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http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1217/839608-meath-county-council-cyber-attack/

...Seven weeks ago, the council was the victim of what is known as a "CEO fraud" whereby large sums of money are transferred to criminals on foot of a bogus instruction in the name of a company chief executive...


Dear Meath CC,

I am the Chief Executive of NighErIan prinCesses @ GAA bord dOt cOM.

Please send me €4m in order for you mák happiest.

bLess U.

P.S Gud luk in the fupball.

The above is scientist Leonid Kulik who lived in Russia in the early 1900s. He apparently died in 1942. But I think he looks very familiar.

Here is an article about him in the appropriately named Museum of Unnatural History: http://www.unmuseum.org/kulik.htm

Any others?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zq7d2p3#zq2jxsg

I got Extreme Sports

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37967178

Laoislad put this site up on the Liverpool thread over the Summer and I decided to try it out.

http://www.shootjerseys.win

It is very cheap - I got a full kids replica kit, including socks, shorts and jersey with name and number, for less than half the cost of the jersey alone here ($21.98). Nothing wrong with the quality either. Also the 'Standard Shipping' was very cheap as well, using ParcelMotel.

With Christmas coming I though more people on the site might be interested. I would also like to now how others got on with them. Any bad experiences?

I have just ordered a kids replica tracksuit.

We have had greatest everything else. It is time we follow Journalists, Architects, the Music Industry etc, and give ourselves a big annual award.

Who should the nominees be?

[Connacht GAA Centre protest reaches 100 days]

Connacht GAA Centre protest reaches 100 days

"It will take as long as it takes", said Sy Ferrous, a lifelong Roscommon fan who wants the GAA centre moved east to Roscommon.

"Lookit, I hate bias in people and I hate bias in the GAA, so why can't they move it to Roscommon?" he said.

It seems a reasonable question, but for Sy and his fellow Rossie - Ross Fann - it has become a crusade. Or rather two crusades. Early in the 100 days the men fell out with each other and no longer speak, but both give different reasons for the rift.

Ross points to the purchase of a GPS Navigator when they were planning to make their way to East Mayo together.

"That Baluba bought a second hand TomTom on eBay, from a feckin' Jackeen. A Jackeen! Sure the bloody thing had never been outside the M50. We spent the first 37 days protesting just outside bloody Enniscrone! It wasn't until I smelt seaweed and then saw the ocean that I knew we weren't in feckin' East Mayowestros, shur Mayo doesn't even touch the ocean" Ross told us.

He explained that a kind man from Pakistan told him how to get to Ballyhaunis and he figured out the rest of the way to Bekan himself.

"I got directions from a man called Younis, that'll tell you how far we were from Mayowestros!"

Sy has a different story. He says that they were both 'still in the same tent pissing out, long after they came to Bekan'. He told us that the real dispute arose due to the trials and tribulations of their beloved Galacticos on the Roscelona team. When it emerged there was a split in the management and that fell along fault lines dividing their two clubs, the die was cast. Sy said Ross immediately wanted out of Sy's tent and moved just up the road, into his own tent.

Sy says he thinks reconciliation is: "further than ever away, as each week Ross moves his tent 5 metres further up the road". "Shur at that rate he'll be back in Roscommon any day" said the Brigid's man.

However, despite their differences, both men are determined to right what they see as an unforgivable wrong. "There is only one place the Connacht GAA centre should be and that is at the home of football" says Sy. "Kiltoom!".

Ross clearly disagreed, as he picked up his tent and moved another five metres away from Sy. "It should be nowhere, next, nigh or near Kiltoom. That lot have effed up Roscelona as it is and the only place for the GAA Centre is in Rossified Ballaghaderreen." said an animated Ross.

The GaaBoard Sat Higher News put it to both men that the most distant point in Roscommon was closer to Bekan, than the furthest points in Sligo, Leitrim, Galway and even Mayo.

"That'll be that f*cking Jackeen TomTom again" said Ross.

Sy didn't say anything. He just just packed up his tent and moved 5 metres up the road.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/hurricane-matthew-bahamas-florida-georgia-carolinas-forecast

Looks like it could be a bad one. Amazingly it could loop around and hit Florida a second time next week!

Anyone within an asses roar, stay safe!

And why?

I am not sure I get the French logic on this one. Nude beaches are ok, but a silly looking full length swimsuit isn't? I've seen people wearing things on beaches that caused the waves to reverse course, but that was usually too much body wearing too little cloth.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-24/paul-craig-roberts-warns-armageddon-approaches-after-german-leak
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/06/09/germany-preparing-for-war-against-russia.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37155060
http://www.thelocal.de/20160821/germany-to-chart-first-civil-defence-plan-since-cold-war-report

Is this just electioneering or is there any real merit to this?

15 (loosely) Irish disciplines that require only skill and little or no fitness and in particular that doping would be of no use whatsoever.

You must complete each task fully before moving on to the next task.

Here are a few suggestions:

1) Start on a footpath and hit the opposite kerb with a ball, thrown by the hand in any way - 5 times;
Then quickly..
2) Walk backwards to a nearby Gaa pitch and sideline cut a sliothar over the bar - 3 times;
Then...
3) Pick either sideline and kick a Gaelic football over the bar, from off the pitch - 3 times;
Next....
4) Jog 50m past a bunch of pundits who are shouting abuse at you, such as 'You are not a MON!' and 'Puke Penta-Decathlete!'
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15) Quickly bog snorkel your way the last 100m to to the finish line.

Any ideas for the rest?
Rules:
Obviously it would be completely amateur (no money involved anywhere) otherwise the Dubs and British cycling would be in the finals all the time.
You can pull down one opponent on the way but you will get a black card and be removed form that event. Your score from that event will only count if you didn't get any ticks from the referees for messing.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/36984887

1) French Rugby 7s player
2) Swedish golfer
3) Mongolian wrestler

I thought it was going to be a lot worse than that!

From sledging to hair ruffling, from diving for frees/penalties to professional fouls, to the ridiculous sight of hurlers shouldering each other like horny bullocks fighting for no purpose at all, when the ball isn't even in play.......

Why do we see so much of it?
Why do so many people accept it as 'part of the game'?

I don't want to point the finger at particular players or incidents. As far as I can see, every team has some players who get involved to some degree. I am more interested in why match officials do nothing about it, why pundits in the main ignore it and why the GAA top brass fail to deal with it.

It looks terrible, it annoys the crowd no end and sets a terrible example for kids who mimic their heroes week in week out. It can turn a wonderful spectacle into an eye-sore and ruin the enjoyment for many. So why do we put up with it?