Off Topic Thread 3.0

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

MMA is weird like that. You spend months preparing for the one fight against a specific opponent and then to have it changed "last minute" can throw you completely. I suppose it applies to most fight sports but there's only so many ways a boxer can box, MMA is different.

b.gud

Rugby league isn't too bad when there's no proper rugby on

pickarooney

It's like hog wrangling mixed with Ulster football.

Just spent a week with my brother and sister's families. Amongst them were children aged 2, 5, 7 and 9. I'm such a miserable bastard. I don't think I will ever have children.

CatFromHue

http://www.balls.ie/gaa/aidan-oshea-dive-fermanagh/339300

What a dive!!

thomond2006

Barcelona have launched The #WeAreAllLeoMessi campaign on Twitter to support a tax dodger. Right.

swiwi_

Sing Street.

I enjoyed it.

pickarooney

Thank you, Roger Ebert.

mfceiling

Stone Roses last night were good. The amount of 17 and 18 year old knackers weren't so good.

As my mate says..."if you weren't old enough to remember the first album on cassette then you shouldn't have been allowed in"

receyman

Yeah !! i noticed the #WeAreAllLeoMessi......amazing isn't it??

Apparently we should all evade tax illegally to the tune of over 4 million euros, and get away with it........or we should all agree that it is ok. While schools and hospitals are underfunded.......

It is of course understandable, considering how little poor messi is paid.....what choice did he have. haha

Synode

mfceiling wrote: »

Stone Roses last night were good. The amount of 17 and 18 year old knackers weren't so good.

As my mate says..."if you weren't old enough to remember the first album on cassette then you shouldn't have been allowed in"

We didn't see many at all. Either we were lucky or you were unlucky. The gig was great, better than Phoenix Park last time

Pudsy33

Currently on my 6th hour wait around Lisbon airport for a Ryanair flight that has been further delayed again. Anyone ever successfully claim anything back? There's been no announcement, no food vouchers, no explanation. Delays happen and are uncontrollable but the lack of correspondence is frustrating.

mfceiling

Synode wrote: »

We didn't see many at all. Either we were lucky or you were unlucky. The gig was great, better than Phoenix Park last time

Ah they were very good in fairness. Just happened to be a big gang of skangers beside us (flares lit as soon as they came on, blinding the rest of us with smoke).

Brown's voice is useless but somehow the whole thing works!!

Bazzo

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Currently on my 6th hour wait around Lisbon airport for a Ryanair flight that has been further delayed again. Anyone ever successfully claim anything back? There's been no announcement, no food vouchers, no explanation. Delays happen and are uncontrollable but the lack of correspondence is frustrating.

I've gotten money back from Ryanair for a monumental **** up exactly once. They basically told me to piss off for 4 months via correspondence and pointed to their terms and conditions despite the fact that they were contradictory to the actual law on the matter. In the end I reported them to the civil aviation authority for a bunch of dodgy **** and they were back on to me within a week to offer me the money.

They're impossible to get in touch with by the way. They don't have an email address so you have to fill out a difficult to find complaint form on their website. And you have to do that every single time you want to contact them, you can't reply to the emails you get out.

errlloyd

Equally travel insurance might pay out.

Teferi

Not a big tennis fan but always watch Wimbledon. Great win for Murray, he was immense today.

Synode

Murray well deserved it but thought Raonic made an awful lot of unforced errors. Being in the final may have gotten to him. Murray always looked in control.

I'd love to know what was wrong with Djokivic. He looked well out of sorts

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

4 British Wimbledon champions today. Not too shabby.

sydthebeat

So....

Portugal or France?

I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be Ronaldos night

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

sydthebeat wrote: »

So....

Portugal or France?

I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be Ronaldos night

Hard to see past France. They've looked impressive when they needed to, Portugal have not.

kuang1

sydthebeat wrote: »

So....

Portugal or France?

I have a sneaky suspicion that it will be Ronaldos night

No I think France will get their sentimental/emotional victory. After penalties though!

Felix Jones is God

Portugal should sneak it.
I'm going 2-1

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

kuang1 wrote: »

No I think France will get their sentimental/emotional victory. After penalties though!

Ronaldo to miss and then retire.

Felix Jones is God

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Ronaldo to miss and then retire.

He's gone I'd say

thomond2006

I'd be interested to see the RTE vs TV3 ratings after the game. For those of us on Saorview, TV3 has an awful SD picture.

This paint is almost dry

Teferi

I don't know how anyone could watch this sport on the regular. It's criminally boring.

wp_rathead

I woke up so excited about the sporting day ahead
Connacht final was sh!te
Wimbledon wasn't much of a contest
Munster final was so one sided was sh!te
This Euro final been sh!te

Having a Clontarf Whiskey with 7up on ice so swings and roundabouts

Stheno

Teferi wrote: »

I don't know how anyone could watch this sport on the regular. It's criminally boring.

It's mind numbing

irishbucsfan

Teferi wrote: »

I don't know how anyone could watch this sport on the regular. It's criminally boring.

I agree. And given I am a tastemaker and completely in touch with reality, I'll go ahead and guarrantee there's no way this soccer lark will ever catch on