Oscar is a great if somewhat unusual Christian name. Any particular reason?

I don't know yet. It surprised me!

Anyone in the family with a reputation for being a grouch?

Thanks Ironside. I was so busy having my mini-rant I clean forgot to remove the spammy link.

Worst mod ever.

What is a service dog?

I assume not a guide dog for a blind person as that’s not gonna be much help in a poker tournament - ‘What’s that Fido, I’ve been dealt another rough hand?’

I have a bit of a dislike of Primal Scream for some time due to them taking too much credit for the work of Andy Weatherall.  Some of the stuff that cam out after the death of Denise Johnson didn't make feel more favorable towards them, but this witness statement at the inquest of Martin Duffy lays it all bare.  Warning: It is upsetting.

http://www.dafts.co.uk/louieduffystatement.pdf

That is pretty brutal reading.

I’ve always prided myself on being a pretty good judge of character and I pegged Bobby Gillespie as an arsehole from the first time I saw him

RIP Chompy - the fens will be a different place now you are gone.

Can someone please check on Chompy?

This is just terrible news - he was such a great guy to get chatting to at Blonde bashes.

I’m in Gran Canaria right now in an apartment with no Wi-Fi, only Spanish Tv and a rapidly dwindling data allowance on my phone.

I’m basically following this war through Tittybean’s Twitter feed so all power to you Tittybean for all the solid retweets

[Cum Loss]

Date     Weight   Weekly loss   Cum Loss
28/12/21   132.1      
04/01/22   130              2.1                   2.1
10/01/22   129.2      0.8                   2.9

Well, I suppose that’s one way to lose weight - find an exercise you enjoy doing and all that.

I, and other people I know from different social circles, have had Covid over Xmas and it’s all similar symptoms - basically that of a head cold, without the big coughing and lung shenanigans of previous waves.

I’m in Dublin and in the space of a few days, it went from me not knowing anyone who had covid since the start of it all, to several friends, who don’t know each other, getting it in a space of a few days. It’s essentially everywhere here - case levels are at record levels yet many people can’t even get PCR tests as the testing centres are maxed out - the website to book them gets booked out just after midnight everyday when the new day’s appts are available.

Hold on, I think I heard about this. Wasn't there something going around about Gus Hansen getting with Caroline Wozniacki at one point? God knows when though!

I think it was not that long after Rory McIlroy sent her into the deep rough.

Gus used to play tennis to quite a high standard as a teenager

Really hated the series and the way the story was told. In an interesting and kind of scary note, (without trying to give spoliers) the internet cafe in Berlin featured towards the end is around the corner from my flat.

I know I'm probably a bit late here but I watched the 3 part Doc series 'Don't Fuck with cats' on Netflix the other day and I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before.

For anyone that hasn't seen this it's a true story that starts out as internet uproar when someone posts a video online where he kills two cats. What is so good about what follows is it is like watching a whodunnit movie but where regular people use their own time trying to find the culprit clue by clue. It then moves on just like a movie script and just gets darker and darker and I'm even adding an extra and darker too.

**It's not really about cat's even tho it starts that way and although some of the footage is a little upsetting they don't show the worst parts of the videos.

It is an incredible story but I agree - the way the documentary is made is dreadful the way they string things out. One episode ends with us (the audience) finding out something new and interesting and then the whole of the next episode is us slowly watching the police find out the same info.

He's gaining quite the profile after the Guardian article earlier in the year.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=68779.0

Who is still betting horse races IR from watching on the TV - how much money can Betfair be making from naive punters getting fleeced by the likes of Mick? Surely they'd be better off closing races on the off and allowing those punters to save their cash for the next race.

Or is it that there's literally no one betting IR except for guys who think they've got an edge on the latency, so all Mick is doing is fleecing the guys who are tapped into the satellite feed, in which case no harm done.

There is one massive clue to one of the players in the previous posts in the thread.

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Photo posted on Twitter by Shane Kimbrough, US Astronaut, aboard the International Space Station, some 250 miles above the Las Vegas Strip.

Incredible what you can make out. Green blob is MGM. Then you can see the Raiders stadium just above the bottom left of the Strip. Nice view of McCarran below the bottom left of the Strip. Red blob above the top right of the Strip (before it jags off to the right) is the Rio, I think. And so on.

Even from this distance the light shooting out of the top of the Luxor stands out.