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Iscreamkone · 22-09-2020 12:09pm

McGinniesta wrote: »

Some of them are shyte at playing football and therefore cannot justify their hefty salaries

All were offered varying salary levels based on their varying abilities.

To say that they are "shyte" is ridiculous - they are among the best players in the world - super skills and super fitness levels. Some are better than others.

McGinniesta · 22-09-2020 7:28pm

Iscreamkone wrote: »

All were offered varying salary levels based on their varying abilities.

To say that they are "shyte" is ridiculous - they are among the best players in the world - super skills and super fitness levels. Some are better than others.

Do you think Mezut Ozil can justify a salary of £ 350,000 per week?

NIMAN · 22-09-2020 7:35pm

McGinniesta wrote: »

Do you think Mezut Ozil can justify a salary of £ 350,000 per week?

He has been highly paid by several clubs including Real Madrid, so professional clubs obviously think he is worth the money.

NIMAN · 22-09-2020 9:01pm

If I was a betting man I'd say most of the current Tour De France riders are still doping.

Especially if you are competing near the front.

dinneenp · 22-09-2020 10:19pm

NIMAN wrote: »

If I was a betting man I'd say most of the current Tour De France riders are still doping.

Especially if you are competing near the front.

I wouldn't say that's an unpopular opinion.....

NIMAN · 22-09-2020 10:24pm

dinneenp wrote: »

I wouldn't say that's an unpopular opinion.....

I kinda think you're correct of course, but listening to all the Irish media going mad over recent days and our new sporting success, the silence on the subject was deafening.

Justin Credible Darts · 23-09-2020 1:10am

I love snooker , I love darts, I dont like rugby, cycling , gaa etc,

however cycling , rugby and gaa, are at least "sports" played by people who exert themselves and is a proper sport...professional or not in some cases

as much as I love darts and snooker, its not a ****ing sport, regardless how they hype it....they are games, well payed games, but games

El_Duderino 09 · 23-09-2020 9:15am

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

I love snooker , I love darts, I dont like rugby, cycling , gaa etc,

however cycling , rugby and gaa, are at least "sports" played by people who exert themselves and is a proper sport...professional or not in some cases

as much as I love darts and snooker, its not a ****ing sport, regardless how they hype it....they are games, well payed games, but games

So what?

This distinction between sports and games is trivial. The common thing that I enjoy about snooker and rugby is the competition.

The convention is to cover them both under 'sport' so, colloquially, they're sports. Nothing to do with hype.

pinkyeye · 23-09-2020 7:31pm

Antares35 wrote: »

But women are people So if you hold a door for a woman because she's a person not because she's a woman, how will she differentiate that from holding the door for her because shes a woman? How will she know whether to be angry? Perhaps for the avoidance of doubt men should state why they are holding the door. If he states he is holding the door because she is a person, she can say thank you and walk through. If he says it's because she's a woman, she can become enraged and refuse to move until it slams in her face

To keep on topic, my unpopular opinion is that cake smashes for one year olds are a literal waste of money and a crass display of well wastefulness.

What's a cake smash?

Antares35 · 23-09-2020 11:12pm

pinkyeye wrote: »

What's a cake smash?

Where a beautiful birthday cake is made for the baby and they basically just let the child demolish it and take pictures.

Quazzie · 24-09-2020 9:56am

Antares35 wrote: »

Where a beautiful birthday cake is made for the baby and they basically just let the child demolish it and take pictures.

And the same parents will be wondering why their lovely angel is throwing his breakfast all over the walls the following day. :rolleyes:

pinkyeye · 24-09-2020 8:58pm

Antares35 wrote: »

Where a beautiful birthday cake is made for the baby and they basically just let the child demolish it and take pictures.

I have never heard of this! Madness!!

dubstarr · 24-09-2020 9:06pm

I like Steps.

ILoveYourVibes · 24-09-2020 9:07pm

That I am an AWESOME human being.

ohnonotgmail · 24-09-2020 9:12pm

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

That I am an AWESOME human being.

We have a winner. can a mod close the thread now? we can never top that.

I kid, I kid.

Rothko · 24-09-2020 9:21pm

Tennis is incredibly boring.

Gervais08 · 24-09-2020 11:42pm

dubstarr wrote: »

I like Steps.

So do I!!!

gormdubhgorm · 25-09-2020 1:10am

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

I love snooker , I love darts, I dont like rugby, cycling , gaa etc,

however cycling , rugby and gaa, are at least "sports" played by people who exert themselves and is a proper sport...professional or not in some cases

as much as I love darts and snooker, its not a ****ing sport, regardless how they hype it....they are games, well payed games, but games

Can't really argue reminds me of Chess they want to put that in the 2024 Olympics

https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-put-forward-to-join-paris-2024-olympic-games

When I think of it they have archery and curling in the Olympics.
At one time they had tug of war!

https://www.britannica.com/list/7-canceled-or-reintroduced-olympic-sports

Plus synchronised swimming is one I feel that is on the edge of being called a sport. It must be up there with dressage - the horse dancing yoke.

ohnonotgmail · 25-09-2020 4:17pm

dubstarr wrote: »

I like Steps.

More of an S Club 7 person myself

Iscreamkone · 25-09-2020 4:51pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

More of an S Club 7 person myself

And you’re not allowed to like both?!

ohnonotgmail · 25-09-2020 5:01pm

Iscreamkone wrote: »

And you’re not allowed to like both?!

absolutely not. It is like blur vs oasis

Gervais08 · 25-09-2020 9:44pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

absolutely not. It is like blur vs oasis

Only with more eye scratching !!!!

dubstarr · 25-09-2020 10:05pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

More of an S Club 7 person myself

Well im shocked.Shocked i tell ya.:D

Antares35 · 25-09-2020 11:45pm

The whole celebration of Philip Schofield for being "so brave" in coming out was farcical. He made a fool of his wife and a mockery of his marriage. Imagine realising that the entire life you'd built with someone was a lie, that they knew about the whole time. His wife should have been given the tonnes of support dished out, but instead people were tripping themselves up to congratulate him for living a lie. It's 2020. Nobody cares if you're gay.

y0ssar1an22 · 25-09-2020 11:47pm

Antares35 wrote: »

The whole celebration of Philip Schofield for being "so brave" in coming out was farcical. He made a fool of his wife and a mockery of his marriage. Imagine realising that the entire life you'd built with someone was a lie, that they knew about the whole time. His wife should have been given the tonnes of support dished out, but instead people were tripping themselves up to congratulate him for living a lie. It's 2020. Nobody cares if you're gay.

shame on you, you must admire his bravery!!

he had an ongoing affair for what, 30 years?

like anyone having an affair, ****ing scumbag!

Justin Credible Darts · 26-09-2020 4:09am

maybe its me, i was not surprised he was gay, i was shocked years ago when my wife told me he was married to a woman

freshpopcorn · 26-09-2020 5:44am

Antares35 wrote: »

The whole celebration of Philip Schofield for being "so brave" in coming out was farcical. He made a fool of his wife and a mockery of his marriage. Imagine realising that the entire life you'd built with someone was a lie, that they knew about the whole time. His wife should have been given the tonnes of support dished out, but instead people were tripping themselves up to congratulate him for living a lie. It's 2020. Nobody cares if you're gay.

My two cents on it is that she probably knew and was happy to go along with it and stay in the lifestyle she’s in.

blinding · 26-09-2020 5:50am

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

maybe its me, i was not surprised he was gay, i was shocked years ago when my wife told me he was married to a woman

The Big Shock would have been if Schofield was Straight.

El_Duderino 09 · 26-09-2020 9:49am

freshpopcorn wrote: »

My two cents on it is that she probably knew and was happy to go along with it and stay in the lifestyle she’s in.

I wouldn't like to put a probability on it but it's certainly possible that it was an arrangement. It's pretty unlikely he could have had a 30 year affair and not have his wife find out. And other people are free eto run their relationships any way they like.

If it was arranged and part of the deal then it's not cheating. But we don't know so probably best not pretend we know.

NIMAN · 26-09-2020 9:51am

My UO is that his sexuality, or anyone else's for that matter, is none of our business.
If you care about a strangers sexuality, you need something else to worry about.

freshpopcorn · 26-09-2020 10:09am

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I wouldn't like to put a probability on it but it's certainly possible that it was an arrangement. It's pretty unlikely he could have had a 30 year affair and not have his wife find out. And other people are free eto run their relationships any way they like.

If it was arranged and part of the deal then it's not cheating. But we don't know so probably best not pretend we know.

I did mean possible not probably.

Antares35 · 26-09-2020 4:30pm

NIMAN wrote: »

My UO is that his sexuality, or anyone else's for that matter, is none of our business.
If you care about a strangers sexuality, you need something else to worry about.

True. Like I said, nobody cares if he's gay. It's the media outpouring and social media "hero" binge and vomit that got me. I couldn't give a shíte who he sleeps with.

Justin Credible Darts · 26-09-2020 4:41pm

Antares35 wrote: »

True. Like I said, nobody cares if he's gay. It's the media outpouring and social media "hero" binge and vomit that got me. I couldn't give a shíte who he sleeps with.

correct.
to me he is a cheating adulterer, who treated his wife like dirt.

He should be criticized, not praised for sleeping around and lying to his wife, but they wont for fear people will be called anti gay.

its ridiculous

El_Duderino 09 · 26-09-2020 4:56pm

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

correct.
to me he is a cheating adulterer, who treated his wife like dirt.

He should be criticized, not praised for sleeping around and lying to his wife, but they wont for fear people will be called anti gay.

its ridiculous

Yeah but you don't know what his and his wife's relationship arrangement is. Maybe it was based on monogamy and he cheated, maybe it wasn't based on monogamy and his same sex relationship was fine.

Justin Credible Darts · 26-09-2020 6:13pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Yeah but you don't know what his and his wife's relationship arrangement is. Maybe it was based on monogamy and he cheated, maybe it wasn't based on monogamy and his same sex relationship was fine.

how does that alter the fact of him portrayed as some "brave" figure

If your sisters husband was cheating on her for 30 years, would you be calling him brave ?

blinding · 26-09-2020 9:29pm

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

how does that alter the fact of him portrayed as some "brave" figure

If your sisters husband was cheating on her for 30 years, would you be calling him brave ?

If Schofield was a woman he would be a slapper !

El_Duderino 09 · 26-09-2020 10:05pm

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

how does that alter the fact of him portrayed as some "brave" figure

If your sisters husband was cheating on her for 30 years, would you be calling him brave ?

Yeah, you don't know if it was cheating or not. That was the point of the post you quoted. Not sure if you missed the point or just ignored it.

Justin Credible Darts · 27-09-2020 12:48am

again you missed the point

even if his wife and he had an open relationship, it still does make him "brave"

which part of this are you having difficulty with ?

blinding · 27-09-2020 6:25am

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

again you missed the point

even if his wife and he had an open relationship, it still does make him "brave"

which part of this are you having difficulty with ?

The right thing to do would have been to come out years ago when he first knew he was gay. The Brave thing to do ~ ~ might have interfered with his career back then. Might not have been as popular with the Ladies ! !

27-09-2020 6:36am

There's far too many restrictions for a disease that has a 99.96% survival rate.

Wanderer78 · 27-09-2020 7:07am

Deleted User wrote:

There's far too many restrictions for a disease that has a 99.96% survival rate.

Maybe, but we don't have much info on this little fcuker yet, prevention is better than cure!

Quantum Erasure · 27-09-2020 7:11am

So everyone's had the virus so?

Omackeral · 27-09-2020 8:39am

dubstarr wrote: »

I like Steps.

The ABBA of the 90’s

Airbus507 · 27-09-2020 10:48am

In my opinion most wives are not sexually attracted to their husband. They had sex with men wmthat were attracted to in their younger years, but when it comes time to settling down they want to find a dependable man they can control.

blinding · 27-09-2020 10:54am

It seems Like the Black Covid-19 Version is Not Nearly as Dangerous.

And BLM Protestors have some Super Power Against Covid-19 ! !

blinding · 27-09-2020 10:55am

Omackeral wrote: »

The ABBA of the 90’s

Hardly when you consider the Impact ABBA had on Music.

Wanderer78 · 27-09-2020 11:36am

Airbus507 wrote:

In my opinion most wives are not sexually attracted to their husband. They had sex with men wmthat were attracted to in their younger years, but when it comes time to settling down they want to find a dependable man they can control.

Or maybe some didnt bond with your partners in a functional and respectful manner

El_Duderino 09 · 27-09-2020 1:25pm

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

again you missed the point

even if his wife and he had an open relationship, it still does make him "brave"

which part of this are you having difficulty with ?

I have no opinion on how brave/cowardly it was. It wouldn't make the news if i was in charge of news.
Doesn't change the fact that you have no clue whether he was cheating or what his relationship with his wife was based on.

joseywhales · 27-09-2020 1:41pm

blinding wrote: »

The right thing to do would have been to come out years ago when he first knew he was gay. The Brave thing to do ~ ~ might have interfered with his career back then. Might not have been as popular with the Ladies ! !

Sexuality confuses me to no end. If a previously straight guy has homosexual sex, the conclusion is often that he is gay or on the way, whilst if a previously gay man has heterosexual sex, he is still considered a gay man perhaps occasionally bi. It seems we define people by homosexual acts but not heterosexual acts.

joseywhales · 27-09-2020 1:43pm

Airbus507 wrote: »

In my opinion most wives are not sexually attracted to their husband. They had sex with men wmthat were attracted to in their younger years, but when it comes time to settling down they want to find a dependable man they can control.

I think most people get what they think they want. Many men grow up with over bearing mom's and seem to replicate that in their marriage.

But it's not all the same stereotype.

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