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You don't need ot apply to gutshot 24 hours before you play because it's a cardroom, not a casino.

However I think it's depressing there and I don't enjoy PLHE and if I could work out their rake structure, I'm sure it would be too high.

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why is it depressing?

getting to london is somewhat of a hassle anyway. i suck at driving there, so i'm not even renting a car this time. i drove for 10 years in the U.S. without a single car accident. last year, i lasted about a minute and a half in england before i side-swiped a parked bus. granted, 6 gin + tonics on the flight over probably wasn't the smartest move, but whatever.

anyway, i guess i'll probably just play UB all week.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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Don't you just hate it when the English go around messing with the English language. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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This is an oxymoraaan.

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

The Dynamite Kid must have used the term 'bollocks' ten times in his auto bio. Based on the context "I was going to punch him in the bollocks" I got it.

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I think I just find it depressing because it's a cardroom and it's just a bunch of sad old losers sitting around wasting time and money, not having fun, bitching at people and being complete nits (I get chastised by them for talking to my friends during a hand, even after we've both folded), sprinkled with the odd cocky WPT kid who takes 15 minutes on every hand.

Don't drink and drive you idiot, it's innocent people's lives you're risking. It's especially stupid to do it in a country where you have to drive on the other side of the road and where driving is much more difficult anyway (narrower roads, roundabouts, warning signs being weird pictures rather than words etc).

Re: Are \'bollocks\' sometimes on US tongues these days?
 

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'the bollocks' (shortening of 'the dog's bollocks'== very good, best)

This should be easy for people here to remember, given it means the same thing as "the nuts".

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Actually, that's amazing, two cultural memes converging! And being so similar; 'nuts' is bad, 'the nuts' is good!

They have different source/roots etc, but they mean the same thing, and the meaning is mostly reversed or radically changed with the inclusion of the definite article.

I'll shut up now cos the stupid don't like to be reminded.

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Alright, I'll come by and say it's similar to tits, then, too. "That's tits" means it's good, while if you've got a "bag of tits", that's a whole lot of nothing.

What else?

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Patrick del Poker Grande: this new Coheed and Cambria CD is the [dog's] bollocks!

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It's tits!

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I think I just find it depressing because it's a cardroom and it's just a bunch of sad old losers sitting around wasting time and money, not having fun, bitching at people and being complete nits (I get chastised by them for talking to my friends during a hand, even after we've both folded), sprinkled with the odd cocky WPT kid who takes 15 minutes on every hand.

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i see.

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Don't drink and drive you idiot, it's innocent people's lives you're risking. It's especially stupid to do it in a country where you have to drive on the other side of the road and where driving is much more difficult anyway (narrower roads, roundabouts, warning signs being weird pictures rather than words etc).

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i was mostly joking around - 6 drinks over the course of a 6 hour flight doesn't get me drunk...if i thought i was too drunk to drive i could have had the guy i was with drive. i think i was hitting that stupid bus one way or the other; i was sooooo discombobulated being on the right side of the car. it was really quite embarassing.

drunk driving is not in my repertoire.

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I thought it was a UK/Australasian-only phrase, but I heard Vince Vaughn say it in Dodgeball. Have bollocks crossed the Atlantic?

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Some people have an affinity for British slang.

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You truly wanna be searching for the root behind the bollocks?

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Patrick del Poker Grande: this new Coheed and Cambria CD is the [dog's] bollocks!

this phrasing wouldn't really work with "the nuts"

Actually, as a poker fiend, I often say "the nuts" in day-to-day speech when referring to anything that's the best.

For example, "Hockey is good, but playoff hockey is the nuts."