Bad beat/Moan/Venting Thread - BBV Archive 2

[MrsFlushdraw]

We should have a ban code of conduct in this place so we know how long we are going down when the hammer hits!

1 day = Mild abuse - single incident
3 day = Constant goading/initiating riots
7 day = ???

Siteban = Being a ginger tosser dealer with a Nordy accent

[Zuroph]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS7be8PqktI

[Bubbleking]

no need for any special ban procedure imho

"dont be an arse" / "stop being an arse" still works fine

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[6starpool]

We should have a ban code of conduct in this place so we know how long we are going down when the hammer hits!

1 day = Mild abuse - single incident
3 day = Constant goading/initiating riots
7 day = ???

Siteban = Being a ginger tosser dealer with a Nordy accent

No. Banhammer roulette is the fairest way. I'm a fan of the 3 day ban or else the permaban. Very few inbetweens with me, but Kev or whoever else might have a different set of standards.

[Raoul Duke III]

We should have a ban code of conduct in this place so we know how long we are going down when the hammer hits!

1 day = Mild abuse - single incident
3 day = Constant goading/initiating riots
7 day = ???

Siteban = Being a ginger tosser dealer with a Nordy accent

rules are for gimps Mrs F

the notion of Kev or Dom arbitrarily doling out bans based on notional whims, the fortunes of their football teams, the quality of their sex life, their poker results or any such serendipituous random factors is much more appealing

posibly even shaking a dice

[tylerdurden94]

We should have a ban code of conduct in this place so we know how long we are going down when the hammer hits!

1 day = Mild abuse - single incident
3 day = Constant goading/initiating riots
7 day = ???

Siteban = Being a ginger tosser dealer with a Nordy accent

I don't like this idea, seems to formal the system is fine.

[NewApproach]

@ Gimmeabreak,

Is it something to do with the expected value that that possible liability generates?

[Bubbleking]

Im kinda deflated with the whole NFL season at the moment - any team that I followed with real intent is now out of the competition and we dont get to see an epic GB v Saints conference playoff.

Started watching friday night lights though. Into season 2 now and its a pretty good show

[ghostface]

Im kinda deflated with the whole NFL season at the moment - any team that I followed with real intent is now out of the competition and we dont get to see an epic GB v Saints conference playoff.

Started watching friday night lights though. Into season 2 now and its a pretty good show

Feel the same bout the NFL, my hatred of the Giants is all that is left. If you find Season 2 dragging just push thru it cos it picks up again after that

[Zod]

is that the total amount minus 1 euro that Paddy Power will pay you out when you stick boyle's roll on that treble?

[oleras]

yes

edit - to help you i can tell you that the betfair acca price is 7.4/1

So regardless if it comes in or not, ye are only down ~20k ?

[NewApproach]

yes

edit - to help you i can tell you that the betfair acca price is 7.4/1

Haven't done the sums but the idea is that the expected cost to ye of this (not taking into account goodwill/new customers) is ~8k. Am I right?

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[Strewelpeter]

Coolest business card ever

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[DeadParrot]

no need for any special ban procedure imho

"dont be an arse" / "stop being an arse" still works fine

LOL

[Zod]

Haven't done the sums but the idea is that the expected cost to ye of this (not taking into account goodwill/new customers) is ~8k. Am I right?

is it not
Expected Cost = [Payout at enhanced price - Payout at fair price] * Expectancy
?

SPOILER

[Zuroph]

who was it that was asking about where to donate their change jar? Did they ever do anything with it? Doing a final tally up on outbreaks take this weekend with Cliona Ring Foundation.

[Raoul Duke III]

btw Noel would ye use neural networks in pricing odds or is it regression type models augmented by peer pricing? Just looking at some neural network papers on stock prices and playing around with the software; looks interesting enough despite the black hole nature of the modelling.

we used to do quite a bit of this in an equities business but then discovered that the guy who was driving it was, quite literally, insane

only took us two years to notice

[NewApproach]

€6000(.0014) so I calculate it to be. €8k not a bad guess without a calculator imo

[NewApproach]

Related question, would ye hedge that?

edit: probably silly question of course you would

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[Raoul Duke III]

were they just dumping a load of data in the software and seeing what was spewed out? think its a fascinating idea - the whole finding patterns in chaos thing. Saw some simple enough modelling of Japanese stocks and looked interesting, but can imagine that traders are miles ahead of academia on this one!

I don't know what the hell this guy was doing tbh (I would tune out after about 2 seconds), he was like some kind of mad scientist who could talk a great game. Spent close on a million on hardware alone.

[Raoul Duke III]

Q: within a 2/3 hour flight of here, what's my best bet for guaranteed sunshine in early April? family holiday.

went to Portugal last year so would prefer a new destination, would the med bits of France be warm at that time?

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[Zod]

Q: within a 2/3 hour flight of here, what's my best bet for guaranteed sunshine in early April?

Declan Kidney's arse.

[V for Vendetta]

were they just dumping a load of data in the software and seeing what was spewed out? think its a fascinating idea - the whole finding patterns in chaos thing. Saw some simple enough modelling of Japanese stocks and looked interesting, but can imagine that traders are miles ahead of academia on this one! (even with batshiat insane traders doing the modelling)

Mick did you know a guy called Michael Bridges ex TCD? He did a phd in Cambridge and is involved with some other quant guys working in this area. They got some ex finance guy who is bored and living in the Bahamas to give them a shed load of money to develop a trading strategy on the back of it. Quite funny of you know the guy as money is most definitely not a motivator for him.

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[Zod]

I don't know what the hell this guy was doing tbh (I would tune out after about 2 seconds), he was like some kind of mad scientist who could talk a great game. Spent close on a million on hardware alone.

I saw a documentary about this guy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

[shrapnel]

Can be hit and miss for france. Cyprus possibly? Or morocco?

Q: within a 2/3 hour flight of here, what's my best bet for guaranteed sunshine in early April? family holiday.

went to Portugal last year so would prefer a new destination, would the med bits of France be warm at that time?

[Raoul Duke III]

I saw a documentary about this guy

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

not a million miles off!

the lesson I took from this episode is that you should never trust anyone who stays in higher education for longer than is necessary

sorry Hitch

[ArmaniJeans]

Gimmebreak,
The Boyles shop in Camden St used to dole out a couple of trays of cocktail sausages and wedges every lunchtime, but stopped about 12 months ago.

Was it a company policy to stop this sort of thing, or would the decision have been made by the manager?

[Raoul Duke III]

Can be hit and miss for france. Cyprus possibly? Or morocco?

Morocco could be interesting, how does one get there from Dublin?

[Raoul Duke III]

Ryanair website openly mocking me due to antiquity of my web browser

crushed

[DeadParrot]

re: megaupload

Black March is in effect

[gorrrr72]

Q: within a 2/3 hour flight of here, what's my best bet for guaranteed sunshine in early April? family holiday.

went to Portugal last year so would prefer a new destination, would the med bits of France be warm at that time?

Fly into Alicante and head south towards Torrevieja - Mojacar

[Raoul Duke III]

Gimmebreak,
The Boyles shop in Camden St used to dole out a couple of trays of cocktail sausages and wedges every lunchtime, but stopped about 12 months ago.

Was it a company policy to stop this sort of thing, or would the decision have been made by the manager?

This is bringing on disturbing visions of AJ lurking in the shop every day, positioning himself at the exact point where he can beat the hordes of smelly degens to the tray of greasy goodness and secure a free lunch on the back of Gimmeabreak's honest toil, all the while wearing a knowing smirk.

say it is so AJ

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[Raoul Duke III]

Fly into Alicante and head south towards Torrevieja - Mojacar

there will be no transfers with 3 small kids in tow

[DeadParrot]

Funny fact
The CEO of Megaupload has been confirmed as American rapper, DJ and record producer for artists like Busta Rhymes, Alicia Keys, Beyonce and DMX... Swizz Beatz.

oh and he's married to Alicia Keys

[Denny Crane]

not a million miles off!

the lesson I took from this episode is that you should never trust anyone who stays in higher education for longer than is necessary

sorry Hitch

Bleh, I was thinking Dr Denny Crane had a nice ring to it.

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[MrsFlushdraw]

no need for any special ban procedure imho

"dont be an arse" / "stop being an arse" still works fine

Did you actually think I was serious? like the fact I mention a ginger tosser didn't let on I was jesting!

[Zuroph]

to be fair, whatever about RS,they're quick to take down links, and are probably operating a little more within the law with automated scanning technology trying to find copyright material. Megaupload though, they were just taking the piss with their streaming service. it was blatant what they expected that to be used for.

[shrapnel]

Morocco could be interesting, how does one get there from Dublin?

there will be no transfers with 3 small kids in tow

not looking good without a transfer. unless you have a day/night stop in paris (eurodisney??)

[ArmaniJeans]

This is bringing on disturbing visions of AJ lurking in the shop every day, positioning himself at the exact point where he can beat the hordes of smelly degens to the tray of greasy goodness and secure a free lunch on the back of Gimmeabreak's honest toil, all the while wearing a knowing smirk.

say it is so AJ

I wouldn't say I specifically went out of the way to get free food, but if a horse was 4/1 in both Boyles and the Laddies 10 doors down then the cocktail sausages were the clincher.

And there would definitely be some Roundersesque positioning in the 2 minutes before the trays arrived as one tray would be plonked at each table so it was important to be at the table with fewer people who looked like potential grabbers. Moving from one table to another was generally frowned upon so it was important to be in the right place initially. Otherwise you'd have to do a fake 'walk past table, stop, pick up pen and bettingslip, suddenly notice theres more food here as well' manouevre.

[V for Vendetta]

yeah, remember him vaguely. Was he sporting a goatee or some form of facial hair back in the day? that Bahamas guy could have been the same guy who funded my postdoc - wanted me to use biological predator-prey models to predict takeovers. Was a bit strange!

Lol. No that guy seriously out did himself and scored an Asian hottie and went traveling the world and smoking dope. Bridges is more of a Sheldon Big Bang Theory type of guy.

[Denny Crane]

Funny fact
The CEO of Megaupload has been confirmed as American rapper, DJ and record producer for artists like Busta Rhymes, Alicia Keys, Beyonce and DMX... Swizz Beatz.

oh and he's married to Alicia Keys

About time he suffered for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqM3Z3rWlAI

[Sledgejammer]

Whatever about SOPA, I can't see the outrage for the shutting down of Megavideo. It was completely illegal and just total piracy. The current age of the internet is coming to an end, one way or another, this ability to get whatever we want whenever we want for free simply will not last forever and frankly it's hard to take a moral stance against the abolishment of total piracy, even though I avail of it alot. It sucks that they shut it down, but I really can't complain too much about it.

I think sites like Netflix (assuming you're getting access to the US site ) are a perfect meeting half way kind of thing and hopefully the ultimate result of all of this is something like that, paying a small monthly subscription fee in return for unlimited instant streaming of the best quality, latest releases. The Netflix library isn't exactly complete by any means ofc, but it's a good base point for this. I think piracy has/will help rush in these things and ultimately will be good for the consumer as companies are now forced to adopt to the current technology and the markets have changed which has brought price down, but it cannot and will not last forever in it's current form.

There'll probably be some form of piracy around in some way shape or form, but far more limited, and I think we'll be looking back on this era fondly very soon.

[Downtown]

Nearly up to date with Breaking Bad. Really enjoying it, Jesse has become a great character and Saul is the nuts. Gus and Mike great characters too. I loved the 1st season at the time but it really evolves into a great show.

[hotspur]

I made an appointment for a reiki session yesterday.

To the very best of my knowledge it's a load of b*llocks. But two friends (both psychotherapy people who aren't droolers) had it in the past year and enjoyed it. And the woman I rent a therapy room from offers it.

Has anyone had it done? Now reading about it there are obviously many aspects of it which are indisputably utterly retarded - like level 2 reiki training teaches you how to do it remotely i.e. send healing energy to someone in another place. Lol.

But the central treatment seems to be some manner of putting hands on different parts of your body for an hour. I can conceive how this might be beneficial in the context of a relaxing setting and relaxing music.

Actually, out of interest, and without it being followed up with an avalanche of evidence based analysis what alternative or complimentary type treatments have people had in the past and what was their experience of them like? Not a great population to be asking, but I would like to know.

[ghostface]

Funny fact
The CEO of Megaupload has been confirmed as American rapper, DJ and record producer for artists like Busta Rhymes, Alicia Keys, Beyonce and DMX... Swizz Beatz.

oh and he's married to Alicia Keys

ha ha that is fucking hilarious, Deny Crane is right tho he used to have some good stuff about 15 years ago but is a non event now. He did have this banger tho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMRXGnGrHak

[Denny Crane]

Whatever about SOPA, I can't see the outrage for the shutting down of Megavideo. It was completely illegal and just total piracy. The current age of the internet is coming to an end, one way or another, this ability to get whatever we want whenever we want for free simply will not last forever and frankly it's hard to take a moral stance against the abolishment of total piracy, even though I avail of it alot. It sucks that they shut it down, but I really can't complain too much about it.

Yeah I like my free stuff as much as the next person but I had to lol at the vitriol and sense of entitlement on fb about this.

[Raoul Duke III]

not looking good without a transfer. unless you have a day/night stop in paris (eurodisney??)

I have sworn an oath of things never to do on holiday:

go to Disneyland (Euro or otherwise) is top of the list. I can see extreme pressure being applied in the years ahead though.

[tipp86]

I cant see that enhanced special online or on the phone is it shop only ? Forgive me if i missed something basic as was just browsing the thread.

[Guest]

Canaries ftw surely?

[Icarus152]

in English, please.

Hand me the keys you fcukin c**ksucker,what the fcuk?

[The C Kid]

Swizz Beatz did provide the soundtrack to one of the best youtube clips ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlDAgZO2ZDM