Faroe Islands (Away) Wed 8th Jun 05

[finn]

well lads and lassies I have just returned from what I can only describe as an eipc adventure

good to meet so many faces from here, even if there is still confusion around what moniker to address you all by, is it real name, is it handle, or is it some ungodly name we made up on the night (beergod where are you :))

highlights for me have to include:

Pat O's comedy fall coming up the steps during the game
You have to fish in the morning, fish in the morning......
Finding out the atrociously drunk fella from café natur was a convicted sheepshagger (3 times apparently)
Discussing the four degrees of bestiality - worrying, bothering, messing with, and interfering with - with some of the best legal minds on the matter (step forward schloomp and ash among others)
and of course the unforgettable night in eclipse
the stories from journeys past as told by such old hands as lopez and sylvo

I have some pics which I will post (and some which I probably wont :)) but will get that done later when I manage to wade through the 100s of emails sitting in my work inbox :(

P

[Ash]

You forgot worrying :D

Totally forgot about the convicted sheep rapist

I put a load of pics (none incriminating) up on photobucket this morning
but I think the site is down now, either that or its been blocked !

[finn]

You forgot worrying :D

Totally forgot about the convicted sheep rapist

I put a load of pics (none incriminating) up on photobucket this morning
but I think the site is down now, either that or its been blocked !

well it all just adds to his testimony at the last trial

"your honour, I am innocent of this sheep bothering accusation, because at the time, I was interfereing with some geese on another island"

:D

Pete

[sylvo]

[QUOTE=Schlooooomp] Then there was Lopez, Sylvo (and other, whos name I forget, sorry) on the flight to Iceland and for a few pints there on the first night, and finally OneRedArmy and Matt for for two nights of debauchery in Iceland.

Good to see Ray you got out of that mad house in one piece, Lopez, Barney and myself managed not to upset the Icelandic Garda on the way home ;) unlike our arrival :eek:


Look forward to meeting yourself and all the other new comrades we met in Germany next year. :D

[sylvo]

[QUOTE=finn]

highlights for me have to include:

Pat O's comedy fall coming up the steps during the game




You got to admit Finn he is a fine advert for tourism to Donegal is Pat. ;)

Our own highlight of Pat's is his leaving behind all the gifts he bought which included a a couple of one and a half foot high cuddly puffins which looked like Johnny Rotten, leaving myself and Lopez to carry them around and then home for him. :mad:

[Babysis]

[QUOTE=finn]

highlights for me have to include:

Pat O's comedy fall coming up the steps during the game




You got to admit Finn he is a fine advert for tourism to Donegal is Pat. ;)

Our own highlight of Pat's is his leaving behind all the gifts he bought which included a a couple of one and a half foot high cuddly puffins which looked like Johnny Rotten, leaving myself and Lopez to carry them around and then home for him. :mad:

to be fair to him, the stairs were very slippery (although even he admitts his slow motion fall was pretty funny). He wanted to run back to the house and get those gifts 2 mins before the bus was leaving. We bought a load of talking puffins in the airport instead :D

[Schlooooomp]

That sheep shagging guy - I feel violated after having escorted him to the door of Cafe Natur...

[finn]

Brilliant trip, really nice people. The crowd at the game were fantastic, I was in the middle of the foot.ie contingent and the signing was non-stop I think I can claim credit for the "hands up your puffins" chant too. :D

My photos of the week are up here (http://photobucket.com/albums/v239/SchumiUCD/Faroes/match). The furthest right photo on the second last row is the penalty going in!
If you're interested in the rest of the photos of the weekend, click on 'Faroes' up near the top.

ok I would just like to apologise for my hat spoiling almost every photo from that match :o

P

[Pat O' Banton]

highlights for me have to include:

Pat O's comedy fall coming up the steps during the game
You have to fish in the morning, fish in the morning......
Finding out the atrociously drunk fella from café natur was a convicted sheepshagger (3 times apparently)
Discussing the four degrees of bestiality - worrying, bothering, messing with, and interfering with - with some of the best legal minds on the matter (step forward schloomp and ash among others)



Falling up stairs? Errr.. couldn't have been me, I was errr,... chatting up puffins on another islands!

[pineapple stu]

The media weren't there, coz it would have been frontpage news next morning.
The media were there - that's why it wasn't front page news! ;)

Definitely though - what goes on tour stays on tour. I'd like to think we respect our players more than the louts across the water (no offence to the Irish-English on here! You know what I mean). And it's not as if none of us have been drunk at any stage anyway...

What's all this about the sheepshagger?!?! Must have been in Eiði then. Thank God!

[Junior]

(no offence to the Irish-English on here! You know what I mean).

oh where to begin................................... :rolleyes:

[Ash]

The sheep shagger thing was in Cafe Natur.
A very drunk local was falling over everyone around our table so Schloomp being
the decent lad he is tried to escort him out of the pub. On his was back in the
bouncers told him that yer man was the most well known sheep shagger on the
islands and had been convicted of it!

[Schumi]

ok I would just like to apologise for my hat spoiling almost every photo from that match :o
It was much worse in real life :D

[Schumi]

I put a load of pics (none incriminating) up on photobucket this morning
but I think the site is down now, either that or its been blocked !
Working for me. What's the link?

[shiv_ire]

Definitely though - what goes on tour stays on tour.
Well according to Graham Kavanagh it's from the time you leave the "tarmac" til when you land on it again!
....not sure how that works for anyone on connecting flights?! :rolleyes:

[Babysis]

Well according to Graham Kavanagh it's from the time you leave the "tarmac" til when you land on it again!
....not sure how that works for anyone on connecting flights?! :rolleyes:

i like his thinking :D

[loudy macloud]

yes it was an amazing trip, luckily enough did not have the pleasure of meeting the sheepshagger, but did meet some new faces
was only my second away trip and what a trip
any of the guys that stayed in the camp site will know what craic we had

there were many quotes, of course " good morning and schloomp is a legend

but one of my favorites was when in eclipse on wednesday and i hear this roar
"f*ck that gary doherty, he stole my woman"

it all started that evening we were discussing whitkinstein over a game of backgammon, scene missing, scene missing, scene missing

[Schumi]

but one of my favorites was when in eclipse on wednesday and i hear this roar
"f*ck that gary doherty, he stole my woman"
Did she get some light ... action? :D

[Schlooooomp]

I am gonna have to stop reading this thread, I am sitting at my desk laughing my head off and nobody knows whats going on, oh **** here comes security

[Schlooooomp]

Did she get some light ... action? :D


Not from me, but maybe somebody else had something to crow about in the morning!

[Ash]

there must have been seeing as Loudy very nearly missed the bus to the airport. :D

[finn]

so ash are you going to post a link to your pics or not :D

P

[loudy macloud]

there must have been seeing as Loudy very nearly missed the bus to the airport. :D


there definitely some light.........action :cool:

[lopez]

Who's the sheepshagger? Was he the bloke with the beard and delirious smaile? If so he bugged the f*ck out of me as he reminded me of an alky at work from the 80s we called 'break-dance'. Had two cans of coke (one with Vodka, geddit!). One morning he was shaking so much about the place we had to feed him like a baby before we could let him anywhere near a train. :rolleyes:

[Green Tribe]

Oh My Sweet Lord! :eek: :D I have finally got my eyes on pics of the lads on the stage, mmm, Babysis, you missed this fine entertainment. The pic of Clint in particular is :D I won't post up on Totty Watch as it is not fair on the boys as someone has stated earlier, even though I found them on another known site ;)

Slabber, drool......

Looked like great craic! :D

[OneRedArmy]

Howdy doody lads and lasses, just about able to use a computer now the shakes have gotten more intermittent and my sunburn has settled down (officially the only person to get sunburnt in Iceland).

It was great to meet Sylvo, Lopez and the London lads and lasses and a pleasure to escort Schloompf from bar to bar in Iceland.

SO many memories, most of them retold to me by other, more sober people subsequently and many of them mentioned above.

A few of mine:
The pre-match atmosphere and craic in Cafe Natur with the Faroes fans. Singing "go on home Ollie Byne on Danish radio" and the ensuing look of puzzlement
The singing at the game, most of the songs have been mentioned, but it was true off the cuff freestyling
The all around looks of horror when we realised we'd stopped at the worlds only alcohol free hotel in Runavik during our "sightseeing" day
Being an innocent bystander in Manhattans on Thursday when the only other people in the bar, two Russian fishermen, started throwing chairs at each other, or more correctly behind each other
The realisation that cabin fever was setting in by the end of the week when the local nutters started acknowledging us as friends and set upon other newer visitors
Atlantic Airlines, the only airline in the world where they ask you after you've taken 2 cans off the trolley "would you like something with your coffee?". I'll have another 2 cans thanks...... (apologies to those who don't have such good memories of them)
The Frank Spencer-type scene at Reykjavik City Airport when the worldest shortest luggage belt met the worlds worst sniffer dog (searching speciality: crotches, mostly men) Sylvo and Lopez paid for their smart remarks (I've never seen someone sweat so much when the latex gloves came out)
Watching Schloompf in action in Reykjavik, with a technique that was described as "cheetah stalking the weakest wildebeast on the edge of the pack"

Great week, hope to see you all in Germany.

[sylvo]

[QUOTE=OneRedArmy
The Frank Spencer-type scene at Reykjavik City Airport when the worldest shortest luggage belt met the worlds worst sniffer dog (searching speciality: crotches, mostly men) Sylvo and Lopez paid for their smart remarks



The funny thing was when they started shouting their questions at us in Icelandic, that was never going to work somehow ;) , I think the sniffer dog was the only one that had any sense in that box room/baggage reclaim area.

After you young fellas headed off to the nightclubs us old heads lamented on the first night not being totally banjaxed largely due to Icelands prices. :eek:

[pineapple stu]

Singing "go on home Ollie Byne on Danish radio" and the ensuing look of puzzlement
:D
I'd forgotten that!

Who was it was drinking with someone from the Faroese FA all Thursday or Wednesday night?

[Pat O' Banton]

Ollie Byrne, Danish Soliders is there anyother people who we tried to order of the islands?

[Schlooooomp]

well, I tried to order the sheep shagger out of Cafe Natur but I was highly unsuccessful coz he was back in quicker than I was... :confused:

[Schumi]

officially the only person to get sunburnt in Iceland
I managed to get sunburnt in the Faroes! It looks really silly too because there's about a centimetre at the top that's white because my hair covered it up. :o

[Ash]

Yep, I managed to get a bit of sunburn too ... nothing like the Spillane Tan though :D

[Schlooooomp]

Guys, thats not a tan, it's commonly called exposure, ye are lucky yer noses did not fall off... :D

[loudy macloud]

i also got "the splash of colour"
although not too sure if it is due to the sun, exposure or a huge build up of alcohol in my system :confused:

[lopez]

...The Frank Spencer-type scene at Reykjavik City Airport when the worldest shortest luggage belt met the worlds worst sniffer dog (searching speciality: crotches, mostly men) Sylvo and Lopez paid for their smart remarks (I've never seen someone sweat so much when the latex gloves came out)...Q to Customs bloke: Do you mind if I ask what EXACTLY are you (and Fido) looking for.

CB: Drugs!

Myself: Drugs??? :confused: From the Faroes. Even I couldn't find any drugs there. :eek: :o and not very :cool:

...The all around looks of horror when we realised we'd stopped at the worlds only alcohol free hotel in Runavik during our "sightseeing" day...I think Sylvo knows a similar place in a town in Fermanagh.

[Pat O' Banton]

I think Sylvo knows a similar place in a town in Fermanagh.

Are we talking Ballinamallard, twined with Utah & Jiddah!

[Green Tribe]

Are we talking Ballinamallard, twined with Utah & Jiddah!

:eek: it is a hole! alcohol free hotel in fermanagh, surely not, that would be illegal in Fermanagh of all places!!! :D :D

[sylvo]

:eek: it is a hole! alcohol free hotel in fermanagh, surely not, that would be illegal in Fermanagh of all places!!! :D :D


Serious KT the place has tumbleweed blowing down the main street and on a sunday all you can hear is the sound of clocks ticking as the locals sit in doors and wait for monday morning and work. :eek:

But it does have one of those halls that the colourful power walking club that walk down the middle of the road instead of the pavement hang out. ;)

[Green Tribe]

Serious KT the place has tumbleweed blowing down the main street and on a sunday all you can hear is the sound of clocks ticking as the locals sit in doors and wait for monday morning and work. :eek:

But it does have one of those halls that the colourful power walking club that walk down the middle of the road instead of the pavement hang out. ;)

that is true of the road walking brigade, it's that sort of town indeed... :eek:

[lopez]

Are we talking Ballinamallard, twined with Utah & Jiddah!More chance of getting a bev in Teheran, I take it. :rolleyes: Utah? Ahh who needs the Priory or the Betty Ford clinic when you can move to Salt Lake City. Going completely off record, I spotted two members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints when I was in Jerez a couple of weeks ago..........walking out of the Sandeman Bodega with two bags each. :eek: :eek: :eek: