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

Fireball07

Don't often go to the cinema, but I went to see Gravity the other day.

Was good. Not unbelievable, but still pretty high quality, I enjoyed it a lot. And some of the visuals are amazing. Sandra Bullock is a little annoying though.

Would recommend it to those who haven't seen it.

irishbucsfan

Anyone bought one of pat ingoldsby's books off him in Dublin?

Grimebox

Fireball07 wrote: »

Don't often go to the cinema, but I went to see Gravity the other day.

Was good. Not unbelievable, but still pretty high quality, I enjoyed it a lot. And some of the visuals are amazing. Sandra Bullock is a little annoying though.

Would recommend it to those who haven't seen it.

I second this. Saw it in the imax there a few days back. The sound is amazing in that screen. It's a solid 4/5 from the sensory experience alone. I'm usually a hater of 3D but this film seamlessly nails it. I didn't even notice it was 3D for the majority of the film which to me is a plus. Just don't get hung up on the weak premise and slightly annoying characters.

Howard Juneau

Had 2 cans of beer last night & have a bloody hangover this morning.

dregin

Grimebox wrote: »

I second this. Saw it in the imax there a few days back. The sound is amazing in that screen. It's a solid 4/5 from the sensory experience alone. I'm usually a hater of 3D but this film seamlessly nails it. I didn't even notice it was 3D for the majority of the film which to me is a plus. Just don't get hung up on the weak premise and slightly annoying characters.

Said it whhen I came out of the lighthouse - they should have just called it "3D". There wasn't much to it besides the visuals. Pure hype.

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

Gravity's script is god awful, but it's one of the most amazing visual experiences I've ever had in a cinema

Saw it in IMAX last week

Buer

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Had 2 cans of beer last night & have a bloody hangover this morning.

Were you drinking Harp? You'd be safer drinking hemlock.

awec

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Had 2 cans of beer last night & have a bloody hangover this morning.

had a few myself and im fresh as a daisy

Howard Juneau

Buer wrote: »

Were you drinking Harp? You'd be safer drinking hemlock.

Some cheap Canadian beer, would have been safer drinking bloody harp!

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

Ended up in the Porterhouse after the game last weekend, serious spot, good prices, massive selection and dozens of foreign beures

Mixing craft beers makes for one hell of a hangover though, particularly when followed up by 4 or 5 jagerbombs in the Village

P.Walnuts

Anyone see The Counsellor? Really bizarre film to be honest, great cast but huge amounts of monotonous dialogue and the plot dynamics really didn't work, don't think i'd be recommending it..

P.Walnuts

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience wrote: »

Ended up in the Porterhouse after the game last weekend, serious spot, good prices, massive selection and dozens of foreign beures

Mixing craft beers makes for one hell of a hangover though, particularly when followed up by 4 or 5 jagerbombs in the Village

You think??

Anything over a fiver for a pint, i'd consider normal in town, but not good!

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

P.Walnuts wrote: »

You think??

Anything over a fiver for a pint, i'd consider normal in town, but not good!

For a nice beer I think it is. Especially considering you'd play close to the same for a pint of piss in Temple bar!

CatFromHue

Why would any Irish person go to Temple Bar?

I went there for Paddies day a few years back and ended up there one Thursday evening a couple of years back paying 6 something for a pint.

I'd never go there again.

Grimebox

CatFromHue wrote: »

Why would any Irish person go to Temple Bar?

I went there for Paddies day a few years back and ended up there one Thursday evening a couple of years back paying 6 something for a pint.

I'd never go there again.

I handed over a 20 for three pints in The Temple Bar a while back. The bar tender asked for another 40c. That's right, €6.80 a pint

dregin

Best pub in that area is Mulligans.

/me heads to the beers thread...

dregin

Is it time for an invite-only thread? Not the whole forum - just one thread. Getting sick of the massive influx of bilge that match days bring.

someone PM me when it's safe.

Pudsy33

We could set up a boards rugby group?

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

Pudsy33 wrote: »

We could set up a boards rugby group?

I'd be up for that. It was impossible to talk about rugby in the match thread yesterday after the game with the amount of bull**** posts flowing

Either the typical : "typical Ireland, always bottlers" or the " ROG would have gotten that kick", "sick of these moral victories" posts

awec

Pudsy33 wrote: »

We could set up a boards rugby group?

You can't set social groups up any more on boards.

Pudsy33

awec wrote: »

You can't set social groups up any more on boards.

Bollox! Is there anything of that ilk still around?

awec

Sort of. There are private forums - forums that only specific people can see, read and post in.

Ugo Monye spacecraft experience

awec wrote: »

Sort of. There are private forums - forums that only specific people can see, read and post in.

Is there a way to set on up?

ScissorPaperRock

dregin wrote: »

Is it time for an invite-only thread? Not the whole forum - just one thread. Getting sick of the massive influx of bilge that match days bring.

Do they exist? I was thinking something like that would be good, so the regulars could interact around match-time without all the crazies making discussion impossible. At the same time maybe it would be kind of exclusionary.

P.Walnuts

Could always set up the forum to be request access like the soccer forum, that would probably stop the day trippers on match day

don't go private.

Podge_irl

P.Walnuts wrote: »

Could always set up the forum to be request access like the soccer forum, that would probably stop the day trippers on match day

Would stop a lot of other people as well.

dregin

Yeah, an all-out invite only approach is a bit too aggressive. Maybe an invite only sub-forum?

.ak

Careful, you'll give awec ideas.... if I find a harp private forum then we all could be in danger.

justsomebloke

hmmm a private rugby forum to talk about......













....american football fantasy football

Podge_irl

dregin wrote: »

Yeah, an all-out invite only approach is a bit too aggressive. Maybe an invite only sub-forum?

Only if I control who gets invites.

I've had enough of Buer's hasty, ill-thought out bull****.

Swiwi.

.ak wrote: »

Careful, you'll give awec ideas.... if I find a harp private forum then we all could be in danger.

Could awec invite himself, though?

Fireball07

My internet conked out during the first half of the game...... I couldn't bring myself to read it after, was so so gutted. Still am tbh, feel empty inside


But is it in any worth my while reading through the match thread?

ScissorPaperRock

Fireball07 wrote: »

But is it in any worth my while reading through the match thread?

Avoid that place at all costs.

(well at least yesterday's posts)

Buer

Podge_irl wrote: »

Only if I control who gets invites.

I've had enough of Buer's hasty, ill-thought out bull****.

Podge, there's only two things I hate in this world: racism and the Swiss.

(I'm considering you Swiss)

Howard Juneau

Stayed away from the match day thread since about 10am yesterday & didn't read a single post there until about 7pm as I thought it might have cooled down then.......Jesus was I wrong

Burgo

Just caught the end of against the head. Joanne Cantwell is pregnant, heart broken

Swiwi.

Burgo wrote: »

Just caught the end of against the head. Joanne Cantwell is pregnant, heart broken

That'll learn you not to use contraception

awec

A Café in Belfast has just introduced the Goliath XXL Breakfast:



How many on here would fancy their chances at getting through that in one sitting, withing the 45 minute limit?

Teferi

...I'd probably back myself to finish that.

awec

Dunno, that's a lot of bread.

Would need about 5 bottles of brown sauce to even attempt it, along with about 10 pots of tea.

I love the token tomatoes.

Fireball07

Easy.


I don't really like egg or mushrooms though, my pickiness would beat me


Do you get it for free if you do it?

awec

Fireball07 wrote: »

Easy.


I don't really like egg or mushrooms though, my pickiness would beat me


Do you get it for free if you do it?

It's £9 (which is really cheap considering how much there is), you get a fiver back if you finish it in 45 minutes.

They were saying earlier that everyone who has attempted has failed, and it's always the bread that gets them.

P.Walnuts

The toast would be the killer....whats the things to the left of the sausages?

Also needs more fried eggs

Teferi

awec wrote: »

I love the token tomatoes.

Carbs don't count if you have a bit of fruit...?

Fireball07

P.Walnuts wrote: »

The toast would be the killer....whats the things to the left of the sausages?

Also needs more fried eggs

Look like hash browns.

awec wrote: »

It's £9 (which is really cheap considering how much there is), you get a fiver back if you finish it in 45 minutes.

They were saying earlier that everyone who has attempted has failed, and it's always the bread that gets them.

Not too bad......That is a challenge.


I quite like bread, provides a nice buffer. It doesn't look as much as would be in a whole french stick.

awec

P.Walnuts wrote: »

The toast would be the killer....whats the things to the left of the sausages?

Also needs more fried eggs

Pancakes.

Top left is soda farls, bottom left is potato bread, beside the soda farls is pancakes and below that is normal toast.

Teferi

P.Walnuts wrote: »

The toast would be the killer....whats the things to the left of the sausages?

Looks like pancakes.

awec

If you did finish it I imagine the rest of your day would be spent lying in bed feeling sorry for yourself.