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Great post @Stevo985 

I especially agree about AirBnB. Forget it unless you get one on the strip. I can’t say this enough....make sure you stay on the strip.

I know the Jockey Club (very old hotel but with privately owned condos), which is behind the Cosmo, and next to the Bellagio, has rooms available through AirBnB and they’re reasonably priced, so that IS an AirBnB option. But...STAY. ON. THE. STRIP 

We made the mistake of not doing so on my second trip and it was a massive, massive mistake. 

As for Omnia, I’m thinking the price for Calvin Harris was $160 because that was paid on the night (@Stevo985 did I understand that part correctly mate?). I’d prebooked tickets for us to see Tiesto for next Friday, but I noticed Calvin was due to play the week after and it was $125, but part of that was bar tab and VIP/expedited entrance. Basically, pre book all your club tickets.

I’ve went to Wet Republic on my first trip. Recommended, but Vegas is fickle and I’m not sure whether WR has been surpassed by other pool parties as I went to WR seven years ago. They have one at Encore that apparently is amazing. 

I’d also echo Stevo’s thoughts on the Beer Park. Definitely worth a visit or two and it’s not all that expensive. If you eat cheaply in the day, then I’d say you can get away with under $75-100. This would mean not doing much aside from a bit of chilling by the pool, general bumbling around the strip and eating breakfast at somewhere like Egg Slut (Cosmo), lunch at somewhere like the Earl of Sandwich in Planet Hollywood (<$15 for a meaty sandwich and drink iirc) and having a cheap bite in the evening at somewhere like the Beer Park.

You could get away with $300-$400 per night. But you can easily, very easily, spend much more, but if you stay away from the top tier clubs, and more pricey bars, then you can spend a lot less. 

Ahh yeah, the FED buying up high yield bonds through exchange traded funds. 

Who mostly buys this debt? Private equity funds. So what, you might ask?

As one analyst noted (and I’m paraphrasing): this is pretty much an indirect bail out of private equity firms. You know how the banks were being bailed out, those banks whose CEOs make $50m in bonuses? Well a bail out has started of companies whose CEOs make $500m per year in bonuses.

Since we’re X amount of weeks behind other countries then it’ll be interesting to see what lessons there will be to learn from the easing of their lockdowns (if any), whether our Government will learn them, and then how effectively they’ll be applied. 

1 hour ago, snowychap said:

A possible 'mothering sunday' spike, for one thing?

 

Sorry Snowychap (and you are definitely more intelligent that I am), I don’t follow....

For someone who might have read the logic for this or be able to piece the reasoning together/more intelligent than I....

How are we still a couple of weeks away from the “peak” when most of us have barely left their house for almost four weeks!? 

I was due to go in back six days time for Vegas trip #4 but obviously that isn’t happening now  It was for a friend’s stag do and there was a decent sized group of us going too. 

I’ll probably head back there next year now. 

The company I work for had three buildings all within about a 500m radius. They looked at the roles of people and how they could utilise working from home and hot desk practices so that one of the buildings could be given up.

Financially it made sense because why bother dragging everyone into an office, every day, when some of them don’t need to physically be there and have all this office space that actually isn’t really needed. The end result was they were able to get rid of a whole building (this included discontinuing some roles that were deemed no longer required, but only a small percentage) by splitting out that building across the remaining two and implementing WFH and hotdesking for certain teams. 

So basically now, what we’ve got in my building is that some people don’t have a fixed desk, but they’re given a laptop and work from home on some days & then go to the office on others. 

Rather than have, say, 3000 people at fixed desks across four floors they’ve now got two floors of 1500 people’s worth of space with team’s sharing the areas and co-ordinating their WFH practices. 

**** knows how it works in terms of hotdesking though. I wonder whether people have a desk they always try to sit on or whether they actually sit wherever on any given day (I don’t have any need to go to these floors so know nobody who works there or even what they do). 

32 minutes ago, Chindie said:

The flu jab gives you an immunity to a few strains of flu that research indicates will be the more common strains each year.

The flu (and cold) viruses constantly change so you can never be truly immune to it, and it's why there's never been a vaccine for it that offers full immunity, because the virus is constantly in flux.

There are companies currently working on and, apparently, close to finding a universal flu vaccine. I only know this because I’m watching Pandemic on Netflix (which is scarily prophetic!) 

This is exactly what it’s going to be like once the lockdown has ended! 

I actually think it’s nothing to do with people being word removeds or purposely trying to ignore any advice, it’s more to do with our absolutely barmy attitude to the slightest bit of sunny weather. It’s like a sudden national holiday that cannot be missed under any circumstances.

“**** ME DOREEN, LOOK! THE WEATHER IS IN THE HIGH TEENS. WHERE’S ME F***ING SHORTS AND FLIP FLOPS!? QUICK GRAB THE KIDS AND WAKE OUR MOM UP FROM HER AFTERNOON NAP, WE’RE ALL OFF DOWN THE PARK COS THE SUN IS OUT”

Down here today it’s been about 20 degrees but with a slight breeze. It’s not really felt that warm, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many couples/families with big bags walk past looking like they’re off to the local park.

I also don’t think I’ve ever seen so many people in exercise gear either. Now maybe because COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, more people are feeling like they should improve their over health and respiratory system/lung capacity etc. Fair enough. 

Personally, I’ve got no issues with people exercising outdoors, going to sunbathe or heading to the park as long as they’re sticking to the social distancing guidelines. If, however, there are parks that are having to be shut due to thousands of people turning up then that is most definitely irresponsible. 

But **** me - these people should all maybe calm down, it’s just a bit of tepid weather. It’ll be warmer in the summer when we’ll hopefully no longer be in lockdown. 

19 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

Don’t counter this with ah but rugby. Rugby is a weird faux patriotic drinking game for daily mail readers 5 weekends a year

I’ve given you laughy thing because this part really tickled me. I think it’s one the most amusing ways in which I’ve ever seen rugby described. 

1 hour ago, tonyh29 said:

Played a few more , decided it’s pretty shit actually , it’s like someone cranked up the treble and then just moves it from one ear to another for no good reason , wonderwall sounds terrible (no comment) , the drums on Billie Jean , arguably the best thing of the whole song , sound tinny and ruined , Let it be it just turned it into a church organ piece with echo , like wise Take on me where the sound just overlaps and sounds dreadful , and Nirvana’s come as you are ... No , no and No 

so , for that reason I’m out 

Wait! Are you being serious!? People have tried to convert Let It Be, Take on Me and Billie Jean etc to this format!?
I haven’t listened to those particular tracks in 8D, but I just can’t imagine it translating across at all. I’m surprised people even tried and thought it would work.

I’m still impressed, but I do think it needs a certain style of music (like the Billie Eilish track). 

6 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

I realise I'm probably very late to the party, but I've just come across "8D Audio" and it's blowing my mind.

(absolutely definitely requires headphones)

 

Mate, guess what - we landed on the moon! 

Nah, I only found about this recently too. I got sent an 8D track as an audio file through WhatsApp. It’s been around a while so **** knows how it’s only just really started to surface and become more prevalent. Unless we’re just uncool and massively behind the curve!! Agree...it’s blowing my mind too.

Try this one:

Joe Wicks.

17 hours ago, useless said:

Crunchy nut come in their own variety pack, but there's only four boxes, same with Special K. Edit just checked and you can also get bigger packs that also include crunchy nut and special k, but not sure if they're readily available at the grocery store. I normally just have porridge anyway, cheaper, healthier (I think) and more filling.

What I love about this post is Useless tried to start a conversation about cereal variety boxes on Monday and then decided to carry it on with himself a full day later. 

8 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

My sudden interest was sparked by one little throw away nugget of info a week or so ago regarding Covid, older males, BMI over 40.

Doesn’t even matter if it was fact or not really, and I know BMI is a very blunt tool. But it was a nudge. I had absolutely no idea what mine was, turns out, depending on what day it is, I hover either side of 30 by a decimal point (a tenth, for @tonyh29 ).

Now I’m not even walking from the car to the office, i just wanted to make sure that turned in to 29, not 31.

 

 

BMI is a totally ridiculous measure and I’m surprised it’s still used. I had one of those comprehensive well man health checks recently and my BMI was on the very edge of normal to overweight yet I’m 8.4% body fat. 
 

5 hours ago, markavfc40 said:

 

Had social media been around 25 years ago and everyone went around with a camera I doubt very much I'd have gotten to see too much of the likes of Merson and McGrath. They'd have been on the front of the rags pretty much every week and based on this thread there may well have been enough of us to force them out the club.

 

Grealish has messed up. As things stand he is guilty of breaking government instructions to only leave the house for essential reasons. I am sure there are hundreds of thousands of other selfish fools who have done similar over the last few days but him being so high profile and in a position to influence others compounds what he has done.

 

As for the car accident and hearsay about him being drunk until proven otherwise it is not for us to say if he was even driving the car or drunk. I'd imagine if those allegations are being made the Police will investigate and if he is charged we'll cross that bridge if we come to it.

 

You seem to have mistaken my post as being serious and not a parody of the current cancel culture that exists. 

Jack Grealish is CANCELLED.

Firstly, I say we hound him on social media for an apology. But wait - he’s already done that and shown genuine remorse for what he did. Well that just not enough is it!? What we need now is a protest outside Villa Park demanding that the club terminate his contract immediately. 
Then what we do is we ensure he never plays professional football again, maybe by creating one of those online petition things, and raising awareness of his heinous crimes by creating a social media hashtag to attract as many signatures as possible.

We then wait and see what happens. If there’s a suggestion any of the clubs will try to give him a second chance, we hound them on social media and all of their sponsors telling them how we’ll NEVER purchase a product or use a service that we’d have never used or bought in the first place anyway.

Him never playing football again, having a career, or any kind of meaningful employment, and being forced into social isolation for the rest of his life is the only way  his actions can be duly rectified. 

I’m no longer boozing three/four times a week or doing any packet. I’m not going out doing massive rounds and buying silly priced cocktails. I’ve cancelled all my trips this year so far.

This lockdown saving money lark is a piece of piss. 

I clapped because the chap directly over the road is a GP. He came out of his house and clapped everyone back. It was actually quite nice. 

13 minutes ago, bickster said:

Bog roll made a return to our local supermarket I noticed today

No surprise if people are resorting to using hoses in their back garden. 

I can grow a beard easily enough, you cheeky barsteward 

It’s wanting to retain the ability to do so is why I’m using the creams. I’m rather sexy with stubble, not so much clean shaven. You wouldn’t fancy me clean shaven. 

1 hour ago, choffer said:

Seems that there’s a COVID-19 tracking app doing the rounds today. I’m a bit wary given how one such app has already been used for ransomware. Looks legit though https://covid.joinzoe.com/

It is legit. 
 

“UK researchers have launched an app to help track the spread of Covid-19 and explore who is most at risk from the disease in an attempt to better understand the pandemic”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/24/uk-app-aims-to-help-researchers-track-spread-of-coronavirus

(Sorry mods, the link isn’t embedding)