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Urgh I could hear The Killers concert from my garden many miles away from Phoenix Park. Urgh. I thought it was some asshole neighbour having a little party it was that loud (and clear enough to hear the words)

Watching Steven Seagal take a polygraph in The Glimmer Man on rte two.
Tester: Did you ever climb Mount Everest?
Seagal: Yes

What a humble man.

I LOVE that Cyril Farrell talks about sharing Sangwidges with neighbours after a game.
LOVE IT!

gimmick wrote: »

GAA fans are such a rural cliche these days it's not funny anymore. Seems old fashioned redneck is the in thing. Pitch invasions and hip hip hooray my hole.

They are what they are. Beats sitting at home waxing lyrical on the internet about the latest continental team du jour like half the hipsters on the SF anyway.

Championship us real and tangible. It belongs to all of us, not least "rural rednecks". Scenes like the Limerick fans today, Anthony Daly in tears last Sunday or the atmosphere that filled the stand last night in Thurles when we dared believe we might topple the KK greats in extra time - you cant get that anywhere else or at any other sport in Ireland. These guys represent me, they went to school with us, tomorrow they'll go to work side by side with their supporters. They're the difference between one of those rednecks getting a trip to Dublin in the next decade or not. Look down your nose all you like if its not cool or trendy enough for ya but Id wager none of them give a sh*te whsts said on a wrestling forum about them. They are who they are and don't have to apologise to anyone for it!

Just gonna edit that there. Thought it was a "only rednecks watch GAA" thing. Don't notice the faux redneck thing myself.

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Just gonna edit that there. Thought it was a "only rednecks watch GAA" thing. Don't notice the faux redneck thing myself.

Diabhal typed this while eating a bag of Tayto and finishing off the last of the tea in a MiWadi bottle.

Thiago off to Bayern. Cue Utd fan meltdown. The next few seasons are going to sort the wheat from the chaff amongst the support base. You can hear the rumblings of discontent vs Moyes from some of the most hysterical kids beginning already after a friendly defeat and the fact that no one has signed on yet.

gimmick wrote: »

Many ManU fans only know the unprecedented success of the Fergie era. Many of these are the ones who called for his head 10 years ago. If Moyes does not hit the ground running, many ManU fans will be Chelsea fans by the end of the season. The atmo at OT will be pretty poisonous as well.

I always wonder will all those soppy foreign fans sod off if a trophy drought were to happen.

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Any of ye climb Croagh Patrick? Making my return from exodus this year. Ready to take out any elderly people in my way.

Don't forget the Hang Sandwiches.

Angron wrote: »

Dublin screwing up is one of the highlights of my year

It was more annoying cause of all the fairweather supporters going on my facebook today about how great the team is cause they "always believed" or some junk, I ended up blocking a bunch of them as a result.

Name me a county that wouldn't have people who normally wouldn't show and interest suddenly jump on the bandwagon if they started doing well though? Happens everywhere, in every sport, its not just a Dublin thing. See Munster rugby, the clamour for final tickets in Waterford a few yers ago, or on a wierder level the numbers of massibe Barca fans you meet these days (when you'd never have met one ten years ago). Bandwagond happen everywhere. Its just more amplified when its Dublin because most of the media is based in Dublin and theres a million people in the county.

I for one was very happy for them winning the hurling in Leinster and I would be quite happy to see them with another football AI as the current manager has them playing very attractive attacking football, in the way it should be played.