Pubs and football

Degsy · 13-03-2007 04:00PM

daveym wrote:

it's not quite the same is it? The comparison would be if you went in to a pub and there was a band in the corner that people were watching. Would you start complaining then the public house wasn't for the likes of them?

It does seem that by your thinking the pub is only for people who think and act like you and anyone who doesn't think and act like you is ghey. Is that about the size of it?

A bands medium is music,is it not?Ergo,they need to be heard,yes?You WATCH football,you see the men running around and you see them kicking thier little ball,yes?My point wasnt that football shouldnt be on the telly in pubs..its that it shouldnt be BLARING to the extent that you cant hear yourself fart.This has nothing to do with people bing ghey,it has to do with courtesy and respect for people's desire not to have thier eardrums punctured by unnecassary noise because a handfull of people want to inflict it on everybody else.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 04:07PM

Degsy wrote:

A bands medium is music,is it not?Ergo,they need to be heard,yes?You WATCH football,you see the men running around and you see them kicking thier little ball,yes?My point wasnt that football shouldnt be on the telly in pubs..its that it shouldnt be BLARING to the extent that you cant hear yourself fart.This has nothing to do with people bing ghey,it has to do with courtesy and respect for people's desire not to have thier eardrums punctured by unnecassary noise because a handfull of people want to inflict it on everybody else.

listen would you knock it off already. How are people supposed to make you look a fool when you keep on changing your bloody argument!

Now pick one of your many snide 'little balls', 'little shorts', 'outwardly homo' behaviour comments and stick to it. I know it has nothing to do with being ghey, you and your other buddies are the one with all the the comments implying it is. Presumably because this makes your argument stronger?

Degsy · 13-03-2007 04:16PM

daveym wrote:

listen would you knock it off already. How are people supposed to make you look a fool when you keep on changing your bloody argument!

You're out of your league,son!:D

copacetic · 13-03-2007 04:22PM

Degsy wrote:

You're out of your league,son!:D

I think I am, this isn't an argument at all! I've a suspicion now that you are the biggest premiership fan around and you are winding us all up.

Degsy · 13-03-2007 04:23PM

daveym wrote:

I think I am, this isn't an argument at all! I've a suspicion now that you are the biggest premiership fan around and you are winding us all up.

Nah,you're wrong about that.I hate football,pure brainless idiocy.

Mossy Monk · 13-03-2007 04:45PM

trolling is moronic

Zebra3 · 13-03-2007 05:06PM

Another reason to stay away from pubs showing football.

A few years ago a mate of mine and myself entered his local watering hole and as we did that fine cultural spectacle that is a Celtic-Rangers game was just ending on the tv.

The DJ then preceeded to play a load of rebel songs cos as we all know Celtic are the sporting wing of the IRA. So after a few tunes had been played my mate went over to one muppet/knowledge person regarding football and politics (delete as applicable) who had been chanting "Up the 'RA" and asked him would he be interested in joining the local branch of SF. "I'm not into politics!" was the reply.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 05:18PM

Zebra3 wrote:

Another reason to stay away from pubs showing football.

A few years ago a mate of mine and myself entered his local watering hole and as we did that fine cultural spectacle that is a Celtic-Rangers game was just ending on the tv.

The DJ then preceeded to play a load of rebel songs cos as we all know Celtic are the sporting wing of the IRA. So after a few tunes had been played my mate went over to one muppet/knowledge person regarding football and politics (delete as applicable) who had been chanting "Up the 'RA" and asked him would he be interested in joining the local branch of SF. "I'm not into politics!" was the reply.

is that not just another reason to stay away from you and your mate?

Zebra3 · 13-03-2007 05:21PM

daveym wrote:

is that not just another reason to stay away from you and your mate?

You don't understand irony, then? :rolleyes:

Degsy · 13-03-2007 05:28PM

Similar to the bloke who was photographed outside croke park recently with a placard that said "no foreign teams..." or something and the clown was wearing a Celtic shirt.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 05:29PM

Zebra3 wrote:

You don't understand irony, then? :rolleyes:

I do, I just think this is another example of the chip you and your mate seem to have on your shoulder.

Every example you have given is of you acting like a tosser and thinking that makes you the big man for some reason.

Dave! · 13-03-2007 05:40PM

Degsy wrote:

Well if you dont want to be subject to any distractions,watch yer football at home.A public house is there for members of the public to go and have a drink not to be monoplised by fans of a sport who cant be bothered to go and see it live.

Is that so? Maybe you should suggest that to a publican. My guess is that they'd kick you out and then carry on raking in buckets of cash from the people who are there to watch the football.

Degsy · 13-03-2007 06:01PM

DaveMcG wrote:

Is that so? Maybe you should suggest that to a publican. My guess is that they'd kick you out and then carry on raking in buckets of cash from the people who are there to watch the football.

Buckets of cash?dont think so,after all they only go in to watch the match and then they head off again,and most of them dont spend much money when they're in the place..case in point,whatever drivel was on tuesday last week in the porterhouse drew a HANDFULL of students who hardly spent a penny between them then pissed off as soon as the match was over.It did lead to me and three mates going elsewher to continue drinking and cost the publican the money we were going to spend.

Plissken1 · 13-03-2007 06:17PM

The thing that annoys me is the entire pub wearing tracksuits and soccer jerseys. If you went over to England you wuoldnt even see that many people wearing them. Its like a trekkie convention for soccer head's.

Zebra3 · 13-03-2007 06:21PM

daveym wrote:

I do, I just think this is another example of the chip you and your mate seem to have on your shoulder.

Every example you have given is of you acting like a tosser and thinking that makes you the big man for some reason.

No chip on my shoulder. I think it's safe to say the idiot here is one chanting "Up the 'RA" and then saying he has no interest in politics.

Plissken1 wrote:

The thing that annoys me is the entire pub wearing tracksuits and soccer jerseys. If you went over to England you wuoldnt even see that many people wearing them. Its like a trekkie convention for soccer head's.

A lot of pubs in Britain have "No football colours" signs above their doors. If only they'd bring it in here....

Degsy · 13-03-2007 06:21PM

Plissken1 wrote:

The thing that annoys me is the entire pub wearing tracksuits and soccer jerseys. If you went over to England you wuoldnt even see that many people wearing them. Its like a trekkie convention for soccer head's.

They have no idea how stupid they look.Nor,do they seem to realise they're being exploited..how much does the latest Man u strip cost?Then of course they need to update it every so often to squeeze more money out of the "fans".

shane86 · 13-03-2007 06:31PM

agamemnon wrote:

By definition, a Liverpool match can't be a "great national sport moment", so your example is irrelevant and meaningless.

Your posts are the best proof yet of Degsy's point. So if you're denied a few seconds of a Liverpool match, you'll go apeshit? That's like an alcoholic smashing up the pub because they won't serve him any more drink.

Your reading skills arent the best are they? Im not a Liverpool fan. Im not a fan of any English team because as a child I simply didnt see the point in being a die hard fan of a team hundreds of miles away in a city id never been to. However, I like to see them do well. In the same way that I wasnt gutted when Australia, Ghana or Holland went out of the WC, but I was disappointed as I admired their play (and, in the Aussies case in particular, their fans).

You on the other hand are a pathetic person. As said, some people dont like alcohol, and I hope theyre down your loca preventing you getting any with your attitude.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 06:34PM

Zebra3 wrote:

No chip on my shoulder. I think it's safe to say the idiot here is one chanting "Up the 'RA" and then saying he has no interest in politics..

Well no argument there, but what kind of pratt goes up to someone like that and asks them to join SF? Either as a joke or for real all you have is two eejits chatting..

Dave! · 13-03-2007 06:37PM

Degsy wrote:

Buckets of cash?dont think so,after all they only go in to watch the match and then they head off again,and most of them dont spend much money when they're in the place..case in point,whatever drivel was on tuesday last week in the porterhouse drew a HANDFULL of students who hardly spent a penny between them then pissed off as soon as the match was over.It did lead to me and three mates going elsewher to continue drinking and cost the publican the money we were going to spend.

Most people who go to the pub to watch a match will be buying drinks too. If it's an important or exciting match, you'll find a lot of drink will be consumed, and alot of money spent. Hence why publicans continue to show football. You'll notice they don't show ballroom dancing on the TV. Unfortunately, eh?

I'm afraid your example in the Porterhouse is not the norm, so again it comes back to your seeming inability to go to decent pubs. Shop around.

Just a heads up, there's a pub in Dublin called 'the Library' -- the name is misleading, however, so just don't go there with the impression that it's your kind of place. They show sports. And allow fun. Just letting you know!

Agamemnon · 13-03-2007 07:11PM

shane86 wrote:

Your reading skills arent the best are they? Im not a Liverpool fan. Im not a fan of any English team because as a child I simply didnt see the point in being a die hard fan of a team hundreds of miles away in a city id never been to. However, I like to see them do well. In the same way that I wasnt gutted when Australia, Ghana or Holland went out of the WC, but I was disappointed as I admired their play (and, in the Aussies case in particular, their fans).

You on the other hand are a pathetic person. As said, some people dont like alcohol, and I hope theyre down your loca preventing you getting any with your attitude.

You're the one threatening to go berserk if someone deprives you of a few seconds of a match. Do you not find that "pathetic"? As for reading skills, you're the one who saw "Liverpool" and started ranting on about Ireland matches instead. It's attitudes like those that give some groups of football fans a bad name.

Zebra3 · 13-03-2007 07:15PM

daveym wrote:

Well no argument there, but what kind of pratt goes up to someone like that and asks them to join SF? Either as a joke or for real all you have is two eejits chatting..

It's simply a case of an intelligent person taking the piss out of muppet.

Never done it yourself? :rolleyes:

copacetic · 13-03-2007 07:18PM

Zebra3 wrote:

It's simply a case of an intelligent person taking the piss out of muppet.

Never done it yourself? :rolleyes:

that's what I have been trying to do! it's not big or clever though even I know that.

Pherekydes · 13-03-2007 08:39PM

daveym wrote:

Oh the irony! you complaining that soccer fans think you are a fairy while yourself and the OP make all thse little comments about how ghey soccer is!

The irony is on you, since you were the one who brought it up first.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 08:47PM

Slow coach wrote:

The irony is on you, since you were the one who brought it up first.

no I didn't, the OP did with his comments and then you jumped on the bandwagon.

The irony is on me? :eek:
good one. Next the gay will be on me. Get it off arrggh,
get it off...

Pherekydes · 13-03-2007 08:52PM

Post number 28 is where you brought up "...undertones of something here people, possibly latent."

Go back and read the thread. You were the first to bring the gay sh!t up, however cleverly.

Karoma · 13-03-2007 08:54PM

Folks, cop on or shut up.

shane86, even among the other idiots, you shine brightest. Congrat's, you win a ban.

copacetic · 13-03-2007 09:03PM

Slow coach wrote:

Post number 28 is where you brought up "...undertones of something here people, possibly latent."

Go back and read the thread. You were the first to bring the gay sh!t up, however cleverly.

ah now, in fairness I just pointed out the various transparent stuff the OP had already put in his posts up to then. You must be able to see what he was getting at?? I actually went back and checked before I posted to make sure that was indeed what happened. IMO the whole thing has been clearly a troll, but sure it's been a laugh anyway.

Collie D · 13-03-2007 10:18PM

Karoma wrote:

Folks, cop on or shut up.

shane86, even among the other idiots, you shine brightest. Congrat's, you win a ban.

Was just beginning to wonder if all the mods had ****ed off to Cheltenham or something

Karoma · 13-03-2007 10:21PM

Collie D wrote:

Was just beginning to wonder if all the mods had ****ed off to Cheltenham or something

Was just beginning to wonder if all the users had gone blind and missed the shiny Report Post button and couldn't read a charter. If you have an issue - use the Report Post function or PM a mod.

Collie D · 13-03-2007 10:24PM

No need for sarcasm, didn't oparticularly annoy me enough to report it but surprised someone else hadn't been. No need to be so touchy :rolleyes:

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