Off Topic Thread 4.0

CatFromHue

CatFromHue wrote: »

In manys ways people should be allowed to drink, and drink a lot, on Good Friday then tomorrow they'll feel like death and so they can rise again on Sunday.

Also mmmbop is one hell of a song, really stands the test of time.

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

Audience clapping along is very annoying

Buer

Deleted User wrote: »

Audience clapping along is very annoying

Podge_irl

I genuinely thought on Monday when I read that SNCF were striking for three months that is was an April Fools. Alas, it is not and my plans to go to Paris this weekend are screwed.

This is far from the first time French industrial action has affected me - it is bizarre in the extreme the amount that it comes up over there. What I don't get is the amount of public support the strikers always seem to maintain.

Zzippy

Podge_irl wrote: »

I genuinely thought on Monday when I read that SNCF were striking for three months that is was an April Fools. Alas, it is not and my plans to go to Paris this weekend are screwed.

This is far from the first time French industrial action has affected me - it is bizarre in the extreme the amount that it comes up over there. What I don't get is the amount of public support the strikers always seem to maintain.

Let them fly business class... [/Marie Antoinette]

pickarooney

Bunch of arseholes. The horrific suggestion that a new SNCF employee might not be guaranteed a job for life and early retirement is so unpalatable that the Arts students are out in force protesting.

Back in your ****ing boxes. Drive your train, read your Chanson de Roland and let people get on with their work.

Jack Kanoff

Soooooo, Jon Jones has been stripped of his "biggest Muppet in UFC" title and Conor McGregor is now undisputed champ!

Buer

He's going to be sued left right and centre for this. Two fights called off already due to the smashed window.

Also if he gets convicted of assault, I'm assuming that's his access to America done for. Plonker.

He has somehow managed to absolutely destroy his public image in a year and lost nearly all support. He'll be losing a significant chunk of his money now too.

Jack Kanoff

Buer wrote: »

He's going to be sued left right and centre for this. Two fights called off already due to the smashed window.

Also if he gets convicted of assault, I'm assuming that's his access to America done for. Plonker.

He has somehow managed to absolutely destroy his public image in a year and lost nearly all support. He'll be losing a significant chunk of his money now too.

It's actually 3 fights now

irishbucsfan

Yeah, 3 fights although one of those include his mate and it's just called off because he is incredibly fired.

It's all quite fascinating, from a distance. I really feel for the people who were caught up in the whole thing, knowing how badly they are looked after and knowing that this will likely be extremely costly (temporarily, until they sue McGregor of course).

I really hope the main event goes ahead, I'm really looking forward to that one.

awec

I remember when people used to try and convince everyone that he only acted like a knacker to make money. Think we've all since realised that he actually is just a rich knacker.

He's been charged with assault now apparently. No idea what sort of sanctions that carries. Could he be looking at jail?

It's surely going to cost him millions in lawsuits and possibly even more expensive for him will be lost earnings.

thomond2006

Can we stop them at Dublin airport and turn them away?

wp_rathead

In Conors defence, storming the building and throwing sh!te at the bus was his only course of action available to him
Not like he is (well, lets be honest, "was")in a profession where he could organise a fight with Khabib in a legal matter to sort out this silly "beef"

awec wrote: »

I remember when people used to try and convince everyone that he only acted like a knacker to make money. Think we've all since realised that he actually is just a rich knacker.

..dude.. you're a mod...

awec

wp_rathead wrote: »

In Conors defence, storming the building and throwing sh!te at the bus was his only course of action available to him
Not like he is (well, lets be honest, "was")in a profession where he could organise a fight with Khabib in a legal matter to sort out this silly "beef"



..dude.. you're a mod...

I don't mean traveller.

mfceiling

wp_rathead wrote: »

In Conors defence, storming the building and throwing sh!te at the bus was his only course of action available to him

Or he could have just done nothing and carried on as normal?

irishbucsfan

mfceiling wrote: »

Or he could have just done nothing and carried on as normal?

No chance. It was the only possible course of action. There was literally nothing else he could do.

swiwi_

Does knacker mean traveller in Ireland??

swiwi_

Sexton has taken a few knocks to the nut but not the nuts i see.

errlloyd

swiwi_ wrote: »

Does knacker mean traveller in Ireland??

I don't think that is a perfect correlation, where I cam from it did not specifically mean member of the travelling community. You could be one without being the other basically. It's more derogatory than traveler, tinker etc.

molloyjh

swiwi_ wrote: »

Does knacker mean traveller in Ireland??

I was always under the impression that that's exactly where it came from originally, but that it has since evolved to describe a type of behaviour. Kind of like that South Park episode where the kids started using the word "fag" to describe the bikers that showed up in town.

prawnsambo

irishbucsfan wrote: »

No chance. It was the only possible course of action. There was literally nothing else he could do.

I'm waaaaay out of the loop on this one. Was there some impediment to him defending his title? From what I've read, he's not fought since the Mayweather mllions.

Bazzo

prawnsambo wrote: »

I'm waaaaay out of the loop on this one. Was there some impediment to him defending his title? From what I've read, he's not fought since the Mayweather mllions.

They're both being very sarcastic.

irishbucsfan

prawnsambo wrote: »

I'm waaaaay out of the loop on this one. Was there some impediment to him defending his title? From what I've read, he's not fought since the Mayweather mllions.

No, there was no impediment, he has never defended a title.

The Mayweather fight itself was an impediment I guess, but a self-inflicted one.

Hence the jokes like "If they turned Artem Lobov into a belt, maybe McGregor would defend one" and "This morning in court will be McGregor's first ever defense"

irishbucsfan

Bazzo wrote: »

They're both being very sarcastic.

Oh yeah!

prawnsambo

Bazzo wrote: »

They're both being very sarcastic.

Well the knacker thing I get. I don't have any interest in UFC, mostly because of the sheer exploitative nature of the 'game'. The irony of them being referred to as 'gladiators' from time to time is ironic.

irishbucsfan

prawnsambo wrote: »

Well the knacker thing I get. I don't have any interest in UFC, mostly because of the sheer exploitative nature of the 'game'. The irony of them being referred to as 'gladiators' from time to time is ironic.

Well from that angle, consider that the people whose fights have been cancelled currently have absolutely no guarrantee that they will be paid a penny. Guys who were scheduled to fight the people who were pulled are currently still trying to make weight so that they can weigh in and hopefully get something. Insane situation to be in.

prawnsambo

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Well from that angle, consider that the people whose fights have been cancelled currently have absolutely no guarrantee that they will be paid a penny. Guys who were scheduled to fight the people who were pulled are currently still trying to make weight so that they can weigh in and hopefully get something. Insane situation to be in.

Absolutely. It just makes a shameful episode even more so. The only people who will suffer from this are the injured guys and the lads who were scheduled to fight them. And of course McGregor will be rehabilitated whenever it's deemed necessary to boost the coffers even more.

swiwi_

swiwi_ wrote: »

Sexton has taken a few knocks to the nut but not the nuts i see.

Depends on what they're into...

swiwi_

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Depends on what they're into...

And whether there are any incriminating private WhatsApp messages I suppose...

swiwi_

swiwi_ wrote: »

Does knacker mean traveller in Ireland??

It's more of a catch-all term for anti social degenerate these days.