The say anything, what's on your mind thread

[BonnieShels]

Becoming the village drunk...

You've to get it out of the system somehow. You'll not be going out til next Christmas at this rate.

[Crosby87]

The Reuben Sandwich is a good lunch but you have to get it made with care.

[pineapple stu]

Wouldn't you be sickened to be a Barrow fan?

3-1 up at home against Tranmere going into injury time today...and lost 4-3.

Tis a funny aul game.

[Crosby87]

Can you imagine being a Cincinnati Bengals fan after what happened last night? And they haven't won a playoff gm since 90.

[Crosby87]

Rupert Murdoch is marrying Jerry Hall? Wha?

[Crosby87]

There is a 57 year old artist who is doing a show for 5 hrs each on sat and sunday because she says art has gotten too pretentious. So...she is going to sit on a toilet bowl naked, for 5 hrs straight each day, and you wait on line then sit across from her (clothed) on a different toilet bowl.
Should I go? I wonder if you can talk to her or not. That other lady that just stares at you....you cant talk to her.

[DeLorean]

Anybody else notice that ad from the Road Safety Authority on the radio? At the end of it they say...

"If something is too good to be true... it usually is".

As opposed to "if something seems....".

[SkStu]

There is a 57 year old artist who is doing a show for 5 hrs each on sat and sunday because she says art has gotten too pretentious. So...she is going to sit on a toilet bowl naked, for 5 hrs straight each day, and you wait on line then sit across from her (clothed) on a different toilet bowl.
Should I go? I wonder if you can talk to her or not. That other lady that just stares at you....you cant talk to her.

proof, if it were needed, that art really is a big pile of steaming turd. ;)

she thought arts gotten too pretentious so shes going to sit on the ****ter for a couple of days to show how good it really could be. Classic!

[Crosby87]

I'm going to go tmrw. She really isn't bad looking for a 57 yr old. I always lose my nerve with these things when it's my turn tho.

[SkStu]

I actually think I might know who you're talking about. She's got form for this sort of thing if it is. Sitting silent like a spa and people come up and sit across from her she doesn't respond. I saw a video on Facebook where she was doing this "art show" and her former lover that she hadn't seen in 30 years or whatever came in and she started crying blah blah fcking blah. She was a fairly decent looking sort though and about that age too. So I cracked one off and went about my day.

[Hitman]

I was amazed to learn today that there's another Cunny Kenningham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Cunningham_%28footballer,_born_1985%29) playing international football.

[nigel-harps1954]

Just going to leave this here:

https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12662543_10153421858566243_6462603755140886124_n.j pg?oh=1a349189fae6b958483bdfc9e5d52429&oe=5736548E

[Crosby87]

I actually think I might know who you're talking about.

Lisa Levy?

[nigel-harps1954]

Ever since moving to Carlow, I've been keen to take in a match in Buckley Park in the Womens League of Ireland. Every single time I've had a chance to go to a game, it's been called off.

Today, with the weather being rather good the last few days, I'd hoped to take in their game against Wexford Youths.

The damn game has just been called off due to a waterlogged pitch.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

A guy called Noel Fitzpatrick, a veterinarian, being interviewed on the crufts. Trying to adopt a faux-British neutral accent, as Irish people in the public eye generally do when they move to Britain, and ending up sounding like a Newfoundlander.

We really are an insecure little nation of people. And I'm not talking people criticizing others for masking their accents and changing their identities.

Veterinarian like. What possible excuse would he have for hamming up his accent and Woganing it up? An actor I would get, at least.

[OwlsFan]

A guy called Noel Fitzpatrick, a veterinarian, being interviewed on the crufts. Trying to adopt a faux-British neutral accent, as Irish people in the public eye generally do when they move to Britain, and ending up sounding like a Newfoundlander.

We really are an insecure little nation of people. And I'm not talking people criticizing others for masking their accents and changing their identities.

Veterinarian like. What possible excuse would he have for hamming up his accent and Woganing it up? An actor I would get, at least.

People do that in Ireland as well. I know two brothers brought up exactly the same. One speaks with a plum in his mouth and the other has a Cavan accent.

Think you're a bit hard on Terry. He would have had a neutral accent and not the Frank Kelly post stage accent.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

On a personal note, my father has an Irish accent. His brother has a posh English accent, albeit having spent most of his life in Britain. But he's had it a long time!

English and Scottish people don't seem to lose their accents half as quickly as we do.

[tetsujin1979]

Just ask Gordon Ramsey

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

I thought he was raised in England though?

May be wrong about that.

[nigel-harps1954]

Keeping up appearances in an Aldi store in Letterkenny today.

http://foot.ie/attachment.php?attachmentid=2411&stc=1

[BonnieShels]

Keeping up appearances in an Aldi store in Letterkenny today.

http://foot.ie/attachment.php?attachmentid=2411&stc=1

I read that as "Bloomer" and got fierce confused why one would have Hyacinth Bread.

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In other news, 10000 posts on here. Good God what have I done!

[Eminence Grise]

Another 3 by the time I read that, Bonnie! 10k - it's enough for a book.

[SkStu]

Where's Crosby?

[bennocelt]

Why am I seeing an add to vote for a Dinneen for the Seanad? I much prefer the old ads of the Thai ladies..........bring them back please.....:o

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Any possibility the large congregation of people due in Dublin for the well-publicised 1916 celebrations could be a target for a terrorist attack?

[Eminence Grise]

That's no way to talk about the Luas drivers' strike!

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

I'm not making a defence for the tobacco industry, but I wonder how many people have developed diabetes after giving up smoking; simply replacing one habit, a coping mechanism as such, with another.

While you're thinking about that, think about this.

It bothers me how women feel it necessary to walk around in skin tight yoga pants/skin tight leggings etc that show every crevice of their buttocks, sometimes in the most inappropriate of situations.

And TOWK's last thought of the day.

The media's misreporting anti-Trump propaganda is galling considering the amount of unused ammunition that could be used against Hillary, who is guilty of far more egregious political crimes.

ᵀʰᵉˢᵉ ᵗʰᵒᵘᵍʰᵗˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᶰᵒᵗ ʳᵉᵖʳᵉˢᵉᶰᵗᵃᵗᶦᵛᵉ ᵒᶠ ᶠᵒᵒᵗ⋅ᶦᵉ⋅ ᴬᶫᶫ ᵗʰᵒᵘᵍʰᵗˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᵗʰᵒᵘᵍʰᵗˢ ᵒᶠ ᵀᴼᵂᴷ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵀᴼᵂᴷ ᵃᶫᵒᶰᵉ⋅ ᵀʳʸᶦᶰᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵈᵉᶜᶦᵖʰᵉʳ ʰᶦˢ ᵖᵒᶦᶰᵗˢ ᵐᵃʸ ᵇᵉ ʰᵃᶻᵃʳᵈᵒᵘˢ ᵗᵒ ʸᵒᵘʳ ʰᵉᵃᶫᵗʰ⋅

[DeLorean]

It bothers me how women feel it necessary to walk around in skin tight yoga pants/skin tight leggings etc that show every crevice of their buttocks, sometimes in the most inappropriate of situations.

To paraphrase Martin O'Neill...


"Well, it depends on how good looking the girls are.

If they are really attractive, they're very, very welcome to walk around in skin tight yoga pants regardless of the situation. The uglier ones, I'm afraid not."

[osarusan]

BBC story on China's plan to become a world power in football has a picture of the president Xi Jinping kicking a football, except in the picture they used it's actually an O'Neill's All Ireland GAA ball, from his visit to Ireland 2 years ago.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36015657

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/47DD/production/_89179381_a61a8dac-b22d-41a0-9c7e-65cddd7fc9ed.jpg

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Anyone else think Croke Park is a big, albeit ugly, stadium?

While you're thinking about that, think about this.

Why do all women below the age of 25 have their mobile phones in their arse pockets now? When did this become a thing? Is it to draw attention to that area? Does it not increase the chances of phone muggings?

While you're digesting that thought, contemplate this.

Anyone else think Ireland's towns and cities leave a lot to desire architecturally?

[Charlie Darwin]

I didn't know skin tight yoga pants had arse pockets.

[passinginterest]

Anyone else think Croke Park is a big, albeit ugly, stadium?

While you're thinking about that, think about this.

Why do all women below the age of 25 have their mobile phones in their arse pockets now? When did this become a thing? Is it to draw attention to that area? Does it not increase the chances of phone muggings?

While you're digesting that thought, contemplate this.

Anyone else think Ireland's towns and cities leave a lot to desire architecturally?

Croke Park definitely won't win any beauty contests.

Little known fact the wife has taught me; women's trousers/jeans, usually have fake or tiny, unusable, side pockets, hence the over use of the pickpocket dream pockets at the back.

Ireland as a whole is certainly guilty of some pretty poor urban planning and architecture.

[DeLorean]

With respect, I don't think that's a little known fact. It's kind of obvious by looking at the tighter jeans, in particular, that you'd do well to squeeze a folded fiver into them, never mind a phone.

I like the look of Croke Park when it's full. The blue and grey seats do look a bit drab when it's empty though.

[passinginterest]

Well it was little know to me :o

[Real ale Madrid]

Do you ever have a day where you just do not want to be an adult?

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Do you ever have a day where you just do not want to be an adult?

I'm told I behave like a child every day.

[nigel-harps1954]

Do you ever have a day where you just do not want to be an adult?

Had one of those days yesterday, my nephews 6th birthday party, kids running around in this indoor adventure centre/play park thing. I wished I was that age again so I could jump around the whole thing too.


I still did jump around it mind you...the beauty of having a two and a half year old that needs looked after amongst the bigger kids.

[BonnieShels]

Do you ever have a day where you just do not want to be an adult?

Almost all of the days.

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This guy's name:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brandão

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Does anyone know how much it costs businesses to get new signs on their buildings?

[Charlie Darwin]

Does anyone know how much it costs businesses to get new signs on their buildings?
Depends on how much the sign is.

[OwlsFan]

Does anyone know how much it costs businesses to get new signs on their buildings?

We got one for €285.00 but that was a sign pointing out where our business is because we're in a business park. One on a door would cost less but it's like how long is a piece of string i.e. is there much design in it, what sort of material, how big etc. Get a quote from www.cornerhouse.ie

[BonnieShels]

I haven't laughed as much in a long time reading this. I can just imagine the horor of it all. It helps that I was listening to "The Boys Are Back in Town" reading it.

Amazing.

"I left with a full heart, flush with new knowledge about the town, and the boys within it"

http://www.vice.com/read/i-played-the-boys-are-back-in-town-on-a-bar-jukebox-until-i-got-kicked-out-832?utm_source=vicefbus&utm_campaign=global

[gastric]

Coming back to Ireland on holidays in June/July. General election happens in Australia on July 2nd. Voting here is compulsory, so I have to fill in a form declaring that I will be overseas, cannot vote and that there is no embassy near where I will be staying. if I don't fill the form in, I face a fine of $20. God bless democracy in this nanny state!

[SkStu]

Coming back to Ireland on holidays in June/July. General election happens in Australia on July 2nd. Voting here is compulsory, so I have to fill in a form declaring that I will be overseas, cannot vote and that there is no embassy near where I will be staying. if I don't fill the form in, I face a fine of $20. God bless democracy in this nanny state!

You running you "Vote Bunn Number Wunn!" campaign again? ;)

[gastric]

You're wrong Stu, Tricky and I are starting a campaign called the Almond Bun campaign to get our boys into the Euro squad! ;)

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

16 year old murders 7 year old in satanic ritual in Palmerstown, Dublin, in 1973.

https://dialogueireland.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/public-servant-and-pillar-of-the-church-guilty-of-the-nations-most-gruesome-ever-ritual-murder/

[nigel-harps1954]

Well, I can say, that has left me feeling fairly sick. Tough to read that, but it's a fascinating story nonetheless.

[BonnieShels]

I grew up in Ballyfermot and went to primary school in Chapelizod and that murder was always under the breath of people whenever Stewart's Hospital or Mill Lane are mentioned. In fact the Satanic nature made the whole area part of the folklore growing up.

It's very interesting to picture the geography of the story and to when I was growing up versus the M50/N4 junction that dominates the area now.

[thischarmingman]

Coming back to Ireland on holidays in June/July. General election happens in Australia on July 2nd. Voting here is compulsory, so I have to fill in a form declaring that I will be overseas, cannot vote and that there is no embassy near where I will be staying. if I don't fill the form in, I face a fine of $20. God bless democracy in this nanny state!

I like the compulsory voting here; at least it means you're less likely to have someone like Trump rear his head. It makes for more reasonable candidates. In general you don’t see as much dog-whistling to certain extreme elements as you do in the USA or UK.

I mean, I don’t think it’s perfect. But it does change the focus of election campaigns in generally good ways. And it forces people to take more of an interest in politics and their vote. And I think it’s small price to pay to not the bull**** you see in the States where young people can't get time off work to vote, or minimum-wage earners aren't to afford to vote.

Plus, sausage sizzles!

[BonnieShels]

But Tony Abbott still sneaked through... And John Howard on several occasions... Oh wait.