get a card, us wimmin hate the card being forgotten. I went down to look at the M&S meal and ALL the starters are fish, I am not a fan of fish so was disappointed. Getting a nice meal prepared and a clean house is +++ brownie points. Balloons, not a big fan, bit cheesy
When it comes to flowers, a nice 12 quid bunch from M&S with lilies etc is just as nice and more fragrant.
As for a present. How about a nice wee necklace?
If you are getting choccies, make sure she not on a diet as there is nothing worse than getting a box and feeling obliged to ear them.
Make the table all nice and romantic and a nice bottle of vino and dim the lights and make her feel special and you will be rewarded
LOL why do I get the feeling this is not being directed at DP.
def get a card, us wimmin hate the card being forgotten. I went down to look at the M&S meal and ALL the starters are fish, I am not a fan of fish so was disappointed. Getting a nice meal prepared and a clean house is +++ brownie points. Balloons, not a big fan, bit cheesy
When it comes to flowers, a nice 12 quid bunch from M&S with lilies etc is just as nice and more fragrant.
As for a present. How about a nice wee necklace?
If you are getting choccies, make sure she not on a diet as there is nothing worse than getting a box and feeling obliged to ear them.
Make the table all nice and romantic and a nice bottle of vino and dim the lights and make her feel special and you will be rewarded
LOL why do I get the feeling this is not being directed at DP.
Lads, given the stack of Brownie points FD builds up to get let out to gamble and degenate with you lot on a regular basis I'm sure he's gotten this Valentines day crap sorted out already.
Is that how you crash a wedding? yes it is, Bionic Barry, yes it is.
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Getting a wireless router, withinstallation in our new office. 3 computers on the network
Is €195inc VAT ok?
ripped off imo
Zod could give you a better idea, costs could be well below 50 quid, rest is time.
Depends a lot on the router though
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Saw this posted on FB and been watchin it for last 15 mins, Ronaldo was a beast. Ridiculous the amount of times he rounds keepers to score. Also how did he not win a champions league
My girlfriend will be getting exactly what she got last year. NOTHING.
I'm not gonna be obliged to care about her more on the 14th of Feb by some load of chocolate and flower selling cunts. Valentines day really is one of the truly great retailing scams which seems to get more ridiculous every year. So good luck to whoever is running around like a headcase on a cold shitty Monday in February trying to make some kind of stupid gesture that will be forgotten about all too soon.
My girlfriend will be getting exactly what she got last year. NOTHING.
I'm not gonna be obliged to care about her more on the 14th of Feb by some load of chocolate and flower selling cunts. Valentines day really is one of the truly great retailing scams which seems to get more ridiculous every year. So good luck to whoever is running around like a headcase on a cold shitty Monday in February trying to make some kind of stupid gesture that will be forgotten about all too soon.
yeah, but putting in minimal effort on that cold February Monday will get you reward for when you want to go on that long saturday night of degeneracy instead of going to her friends house for a dinner party in March.
Is that how you crash a wedding? yes it is, Bionic Barry, yes it is.
My girlfriend will be getting exactly what she got last year. NOTHING.
I'm not gonna be obliged to care about her more on the 14th of Feb by some load of chocolate and flower selling cunts. Valentines day really is one of the truly great retailing scams which seems to get more ridiculous every year. So good luck to whoever is running around like a headcase on a cold shitty Monday in February trying to make some kind of stupid gesture that will be forgotten about all too soon.
You old romantic you
I agree and to an extent the gf does as well. However, logic plays little part in these things
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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My girlfriend will be getting exactly what she got last year. NOTHING.
I'm not gonna be obliged to care about her more on the 14th of Feb by some load of chocolate and flower selling cunts. Valentines day really is one of the truly great retailing scams which seems to get more ridiculous every year. So good luck to whoever is running around like a headcase on a cold shitty Monday in February trying to make some kind of stupid gesture that will be forgotten about all too soon.
Personally I always enjoy giving a nice gift, making her feel special and the blowjob I have earned
My girlfriend will be getting exactly what she got last year. NOTHING.
I'm not gonna be obliged to care about her more on the 14th of Feb by some load of chocolate and flower selling cunts. Valentines day really is one of the truly great retailing scams which seems to get more ridiculous every year. So good luck to whoever is running around like a headcase on a cold shitty Monday in February trying to make some kind of stupid gesture that will be forgotten about all too soon.
Lads, given the stack of Brownie points FD builds up to get let out to gamble and degenate with you lot on a regular basis I'm sure he's gotten this Valentines day crap sorted out already.
Redjoker's new blog given me a new hunger for this Masters!
link?
Where did he end up going?
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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This Clare Maguire one is awesome. She opened for Hurts last week and is seriously powerful. This is a remix of her first tune and she concedes it's better because she played this one. Awesome track.
Politely and rationally explain to your girlfriend that Valentine's Day is a made-up holiday aggressively marketed by companies like Hallmark and Interflora to drive profits. Therefore it would be immoral and hypocritical of you, as a free thinker and socialist, to support their endeavours. I'm sure she'll be ok with this if you can just explain it properly.
"I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. Thompson
Politely and rationally explain to your girlfriend that Valentine's Day is a made-up holiday aggressively marketed by companies like Hallmark and Interflora to drive profits. Therefore it would be immoral and hypocritical of you, as a free thinker and socialist, to support their endeavours. I'm sure she'll be ok with this if you can just explain it properly.
only works if you reference an indymedia article, preferably one you wrote yourself.
Is that how you crash a wedding? yes it is, Bionic Barry, yes it is.
that ronaldo video has got me thinking, would there be any interest in a champions league type fantasy football draft? 20 or so of us, randomised picks and we pick an all time 11 then put them up against each in knock out format like the music king or the one we did in the old soccer forum.
girlfriend said shes cooking me steak caus its vals day etc - Sorely tempted to point out this really isnt a big deal considering she cooks me dinner every day. Also I went and bought a card AND flowers which never happens really
yeah, but putting in minimal effort on that cold February Monday will get you reward for when you want to go on that long saturday night of degeneracy instead of going to her friends house for a dinner party in March.
My relationship isn't run on a scoring system. Also Lol @ dinner parties as well.
Saw this posted on FB and been watchin it for last 15 mins, Ronaldo was a beast. Ridiculous the amount of times he rounds keepers to score. Also how did he not win a champions league
Lol, used to try rounding the keeper all the time and generally ended up making a fool of myself, Terrell Owens style celebrations on the rare occasions it worked though. Ronaldo was an absolute monster, used to love watching him.
only works if you reference an indymedia article, preferably one you wrote yourself.
Bonus points if you write it under a female pseudonym, that way you can take the feminist angle and claim Valentine's Day is just another method of exerting masculine control. Clearly all strong women should insist their partners treat it as just another day.
"I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. Thompson
Bonus points if you write it under a female pseudonym, that way you can take the feminist angle and claim Valentine's Day is just another method of exerting masculine control. Clearly all strong women should insist their partners treat it as just another day.
you can also use this to get out of buying a diamond engagement ring.
Is that how you crash a wedding? yes it is, Bionic Barry, yes it is.
Top gear was decent this week maybe its getting back to the good days. Spartacus was awsome as ever. Episodes is starting to annoy me.
Valentines day is great. Sky rockets in flight.........
Yeah Top Gear was alright. Though if Richard Hammond doesn't get rid of those 'First year student DIT' beads around his neck I will just refuse to watch the thing altogether. So fucking tilting. Episodes isnt great I've just kind of been watching it for the sake of it. Its just not really funny tbh.
Finally started Watching Parks and Recreation. First season is alright. Halfway through season 2 now and it has really come into its own. Great cast and some really funny moments.
Well, a very, very heavay, uh heavy dwe...uh bertation tonight. We had a very darriss, darrision...but let's go hit, terris taison dos cablit the headlapit.
on an unrelated topic for those that hate dinner parties - do bbq's count as dinner parties, I know they are outside in the sun and all but lots of people getting hammered whilst eating sounds suspiciously like a dinner party. I personally dont mind the whole dinner party thing, much prefer when its a load of food in the middle or a buffet style affair as having to wait for a friend to serve me is weird but getting hammered with friends on a full stomach. Whats the big problem.
Last time I was talking to him he was working for that Susquehanna crowd but he had just gotten the go ahead to do whatever their final training to become a proper trader was.
He should have finished that up around xmas so I assume it's an update to that effect, can't get on to Leggo from work.
Anybody do a copy/paste for me I'd appreciate it btw...
Well, a very, very heavay, uh heavy dwe...uh bertation tonight. We had a very darriss, darrision...but let's go hit, terris taison dos cablit the headlapit.
The internet teaches me something new every day, and today the lesson is - strokes, brain hemorrhages and neurological failures are hilarious.
"I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. Thompson
Last time I was talking to him he was working for that Susquehanna crowd but he had just gotten the go ahead to do whatever their final training to become a proper trader was.
He should have finished that up around xmas so I assume it's an update to that effect, can't get on to Leggo from work.
Anybody do a copy/paste for me I'd appreciate it btw...
So I’m back home after a long 10 weeks in Philadelphia. The course had positives and negatives but was overall just really long. There were 11 in the group; 5 from the main Bala office (just outside Philadelphia), 4 from Chicago and 2 from Dublin. There was a poker tournament throughout the 10 weeks with a mix of stud, razz, stud 8, limit hold’em, no limit hold’em and Omaha 8. I think I ran somewhat badly for most of it but in the last week I was joint 1st, had a nice up day and managed to hold on for the win. I usually don’t like playing poker that much (thinking about it is far more interesting) but actually enjoyed playing the tournament.
They put us in the Homewood Suites by Hilton which was pretty depressing, the dinners were inedible and the internet was like something from the 80s. It would have been better if there was no internet, when it’s there you want to use it but it took an eternity for pages to load which was just super frustrating.
The instructors took us out to dinner one night and they gave us the company credit card afterwards. We went to R2L and had Dom Perignon and some other $300/$400 bottles of champagne. Pretty funny to have a group of 23 – 26 year olds come in and blow a couple grand in a few hours. We got the credit card another two times, went to R2L again and then went to Dave and Busters to play unlimited games and bet on it.
The first 4 weeks of class we mainly had lectures, mostly on option theory. We had talks from people in the various departments and desks in the firm which was easily the most useful part of the whole course.
I went to Atlantic City the first weekend, reconfirmed that live 1-2 is the most soul crushing experience ever and finished up about $500. I went to New York as well; spent most of the time in Macy’s getting Christmas presents but went to Time Square as well. We had planned to go back to do some more sightseeing but never got around to it.
Some of the heads of the various departments were going over to the Dublin office for the weekend to go to the Christmas party. Dinner, free bar and putting everybody up in a hotel, recession isn’t all bad I guess! Anyway, two of the people who were supposed to be going dropped out so me and the other guy from Dublin were offered the seats. We assumed that since some of the directors and partners were going that we’d probably be flying first class, instead they took a fucking private jet!!
It was ridiculous. No queues, no security checks, we showed our passports to the pilot and went straight on. There was a bed in the back and a buffet with cheese, fruit, sushi, etc. Everybody else went to sleep but I was like a 12 year old and way too excited to sleep. I spent a lot of the time in the cockpit chatting with the pilots. I saw Venus rising, asked them to dim the control panel so I could see the Milky Way and watched the Sun rise. I was feeling hungry around 3am so the air hostess fixed me up with some brie and crackers, tastes better on a private jet obv .
Pretty sweet to see how the rich live, it could definitely spoil you if you let it but at the same time it’s incredibly motivating. The Christmas party was a lot of fun as well.
We had a week off over Christmas so I was flew back for that, no private jet this time though . A couple days after I got back a pipe burst next door due to the frost and our entire ground floor was flooded. We had to live upstairs for a few days, then the power was cut as well so we rented an apartment for a week while the landlord got everything fixed up.
For the last 6 weeks we had mock trading which is a trading game (I’ve outlined it in previous blogs). The first week and a half was “out loud” which is supposed to simulate the old style trading pits. However, we had to continually update all the options which was a little annoying since it’s mainly just delta adjusting when the stock moves and is something that traders never had to do in the real pits; if somebody wanted a market they’d just re-quote it rather than constantly updating an entire options surface.
After that we had electronic mock which was far more useful since the computer would take care of all the pricing and it was up to the trader to adjust all the parameters based on market flow. However, pretty much any explanation that we gave for doing a trade would be immediately shot down and criticized by the instructors.
The instructors frequently contradicted themselves and each other but never actually disagreed with each other which was absolutely ridiculous. If you had a group of traders discussing something as complex as an options trade or strategy you’d probably get as many different opinions as there are traders in the discussion. Despite claims that they wanted us to disagree with them we figured out after a week or two that there was only downside to it and generally kept quiet unless asked.
They took us to a couple of basketball games; we had a suite for the Sixers – Bulls game and the Sixers – Grizzlies game. Went to a shooting range and had a great time. Fired a 9mm, Colt .45, revolver and an assault rifle (it was either an M16 or M33, not sure), Also went to Pats and Genos to try the cheesesteaks, I thought Pats was better. While we’re on the subject of food, this will probably be a little controversial, but food in America is pretty awful. The only way I could eat healthily was to cook in the hotel and any type of quality food was pretty expensive. I’d imagine it would be almost impossible to eat well if you didn’t have a decent income. Some of the places that would be considered take-away in Ireland, like Subway, are considered “good” restaurants. It’s crazy how many people eat out regularly, I wouldn’t be surprised if in a couple generations a pretty large proportion of American grandmothers won’t know how to cook, something that would basically be unimaginable in Europe or Asia.
Anyway, the education program is given a lot of importance in the company and, while it’s definitely useful, it could be way more efficient. 10 weeks of not doing anything productive or feeling like I was really achieving anything is pretty tough. The only thing that prevented it from being completely unbearable was hanging out with the other people in the group. Most of the Bala people kept to themselves which was pretty annoying; they wouldn’t play the poker tournament after work, didn’t really go anywhere with the group, etc.
On the second last day we had reviews and one of the group was fired. It was a pretty big surprise but in a strange way it actually reaffirmed my faith in the company, in spite of the stuff they put us through. The guy didn’t improve at all and put in almost no effort. Even though you still have to put up with some nonsense and office politics, I have to believe that it’s a million times better than at most companies.
My review went very well, all positive comments. I’m going to be on the commodities/power desk but I’m not sure exactly what I’ll be doing yet. I’m taking a week off to spend with the family but I’m looking forward to getting back and doing something productive.
Valentines day is nonsense, as are all of these hallmark holidays designed to strip your pockets and leave you feeling either under appreciated or inadequate in some way.
Mind you I don't do birthday cards or xmas presents either so I think I'm generally just too logical for the whole thing.
For all the people complaining about "made up hallmark "holidays, dont buy into it then, get some paper and make a card yourself if the big corporations upset ye so much, stick it to them that way...too tight if you ask me...
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