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BQQ

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

The Accused

An Oscar winner

Pretty harrowing stuff though.

Prefer a bit of mindless trash starring Steven seagull on sci-fi channel.

BQQ

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Swansea have sacked Laudrup

What the ****?

Lots of talk of "removing uncertainty" from the club.

I reckon he wouldn't sign an extension, and they knew he'd be off at the end of his contract.

Colonel Sanders

BQQ wrote: »

Lots of talk of "removing uncertainty" from the club.

I reckon he wouldn't sign an extension, and they knew he'd be off at the end of his contract.

Thought he signed a contract last year

Still 10/1 to go down & Sporting have them finishing 12th. What does the board expect FFS

There's a huge amount of cash spent each year sacking managers. There's a (surprisingly) large amount of academic research suggesting most of it is wasted

Colonel Sanders

Metalman is 3 today apparently.

Me-tal Me-tal man!!!

tomaussie

ft9 wrote: »

This must be the most boring Tuesday of all time. Any good films to be recommended? Saw Wolf Of Wall St already

Synecdoche, New York is worth watching and is kind of topical with Philip Seymour Hoffman dying this week.

My other favourite that he is in is Happiness.

UrbanSea

Ten o'clock and I'm in the scratcher. Getting too old

hucklebuck

BumperD wrote: »

She looks excited at the prospect of seeing him

You need to see a mickey doctor if that is excited....

I would love to know what she did to that girl who is crying beside her!!

bellybuster12

This is very sad.


THE horse racing world is in mourning after the death, in tragic circumstances, of 27-year-old Lucy Stack, the wife of leading trainer Fozzy Stack.




http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/racing-world-mourns-as-wife-of-trainer-stack-dies-aged-27-29976238.html

Baze

bellybuster12 wrote: »

This is very sad.

It is indeed, was just reading it earlier tonight and she was only quite recently married too.

I see the family have asked that instead of people sending flowers, they make donations to Aware instead, which I guess says all that needs to be.

RIP.

premierstone

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Thought he signed a contract last year

Still 10/1 to go down & Sporting have them finishing 12th. What does the board expect FFS

There's a huge amount of cash spent each year sacking managers. There's a (surprisingly) large amount of academic research suggesting most of it is wasted

BQQ wrote: »

Lots of talk of "removing uncertainty" from the club.

I reckon he wouldn't sign an extension, and they knew he'd be off at the end of his contract.

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Swansea have sacked Laudrup

What the ****?

TBF thay have only won one of their last 10 legue games and are only two points above the bottom 3, there have been far worse sackings recently IMO.

That 10/1 is huge, I backed them @ 11s a few weeks back, people are looking too much at what they did and how they played last year, they have been awful. And with Allardyce producing his magic, Poyet and Pulis revitalising Sunderland and Palace respectively its going to be a real humdinger, they are definitly in the mix.

UrbanSea

Eating healthy, so ordered a half pounder meal and panini meal. With 2 cans of Diet Coke.

Colonel Sanders

Byrnes won the bumper today with a gelding out of Laetitia. I never know whether to laugh or cry when I see that mare's name. That debacle in A Cork bumper will never ever be forgotten

UrbanSea

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Byrnes won the bumper today with a gelding out of Laetitia. I never know whether to laugh or cry when I see that mare's name. That debacle in A Cork bumper will never ever be forgotten

Don't tell me that's the filly where the runner up was a horse he trained too that the jockey pretended to hit and stopped it clear as day

UrbanSea

This PP messenger is the single greatest thing in the world, it'll understand anything ''Throw another 30 on Golantilla there paddy like a good lad'' was swiftly acted upon.

hucklebuck

****ing deadly stuff, Denman and Sprinter Sacre will be having a gallop together in Newbury:

http://www.attheraces.com/article.aspx?hlid=542153&lid=&raceid=&title=Henderson+keen+on+Sacre+day+out&ref=PA+Racing+Feed&nav=&sub=&day=Wed

Not sure it's a great idea to have two horses with dodgy tickers galloping :eek:

Colonel Sanders

UrbanSea wrote: »

Don't tell me that's the filly where the runner up was a horse he trained too that the jockey pretended to hit and stopped it clear as day

Yip, you'll never see a worse one ever

ATR video here (log in required)

naughto

is that link working for any one else or is my laptop f1ucked?

RichieLawlor

hucklebuck wrote: »

****ing deadly stuff, Denman and Sprinter Sacre will be having a gallop together in Newbury:

http://www.attheraces.com/article.aspx?hlid=542153&lid=&raceid=&title=Henderson+keen+on+Sacre+day+out&ref=PA+Racing+Feed&nav=&sub=&day=Wed

Not sure it's a great idea to have two horses with dodgy tickers galloping :eek:

Parading, not galloping

hucklebuck

RichieLawlor wrote: »

Parading, not galloping

Ah bollox, sure I read galloping together in front of the grandstand.

Need to study dreams and reality chart!!

hucklebuck

Will someone please kill my prick of a boss, refused my 4 days off for the festival.

****

UrbanSea

hucklebuck wrote: »

Will someone please kill my prick of a boss, refused my 4 days off for the festival.

****

I booked mine off Tuesday

BumperD

hucklebuck wrote: »

Will someone please kill my prick of a boss, refused my 4 days off for the festival.

****

The stress of that alone could mean you will come down with something and be unable to attend work , seriously though, that's not a boss, that's an A-hole your working for.

hucklebuck

BumperD wrote: »

The stress of that alone could mean you will come down with something and be unable to attend work , seriously though, that's not a boss, that's an A-hole your working for.

I know and hes a bull****ting Manc prick. I cant have the time off as one of the lads booked it already and if he gave me the time off there would be 2 people in our team of 4, ffs.

I was on my own 2 days this week, thinking of going to HR.

UrbanSea

Sounds like you were slow out of the stalls buck. Ill think of you when I'm having a pint Tuesday afternoon and chasing the ladies from Sligo It all week

BumperD

hucklebuck wrote: »

I know and hes a bull****ting Manc prick. I cant have the time off as one of the lads booked it already and if he gave me the time off there would be 2 people in our team of 4, ffs.

I was on my own 2 days this week, thinking of going to HR.

Try to thrash it out with him first. Hopefully he will see sense. If that fails, try to chat to his boss if you know him/her. HR is a last resort which I would try to avoid.

BumperD

Sligo and ladies in the same sentence, your having a laugh

premierstone

hucklebuck wrote: »

Will someone please kill my prick of a boss, refused my 4 days off for the festival.

****

Fcuk that is a kick in the balls, I am a member of the working force for 15 years and have never or never will work a festival. Man management and motivational skills obviously not part of your bosses skill-set.

Colonel Sanders

Premier League darts starting again tonight

Quality

sting60

Word here is Kieran Fallon is about to retire from riding"not enjoying it anymore,not getting on good horses".Will make his mind up very shortly but it looks like he will retire unless he is offered a big job.

UrbanSea

Michelle from Unicef just called to the door. 'I'm already signed up', gone in ten seconds

hucklebuck

UrbanSea wrote: »

Sounds like you were slow out of the stalls buck. Ill think of you when I'm having a pint Tuesday afternoon and chasing the ladies from Sligo It all week

Think away man, it won't stop me winning piles of cash

hucklebuck

BumperD wrote: »

Try to thrash it out with him first. Hopefully he will see sense. If that fails, try to chat to his boss if you know him/her. HR is a last resort which I would try to avoid.

I would love to thrash it out with his head. 4 of us in the team, one guy is off and he won't let me off the same time. I am on a temp contract to the end of February with a three month extension in the pipeline. The prick pushes back on every holiday request but it's no problem when I am the only one in the team, I was twice already this week. I have had the biggest workload by quite a way (more than double what the two girls have) for the last 10 months and I can't put in for leave without hassle.

premierstone wrote: »

Fcuk that is a kick in the balls, I am a member of the working force for 15 years and have never or never will work a festival. Man management and motivational skills obviously not part of your bosses skill-set.

Lucky for you man, I worked in another place and the boss had no interest in racing but one of the companies we deal with flew him to Cheltenham for the week with free food and drink and an mc for the four days and while he was at it I could not even have a half day.

You can be sure of that, he just talks and doesn't listen. I used to do about 1 1/2 hours work outside my working day every day (only one in the team) and he told me I was wasting time on a point of integrity so I just stopped doing the extra time in work, that alone has cost the company 24 weeks work so far.

He is in our office once a fortnight and he should know me well enough that when I dig in I ****ing dig in.

I am flat out all the time and have told him for the last year and he has done nothing, recently a manager in Dublin has raised it on my behalf and is working on sorting it so when I pull the brake and stop working flat out the Manc wanker should be getting it in the neck from his boss. If he doesn't change his mind I will **** him up!

Why are some bosses such ****€rs?

Rant over :mad:

On the plus side I just got a message from a big company on linkedin saying they are hiring at a level I haven't worked at before and they think my profile is a good fit and would I be interested in applying. All going well it(it's going to be a rough interview and way above what I have done) would be a great move, a permanent job and probably at least double my salary. The cherry on top would be to get out of my current job without giving notice in and leaving the prick in the ****.

BumperD

That interview sounds promising. Go for it dude. They wouldn't call you for that role unless they thought you were up to it. Sounds like the tosser your working for wont go far. He'll probably end up a crack addict lying in a ditch in a couple of years ( well I hope he does after not giving you Cheltenham off, he must have his head up his ass)

BumperD

sting60 wrote: »

Talking to my neighbour Sean Mulryan "if Newmarket is soft [heavy]Miss France will win 1,000 Guineas".

Fancy my Titania myself on good/soft or better.

Colonel Sanders

Missed the Darts unfortunately

Some serious performances. Van Gerwen is on top of the world by the looks of it

UrbanSea

Watching 2 fast 2 Furious. Paul Walker looks better than last time I saw him

hucklebuck

UrbanSea wrote: »

Watching 2 fast 2 Furious. Paul Walker looks better than last time I saw him

Ouch, that's gotta hurt!!

hucklebuck

BumperD wrote: »

That interview sounds promising. Go for it dude. They wouldn't call you for that role unless they thought you were up to it. Sounds like the tosser your working for wont go far. He'll probably end up a crack addict lying in a ditch in a couple of years ( well I hope he does after not giving you Cheltenham off, he must have his head up his ass)

I might get laughed out of the place if I don't get it.

UrbanSea

Good God I never knew the acting or special effects were so awful until now

hucklebuck

UrbanSea wrote: »

Good God I never knew the acting or special effects were so awful until now

It's like Weekend At Bernies...

Colonel Sanders

Decent card Sunday

Took some 7/2 about Plinth so happy he lines up

Plinth Plinth Plinth

UrbanSea

All aboard the Plinth express CHOO CHOO

BumperD

What do you see in Plinth that is giving you guys the confidence? a hd win lto?

That guitar pete is battle hardened and 6/1 looks better value imo

UrbanSea

BumperD wrote: »

What do you see in Plinth that is giving you guys the confidence? a hd win lto?

That guitar pete is battle hardened and 6/1 looks better value imo

Guitar Pete a nice horse but exposed even for a juvenile and looks fair below grade 1 class.


Plinth won by a head but was value for more if not making a hash of the last, and showed a good battling quality to get back up to win which some juveniles may lack. Double the price of the horse he beat who already had the benefit of a run over hurdles.

brooke 2

bellybuster12 wrote: »

This is very sad.


THE horse racing world is in mourning after the death, in tragic circumstances, of 27-year-old Lucy Stack, the wife of leading trainer Fozzy Stack.




http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/racing-world-mourns-as-wife-of-trainer-stack-dies-aged-27-29976238.html

She was a stunning looking woman. Her father, David Foster, was killed in 1998 when a horse fell on him while he was participating in an event. She wrote suicide notes to
her family and friends. The letter to her friends was read out at her funeral service by her husband, Fozzy Stack. I find the image of that heartbreaking.

I have been upset since I read of Lucy Stack's death a few days ago. I did not know her
but I know the numbing grief of losing a sibling to suicide. Even though it happened
years ago, when he was 26, the pain is still there. No such thing as 'closure' when
a loved one dies.

My deepest sympathy to her husband, mother, sister, brother and extended family
and friends.

BumperD

To go out tonight or to go out tonight, that is the question...

BumperD

Option 1.

mr.jingle

Chrysellium put down today one of the favs for the Guineas. As much as I hate Willie Carson I feel sorry for as he had a lovely horse in her

BumperD

Friday night. Sand dune racing. Time to head to the local for a few scoops and donate €20 to the local bookie on the lucky last. Hareth is my selection so beware, be very aware!!

BumperD

Sitting with a few locals, 2 of them betting together started with 20 quid a head this evening on the first. Had 300 win on the last winner. they have accumulated 4k going into the last race. What a poxy run.