The Off Topic Thread

Nuri Sahin

You's should try driving around in the sub continent countries like India and Banglandesh if you want to experience something out of Wacky races.

On a similar note, love to do the Top Gear challenge they did around Vietnam. Fantastic episode that.

THFC wrote: »

I am indeed, as bad as Dublin Bus is, its far better than buses in Galway. I'm in college in Dublin, and the most I've waited for a bus was about 25-30 minutes, I've often waited 40 minutes for a bus in Galway, and I've waited over an hour twice or three times. Ye don't know how well ye have it!!
That said, I still hate the bus, luckily I'm on the Dart line in Dublin.

Try depending on the 65 bus (the ones that goes out to Blessington). I had too for a few years. Still gives me nightmare! If you miss that bus, you're waiting for over an hour for the next one.

miralize

Hilarious reddit post - Whose Line Is It, r/soccer edition



http://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1jy638/whose_line_is_it_rsoccer_edition/

Copper_pipe

IvySlayer wrote: »

Anyone else play Words With Friends, I remember playing someone here a few months ago then got bored of it, I'm back now

that was me!

eh i dunno

Lads whats the crack with Setanta and BT? Is it just me or are they both showing the same games?

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

This is brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvw3uUOjwto

Oranage2

I'm tryin to remember, there was a world cup match between Brazil I think and some other country, but the other countries government said the players would be executed if they lost like 4 nil.

Anyone or did I just dream this?

Nuri Sahin

Oranage2 wrote: »

I'm tryin to remember, there was a world cup match between Brazil I think and some other country, but the other countries government said the players would be executed if they lost like 4 nil.

Anyone or did I just dream this?

North Korea at WC2010 perhaps?

Oranage2

Nah, it was some middle eastern team 90s.

Kylo Ren

Oranage2 wrote: »

I'm tryin to remember, there was a world cup match between Brazil I think and some other country, but the other countries government said the players would be executed if they lost like 4 nil.

Anyone or did I just dream this?

Was it not North Korea a few years ago?

Oranage2

Keno 92 wrote: »

Was it not North Korea a few years ago?

No

Turtyturd

North Korea maybe?

Oat23

North Korea, was it?

:pac:

Will I Amnt

Thank f**k I made up my mind not to post in the GAA forum a long time ago. Wouldn't last a day in there as a Dublin man. If you think this place is bad for chip on the shoulder, sniping, vindictive muppets, it's not a patch on that place.

Turtyturd

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Thank f**k I made up my mind not to post in the GAA forum a long time ago. Wouldn't last a day in there as a Dublin man. If you think this place is bad for chip on the shoulder, sniping, vindictive muppets, it's not a patch on that place.

You've obviously never seen a Dublin vs 'The Country' thread in AH....which is about what 90% of them descend into.

The_Kew_Tour

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Thank f**k I made up my mind not to post in the GAA forum a long time ago. Wouldn't last a day in there as a Dublin man. If you think this place is bad for chip on the shoulder, sniping, vindictive muppets, it's not a patch on that place.

Go on the Rebels boy!!!!!:D

Will I Amnt

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Go on the Rebels boy!!!!!:D

I'm not all that bothered with the hurling to be honest. Obviously wanted them to win it but last week was the important one for me so stick that in your dirty rebel pipe and smoke it :pac:

The_Kew_Tour

Smoke all we want AI final here we come;)

Copper_pipe

Onn Limerick!

The_Kew_Tour

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Onn Limerick!

I hope ye win next week. Fancy Clare though for some reason. Rather Limerick cause mum is Limerick woman. Be some craic at home for few weeks.

Knex*

I have the (mis)fortune of having a father from Dublin and a Mother from Cork. Was born in Dublin too and lived there for a few years before we moved down South. Have to head back there soon for work too so was fairly neutral when it came to the game today.

Have always followed the Dubs for the football tbh, my Dad got me into it from an early age. Happy to see both counties doing well this year.

Oranage2

Found it - It was Zaire Vs Brazil in the 74 world cup.

The Zaire president sent armed guards and said if they lost by more than 3 goals they wouldnt return home.

Youtube it, some crazy moments. Brazil were 3 nil up with a freekick just outside the box with 5 minutes to go.

Nuri Sahin

Middle eastern 90s team.. Zaire in 1974.

Are you sure it wasn't North Korea? :pac:

Red Crow

Amazing picture of Bolt yesterday. Great work.

The_Kew_Tour

100metres has become a joke.

You have to question most of them.

That sports documentary on 1988 100 metres is one of the best I have seen.

Bolt IMO is freak of nature but lot of them have taken the pills. Bolt hangs 100 metres in the balance now.

miralize

PSG Office rings

Hello, this is Joe Kinnear from Newcastle United, can I talk to Marmalade Sackoo?

GavRedKing

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

100metres has become a joke.

You have to question most of them.

That sports documentary on 1988 100 metres is one of the best I have seen.

Bolt IMO is freak of nature but lot of them have taken the pills. Bolt hangs 100 metres in the balance now.

If he has being juicing hes managed to find a way to avoid detection with the best doctors on the planet, I'd have to echo your thoughts and say hes just a pheonemal athlete, a once in a generation type really.

Hes still only 26 and if he won 3 100 & 200m in a row that would be absolutely crazy.

The guy who finsihed 2nd in London, Blake is it? Could be a challenger but if Bolt got his starts consistent he'd breeze nearly every race.

The_Kew_Tour

GavRedKing wrote: »

If he has being juicing hes managed to find a way to avoid detection with the best doctors on the planet, I'd have to echo your thoughts and say hes just a pheonemal athlete, a once in a generation type really.

Hes still only 26 and if he won 3 100 & 200m in a row that would be absolutely crazy.

The guy who finsihed 2nd in London, Blake is it? Could be a challenger but if Bolt got his starts consistent he'd breeze nearly every race.

Serious question mark over Blake for me.

Powell and Gay fail drugs tests and few days later he pulls out of Worlds. Serious question there. He failed drug test before for something similar to tuaminoheptane

But Carl Lewis is guy I detest the most down the years. Cried foul and the man was the biggest cheat of them all

Al Capwned

Cycling and athletics - two sports I grew up watching, and loved them both - Kelly and Roche were heroes for me, as was Sonia, McKiernan and more - just to see Irish people excel on the world stage was exciting for me as a young sports mad kid.

Trouble is that years of scandal have tainted both sports. Maybe even beyond repair.

Look at the top 10 cyclist of the last 15 years, and the top ten 100m runners over the same period - a definite pattern with the two lists.

Gay, Armstrong, Landis, Powell, Festina, Contador etc etc etc - all names that were at the top of the sport and proven to be cheats. Will Froome, Bolt, Wiggins et al be added to that list in years to come? The fact that question is even being asked is a bloody shame.

GavRedKing

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Serious question mark over Blake for me.

Powell and Gay fail drugs tests and few days later he pulls out of Worlds. Serious question there. He failed drug test before for something similar to tuaminoheptane

But Carl Lewis is guy I detest the most down the years. Cried foul and the man was the biggest cheat of them all

Ya I've read about Blake, he was banned by the Jamaicans as what he had tested positive for wasnt on the Anti doping list, a brave step to ban one fo your one.

Had to Goggle it but it was back in '09, I've no doubt that had Bolt not being DQ'd from the WC in 2011 Blake wouldnt have won Gold and the fact hes out injured for this WC some what taints Bolt win as he really is his main contender at this stage.

If its a genuine injury then its understandable, a hamstring injury for a sprinter depending on severity, could ruin your career and build up to an event.

Surely guys like Blake, who would be a risk given previous problems, would be tested in the off season too and coming into these events, you'd imagine that would be the case anyway.

The_Kew_Tour

Al Capwned wrote: »

Cycling and athletics - two sports I grew up watching, and loved them both - Kelly and Roche were heroes for me, as was Sonia, McKiernan and more - just to see Irish people excel on the world stage was exciting for me as a young sports mad kid.

Trouble is that years of scandal have tainted both sports. Maybe even beyond repair.

Look at the top 10 cyclist of the last 15 years, and the top ten 100m runners over the same period - a definite pattern with the two lists.

Gay, Armstrong, Landis, Powell, Festina, Contador etc etc etc - all names that were at the top of the sport and proven to be cheats. Will Froome, Bolt, Wiggins et al be added to that list in years to come? The fact that question is even being asked is a bloody shame.

Hate saying it, but I have my doubts about team sky. I have more doubts about Wiggins over Froome too.

We have had our own cheats in our time sadly. Smith being the most high profile.

Those Chinese girls who came in 1,2,3 in Worlds in 1993 that beat Sonia and never to be seen again goes down as one of the greatest unsolved scandals of all time. that was a joke.

Rice me hole!!

GavRedKing

Al Capwned wrote: »

Cycling and athletics - two sports I grew up watching, and loved them both - Kelly and Roche were heroes for me, as was Sonia, McKiernan and more - just to see Irish people excel on the world stage was exciting for me as a young sports mad kid.

Trouble is that years of scandal have tainted both sports. Maybe even beyond repair.

Look at the top 10 cyclist of the last 15 years, and the top ten 100m runners over the same period - a definite pattern with the two lists.

Gay, Armstrong, Landis, Powell, Festina, Contador etc etc etc - all names that were at the top of the sport and proven to be cheats. Will Froome, Bolt, Wiggins et al be added to that list in years to come? The fact that question is even being asked is a bloody shame.

Very true and good points about athletics and cycling, there is a seperate thread here for potential doping in football but I'd be very surprised if it isnt exposed over the coming years too, its gotten to a stage where the rewards for success is so high there must be people out there willing to take the chance and dope.

You'd wonder do teams invest in the possibility of finding ways to mask PED's in tests.

The_Kew_Tour

Everything comes out in the end.

If or when the exposures do come out I just hope it aint as bad as I fear.

Al Capwned

Yeah, i've been following the doping in football thread, and like Kew said I hope that when stuff does start coming out, that it'll not taint the sport in the same way that it has done others...

As for teams investing in masking PED's, i think it's practically certain. And will continue to be as long as the rewards outweigh the risks and the costs.

Al Capwned

The Score's take on doping today

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Once doping comes to light in football, I have a feeling the great past teams and players will fall like dominos. Spanish and Italian teams especially. I've been following Giggs-Boson on twitter and some of the stuff that went on is crazy, most notably the whole Fuentes case. I kind of wish I hadn't looked into the whole doping in football though, it has dampened my view on the sport considerably.

GavRedKing

THFC wrote: »

Once doping comes to light in football, I have a feeling the great past teams and players will fall like dominos. Spanish and Italian teams especially. I've been following Giggs-Boson on twitter and some of the stuff that went on is crazy, most notably the whole Fuentes case. I kind of wish I hadn't looked into the whole doping in football though, it has dampened my view on the sport considerably.

On Fuentes, any football team or individuals invovled with him will inevitably be a cause for huge concern.

It would be interesting to hear his take on the Spanish WC squad of 2010 though and see if theres truth in what he syas or if its all hot air.

The_Kew_Tour

The truth will come out.

It may take 10 years, even 20 years, but it always does.

That's of course if its true about these Spanish players.

Innocent till proven guilty tbf.

Copper_pipe

Best of luck to all the members of the soccer forum getting LC results tomorrow! We'll be grand!

The_Kew_Tour

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Best of luck to all the members of the soccer forum getting LC results tomorrow! We'll be grand!

Good Luck Copper and others.

and if any of ye dont get what ye were hoping its not the end of the world believe me.

Al Capwned

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Good Luck Copper and others.

and if any of ye dont get what ye were hoping its not the end of the world believe me.

Exactly this lads - maybe too much emphasis put on LC..

The most successful person I went to school with got a stinker of a leaving cert, remember him being devestated the day of the results.

Think he has about 50-odd people working for him now....

The_Kew_Tour

Al Capwned wrote: »

Exactly this lads - maybe too much emphasis put on LC..

The most successful person I went to school with got a stinker of a leaving cert, remember him being devestated the day of the results.

Think he has about 50-odd people working for him now....

same here knew a lad that got 85 points. Now qualified accountant.

know few more examples.

Kylo Ren

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

same here knew a lad that got 85 points. Now qualified accountant.

Yuck. I think he was better off with the 85 points!

The_Kew_Tour

Keno 92 wrote: »

Yuck. I think he was better off with the 85 points!

he is on serious money though. well going by his house, car and holidays he takes. He maybe doing bit of drug business you never know:pac:

GavRedKing

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

he is on serious money though. well going by his house, car and holidays he takes. He maybe doing bit of drug business you never know:pac:

So ye're all not drug running on the side nah?

The_Kew_Tour

GavRedKing wrote: »

So ye're all not drug running on the side nah?

NO;)

Kylo Ren

Wait a minute...

GavRedKing

Ive a flight to catch from Dublin on WEdnesday week, now I'm getting the train up with a buddy and we've about 2 hours before our flight leaves to get out to the airport.

We should be in Dublin for just before 12pm, how long does it usually take the Aircoach to get our to the Airport from Heuston or are we better off getting a cab out and how much would it cost roughly?

If the Aircoach takes anything up to an hour we'd be hard pressed for time I reckon so just looking for opinions, thanks.

PauloMN

GavRedKing wrote: »

Ive a flight to catch from Dublin on WEdnesday week, now I'm getting the train up with a buddy and we've about 2 hours before our flight leaves to get out to the airport.

We should be in Dublin for just before 12pm, how long does it usually take the Aircoach to get our to the Airport from Heuston or are we better off getting a cab out and how much would it cost roughly?

If the Aircoach takes anything up to an hour we'd be hard pressed for time I reckon so just looking for opinions, thanks.

Get a taxi (that's what we call them here). No question. Bus will just have you stressed out. Or get an earlier train if you can.

Cost, no idea, 30 squids at a total guess.

GavRedKing

PauloMN wrote: »

Get a taxi (that's what we call them here). No question. Bus will just have you stressed out. Or get an earlier train if you can.

Cost, no idea, 30 squids at a total guess.

Might just go for the train leaving an hour earlier at this rate, less stress and more time to get to the airport.

The_Kew_Tour

PauloMN wrote: »

Get a taxi (that's what we call them here). No question. Bus will just have you stressed out. Or get an earlier train if you can.

Cost, no idea, 30 squids at a total guess.

it used to be only 20-25 minutes. I used to live only 5 minutes from Heuston it was 6 euro and was very handy for me as used to get flights over for games and ex lived in Liverpool.

Now it goes all over the place and takes about 50minutes to hour.

If you have 2 hours to spare(once you're not checking in luggage) you will be fine.

Otherwise a taxi. Should be no more than 30 quid in total. Usually around 25 from station.