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troyzer · 13-03-2019 03:00PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Can someone explain the appeal of horse racing to me

$$$$$$$

Oh, and $$$$$$$.

13-03-2019 03:26PM

Some of my mates have booked the week off work and are going to the pub all week. While I can obviously see the appeal of spending the week in the pub, I wouldn't want to waste my time off work on only that.

The Lost Sheep · 13-03-2019 03:51PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Can someone explain the appeal of horse racing to me

Speed/power of the horses combined with the betting, craic if you go racing.
Think ive worked at 10 of the 26 courses in Ireland in the past 12 months in one role or another and would have went racing quite a bit on top of that

Zzippy · 13-03-2019 04:26PM

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Speed/power of the horses combined with the betting, craic if you go racing.
Think ive worked at 10 of the 26 courses in Ireland in the past 12 months in one role or another and would have went racing quite a bit on top of that

Hmmm. You're either a barman, a bookie or one of those "hustlers" doing the 3 card tricks for 50 quid a go...

The Lost Sheep · 13-03-2019 04:28PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Hmmm. You're either a barman, a bookie or one of those "hustlers" doing the 3 card tricks for 50 quid a go...

Bit of all 3...
Spend all my time betting, in bars, at concerts all "working"..

Mike Oxlong · 13-03-2019 04:55PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Some of my mates have booked the week off work and are going to the pub all week. While I can obviously see the appeal of spending the week in the pub, I wouldn't want to waste my time off work on only that.

My idea of hell... just posted elsewhere this very thought!

Zzippy · 13-03-2019 05:40PM

Mike Oxlong wrote: »

My idea of hell... just posted elsewhere this very thought!

One day of it sounds like heaven. Chilled out pints, a few bets, craic with the lads. After that, no thanks...

mfceiling · 13-03-2019 07:32PM

Wife calls this morning and tells me she got a tip from a lad in work (he would be a horse mad fellow). Top Of The Game...Told her to stick the mortgage on it...Just checked there and it won at 4 to 1!!

I didn't back it.

FML.

Stheno · 13-03-2019 07:38PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Wife calls this morning and tells me she got a tip from a lad in work (he would be a horse mad fellow). Top Of The Game...Told her to stick the mortgage on it...Just checked there and it won at 4 to 1!!

I didn't back it.

FML.

She keeps the winnings and spends it all on a new handbag?

mfceiling · 13-03-2019 07:50PM

Stheno wrote: »

She keeps the winnings and spends it all on a new handbag?

She doesn't know how to bet. Asked me to go to the bookies and put 50 quid on for her. I forgot all about it.

Stheno · 13-03-2019 07:54PM

mfceiling wrote: »

She doesn't know how to bet. Asked me to go to the bookies and put 50 quid on for her. I forgot all about it.

Uh oh. Have you gone home yet?

Podge_irl · 13-03-2019 08:15PM

troyzer wrote: »

I've torn my MCL before, it's horrible. I can only imagine how bad an ACL tear is.

It is surprisingly not remotely painful. Like standing on ****ing jelly though.

mfceiling · 13-03-2019 08:35PM

Stheno wrote: »

Uh oh. Have you gone home yet?

Here from 4!!

Stheno · 13-03-2019 08:38PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Here from 4!!

She must be fierce tolerant

troyzer · 13-03-2019 10:18PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

troyzer wrote: »

I've torn my MCL before, it's horrible. I can only imagine how bad an ACL tear is.

It is surprisingly not remotely painful. Like standing on ****ing jelly though.

That's what I meant. You just have no confidence in it. It does occasionally sting a little but could be going up the stairs, twist your knee a certain way and all of the strength goes out.

You're so self conscious and overthink everything. I can only imagine what it's like for a pro athelete going back after a long lay off.

molloyjh · 13-03-2019 10:21PM

So what do you want?

I can tell you what I don’t want.

Yes, but what do you want?

Well not those things over there.

So what do you want then?

Not what we agreed to.

Such a complete clusterf***. It’s actually more embarrassing than Trump at this stage.

troyzer · 13-03-2019 10:31PM

molloyjh wrote: »

So what do you want?

I can tell you what I don’t want.

Yes, but what do you want?

Well not those things over there.

So what do you want then?

Not what we agreed to.

Such a complete clusterf***. It’s actually more embarrassing than Trump at this stage.

The Malthouse compromise says it all. The name suggests it's a proposed compromise between the UK and the EU. It's not. It's a compromise between the remain and Brexit wings of a single political party.

They still think this is about them and their own ****. The EU is standing there telling them that the Tories can agree to it amongst themselves all they want but the EU won't go for it.

It would be like me and my girlfriend getting a bill for our dinner. The waiter stands there waiting for us to pay whilst we agree between us that neither of us will pay. Sheer lunacy.

Podge_irl · 13-03-2019 10:50PM

troyzer wrote: »

That's what I meant. You just have no confidence in it. It does occasionally sting a little but could be going up the stairs, twist your knee a certain way and all of the strength goes out.

You're so self conscious and overthink everything. I can only imagine what it's like for a pro athelete going back after a long lay off.

Yeah, its disconcerting. Going down the non-surgical route for now so let's see how it goes. Alas that means my chances of making it as an international rugby star are probably over.

13-03-2019 11:09PM

mfceiling wrote: »

she got a tip from a lad in work

:eek:

Zzippy · 14-03-2019 12:34AM

Deleted User wrote: »

:eek:

Calm down Venjur. Just the tip...

irishbucsfan · 14-03-2019 12:35AM

Podge_irl wrote: »

Ugh...tore my ACL skiing.

Paris marathon in 5 weeks looking a smidgen unlikely...

Hopefully it not being too painful is a good sign. I tore it before and it wasn’t hugely painful and I was back playing the following season a few months after.

I know a girl who did the same thing and I had to carry her off the pitch, as I was sitting with her she was getting regular bursts of agonizing pain and she still isn’t back, that was about 18 months ago. She’d probably have a higher pain threshold than me as well.

With very little medical understanding of it myself I’d hope that’s a good sign?

Anyway, sorry to hear it, hope it’s not too disruptive outside of sports

swiwi_ · 14-03-2019 06:07AM

molloyjh wrote: »

So what do you want?

I can tell you what I don’t want.

Yes, but what do you want?

Well not those things over there.

So what do you want then?

Not what we agreed to.

I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah?

troyzer · 14-03-2019 08:28AM

One of the Brexiteers just described May's deal as a Hotel California Brexit.

Which is really clever. I have to hand it to him.

Zzippy · 14-03-2019 10:24AM

troyzer wrote: »

One of the Brexiteers just described May's deal as a Hotel California Brexit.

Which is really clever. I have to hand it to him.

It is, but seeing as the Brexiteers have so little imagination they haven't been able to propose a single workable plan 3 years after the referendum, I doubt he came up with it.

prawnsambo · 14-03-2019 10:31AM

troyzer wrote: »

One of the Brexiteers just described May's deal as a Hotel California Brexit.

Which is really clever. I have to hand it to him.

It's the same old false narrative though. The same bunch keep saying there's an alternative to the backstop, but paradoxically don't want the backstop because they might be trapped in it [because there aren't any alternatives].

Podge_irl · 14-03-2019 10:35AM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Hopefully it not being too painful is a good sign. I tore it before and it wasn’t hugely painful and I was back playing the following season a few months after.

I know a girl who did the same thing and I had to carry her off the pitch, as I was sitting with her she was getting regular bursts of agonizing pain and she still isn’t back, that was about 18 months ago. She’d probably have a higher pain threshold than me as well.

With very little medical understanding of it myself I’d hope that’s a good sign?

Anyway, sorry to hear it, hope it’s not too disruptive outside of sports

Yeah, the lack of pain is hopefully a sign that nothing else in the knee is really damaged. I presume if you were back that quickly you didn't get it reconstructed?

irishbucsfan · 14-03-2019 11:15AM

Podge_irl wrote: »

Yeah, the lack of pain is hopefully a sign that nothing else in the knee is really damaged. I presume if you were back that quickly you didn't get it reconstructed?

No I didn’t need the reconstruction.

You could always do the marathon in a wheelchair and get someone to push you though?

dregin · 14-03-2019 11:56AM

troyzer wrote: »

One of the Brexiteers just described May's deal as a Hotel California Brexit.

Which is really clever. I have to hand it to him.

Brexiteers aren't that smart. It's robbed from Varoufakis - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/eu-like-hotel-california-you-can-never-leave-yanis-varoufakis-1.2688702

Dave_The_Sheep · 14-03-2019 03:24PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

Yeah, the lack of pain is hopefully a sign that nothing else in the knee is really damaged. I presume if you were back that quickly you didn't get it reconstructed?

I needed the re-construction surgery (complete ACL tear) and it was a few weeks on crutches, gradually stretching the leg out straight and then months of recovery in the gym/physio. Pain in the hoop. Surprisingly not that painful though (except at the exact time I did it, that hurt like a mother****er).

Podge_irl · 14-03-2019 04:25PM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

I needed the re-construction surgery (complete ACL tear) and it was a few weeks on crutches, gradually stretching the leg out straight and then months of recovery in the gym/physio. Pain in the hoop. Surprisingly not that painful though (except at the exact time I did it, that hurt like a mother****er).

Mine is a complete tear also, but apparently the thinking these days is that physio is enough (with the proviso that the only sports I engage in these days are running, cycling and skiing).

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