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which removes most of the difficulty of playing it. You may as well argue that gaelic is better than football because of the perfectly sensible decision to allow you to use your hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
And LOL at the notion that gaelic matches don't end up with players from both teams jumping on each other! I think it's called a shemozzle.
See my asterisk. ;)
Also, "difficult" and "entertaining" aren't synonyms.
But then how would people know you were there before them?Quote:
Originally Posted by smellyfeet
No thanks, I'm not into that kinda thing :pQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Leave them a note?Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
People who are obsessed with hating one sport or another and continuously go on about it. Chances are if you hate a sport that much you don't know a whole pile about it anyway.
Agree completely about the skid marks, that brush in the corner has a purpose believe it or not. On that note why is it that when you can hear somebody doing some wreckless damage in the next cubicle, heavy breathing, ferocious splattering, even the occasional moan....when you come across that guy by the sinks he always turns out to be a fat chap?
Did you ever watch You Are What You Eat?
Why would you want them to know?Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
Marking your territory. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by smellyfeet
Leaving skid marks absolutely any place OTHER than the toilet.
class... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
im like sh1tbreak in American Pie. Cant* and wont go for a dump in a public jacks - for my sake and everyone elses.
* not true, physically i can. ;)
Fair enough lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
I agree, everyone to their own I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
I've seen that programme a few times, the part where Gillian Mc Keith examines the person's s*ite is gross. And what makes it worse is that she seems to get great enjoyment in telling them "That's a miserable little poo for a person of your size and dietary habits- you should have a bigger one than that "Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Hey - if I can't moan on a moany thread, where can I moan? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Onefootednopace
Yup (although it gets very formulaic after a while), but she has a point, and one which answers DeLorean's post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Onefootednopace
Dara O'Briain's take on her: "If you are what you eat, she's eaten a feckin' shrew."Quote:
Originally Posted by Onefootednopace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIaV8swc-fo *
*I'm not sure this is the clip I'm thinking of as I can't watch video here.
Ah sure if you eat brocolli the fairies will come out and mine the fat off your arse.Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
I kind it fairly hard to take her seriously:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms...self-a-doctor/
Idiots at a bar who sing 'Sinn Fein/IRA' when Fields of Athenry is played.
In Soap Operas they never use a doorbell - they pound on the doors. Must be a good opening in Weatherfield for a doorbell company (or maybe not if they never use them).
Hey - she gets results.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
You don't really need a doctorate to work out that not eating crap all the time makes you healthier.
(I haven't read her books, mind)
Fair enough, but call it what it is, common sense., and don't try and peddle it as scienceQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
idiots at a bar in london singing fields of athenry:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pauro 76
Agree but pales into insignificance compared to the spawn of satan who roar out "Alice, Alice, who the *** is Alice ?" and "Rise up your skirts" in the middle of Wild Rover. Die now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pauro 76
Unneceaasry, fawning, OTT, newspaper coverage each knocking each other over to try and outdo each other on telling us just how much they are hopelessly in love with Brian O Driscoll. Yes the man is good at rugby but he hasnt cured jaysus cancer
Have to say don't mind this as much. In a country as starved of international sporting success as Ireland, it's perfectly natural that someone like BOD would be elevated to national icon. Even if the endless articles annoy me, I can at least understand why they appear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus
I hate it when people shout out "Alice, Alice, tho the **** is Alice?" in the middle of Wild Rover too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus
How can he cure that when it doesn't exist...Quote:
Originally Posted by Angus
Morons who think that the world owes them a life of luxury, and blaming every difficulty in life on a conspiracy against the working class.
And no, I've not been listening to Joe Duffy again.
Someone else eating the breast in bun you queued up for in earnest, after a long night out!
That should carry a death penaltly.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
Scumbags fighting over stupid sh1te like a bottle of beer....:teeth:
my girlfriend walking in when i'm looking throught the top totty thread
The BBC using twitter instead of proper journalism:
from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8592380.stm
"1032 Neil Gaiman tweets: "Just saw the news about Moscow. I was in one of those two tube stations four days ago. Horrible, horrible. Love and sympathy to all Muscovites."
1013 zainul815 tweets: "Suicide bombings carried out by females in Moscow. What in the world is goin on?! R.I.P to ppl who lost their lives."
0837 Zui tweets:"Terrorism has no country, no borders, no nationality, no religion - regardless of whether it is Muslim, Christian, or any other religion." "
Who are Gaiman, Zainul and Zui, and what possible relevance do "tweets" (I hate that phrase) from a load of randoms have to do with covering a fairly major event? They're nobodies and totally irrelevant. Fair enough if the BBC want to put them on some sort of comment page at the back of the site, but interspursing the proper news with such guff is shocking. It's such sloppy, lazy journalism, picking a load of random comment via twitter instead of running a properly researched report. And they've been doing this for a while now.
Gaiman is a successful author. The others seem to be random people. Why are the tweets (I'm not terribly fond of it either, but it's a word, not a phrase) less relevent than the emails from other random people? The opinions are clearly marked, and if they're representative, then what's the problem? It's not like one of those terrible newspaper articles where the journalist's opinion has poisoned the whole article. There'll be a proper article later, after the journalists have had time to collate information and check facts (or eat lunch and rewrite a wire piece, depending on the journo).Quote:
Originally Posted by cfdh_edmundo
He's a fiction / comic-book writer, so I really don't think his comments are relevant at all, it's not like they are quoting someone with intimate knowledge of post Soviet political landscape, or someone noted for their knowledge of world events or the locality (e.g. say Kaplan, Simpson, etc), or say the head of the Moscow Metro (eg used in the Russian press http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2....6415&PageNum=0).
News should be about the events happening, but this sort of dumbed down quasi-editorialised coverage really grates me. If the quotes were from eye-witnesses involved in the incidents there would be an element of legitimacy, but using random individual twitter transcripts as some sort of compass for world reaction is not only flawed, but also irrelevent in the context of a main news report.
Like I say, none of these sources are world leaders (Obama, Brown, etc)... What next ? Will they put on some quote from Jordan (does she have twitter ?), or maybe something from rent-a-tweet himself, Stephen Fry ?
People who complain about one thing (like sourcing vox pops from twitter), and then turn out to have been complaining about something else (like the use of vox pops in modern news coverage). Just picking random examples, of course.
Deliberately parking across two spaces to make it easier for the driver to get out.
Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
My point is it (twitter use) is symptomatic of the current poor journalism endemic the BBC. They over-use populist/"youthie" technology so much at the expense of maintaining focus and relevance. I used to like their site as you weren't bombarded with adverts, banners etc, now it's just littered with self-important tweets from nobodies. What ever happened to sending journos out to cover stories?
But anyway I seem to have piqued your interest, I guess maybe you work for them, sorry for any offence.
None taken edmundo. No, you just caught my attention because it seemed you were attacking twitter but okay with the emails doing the same thing, which seemed a bit daft. Your actual complaint is perfectly reasonable.