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Ever jumped on a bandwagon?

  • 17-05-2012 03:43PM
    #1
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭


    With the Olympics and Euro football thingamabob coming up, I expect high levels of bandwagon jumping to begin. Like people who never heard of Katie Taylor being 'experts' on the history and evolution of wimmins boxing.

    I fully admit I'll be jumping on the Irish football team hoopla, but I hate the sport the rest of the time, and if we do badly I'll be off the bandwagon pronto.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've been a huge Bayern Munich fan for WEEKS now.


  • #3
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    I jumped off a minibus once and hurt my elbow.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #4
    fro9etb8j5qsl2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭fro9etb8j5qsl2


    Yore ma!


  • #5
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I live in Limerick, home of Munster rugby and a an entire city of bandwagon jumpers.


  • #6
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I jumped on a tour bus with REO Speedwagon once.....


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  • #7
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    anytime theres a popular thread condemning shít, i'm on that wagon, yee-haw!!


  • #8
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Scarlett Immense Helicopter wrote: »
    Yore ma!

    Heh, first victim


  • #9
    SunnyDub1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    Sport = grand excuse for the Irish to fill up the pubs and scream at TV that they would have no interest in if they where sober :D


  • #10
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I'm getting on the anti-women boxing bandwagon.


  • #11
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    I haven't been as happy as last Sunday afternoon since I supported Chelski.

    Looks like I will be summering in Abu Dhubai this year to keep my new found overlords happy.


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  • #12
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Unfortunately sport related bandwagons are of little interest to me, which sucks given the year that's in it.


  • #13
    celticcrash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭celticcrash


    krudler wrote: »
    I live in Limerick, home of Munster rugby and a an entire city of bandwagon jumpers.
    Stop crying like a little girl and be happy that people have seen the light.


  • #14
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    im jumping on the anti-bandwagon bandwagon!!


  • #15
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Heh, first victim

    Has he actually been banned for saying that?


  • #16
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    I'm not a football supporter but I always get caught up in the atmosphere whenever the Euros or World Cup come around (even if Ireland aren't involved). I'm not into club rugby but when Irish teams get far I always have an interest. I do follow the 6 Nations and RWC but wouldn't follow test matches or anything like that.

    So yeah, I am a "bandwagon jumper" but so what? I hate die-hard fans who get offended if people only support the sport/their teams whenever big events come around!


  • #17
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Hate bandwagon jumpers

    I preferred their earlier material, before they sold out and went commerical

    I listen to bands that don't even exist yet :cool:


  • #18
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Domo230 wrote: »
    I supported Man City this year (and by support I mean watched match of the day once every 2 months and knew their captain's name, Vincent Kompany :) )

    Still don't get football, people paid millions to kick a pigs bladder and everyone's okay with that.

    so you are pretty much, you're average man city fan then :P


  • #19
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Has he actually been banned for saying that?

    No. He was infracted for it.


  • #20
    joshrogan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭joshrogan


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Heh, first victim

    Cool story bro. :pac:

    I was an avid Spain supporter during my stay there during the 2010 WC final.


  • #21
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    During the Rugby World Cup there was plenty of muppets out there calling our soccer team sh1te and saying aren't the rugby boys brilliant for making a QF. These feckless twits don't understand that only about 10 countries in the world play rugby to any sort of standard and making OF is the least you'd expect from Ireland

    Needless to when our overrated prima donnas got their asses schooled by the Welsh a lot of these rugby 'fans' made their way back to the footy just in time for Euro qualification and the next bandwagon trip to Poland.


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  • #22
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Its all bollox if you're old enough to remember the great summer overhype of '90


  • #23
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I've been a huge Bayern Munich fan for WEEKS now.

    Me too, I even got the jersey ready for Saturday night!

    It'll go great with my Lederhosen :p


  • #24
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    No. He was infracted for it.

    what does infracting entail?


  • #25
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    I was a big Canucks fan for the two weeks I was in Vancouver


  • #26
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    what does infracting entail?

    A message advising you not to do it again and it's noted on your permanent record (which affects job opportunities).


  • #27
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    what does infracting entail?
    Seachmall wrote: »
    A message advising you not to do it again and it's noted on your permanent record (which affects job opportunities).

    This apart from the jobs thing.


  • #28
    St.Spodo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭St.Spodo


    Every Irish football fan who supports an English team has jumped on the band wagon. The trend this season and particularly since Sunday on Facebook etc. with Irish Man United fans dismissing Man City's largely Mancunian fan-base as 'bandwagoners' is so cringe-worthy.


  • #29
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I'll switch sides in the middle of a game if one team takes the lead.

    Oh, I'm a pure bandwagon whore like that.


  • #30
    Ruralyoke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭Ruralyoke


    What's the opposite?

    Guess I'm a "tastemaker" or something then. :D

    I'll chamion/promote whatever all these cool obscure things and then as soon as more than 17 people get into it, I'll immediately abandon it.

    So I suppose I actually create bandwagons and their jumpers then :P


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  • #31
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Ruralyoke wrote: »
    What's the opposite?

    Guess I'm a "tastemaker" or something then. :D

    I'll chamion/promote whatever all these cool obscure things and then as soon as more than 17 people get into it, I'll immediately abandon it.

    So I suppose I actually create bandwagons and their jumpers then :P

    Bloody hipster.


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