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Yeah_Right · 25-07-2017 12:53PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I think we can agree on cheese and onion but smoky bacon is the better flavour anyway

Cheese and onion is the most vile flavour of crisps. Salt and vinegar is the best. The two flavours I miss from back home are sour cream & chives and chicken.

Stheno · 25-07-2017 12:55PM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Cheese and onion is the most vile flavour of crisps. Salt and vinegar is the best. The two flavours I miss from back home are sour cream & chives and chicken.

You can get both of those here.

Sam spudz smokey bacon were the best

Yeah_Right · 25-07-2017 01:03PM

Stheno wrote: »

You can get both of those here.

Sam spudz smokey bacon were the best

Where? The only place I've seen them is in the kiwi store in Tipp.

Bazzo · 25-07-2017 01:15PM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Where? The only place I've seen them is in the kiwi store in Tipp.

You can get sour cream & onion pringles and I think I've seen sour cream & chive in Lidl or Aldi. Walkers used to have a roast chicken flavour but haven't seen it for a while.

awec · 25-07-2017 01:16PM

Never been to Croke Park for a football game before, tempted to buy tickets to watch Armagh give Kildare a good pasting on Saturday.

What is the crowd likely to be like?

stephen_n · 25-07-2017 01:23PM

Erik Shin wrote: »

Who would eat a biscuit sammich?

You never have two rich tea biscuits with butter?

molloyjh · 25-07-2017 01:31PM

stephen_n wrote: »

You never have two rich tea biscuits with butter?

Nutella man, nutella!

irishbucsfan · 25-07-2017 01:33PM

awec wrote: »

Never been to Croke Park for a football game before, tempted to buy tickets to watch Armagh give Kildare a good pasting on Saturday.

What is the crowd likely to be like?

Full of dopes, if rumours are to be believed

Podge_irl · 25-07-2017 01:34PM

mfceiling wrote: »

No irish person was ever made to endure temperatures in the 30's.

I can't wait to get back to an irish summer day where you say to your other half..."I think I'll bring a coat just in case"

I find it remarkably draining when it goes on for more than a couple days.

Quick dip in the lake or going up the mountains helps though. Life is tough.

Bazzo · 25-07-2017 01:38PM

awec wrote: »

Never been to Croke Park for a football game before, tempted to buy tickets to watch Armagh give Kildare a good pasting on Saturday.

What is the crowd likely to be like?

I have no idea about the crowd for Saturday but I can tell you half of Connacht will be there on Sunday.

Rigor Mortis · 25-07-2017 01:39PM

awec wrote: »

Never been to Croke Park for a football game before, tempted to buy tickets to watch Armagh give Kildare a good pasting on Saturday.

What is the crowd likely to be like?

Monaghan, Down, Armagh and Kildare.

That's decades of pent up frustration right there.

Regardless of that, they should be two very good games.

25-07-2017 01:40PM

I'm not usually a fan of these videos of people going nuts at each other but this guy is hilarious. Pointing at everyone shouting "citizens arrest". Telling people to prepare to die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W7BjtLil9M

thomond2006 · 25-07-2017 01:41PM

awec wrote: »

Never been to Croke Park for a football game before, tempted to buy tickets to watch Armagh give Kildare a good pasting on Saturday.

What is the crowd likely to be like?

They are only selling lower tier tickets so I'd say about 20k maybe?

Get the Hogan Stand tickets as IIRC you won't have the sun in your eyes from that side. €25 is good for two matches.

Buer · 25-07-2017 01:46PM

awec wrote: »

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What is the crowd likely to be like?

Deluded.

Erik Shin · 25-07-2017 01:52PM

stephen_n wrote: »

You never have two rich tea biscuits with butter?

No, never...don't drink tae or coffee either...I'm weird

awec · 25-07-2017 02:03PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Full of dopes, if rumours are to be believed

You going ibf?

stephen_n · 25-07-2017 02:31PM

molloyjh wrote: »

Nutella man, nutella!

No puking smiley on here!

irishbucsfan · 25-07-2017 02:34PM

awec wrote: »

You going ibf?

Still waiting to hear, if I can work I will because I love money

awec · 25-07-2017 02:58PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Still waiting to hear, if I can work I will because I love money

You wan to work on a Saturday night?

Wat.

molloyjh · 25-07-2017 03:26PM

awec wrote: »

You wan to work on a Saturday night?

Wat.

He's said it himself. He loves money. He is Mark McCaffertys offspring after all.

b.gud · 25-07-2017 05:08PM

25 Wives? surely one would be more than enough

chupacabra · 25-07-2017 05:22PM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Cheese and onion is the most vile flavour of crisps. Salt and vinegar is the best. The two flavours I miss from back home are sour cream & chives and chicken.

As someone who lives in a country with such crisp flavours as "ketchup", "pickle and sourcream" and "smoked fish" I dispute this. Tayto should make me an honorary board member for the amount of cheese and onion crisps I import from Ireland to here. :pac:

pickarooney · 25-07-2017 06:44PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Your life must be cold and empty

Give me rancheros or waffles any day

mfceiling · 25-07-2017 07:17PM

chupacabra wrote: »

As someone who lives in a country with such crisp flavours as "ketchup", "pickle and sourcream" and "smoked fish" I dispute this. Tayto should make me an honorary board member for the amount of cheese and onion crisps I import from Ireland to here. :pac:

I went to college with a lad from Cookstown who started importing tayto crisps to Australia. I met him there after both of us being there a few weeks...We went on the lash and he was telling me you couldn't buy tayto crisps anywhere and it was a good business idea. He's seriously successful now (think it's called "a taste of home").

*I'm not successful or jealous*

www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/food-deal-will-bring-a-little-taste-of-home-to-australia-1.1696536%3fmode=amp

Stheno · 25-07-2017 07:35PM

awec wrote: »

You wan to work on a Saturday night?

Wat.

I need a new handbag

Any recommendations awec?

chupacabra · 25-07-2017 08:00PM

mfceiling wrote: »

I went to college with a lad from Cookstown who started importing tayto crisps to Australia. I met him there after both of us being there a few weeks...We went on the lash and he was telling me you couldn't buy tayto crisps anywhere and it was a good business idea. He's seriously successful now (think it's called "a taste of home").

*I'm not successful or jealous*

www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/food-deal-will-bring-a-little-taste-of-home-to-australia-1.1696536%3fmode=amp

Interesting. The amount of irish expats in Australia makes that a good business. In Estonia/Baltic states in general there arent that many of us.

Yeah_Right · 25-07-2017 11:23PM

chupacabra wrote: »

As someone who lives in a country with such crisp flavours as "ketchup", "pickle and sourcream" and "smoked fish" I dispute this. Tayto should make me an honorary board member for the amount of cheese and onion crisps I import from Ireland to here. :pac:

Haha. Very true. NZ have some disgusting flavours but cheese and onion is still the worst. In all honesty I think I've developed a dislike to the flavour during my time here as it seems to be the only flavour Irish people know. There's never any variety!

But as I mentioned earlier in this thread, there's nothing I won't eat.

Erik Shin · 26-07-2017 07:46AM

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40718990

Not sure if this has already been discussed...but these are some worrying figures...the amount of college players with brain injuries suggests the damage is done long, long before they graduate to the Pro game..... surely this will make rugby sit up and take notice

Podge_irl · 26-07-2017 07:51AM

College football is a very different beast from non-pro levels of sport here.

It's certainly a concern - I have a hard time seeing this make much difference though. As things stand they are having a hard time even making minor adjustments to sports to remove unnecessary head contact.

molloyjh · 26-07-2017 07:58AM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

chupacabra wrote: »

As someone who lives in a country with such crisp flavours as "ketchup", "pickle and sourcream" and "smoked fish" I dispute this. Tayto should make me an honorary board member for the amount of cheese and onion crisps I import from Ireland to here. :pac:

Haha. Very true. NZ have some disgusting flavours but cheese and onion is still the worst. In all honesty I think I've developed a dislike to the flavour during my time here as it seems to be the only flavour Irish people know. There's never any variety!

But as I mentioned earlier in this thread, there's nothing I won't eat.

I think it's conditioning. Like Coca Cola. The stuff actually tastes awful, but because you've grown up with it you're taste buds have acclimatised to the flavour. Go off them for a while and when you go back you realise what the stuff really tastes like. And it's not good.

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