The Off Topic Thread

ShiverinEskimo

These adverts the ones with the truck driving in a straight line?

My god, I'd love to know what you think of the car insurance/loan-shark ads.

_Bella_

This is just a question and not meant to cause offense but why is this called the soccer forum instead of the football forum. Sorry if this has been asked before!

curry-muff

Because its known as soccer!!!

ShiverinEskimo

_Bella_ wrote: »

This is just a question and not meant to cause offense but why is this called the soccer forum instead of the football forum. Sorry if this has been asked before!

All the Thick Country Vegetables would give out about how the 'foreign game' is destroying Ireland and that there's only one true form of football and that's the type played in a bog after 18 pints of stout the night before.

redout

_Bella_ wrote: »

This is just a question and not meant to cause offense but why is this called the soccer forum instead of the football forum. Sorry if this has been asked before!

No idea - FIFA use football so thats good enough for me.

Always though of soccer as a yank expression to be honest.

GLaDOS

_Bella_ wrote: »

This is just a question and not meant to cause offense but why is this called the soccer forum instead of the football forum. Sorry if this has been asked before!

I imagine it's 'cause soccer can't possibly be confused for anything else, avoiding both confusion and ammunition for trolls

flahavaj

I always call it soccer and call Gaelic football football.

The forum is aptly named IMO.

ShiverinEskimo

^ exhibit A.

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

All the Thick Country Vegetables would give out about how the 'foreign game' is destroying Ireland and that there's only one true form of football and that's the type played in a bog after 18 pints of stout the night before.

D'Agger

Soccerball is awesome YEAAAAAH high 5 man

curry-muff

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

^ exhibit A.

Thats a stupid argument, it was the English themselves that named it soccer, so claiming its 'agricultural' isn't really accurate.

Paul Tergat

curry-muff wrote: »

Thats a stupid argument, it was the English themselves that named it soccer, so claiming its 'agricultural' isn't really accurate.

Nah we call it football.

I hate people calling it soccer, does my nut in but I just accept it on here as theres not much I can do about it.

ShiverinEskimo

curry-muff wrote: »

Thats a stupid argument, it was the English themselves that named it soccer, so claiming its 'agricultural' isn't really accurate.

Get your joke sensors checked out.

curry-muff

p_larkin99 wrote: »

Nah we call it football.

I hate people calling it soccer, does my nut in but I just accept it on here as theres not much I can do about it.

I know the majority of england does, I was just pointing out that the trend of calling it soccer started out in england not the US, it was seen as a shortened version of AsSOCiation of Football.

Mars Bar

I'd rather a person think I'm weird for calling it soccer than them thinking I'm going to Gaelic Football training when I say football training.

monkey9

Anyone know where in Dublin i can get measuring tape of the tailoring kind, as opposed to the hardware kind??

flahavaj

monkey9 wrote: »

Anyone know where in Dublin i can get measuring tape of the tailoring kind, as opposed to the hardware kind??

I'd say a six inch ruler is plenty.;)

nicklauski

flahavaj wrote: »

I'd say a six inch ruler is plenty.;)

Ha ha ha. Zing!!!!!!!

I'd say your best bet would be either Lidl/Aldi, or the aul two euro shops. Them places sell everything.

D'Agger

nicklauski wrote: »

Them places sell everything.

Really?? Do they sell laser death ray guns??

ShiverinEskimo

PaulieC wrote: »

Really?? Do they sell laser death ray guns??

Aisle 7, beside the gardening section.

nicklauski

Aldi have them on special from the 12th of July. Get there quick though. All the good stuff goes early.

RasTa

Awwww yeah.

Eire-Dearg

Serves her right.

nicklauski

That is comical. Imagine something like that happening at Oxegen. Class

redout

So Predators kicks ass - would recommend it if you like blood, guts and plenty of action.

Spud83

redout wrote: »

So Predators kicks ass - would recommend it if you like blood, guts and plenty of action.

Spud83

What a headline.

The Recliner

redout wrote: »

So Predators kicks ass - would recommend it if you like blood, guts and plenty of action.

The GF has tickets bought for us for tomorrow evening, her suggestion

She rocks

Spud83

The Recliner wrote: »

The GF has tickets bought for us for tomorrow evening, her suggestion

She rocks

I bet you had to go see Eclipse, or Sex in the City though.

The Recliner

Spud83 wrote: »

I bet you had to go see Eclipse, or Sex in the City though.

Nope, there was no requirement to go see either

She hates the twilight thing and I sent her off to watch sex in the city with the girls with a pat on the arse while I stuck on the xbox

redout

The Recliner wrote: »

The GF has tickets bought for us for tomorrow evening, her suggestion

She rocks

Hard to believe but the first showing at 11am was more or less sold out!

Was only expecting maybe 10/15 people that early in the morning.

event

The Recliner wrote: »

Nope, there was no requirement to go see either

She hates the twilight thing and I sent her off to watch sex in the city with the girls with a pat on the arse while I stuck on the xbox

she has something brewing, dont worry

The Recliner

redout wrote: »

Hard to believe but the first showing at 11am was more or less sold out!

Was only expecting maybe 10/15 people that early in the morning.

Students are a fierce scabby bunch with time on their hands during the summer, they would go to anything :pac:

event wrote: »

she has something brewing, dont worry

Jayus you are fierce decking cynical I am sure she is just being nice

ShiverinEskimo

The Recliner wrote: »

Jayus you are fierce decking cynical I am sure she is just being nice

You are at least somewhat familiar with the fairer sex? There's ALWAYS an agenda.

RasTa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BstJzcQNA

Clever fellow...

Dub13

I have a DVD that I would like to grab the first 10 min from,any good easy to use program's that can do this...?

D'Agger

Dub13 wrote: »

I have a DVD that I would like to grab the first 10 min from,any good easy to use program's that can do this...?

pornhub.com do short clips man and no need for fancy software

Dub13

PaulieC wrote: »

pornhub.com do short clips man and no need for fancy software

LOL....no I am sorted for that kid of stuff thanks.What I am trying to do is pull about 10 min from a family dvd onto the computer.

The Recliner

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

You are at least somewhat familiar with the fairer sex? There's ALWAYS an agenda.

Extremely familiar

Honestly there is no agenda, last movie we went to was Iron Man 2

Jazzy

Paul Gascoigne has just showed up where that gunman is under seige in the UK. if I had to pick any late 80s early 90s footballers to sort it out though, its John Fashanu

KittyeeTrix

Jazzy wrote: »

Paul Gascoigne has just showed up where that gunman is under seige in the UK. if I had to pick any late 80s early 90s footballers to sort it out though, its John Fashanu

More info please??

redout

Jazzy wrote: »

Paul Gascoigne has just showed up where that gunman is under seige in the UK. if I had to pick any late 80s early 90s footballers to sort it out though, its John Fashanu

I read that Gazza gave him a can of beer, mobile phone and some chicken :pac:

Seriously wtf Gazza!!!!!!!!!!

another nutcase.

x PyRo

Then Gazza shot him. :mad:

Nalz

RasTa wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_BstJzcQNA

Clever fellow...

is diz unt pis buck! brilliant

Le King

The Recliner

Can I just repeat what was said earlier in this thread

Predators is Awesome!

redout

Some of the threads on here lately have gone to shit - train wrecks to be honest full of irrelevant and off-topic crap.

GLaDOS

redout wrote: »

Some of the threads on here lately have gone to shit - train wrecks to be honest full of irrelevant and off-topic crap.

It's 'cause it's the off season I imagine

Dub13

I see there are maybe 9 people in Croker to support the best supported GAA team in the world....:rolleyes:

redout

Dub13 wrote: »

I see there are maybe 9 people in Croker to support the best supported GAA team in the world....:rolleyes:

Could be something got to do with the fact it has been pissing all day long here in Dublin.

Most people would have just bought at the gate knowing it wouldnt have been sold out.

Dub13

redout wrote: »

Could be something got to do with the fact it has been pissing all day long here in Dublin.

Most people would have just bought at the gate knowing it wouldnt have been sold out.

Are you saying most Dub fans are fair weather fans...?It certainly looks like that to me as a complete outsider to the GAA.