Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[mondatoo]

Hope you had a good birthday, good to see you at the weekend, take care (at your age).

[Tal]

Also, who is getting Jacks in pre vs you? I want their online nickname pls!!!!!! My range to put all my money in vs you would be the other two Aces. Mind you, since you started talking and playing like Plinop,

 


In my defence he hadn't folded a hand preflop in over an hour.  
Pretty sure I heard Tikay mutter "how could that moron call there"
...
Bugger, I'm about as good at the quoting lark as I am at poker

Well the plan WAS to force a fold from you.

Do as I ask next time.

Paul Jackson v Poker Superstar^* in pre flop levelling war?

Nah. Not buying it.



(*Not that you're not one yourself, Jac )

[tikay]

So you thought my photos were crap?

Methuselah sent me this.

It is a kestrel.

[Knottikay]

Soz I missed you b'day y'day t'kay <<text speak from us kidz init.

Best wishes from all the TKP 'mob' next door. Oh....dont forget my 29th next Thirsty Thursday or you and me will fall out....can you hear me old man??

Here is a pic from a couple of years ago. Respect Sir.

[Karabiner]

So you thought my photos were crap?

Methuselah sent me this.

It is a kestrel.

You see that speck in the background in the gap between the trees just to the left of the green? Well that's him, the bugger flew off just as I was about to get a close-up.

[tikay]

Sonning on Thames.

[tikay]

GCHQ Job Application Form.

The puzzle below apparently contains FIVE correct answers.

Get all 5 correct, & you qualify to work for GCHQ.

According to the daily newspapers, they did a similar thing last year, & only 170 people got it right, out of 3 million applicants.  

I know two things.

1) I could never crack that code in a month of Sundays.

2) If 3 million people applied for a job at GCHQ last year, I'll spend all day reading 'Stars Hand Histories. 3 million applicants, my arse.

Click to see full-size image.

[Tal]

3 million applications, maybe.

[tikay]

I quite like their sense of humour, though.

Note above that "code puzzle" the GCHQ signature - explore another world....

The theme continues below.

We are GCHQ - we spy, with added sense of humour

[tikay]

3 million applications, maybe.

5% of the population of Great Britain? Think I can crack THAT code.

Anyway, you found the 5 answers yet Brainy Bloke?

[tikay]

Soz I missed you b'day y'day t'kay <<text speak from us kidz init.

Best wishes from all the TKP 'mob' next door. Oh....dont forget my 29th next Thirsty Thursday or you and me will fall out....can you hear me old man??

Here is a pic from a couple of years ago. Respect Sir.

Ahh, thank you Alan.

I was clearing some stuff up the other day & found that very card. If only my mantelpiece was big enough.

Shame you missed Newcastle last weekend, was a pretty good do.

How is your boy these days - back to school this week? Do you have to buy school uniforms & all the PE kit & stuff? How much that lot cost?

[tikay]

The way the mind works, Part 93

I awoke this morning to see on blonde that Dubai won the $10k WCOOP PLO last night. Great news. "Hero".

I have some action in a package that Dubai sold for a specific basket of FTOPS & WCOOP Tourneys. Even better news.

Checked the thread to see how much I had. 2.5%. Very nice. Fantastic news. 

Then realised that the $10k PLO was NOT in the package. He's a tosser.

PS - Well done Mr Dubai. 100% pleased & delighted. Well, 97.5%.

[Tal]

Just had a search for the article and this amused me on a number of levels:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417438/GCHQ-sets-spy-quiz-countrys-James-Bond.html#comments

Firstly, the journalistic phraseology hack chat of "spy quiz" is so unbearably twee. Find the country's next James Bond indeed...

Entitled ‘Can You Find It?’, the brain-teaser consists of 29 blocks of five letters which candidates have to decipher into five answers

There are not 29 blocks of five letters, though, are there?! 28 and one block of three letters. Why can't they actually describe what's actually there? Is it so much to ask of their audience?

Nothing ever beats the comments under a daily mail article, though.



I don't expect I'd be able to crack the code, tbh. It's unlikely that each block of five is a distinct word and that the piece makes sense on its own when decoded, as making sentences out of only five letter words would be a lot to ask. They could be five groups of words, though, so we should proceed on the basis that we have to find a letter of the alphabet for each of the letters in the code. If it is simple coding, we can assume Q to be a vowel and almost certainly E.

There you go. Have fun with that.

[tikay]

Just had a search for the article and this amused me on a number of levels:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417438/GCHQ-sets-spy-quiz-countrys-James-Bond.html#comments

Firstly, the journalistic phraseology hack chat of "spy quiz" is so unbearably twee. Find the country's next James Bond indeed...

Entitled ‘Can You Find It?’, the brain-teaser consists of 29 blocks of five letters which candidates have to decipher into five answers

There are not 29 blocks of five letters, though, are there?! 28 and one block of three letters. Why can't they actually describe what's actually there? Is it so much to ask of their audience?

Nothing ever beats the comments under a daily mail article, though.



I don't expect I'd be able to crack the code, tbh. It's unlikely that each block of five is a distinct word and that the piece makes sense on its own when decoded, as making sentences out of only five letter words would be a lot to ask. They could be five groups of words, though, so we should proceed on the basis that we have to find a letter of the alphabet for each of the letters in the code. If it is simple coding, we can assume Q to be a vowel and almost certainly E.

There you go. Have fun with that.

Quite so.

Q is an E. Obv. We got QE'd.

On the face of it, it seems that the standard of journalism have slipped dreadfully. But it can't be that easy an explanation, can it?

Perhaps they are brighter than we are, & are trying to engage us on our own level?

I really don't know. It just seems too easy to say "they are all stupid". It deffo feels that way at first sight though.

Not buying, but I don't pretend to know the answer.

[Tal]

"I'm as mad as I am and no more"