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The A/R Off Topic Thread

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    #3902
    TheRoadRunner
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    Whatever happened to the bit of cardboard that use to accompany each bounty bar?


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    #3903
    opus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,007 ✭✭✭opus


    A few Google Music invites have appeared in my account if anyone is looking for one.


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    #3904
    tHE vAGGABOND
    Registered Users Posts: 6,687 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    Bloke in work asked me if I had any spare tickets for the all ireland, never heard him talk about any GAA, let alone going to games, never a single bit of interest before.Im only a fair weather championship fan, but at least Im honest and admit it!

    He said he was a loyal Dublin fan who went to all the games, even the home and away league games...

    Dublin are so lucky to have a couple of hundred thousand at all league games :)

    Maybe watching the match on TV will be much better than being there anyway :eek: :rolleyes:


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    #3905
    copacetic
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    My tickets arrived this morning,delighted! Can't wait now, hope the weather comes good for it.


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    #3906
    misty floyd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭misty floyd


    copacetic wrote: »
    My tickets arrived this morning,delighted! Can't wait now, hope the weather comes good for it.

    You in the hill? Feck it I'm gonna wear tons of rain gear like the practical aul fella I've become. Should be a great atmosphere, with the minor game too.


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    #3907
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,587 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    misty floyd wrote: »
    You in the hill? Feck it I'm gonna wear tons of rain gear like the practical aul fella I've become. Should be a great atmosphere, with the minor game too.

    No, lower cusack, but far enough forward to be totally uncovered, get a lot wetter there than the hill when it rains as you are providing more surface area to the sky!!


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    #3908
    robinph
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    Got yet another Garmin gadget in the post yesterday, think I'll have to go out and "test" it on the bike this evening and see how lost I can get with a satnav on the bike.

    Any excuse to not go for a run. :)

    Bet it will rain now though. :(


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    #3909
    RacoonQueen
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    Sounds like we could have a triathlete on our hands, first a duathlon now you're getting gadgets for the bike. Hmmmm....


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    #3910
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Sounds like we could have a triathlete on our hands, first a duathlon now you're getting gadgets for the bike. Hmmmm....

    Kettle, pot, black :pac:


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    #3911
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Kettle, pot, black :pac:

    Dunno what you're talking about. :)


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    #3912
    robinph
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    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Sounds like we could have a triathlete on our hands, first a duathlon now you're getting gadgets for the bike. Hmmmm....

    One step at a time.

    Other than dangerously close fitting clothing I'm not sure what swimming has to offer me, there isn't any gadgets to buy other than arm bands. Although these Thomas The Tank Engine ones do look cool:
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    #3913
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    robinph wrote: »
    One step at a time.

    Other than dangerously close fitting clothing I'm not sure what swimming has to offer me, there isn't any gadgets to buy other than arm bands.

    You have no idea! Apart from spending hundred of €€€ on a wetsuit, they now have fancy swimming watches that count strokes, HR, number of laps in the pool and so on. And underwater MP3 players. And specialised HR monitors. Gadgets galore!
    Although these Thomas The Tank Engine ones do look cool:
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    Love the armbands, but I don't think they'd fit me.


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    #3914
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    robinph wrote: »
    One step at a time.

    Other than dangerously close fitting clothing I'm not sure what swimming has to offer me, there isn't any gadgets to buy other than arm bands. Although these Thomas The Tank Engine ones do look cool:
    4333.jpg

    As TBF says, if you think there are no swim gadgets you're kidding yourself. Wetsuits, goggles, pull buoys...the options are endless! Enjoy your triathlon - the SBR thread is marvellous fun, you will LOVE playing with all those tables. :)


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    #3915
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    ...you will LOVE playing with all those tables. :)

    And that will be the real reason for me avoiding triathlons. It's not the swimming at all, it's the damn tables. :D


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    #3916
    shotgunmcos
    Registered Users Posts: 8,208 ✭✭✭shotgunmcos


    Perhaps we could set up a table to rank how many tables you are involved with :D

    Word has it (a builder/green fingers judging by flowers) that we could be getting the same type of winter as last year. Only, it will arrive 3 weeks earlier this year :rolleyes:
    Single digits on the thermostat this morning... I saw 8 degrees


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    #3917
    RacoonQueen
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    Yeah, predictions of snow in October :eek:


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    #3918
    Seres
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    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Yeah, predictions of snow in October :eek:
    we were suppose to have a good summer too ! Wouldnt worry too much bout those predictions , they frequently get the weather forecast wrong over 7 days out .


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    #3919
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,098 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    RacoonQueen wrote: »
    Yeah, predictions of snow in October :eek:

    :D:D:D:D:D


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    #3920
    tunguska
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    Great picture form the 1984 olympics. Daley Thompsom the animal looking unflustered while all around him collapse in a heap.

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    #3921
    TheRoadRunner
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    tunguska wrote: »
    Great picture form the 1984 olympics. Daley Thompsom the animal looking unflustered while all around him collapse in a heap.

    Img214049393.jpg

    That's because he just let a vindaloo fart rip :D

    I managed to get a ticket for the all Ireland final :D:D:D:D:D:D I'm over the moon, 16 years since I attended one. Didn't think it would take Dublin that long to get back to the final. Come on the Dubs


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    #3922
    rainbow kirby
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    TheRoadRunner wrote: »
    I managed to get a ticket for the all Ireland final :D:D:D:D:D:D I'm over the moon, 16 years since I attended one. Didn't think it would take Dublin that long to get back to the final. Come on the Dubs
    Jammy git! :eek:


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    #3923
    TheRoadRunner
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    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Jammy git! :eek:

    nothing jammy about it. Had a network of literally 100s (well 10s) of people trying to source me a ticket


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    #3924
    tHE vAGGABOND
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    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Jammy git! :eek:

    Also got me a ticket - totally jammy, mate got two and his dad can't go :)


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    #3925
    opus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,007 ✭✭✭opus


    Friend of mine working in TCD sent me this, apparently somebody 'hacked' the English dept's website. It's gone now but thankfully Google has cached it for posterity :)


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    #3926
    donothoponpop
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    What a brilliant result, who'd have thought it? Great performance from the Irish pack. :D


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    #3927
    donothoponpop
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    My son's rugby team are having their open day starting in Aughrim in half an hour, I wonder how many new recruits will turn up after watching that:D


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    #3928
    gerard65
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    donothoponpop wrote: »
    What a brilliant result, who'd have thought it? Great performance from the Irish pack. :D
    Indeed. I was in a bad mood this morning having to miss the half marathon but the match made up to a certain extent.


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    #3929
    racheljev
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭racheljev


    This is it! Nerves are shredded. My boys are in Croke Park, I'm in my customary match-watching position - standing up, roaring at the telly, hiding behind the door in extreme moments of stress. C'mon you boys in blue, up the Dubs!


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    #3930
    ecoli
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    Sitting in work with two 42" teles side by side ready for United win on one (though with Evans starting gonna be a nervy one) and Dubs hopefully going one better in this final (surely we cant lose 5 finals in the one year).

    Its days like this I dont hate work as much:D


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    #3931
    gerard65
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    COM'ON THE DUBS:D:D:D:D


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