The all new and only slightly recycled off topic thread (read post 1)

Hagz

I see Mike James is warming your bench Matthew. You don't win 8 in a row for no reason - ruthless.

matthew8

Hagz wrote: »

I see Mike James is warming your bench Matthew. You don't win 8 in a row for no reason - ruthless.

Only picked him up today. A free agent. Him or TY Hilton is rather spoilt for choice. Of course I could drop Nelson and play both. I hope I can win this week, help keep you out of the playoffs. You're very dangerous if Rodgers comes back.

.ak

awec wrote: »

Can't decide whether or not I want to go and buy the new Battlefield today or not.

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Same boat as me. Not sure I can justify 60 quid!

Grimebox wrote: »

I played the beta. Thought it was very meh. Exact same as BF3 as far as I could see. I only played for 30 mins though. I have no time for BF or COD these days.

I only buy the BF series for PC. BF3 was absolutely muck on the consoles.

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

Jury duty over. I plan to spend the evening gorging on junk food and Community in celebration

Hagz

matthew8 wrote: »

Only picked him up today. A free agent. Him or TY Hilton is rather spoilt for choice. Of course I could drop Nelson and play both. I hope I can win this week, help keep you out of the playoffs. You're very dangerous if Rodgers comes back.

Yeh I wanted to pick him up instead of Richardson (who has been absolutely rubbish this season), had to get Ellington instead.

Things have gotten off to a great start with RG3 but I can't see me winning. The site always over-predicts how well Cruz and Fitzgerald will do. I wish I had at least one of Charles or Gronkowski

.ak

Great little vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76VEPXYaI0

Howard Juneau

ScissorPaperRock wrote: »

Shiiiiit it was ten years ago when I did my leaving. Way to make me feel old!

And thanks to all the rest of you for reminding me how little effort I made at the time. I can't remember any of these poems - I can just remember that we studied Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson.

I did mine 23 years ago young fella! :P

Swiwi.

Grimebox wrote: »

I was under the impression you were born in 1956

Your impression is correct. Tox56 is what is known as a "mature student".

Swiwi.

Grimebox wrote: »

I often skim popular threads and only read the posts that have a few thanks after them. Just so you know Ugo Moyne space experience, I read any post you thank due to your quadruple barrel name messing this up! It looks like a ton of users thanked it at a glance

For me, any post more than a few lines MUST have paragraphs. I don't do wads of text, especially on an iPhone. Call me a stickler, old-fashioned etc, but that's the way it is for me...

.ak

Swiwi. wrote: »

For me, any post more than a few lines MUST have paragraphs. I don't do wads of text, especially on an iPhone. Call me a stickler, old-fashioned etc, but that's the way it is for me...

tl;dr

irishbucsfan

If a post has 3 or 4 paragraphs then I just pick the one that has the shortest words in it, quote the post, delete the rest of it, and then post the exact opposite. That's the key to making an argument last 200 pages. I've never even attempted to read one of molloyjh's posts.

awec

"What's your name boy?"

"Django. The D is silent."

What a movie.

mfceiling

Swiwi. wrote: »

For me, any post more than a few lines MUST have paragraphs. I don't do wads of text, especially on an iPhone. Call me a stickler, old-fashioned etc, but that's the way it is for me...

Please tell me you even post correctly in text messages. I do not do text speak. I text with apostrophes, commas and full stops and with the words written correctly. I genuinely despair when I see younger people who cannot tell the difference between there, their and they're. Your and you're. Where, were and wear.

P.Walnuts

awec wrote: »

"What's your name boy?"

"Django. The D is silent."

What a movie.

Was good, but an hour too long!

Buer

P.Walnuts wrote: »

Was good, but an hour too long!

QT started falling desperately in love with himself in the late nineties. Despite the acclamation that Django and Inglorious B@stards enjoyed, neither were a patch on Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, in my opinion.

I think his films have become ludicrously self indulgent and overly long. He needs to be told that not everything he does is genius; please employ an editor.

awec

"You spent 76 years on this plantation Stephen, but I noticed, you didn't mention kneecapping"

*Django kneecaps Stephen*

I actually think this is one of QT's few good flicks.

.ak

Buer wrote: »

QT started falling desperately in love with himself in the late nineties. Despite the acclamation that Django and Inglorious B@stards enjoyed, neither were a patch on Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, in my opinion.

I think his films have become ludicrously self indulgent and overly long. He needs to be told that not everything he does is genius; please employ an editor.

Absolutely. His interview with Bashir on channel 4 news was the icing on the cake for me.

Hagz

I thought it was a great movie, it's definitley one of my favourites. However, it also contains one of my least favourite scenes where Tarantino tries to do an Aussie accent.

An interesting fact - when DiCaprio slams his hand down and the table and his hand opens up, that wasn't intentional. DiCaprio is just that much of a badass that he carries on. But obviously when he smears it in your ones face that's fake blood.

awec

Tarantino sounded more South African than Australian tbh.

Swiwi.

mfceiling wrote: »

Please tell me you even post correctly in text messages. I do not do text speak. I text with apostrophes, commas and full stops and with the words written correctly. I genuinely despair when I see younger people who cannot tell the difference between there, their and they're. Your and you're. Where, were and wear.

Ah mfceiling, it's love at first post...

Buer

Hagz wrote: »

I thought it was a great movie, it's definitley one of my favourites. However, it also contains one of my least favourite scenes where Tarantino tries to do an Aussie accent.

There are certainly great moments in it. The scene where they sit around the table is compelling; Christopher Waltz is a wonderful actor. But then there are scenes like the QT cameo and I end up just rolling my eyes. If Waltz wasn't in Django and Inglorious B*stards, they'd be half the films, I think. I think it was a good film that could have really been a great one.

I remember looking forward to seeing Kill Bill but when I went to see it it, the longer it went on, the more it meandered; taking over four hours to get through that story is just too much. The whole anime sequence was pretty ridiculous, I thought.

ScissorPaperRock

.ak wrote: »

BF3 was absolutely muck on the consoles.

I sank months into BF3 on the PS3 when I was between jobs. It was one of the most enjoyable times of my life.

I cannot wait to get home for Christmas and to stuck into the new one.

ScissorPaperRock

Tox56 wrote: »

In your defence Dulce et decorum est isn't a Leaving Cert poem (I don't think so anyway), I learned it in first year for eg. Always stuck with me though

I don't know if that makes me look worse or better, tbh. What the hell did I do for my leaving then?!

In my defence, I became much more interested in what I was studying at university.

mfceiling

The joys of turning 6.

Daddy i'm just going to open my presents now and then we'll have some breakfast, ok?

*looks at phone* - 5.33

Don't half envy you young fellows who are still in bed at this time of the morning, with an evening of rugby, junk food and pints to amuse you!!

awec

mfceiling wrote: »

The joys of turning 6.

Daddy i'm just going to open my presents now and then we'll have some breakfast, ok?

*looks at phone* - 5.33

Don't half envy you young fellows who are still in bed at this time of the morning, with an evening of rugby, junk food and pints to amuse you!!

Just woke up :cool:

Swiwi.

mfceiling wrote: »

The joys of turning 6.

Daddy i'm just going to open my presents now and then we'll have some breakfast, ok?

*looks at phone* - 5.33

Don't half envy you young fellows who are still in bed at this time of the morning, with an evening of rugby, junk food and pints to amuse you!!

That's nothing. We had 1am 3am 5am (or so it seemed). Harden up.

mfceiling

Swiwi. wrote: »

That's nothing. We had 1am 3am 5am (or so it seemed). Harden up.

Those days are long gone swiwi....

Remember them well........from the comfort of the spare room!!

Grimebox

awec wrote: »

Tarantino sounded more South African than Australian tbh.

That movie was almost flawless but this part was completely shoe horned in. He was awful

P.Walnuts

Buer wrote: »

QT started falling desperately in love with himself in the late nineties. Despite the acclamation that Django and Inglorious B@stards enjoyed, neither were a patch on Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, in my opinion.

I think his films have become ludicrously self indulgent and overly long. He needs to be told that not everything he does is genius; please employ an editor.

The movie's logical ending was

When Waltz killed Di Caprio, Django shooting his way out rescuing the missus

the hour tacked on after than was just totally unnecessary

Hagz

I personally thought Dicaprio was the outstanding talent in that movie. Waltz just felt like a variant of his Inglorious Bastards character to me.

Howard Juneau

Shaggy looking good tonight!

thomond2006

Anyone here watch Love/Hate? Season finale on in 30 minutes!

mfceiling

thomond2006 wrote: »

Anyone here watch Love/Hate? Season finale on in 30 minutes!

Been living for it the last week.

Grimebox

thomond2006 wrote: »

Anyone here watch Love/Hate? Season finale on in 30 minutes!

Haven't been up to date in this series. I guess I should stay off facebook considering absolutely everyone spoiled the finale of the last series

Podge_irl

YOU'RE GOING DOWN PUDSY!!!!

thomond2006

Weird enough series finale,

I thought a major character would have been 'clipped'.

durkadurka

I really think Love Hate has gone to ****e. Very nonsensical

Hagz

Jimmy Graham is going to make my Monday morning that much worse.

justsomebloke

Spoiler tags people!!!!! saying what didn't happen can be just as bad as saying what did happen

thomond2006

justsomebloke wrote: »

Spoiler tags people!!!!! saying what didn't happen can be just as bad as saying what did happen

Sorry JSB!

molloyjh

Only started watching Love/Hate in season 3 and thought it was amazing. Still thought season 4 was good, but a long way off season 3. It sets things up nicely for season 5 though.

Was I the only one who expected the arms dealer guy to get word to Franno about what happened with the wife?

P_1

Thought the latest season of it was decent enough, a good slow burner. Sadly it seems that most of its viewers don't appreciate slow burners though, I guess thinking of plotlines is too taxing on their brains

molloyjh

P_1 wrote: »

Thought the latest season of it was decent enough, a good slow burner. Sadly it seems that most of its viewers don't appreciate slow burners though, I guess thinking of plotlines is too taxing on their brains

I def enjoyed it more than others, but it's still fair to say it wasn't as good as last season.

P.Walnuts

P_1 wrote: »

Thought the latest season of it was decent enough, a good slow burner. Sadly it seems that most of its viewers don't appreciate slow burners though, I guess thinking of plotlines is too taxing on their brains

Ah come on now, what exactly about the plot was complex?

People were mainly moaning about the disjointed nature of the series, multiple angles that were not resovled or resolved in a very poor manner!

I'd be annoyed too by people only wanting action and killings, but I don't think that was the case, I think the series just lost its way. Its still enjoyable though, but nowhere near Season 2 or 3 imo.

P_1

molloyjh wrote: »

I def enjoyed it more than others, but it's still fair to say it wasn't as good as last season.

Yeah true, guess it depends on your viewpoint (gonna spoiler this just in case)

to me Season 3 was all action where season 4 was more about building up for the big payoff, although it really has to be a fairly massive payoff now to justify such a long build up

Burgo

P_1 wrote: »

Thought the latest season of it was decent enough, a good slow burner. Sadly it seems that most of its viewers don't appreciate slow burners though, I guess thinking of plotlines is too taxing on their brains

I don't know what other shows you watch if you think this is a slow burner! Sure they try and pack as much as they can into every episode.

molloyjh

P_1 wrote: »

Yeah true, guess it depends on your viewpoint (gonna spoiler this just in case)

to me Season 3 was all action where season 4 was more about building up for the big payoff, although it really has to be a fairly massive payoff now to justify such a long build up

There needed to be some form of pay-off in the finale though. All the plot lines pretty much came to nothing. The police failed to make a case, the Nidge-Franno tension didn't lead to anything really, the IRA threat came and (apparently) went. The only bit of pay-off was seeing Nidge finally lose it. Assuming that he has. But that kind of came out of nowhere really.

P_1

molloyjh wrote: »

There needed to be some form of pay-off in the finale though. All the plot lines pretty much came to nothing. The police failed to make a case, the Nidge-Franno tension didn't lead to anything really, the IRA threat came and (apparently) went. The only bit of pay-off was seeing Nidge finally lose it. Assuming that he has. But that kind of came out of nowhere really.

Yeah the lack of any real payoff did take away from it a bit, having said that they really would have booked themselves into a corner if any of the threats against Nidge actually worked seeing as his character is pretty much the main part of the show now.

Hagz

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Podge_irl

Switzerland don't do mince pies.

This is a travesty. My Christmas is ruined!