You are not a f*cking DJ. You’re an overpaid, untalented, cake-throwing c*nt.

cranky bollix

think we need some charasmatic polititians like this around these parts, would make the dail a bit more interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o-TeMHys0

Android 666

I can't wait to see this when it comes on the telly:

http://www.amctv.com/originals/The-Walking-Dead/

Its made by the guy that directed The Mist and The Shawshank Redemption and the reviews have been brilliant.

jimi_t2

''Detectives have questioned a circus owner about allegations that a wallaby died after being plied with ecstasy and drink at a birthday disco.''

http://www.herald.ie/breaking-news/national-news/police-probe-kangaroo-drink-death-2386383.html

''Gardaí are investigating an incident in which an animal, believed to be a kangaroo, was released onto the dance floor of a hotel in Dublin on Saturday night.
The incident took place during a 30th birthday party at the Clarion Hotel in Liffey Valley in Dublin.
Video footage shows a man picking up and swinging the animal while the theme tune to 'Skippy the Bush Kangaroo' is played in the background.
Hotel management and the Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have said they are horrified by the incident.
Gardaí say they are investigating reports that the animal died following the incident.
General Manager of the hotel, Garret Marrinan, said that they became aware of the incident when the manager on duty noticed a commotion on the dance floor.
When he went to investigate he saw what he believed was a large dog and instructed security to remove it.
By the time security arrived the animal and the box it was in had disappeared.
He said the hotel did not know it was a kangaroo until they were contacted by gardaí yesterday.
The hotel has passed on CCTV footage of the incident to help gardaí with their investigation.
''

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1019/kangaroo.html

R.Shackleford

Android 666 wrote: »

I can't wait to see this when it comes on the telly:

http://www.amctv.com/originals/The-Walking-Dead/

Its made by the guy that directed The Mist and The Shawshank Redemption and the reviews have been brilliant.

Cant wait for Dead Rising, its ment to be the business!

Check out "Dead Set" if you havent seen it already. Severley uderrated tv show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7bUbpt5Xb0

seannash

cranky bollix wrote: »

think we need some charasmatic polititians like this around these parts, would make the dail a bit more interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o-TeMHys0

Just came on to post this.
"As a karate expert"
ha ha

milltown

jtsuited wrote: »

I hit an albatross on a 460 yd par 5 before. Impressed??:D

I actually did. I was about 19 at the time and it was probably the jammiest thing I've ever done (I had no intention of hitting the pin at all but it got the luckiest bounce of all time off an overly dry fairway).

But the strangest thing happened 2 years to the day (it was June 24th) later.

Playing poker in the Gutshot in London, was telling people about the golf incident and got involved in a massive multiway pot in a cash game......I had KK, 4 of us saw a flop with the pot already at about 400 sterling (lots of raising, straddling and general messing preflop), flop came K 8 8, one guy bets pot, I push my remaining 800 (I had been playing for hours in this 1/2/5 optional straddle game that had gone completely mental with degenerate gamblers blind straddling so that every pot was friggin monster).

So yeah, tank the lot in and so do the two other guys in the hand, at which point I nearly die because one of them has clearly flopped quads and I'm fairly sure the other guy is just drawing dead on some bogey flush draw.

It's times like these you just wish you were wrong. but of course because two of us were all in, I said we should flip em over just for fun but really because I reckon I can tilt the flush drawing goon more by doing so and not letting him muck after showdown.

Tbf to them, they both showed immediately and there they were, feckin snowmen (and yes the other guy was on a sh1te draw). The guy beside me who I'd been telling the golf story to asked the dealer to hold on a second and asked if anyone had had a King. He was some weird Asian gambler who insisted that I was 'gonna get rucky. wery wery rucky'. Nobody answered and so I was drawing to the case King. Blank on River. Well ya all know what happened next. I hit the feckin case king. I've never felt so lucky in my life.
I never thought after the golf incident, I'd ever feel as lucky again, but for that to happen 2 years later to the day was just insane. But such is probability. Ever hear about that guy that got hit by lightning like 10 times in his life?

Erm, wut?
I was with you from the golf bit (fair play!) up to two years later.
But what the fack was the rest of that all about? What spirit were you channelling there?
Comedy asian impersonation aside, I gather you won a hand of cards. At least make reading the pokerspeak worthwhile for the rest of us and tell us how much you won.

Is mise le key

jtsuited wrote: »

I hit an albatross on a 460 yd par 5 before. Impressed??:D

I actually did. I was about 19 at the time and it was probably the jammiest thing I've ever done (I had no intention of hitting the pin at all but it got the luckiest bounce of all time off an overly dry fairway).

But the strangest thing happened 2 years to the day (it was June 24th) later.

Playing poker in the Gutshot in London, was telling people about the golf incident and got involved in a massive multiway pot in a cash game......I had KK, 4 of us saw a flop with the pot already at about 400 sterling (lots of raising, straddling and general messing preflop), flop came K 8 8, one guy bets pot, I push my remaining 800 (I had been playing for hours in this 1/2/5 optional straddle game that had gone completely mental with degenerate gamblers blind straddling so that every pot was friggin monster).

So yeah, tank the lot in and so do the two other guys in the hand, at which point I nearly die because one of them has clearly flopped quads and I'm fairly sure the other guy is just drawing dead on some bogey flush draw.

It's times like these you just wish you were wrong. but of course because two of us were all in, I said we should flip em over just for fun but really because I reckon I can tilt the flush drawing goon more by doing so and not letting him muck after showdown.

Tbf to them, they both showed immediately and there they were, feckin snowmen (and yes the other guy was on a sh1te draw). The guy beside me who I'd been telling the golf story to asked the dealer to hold on a second and asked if anyone had had a King. He was some weird Asian gambler who insisted that I was 'gonna get rucky. wery wery rucky'. Nobody answered and so I was drawing to the case King. Blank on River. Well ya all know what happened next. I hit the feckin case king. I've never felt so lucky in my life.
I never thought after the golf incident, I'd ever feel as lucky again, but for that to happen 2 years later to the day was just insane. But such is probability. Ever hear about that guy that got hit by lightning like 10 times in his life?

Ahh here...im the same as milltown, seriously i was with you up to when you said you had KK & then absolutley lost as to what was happening.....even though i didnt understand what was unfolding it sounded exciting all the same.:D

So how much did you win, i think i got from it that you pushed in £800 on your last bet?

BaZmO*

Yeah same here, I was with him until he said he had a Kit-Kat or something....

jtsuited

jesus lads.....right to put it in absolute basic terms....

playing a mental cash game, flopped a full house. other guy flopped four of a kind (he had 88 - snowmen), and I ended up drawing to the case king (the only card left in the deck which could help me). Can't remember the exact final amount of the pot, but it was just around 2k sterling.
Unfortunately, completely lost my concentration for the next 2 hours and spewed away about a grand of it. Still finished about 500 up for the night.

BaZmO*

Is mise le key wrote: »

...up to the top of a hill in bohernabreena P&P club where you cant even see the flag & holed it:eek:

Great little course. I remember playing their play first and was shocked at the layout of the holes compared to the 18 holes on a football pitch courses that I was used to.

ianuss wrote: »

C'mon man - it's pitch 'n' putt. Do it on a golf course and I'll be impressed.

There are some savage 3 Par Golf (Pitch n Putt) courses out there. Pine Valley up in the mountains is fantastic, but an absolute killer if, like me, you're not any good.

old gregg wrote: »

anyone else catch the show finale of the Inbetweeners last night?
I'd enjoyed the first 2 seasons but felt it was drying up this year and after 6 episodes of S03 it's finished until the movie.

I was fed up listening to friends going on about it saying how good it was so I got the first two seasons a couple of weeks ago and watched them over a few nights. Excellent stuff. Still have to watch the last couple of episodes in S3. Probably a good thing that they're ending it now though. I hate when they drag a comedy out when it's had it's day.

BaZmO* wrote: »

It was yesterday so yeah they're starting to get sore now. Although it'll be worse tomorrow

Yep.

BaZmO*

jtsuited wrote: »

jesus lads.....right to put it in absolute basic terms....

playing a mental cash game, flopped a full house. other guy flopped four of a kind (he had 88 - snowmen), and I ended up drawing to the case king (the only card left in the deck which could help me).

Ahhh, clear as mud.

jtsuited wrote: »

Can't remember the exact final amount of the pot, but it was just over 2k sterling.

Can understand that bit.

Is mise le key

jtsuited wrote: »

jesus lads.....right to put it in absolute basic terms....

playing a mental cash game, flopped a full house. other guy flopped four of a kind (he had 88 - snowmen), and I ended up drawing to the case king (the only card left in the deck which could help me). Can't remember the exact final amount of the pot, but it was just around 2k sterling.
Unfortunately, completely lost my concentration for the next 2 hours and spewed away about a grand of it. Still finished about 500 up for the night.

Right im still getting what happened, they lost because they has the crap cards but what in the name of jasus is "he had 88 - snowmen"???

BaZmO*

Haha. He had two "8" 's

In Bingo parlance it would be two fat ladies

jtsuited

BaZmO* wrote: »

Ahhh, clear as mud.

Ok if you still can't understand it, what happened was...

big holdem cash game. Crazy flop where one player hits four of a kind. I hit a full house, kings over eights. Of course I'm thinking I'm way ahead. We end up getting all our money in the middle, flip em over and it turns out I'm well behind (I'll lose 95 % of the time) and I have to hit one card on the turn or river to win.
Granted the chances of hitting it on the turn or river are about 4 % but the chances of that type of hand coming up in that type of game are slimmer again.
Then when you put that type of luckboxing in the context of the golf thing (being 2 years to the day and had just been talking about it), it's a very very very very improbable thing to happen.

jtsuited

Is mise le key wrote: »

Right im still getting what happened, they lost because they has the crap cards but what in the name of jasus is "he had 88 - snowmen"???

yeah sorry about that...won't use slang in future.

Is mise le key

jtsuited wrote: »

Crazy flop........kings over eights.........I have to hit one card on the turn or river to win.
.

Dont get any of that chat........sorry its just my ignorance of poker.

Any way i get the jist, you were amazingly lucky, won 2 grand & left with 500, i am assuming you started with less than 500 though for it to be a success story to be remebered?

jtsuited

it's not a success story, it's a luck story.

old gregg

ah mate, we don't understand any of this 'flops' and 'snowmen' caper. Start with something like "when the big hand was on 12 and the small hand was on 8 I sat down to play cards ... " and take it from there in a similar vein

BaZmO*

orrrrrr..... just say that you won some dosh playing cards. Which coincidently was 2 years to the date since your last bit of luck. Simples :cool:

Android 666

jtsuited wrote: »

it's not a success story, it's a luck story.

It could have been a story about Narnia for all most of us knew. First you were killing an albatross, then you were surrounded by snowmen, there was a king on a river and you were straddling a monster with a weird Asian fella.

ianuss

seannash wrote: »

Sad to say its been the highlight of my week:D:(

Ah, I was only winding you up about the p 'n' p thing. It's still well impressive and I'd be chuffed myself. I scored a 30 yard free kick there a few weeks ago to win a match - and I literally haven't shut up about it since. Gutted that nobady got it on camera! It had dip, swerve, pace.... the works. Two keepers couldn't have saved it. But a hole in one kinda kicks a free kicks a55. So, fair play.

Although, JT's albatross story is truly very impressive. I can probably count on 1 hand the amount of eagle putts I've had over the years. And, I don't think I've even ever heard of someone (non-pro) getting an albatross before.

As for the poker story, the fact that it happened on the same day is actually insane. If I was you I would go out of my way to do the lotto/buy csratch cards/go to a casino once a year.

But the whole boat v quads thing happens a fair bit. Anyone who's played poker seriously at all at any stage would have loads of those stories. Generally, if it can happen in poker, it will. The poker Gods are a cruel lot at times. Nice suckout all the same.

jimi_t2

While you're on-thread jeff, being a big proponent of Logic, I wondered what you thought about this.

(Context; Chris Randall Runs VST company Audio Damage, Current Producer, Ex-Sister Machine Gun keyboardist, runs blog AnalogIndustries
http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.php?blogid=1287421132383&pg=3#comments)

''My point is that your tastes and production style will dictate which one "sucks less." All I can say is that Logic is a ****ing mess. On any given day roughly 90% of our support load is Logic-related; this stat is obviously stilted by the large user base, of course. If more than 8 of our customers used DP, we'd probably hear a lot from them, too.

In my experience, both as a user and as someone that has a fairly extensive knowledge of all the available DAWs and their quirks, Live is the least troublesome. Cubase/Nuendo is second, and energyXT is third, as far as trouble-free use goes. The DAWs that wrap (the Cakewalk products, FLstudio, Acid) have their own issues unique to that practice, of course. We have rarely had an issue with Cubase or Live that wasn't our fault, I'll say that much.''

jtsuited

ianuss wrote: »

Ah, I was only winding you up about the p 'n' p thing. It's still well impressive and I'd be chuffed myself. I scored a 30 yard free kick there a few weeks ago to win a match - and I literally haven't shut up about it since. Gutted that nobady got it on camera! It had dip, swerve, pace.... the works. Two keepers couldn't have saved it. But a hole in one kinda kicks a free kicks a55. So, fair play.

Although, JT's albatross story is truly very impressive. I can probably count on 1 hand the amount of eagle putts I've had over the years. And, I don't think I've even ever heard of someone (non-pro) getting an albatross before.

As for the poker story, the fact that it happened on the same day is actually insane. If I was you I would go out of my way to do the lotto/buy csratch cards/go to a casino once a year.

But the whole boat v quads thing happens a fair bit. Anyone who's played poker seriously at all at any stage would have loads of those stories. Generally, if it can happen in poker, it will. The poker Gods are a cruel lot at times. Nice suckout all the same.

well thank fcuk someone knew what I was talking about!!!

Yeah the albatross thing is ridiculous. To be fair, a guy in the one tournament did it the week after (and there had been talk of the yardage being way off). Statistically speaking on a short par 5, it's gonna happen a fair bit (with a colossal amount of luck). And like I said, it was pure and utter luck. No skill. My driving was fairly straight (oh to be able to hit straight again) though.

Yeah, boats v quads is quite regular (and I used to be playing nearly 12 hours a day at the time so I saw a lot of crazy sh1t....fitz 1/2 round of each used to break my heart!!). But the suckout was epic. And the fact that the crazy Chinese dude was shouting so loudly for the case king just made it more surreal.

Two complete and utter luckbox things to happen exactly 2 years apart. In saying that, I played far too much golf and poker as a young man, so that sh1t's gonna happen.

jtsuited

jimi_t2 wrote: »

While you're on-thread jeff, being a big proponent of Logic, I wondered what you thought about this.

(Context; Chris Randall Runs VST company Audio Damage, Current Producer, Ex-Sister Machine Gun keyboardist, runs blog AnalogIndustries
http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.php?blogid=1287421132383&pg=3#comments)

''My point is that your tastes and production style will dictate which one "sucks less." All I can say is that Logic is a ****ing mess. On any given day roughly 90% of our support load is Logic-related; this stat is obviously stilted by the large user base, of course. If more than 8 of our customers used DP, we'd probably hear a lot from them, too.

In my experience, both as a user and as someone that has a fairly extensive knowledge of all the available DAWs and their quirks, Live is the least troublesome. Cubase/Nuendo is second, and energyXT is third, as far as trouble-free use goes. The DAWs that wrap (the Cakewalk products, FLstudio, Acid) have their own issues unique to that practice, of course. We have rarely had an issue with Cubase or Live that wasn't our fault, I'll say that much.''

HAHA, have you ever used the Audio Damage plugs???? They're a load of amateur sounding rubbish.
And it's of course easier to code vsts for Live. And Live is more stable than any other application.

ianuss

jtsuited wrote: »

fitz 1/2 round of each used to break my heart

We must have met before so. I used to play a bit there, but always preferred the atmosphere in The Merrion. I haven't played live in probably 2 years now I'd say. I just totally fell out of love with variance.

jimi_t2

jtsuited wrote: »

HAHA, have you ever used the Audio Damage plugs???? They're a load of amateur sounding rubbish.

Yeah, DubDelay and Replicant for the most part and I found them incredible for the price. Their new VST Axon is also pretty amazing from the little I've used it as well. Is there anything better that you'd recommend for the same price bar maybe the ohmforce stuff?

jtsuited

ianuss wrote: »

We must have met before so. I used to play a bit there, but always preferred the atmosphere in The Merrion. I haven't played live in probably 2 years now I'd say. I just totally fell out of love with variance.

Same as myself. It's been about 3 years since I've played at all at this stage. Ah yeah variance can get ya. I quit playing because with poker it was always all-or-nothing with me. Grinded the microstakes on Stars years ago to get a decent roll for live, and spent about 3-4 months playing 12-14 hours a day between online and the fitz. If I ever quit music, I'm gonna get back into it, but from what I read the poker world has seriously changed over the past few years.
The amount of fish when the poker boom happened was unreal. Pity they've all wised up, quit or are brilliant now.

jtsuited

jimi_t2 wrote: »

Yeah, DubDelay and Replicant for the most part and I found them incredible for the price. Their new VST Axon is also pretty amazing from the little I've used it as well. Is there anything better that you'd recommend for the same price bar maybe the ohmforce stuff?

I haven't used free or cheap plugs in years because of the standard of the bundled ones in logic (and I've got a UAD card with the fairchild, neve 88rs, and plate 140).
Sorry can't be of assistance.

ianuss

jtsuited wrote: »

Same as myself. It's been about 3 years since I've played at all at this stage. Ah yeah variance can get ya. I quit playing because with poker it was always all-or-nothing with me. Grinded the microstakes on Stars years ago to get a decent roll for live, and spent about 3-4 months playing 12-14 hours a day between online and the fitz. If I ever quit music, I'm gonna get back into it, but from what I read the poker world has seriously changed over the past few years.
The amount of fish when the poker boom happened was unreal. Pity they've all wised up, quit or are brilliant now.

Very similar story to myself. Used to grind away on 888, 12 hour days and all that jazz. And ye, the amount of fish years ago made it fairly profitable at low stakes.

I've thrown money on a few sites over the last few years if I was bored and just fancied a spin or whatever. But the game has definitely changed. I think it's much harder to beat those games. Years ago, people used to literally sit at a table and donate hundreds of dollars to other players. You just needed some patience and concentration.

Like any decent player, when I'm playing well I can crush games - but when you're not playing well, your edge is very small, if you have one at all. That's my experience anyway. And unless you're prepared to spend a serious amount of time and effort at improving your game, you'll struggle. And I just don't have the time or the inclination anymore.

In saying that, I was listening to an interview with Antonious a while ago and he was saying the opposite though. He felt players were actualy getting worse, and that there was still a tonne of dead money floating about.

On a side note, my brother works for an internet poker site, and he was telling me about this relatively new craze. It's called credit card joy-riding. Basically, some w4nker nicks your card, sits down at the tables and purposely plays as bad as possible. Making stupid raises and retarded calls. Calling thousands with fresh air. My bro gets to see the tables and the play, and he was saying it's hilarious to watch.

jtsuited

ianuss wrote: »

In saying that, I was listening to an interview with Antonious a while ago and he was saying the opposite though. He felt players were actualy getting worse, and that there was still a tonne of dead money floating about.

Yeah for a guy of his ability and stakes I imagine it's easier now than ever. All that money from the fish down the bottom has worked it's way up. Also, he's a guy that improves his game with every hand, which a lot of the nosebleed level guys don't do.
Haha, the first bit of money I ever put online was on 888 (or Pacific Poker as it's subdivision was called).
Yeah back in those days, it was just epic how easy the money was. Just play complete ABC poker and don't tilt, and you could be grinding decent money all hours of the day.
Nowadays, the theoretical understanding of the game by even the most average low stakes player is incredible compared to back then.
Coincidentally, one of the best players I ever played posts on here ( HectorJelly is his name and he dj's a bit). Reading his posts on boards back then used to be such a depressing experience as the guy just has a phenomenal aptitude and discipline.
As you say, with poker I reckon you either go for it hell for leather or you'll be a losing/breakeven player over time. A few of the lads I used to play with regularly back then are still playing full time and have made a bloody great living from it.
I don't think I'd ever have the discipline to get enough hands in per month to make it worth my while, what with music being far more than just a casual interest, but it's something I'd like to do later in life.