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31  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: Nakor on: August 01, 2022, 04:22:25 PM
Such shocking and tragic news.

I'd only been reading recently his Facebook updates from a recent music festival they'd attended as a family.

I didn't know him well, but knew him from the blonde bashes and we'd occasionally correspond via PM from time to time.  One of those people you instantly know is a decent bloke.

Thoughts with his family, who must be absolutely devastated with this happening out of the blue.

RIP Nakor
32  Community Forums / Betting Tips and Sport Discussion / Re: Blonde FPL 22-23 on: July 28, 2022, 09:37:25 AM
3, 4 and 5 for me please.

Will miss the cups package this year, but I assume that's a combination of admin hassle and cup competitions being added into the leagues themselves.

Thanks for running them again.
33  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: They are dropping like flies at the moment on: July 28, 2022, 09:21:18 AM
Bernard Cribbins, aged 93.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62330478

The Railway Children is probably the role that sticks in mind for him, but there's a hell of a lot to choose from.

RIP
34  Community Forums / Betting Tips and Sport Discussion / Re: Blonde FPL 22-23 on: July 25, 2022, 11:38:56 PM
I'm happy to set up the Blonde 20 Classic league, as it's the one I was planning to enter.
35  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: They are dropping like flies at the moment on: May 22, 2022, 11:30:10 PM
This is a little late but being a proggy I had to post the very sad death of  Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou from complications due to treatment of COVID-19 at the age of 79.

Vangelis started writing music when he was 4 and performed his first live concert at age 6 and was quite the legend in many musical genres. In my youth I had a Saturday job in a record store which had a rather large second-hand vinyl box and one of my best finds was a mint copy of Break by Aphrodite’s Child one of his first successful forays into pop music.

He ventured into prog-psychedelic albums, partnerships including Monserrat Caballe, Irene Papas & Jon Anderson from Yes and then into the many film scores he is famous for as well as conducting orchestras and writing the themes for the 2002 World cup .
He had many honours in his lifetime which can be found on his wiki.

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain"

RIP Maestro. What a legacy you left us.


Lovely tribute.

The Chariots Of Fire theme is probably my favourite piece of instrumental music ever.

Also, without fitting in to any of the typical genres of music I listen to, "I'll Find My Way Home" with Jon Anderson is also a firm favourite on my playlist (despite the cheesy TOTP footage, featuring a guitar and baby grand piano, neither of which are heard in the song!)

RIP Vangelis.

https://youtu.be/rKqLAVyRaXw
36  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: They are dropping like flies at the moment on: April 09, 2022, 04:07:25 PM
Ex Redskins QB Dwayne Haskins reported to have died following a car accident this morning.

Adam Schefter among those reporting it on Twitter so the news looks to be reliable, sadly.
37  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: APAT Live Returns - with the Forum Team Championship, 12/13 Feb, DTD on: February 14, 2022, 11:13:49 AM
Individual silver medal for Adam.  Outstanding performance.

14th overall for the blonde team.  Big improvement on the previous event.

Next year.....
38  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: APAT Live Returns - with the Forum Team Championship, 12/13 Feb, DTD on: February 13, 2022, 04:13:29 PM
Unfortunately I've managed to bust early. Managed to lose with AQ aipf against AJ which did most the damage and then shoved with pocket in late position and the big blind woke up with Queens

Unlucky mate.  Good to share some table time with you yesterday.
39  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: APAT Live Returns - with the Forum Team Championship, 12/13 Feb, DTD on: February 13, 2022, 01:52:25 PM
Three of us through to Day 2.

Naz 775k
Me 240k
Das 380k ish (can't remember exact amount and counts aren't up yet)

Should have really been 4 but I managed to go from average chips (circa 270k) to busto in 2 consecutive hands in the final level of the day.  AIPF with JJ vs ATo and KQs vs AKo did the business for two different opponents.

Beyond that, it was good fun to play this event again, and to catch up with a lot of familiar faces.  Good luck to the 3 guys still remaining and thanks to Adam for doing all the behind the scenes organising for the event.
40  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: APAT Live Returns - with the Forum Team Championship, 12/13 Feb, DTD on: February 08, 2022, 03:48:12 PM
Doors open from 1pm, so they're asking for people to get there as close to 1pm for the photos, etc to be done.
41  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: Get well soon Camel. on: February 07, 2022, 10:24:16 AM
Great to hear positive news Keith.
42  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: APAT Live Returns - with the Forum Team Championship, 12/13 Feb, DTD on: January 14, 2022, 12:18:46 AM
I've got several polo shirts from this event already, so would prefer the T-shirt option.

Happy with the idea of the logo, if Michelle can get it to work.  Relaxed about team names, etc, depending on everyone being happy with the additional cost.  Happy with real name or forum name if we're adding them (just make sure they spell Sheriff correctly please!)

Will PM now with size info.
43  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: APAT Live Returns - with the Forum Team Championship, 12/13 Feb, DTD on: January 13, 2022, 09:12:46 AM
Just to confirm that I've now bought in via the holding tank.
44  Community Forums / The Lounge / Re: COVID19 on: January 04, 2022, 09:45:13 AM
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.

It will be interesting to see whether the longer term effects of Omicron are also milder, as these have been more of an issue for me than the actual symptoms while infected.

I tested positive in late October, so this was presumably Delta virus as it pre-dated Omicron.  The symptoms while isolating were exactly as you describe - a head cold without a significant cough or lung issues, thankfully (no doubt helped by being double-vacced at that time).

When my nose cleared up I realised that I'd lost my sense of smell, albeit I could still taste most things as before.  I've gradually regained a bit of the sense of smell, but it's still nothing like it was pre-Covid.  Over Christmas I realised that my sense of taste is also not 100%, most notably from eating hazelnuts and walnuts which I literally could not taste, even if I chewed them for a prolonged period of time to try to force me to taste them.

The bigger issue for me was that I discovered that I got easily fatigued from mild exertion.  I tail-walked a local parkrun a couple of weeks after my isolation period ended.  The course has a long drag of a hill on each lap and I discovered that I was getting light-headed as I went up it each time.  Oddly, the sensation never quite disappeared for the rest of the day and I felt 'off' for the rest of it, to the extent that I abandoned plans to go to the football and to a gig that evening.

The impact has been that it has made me very cautious in terms of doing too much, as it has been an intermittent symptom that could get triggered quite easily.  For example, I got dizzy climbing a single flight of stairs at work on a couple of occasions.  It's pretty much gone now, albeit I haven't yet attempted to do any meaningful running or high-exertion exercise.

For anyone testing positive over Christmas (and like Andrew, this seems to have been loads of people in my social circle) I would suggest a little bit of caution regarding whether or not you have any longer-term symptoms.  Some, like the sense of smell, might be minor inconveniences but the energy level thing, for me, has been something that I've had to be mindful of and treat with more respect.
45  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: APAT Live Returns - with the Forum Team Championship, 12/13 Feb, DTD on: December 31, 2021, 12:43:50 PM
I'm in, but Gatso and Claw have confirmed that they won't be playing.
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