destroy EURO 2004!

daggeredge

kill it!

Sorry not alone is it a load of tripe (it is....don't deny it)but everywhere you turn half the bloody stations are showing the exact same guy kicking the exact same inflated round thing!

All the tv Schedules are mucked up because of it.
I mean they took Top Gear off the air for three weeks just 2 fit it in...TOP GEAR !

pure and utter crap for anyone not interested in watching football.

and I know people are going to use the "but it wouldn't be on so much if people weren't interested" (screw face up while saying where appropriate) defence but lets face it more things on the earth than football!

oh yeah and i am a bloke!

Bard

It happens for 3 - 4 weeks once every 4 years. Relax. Watch something else or go outside.

oh yeah and i am a bloke!

You're not, you know.

daggeredge

thats 3-4 weeks 2 much IMO!

also 4 weeks is 28days (really) which means that at least 28 times I'll be subjected to this....at least you can change breaking ball or that other crap (the premiership) when its on but here you've nowhere to turn cos its shown all over the place!

giveth

I'm with you dagger.
And i'm a guy too.

Down with soccer! :mad:

Imposter

Well it beats watching Coronation St, Neighbours, Fair City, etc. etc.... and of course Big [strike]Bullsh1t[/strike]Brother.

BrookieD

Hey guys,
Get Sky and watch UK Living or something!!:p

super_furry

Heh. Maybe you could take up knitting, or possibly embroidery.

daggeredge

Maybe you could take up knitting, or possibly embroidery.

....rather than watching sweaty guys running around in shorts....cos thats really manly!

HEH!

Ardent

Daggeredge, are you gay?

Ph3n0m

hence why Euro 2004 is a good way to catch up on reading, cinema trips and watching classic old DVDs *

* thats why I watched Young Guns I and II last night

daggeredge

I was being sarcastic!!!

I was told :

Maybe you could take up knitting, or possibly embroidery.

to which i replied and said

rather than watching sweaty guys running around in shorts....cos thats really manly!

cos football = sweaty guys running around in shorts

I really can't help you after that Ardent

Who knows maybe I'll soon make for Dummies editions of my posts

so all you need to know in summary is
Not Gay,
Being Sarcastic!

BrookieD

Dagger,
You see

sweaty guys running around in shorts

The rest of us see a skillful game with 22 players?

I think its very simple, get a DVD, Video on or listen to Radio?

you are not forced to watch Football so dont do it!:p

daggeredge

oh but I am!
IMO i should be able to browse most of my channels at my discretion and not see the same thing repeated over and over ....I shouldn't have to resort to my own private stash of DVDs, defeats the purpose of paying a tv licence (which i might add I still have to pay even if I'm not watching terrestrial TV)

ixoy

Originally posted by BrookieD
you are not forced to watch Football so dont do it!:p

Except I am because my flatmate is watching it on the TV! So yes I *have* to watch it.
And what it's 3-4 weeks, 4 times a year is it? Oh right so I must imagine all the other similiar sporting events then right? Down with football! Down down down! And I'm a bloke too who dislikes football.

BrookieD

I may be wrong but the Euro 2004 is on Network2 TV3, this leaves a rake of channels to watch with no soccer, If you have Sky then eurosportGB may have a match and the BBC also carries matches but I think only the England games going forward[...could be wrong on the beeb point?]

point being there is plenty to watch on other channels other than watching programes you have no interest in?

D

jongore

Originally posted by daggeredge
oh but I am!
IMO i should be able to browse most of my channels at my discretion and not see the same thing repeated over and over

You mean like the soaps? (I got SKY to avoid them!)Thing is Euro 2004 is a big draw for TV audiences, if you don't like it switch to something else.

The major international soccer tourneys take place every two years for about a month that's not a lot, pick up your toys and put them back in the pram.

daggeredge

So I can watch the quality programming of RTE1 and the annoying repeats of Sky one and lets not mention the quality ringtone ads of all the music channels....?

gr8 idea!

Tusky

Happens once every 4 years , Its only on in the evenings now. If your that addicted to television that you cant do somthing else for the 90 minutes - 2 hours that its no then you have a problem.

stop ****ing whining .

Ardent

My apologies Daggeredge. Well, you can count yourself lucky - no arguments with moany girlfriends about watching soccer.

Women...

BrookieD

So you do not have the Discovery channels? History, Biography? Movies? Porn[ just a thought although it is on late:p ] there must be a 150 channels at leats on sky package, you must be joiking if you can not find anything for 2 hours each night to watch in stead of Euro2004, what would you normaly watch?

daggeredge

Discovery....true cos sea anemones are interestin I spose!

daggeredge

If your that addicted to television that you cant do somthing else for the 80 minutes - 2 hours that its no then you have a problem.

28days by two hours = 56 hours of crap!

BrookieD

LOL only messing with ya, I love football myself, greatest game on the planet. but a lot of people do not like it which is fair enough.

as of this weekend the games break up and there will be less and less on until the final so it wont be so bad.

daggeredge

I spose thats some consolation....
At least you didn't use the " but football is Xcellent! whatcha mean? " defence! BrookieD:)

daggeredge

wont replace Top Gear episodes though....

sceptre

Originally posted by ixoy
Down down down! And I'm a bloke too who dislikes football.

Yeah but you're gay so you have an excuse.:)

Though you probably still have to put up with dumb questions like "Are ya gay or wha" when you mention you don't like watching the sweaty boys with their bouncing pigskin.

I see opposite the Portugal-England game tonight, RTE1 are showing House Hunters while TV3 are showing some movie with Red Nose Gere. Then TV3 are following Mr Nose with Sex and the city, while RTE are following the footie with the pretty awful Striptease[1], which should be grand for the men with wives hiding themselves in the kitchen from that football game thing. I smell stereotype.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is on TG4 at 9:05 if you're laughter inclined.


At least the people publicising Showgirls realised they had a turkey on their hands, this one attempted a plot

BrookieD

LOL nah thats a poor defence, sure I get hacked off when the Rugby is on? whats the point in that game??? bunch of mucky men running around after an egg??

daggeredge

you cud use the "they only want to grab on to each other" argument , its perfect!:D

damnyanks

Originally posted by daggeredge
oh but I am!
IMO i should be able to browse most of my channels at my discretion and not see the same thing repeated over and over ....I shouldn't have to resort to my own private stash of DVDs, defeats the purpose of paying a tv licence (which i might add I still have to pay even if I'm not watching terrestrial TV)

How many times of the year do you go through the channels to see Friends, Simpsons, Coronation Street, Big Brother and other shows (Cribs and whatever else) on ?

Then to top it all off they are repeats. At least this stuff is live and for the most part entertaining to the majority of people, the tv ratings are truth to that.

BrookieD

homo-erotica {shudders}
LOL

daggeredge

I think I don't like the notion of hairy broad shouldered men running at me trying to hug me either ,of course can't speak for the other people though!

Devious

Originally posted by daggeredge
pure and utter crap for anyone not interested in watching football.

Then dont watch it. Get a dish. And stop whining.

ixoy

Originally posted by Devious
Then dont watch it. Get a dish. And stop whining.

And I'll make the point AGAIN: what about those of us who have one television where someone likes football and the other doesn't?

Imposter

Originally posted by ixoy
And I'll make the point AGAIN: what about those of us who have one television where someone likes football and the other doesn't?

what about those of us who have one television where someone likes soaps and the other doesn't?

what about those of us who have one television where someone likes top-gear and the other doesn't?

ixoy

Originally posted by Imposter
what about those of us who have one television where someone likes top-gear and the other doesn't?

Top Gear wasn't on for 3 hour stints every day last week...

daggeredge

fair comment ixoy!

BrookieD

IXOY arrange to meet a like minded friend and go drinking? or get a walkman and listen to that instead. Also tell your flatmate that you are sick of the Soccer and come to a agreement about watching less football! it might work
then again he might hit you around the head with a wet fish?:p

Imposter

Originally posted by ixoy
Top Gear wasn't on for 3 hour stints every day last week...

That's because the soaps were.

Mac daddy

I agree get rid of the football- it is messing up my tuesday night tv shedule. Why don't they just not leave it on sky sports instead :rolleyes: Or channel whogivesaf*ck:D

daggeredge

of course its all so clear to me now: DRINKING:D
although cud still be on in pub....must choose pub carefully

anyway :
To alcohol! , the cause of & (in this case neway) solution to all of lifes problems - H. Simpson

BrookieD

find that pub on the Guinness Ad where he crushed the TV. Thats a safe bet for sure:p

LFCFan

you non footy loving freaks sound like a bunch of whining high maintenance bitches. If you don't like footy, DON'T watch it. If you think there is nothing more to life then TV then you have a serious problem. Either way, the rest of us really couldn't give a rats arse whether you get to watch your soaps or Dawsons Creek or Sex in the City or whatever else it is you girls wanna watch.

koneko

Dude, take a chill pill? No need to call anyone bitches... :rolleyes:

I couldn't be less interested in the footie so I just watch other channels or DVDs instead. Ixoy, share out TV time with your flatmate if you can. He gets some time you get some time. Equal sharing
Either that or let him hog the TV but clean the toilets aswell

BrookieD

I agree with koneko, LFCFan dont be so hard man, not evryone like footy

Dustaz

not everyone likes soaps but they dont post saying "LOLZ DEY R CRAP DONT DENY IT I HAVE NO IDEA WAT I SHUD DO INSTED OF WATCHIN DE TELE AND DE CRAP FOOTBALL"


Grow up and stop wasting bandwith.

daggeredge

....and soaps aren't on for three hours daily!
point made.

Big Ears

Originally posted by giveth
I'm with you dagger.
And i'm a gay too.

Down with soccer! :mad:

Thats a little too personnel

Puck

When does this thing end?

mike65

I dispair most of us only watch a decent ammount of live footie when its International tornaments if we were to
complain about soaps/DIY/House hunting/etc...we'd have a much stronger case.

Mike.

Tusky

Originally posted by daggeredge
....and soaps aren't on for three hours daily!
point made.

a few hours daily for a few weeks once ever four years ... go out and get some exercise or have a **** you muppet

istep

Well said that mod ..... watch something with balls I say !

Okay I may want to insist that that sentence is always viewed in context :cool: