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[Just because you buy a house beside a GAA stadium doesn't mean you can't be pissed off]

Just because you buy a house beside a GAA stadium doesn't mean you can't be pissed off when you  have to be a prisoner in it if and when the GAA decide to prostitute the ground.

Yes it does.

[Plenty of people bought property in areas known to flood and took their chances]

Are you of the same opinion to those affected by the floods who are complaining about the poor flood defences in their area?

Plenty of people bought property in areas known to flood and took their chances. Likewise with Croke Park/Casement etc, choosing to live beside a stadium where houses might be cheaper etc on the basis that you might be able to stop it being used is not very publicly spirited.

So f*ck them then - it's their own fault, they should have moved and have no right to complain?

Yes.

For my next trick I'm going to buy a dirt-cheap house beside an open-cast coal mine and then complain about the dust.

Sure, it's dead easy to uproot home and family and move away these days isn't it. Just sell their house and move the whole family out of the area because Garth Brooks want to play a concert. It's mad that a reasonably intelligent poster like yourself would think this is a viable solution.

Um, people move all the time. I've moved house about six times in the last ten years. Every Saturday the main roads around here are full of U-Haul trucks. What's the big deal? Are you implying that it's physically impossible for people to do something as common as move from one house to another? Jesus wept!

Why don't all the people who live near floods just move? Coming on TV whinging about their houses being ruined! And don't get me started on those who live in earthquake zones!

Aside from the sheer stupidity of comparing unpreventable natural disasters to a concert, I choose to live in earthquake country and I take my chances with it. I take responsibility. I take precautions. I have a survival kit at the ready if the worst does happen. I have earthquake insurance on my house. I live on more solid ground. What I don't do is go whinging to a (non-existent) higher authority angrily demanding that these earthquakes stop.

It's dead easy when you don't live there.

Exactly. So why do they live there if they hate it so much?

Tough shit Phillipines.

Huh?

Sure, it's dead easy to uproot home and family and move away these days isn't it. Just sell their house and move the whole family out of the area because Garth Brooks want to play a concert. It's mad that a reasonably intelligent poster like yourself would think this is a viable solution. Why don't all the people who live near floods just move? Coming on TV whinging about their houses being ruined! And don't get me started on those who live in earthquake zones!

Why did they move there in the first place? Croke Park out-dates many generations of any family at this stage. The choice was made one way or the other. Sympathy because you choose to live beside the third largest stadium in Europe is in short supply, I'm afraid.

+1. Nobody put a gun to their heads and made them move in beside one of the biggest stadiums in Europe. I mean, did they not notice the damn thing towering over them when they were looking for a place to live?

And the boozed up t**ts standing pissing in their gardens at all hours?

If "boozed up twats are pissing in their gardens at all hours" then it's a matter for law enforcement. If they're getting away with it it's because the Guards aren't doing their jobs, not because there's a concert on.  Only in Ireland would people think that if you get large numbers of people in the same place at the same time then you're inevitably going to have people pissing and puking all over the place. In a reasonably advanced country it should be possible to organize an event like this without taking it as read that the place is going to be wrecked.

Or Slane Girl types round the back of their wheelie bins?

Slane "Girl"?  Wasn't there a boy or two involved in that incident? How come we only ever seem to refer to the female part? How come the prospect of "Slane Girl" types in the street strike terror into everyone's hearts but the prospect of "Slane boy" types never gets a look in, hmm?

It's dead easy when you don't live there.

Exactly. So why do they live there if they hate it so much?

Tough shit Phillipines.

Huh?

About these residents. We're they living in some isolated rural setting when a giant stadium suddenly appeared beside them one day?

Why do people live in cities if they have such a hard time sharing space with others?

Play me the world's smallest violin.

Will probably avail of the cycle to work scheme and go for the Boardman team carbon bike from Halfords,,

What sort of pedals and shoes would you recommend? Do I need to buy, shoes, the associated cleats that suit the pedals?

What do I need to look out for?

I use the Look Keo system. Use grey or red cleats, stay away from the black ones because they have no float, so if your cleat isn't set dead straight then you could get a repetitive strain injury in your knee. The reds give you the most leeway, greys a little less. I use the greys because I like to be able to clip out a bit easier.

Get your bike shop to check your riding position and the straightness of your feet. A good shop will put you on a turbo trainer so they can watch you pedal and make sure your cleats are on right, so your knee shouldn't be flicking to the side at TDC. Very hard to spot that sort of thing yourself, it takes an outside observer.

"You're gonna ditch her now, Ted!"

I gave up about ten minutes into Hunger.  Couldn't stick the slow pace.

[the second one is just a pathetic attention-starved individual looking some likes on their fb to try and massage their ego]

A lot of sad b**tards have done the whole neck nomination thing and fair play that's there prerogative. 
They've met their match though in equally sad b**tards that are getting their friends to video them while they do something cringeworthy like buy someone's groceries for them because that person has a child with them and looks 'poor'.
The first instance is just some puke following a craze that to the best of my knowledge has died down already, the second one is just a pathetic attention-starved individual looking some likes on their fb to try and massage their ego.

So someone who makes a dick out of themselves by necking a pint is not "a pathetic attention-starved individual looking some likes on their fb to try and massage their ego"?

Got it.

So let's get this straight.

Jumping on a populist movement purely in order to get your fb video shared and liked as many times as possible by downing a pint of beer - makes you the life and soul of the party and a great fella altogether.

Jumping on a populist movement purely in order to get your fb video shared and liked as many times as possible by telling people not to jump on a populist movement purely in order to get your fb video shared and liked as many times as possible by downing a pint of beer - makes you a self righteous dickhead.

Is that the gist of it?

No, what makes you a p***k is being a self righteous d**khead, especially when that is achieved by jumping on a populist movement purely in order to get your fb video shared and liked as many times as possible.

See what I mean?

Anyone got any interest in this at all?

Always enjoyed it myself.  The figure skating has always been a personal favourite of mine. Whatever event's on I'll take a look at it, including the strange sports I've never seen before. It's interesting to see people pushing themselves to be the best in the world in what you'd think are niche sports. The ski jumpers are amazing.

[something few, if any, are all that interested in]

€50 billion is a horrid lot to spend on something few, if any, are all that interested in.

1.8 billion people watched Vancouver 2010.

Carry on.