Behaviour which needs to be banned...

[OwlsFan]

1.people who follow Man U or Liverpool (sheep).
2. people who follow the above and call them "we"
3. EL supporters who don't like people following English teams (somehow think it is to the detriment of the local game although it was the existence of the GAA as the main sport which alas has held back local soccer).
4. Nepotism
5. Litter louts (including chewing gum and cigarettes).
6. Graffeti vandals.
7. Pronouncing "out" as "ite".
8. Not wearing colours to an international game.
9. Expecting Ireland to beat all before them, including teams with a populations 10 times ours or more.
10.Knee jerk reactions to Ireland losses in friendlies.
11. Robbie Keane hating by Irish fans.
12. Diving and feigning injury by players.
13. Aftermatch interviews by losing soccer managers (referee referee referee referee referee referee etc).

[Bluebeard]

1.people who follow Man U or Liverpool (sheep).
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3. EL supporters who don't like people following English teams (somehow think it is to the detriment of the local game although it was the existence of the GAA as the main sport which alas has held back local soccer).

And then is it OK for someone who follows an English team to not like people who follow Man U or Liverpool, and to call them sheep for taking an easy option?

How about supporters of Irish teams who don't like the people following English teams who spend all their time kicking the League, and are ambivalent about the others - the parenthetical bit sounds like an explanation of all rather than a caveat.

[stann]

Bravo Bluebeard.

I've been following Liverpool since I saw them on the telly when I was five. Who was I sheeping at that age Owlsfan?
Lot longer than I've been a Waterford fan, but since I have been they've always taken a back seat to the Blues.

Can I add 'making lazy-arsed generalisations' to the list? :p

[brianw82]

5. Litter louts (including chewing gum and cigarettes).

Seconded. Especially people dropping cigarette butts on the ground when there's a bin with an ashtray less than 2 feet away. These people deserve a kick in the most painful orifice.

[Magicme]

People making a cup of tea with a tea bag in the cup and then pour the milk in on top of the tea bag. It freaks me out totally. Makes me want to puke. Milky teabags are the devil's work.

Also hate people who put milk in on top of the coffee granules before they add the hot water and the black bits of the coffee floating in the milk. EVIL!

Also Cocopops. They turn the milk chocolatey. Beelzebub's favourite food.

[De Town]

People who are smoking in your company, and know you don't like smoking, but they continue to blow smoke into your face.

[brianw82]

People who are smoking in your company, and know you don't like smoking, but they continue to blow smoke into your face.

I find people like that few and far between, to be honest.

[De Town]

I find people like that few and far between, to be honest.

"Blowing smoke into your face" might be a bit extreme, but they make no effort to not blow it into your face.

[OwlsFan]

And then is it OK for someone who follows an English team to not like people who follow Man U or Liverpool, and to call them sheep for taking an easy option?.

Yes.


How about supporters of Irish teams who don't like the people following English teams who spend all their time kicking the League, and are ambivalent about the others - the parenthetical bit sounds like an explanation of all rather than a caveat.

Agree. Supporters of English teams have no right to kick the league.


Bravo Bluebeard.

I've been following Liverpool since I saw them on the telly when I was five. Who was I sheeping at that age Owlsfan?

At 5 the urge to conform is the strongest I suspect. Kids hate to appear to be different at that age. Then in their teens they strive to be different. Yours Sigmund Owlsfan.


Lot longer than I've been a Waterford fan, but since I have been they've always taken a back seat to the Blues.

Could you not have supported then at the same time? They are not mutually exclusive. I followed Shamrock Rovers, Raith Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday and Ards all at the same time since I was around 5 as well.


Can I add 'making lazy-arsed generalisations' to the list? :p

You may indeed. I hate generalisations.

[SaucyJack]

People who start blogs and rarely update them if they update them at all.(No one on here).

[stann]

At 5 the urge to conform is the strongest I suspect. Kids hate to appear to be different at that age. Then in their teens they strive to be different. Yours Sigmund Owlsfan.

Could you not have supported then at the same time? They are not mutually exclusive. I followed Shamrock Rovers, Raith Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday and Ards all at the same time since I was around 5 as well.

The urge to learn from and mimic authority figures may be strongest around that age, the urge to conform is surely stronger in later years, late childhood / early teens, no? Surely it's for the most part only in mid to late teens that the individuality urge comes out in some. Yours, Stann Jung. :)
The point I didn't make too well was that I had no-one at that age to conform with, I knew no other Liverpool fans. Neither, I suspect, did I even have any concept of what a Liverpool fan was. I just liked what I saw on the telly, that's all. Might just have been Stevie Heighway's manly moustache. I object strongly to be termed a sheep because of that. By the way, if your lot had had a bit more luck a few years back they might now be in a position where you're being called a sheep (however incorrectly) for supporting them.

There was nothing to stop me supporting both at the time other than the fact that I was 5 and had no idea there was such a thing as Waterford AFC, nor the wherewithal to get to games if I did. My fault as well I suppose. mmBaaaaaa.

[brianw82]

Not behaviour, but the phrase "world class" in relation to footballers is the most irritating, over-used phrase ever.

[Hairy Bowsie]

From the original post...


3. Any circumstances which involves the green hat and "hilarious" fake red leprechaun beard

I agree with this most strongly. No one makes a bigger joke of Irish, than the Irish themselves, and a lot of the same people were up in arms when Ray Houghtan done it:rolleyes:

[OwlsFan]

From the original post...



I agree with this most strongly. No one makes a bigger joke of Irish, than the Irish themselves, and a lot of the same people were up in arms when Ray Houghtan done it:rolleyes:


One of the greatest attribute a person or people can have is to be able to laugh at oneself. I have no problem with this at all.

[Hairy Bowsie]

There's laughing at yourself and then there's making a mockery of your heritage and conforming to an offensive, embarrassing and repulsive stereotype, that has been unfairly cast on Irish people for years. I'm also taking about the "We're Irish and were alcoholics" nonsense that goes on too.

[bennocelt]

There's laughing at yourself and then there's making a mockery of your heritage and conforming to an offensive, embarrassing and repulsive stereotype, that has been unfairly cast on Irish people for years. I'm also taking about the "We're Irish and were alcoholics" nonsense that goes on too.

nah dont agree with that at all, I think the Irish do quite a good job of holding that stereotype to be true, at least here In London anyway

[thischarmingman]

People making a cup of tea with a tea bag in the cup and then pour the milk in on top of the tea bag. It freaks me out totally. Makes me want to puke. Milky teabags are the devil's work.

Also hate people who put milk in on top of the coffee granules before they add the hot water and the black bits of the coffee floating in the milk. EVIL!

Also Cocopops. They turn the milk chocolatey. Beelzebub's favourite food.

I do all of the above. Frequently. :o

[OwlsFan]

There's laughing at yourself and then there's making a mockery of your heritage and conforming to an offensive, embarrassing and repulsive stereotype, that has been unfairly cast on Irish people for years. I'm also taking about the "We're Irish and were alcoholics" nonsense that goes on too.

What exactly has dressing up as a Leprechaun got to do with mocking heritage and conforming to a embarrassing and repulsive stereotype?? Do you suffer from Leprechaunitis?:p They have nothing to do with alcoholics especially the one below.

http://www.halloweenplayground.com/images/legavenue/charmed-leprechaun-costume.jpg

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Waves should be banned during a game. Half time, before the game or after it if you must but not during it please.

[Dunny]

Those blow horns at the Condfed Cup...:mad:

[6yardpunisha]

dumb yanks who scream "get in the hole" when a golfer is teeing off on a Par 5 hole

[pineapple stu]

Chewing gum in general should be banned. And blowing (and bursting) bubble gum should be a capital offence.

People who (and bear with me on this one) - have a green light at a crossroads, turn left and then stop in the middle of the junction because they've seen the red light for the cars going the other way. Utter, utter retards. You'd be amazed how many times people do this, particularly when the crossroads isn't a perfect + shape.

Edit - I should probably have phrased that last as a behaviour. Oh well.

[KevB76]

People who drive at about 60 km/h in an 80 km/h or 100 km/h zone.


People who drive slow in the fast lane, **** you all.

also....

People who drive along the hard-shoulder to let traffic pass ....on a dual carriageway!?! :D

People who attempt to intimidate you onto the hard-shoulder to let them pass, when your'e already at or over the speed limit :rolleyes:

People who overtake you because you've left a car length between yourself and the car in front, despite the queue of twenty cars ahead which he has no possibility of getting past (usually this tool pulls off the road at a junction or pertol station within the next half mile). :mad:

[tetsujin1979]

people who throw cigarettes out of car windows. this really grinds my gears.

[Bluebeard]

To sum up several posts here, I think a lot of us would be a lot happier if there was less driving, therefore, driving is a behaviour that needs to be banned...

[tetsujin1979]

less bad driving Bluebeard.

[Bluebeard]

less bad driving Bluebeard.

I was happy with the first instance. Good and bad are very subjective, and I don't know if anyone, other than myself, could be trusted to be empirically objective on the matter. So, as I would refuse such a tawdry job, it follows logically that it is wiser to rule out driving to ensure that the job of ruling out poor driving is fairly and and resolutely completed.

[OwlsFan]

dumb yanks who scream "get in the hole" when a golfer is teeing off on a Par 5 hole


Oh, do I agree with that. So irritating even for the putts.

Failure to indicate at roundabouts (not sure if that one has been covered).

Players who dive and feign injury and managers moaning about the referees when over a season the decisions usually balance out.

[bennocelt]

dumb yanks who scream "get in the hole" when a golfer is teeing off on a Par 5 hole

yeah def that is so bloody annoying, it really makes it hard to watch golf from the states

[pineapple stu]

less bad driving Bluebeard.
I was driving home during the week on the motorway; a jeep pulls out in front of me doing 65mph. After ascertaining that she (and women really are bad drivers, despite how they'll fob that off as sexist) wasn't going to get up to speed, I undertook her (as I'm legally entitled to do). As I passed, I glared in at her to let her know I thought she was a silly wench; she started pointing downwards at me. Once I'd gone past, she flashed her lights at me four times at about 10 second intervals, as if there was a batman-style message written on her lights that I could read. I think she was telling me to turn my lights on at 8 in the evening when it was still bright, but why she had to pull out in front of me to tell me this (or why even she cared), I don't know. People like that should be shot. No appeal.

This is a very therapeutic thread. :)

[Bluebeard]

Guys who are so lacking in sexual self confidence that when you are driving along at a very respectable 65mph while dressed as an attractive lady they so burningly must pass you that they resort to passing you on the inside, when the only reason you pulled out in front of them in the first place is to point out that they had left their lights off.

Monster ingratitude - last time I'll try to help someone on the roads...

[pineapple stu]

You're an attractive lady now?! :p

(And it wasn't an attractive lady either)

[tetsujin1979]

There's a big 5-exit 2-lane roundabout outside the estate where I live. At least once a week the following scenario occurs.
The road I take back home that leads onto this roundabout is a single lane road.
Since I take the 3rd exit, I indicate right (because I'm not taking the first or second exit) and drive into the inner lane on the rb.
The car behind me pulls into the outer lane, which you should only do if you're taking the first or second exit
I pass the second exit, and indicate left because I'm taking the next exit
Person in the outer lane passes the first two exits (without indicating on either of them) and turns into the third exit.
Either I speed up to avoid them crashing into me, or pull out of taking the exit altogether, and have to go all the way around again to take it.

I've seen it happen to other drivers on the same rb, and there is going to be a serious accident if people don't learn how to drive on it

[Bluebeard]

You're an attractive lady now?! :p
If the money is right.


(And it wasn't an attractive lady either)
Well, if you had your lights on, you might have thought differently:mad:

[pineapple stu]

On a similar note - although it's hard to fault the drivers here - there's two crossroads I know of where both the top and bottom end of the + get the green light at the same time. You don't know the other driver has the green light as well obviously, so you can both end up turning right and going into the left lane at the same time. Very wierd system.

[brianw82]

I think she was telling me to turn my lights on at 8 in the evening when it was still bright, but why she had to pull out in front of me to tell me this (or why even she cared), I don't know.

Tell me you're not one of those fools who waits until he can't see the road before he FINALLY turns on his headlights.
Those people drive me nuts - just because you can see the road doesn't mean that everyone else can see your car!

[passinginterest]

I always drive with my lights on, it's standard practice in a lot of countries. I think Bluebeard had the right idea about banning driving completely.

People who try to get on busses before all the passengers have gotten off, just take a step back you morons. This seems to be a particular issue at the stop outside the Square in Tallaght, every time I get off the bus there I have to fight through a scrum of people trying to get on, it's shocking.

[pineapple stu]

Tell me you're not one of those fools who waits until he can't see the road before he FINALLY turns on his headlights.
Those people drive me nuts - just because you can see the road doesn't mean that everyone else can see your car!
Nope, I'm one of those who, just because the sun has gone behind a cloud, doesn't turn my lights on. At the time, I'd say about half the cars had lights on, and half didn't. I was able to see the jeep whether or not she was flashing at me, so I know the lights weren't essential. ;)

I don't get this idea of keeping your lights on all the time. I sometimes look at cars to see if I can see them easily in the day without their lights on, and without fail, I can.

(Which leads me to another behaviour trend which should be banned - doing things because they do it on the continent)

[Magicme]

I am sure almost everything I get up to tomorrow night in Longford will most likely come under the "behaviour which needs to be banned"

[Rovers1]

I am sure almost everything I get up to tomorrow night in Longford will most likely come under the "behaviour which needs to be banned"

Marty's a lucky man;)

[Magicme]

Ha ha. Very funny! Was more thinking of the copious amount of alcohol & dancing on tables that will be done before running barefoot in the streets.

[OwlsFan]

Talking out loud on the Luas when on a phone. :mad:

[passinginterest]

Talking out loud on the Luas when on a phone. :mad:

That's asking a lot, lip reading down a phone is pretty tricky ;)

[Keen2win]

People who don't use ketchup!:)

[SkStu]

People who don't use ketchup!:)

people who abuse ketchup.

[Magicme]

People who eat fried or scrambled eggs without ketchup.

[centre mid]

you disgust me, brown sauce obviously.

[De Town]

BBQ sauce all the way.

[centre mid]

you're just sick

[De Town]

you're just sick

It's the sauce of the future.

[Schumi]

You're all sick. Why would you want sauce on eggs?