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awec

Fireball07 wrote: »

Sunderland beat Everton in Goodison for the first time in over 17 years


I'm a happy, happy man :D:D:D

I am up home this weekend, and every year up here on Stephens day the local football (soccer) teams play in the big local derbies. My local team won their derby this year for the first time since 1996 and the winning goal was literally the last kick of the game.

Absolutely fantastic and I fully celebrated that winner - mainly because most of my mates support the other lot and I've had 17 years of misery listening to them c**ts.

irishbucsfan

awec wrote: »

I am up home this weekend, and every year up here on Stephens day the local football (soccer) teams play in the big local derbies. My local team won their derby this year for the first time since 1996 and the winning goal was literally the last kick of the game.

Absolutely fantastic and I fully celebrated that winner - mainly because most of my mates support the other lot and I've had 17 years of misery listening to them c**ts.

...Dungannon?

awec

irishbucsfan wrote: »

...Dungannon?

No, I support a much bigger team than Dungannon. They don't really have a proper derby to be honest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25519549

Howard Juneau

awec wrote: »

I am up home this weekend, and every year up here on Stephens day the local football (soccer) teams play in the big local derbies. My local team won their derby this year for the first time since 1996 and the winning goal was literally the last kick of the game.

Absolutely fantastic and I fully celebrated that winner - mainly because most of my mates support the other lot and I've had 17 years of misery listening to them c**ts.

Wonder if Portadown were involved?

awec

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Wonder if Portadown were involved?

Aye! Good guess sir!

Howard Juneau

awec wrote: »

Aye! Good guess sir!

My cousin plays for them

.ak

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Not watching, but I'm guessing they are asking him things he wouldnt have a clue about, like spelling his name, or counting to 10, hard shìte like that.
Quite unfair really when you think of all he has given to the world in his great thespian roles, he's Larry Olivier reborn !

He basically tried acting the hard man but they ripped him to shreds. Very funny.

awec

Howard Juneau wrote: »

My cousin plays for them

Whom?

CatFromHue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tJoIaXZ0rw

JGL :cool::cool:

Hagz

CatFromHue wrote: »

JGL :cool::cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ajQ-foj2Q

CatFromHue

Music inspired by JGL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW-fbpuHKQc

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I was in an Irish bar in America one Sunday night that ended up turning into Karoake bar. The roof was blown off the place by the enthusiasm of the crowd it was insane. When some guy got up and sang the theme song to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air it was like being at a rock concert, I was half expecting lit Zippo lighter to be raised up except for the fact that the crowd was singing so loudly!

Grimebox

Hagz wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ajQ-foj2Q

I don't understand how Jimmy Fallon has a job

Buer

Grimebox wrote: »

I don't understand how Jimmy Fallon has a job

If you make it onto the cast of SNL, you're pretty much guaranteed a successful career. The list of former cast members is ridiculous. If you make it, you're set for life. Not a big fan of Fallon but he's very good at impressions and is handy musically which helped nail down a spot with SNL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcdVD95PxwY

If people ever want to know who they're going to be watching in comedy blockbusters and top television comedies in 5 years, just watch a current episode of SNL!

Teferi

SNL is woejus. I couldn't force myself to sit through an episode.

I quite like Fallon though...

irishbucsfan

Bobby Moynihan is very funny on it at the moment

Buer

SNL is very geared to American humour and can be hard to get into but some stuff that has come through it is excellent. Wayne's World, Dick In A Box, More Cowbell, Sarah Palin, Celebrity Jeopardy etc. So much stuff that ended up being viral online sketches originated from SNL.

Throw in the live aspect and a different host every week (I don't like Paul Rudd but saw his hosting recently and he was pretty damn funny) and it works.

.ak

Old school SNL with Aykroyd, belushi and Murray etc was gold.

irishbucsfan

It goes through strong periods. But those periods are destined to end as soon as they begin because the show is a stepping stone (IE, Fallon being replaced by Seth Meyers). If you look at some of the people who went through it recently there are some top comedic actors who've been on the show recently (Forte, Hader, Wiig, Sudeikis, Seth Meyers leaving) but they've cleaned house a bit now so I'm not sure who in the current cast is much good. Although I like Moynihan and his Drunk Uncle sketch.

Buer

Looking back and reading through the story of SNL and how the highs and lows of the show ebbed with those who were in it is interesting. The show is considered to have had several horrific seasons where wholesale changes were required and multiple cast members were sacked at the end of a season.

When all the original cast and Lorne Michaels (the creator) departed in 1980, the show came close to being cancelled and Eddie Murphy is widely acknowledged as having saved the show almost single handed (scary to think Murphy was only 20 when on the show). The Mr. Robinson sketches (based on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood) were brilliant. David Spade lampooned Murphy in the early 90s on the show in a sketch and the entire studio booed him; Murphy is still revered at SNL. The funniest part about that is Murphy called Spade and completely berated him with Spade apologising like a little boy.

The show was so screwed when he departed that they broke regular policy and hired established comedians for a year to save their bacon for the next season for one season (Billy Crystal, Pamela Stephenson, Martin Short).

Some of the documentaries that have been made on the show and the politics behind the scenes are very interesting. A lot of the most revered stars (Chevy Chase, Bill Murray) are the biggest assh*les that were ever involved it would seem.

awec

Howard Webb is some joker. :mad:

Not having good experiences of referees this weekend.

thomond2006

Latest update on Schumacher doesn't sound good for him. I grew up watching him in F1.

Howard Juneau

Induced coma though, it's probably cautionary in case of any chance of haemorrhage

Swiwi.

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Induced coma though, it's probably cautionary in case of any chance of haemorrhage

More likely hemorrhage => reduced GCS => intubate & ventilate.

At a generic level I hope he pulls through but he gives me the same feelings that lance Armstrong does. Some of his skulduggery on the racetrack was pretty unsportsmanlike.

Buer

I recall as a child sitting up late and watching the last race of the season when him and Hill were going head to head and he crashed into Hill to take him out when Hill needed to finish ahead of him to claim the title.

He's probably the single greatest driver of all time but what made him so good is what makes him so difficult to like at times. Win at all costs. Guys like himself. Roy Keane, Armstrong are all amazing athletes in their own right but just do whatever they have to whether it's putting in a wonderful performance or taking things into their own hands.

Journeyman_1

Ah here, i dont agree you can put schumi and armstrong in the same bracket. Sure, both have been at the top of their sport and done some questionable things along the way, but taking performance enhancing drugs is a lot worse than anything schumi ever did (imo at least).

Ill be very upset if he doesnt make it through this!

Buer

No, you're right. Armstrong is on a plane of his own. Just a comparison in terms of they'll take matters into their own hands to win and go outside the rules. Obviously what Armstrong did was reprehensible in comparison to Schumacher.

I've gone on record before here about drugs in sports and I hate the idea. I think some sports are absolutely destroyed by them. I was fairly active in athletics when younger and followed the Olympics avidly but, in recent years, I really have no faith in any of the top athletes. At great as Bolt, for example, has been for sprinting, I don't believe for a micro second that he's not juiced up to the eyeballs given the circumstantial evidence available.

awec

How many men does it take to massage a footballing superstar?

Is that a jock strap he's wearing?

mfceiling

awec wrote: »

How many men does it take to massage a footballing superstar?

Is that a jock strap he's wearing?

You get a feeling that the lad on the left, with his hands on the neck could just as easily choke the fcuker!!

molloyjh

Happy New Year lads and lassies. Have a good one.

irishbucsfan

Thought I'd go into London and watch the fireworks with some friends. We got there, took one look at the state of play and decided to pack it in! It was madness in there, massively packed with people!

.ak

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Thought I'd go into London and watch the fireworks with some friends. We got there, took one look at the state of play and decided to pack it in! It was madness in there, massively packed with people!

London? Packed with people? No way!

durkadurka

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Thought I'd go into London and watch the fireworks with some friends. We got there, took one look at the state of play and decided to pack it in! It was madness in there, massively packed with people!

It's Madness in Dublin too as it happens

irishbucsfan

.ak wrote: »

London? Packed with people? No way!

It seemed twice as busy as the Olympics though. Just people being herded around by the police. We just had some chicken and beers and went and watched it all on bbc instead!

awec

Happy New Year lads.

Seriously, yous are all class like.

Howard Juneau

awec wrote: »

Happy New Year lads.

Seriously, yous are all class like.

We love you too awec!

awec

Howard Juneau wrote: »

We love you too awec!

Am I your favourite mod then? :pac:

Howard Juneau

awec wrote: »

Am I your favourite mod then? :pac:

Shhh! You'll make ak jealous

BBDBB

photos of men in jockstraps being prepared for a probing and love ins with mods????

its all gone very graham Norton :eek:

OldRio

durkadurka wrote: »

It's Madness in Dublin too as it happens

Very quiet in Leitrim.
Always very quiet in Leitrim.
Not the same since the council took down our one set of traffic lights.
Lovely memories them lights.

RuggieBear

awec wrote: »

Am I your favourite mod then? :pac:

Howard Juneau

^^^^ we need a new poll?

irishbucsfan

RuggieBear wrote: »

Do it properly!

.ak

I am the liquor.

awec

I feel grand this morning!

mfceiling

Man U beaten at home by Spurs...must be heaven for all you ABU's out there.

I follow Wolves so...

Buer

mfceiling wrote: »

Man U beaten at home by Spurs...must be heaven for all you ABU's out there.

I follow Wolves so...

I'm a Liverpool follower but not exactly rabid. More an interest in seeing them do well and checking their results these days rather than ever bothering to watch 90 minutes. Having Staunton, Houghton and Aldridge in their team made them very easy to like when I first started watching sports avidly.

But I must say I take a small amount of pleasure in seeing Man Utd slide. Anyone who grew up in the 1990s will have had to endure massive amounts of Man Utd fans in their school who were an utter nightmare to discuss football with (side note, if you didn't, you were probably one of said United fans that was loathed).

awec

Long may their fall from grace continue.

If they finish outside the top 4 it would be outstanding.

mfceiling

Darts are great tonight.

Live streams FTW

Grimebox

New ep of Sherlock on right now on bbc1

Grimebox

One of the two of us has to change our avatar mfceiling :pac: