Bad beat/Moan/Venting Thread - BBV Archive 1

[Wombatman]

Just enjoy it Stunty, I know you hate golf but nothing beats a game in glorious weather, nice shower straight after and a few beers on the balcony watching monkeys play in to the 18th.

True that.

Should get an IPB outing going.

Pokers and golf combo.

Maybe something like.......
Galway Bay Golf Resort doing €25 fees on Friday. Cracking course.
Then onto the Galway Bay Casino maybe.

Or maybe play somewhere round Carlow, Killerig? and on to the Atlantis.

[Zod]

quarter both halve sandwiches to make 2 sandwiches then, also does this work no matter what fillings are used.

What kind of insanity are you proposing here?

[a-k-47]

tilt call pf from same spew tard fml

PokerStars Pot-Limit Omaha, 2.2 Tournament, 6000/12000 Blinds (5 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP (t315500)
Hero (Button) (t123556)
SB (t133736)
BB (t136676)
UTG (t264532)

Hero's M: 6.86

Preflop: Hero is Button with 4, Q, 10, J
1 fold, MP bets t24000, Hero calls t24000, SB calls t18000, 1 fold

Flop: (t84000) 3, A, K (3 players)
SB checks, MP bets t24000, Hero raises to t99556 (All-In), 1 fold, MP calls t75556

Turn: (t283112) A (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t283112) 8 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t283112

Results:
Hero had 4, Q, 10, J (one pair, Aces).
MP had 2, 4, 4, 5 (two pair, Aces and fours).
Outcome: t283112 returned to MP

Snap call ftw

[Loopz]

cut off the crusts and we can replace the panini in the posh sandwich stakes, put cheap tasteless fillings in ie. cucumber to maximise profits.

[TomD]

for some reason I agreed to go on a work golf outing on Thursday. Now the fuckers are practicing putting in the office and giving tips to the ladies on grips etc.

this is gonna be unbearable, I think I should turn up in clothes that will get me barred from participating. Any suggestions?

Minstrel, they dont allow the blicks to play

[Strewelpeter]

Examiner has a piece on Commuter / Negative Equity hell today the punchline on this story is fantastic

John, 38, a native Dubliner, is a public servant in Galway city. But high property prices there forced him to look eastwards for a suitable home for his wife and three children. At the peak of the property boom in 2007, John bought a three-bedroom semi-detached house on the Esker Glen estate in Drumlish on the outskirts of Longford town.

"I mean, I bought the house for €320,000 , and in total I owe almost half a million in loans. Now the thing is," says John with a chuckle, "I will never actually be able to pay all that off. €500,000: it’s a cartoon figure."

With every passing budget, things get tighter for John and his family. Although his gross salary of €60,000 sounds high, it’s his take-home pay that interests him. "In the last 18 months alone I’m down €1,000 a month. But my biggest fear is not the universal social charge or taxes — it’s the European Central Bank. If they start upping rates again I won’t be able to put food on the table."

The daily grind takes its toll, confesses John. Bleary-eyed, he draws the curtains onto pitch dark mornings at 6am so he can be in work for 9am. "But if you get stuck coming into Roscommon, then it can take forever to get back out onto the N63. So if I leave after 7am the traffic is often terrible and I don’t get in on time."

Staggering home from work around 7pm, John finds himself with little energy left to engage with his three children. Most evenings he just collapses onto the couch with a glass of wine, and tries his best to involve himself with the kids at weekends when he has more time.

Work-related stress is a growing problem for people with these marathon commutes, says John. "This is a time-bomb, if you ask me. I see myself and most of my colleagues. We’re knackered all the time. Ever since the Croke Park deal went through, workloads have ballooned. And it’s only going to get worse."

But when he compares his with others’ situation, he sees himself as "lucky". He can work from home one day a week, and has recently begun car-pooling with a colleague who also works in Galway to off-set some of the costs of the 250km commute.

Yet John admits he feels "embarrassed" that he bought into all the "orthodoxies" about property investment during the boom years, and this embarrassment explains why he will only speak about his situation off-the-record. In hindsight, John wishes he had never made some of his rash choices.

Shortly after a chance meeting with an old school friend in a pub in Leeson Street in Dublin in 2006, John was convinced to buy two apartments in a Bulgarian coastal town off the plans. As the market crashed in 2008, he swiftly offloaded the apartments, making a loss of €50,000. His school friend guaranteed him he would make a minimum €100,000 on the investment.

Nevertheless, this hasn’t stopped John from seeing the funny side to things. "There’s something surreal about living where I do now. There’s a guy in my estate, and he drives around in a 06-Reg Maserati sportscar. Bono drives a Maserati. And you have this guy in a Longford estate driving one. But he hasn’t lost his sense of humour. On the back windscreen is a bumper sticker:

SPOILER

‘Seemed like a good idea at the time’

."

Read more: http://examiner.ie/features/driven-t...#ixzz1Jy5WtZPQ

[Lord Sir Banter]

Skipped to the punchline, boo-yea.

[Wombatman]

Quality Sun front page today

- Devil otter ate my mini van -

[Strewelpeter]

Skipped to the punchline, boo-yea.

OK thanks to you the next lad has to work for it

[Lord Sir Banter]

OK thanks to you the next lad has to work for it

I could be your security consultant.
I also went back and re-read the rest, not bad.

[Raoul Duke III]

Where are you playing?

somewhere in Wicklow, as you can probably tell my interest levels are sub-zero but 'everyone' has to go

[tylerdurden94]

Finished Season 1 of Arrested Development this morning have to say its good, Will Arnetts character just cracks me up time to move onto Season 2.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2kc4oZTVU[/ame]

[RichieM]

sandwich talk has me hungry and waiting for a candidate that I am guessing is a no show. Some people deserve there time in the dole que if they cant even pick up the phone and let me know they cant be arsed coming in.

Also who ever was levelling excellent level. As if anyone would believe that cutting a sandwich in 2 makes 2 sandwiches. That would mean a triple decker is 1.5 sandwiches or if you cut it in half 3/4. Good thing Emmet is off the BBV as trying to consider 1/2 + 1/2 = 2 would destroy his mind before his Masters exams.

unsuitable atire for the golf course is easy home made demim short shorts, football boots with extra long stubs and of course black up to make sure and offend. I guess your work mates may look at you a little strange but you can say you were born again over Easter and play the Messiah card.

[RasTa]

unsuitable atire for the golf course is easy home made demim short shorts, football boots with extra long stubs and of course black up to make sure and offend. I guess your work mates may look at you a little strange but you can say you were born again over Easter and play the Messiah card.

Mexican pointy boots will do the trick

[V for Vendetta]

for some reason I agreed to go on a work golf outing on Thursday. Now the fuckers are practicing putting in the office and giving tips to the ladies on grips etc.

this is gonna be unbearable, I think I should turn up in clothes that will get me barred from participating. Any suggestions?

Golf clubs are so fucked now that it's a bit like the SE. Anything goes.

[Zod]

Also who ever was levelling excellent level. As if anyone would believe that cutting a sandwich in 2 makes 2 sandwiches. That would mean a triple decker is 1.5 sandwiches or if you cut it in half 3/4. Good thing Emmet is off the BBV as trying to consider 1/2 + 1/2 = 2 would destroy his mind before his Masters exams.

no, you have it wrong. If you have a load of diagonal cut sandwiches on a plate, and someone says, "take a sandwich" would you take two to make up "one" or would you just take one section and call it a sandwich?

BTW this does not apply if the sandwiches are cut horozontally.

[Loopz]

epic golf attire

SPOILER

[Raoul Duke III]

Golf clubs are so fucked now that it's a bit like the SE. Anything goes.

at least the sun is shining I suppose

I don't think the SE is fucked anyway, it's a fuck-up but that's entirely different

[tylerdurden94]

Its a pretty good pic alright, I like this one.

Since my self imposed "reading the BBV" ban only lasted a couple of weeks, I may as well ask this question here.

I've to send a package to my brother in Australia, some books and a netbook. What's my best option? Intuition tells me it's not An Post, but I could be wrong.

Thanks

Why the self imposed ban?

As for your shipping troubles, Jackyback or Lao Lao would be the ones to speak to.

[Zuroph]

some of these HAVE to be fake..

[V for Vendetta]

at least the sun is shining I suppose

I don't think the SE is fucked anyway, it's a fuck-up but that's entirely different

I meant the SE has also ditched it's dress code. As for its financial status I couldn't say.

[Raoul Duke III]

I meant the SE has also ditched it's dress code. As for its financial status I couldn't say.

well if you do say, Dermo will probably see you in court

he doesn't like to be called 'Dermo' either

[tylerdurden94]

at least the sun is shining I suppose

I don't think the SE is fucked anyway, it's a fuck-up but that's entirely different

I kinda think the SE is fucked for the mean time its gonna take something huge and drastic for that place to get any kind of credit going again.

I have never been a fan of The Fitz or The Jackpot and they are doing some great things for their customers while the SE does absolutely fuck all compared to those two. The Fitz had a sick deal going qualify in their sats for the IO and be the person to last the longest and get free entry into the EOM for a year, fucking hell that is sick good I'm sure they qualified a few but nothing crazy and could easily be done, The Jackpot running crazy freerolls all the time for various things great incentives to play in these places.

I found myself bumping a Fitz thread the other day that's how good I think there offer was, I honestly don't know with the SE for all the time I have for it it also bugs the fuck out of me!

I meant the SE has also ditched it's dress code. As for its financial status I couldn't say.

Wouldn't say they ditched it, I think its more to do with when you become a face you can get away with a little more than others.

[The Situation]

I got my 2nd ever hole in one today. What's weird is that it was on the exact same hole and course, number 13 of Spawell's P&P course. Even when I don't hole in one it I'm never far from the flag. Strange as there isn't that much varience in hole layouts and otherwise I played like a Sunday Rory...

[DeadParrot]

Totally OT but tried that http://proxy.chris-pc.com/ software you posted earlier and could not get iPlayer to play even though I chose the UK Ideas?

PM sent

[Lazare]

Thanks a lot Kayroo for that History of Rome podcast site, fantastic stuff.

I'm sticking them all on my ipod for beach listening next week.

[Kayroo]

Thanks a lot Kayroo for that History of Rome podcast site, fantastic stuff.

I'm sticking them all on my ipod for beach listening next week.

I listen to them while driving. They really are exceptional.

[Raoul Duke III]

The Nyberg Report is out

good start

Much points to the development of a national speculative mania in Ireland during the Period, centred on the property market. As in most manias, those caught up in it could believe and have trust in extraordinary things, such as unlimited real wealth from selling property to each other on credit

[Lazare]

I had never heard of Game of Thrones until last night browsing the BBV, I switched on Sky Atlantic and I had missed the first 10 or 12 mins.

QQ,

SPOILER

who was the guy at the end that threw the kid from the window? I had thought he was Bean's character's brother, but I remembered he asked the kid his age.

[Zod]

would someone who has ghostface Ste's mobile number send me a PM? need to send him my number to take a look at a laptop for him

[Zod]

I had never heard of Game of Thrones until last night browsing the BBV, I switched on Sky Atlantic and I had missed the first 10 or 12 mins.

QQ,

SPOILER

who was the guy at the end that threw the kid from the window? I had thought he was Bean's character's brother, but I remembered he asked the kid his age.

SPOILER

He was the guy who Bean had the run in with at the feast

also

SPOILER

the director seems to have a fascination for doggy style

[Silver-Tiger]

I got my 2nd ever hole in one today. What's weird is that it was on the exact same hole and course, number 13 of Spawell's P&P course. Even when I don't hole in one it I'm never far from the flag. Strange as there isn't that much varience in hole layouts and otherwise I played like a Sunday Rory...

I have also aced this and was also my first ever hole in one. small town

[KevIRL]

Afternoon all, whats the craic?

[Lazare]

also

SPOILER

the director seems to have a fascination for doggy style

SPOILER

lol yeah, that wedding looked hella fun. Would love if Irish weddings were like that, banging random chicks doggy style in the middle of the hotel dancefloor, yeehaaaa

[The Situation]

I have also aced this and was also my first ever hole in one. small town

There must be something about the gradient of the green that makes it hole in one friendly, that's far too wierd to be a coincidence.

[Tar.Aldarion]

I had never heard of Game of Thrones until last night browsing the BBV, I switched on Sky Atlantic and I had missed the first 10 or 12 mins.

QQ,

SPOILER

who was the guy at the end that threw the kid from the window? I had thought he was Bean's character's brother, but I remembered he asked the kid his age.

SPOILER

Sounds like jaime lannister, who was banging his sister? I've not watched it yet

[Raoul Duke III]

A minority of people indicated that contrarian views were both difficult to maintain during the long boom and unhealthy to present to boards or superiors. A number of people stated that had they implemented or consistently supported contrarian policies they may ultimately have lost their jobs, positions, or reputations.

.

[sligoboi]

Afternoon all, whats the craic?

Afternoon.

Craic or crack is a term for fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.[1][2] It is often used with the definite article – the craic.[1] The word has an unusual history; the form craic was borrowed into Irish from the English crack in the mid-20th century, and the Irish spelling was then reborrowed into English.[1] Under either spelling, the crack/craic has great cultural currency and significance in Ireland.

[KevIRL]

Many of you lot gonna be around the Burlington over the weekend? Playing or otherwise?

[CHDad]

Afternoon all, whats the craic?

Hello young Kevin.

[Silver-Tiger]

There must be something about the gradient of the green that makes it hole in one friendly, that's far too wierd to be a coincidence.

It's one of the easier holes on the course, if the flag is on the bottom level of the green(and it usually is) it's a birdie 6 or 7 times out of 10. There is no hard putt when it is there. It also is very easy on the eye from the tee-box, even the poorer player will look at it standing over it and fancy the shot.

[CHDad]

CHD and SHD are Jedward

Finkel you are treading a fine line.

[sligoboi]

Many of you lot gonna be around the Burlington over the weekend? Playing or otherwise?

Was going to try one sat but think I'll just play the CPT game in Sligo. Will rail from the comfort of the couch over the rest of the weekend. Ye blogging?

[Strewelpeter]

Thanks a lot Kayroo for that History of Rome podcast site, fantastic stuff.

I'm sticking them all on my ipod for beach listening next week.

Link please

Many of you lot gonna be around the Burlington over the weekend? Playing or otherwise?

Might be able to manage a bit of otherwise, not sure yet what my schedule is going to be.

[Kayroo]

Link please

http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

[KevIRL]

Was going to try one sat but think I'll just play the CPT game in Sligo. Will rail from the comfort of the couch over the rest of the weekend. Ye blogging?

Yep we'll be there from Friday onwards. the start of a nice few weeks blogging on the site with IO, JP Masters, Slovenia Deepstack and possibly UKIPT Cork being covered (Danny mentioned something about this, but I'm not sure) over the next month

[bohsman]

for some reason I agreed to go on a work golf outing on Thursday. Now the fuckers are practicing putting in the office and giving tips to the ladies on grips etc.

this is gonna be unbearable, I think I should turn up in clothes that will get me barred from participating. Any suggestions?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAAZmj2VjW0[/ame]

[Sledgejammer]

Finished Season 1 of Arrested Development this morning have to say its good, Will Arnetts character just cracks me up time to move onto Season 2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J2kc4oZTVU

Isn't it just epic!? It only gets better too as it goes along and so has even more material to reference itself with...gob is a genius but I really couldn't pick a favourite...

[sligoboi]

Yep we'll be there from Friday onwards. the start of a nice few weeks blogging on the site with IO, JP Masters, Slovenia Deepstack and possibly UKIPT Cork being covered (Danny mentioned something about this, but I'm not sure) over the next month

Legends. Will enjoy that.

[tylerdurden94]

PM sent

Also tried this and no joy for the American site, whats the what with it?

SPOILER

lol yeah, that wedding looked hella fun. Would love if Irish weddings were like that, banging random chicks doggy style in the middle of the hotel dancefloor, yeehaaaa

That dude is playing the new Conan the Barbarian.

Yep we'll be there from Friday onwards. the start of a nice few weeks blogging on the site with IO, JP Masters, Slovenia Deepstack and possibly UKIPT Cork being covered (Danny mentioned something about this, but I'm not sure) over the next month

Hopefully JP/Toby will be able to hook us up and was chatting to Phil Baker he say's he has some contacts in PS so would also put in a good word for us for the UKIPT's.

[Silver-Tiger]

Great Pisstake

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXx13i9bus[/ame]

[RichieM]

Does anyone know if the card clubs are open on good friday. Not sure if its just the drinking thats disallowed or if gambling is also thrown into the ironically called good friday mix

[Zod]

if you need a hand with the blogging over the weekend I'm free pretty much the whole time.

[Raoul Duke III]

Jesus, only a small way through the actual report but there is no way that any bank staff above the grade of assistant manager should be allowed to remain in the job

[Raoul Duke III]

no shit Sherlock

The Commission both detected and inferred signs of widespread herding and groupthink (including “disaster myopia”) in Irish banks during the Period.

[Raoul Duke III]

It appears now, with hindsight, to be almost unbelievable that intelligent professionals in the
banking sector appear not to have been aware of the size of the risks they were taking. There
may, of course, have been awareness, but evidence does not support this. After all, there were a
great many smart professionals and businesspeople, including those working in financial
services, who bought property near the top of the market and also, as a result of personal
leverage, lost large chunks of their personal fortunes in the crash.

always a silver lining imo

fuck 'em

[IPB Champ]

Many of you lot gonna be around the Burlington over the weekend? Playing or otherwise?

Undecided tbh.

EDIT- also Zod i sent you a pm with regards to Ste's number.

[Wombatman]

Does anyone know if the card clubs are open on good friday. Not sure if its just the drinking thats disallowed or if gambling is also thrown into the ironically called good friday mix

Dont see why not. Fine tradition of gambling on Good Friday.

Psalm 22:18: They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

[careca]

http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/

Is there 131 podcasts so far?

Yes I am a lazy bastard.

[Four of a Kind]

can anyone gimme the link to that website which was posted here a few weeks ago that lets you download a load of different programs like VLC player, chrome etc in one go.

Very handy it was.