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    #2012
    Munster_Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Munster_Gal


    ManFromAtlantis wrote: »
    you must be a leinster gal :rolleyes:

    Yeah I like to try and fool people with the name :rolleyes:


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    #2013
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    Munster_Gal wrote: »
    No HEC Final for the Aviva in 2011 or 2012 :(

    Can we please not call it that!

    Lansdowne Road it always was, and as far as I'm concerned it always will be.


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    #2014
    DustyBin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭DustyBin


    Sorry man, but pretty soon people won't even think twice about calling it The Aviva
    All news reports and articles will refer to it as the aviva

    Just think about who calls the Arsenal home ground Highbury anymore? It's The Emirates now


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    #2015
    Krusty_Clown
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    04072511 wrote: »
    Lansdowne Road it always was, and as far as I'm concerned it always will be.
    Will you even remember that it was once called Lansdowne Road, as you traipse around Brazil -> Uruguay -> Argentina -> Chile -> Peru -> New Zealand -> Melbourne? :)


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    #2016
    Pherekydes
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    DustyBin wrote: »
    Sorry man, but pretty soon people won't even think twice about calling it The Aviva
    All news reports and articles will refer to it as the aviva

    Just think about who calls the Arsenal home ground Highbury anymore? It's The Emirates now

    Highbury and the Emirates are in two different locations.

    Lansdowne Road ftw.


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    #2017
    ronanmac
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    DustyBin wrote: »
    Sorry man, but pretty soon people won't even think twice about calling it The Aviva
    All news reports and articles will refer to it as the aviva

    Just think about who calls the Arsenal home ground Highbury anymore? It's The Emirates now

    Funny, I had this exact same conversation with someone yesterday. Was amongst the many who were determined to keep calling the new Arsenal stadium "Highbury." I call it the Emirates now though, and everyone I know calls it the Emirates. I'm afraid the same will go for the Aviva. It's a pity they changed their name from Hibernian, though. At least that would have sounded like it had some sort of Irish reference!


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    #2018
    RayCun
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    Yes, but Highbury stadium was in Highbury.
    The Emirates isn't.

    Lansdowne Road, on the other hand, is in exactly the same place.


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    #2019
    ronanmac
    Registered Users Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭ronanmac


    The Emirates, I think, is technically still in Highbuy, it being only a few hundred yards from the old stadium. As it happens, the old stadium wasn't even called Highbury stadium, the official name being Arsenal stadium. The problem with Lansdowne Road is when games start at the new stadium, and tv presenters/newspapers/commentators etc refer to it as Aviva stadium, or the Aviva, or whatever the official name is. Pretty quickly, it will get ingrained in consiousness. Maybe, and hopefully, I'm wrong, but these things tend to pan out this way. Another iconic name to add to Irish sporting pantheons such as Flancare park, Kingspan Breffni Park and Hunky Dorys Park :D


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    #2020
    misty floyd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭misty floyd


    04072511 wrote: »
    Can we please not call it that!

    Lansdowne Road it always was, and as far as I'm concerned it always will be.

    Agree......I think, but you don't seem like a person to care about names............ 04072511 :D


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    #2021
    RayCun
    Registered Users Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    ronanmac wrote: »
    The Emirates, I think, is technically still in Highbuy, it being only a few hundred yards from the old stadium.

    No, it's in Holloway now


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    #2022
    ronanmac
    Registered Users Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭ronanmac


    RayCun wrote: »
    No, it's in Holloway now

    I stand corrected!


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    #2023
    Munster_Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Munster_Gal


    04072511 wrote: »
    Can we please not call it that!

    Lansdowne Road it always was, and as far as I'm concerned it always will be.

    Sorry! But it will end up being call the Aviva after a while anyway!


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    #2024
    xebec
    Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭xebec


    RayCun wrote: »
    No, it's in Holloway now

    Ashburton Grove to be more precise :rolleyes:


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    #2025
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    Supposedly due to rules about corporate sponsorship, for next years UEFA Cup Final (refusing to call it the Europa League ;)) the "Aviva Stadium" will be called the Dublin Arena. Lots of imagination went into that name I see.


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    #2026
    ManFromAtlantis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭ManFromAtlantis


    Bell x1 song 'Great Defector' is a great song. no doubt.

    but its sooooo like 'Talking Heads'.....its unreal.
    i just cant put my finger on which song it is most like ....any help?

    maybe ye're too young to remember talking heads:confused:


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    #2027
    racheljev
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭racheljev


    Oooh is it like Everythings coming up flowers? Think that's the name of it:confused:


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    #2028
    littlebug
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    And she was

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSVTdAtNYE


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    #2029
    ManFromAtlantis
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    littlebug wrote: »
    And she was

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSVTdAtNYE


    thanks. wreckin my head for ages.

    talking heads were great.


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    #2030
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    ManFromAtlantis wrote: »
    thanks. wreckin my head for ages.

    talking heads were great.

    They were. we're showing our age here ;)

    Everytime I hear that great defector song I veer off into "and she was".


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    #2031
    racheljev
    Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭racheljev


    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2013354182
    This is the song I meant, "Nothing but flowers", the BellXI song always reminds me of this. (And the video has the added extra of the lovely Johnny Marr...)


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    #2032
    --amadeus--
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    racheljev wrote: »
    (And the video has the added extra of the lovely Johnny Marr...)

    I don't know about "lovely" but Johnny Marr is a genius


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    #2033
    Mellor
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    04072511 wrote: »
    Woohoo flights booked!:D Travelling here I come! Brazil -> Uruguay -> Argentina -> Chile -> Peru -> New Zealand -> Melbourne.:D:D:D

    Must find some 10km races for when I settle in Melbourne for awhile.
    There are a ridic amount of runs and swims over here (sydney, but melbourne is the same)
    Swim season was the last few months, runs are spread out, but not over summer (nov-feb). A mate of mine did a marathon last week, they decided to round it up to 45km and throw in a few hills.



    Anyway, I'm doing a run in a few weeks. 14km
    I know some here would lash one of those out on a sunday before lunch but its my first run. Anybody have any idea of a target time I should aim/train for?

    c.80kg, overweight, just off 5'10"
    Most i've ever ran was 5km or so

    Any help, I always do better with a target


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    #2034
    OI
    Registered Users Posts: 377 ✭✭OI


    --amadeus-- wrote: »
    I don't know about "lovely" but Johnny Marr is a genius

    got an album by modest mouse on which he plays. Not to everyones taste but I loved it. The disc is actually stuck in an old hi fi that I disposed of. Been listening to the new National album, it's amazing. Definitely say that Misty Floyd would like it.


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    #2035
    menoscemo
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    Mellor wrote: »
    c.80kg, overweight, just off 5'10"
    Most i've ever ran was 5km or so

    Any help, I always do better with a target

    What did you do the 5km in?


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    #2036
    eliwallach
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    ManFromAtlantis wrote: »
    Bell x1 song 'Great Defector' is a great song. no doubt.

    but its sooooo like 'Talking Heads'.....its unreal.
    i just cant put my finger on which song it is most like ....any help?

    maybe ye're too young to remember talking heads:confused:


    It's on Ray D'arcy radio show right now 10:17am 20.5.10!


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    #2037
    xebec
    Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭xebec


    eliwallach wrote: »
    It's on Ray D'arcy radio show right now 10:17am 20.5.10!

    Speaking of the Ray D'Arcy show, did anyone listen to Fix it Friday last week? The 'bunny boiler' (as one texter called her) who wants to meet Tommy Bowe is a colleague of mine, she hasn't quite lived it down all week. It's been mentioned twice already this week and I'm sure it'll be on again tomorrow, was good craic last week...


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    #2038
    robinph
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    04072511 wrote: »
    Woohoo flights booked!:D Travelling here I come! Brazil -> Uruguay -> Argentina -> Chile -> Peru -> New Zealand -> Melbourne.:D:D:D

    Must find some 10km races for when I settle in Melbourne for awhile.

    Just spotted this, if your going through Queenstown in NZ then I know of a series of 5km and 10km races there through the winter that I did a few of last year in between my skiing.


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    #2039
    Blueskye
    Registered Users Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Blueskye


    OI wrote: »
    Been listening to the new National album, it's amazing. Definitely say that Misty Floyd would like it.

    Oh I love the National. Heard the new album on Pitchfork a few weeks back. Must go get it.


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    #2040
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    robinph wrote: »
    Just spotted this, if your going through Queenstown in NZ then I know of a series of 5km and 10km races there through the winter that I did a few of last year in between my skiing.

    I'll be in Queenstown probably for only a few days in December (the height of Summer down there). I only have 3.5 weeks in NZ so will probably do the Magic Bus so wouldnt have too much time to being staying in each place.


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    #2041
    misty floyd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭misty floyd


    OI wrote: »
    Been listening to the new National album, it's amazing. Definitely say that Misty Floyd would like it.

    I have it OI and I like it. I'd prefare the boxer but I need to hear it a few more times. Any other albums to recommend?

    The new Jonsi album (lead singer from Sigur Ros) is good but you need to be in the mood for that kind of thing.


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