The say anything, what's on your mind thread

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/05/the-ten-craziest-moments-from-art-garfunkels-batsh.html

Anyone see Art Garfunkel's Telegraph interview? An interviewer's dream..

[Spudulika]

Will there be a chance Jack Grealish will go for Ireland now he's played so crap?

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Best decade for hairstyles

50's-60's
60's-70's
00's-10's
10's-
70's-80's
90's-00's
80's-90's

It's like nobody heard of hairspray or gel in the 90's. There was the curtains look. There was the step. There was the just got out of bed and didn't even bother combing my fringe. At least the 80's had a distinct style. The 10's is too elaborate. It's the metrosexual look. The 00's got it just right. Men left the 90's and entered a brave new world. The curtains and out of bed looks were replaced with the carefully cultivated and intricate spikes. The 70's styles was revolutionary, it was counterculture; men with long hair. The dreaded mullet hadn't entered the scene yet. All through the 50's and 60's men had manly haircuts; not long, not too short. They didn't elaborate too much with their hairstyles and didn't spend too long in front of the mirror, but dammit, they took pride in their hair. Fringes were nowhere to be seen. Not a hair was out of place. It was the perfect length and just the right kind of elegant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyGF9ocTZJ8

The greaser look as worn by these teens. This is the pinnacle of hairstyles.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Belvedere U-16 player, a child, tragically dies during a game earlier today.

Meanwhile on YBIG.....

"Saw this earlier. Poor lad.

What was worse was the yellow card he got for diving"

[OwlsFan]

I'll be honest OwlsFan, I didn't watch it. I part watched the semi-finals to see was there any half decent attempts at songs, so safe to say, I didn't watch the final.

I didn't either. I watched the reprise of the songs and the voting (I like the voting and trying to predict who gets the 12). UK ended up with the usual 3 or 4 pts, of which we gave 1.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

More casual venomous racism from public figures against the Irish in the mainstream Australian media.

http://www.thejournal.ie/australia-marriage-equality-debate-2137045-Jun2015/

Imagine a diatribe like this against black people on Sky News or Jewish people on Fox News or Asian people on CTV.

Absolutely amazing in this day and age.

[The Fly]

More casual venomous racism from public figures against the Irish in the mainstream Australian media.

http://www.thejournal.ie/australia-marriage-equality-debate-2137045-Jun2015/

Imagine a diatribe like this against black people on Sky News or Jewish people on Fox News or Asian people on CTV.

Absolutely amazing in this day and age.

Disgraceful indeed.

He has a point regarding the inability of many Irish people to 'verbalise the difference between tree and the number three' though. ;)

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

We also can't verbalize the difference between film and fillum. As a Latino American girl I knew once, once reminded me, several times.

It's no laughing matter though. Sure I am not coached in media relations and I know better than to go on national TV and talk about how Asian people supposedly pronounce lonely as "ronery".

It's f***ing despicable. Scottish people and English people have many, many vernacular quirks also, but they are not a source of derision and mockery like we are.

It's far more acceptable to be of Scottish and English descent over there. I wonder if Aussies of Irish descent play down or camouflage their ancestry when they grow up reading, listening and watching bigotry like this.

It's like being in Victorian England sometimes.

[nigel-harps1954]

I'm sick of going to most grounds in the League of Ireland and everyone talking about how nice Harps fans have been over the years so I'm determined to become the token annoying fan that everyone hates.

I think it's going well so far.

[Town Legend]

I really really like Nigel ;)

[The Fly]

We also can't verbalize the difference between film and fillum. As a Latino American girl I knew once, once reminded me, several times.

People do have a problem with the letters 't' and 'th' in this country though. Even I find it annoying.


It's no laughing matter though. Sure I am not coached in media relations and I know better than to go on national TV and talk about how Asian people supposedly pronounce lonely as "ronery".

It's f***ing despicable. Scottish people and English people have many, many vernacular quirks also, but they are not a source of derision and mockery like we are.


He's from a country that has the flag of another nation on its own flag, and whose head of state lives in London. Nuff said!

[tetsujin1979]

We also can't verbalize the difference between film and fillum. As a Latino American girl I knew once, once reminded me, several times.

It's no laughing matter though. Sure I am not coached in media relations and I know better than to go on national TV and talk about how Asian people supposedly pronounce lonely as "ronery".

It's f***ing despicable. Scottish people and English people have many, many vernacular quirks also, but they are not a source of derision and mockery like we are.

It's far more acceptable to be of Scottish and English descent over there. I wonder if Aussies of Irish descent play down or camouflage their ancestry when they grow up reading, listening and watching bigotry like this.

It's like being in Victorian England sometimes.
Really? What about Groundskeeper Willie?

[Eminence Grise]

More casual venomous racism from public figures against the Irish in the mainstream Australian media.

http://www.thejournal.ie/australia-marriage-equality-debate-2137045-Jun2015/

Absolutely amazing in this day and age.

And this from a bloke in a country where you once needed a criminal record to get in.:rolleyes:


Really? What about Groundskeeper Willie?

Ah, good old Groonskeepurrh Woolie. Mrs Grise was watching some unspeakably bad rom com recently, and got in fits of laughter when a Scottish woman introduced her husband: 'This is mah husband, Athole. [Cue sniggering] He comes frumm a lawng line of Atholes.'

[BonnieShels]

I would care about this Australian guy. But then I remembered how unbelievably intolerant and racist and downright awful Australia is.

Almost 10 years since I moved there and I'll never forget the ignorance of a lot of the people I came across.

[gastric]

His name is Grahame Morris, his parents were so ignorant they couldn't spell his name properly and he has followed in their footsteps! He is a right wing buffoon who is a member of the Liberal Party who deny climate change. Possibly enough said.
Bonnie, according to Aussies, Oz is the most multicultural country in the world and they are proud of it. However, once migrants come here it seems many see it as okay to racially abuse them!
Of late, I have noticed that many right wing politicians including the PM, a di#khead if there ever was one, seem to think that vilifying the Irish is fine. Recently, the Irish ambassador wrote an open letter to the Age newspaper explaining how Irish people feel about such behaviour. Seems to have fallen on deaf ears, but certainly created discussion. On a personal note, I hate when Aussies ask me how long I have been here and then enquire why I still have an Irish accent - bloody annoying.

[gastric]

D#ckhead apologises. About time too!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/australian-commentator-apologises-for-irish-cant-grow-potatoes-rant-31291559.html

[Mr A]

Meh. Not too bothered if people take the **** out of us TBH.

[pineapple stu]

Yup.

Thought the tree/three comment was kind of funny actually, even if the comments overall were stupid.

The bit in the article where the guy says -


"he added that "kick [me]" had now become the national sport of Ireland, "instead of Gaelic football and soccer"

- kind of shows the guy is still up his own hole.

[DannyInvincible]

Meh. Not too bothered if people take the **** out of us TBH.

Easy for us northerners to talk; we can pronounce "three".

[Eminence Grise]

Grahame Morris is now my turd favourite Aussie politician and he can make of that pronunciation whatever he likes.

[gastric]

Easy for us northerners to talk; we can pronounce "three".

But the rest of us still have no idea what you are saying!

[nigel-harps1954]

Didn't even know my exam results from college were out today, only happened to see someone else post about them on Facebook. And now I immediately defer a year to move away...even though I'll probably not be back.

The only thing worse than having to go back as a mature student, is having to go back again as an even older mature student. My class was young enough as it was, despite me being only 8 or 9 years older than most of them.

Now next week, to top all off, I'm moving off to Carlow with the missus, and trying to squeeze in recording a full album in the space of that week with the band before we're all at opposite ends of the country.

A fun week.

[Eminence Grise]

What are you studying, Nigel? Is is something that is offered in Carlow or Waterford ITs? You might be able to apply for advanced entry (is it one year you've completed?) - the whole point of the NQAI framework was mobility. Just a thought, and you've probably looked into it already anyway.

[nigel-harps1954]

I have looked into it EG. There's similar courses in both CIT and WIT, and I'm sort of using the year defer for that too. Planning a year out to sort of settle down there, as I've a two year old child to look after, going straight into college there means I'd have to look into full time childcare, where I didn't have to do that here as my parents live only two miles from me in Letterkenny.
Probably more difficult in the long run, but seems to make the most sense at the minute, at least in my own head.

[Eminence Grise]

I wish you were one of my students! You've every angle covered! One thing, though: did you check out the courses with the Admissions Offices, or go direct to the heads of course? If a HoC wants to offer a place, the AO usually aren't as bureaucratic as they can be.

Best of luck with next week! Have you considered cloning yourself?

[nigel-harps1954]

I had a bit of a chat with lecturers, head of department and admissions office in Letterkenny IT about my dilemma, and it was them, almost collectively, who suggested taking a year and deferring and re-evaluating around this time next year again.

Cloning myself was actually something my mother suggested funnily enough!

[nigel-harps1954]

Got a good laugh from this

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/v/l/t1.0-9/11412410_10152969275656243_2348063767193968426_n.j pg?oh=5e40d66a4cf4b7aa4a8623e9ff154fc0&oe=56036FBF

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Mine are out tomorrow I think.

[BonnieShels]

19th June for me.

End of first year and I have spent the day here fawning over this MSc.

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/study-maynooth/postgraduate-studies/courses/msc-geograpinformation-systems-remote-sensing

nom nom nom

[ForzaForth]

Best of luck with your move, Nigel. The scenery in Carlow won't compare, that's for sure.

[nigel-harps1954]

Best of luck with your move, Nigel. The scenery in Carlow won't compare, that's for sure.

Ah it's not so bad. Got a nice spot between Carlow and Kilkenny in the hills close to Bagnealstown. Lovely spot really...just a little annoying that I'll be so close to Carlow Town..one of my least favourite places in the country really. (No offence to anyone from there)

[Spudulika]

Folks, short question. working part-time on a project with Russia's largest sports portal. We're developing and English language section for the site and right now I'm tasked with getting some interested writers on board - tbh it's looking like getting some folks to write on English and Scottish football (as well as the odd piece on LOI/Ireland).

If anyone is interested in getting involved, just drop me a line. This is an example of the forerunners we began in March.

http://www.championat.com/bets/article-224369-league-of-ireland-premier-division-tips-for-week-16.html

I have finally gotten a chance to do this as it's a holiday here (Russia Day) and after a grueling 1 hour dental ordeal, I'm using my free time to work.

ps Nigel, good luck with the move. Carlow's a nice little place and you'll at least have a shorter trip to Dublin and Cork to see Harps in the Premier next year! And 2 years old is gold with kids, I'm having the time of my life with my 5 year old right now!

[SkStu]

Mine are out tomorrow I think.

Hope you failed.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

There are people in your life
who've come and gone,
They let you down,
you know they've hurt your pride.
You better put it behind you;
'cause life goes on.
You keep carryin' that anger,
it'll eat you up inside baby

[Eminence Grise]

A bit OTT? I failed two students at an exam board this week: there's always a pang of conscience when you have to do it - after a semester or two with them they're more than just exam numbers.

[BonnieShels]

19th June for me.

End of first year and I have spent the day here fawning over this MSc.

https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/study-maynooth/postgraduate-studies/courses/msc-geograpinformation-systems-remote-sensing

nom nom nom

Apparently today.

Cruising at high 2.1 overall with minimal effort. High 1.1 in the crucial subjects.

Somehow got a 79 in Maths Methods. Delighted with that.

[BonnieShels]

My absolute **** of an ex has just told me that she sold my Body and Soul ticket.

To say I'm angry is a serious undertstatement.

[nigel-harps1954]

My absolute **** of an ex has just told me that she sold my Body and Soul ticket.

To say I'm angry is a serious undertstatement.

Oh really now? Funny I just bought a Body and Soul ticket today from this girl who said her **** of an ex wasn't able to go anymore..

[Charlie Darwin]

Oh really now? Funny I just bought a Body and Soul ticket today from this girl who said her **** of an ex wasn't able to go anymore..
I'm not sure the forum features can convey how much thanks I want to give this post.

[BonnieShels]

Oh really now? Funny I just bought a Body and Soul ticket today from this girl who said her **** of an ex wasn't able to go anymore..

Why I oughta!

[BonnieShels]

This made me guffaw like a spa in the office. Class.

http://i.imgur.com/dXOTaTi.jpg

[Spudulika]

For the first time in years I had to take anti-biotics, which oddly conflicts with my main payday - working in a company that has a department producing pro-biotics!

Worse, yesterday morning I took the final tablet, happily, then remembered I was told not to take on an empty stomach! How I got to work I'll never know, my head and stomach were swimming and I was fighting throwing up (so as not to lose the last tablet). Completely ruined a big Chinese lunch they'd laid on in the office!

[BonnieShels]

I don't know how up on Seinfeld you guys are but recently I took on a job with a Govt dept to do some data analysis and help thme out with a new thing they are doing.

Anyway, throughout the initial meeting where they discussed my role in-depth but almost entirely in business speak and as a result I'm not 100% sure what to do. So I have been going onm my merry way as if all is well.

This afternoon the scene has taken a turn where I have to develop 4 questions that Advanced users of a particular process may ask? WTF!

Pure Costanza when at the Yankees and Mr Wilhelm giveds him a job to do while he thinks George is listening to him in the toilet cublicle.

[BonnieShels]

I don't know how up on Seinfeld you guys are but recently I took on a job with a Govt dept to do some data analysis and help thme out with a new thing they are doing.

Anyway, throughout the initial meeting where they discussed my role in-depth but almost entirely in business speak and as a result I'm not 100% sure what to do. So I have been going onm my merry way as if all is well.

This afternoon the scene has taken a turn where I have to develop 4 questions that Advanced users of a particular process may ask? WTF!

Pure Costanza when at the Yankees and Mr Wilhelm giveds him a job to do while he thinks George is listening to him in the toilet cublicle.

So I got through that meeting unscathed. Somehow. Go wan Bonnie!

[BonnieShels]

So I got through that meeting unscathed. Somehow. Go wan Bonnie!

Another one after lunch. This one involves a spreadsheet.

[BonnieShels]

I think I just cottoned onto "backtowalsall's" name. Duh.

[DannyInvincible]

Ireland-only programmes on RTÉ Player had been working fine for me with Hola (on Chrome) up until the last few days. Anyone know if something has changed or know of another means of freely and legally viewing RTÉ from England?

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

2310

She is so hot.

[thischarmingman]

I got my Canadian visa today. :eek:

[SkStu]

I got my Canadian visa today. :eek:

Come to Sask! :)