Off topic golf thread!

I know your pain 😂😂😂

Don't get the while discord, NFT thing. Why would anyone want an NFT?

Tender to operate Corballis & Elm green.

assume Carr golf keep the operation

who is their competition

Have had that with packages from Fedex alright. Customs charge issued after the receipt of the package.

An Post won't release until they're paid first

Did you even get the letter 🫣

I just ignored the request for customs and havent heard anything since :)

i put an a frozen ice pack in the drinks pocket of the bag

does the job

Genuine off topic question for a change.

Who sets the fuel prices at the pump? is it solely down to the garage selling? I pass quite a few garages on my commute and they vary from station to station even where stations are using the same brand of fuel.

In Headford, Galway, Cricle K dropped the price overnight by 13c because Cearta opened beside them and started selling 15c cheaper than them.

On my drive home this evening i will see a range of 1.87-2.01. the lowest being a Top garage, and i will see another Top garage at 197 i think on the way.

Phenomenal, delighted to see Messi finally crowned.

I used to watch loads of soccer - pretty much all the big PL games, CL games, internationals. I completely fell out of love with it about 10 years ago - mainly because of the business side of it, but also as the quality went up I think the excitement went down. On the business side - I just got fed up of all the transfers. The trophies can only go where the money is, the only ones that can build a team are the richest clubs. I switched from supporting Man United to Aston Villa when I was about 11. Even then I didn't find it fun that everyone supported United (the odd person Liverpool, but they hadn't won in a few years, so as a kid everyone was United). So Villa had a few Irish lads and I liked the jersey so I chose them. But I could never understand any real attachment to a PL team. You weren't local to the club, the players weren't even local to the club. They just don't even feel like clubs in a sports club sense - much more brands. On the excitement - the defensive set ups are incredible, the lack of mistakes too. But far too many games have teams defending incredibly effectively. That's only entertaining for so long.

There's also no integrity in the game. FIFA are obviously a basket case of corruption - Russia and Qatar getting the world cup take the biscuit, but it's just the tip of the iceberg. And would you have any faith in them not fixing the draws and games to some degree? I'd assume there's huge amounts of interference in the games themselves. And drugs - you almost never hear of drugs bans. Again, that's just not credible. If they're not interested in finding drug cheats, there's very little incentive for them not to cheat.

And with all that said - I'd still watch the world cup and euros finals and the odd other game like the CL final. Until this one. I watched the final and it was the only game I watched in it. But I couldn't get over feeling guilty about watching it. Literally thousands of people died to bring us these finals. And if thousands died God only knows what the suffering was like for however many thousands more. And it's just such a direct link that I don't understand how everyone ignores it.

The Di Maria goal was something else though. I'm not sure if I've seen a finer one than it. Mbappe's wasn't half bad either.