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I'm On Dire Straits Here. . .

  • 03-05-2016 11:58pm
    #1
    The Backwards Man
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    Great band.

    Yea or Nay


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  • #2
    The Sidewards Man
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    Kiss me Maryanne.


  • #3
    Toobz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Toobz


    Where's the upwards man?


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    This is all I have in the house :(


  • #5
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Sandman port? Goes great with a good brandy!


  • #6
    The Sidewards Man
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    Low on diesel, light on. Any lunatic soup hid in the stone ditch tbm?


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  • #7
    Totofan99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99


    Calling Elvis,
    Is anybody home?


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What's that weird thing beside your television BM? Is it a special little toilet?


  • #9
    The Backwards Man
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    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Sandman port? Goes great with a good brandy!

    If I had brandy I wouldn't even be looking at the port!:D


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    Great band...with Knopfler.


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    What's that weird thing beside your television BM? Is it a special little toilet?

    That's my turf bucket! :D


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  • #12
    pauldla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Take it down to the waterline, OP.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    That's my turf bucket! :D

    Wow. Such amazing turf requires an amazing bucket :D

    Can we see a photo of Lucky??


  • #14
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    You'll be in dire straits in the morning my good man


  • #15
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Ps, whys the glass not on the coaster?! :mad:


  • #16
    The Backwards Man
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    She won't sit


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Arrah would ya look at that little face :) She's lovely.


  • #18
    The Sidewards Man
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭The Sidewards Man


    Is that a 1 mexa pixel camera you have some quality?


  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    Ps, whys the glass not on the coaster?! :mad:

    Because there was no drink in it at that time


  • #20
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    Will you draw us a picture? Draw one of lucky if she won't sit still for a real one!


  • #21
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,383 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Apart from "The Walk Of Life" Great band.
    I hate that fcukin song!


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  • #22
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    gammygils wrote: »
    Apart from "The Walk Of Life" Great band.
    I hate that fcukin song!
    The DJ at the local dishco played that for my seventeenth birthday, wtf was that about?:pac:


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
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    Nay. Nay nay nay. A lot of very harmless soft rock that went on forever like Sultans of Swing or Your Latest Trick, in the 80s they really went after the MTV market. Always found the whole thing a bit...soulless...


  • #24
    Lurkio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lurkio


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Great band.

    Yea or Nay

    Nay.


  • #25
    Rothko
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    Meh


  • #26
    stoplooklisten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭stoplooklisten


    Has the dog joined the band?


  • #27
    Discodog
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    Nice of the OP to post a video :pac:

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2umj1v


  • #28
    RWCNT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,430 ✭✭✭RWCNT


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    The DJ at the local dishco played that for my seventeenth birthday, wtf was that about?:pac:

    The folk group at my local church used to also play it, very strange stuff.

    Top band though! Brothers In Arms and On Every Street are two of my fave songs ever. Knopfler has some great stuff outside the band, like his album with Emmylou Harris.


  • #29
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Best recording of this particular song they ever made.

    How anyone couldn't enjoy that is beyond me.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2Kc4R442s


    But this would be among my most favourite of the lot.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_LUFvofAkg


  • #30
    Olishi4
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    Not a huge fan but I do like them. I like Mark Knopflers voice. I think it's very distinctive.


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  • #31
    LordSutch
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    Yea.

    Private investigations . . . . .

    Love it. I also love the soundtrack to 'Local Hero', but I think that was a Mark Knopfler solo project?


  • #32
    junkyarddog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭junkyarddog


    First album I ever bought was "brothers in arms"

    Was really into them at the time,bought most,if not all of their albums,
    rarely listen to them now.
    :)


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
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    I never liked them over all as a band. But when they did a song well - they were incredible. Sultans of Swing was a near perfect song as it goes. Brothers in Arms a decent tear jerker. And back when we made mix tapes for each other of our favorite music - Romeo and Juliet would invariably show up in my selection regardless of whether I was taping onto a full length 90 minute tape - or the more limited 60 minute tape.

    But similarly when they were bad they were awful. And unfortunately that was generally over 60% of every album.


  • #34
    maudgonner
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    I still can't get my head around the fact that they're not American.

    For some reason I grew up assuming that they were, and only discovered otherwise a few years ago. It just doesn't seem right, to me they're blue-collar US rockers :)


  • #35
    ScouseMouse
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    Acoustic Romeo and Juliette. Absolutely classic stuff.

    Did love them and still do. God, I wish they would get together again.

    John Ilsley ! Put down the ****ing paint brush and pick up your guitar again.


  • #36
    Uncle Ben
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Wow. Such amazing turf requires an amazing bucket :D

    Can we see a photo of Lucky??

    Aaand we're offf!


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  • #37
    bottlebrush
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    Love Dire Straits

    Romeo and Juliet brings back great memories of my first discos and slow sets


  • #38
    Pedro K
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭Pedro K


    Well OP, all I can do, is hand it to you and your latest trick.


  • #39
    Giblet
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    You know like, AC/DC replaced Brian Johnson with Axl Rose?

    I heard Dire Straits are going out on tour, but with Chris Rea instead of Mark.

    They are calling themselves

    "Massive exploding sh1tebags."

    Wait..


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Uncle Ben wrote: »
    Aaand we're offf!

    To where??


  • #41
    Stheno
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    What's that weird thing beside your television BM? Is it a special little toilet?
    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    That's my turf bucket! :D
    That's just a fancy garden bucket! I saw them in Lidl!
    Giblet wrote: »

    I heard Dire Straits are going out on tour, but with Chris Rea instead of Mark.

    .

    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


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  • #42
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,309 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Giblet wrote: »
    You know like, AC/DC replaced Brian Johnson with Axl Rose?

    I heard Dire Straits are going out on tour, but with Chris Rea instead of Mark.

    They are calling themselves

    "Massive exploding sh1tebags."

    Wait..

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chris%20Straits
    TOP DEFINITION
    Chris Straits
    phrase taken from a combination of Chris Rea and Dire Straits meaning Dire Rea (diarrhea)
    man: "ooh, I've got a touch of the Chris Straits this morning!"
    girl: "Too much information thank you!"
    man: "Like you've never had Chris Straits before?!"
    girl: "Yes but I don't advertise when I have Chris Straits"
    man: "No, but sometimes your Chris Straits advertises you!"

    Chris Straits, never heard that one before. The joys of Google.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    To where??

    "theres a place - for us"


  • #44
    The Sidewards Man
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    Maryanne I love you.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
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    Romeo and Juliet.

    Jesus. I had forgotten that maudlin dirge. Down there with Wonderful Tonight as bad slow songs from 30 years back that teenage boys only liked cos teenage girls pretended to like them...


  • #46
    Giblet
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    mzungu wrote: »
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chris%20Straits



    Chris Straits, never heard that one before. The joys of Google.

    https://youtu.be/ntR2lK7a6dw?t=148


  • #47
    Kamili
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,480 ✭✭✭Kamili


    Last time I was sober, man I felt bad Worst hangover that I ever had


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