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Matt Damon to play Lance in film

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  • #32
    CarlosK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭CarlosK


    Lumen wrote: »
    He didn't "beat" cancer, he was cured of it.

    I don't care how its phrased, he "survived" a serious level of cancer and to me that's someone to admire regardless of who they are! If it was me I'd say I beat it.
    niceonetom wrote: »
    Who put you in charge of what's funny?

    I'm in charge of nothing, I'm only asking for a bit of compassion regarding a serious illness

    Manwithaplan apologised and stated he didn't wish to offend anyone, and that is cool with me...


  • #33
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,475 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    CarlosK wrote: »
    I don't care how its phrased, he "survived" a serious level of cancer and to me that's someone to admire regardless of who they are! If it was me I'd say I beat it.

    Well if we're being oversensitive then I have to say I find the phrasing objectionable.

    If those that "beat" cancer are to be admired, that implies that those who don't are somehow not courageous/willful enough to do so. Which is rubbish. It's a crapshoot, as the Americans say.


  • #34
    mumfordandsons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭mumfordandsons


    agree with u totally. i know joking lads but when reading this i just thought wrong, i dont think cancer can ever really fit in a "joke".

    lumen there is nothing oversensitive about refering cancer this way .it is wrong.


  • #35
    Diarmuid
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    mumfordandsons wrote: »
    i dont think cancer can ever really fit in a "joke".
    I guess you're wrong. Plenty found the joke funny, judging by the 14 (so far) "thanks given"


  • #36
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,506 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Jesus Christ! There is a slight difference between making a joke about cancer and making a joke about someone with cancer. Everyone knows the Lance/Cancer relationship, yes it has been successfully exploited in comedy before (see the Onion) and it goes without saying that everyone knows someone who has battled, or is battling with cancer.

    If you don't find it funny then you just don't laugh at it, it wasn't exactly in poor taste and we don't need you to remind us of how unfunny cancer can be.


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  • #37
    spokeydokey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭spokeydokey


    mloc123 wrote: »
    It amazing what a contract worth millions, a personal trainer, cook and some HGH can do...


    :D
    not sure if you meant this to be as hilariously clever as it is


  • #38
    manwithaplan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    CarlosK wrote: »
    Manwithaplan apologised and stated he didn't wish to offend anyone

    Fixed that for you;)


  • #39
    mumfordandsons
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭mumfordandsons


    Diarmuid wrote: »
    I guess you're wrong. Plenty found the joke funny, judging by the 14 (so far) "thanks given"

    the joke was crap. when u grown up u might see it different .
    grow up . my point stands cancer is not a joke, and should not be refer to in any way. u dont get this, something wrong with u i guess.


    grow up.


  • #40
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,393 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    END OF CANCER DISCUSSION, NO DEBATE.

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  • #41
    CarlosK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭CarlosK


    Matt Damon is a useless actor anyway, his best work was in Team America as shown in an earlier post....


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  • #42
    ROK ON
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    mumfordandsons wrote: »
    agree with u totally. i know joking lads but when reading this i just thought wrong, i dont think cancer can ever really fit in a "joke".

    lumen there is nothing oversensitive about refering cancer this way .it is wrong.


    Not sure. Appreciation of humour, is a personal thing. Whatsomeone finds hilarious another person finds deeply offensive - that is precisely the reason that a person mayfind something funny - because it is hard to take.

    I dont believe that anything, and I mean anything is above a humourous take on it. I have been at comedy gigs and laughed at something other folks cringed at. Also I have cringed and felt offended at something other folks laughed at. That doesnt mean that the subject matter shouldnt be explored from a humourous angle.

    On the cancer thing, the singer Warren Zevon when dying of cancer wrote some pretty hard hitting lyrics about it - with a very dark sense of humour.


    Ooopps - didnt see the mod warning on the big C until now. Was reading the post and wanted to resond.


  • #43
    ROK ON
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    CarlosK wrote: »
    Matt Damon is a useless actor anyway, his best work was in Team America as shown in an earlier post....

    I like him a lot.


  • #44
    CarlosK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭CarlosK


    What was the movie he wrote with Ben Affleck? That was a decent flick... and The Departed was pretty good too.

    Though does he always have that strong Boston accent (I think its a Boston accent anyway) in all his movies?


  • #45
    ROK ON
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    CarlosK wrote: »
    and The Departed was pretty good too.

    Though does he always have that strong Boston accent (I think its a Boston accent anyway) in all his movies?

    The Departed was class.
    Anyone think that De Caprio and Damon look similar.


  • #46
    Junior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭Junior


    Thought the Bourne Series were very good films from Damon.


  • #47
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    The boy can sing too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfoF6MhgLA#t=2m15s

    I'd like to see Lance the musical.


  • #48
    RobFowl
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    petethedrummer wrote: »
    The boy can sing too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfoF6MhgLA#t=2m15s

    I'd like to see Lance the musical.

    He gets my vote for this one...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCOa4tjHeo


  • #49
    CarlosK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭CarlosK


    RobFowl wrote: »
    He gets my vote for this one...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCOa4tjHeo

    What the hell was that all about??? Looking at the band's image and all I thought it was gonna be punk/goth kinda stuff.... then they produce a song that mcfly would cream themselves to write...


  • #50
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    Is that from a film?? It looks brilliant.


  • #51
    RobFowl
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    petethedrummer wrote: »
    Is that from a film?? It looks brilliant.

    Eurotrip :D

    Not exactly Luc Besson but great fun......


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  • #52
    levitronix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,824 ✭✭✭levitronix


    Vélo wrote: »
    Or Matthew McConaughey.

    matthew+mcconaughey+lance+armstrong.jpg

    This is the cast from Broke Back Mountain Two


  • #53
    Captain Havoc
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    Waffle moved to tedious bickering thread, including Beastys warning about no personal abuse, grammar nazis or cancer talk. The warning still stands.

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