Cheering with the rest of 'em when u completely hate it

gugleguy

So, this could be you giving somebody 'praise' at work, ' applauding' some dreadful performance or ' supporting' a 'good cause'. Out with it with ya, for the end of the year if nothing else.

Wabbit Ears

Yay for this post!! Brilliant, Go you!!!


God, I feel dirty for the obviousness of this reply..

danniemcq

gugleguy wrote: »

So, this could be you giving somebody 'praise' at work, ' applauding' some dreadful performance or ' supporting' a 'good cause'. Out with it with ya, for the end of the year if nothing else.

I use boards to escape from work, i'm not discussing it on here too

Hande hoche!

Gotta pick your battles carefully. No use getting into ten minute argument with your colleagues over something pointless.

Frank Lee Midere

gugleguy wrote: »

So, this could be you giving somebody 'praise' at work, ' applauding' some dreadful performance or ' supporting' a 'good cause'. Out with it with ya, for the end of the year if nothing else.

I am lost.

nelly17

No use in getting in a ten minute arguement with your colleague over anything its only work, you may row about it but you'll still have a **** load more to do.

Meangadh

I go to the theatre a lot and have seen some brutal shows but I'll still always applaud them. It takes guts to perform on a stage and weeks and weeks of rehearsing so they deserve a bit of acknowledgement for that at least, even if I cringed the whole way through the performance.

However- unless people have come through some sort of hurricane/near disaster type event, there is no need to ever ever ever applaud when a plane lands. Just no.

razorblunt

Having to shut up in a pub when an old fella is singing Streets of New York in the corner, gettafeck you're not getting a round of applause for it.

Shushing for penalties and conversions during rugby games in pubs also, is there a live feed to the stadium? Many people have been put back in their box for that one.



Finally, clapping when an airplane lands, I'm not even continuing on that one.

seamus

The only time I've done this was singing 'RA songs in the beer garden in The Celt pub on Talbot st. Because I kind of like my kneecaps, so it was easier/safer to just go along with it.

Shushing for penalties and conversions during rugby games in pubs also, is there a live feed to the stadium?

Ah there's an atmospheric thing to that too though. Like turning the radio down, when you're searching for a parking space, it's harder to concentrate on a tense moment when there's chatting going on around you. Plus you need to be able to hear the commentators.

razorblunt

seamus wrote: »

The only time I've done this was singing 'RA songs in the beer garden in The Celt pub on Talbot st. Because I kind of like my kneecaps, so it was easier/safer to just go along with it.

Ah there's an atmospheric thing to that too though. Like turning the radio down, when you're searching for a parking space, it's harder to concentrate on a tense moment when there's chatting going on around you. Plus you need to be able to hear the commentators.

Trust me, you don't need to hear anything Ryle Nugent has to say for himself.
Tommy Booooowwwwwwwwwwwweeeeee indeed.

osarusan

Clare won the hurling, did they? Oh, jaysus that's great. Fantastic. Nah, I didn't manage to see the game myself. Great news though.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Razorblunt mentioned auld fellas singing, we've a few like that in my local. They'll just start all of a sudden without warning, usually towards closing time when there's only a few souls left. The shushing starts then and the aul fella in question will recite some god awful poem with his eyes closed and hand on the bar.

It could go on 4-5 minutes, painful stuff, then once he finishes another auld fella will start. You know it's time to get going then, there's no talking to these people.

camel jockey

razorblunt wrote: »

Finally, clapping when an airplane lands, I'm not even continuing on that one.

This phenomenon is pretty pathetic.

anncoates

In the work context, It's just existing harmoniously in order to achieve things you want or just to have a quiet life.

My existential crisis meter doesn't go into the red about it.

pebbles21

When a pub band starts to play national anthem at the end of the night and everyone stands up straight and cups their hands ...does my head in but does the same anyhow ..

Lando Griffin

Was a Man Utd supporter since 1992 but recently have changed to my boyhood club Liverpool who I suppotted until 1990 because I hate Everton and Moyes.
I havent broke the news to my old Man Utd mates yet so I have to still cheer Man Utd on when watching them play in the pub.

camel jockey

I normally clap a bit too loudly and a bit too long when faking it in these circumstances. This hopefully leads to ambiguity over whether I am being sincere or taking the piss.

Femme_Fatale

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Was a Man Utd supporter since 1992 but recently have changed to my boyhood club Liverpool who I suppotted until 1990 because I hate Everton and Moyes.

Holy Jesus.

camel jockey

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Was a Man Utd supporter since 1992 but recently have changed to my boyhood club Liverpool who I suppotted until 1990 because I hate Everton and Moyes.
I havent broke the news to my old Man Utd mates yet so I have to still cheer Man Utd on when watching them play in the pub.

Why did you switch to Man United in the first place?

preston johnny

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Holy Jesus.

No he plays for Man city.....

Son Of A Vidic

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Was a Man Utd supporter since 1992 but recently have changed to my boyhood club Liverpool who I suppotted until 1990 because I hate Everton and Moyes.
I havent broke the news to my old Man Utd mates yet so I have to still cheer Man Utd on when watching them play in the pub.

I suspect it has nothing to do with Moyes and more to do with an expected drop off in the trophy count since Sir Alex retired. In other words, a sunshine supporter.

anncoates

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Was a Man Utd supporter since 1992 but recently have changed to my boyhood club Liverpool who I suppotted until 1990 because I hate Everton and Moyes.
I havent broke the news to my old Man Utd mates yet so I have to still cheer Man Utd on when watching them play in the pub.

Or you started supporting United when they won the league and Liverpool turned crap and now you hope you're doing vice versa.

camel jockey

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I suspect it has nothing to do with Moyes and more to do with an expected drop off in the trophy count since Sir Alex retired. In other words, a sunshine supporter.

Exactly, was hoping the OP would see the light.

DeanAustin

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Was a Man Utd supporter since 1992 but recently have changed to my boyhood club Liverpool who I suppotted until 1990 because I hate Everton and Moyes.
I havent broke the news to my old Man Utd mates yet so I have to still cheer Man Utd on when watching them play in the pub.

Holy sh!t. Please tell me this is a wind up.

I know a girl who follows football quite seriously. Anyway, she was a massive Man U fan up until she met her Liverpool supporting boyfriend. She's now a massive Liverpool fan.

That sort of thing gives sport-supporting women a very bad name.

Femme_Fatale

DeanAustin wrote: »

Holy sh!t. Please tell me this is a wind up.

I know a girl who follows football quite seriously. Anyway, she was a massive Man U fan up until she met her Liverpool supporting boyfriend. She's now a massive Liverpool fan.

That sort of thing gives sport-supporting women a very bad name.

It's just fickle bullsh1t among Irish Premier League supporters in general, male or female.

DeanAustin

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

It's just fickle bullsh1t among Irish Premier League supporters in general, male or female.

She's actually a big LOI follower too.

iwantmydinner

DeanAustin wrote: »

Holy sh!t. Please tell me this is a wind up.

I know a girl who follows football quite seriously. Anyway, she was a massive Man U fan up until she met her Liverpool supporting boyfriend. She's now a massive Liverpool fan.

That sort of thing gives sport-supporting women a very bad name.

Hey, how does this one girl get to taint every female supporter's loyalty?? No fair!

elchupanebrey

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Razorblunt mentioned auld fellas singing, we've a few like that in my local. They'll just start all of a sudden without warning, usually towards closing time when there's only a few souls left. The shushing starts then and the aul fella in question will recite some god awful poem with his eyes closed and hand on the bar.

It could go on 4-5 minutes, painful stuff, then once he finishes another auld fella will start. You know it's time to get going then, there's no talking to these people.

If you're at a house party you know it's on a downward slope when the guitar comes out!!

camel jockey

DeanAustin wrote: »

She's actually a big LOI follower too.

Standard meaningless retort when anyone's in this countries football supporting credentials are questioned.

Lando Griffin

anncoates wrote: »

Or you started supporting United when they won the league and Liverpool turned crap and now you hope you're doing vice versa.

No nothing like that.
If someone from Liverpool moves to Manchester surely they can support Manchester and if he moves back to Liverpool go back to his supporting boyhood club.
Its not like supporting a country where your nationality is set in stone, im Irish and thats that; if we dont make to a major tourinment then its ok to follow some team that you may feel connected to like we all know how Spain helped us out in the Armada.

anncoates

DeanAustin wrote: »

She's actually a big LOI follower too.

So she was rovers between 2009 and 2011 and is now Pat's?

DeanAustin

iwantmydinner wrote: »

Hey, how does this one girl get to taint every female supporter's loyalty?? No fair!

It shouldn't but there is a certain cliche around women that support sport particularly rugby. I know girls who support rugby and do it basically because they fancy the players and it's an event. They know nowt about it and couldn't tell you anything about it pre-2005.

That's not to say that the majority of sport-supporting women aren't genuine. I know lots that are. But the event junkies and the girls that switch allegiance because of their boyfriend play up to a stereotype and that, unfairly, taints the genuine supporters too.

anncoates

Lando Griffin wrote: »

No nothing like that.
If someone from Liverpool moves to Manchester surely they can support Manchester and if he moves back to Liverpool go back to his supporting boyhood club.
Its not like supporting a country where your nationality is set in stone, im Irish and thats that; if we dont make to a major tourinment then its ok to follow some team that you may feel connected to like we all know how Spain helped us out in the Armada.

I can't make head or rail of this gibberish to be honest.

camel jockey

I cheered when NZ beat Ireland. Does that count, OP?

Brego888

Lando Griffin wrote: »

No nothing like that.
If someone from Liverpool moves to Manchester surely they can support Manchester and if he moves back to Liverpool go back to his supporting boyhood club.
Its not like supporting a country where your nationality is set in stone, im Irish and thats that; if we dont make to a major tourinment then its ok to follow some team that you may feel connected to like we all know how Spain helped us out in the Armada.

Ah you're definitely trolling now

Lando Griffin

anncoates wrote: »

I can't make head or rail of this gibberish to be honest.

How many boyhood clubs did Robbie Jean have ir Harry Redknap ever love?

DeanAustin

anncoates wrote: »

So she was rovers between 2009 and 2011 and is now Pat's?

Nope.

camel jockey wrote:

Standard meaningless retort when anyone's in this countries football supporting credentials are questioned.

Eh?

Took the previous response to be a "Irish Premier League fans don't know what it is to really support a team hence the fickleness". On second reading it may not have been that but if it was, this girl is actually a LOI season ticket holder too so she isn't just a 'barstooler'.

cantdecide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU

/thread

EDIT: I will qualify this by saying that although I don't follow soccer or sport really, I have been a massive F1 fan and am still MotoGP fan. I love nothing more than tuning in and just checking out the action without being distracted by any particular loyalties to a team or a rider. Maybe I just don't understand football.

My dad is someone that follows football but remains unaffiliated. I think it's a sensible approach.

Red Kev

You do many things in life....
you meet people who you regard as your best friends, you fall out with them..
you fall in love....you fall out of love.
you marry the love of your life.... you divorce them
you can never speak to your family, you can neglect your partner, you can even disown your kids and put them up for adoption...

BUT..you never, never, never, change team you support all your life.

Anyone who can just drop one team from a rivalry as big as Man Utd - Liverpool has something wrong with them, or they just never understood what it was they were supporting.

Daqster

razorblunt wrote: »

Shushing for penalties and conversions during rugby games in pubs also, is there a live feed to the stadium?

No, but there not shushing you in case you interpret the players.

There may not be a live feed to the stadium, but there's a live feed to people's ears around you, that are trying to enjoy a game without having to listen to your jabbering.

Many people have been put back in their box for that one.

Really? Well, if you were in the pubs I drink in, you'd be put back in a box of your own, quick smart.

DeanAustin

Red Kev wrote: »

You do many things in life....
you meet people who you regard as your best friends, you fall out with them..
you fall in love....you fall out of love.
you marry the love of your life.... you divorce them
you can never speak to your family, you can neglect your partner, you can even disown your kids and put them up for adoption...

BUT..you never, never, never, change team you support all your life.

Anyone who can just drop one team from a rivalry as big as Man Utd - Liverpool has something wrong with them, or they just never understood what it was they were supporting.

Exactly. Two things are for life. Your kids and your football team.

Edit: Just seen you're selling and disowning the kids...interesting idea.

iwantmydinner

DeanAustin wrote: »

It shouldn't but there is a certain cliche around women that support sport particularly rugby. I know girls who support rugby and do it basically because they fancy the players and it's an event. They know nowt about it and couldn't tell you anything about it pre-2005.

That's not to say that the majority of sport-supporting women aren't genuine. I know lots that are. But the event junkies and the girls that switch allegiance because of their boyfriend play up to a stereotype and that, unfairly, taints the genuine supporters too.

That's genuinely the biggest load of horseshyte I've heard in a good long while. Nice one!

doolox

I recall a former work colleague who had a hard time handling the agenda building toadying of his workmates who genuinely did not like a certain non charismatic boss but nodded in a agreement to everything he said, laughed at all his jokes etc in a very oily and sychopantic fashion.

This really got on his nerves.

Also I recall my Dad jokingly remarking to a group of men in a pub watching a rugby match that at the last game the team were blaming the goalie....many of them nodded sagely in agreement, seeming unaware that there are no goalies in rugby......seconds later the penny dropped, much to their annoyance and amusement.

There is in every human a tendancy to go along with the perceived consensus and not "rock the boat". It is essential that we teach our children to use their critical judgement and not be led along. Ireland could have saved itself a fortune if we as a people could do that.

DeanAustin

DeanAustin wrote: »

Holy sh!t. Please tell me this is a wind up.

I know a girl who follows football quite seriously. Anyway, she was a massive Man U fan up until she met her Liverpool supporting boyfriend. She's now a massive Liverpool fan.

That sort of thing gives sport-supporting women a very bad name.

Wait, so the OP does a very similar thing to this girl you know, but that doesn't mean that he gives sport supporting men a bad name, but this girl gives sport-supporting women a bad name?

Wut?

Femme_Fatale

DeanAustin wrote: »

Took the previous response to be a "Irish Premier League fans don't know what it is to really support a team hence the fickleness". On second reading it may not have been that but if it was, this girl is actually a LOI season ticket holder too so she isn't just a 'barstooler'.

No I meant her fickleness wasn't a thing that "gives sport-supporting women a bad name" seeing as both men and women can be guilty of such fickleness.

I'll grant you though, that some girls do indeed support teams their boyfriends support, or support teams just because of them fancying players, which is... hilarious. Still though, they don't give women who are genuinely into sport a bad name, seeing as they're separate entities independent of each other.

DeanAustin

iwantmydinner wrote: »

That's genuinely the biggest load of horseshyte I've heard in a good long while. Nice one!

Why thank you. I do try.

Deleted User wrote:

Wait, so the OP does a very similar thing to this girl you know, but that doesn't mean that he gives sport supporting men a bad name, but this girl gives sport-supporting women a bad name?

Wut?!

Sadly yes. The OP is clearly on the wind up but his "switching" was through stupidity which you will never see from virtually any male football fan.

This girl switched her allegiance from United to Liverpool because of her fella. That conforms to a certain stereotype that exists amongst football fans. You don't believe that it exists? Look at the Sian Massey incident. Look at the abuse Gabby Yorath got for presenting Match of the Day. Look at the abuse the female officials get in the League of Ireland.

I'm not saying it's right (in fact, I'm saying it's wrong) but we can be all politically correct and pretend it doesn't exist or we can be honest about it.

DeanAustin

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

No I meant her fickleness wasn't a thing that "gives sport-supporting women a bad name" seeing as both men and women can be guilty of such fickleness.

I'll grant you though, that some girls do indeed support teams their boyfriends support, or support teams just because of them fancying players, which is... hilarious. Still though, they don't give women who are genuinely into sport a bad name, seeing as they're separate entities independent of each other.

Fair enough. Good post.

burnhardlanger

People looked at me like I had two heads when I said I wasn't getting up at some ungodly hour to watch Ireland play rugby against Australia.

razorblunt

Daqster wrote: »

No, but there not shushing you in case you interpret the players.

There may not be a live feed to the stadium, but there's a live feed to people's ears around you, that are trying to enjoy a game without having to listen to your jabbering.



Really? Well, if you were in the pubs I drink in, you'd be put back in a box of your own, quick smart.

It's a pub, if you want silence ask the local library to show it for you, muted.

Would you shush someone in the pub because you're having a conversation with your mates or need to talk on the phone? Do you observe the national anthem before the game starts too? No because you are disconnected from the game itself.

Karl Stein

I will switch loyalties in the middle of a game if one side takes the lead.

♫ Let me tell you a story 22 versus long
about a woman who dildoed and di-dled along ♫

SSSHHHH

bur

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

I watch a lot of sport myself, particularly football, but anyone saying 'their' club is more important than family or friends, etc, needs to take a long hard look at themselves IMO.

Likewise to anyone who takes that kind of rhetoric seriously.