Ironically the next time I bumped into AB was on the running track (well, I was on the track, AB was hanging around with some Polish footballers) several years later. I was telling AB I was in training to try and qualify for the World Triathlon Championships to be held later in the year.
I might have been slow over 5 and 10 yards but I'm running 5k in 18 mins these days due to my track work and in September I came 75th out of 113 in the World Championships (for old people) in London, second Irishman of 9 across the line
Last edited by Stuttgart88; 04/12/2013 at 2:16 PM.
Well done.
And they were/are German...
Funny I just read your better educated post before this and now reading this and i find some correlation, I used to do this running on a Thursday with similar worker types in the environs of where I work, and 2 Irish guys were one of the quickest for the 5k circuits and runs. They were doing sub 17 both of them. They mustn't have been running in that race They weren't much younger than you....
Always a plug :P
All those germans and poles are all the same anyway!
Last edited by paul_oshea; 04/12/2013 at 3:05 PM.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
yeah, but were they also swimming and cycling beforehand?
"2 Irish were one of the quickest". Siamese twins? 3 legged race?
sub-17 is proper fast though.
Sorry for the error AB. I was guessing at their nationality! Poles, Germans, all the same to be...
After all the hype of the last couple of weeks, we're back to Long faithfully running the channels without a sniff of goal and getting subbed after an hour. I'm sure Liverpool are falling over themselves to make a bid.
Hehe, it's subtle - or perhaps I'm over-reading what is no more than a simple typo - but isn't Stutts wittily alluding to a prospective pan-European super-state?
I know well, I was just pointing out the views held by Stutts in his Ivory Tower.
Whatever about spanish and portugese or french and belgians, or dutch and germans or any south american countries, getting poles and germans who speak and pronounce and look a hell of a lot different...oh I don't know....
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Us plebs are in a green slimy ignorant bubble but somehow Stutts gets to live in the Ivory Tower?
Primary school european geography, a european countries quiz.
>90% is a good score, was on a good run but ran out of steam down in the Balkans
98% would be an A+ but a standard score for the inveterate follower of Ireland in the qualifiers.
100% means you're lying (probably went to UCD and think that means you should know things, without having the knowing).
Got 94. Did Norway and sweden wrong twice, and did Montengro and Bosnia Herzegovina wrong twice and did bulgaria and romaina wrong twice, as in vice versa, i didnt even remember the mistake
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
88%. Shameful.
81% Some of the similar sounding smaller footballing countries threw me a bit. Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovakia, Slovenia etc
Folding my way into the big money!!!
97%...
96% - damn you Slovakia and San Marino! (both of which ive been too - selected Austria and Vatican City respectively)
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Now you can try the USA map and see how you get on
I missed Cyprus, thought it was Crete or at least I think it must be Crete.
I thought Montenegro was somewhere between Greece and Dracula country, that James Bond travelled right across the Balkans to get to the Casino Royale?
Got 91%. only got one wrong completely Montenegro but was down to my third guess on a few.
Took a few guesses to get Cyprus, it was almost off the edge the map which threw me, also was careless
with my clicking, on the Czech Republic, should have got it right first time.
Latvia and Estonia were tricky, I know they are up there somewhere near Russia but knowing which is which
is the problem, then the is a bit of Russia cut off up there too, dunno how that happened.
Did better than I though really it's a process of elimination.
Slovakia and Slovenia are easy to get mixed up, unless you remember Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia
and Slovenia is near Italy. I used to struggle with Norway Sweden and Finland at one time.
Also shouldn't Armenia and Azerbaijan be on there?
Last edited by tricky_colour; 07/12/2013 at 5:14 PM.
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