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  • #9512
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Uber in America really is stupidly cheap.

    Was at a wedding in Florida recently and needed to get a taxi to a shopping mall the day before, cost me 10.50 each way. A family member did the same trip by old fashioned taxi car and got charged 50 dollars


  • #9513
    b.gud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,873 ✭✭✭b.gud


    Anyone got any good recommendations for towns to stay in on the Amalfi coast where the accommodation prices would be reasonable. Going there at the end of September


  • #9514
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Stay in Napoli. Grand spot, lovely people, safe as houses.


  • #9515
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Stay in Napoli. Grand spot, lovely people, safe as houses.

    The street markets are great too. Manys a bargain to be had there.


  • #9516
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    The only minus point is it's getting a bit too touristy thanks to shows like Gomorrah.


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  • #9517
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Sorrento is nice. Not sure how pricey it is though, I'm sure there's a mix. Lovely views across the bay looking at Vesuvius too.

    You can do day trips to Pompei and there's boat trips to Capri, Ischia and all along the coast from it.

    I was there at the end of August one year and it was boiling hot, the kind of heat that made you want to hide indoors all day.


  • #9518
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    pickarooney wrote: »
    The only minus point is it's getting a bit too touristy thanks to shows like Gomorrah.

    In all seriousness I stayed in Naples a few years back and while most of it is as dodgy as feck there is a small patch of it that's quite decent. And it served as a good base for trips to the likes of Sorrento which is pricey. Some of the pizzas in Naples too were truly amazing.


  • #9519
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Bit late but anyone fancy doing a Boards Rugby fantasy league for the Euros?

    20ish hours left to pick a team.


  • #9520
    b.gud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,873 ✭✭✭b.gud


    Cheers for the suggestions guys will check them out


  • #9521
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Bit late but anyone fancy doing a Boards Rugby fantasy league for the Euros?

    20ish hours left to pick a team.

    Zero interest here, if only for the fact I couldn't even name most of the Irish team, never mind pick decent players from all the other countries...


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  • #9522
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Zzippy wrote: »
    Zero interest here, if only for the fact I couldn't even name most of the Irish team, never mind pick decent players from all the other countries...

    To be honest I signed up for it because my friend was doing a league but when I went to pick my team I hadn't a clue who anyone was. I don't fancy my chances.


  • #9523
    thomond2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Some of the reports from Marseille concerning 'fans' are appalling.


  • #9524
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Some of the reports from Marseille concerning 'fans' are appalling.

    They shouldn't allow them into the competition


  • #9525
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    What is it about English soccer fans that brings out the yob?


  • #9526
    kuang1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭kuang1


    Zzippy wrote: »
    What is it about English soccer fans that brings out the yob?

    Surely a ban from the 2020 Euros would be fitting?


  • #9527
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    England fans jeering and whistling the Russian anthem. Even the non-hooligans are yobs...


  • #9528
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Zzippy wrote: »
    England fans jeering and whistling the Russian anthem. Even the non-hooligans are yobs...

    It's disgusting. They should ban them from going to games.


  • #9529
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,000 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Zzippy wrote: »
    England fans jeering and whistling the Russian anthem. Even the non-hooligans are yobs...

    And they wonder why the national team is unlikeable.


  • #9530
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    To be fair, kind of, to the English fans they're being targeted by French fans, and today Russian fans. However, they seem only too willing to respond.

    Ken Early is in Marseille and last night he said they were in a bar watching the France game, mostly English fans there, when out of nowhere this crowd of other people appear around the corner and start bottling them. Next thing you know the riot police are there and all hell breaks loose.

    Given France is on the highest of alerts for terrorism, and their police are armed, I'd be on my best behaviour.


  • #9531
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    To be fair, kind of, to the English fans

    Actually, after decades of this I think I'd rather not be. I've no interest in the competition but if I did I'd like to see them kept away from the tournament entirely.


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  • #9532
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Actually, after decades of this I think I'd rather not be. I've no interest in the competition but if I did I'd like to see them kept away from the tournament entirely.

    Yeah, like I said, a lot of them seem only too happy to respond when they are provoked. Marseille is apparently the hooligan capital of France though so basing England there was a bit of an unfortunate result.


  • #9533
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    just need 1 more yellow in the england game to win €130- hontafuq get stuck into eachother


  • #9534
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    Thomond mentioned it earlier, but whoever thought that England vs Russia in Marseilles was a good idea was off their rocker. It's almost like the perfect storm for problems.


  • #9535
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,997 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Nordie fans at it with the Poles now.


  • #9536
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,327 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Reminds me of the airport scene in Mike Bassett England Manager

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-fcMS5x3Mw


    :pac:


  • #9537
    kuang1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,468 ✭✭✭kuang1


    wp_rathead wrote: »
    just need 1 more yellow in the england game to win €130- hontafuq get stuck into eachother

    Did ya wintafukk?!


  • #9538
    wp_rathead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    kuang1 wrote: »
    Did ya wintafukk?!

    No...


    Only 2 yellows in the game - feckin faarce, neither side gave a ****e
    Bet was for more than 2... Had a double with that and Ireland to beat SA that obviously came in, ughhh


  • #9539
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    More reports overnight that wild bands of feral French police have been attacking poor defenseless English soccer fans. Poor lads.


  • #9540
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,548 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    It's when the soccer is on that I realise what a privilege it is to follow rugby.

    There is no way you'd get en masse actual life-threatening violence between rival rugby fans.

    We definitely have the moral high-ground.


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  • #9541
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    swiwi_ wrote: »
    It's when the soccer is on that I realise what a privilege it is to follow rugby.

    There is no way you'd get en masse actual life-threatening violence between rival rugby fans.

    We definitely have the moral high-ground.

    I just think back to the World Cup in Cardiff/London... We were watching the Japan/SA match with two Welsh cops after Ireland/Canada match having great craic. I can only imagine how ridiculously stressful it is working in the French police forces during this competition having to worry about religious/English extremists.


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