The A/R Off Topic Thread

gerard65

PRICELESS
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091007/tuk-yobs-floored-by-cage-fighters-in-dra-45dbed5.html

Ol' Donie

Ha ha! Thats hilarious.

Krusty_Clown

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Dublin Marathon registration is closing at 5pm on Monday. Anyone care to wager how many threads we will get starting with:
...OMFG I can't believe it's closed already, can anybody help?...
...I've raised 3 trillion dollars for charity..please help....
...Ive gotten up to 8 miles on my long runs. Do you think I can do it?...

Right, that makes 3.

hunnymonster

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Right, that makes 3.

I'll be the bald one on the start line on 26th having pulled out all my hair in the next two weeks dealing with these...

Munster_Gal

Home time whoop whoop
Time to snuggle up on the couch :D:D

gerard65

hunnymonster wrote: »

I'll be the bald one on the start line on 26th having pulled out all my hair in the next two weeks dealing with these...

ENTRY IS CLOSED??? I don't believe it. I trained all year and raised millions for charity. Why is it closed, I'm sure you could enter on the day last year. This is so unfair. I'm phoning Joe Duffy about this!!!:mad:

rainbow kirby

Couldn't help giggling at this quote in an academic paper I'm trying to read this morning...

However, we did see some interesting trends in the data. There seems to be a high usage of pornographic sites in the cache data but these sites generally had low PageRanks. We believe this is because people do not want to link to pornographic sites from their own web pages. Using this technique of looking for differences between PageRank and usage, it may be possible to find things that people like to look at, but do not want to mention on their web pages.

So how's everyone else's Friday going?

hunnymonster

I'm in a bitter and twisted mood today. It's Friday but I have to work tomorrow (I rarely work Saturdays any more) and I'm not at all happy about it.

MCOS

In great form today.. finishing early (the more I can delegate the earlier I finish) and off on 2 weeks hols woohoo

Lemon

I'm happy it is Friday and am looking forward to having one beer at the Paulaner Oktoberfest tomorrow :-) One beer won't do me any harm at this stage will it?:o

rainbow kirby

Think of it as carbo-loading

MrCreosote

Friday! Woohoo! Weekend off, went for a run this morning and the ankle held up. Happy days.

I've downloaded 6 hours of Joe Duffy podcasts and we're going to have a weekend of listening to that while cracking open a batch of homebrew. All good really :pac:

Lemon

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Think of it as carbo-loading

Hmm I like your way of thinking....I might have two so

gerard65

MrCreosote wrote: »

Friday! Woohoo! Weekend off, went for a run this morning and the ankle held up. Happy days.

I've downloaded 6 hours of Joe Duffy podcasts and we're going to have a weekend of listening to that while cracking open a batch of homebrew. All good really :pac:

Sweet Jebus. Six hours of that - 'goo ahhead calller'. You'll need to be off your head on the homebrew.

MrCreosote

gerard65 wrote: »

Sweet Jebus. Six hours of that - 'goo ahhead calller'. You'll need to be off your head on the homebrew.

Not at all. You've just got to pick a good mix of old-but-good ones and more recent ones. I've got the Barbra Streisand one from 2007 as well as the political expenses one from this week.

It kind of becomes background noise

gerard65

MrCreosote wrote: »

Not at all. You've just got to pick a good mix of old-but-good ones and more recent ones. I've got the Barbra Streisand one from 2007 as well as the political expenses one from this week.

It kind of becomes background noise

Maybe I'm getting old (well I am) but I just don't have the patience for listening to people whinging anymore. If I listen to Joooe I end up screaming at the radio - 'build a f ing bridge and get over it'.

DustyBin

Joe Duffy or Matt Cooper?

Cannot listen to Matt Cooper shouting from an extremely prejudiced point of view no matter what the topic is
There's only one answer to each question, and Matt knows what it is before he asks it

Actually, I'm sure ye don't care and I have had the good sense not to listen to Matt Cooper's show anymore so why am I still typing???

Krusty_Clown

What about George Hook? I find him incredibly predujiced, but entertaining listening all the same.

menoscemo

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

What about George Hook? I find him incredibly predujiced, but entertaining listening all the same.

I think I spend all my running time listening to either George Hook or 'Off the Ball' on Newstalk. I find it all very entertaining.

DustyBin

Ah but I like George Hook
He creates controversy in a very different way
When covering rugby you are right he will always take one particular viewpoint and sticks to it until the end. Always drives the boys from Munster mad!! But, if proven wrong and Munster or Leinster actually go on and win the final he will (nearly) always hold his hands up
On the radio I find he comes across as quite reasonable and easy going. Sometimes he's too easily swayed when trying to argue with someone.
George Hook is like your Grandad or your uncle

I just find Matt Cooper to ask questions in a different manner. Maybe it's just me but I find him to come across as very 'jeery'.
He says something like "But you couldn't possibly agree with the new measures that have been introduced" and you can almost hear the unspoken 'you'd be quare stupid if you did!!'

Anyway, Matt Cooper rant over



Off the Ball rocks - always interesting and funny, big fan

Ol' Donie

menoscemo wrote: »

I think I spend all my running time listening to .... 'Off the Ball' on Newstalk. I find it all very entertaining.

I do this a lot. Thursday night with john giles is great for this.

RacoonQueen

Second day in a row that I nearly got creamed out of it on my bike by a bus on the same road, only today I fell and smashed right onto the same knee that got badly hurt when I fell out running last week(just as the swelling and pain had decreased too). In absolute agony now...and have yet to rule out a visit back to the hospital tonight. My thoughts as I went down were 'nooooo the marathon':D

MrCreosote

I quite like Matt cooper for the sports on a Friday. I only get to hear it about once a month though.

hope the knee improves RQ. hurt the ankle myself although there was no bus to blame

racheljev

Just wondering if Racoon Queen is okay, or if a visit to A&E was required? Hope you're ok RQ.

--amadeus--

No news RQ?

And I just wanted to casually drop into conversation that my tickets for the Liverpool vs Man Utd game came through on Friday and are now pinned in pride of place on my fridge so I can look lovingly at them everytime I make a cup of coffee

RacoonQueen

Didn't bother going to A&E, still quite swollen and sore but it's gone down a bit. Should be good for a run on Tuesday, back in work tomorrow anyway so might pop into someone and see if they'll have a looksie for me. Desperately trying to remain positive.

DustyBin

Any random thoughts this Friday?

I just had a lovely big apple pastry stuffed to the gills with fresh cream

Yum Yum

Munster_Gal

DustyBin wrote: »

Any random thoughts this Friday?

I just had a lovely big apple pastry stuffed to the gills with fresh cream

Yum Yum

Oh yum! Jealous big time!!!!
I'm back in healthy mode - 4lbs gone this week I reckon that pastry would have made me put on 6lbs again! Just from looking at it lol

christeb

Wow that sucks RQ, I'll be extra careful on the bike this afternoon....

RacoonQueen

I'm still very, very swollen. Wrist is in an absolute jock(nope I've not got a scan yet regardless of all the talking about getting a scan I've been doing) however, ran for the bus today and yesterday and it didn't hurt too much so I'm going to give it a go tonight. Go out on my bike for about 15 minutes to make sure the poor thing is ok and isn't feeling too neglected then I'll do a flat 3 miler, come back, shower and re-ice it. I feel like such a fat mess with no exercise. If that doesn't go well tonight but I'm ok tomorrow I'll just jump on the cross trainer at the gym tomorrow for about 10 hours.