Slightly at a tangent, & not related to any potential criminal charges, but can there be anything worse than the life of a working Royal? I can't imagine anything worse.
If you think it through, surely not one person here would swap their life with that of a working Royal, the boring stuff they have to endure daily, and it's consequent total lack of freedom, would they?
What use is a posh house in the country & loads of money if you can't enjoy it & be free to do what you want?
Quick story about Colin (ctbn). I miss the old hippo pictures
I once mistakenly called him "cbtn". To which he replied, in his splendid Scots accent:-
"It's easy to remember, Phil. It is Colin The Bastard N..."
To be fair, he does bear a remarkable likeness to a hippopotamus.
As I'm sure you are aware, he & I are good mates & I love him to bits.
Away from his clown acting at the poker tables, he has a proper job with Network Rail or one of their CE contractors, he is a manager/supervisor for Permanent Way work - maintenance, upgrades, incidents etc.
Was due to retire this year but is going to work on for another 2 years. His health was bad 8 or 10 years ago but he seems fine now. Long may it last, he's a good man.
Incidentally, for those who have not seen them, the Tiny Desk Concerts, all of which are on You Tube, really are very good & feature some great bands.
Sadly, I'm not sure they are making any more, as they were on USA NPR (National Public Radio) & Mr Trump withdrew all funding for PBS & NPR shortly after taking Office.
But, as far as I'm aware, they are all still on You Tube, so a quick search should soon find them.
Gotta be the coolest 57 year old on the planet. Even Thewy (similar age) is not that cool.
Noel & Liam have entered the chat!
Back to the 90s, just like that
The difference is Damon has talent, so GTFO outa here with your Oasis bilge.
Jarvis has to be in the conversation though
That's spooky, Jarvis/Pulp are another, along with Damon/Gorillaz, I have happily rediscovered of late. It's light stuff but has aged well, & Jarvis always puts on a proper performance, with all the hand actions & strange oohs & ahhs. They've been around (on & off) over 40 years, & I think Candida has been there the whole time. She's so crippled with arthritis in her hands she can only play very basic note sequences, but it all works nicely & it's good that they've stuck with her, & unusual to see a lady in her 60's in a pop band. Hard to pick my favourite Pulp work but "Something Changed" is in the mix, & there's scores of versions of it on YT.
For any Pulp fans here, there's a thing on You Tube called "Tiny Desk Concerts" a sort of modern version of MTV Unplugged, The Pulp edition is excellent, with Jarvis at his theatrical best, Candida doing her repetitive note stuff, Webber hilariously cocking up a guitar riff, & Banks (drummer) using his chair as a drum. Well worth a watch, it's in my daily music mix.
Here you go...
I think Banks is playing a Cajon - a Peruvian percussion instrument.
#Invalid YouTube Link#
Even after 20yrs I still can’t post a YT link
As an aside, he could have used a Dube.
Oh I SEE, now it all makes sense.
Tiny Desk Concerts are "stripped down" but it made no sense to me that he seemed to have to make do with just a chair.
Heard you played the APAT at DTD the other week. I bust fairly early on day 1 and after a quick scan around a full casino, I couldn't see or hear you so decided to get on my merry way. Hope you faired better than I did.
Hi Carl, good to hear from you. All good with you & yours I hope.
Yes, I was there all weekend, & as there's such a large crossover between APAT & Sky players, was able to re-acquaint with loads of long-term friends & acquaintances, as well as buffoons like ctbn, aka Colin. As an aside, there's such a strong connection between Sky Poker & APAT I think they should get together & run a Series or whatever. Watch this space.
I managed a £510 cash in Friday's Bounty Hunter, but Saturday's Team affair was something of a humiliation tbh. I was asked to play for DTD - "DTD Degens" I think - and my late invite was presumably as they were short of players, as, myself apart, it was actually quite a strong team of serial cashers. 340 entries, of which 99 make Day 2, & they score points for finishing positions in the top 99. (1 point for 99th & so on). 8 players per team, of which only 3 of us (them...) made the second break, & just 1 made Day 2, which was a young lady. So that went well.
Sunday was the ROE which I had hoped to play, but I swerved it in favour of the DC Cash Game, which I did not want to miss as it only runs on Wednesdays & Sundays. That went well too....
DC cash is weird. Some nights I can sit there all night & dribble money, completely unable to make a hand, other nights it just seems that you make hand after hand. Same thing with the £2-£2 6 card PLO actually. I'm not convinced it makes sense to play, but it's enormous fun.
That was an interesting read. Nice mix of romanticism and realism, too.
As a lifelong Yid (won't catch any of us switching from Brentford), thought I would cheer you lot up before the North v South London Derby.
I was 1 of many who expected Frank to do well. Then I watched the Summer transfer window. We signed an entertaining show pony (Kudus) and 2 men with zero experience of the Prem (Kolo Muani and Simons). Good players, both, but the former will never be suited to English football, while the latter is trying ever so hard, while hoping next Summer to either play elsewhere or put on the 20 pounds of muscle needed. Presuming he doesn't want to be remembered as the new Bryan Gil
So. Do Spurs learn their lesson? No. We sign an Interim Manager (Tudor) with precisely zero experience of playing in or managing in England. He looks like a decent Manager. But what a time and way to appoint him. Can't sign anyone, no local knowledge, and told he's off in 4 months time. Meanwhile our last Assistant Manager (Heitinga) who had local knowledge from Spurs and Liverpool, as well as Managing Ajax, is shown the door.
The first goal at the Weekend is going to be important...
Morning Phil. A nice balanced Post, or at least for the most part...
I should apologise that there's no dedicated Spurs thread so you've had to find a way to post it on the Arsenal thread. Generally speaking, we only have dedicated Club threads for the big & successful teams.
Have a look at Common People from their Glastonbury set last year. With an accompanying fly past by the Red Arrows.
I’ve ‘done’ Glastonbury a few times and the last two years mystery sets have provided outstanding memories. The secret is rarely kept secure but the reveal is still a shiver moment.
Yes, very good.
Jarvis always gives a full-on "show", full of effort, & it's never really changed since Day 1, but he always gives a performance. Think he'd make a great actor. Amazing how a few big hits can sustain a band for a lifetime, although most bands are not around long enough to cash in. He's in pretty good nick for a man of 62/63.
And he always does that thing where he intros all the band members, with Candida getting the loudest cheer every time. She was in her backless dress & her hair up, pretty brave for a mid-sixties girl.
Maybe I'm easily pleased, but bravo Pulp.
Here's that Glasto '26 rendition of Common People.
One more rediscovered music thing before I sign off - Rick Wakeman.
I originally knew him from my days of idolising "Yes", especially the TOTO album, though when I revisit it now it all looks so pretentious, like so much Prog Rock now seems.
He also had his 6 Wives phase, & JTTCOTE (narrated by David Hemmings) before he sort of fell off my radar.
Then, recently, it seems he's re-invented himself as a pianist & plays quite beautifully, light classical stuff, Cat Stevens MHB, Beatles music etc. He really is very good indeed.
Try these for size, Clair de Lune (sp?), Morning Has Broken & a quite enchanting version of the Beatles "WMGGW". No sheet music to read either, all seems to come so naturally.
Gotta be the coolest 57 year old on the planet. Even Thewy (similar age) is not that cool.
Noel & Liam have entered the chat!
Back to the 90s, just like that
The difference is Damon has talent, so GTFO outa here with your Oasis bilge.
Jarvis has to be in the conversation though
That's spooky, Jarvis/Pulp are another, along with Damon/Gorillaz, I have happily rediscovered of late. It's light stuff but has aged well, & Jarvis always puts on a proper performance, with all the hand actions & strange oohs & ahhs. They've been around (on & off) over 40 years, & I think Candida has been there the whole time. She's so crippled with arthritis in her hands she can only play very basic note sequences, but it all works nicely & it's good that they've stuck with her, & unusual to see a lady in her 60's in a pop band. Hard to pick my favourite Pulp work but "Something Changed" is in the mix, & there's scores of versions of it on YT.
For any Pulp fans here, there's a thing on You Tube called "Tiny Desk Concerts" a sort of modern version of MTV Unplugged, The Pulp edition is excellent, with Jarvis at his theatrical best, Candida doing her repetitive note stuff, Webber hilariously cocking up a guitar riff, & Banks (drummer) using his chair as a drum. Well worth a watch, it's in my daily music mix.
Given my nitty style & preference for the 4/5/6 card games, you'd think nothing would suit me less than a 15 minute clock super Turbo NLH which averages over 300 entries, & you'd be right, & yet thanks to the vagaries of variance, that's the third Friday night cash on the spin - 30th Jan, 13/342, £250, 6th Feb, 8th/267, £410 + £100 in bounties, & 13th Feb, 5th/345, £900. And yes, I had a whole bunch of luck along the road, which I'm sure you will have guessed.
And it continues my story of min or small cashes galore, and almost a total absence from the Winner's Enclosure.
Think I've mentioned this before, but there are so many things I adore about Tournament poker, & very little I don't. Bad beats don't bother me one iota, I just poll up, try to enjoy every moment, then poodle back home & start the next part of my day. Of course, I mostly just play small-ball stuff, but that does not matter, in fact it probably helps because like everyone who plays MTT's I lose more often than I cash. So if losing bothers you, to my mind you are better off not playing at all, after all it's only a hobby & hobbies are meant to be fun.
MTT's are in a vague way a little like chess, not in a cerebral way, obv, but both have phases which we might term "Opening Game, "Mid Game" & "End Game". Each are very different, & there's a sort of transition point between each. When I start an MTT, I have 2 clear targets - cashing (as opposed to winning, but very importantly to me getting a new Hendon) & enjoying myself, & it's the "End Game" - lets say the last 25% - where the most fun is. At that stage, we can see how many paid, how far off the money we are, & our stack size relative to the Blinds. In my case of course I'm always below average, & with sharp-structured MTT's that usually means I'm limited to squeezes, shoves & flips. (There's no "play" as such in the sharp end of 1 day Super Turbos) and each & every one gives a little dose of adrenaline. There's that moment when you attempt a squeeze & some fella is tanking, or it's All-In and a Call and Dealer says "on their backs" & there's that momentary surge of excitement waiting to see how we stand. I'm not sure the novelty of that stuff will ever wear off. Is that a little childish after all these years? Maybe, but IDGAF, I love it all.
And it's aural too, there's that clank of plastic chip trays, which signals another table breaking, & another step nearer our goal.
Bubbles are huge fun too, we don't dislike any of our opponents on this or other tables but we are dying for one to bust & we don't extend a moment of sympathy or thought to the bustee, instead everyone sort of rejoices, "job done", or partly. And when the FT Bubble busts, suddenly there's a warmth & sense of camaraderie between all the Finalists - WE MADE IT sort of thing.
Hendons? I'm obsessed with notching them up, & I'm not sure why, but every now & then I like to peruse them & it triggers memories galore. And it's an "official" record of one's MTT achievements. It's meaningless of course, as it counts cashes but not losses, or profit, but it's the best we've got.
And there's another thing, when I play an MTT I'm almost certainly the oldest entrant. That should not matter but it really does give me some satisfaction to (occasionally) be able to hang in with the kids & young guns. I'm not exactly Eric Dalby, but I'm in the frame.
Bit of waffle there, but blame Ralph, he gave me the opening & I could not resist. Two brief lines from him and a 9 paragraph reply. I'm in a few WhatsApp groups, & whenever I cash, I secretly yearn for someone to say "I see you cashed last night" so I can have a little chirp. It's ridiculous really, but idgaf, we all like a little affirmation & massages of our self-esteem.
Oh, & tomorrow (Monday) will be an exciting day - the WSOP Schedule gets unveiled so I'll be mashing F5 all day.
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