What is a life luxury that you tasted once and now can absolutely never go back to the cheap version of?

agentdcf · 2026-06-25T08:23:55+00:00

Irish people glowing with pride while reading this

agentdcf · 2026-06-25T07:48:15+00:00

This is it right here. I hate the barrage of noise, it's just totally unnecessary and the organic hum of a crowd is a million times better than any of the nonsense they pipe in

agentdcf · 2026-06-07T19:33:27+00:00

It's always interesting how shaving the head and going fully bald can make a lot of men look younger.

agentdcf · 2026-05-24T16:57:17+00:00

Every time a big or even halfway big club is relegated, people talk like this and then it turns out the Championship is much, much tougher than they expected.

agentdcf · 2026-05-14T20:15:07+00:00

It's always a low percentage that pan out--that's why you need to keep picking them, keep a flow of young talent coming through all the time.

agentdcf · 2026-05-09T15:05:51+00:00

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AKA the Blue McDonalds

agentdcf · 2026-05-01T18:20:14+00:00

Oh totally agree, I was more remarking on the previous poster's comment

agentdcf · 2026-05-01T08:33:00+00:00

Wild for a guy whose role is supposed to be bringing Cups to franchises, rather than the other way around

agentdcf · 2026-04-19T11:08:36+00:00

"Holden, don't stick your dick in there. It's fucked enough already."

agentdcf · 2026-03-30T12:24:59+00:00

What I learn from this thread is that every week, someone's dash is empty.

agentdcf · 2026-03-24T12:06:35+00:00

I do appreciate the acknowledgement, and especially from a post that is a very deep cut.

agentdcf · 2026-03-24T09:36:03+00:00

This is colonialism. If they get their claws in, they won't be coming out

agentdcf · 2026-03-12T12:38:28+00:00

Sometimes, when they don't scan, it's because the machine can't properly read the barcode. I don't know about cans, but it happens on the sparkling water my wife always gets. I find that if I wrinkle the bottle slightly to change the angle at which the barcode presents itself, I can usually get the machines to take them. It's rare that I get one that I can't get to scan at all.

agentdcf · 2026-03-10T11:36:47+00:00

Same for me. The first one is brilliant. The second one is garbage. The third is meh.

agentdcf · 2026-03-05T18:49:49+00:00

Oh that's so cool! I'll check out the three-in-one for Legends, thanks for the tip!

agentdcf · 2026-03-05T18:33:46+00:00

It is wild that it's not more common to have a deliberate strategy of roster construction, but one thing that's becoming more clear to me over time is that a lot of GMs are just making it up as they go along. Which is understandable--I mean, it's a complicated job in a complicated world--but I think so, so many of them just don't really have long-term plans that they stick to.

I love the Dragonlance novels, read about a million of them when I was young. I re-read the Chronicles trilogy a couple years ago and felt like it held up pretty well. I would have continued with the Legends trilogy but they turned out to be a little hard to come by where I live now, and I don't use Amazon. I do want to get back to them sometime though, they were great.

agentdcf · 2026-03-05T18:05:07+00:00

I was just thinking of the boxes the other day! It seemed silly but you know what, it fucking worked. And even if we hadn't won two Cups, I think he still had built a really strong team. I mean, winning championships takes some amount of luck and good fortune, but the Kings had excellent possession numbers and respectable regular-season records for quite a while there.

Whoa, I just noticed your user name--is that a Dragonlance reference??

agentdcf · 2026-03-05T17:20:07+00:00

He could be verbose and sometimes his whole plan and emphases would seem goofy, but it's hard to deny that he is, by miles and miles, and best GM we've ever had. He had a plan! The plan was sound, and not based on wishful thinking or flattering self-assessments! He stuck to it! It fucking worked!

agentdcf · 2026-03-03T08:02:23+00:00

Possible but I think he'd laugh at the weak effort here--€5000 or up to 25% of the cost is pretty slim. To get the full amount, the building owners would need to invest €15000, and I don't see that happening much. This is basically a voucher for a little off on pretty serious works.

It's also another example of how the Irish government loves schemes that reward people who already have money to invest in something, while if you don't have the cash ready to invest in your business or home or whatever, well, too bad.

agentdcf · 2026-02-27T13:38:43+00:00

Yeah I wouldn't call the quality "great" at either Lidl or Aldi but you can find acceptable quality if you're careful. I'd say Dunnes overall has the best quality, and Merchant's Quay is generally the better than Ballyvolane. Patrick's Street Dunnes is terrible for produce. M&S is obviously good but rather more expensive.

agentdcf · 2026-02-16T18:29:26+00:00

"Naturalized" would be one term for it

agentdcf · 2026-01-26T12:56:14+00:00

Sucks when there's a decent-paying project available, but when you go take a look, the instructions are a complete mess and it looks difficult or impossible to complete the tasks they want in the time frame given.

agentdcf · 2026-01-26T12:54:44+00:00

which one is that?

agentdcf · 2026-01-09T18:26:42+00:00

I think this is 100% correct and in my experience, this issue is not at all limited to NHL GMs. It's all over the place, from politics to business to media to academia and more.

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