Off Topic Thread 4.0

sydthebeat

My interest in the women's hockey world cup is purely aesthetic, I'm not ashamed to admit.

Delighted the girls are on the final, but it's a sport I know nothing about and isn't popular in my parts

swiwi_

sydthebeat wrote: »

My interest in the women's hockey world cup is purely aesthetic, I'm not ashamed to admit.

Delighted the girls are on the final, but it's a sport I know nothing about and isn't popular in my parts

My sources tell me rather than being viewed as a “foreign games” sport it’s more of a “posh” sport. Just need Ireland to win the world lacrosse tournament now..

Yeah women’s hockey usually provides a bit of eye candy alright. I assume that’s what you mean by aesthetic and not the pleasing shape of a handcrafted hockey stick.

errlloyd

I'm following, but I went to protestant school with Pinder and Watkins. So I guess I'm bias.

sydthebeat

swiwi_ wrote: »

My sources tell me rather than being viewed as a “foreign games” sport it’s more of a “posh” sport. Just need Ireland to win the world lacrosse tournament now..

Yeah women’s hockey usually provides a bit of eye candy alright. I assume that’s what you mean by aesthetic and not the pleasing shape of a handcrafted hockey stick.

There's a stick???

swiwi_

swiwi_ wrote: »

My sources tell me rather than being viewed as a “foreign games” sport it’s more of a “posh” sport. Just need Ireland to win the world lacrosse tournament now..

Yeah women’s hockey usually provides a bit of eye candy alright. I assume that’s what you mean by aesthetic and not the pleasing shape of a handcrafted hockey stick.

There are far more Irish over there supporting the Womens hockey team than you usually see in Santry for the national athletics championships.

It not having a big following is more to do with many people not being exposed to it as opposed to some national perception of the participants.

errlloyd

The perception **** just rears its ugly head when success hits. It doesn't really effect how many supporters you have, it mostly just increases the amount of detractors.

Thomas Barr was pretty much universally loved (and rightly so) for Rio. But you only have to go on AH or Reddit and you'll see people having a go at the hockey team. (and the rugby team).

What is interesting is how one person can change a perception. Rowing is a proper posh sport, the boat race and Henley etc. But the O Donovans didn't get any **** the same way others do.

thomond2006

Was washman a hockey fan before the bandwagen?

Buer

This hurling replay is very poor fare. Full blooded and tenacious but there's a real lack of quality play and multiple basic errors.

awec

Buer wrote: »

This hurling replay is very poor fare. Full blooded and tenacious but there's a real lack of quality play and multiple basic errors.

Clare's basics are terrible. So many dropped balls, terrible passes and poor wides.

thomond2006

Buer wrote: »

This hurling replay is very poor fare. Full blooded and tenacious but there's a real lack of quality play and multiple basic errors.

It's exciting now but I agree.

thomond2006

Another Clare goal!

awec

Limerick will beat this Galway team. Limerick have a great bench and Galway seem to fade in games. Clare absolutely left that behind them today (again).

Buer

awec wrote: »

Limerick will beat this Galway team. Limerick have a great bench and Galway seem to fade in games. Clare absolutely left that behind them today (again).

No more than Cork left it behind last week when they should have had the game dead and buried by 50 minutes. Limerick are nothing special either and Galway will rightly be favourites .

It has been a fantastic hurling championship but there's a sense that they're all just placeholders until Kilkenny and Tipp get their affairs in order. None of the semi finalists have looked like deserving champions aside from Galway for the opening 20 minutes today.

bilston

swiwi_ wrote: »

Are people following the Irish women’s hockey team? Or is it seen as an “English/colonial/Protestant” sport and no-one cares too much?

Bloody Garrison sport...just like Cricket and....errrr...Rugby....

mfceiling

Tonight I saw 2 bugatti chirons, a paganni zonda, some sort of mclaren, 3 of the latest lambos, about 8 different ferraris and some sort of hyper car called a Stallone by Mansory!!
They all had arabic number plates. Do these lads fly these yokes into Europe for a jolly every year?

stephen_n

mfceiling wrote: »

Tonight I saw 2 bugatti chirons, a paganni zonda, some sort of mclaren, 3 of the latest lambos, about 8 different ferraris and some sort of hyper car called a Stallone by Mansory!!
They all had arabic number plates. Do these lads fly these yokes into Europe for a jolly every year?

They have them on the yachts.

mfceiling

stephen_n wrote: »

They have them on the yachts.

Yachts weren't even close to being big enough. Fair enough one lad had a jacuzzi on his and 2 jet skis on the back. Vast array of yachts on display...there's money out there!!

stephen_n

mfceiling wrote: »

Yachts weren't even close to being big enough. Fair enough one lad had a jacuzzi on his and 2 jet skis on the back. Vast array of yachts on display...there's money out there!!

I don’t mean yachts with sails lol I mean the big ones that cost a million pounds per foot. The likes the rich Arabs use, or like the ones Roman Abrhomavic has two of.

mfceiling

stephen_n wrote: »

I don’t mean yachts with sails lol I mean the big ones that cost a million pounds per foot. The likes the rich Arabs use, or like the ones Roman Abrhomavic has two of.

I saw the big yachts parked up as well but they don't look like they carry any kind of freight...was talking to the owner of our house this morning and he says they fly them in to london and then they spend 3 or 4 months just showing off their wealth!!

Stheno

mfceiling wrote: »

I saw the big yachts parked up as well but they don't look like they carry any kind of freight...was talking to the owner of our house this morning and he says they fly them in to london and then they spend 3 or 4 months just showing off their wealth!!

there was a documentary on c4 last year about this. they fly them in for a few months then go home

mfceiling

Stheno wrote: »

there was a documentary on c4 last year about this. they fly them in for a few months then go home

I wonder will the oil money run out in years to come for these families? I suppose if you've hundreds of millions behind you it would last more than a few generations.

Saw the trailer for the new Godzilla and thought it looks pretty class. Was thinking I'd probably go see it in the cinema and had a look to see when it was out.

May. It's out in May.

I still don't get why they put these trailers out so long in advance. I mean the fact that I'm typing about it is probably exactly the reason why, but it's more annoying than anything else seeing something interesting only to see that it's not out for almost a year.

Dubinusa

Just saw mission impossible fallout. Very good boys, very good.

swiwi_

mfceiling wrote: »

Looking forward to seeing the new Wes Anderson movie Isle of Dogs. If it's half as good as Fantastic Mr Fox then we're in for a treat.

kuang1 wrote: »

Saw it yesterday.
Luckily my daughter enjoyed it (but skittles and popcorn might have influenced that a bit), but I really don't rate a movie like this at all.
It strikes me as one of those things that's trendy to like, whereas in truth it's an unentertaining, slow paced story.

The whole stop-motion stuff might be deserving of some admiration for sure given the labour and time and accuracy involved, but that alone doesn't make a good movie.
I found the pauses/silences between dialogue annoying.

But that's only my opinion! I'm probably in a minority.

Best Wes Anderson film IMO.

Too subtle for my youngest kid (5 turning 6) but the older ones liked it. I really enjoyed it. More than Fantastic Mr Fox.

stephen_n

Dubinusa wrote: »

Just saw mission impossible fallout. Very good boys, very good.

Saw it yesterday, it’s good but not as good as the hype would have you believe. Well paced though, you certainly don’t notice he 2 hours and 27 minutes.

Dubinusa

Apparently, Cruise does a lot of his own stunts. Mad

molloyjh

Dubinusa wrote: »

Apparently, Cruise does a lot of his own stunts. Mad

That scene where he jumps out of the window to the building across, he broke his ankle. Kept filming apparently. You can see him drag the ankle in the film directly afterward when he gets up.

mfceiling

molloyjh wrote: »

That scene where he jumps out of the window to the building across, he broke his ankle. Kept filming apparently. You can see him drag the ankle in the film directly afterward when he gets up.

Taken from the Guardian a couple of days ago...

"Fallout is great fun. But recalling this back-story can give one pause amid the popcorn. The B-roll footage that sticks with me is not those multi-camera angles of Cruise snapping his ankle, but the notorious Scientology promo he shot (and failed to have suppressed), which mysteriously shares a soundtrack with Mission: Impossible. In this, Cruise explains that a Scientologist “has the ability to create new and better realities” and, in the event of a traffic accident, “is the only one who can really help”.


Everytime I watch him in a movie I always think "how can one person believe in such nonsense as scientology".

stephen_n

mfceiling wrote: »

Everytime I watch him in a movie I always think "how can one person believe in such nonsense as scientology".

People have been believing in such nonsense, since man first evolved from monkey’s [Jaco take note]. Scientology isn’t any more or less bizarre than the other ones really. If anything it’s a bit more honest about it’s money grabbing nature than most religions.

cavemeister

mfceiling wrote: »

Everytime I watch him in a movie I always think "how can one person believe in such nonsense as scientology".

If a religion makes you a better person, more power to you.

I knew a guy back in the 90's who was an animal - He'd bottle you for just crossing his line of sight. I have heard that he found Islam and it changed his life, now one of the nicest guys you could meet. (I'm told)