Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

A very good friend of mine, who mainly lurks here, but Posts a lot next door, endlessly challenges, amuses, & entertains me with new words.

From "penultimate" came "antepenultimate".

From "antepenultimate", came "pre-antepenultimate".

So, today is the pre-antepenultimate-eve of my Diet.

Epic lexographic fail, I fancy.

[tikay]

Is "clique" the word most often mis-spelled (mis-spelt?) on Forums?

[Jon MW]

Is "clique" the word most often mis-spelled (mis-spelt?) on Forums?

No lose is

But they both tilt me

[technolog]

of instead of have = tilt

[tikay]

Some quite bright people have some amazing blind spots, it's hard to tell Online, when you can't get a visual read. But I become less & less enamoured with some aspects of Poker Forums.

A guy joined, & after a very abrupt starting Post got what some may say it deserved, he said......

 ".....was i talking to any of you lot i was asking a simple question so keep out of it!....."

After another slap round the chops, he came in with Post # 3.

"....haha this forum is funny! so many clicky people...."

I form a mental image of guys like this.

If we can't "see" people in real-life, we don't have many tells by which to judge them, & spelling is one of them. I'm almost certain it's an unreliable yardstick. But I still believe that.

Sheesh, I've become so old, snobby & grumpy.

Note to self. Use Spell-Check in future, some bugger will be waiting to throw this one back at me. Quite right too.

[redsimon]

Is it all work out in LV Tikay? Or are you going to grab a few tourneys WSOP etc out there?

[gatso]

I'm unsure as to whether I'm more tilted by click or coo

[tikay]

Is it all work out in LV Tikay? Or are you going to grab a few tourneys WSOP etc out there?

All work, but no complaints at all. If you work in poker, the WSOP is the nuts.

I might manage the odd one-dayer at Caesars, & if all our Team go busto early - which I would hate - then maybe I can at last live the dream, & play a Caesars or Venetian Deepie, but that's unlikely.

I travel Premium Economy, stay in a suite, all my per diems get looked after, & I get paid for it, so it's not so bad!

I get through a mountain of work out there, & I love every minute, & am counting down the hours until I go.

There is much competition next door to "get the Vegas gig" every year, & I feel sorry for those who don't, but equally, I think I give them them value, & I, sort of, deserve it. I've never paid to go to Vegas yet, but I've never been there just to play, either. Swings & roundabouts.

I have, as usual, got a few WSOP stakes, or "investments", too, about £2,500 worth I think, just 3 or 4 special friends. It helps give me an interest, & staves off the yearning I usually get to play the biggie. I get my poker kicks on the cheap.

One is back home already, & I got a result, so that has put a floor on my potential losses already. I think I invested £500, & my stake became £510! Balla, me.

He grimmed me for the tenner, too, though to be fair, I never paid him up-front for the stake. 1-1.

[tikay]

I'm unsure as to whether I'm more tilted by click or coo

I think "of" instead of "have", & "lose" instead of "loose" (or vice-versa) get me most.

But "clicky" is the one that amuses me most, because it is almost always said aggressively. And - in my daft little world - devalues their argument immediately.

I'm gonna get battered about all this snobbery quite soon, I know I am.

In my defence (get in first) I spent several years doing voluntary work (JNK was obsessive about his Execs doing such things, ship the OBE) on literacy issues, helping those who struggled, I did it up in Sheffield, for some reason I cannot recall.

In truth, much of it is laziness, or can't be arsed, or don't think it matters, or even the dreaded "text-speak" rather than don't know.

One I get in chat-boxes a lot is "thort", as in "I thort you said".

English IS a very difficult language to master, though not compared to the Cyrillic(?) or far-Eastern ones. But so many foreign nationals speak & write it beautifully. I could never in a million years master a non-native language, even a simple one like French, or German.

[tikay]

I'm unsure as to whether I'm more tilted by click or coo

Coupy-woupy just does not work.

[thetank]

I wonder what Charlie Munger would have to say about Clarkson?

[tikay]

Yesterday, the Restaurant (= canteen), was "out of stock" of my usual low-fat yogurt. Which contains 75 calories per pot. I have 2 per day, religiously.

They had another low-fat brand, in a bigger pot, which contained 103 cals per pot.

I worried & fretted endlessly about those wasted extra cals - all 56 of them. (My daily calorie ceiling is 1,200).

I extrapolated the effect of 56 extra calories per day over a 140 day diet. Hmm, over 7,000. That's nearly a week's intake.

In the end, rather than do my head in & tilt myself to death, I never ate the 2nd one, so saved 47 cals on the day. So I slept soundly, & all was well in diet-land.

I'm still not sure what this means, but I've narrowed it down.

1) I have a will of iron.

2) I possess fantastic self-discipline.

3) I am obsessed.

4) I am stubborn.

5) It is a positive to be so narrow minded.

6) It is a negative to be so narrow-minded.

7) I am OCD.

8) This may be the onset of Alzheimer's, or, at best, senility.

Go long on the high numbers, I think.

[tikay]

I wonder what Charlie Munger would have to say about Clarkson?

"Next".

[tikay]

I watched a bit of Glasto last night - that's been going for forty years now, wow! I vividly recall the first one, & yet the majority of Members here were not born then.

I thought Gorillaz were awesome, as good as it gets, & far better than the pretentious U2, who they replaced, would have been. And what an interesting - & good - choice, Snoop Doggy Dog was to share the Gorillaz set. Genius thinkage, that, & I drooled.

It's odd who & what the Glasto regs like & dislike.

Who'd have thought that they'd be warm - very warm - to the near 80 year old Rolf Harris (as they were to Dame Bassey a few years back), but Gorillaz would get mixed reviews?

I am deffo out of the youth loop & mindset, & the days of me understanding what ticks their boxes are long gone.

[tikay]

Kylie was on Rossy, too. Looked fabulous, but the eyes gave it away, & she's lost that special sparkle she used to have. I hope it's just an after-effect of her ailment, & treatment, rather than a sign of lingering illness. So much can be gleaned from the eyes. I believe many Medics can deduce state of health from eyes, & it's certainly true in the case of, for example, horses.