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#1381
GAA Discussion / Re: Jerome Ousted?
May 16, 2010, 05:19:58 PM
Sorry Maguire. Motorbike racing is a tough sport, i'm a bit tired and emotional today.  ;)
#1382
GAA Discussion / Re: Jerome Ousted?
May 16, 2010, 04:34:44 PM
Quote from: Hardy on May 16, 2010, 03:57:17 PM
Quote from: Keyser soze on May 16, 2010, 02:08:56 PM
WTF, why is GSTQ played before a motorbike race?

Indeed. And why is Amhrán na bhFiann played before a football match?

Dunno, but feel free to have a bash at answering  my question and then i'll have a wee go at yours.

Quote from: Maguire01 on May 16, 2010, 04:04:25 PM
Quote from: Hardy on May 16, 2010, 03:57:17 PM
Quote from: Keyser soze on May 16, 2010, 02:08:56 PM
WTF, why is GSTQ played before a motorbike race?
Indeed. And why is Amhrán na bhFiann played before a football match?
Exactly. It's telling that Keyser only found it odd when it was GSTQ, but really it's no more odd than before every football match.
Surely a national anthem is for international events? At any rate, it should be limited to finals, preferably just the AI.


It's telling you what!! Maybe you should have a go at answering the question rather than spouting on about some assumption you're making about my views on a completely different matter. Bang on form for you though.
#1383
Thought i'd misheard that about a minute'ssilence for the famine. Have i missed something. Astonishing.

Bloody hell gaelic is difficult to watch on tv, completely boring. Somebody needs to inform the ref that this is a physiacl game played between consenting adults, he doesn't need to blow his whistle everytime someone gets touched.
#1384
GAA Discussion / Re: Jerome Ousted?
May 16, 2010, 02:08:56 PM
Quote from: Myles Na G. on May 15, 2010, 07:47:59 PM
Quote from: Maguire01 on May 15, 2010, 06:40:53 PM
Quote from: cornafean on May 15, 2010, 06:29:15 PM
I'm no legal eagle but I suspect that Jerome will win his case.
I can't see it myself. His case was based on being discriminated because he was an Irish Catholic, yet he was replaced by other Irish Catholics.
I don't think he has done himself any favours in bringing this case.
Agreed. He has provided not one shred of evidence to substantiate his claims. The evidence that has come out, has been in favour of the BBC - Quinn accessing messageboards in work time and slagging his employer into the bargain, the BBC replacing Quinn with Irish Catholics, the BBC giving the sports personality award to a GAA star even though Quinn claims the panel was rigged against the GAA - and noone has stepped forward to speak on the complainant's behalf. GAA people who have spoken out have talked warmly of the relationship between the sport and the broadcasters. His nonsense talk about the NW 200 being a Protestant sport (culchie borefest, maybe, but Protestant??  ::)) has made him appear a bit hysterical and has done nothing to enhance his work prospects in the future. In addition, the case has done nothing for the image of the GAA: Mr GAA himself looks like a disgruntled employee with a chip on his shoulder, while all the GAA message boarders and facebookers who have weighed in to support him have given credence to the theory that your average GAA Joe or Josephine is a grievance on legs who sees evidence of discrimination everywhere, even where it doesn't exist.

Was at this yesterday. Jerome might well be wrong about it being a protestant sport but it appears that it is british as they played GTSQ before it started. i was on autopilot and stood up when they said please stand for the national anthem, i was expecting AnB so imagine my shock when they started to play GSTQ. It took me a few seconds to gather my wits whereupon i promptly sat down.

WTF, why is GSTQ played before a motorbike race, i found this completely astonishing that the organisers would do this.

Also to say that this is one of the biggest sporting events in Ireland is a complete joke. All these media reports of 100,000+ people attending this is absurd, at most there are 10,000 paying supporters at this race. There's no way motorbike racing is remotely comparable to GAA in terms of popularity but you would think by media reports and specifically the BBC that the NW200 and the handful of other races that occur each year draw in more crowds than GAA. To be truthful i've seen bigger crowds in portrush for the raft race day and to be truthful watching the Raft race is as exciting as watching the motorbikes.

The resources the BBC put into that yesterday and indeed all week is unbelievable. That complete tool Stephen Watson was creaming himself over Philipp Macallen all day. Makes a change from w**king over Healy i suppose.

Jerome, who i don't think will or should win his case, certainly has a prima facie case that the GA is not given the status it deserves is the largest spectator sport in ireland.
#1385
Thought that was a great match. The writing was on the wall for united when they went down to 10 men and i think they would have held on if they had of kept 11 on the pitch. They also missed some chances just after the sending off which made me think it wasn't gonna be their night.

Fair play to Bayern they played some really good stuff over the 2 legs & u can't deny them their place in the semi. Wonder strike from Robben, deserving of winning any tie. Thought Fergie was a bit unsporting with some of his comments after the game, he shoulda at least congratulated BM and wished them all the best, the BM players didn't do anything Utd's, or indeed most clubs', players have done.
#1386
This is all news to me. I've spent many a good friday in a pub south of the border.

'It's Good Friday, we're closed, come in quick and don't be stannin out there all day till the whole town sees ye'
#1387
General discussion / Re: Official Gooners Thread
March 09, 2010, 08:51:19 PM
Hi any links to the game?
#1388
Can't see why helicopter pilots would be learning hard interrogation techniques like waterboarding. Load of sensationalist nonsense, not of course taking anythiny away from the suffering of the child, but this guy's occupation and the link to waterboarding is tenuous from what i read.
#1389
General discussion / Re: Homophobia and racism in Ireland
February 09, 2010, 07:34:29 PM
I think that both racism and homophobia are fairly rife amongst Irish people and i've heard many examples of the former, even within my own family, and i've  got nieces and nephews who are half chinese. When i pointed this out the response was  'ah that's different' WTF!!!

I would partly support what Myles said in that it is mind boggling for the Irish to be racist given their treatment abroad in the past. It's particularly disheartening to hear Irish Americans spout some of this nonsense when abroad [my brother and Sis-in-law].

Having said that I'm surprised to see posters saying that Irish/Americans and/or Americans are more racist than anyone else, where's the evidence for this?

I would differentiate between a person's sexual orientation and their race in that a person's race is absolutely predetermined at conception. I don't subscribe to the view that sexual orientation is predetermined at conception in the same fashion but is a mixture of genes, nurture and lifestyle choice. [I have zero evidence for this theory, please do not ask for any as a refusal often offends] No reason to treat them any differently tho. Having said that I wouldn't like my son be a homosexual, though i feel this unlikely as i don't have any children, despite some legendary feats in trying to beget some.  ;)
#1390
Daryl Grimason.
#1391
General discussion / Re: The Good American in Haiti
February 05, 2010, 01:46:55 PM
Bloody hell, there are some slow learners on this thread, I can't believe you's are are still feeding the bears 20 pages later, though admittedly some of the posts on here are top quality comedic stuff.

I'm always up for a debate, in fact it's hard to bate a good humdinger of an argument on occasion, but surely to god you's have bound to have realised by now that it is completely pointless having an argument with TO, simply because he refuses to engage in anything remotely approaching debate.

S/he reminds me of Vicky Pollard being called up in front of the headmaster,

'yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but it was Sue Jones fault cos she snogged Jason who's goin out with Whitneys big sister who has the 3 kids by Trace's brothers.................'

#1392
General discussion / Re: The Good American in Haiti
January 29, 2010, 06:50:34 PM
It's a waste of time posting on here as this fool TO is incapable of engaging in debate, i'm not sure he understands what debate means.

His MO is to accuse other posters of having hatred for America, an anti-US agenda, reading the wrong papers and watching the wrong TV channels. He does this without even having the courtesy to read their posts apparently. Despite his multiple posts he has signally failed to put forward any discernible points in the US's defence, instead spewing bile at any other poster who criticises his adopted homeland.

The good news is that Ireland's gain is the USA's loss when TO emigrated. The average ingtelligence index in Ireland spiked up a point or 2 when this gimp got on the plane. [Probably went up a notch or 2 in Texas tho when he arrived]  ;D
#1393
No worries, I can understand how my post could have been open to [a wrong] interpretation if given a once over.
#1394
General discussion / Re: The Good American in Haiti
January 26, 2010, 06:15:33 PM

Maybe you missed Ha Ha Derry's post on page 3... either that or it simply doesn't suit the agenda here and that's to thrash America at every opportunity ::)
QuoteI cannot recall any other recent natural disaster where the humanitarian effort was preceded by the arrival of an invasion sized military detachment from a neighbouring country.
Can you recall any recent disasters that occurred in such an impoverished, unorganized violent and inaccessible place

Well I suppose Banda Ache, North Pakistan and eh ................ :DNew Orleans. I don't have an agenda.

QuoteThe other world view is that if you watch Al Jazeera [which to the best of my knowledge is a very well respected news channel] it is an imperative that you will automatically be anti-American
And we're being defensive?.....where did I say Al Jazeera weren't a reputable network, you'd simply be hard pressed
to find any positive slant on the US in any way shape or form

You sneeringly dismissed a poster's point because he provided a link to an interview with Al Jazeera.

QuoteIf you want to defend what the USA has done in Haiti in relation to their aid effort, do so. Don't post irrelevant claptrap which only serves to make you look like a fool.
Anyone that holds such animosity and hate regardless of the subject are who look and sound like fools here!

I don't have any animosity or hate and nowhere in the bit you have quoted is there any intimation of either, so again I'll contend that it is you who is the fool. I asked for your opinion on the thread title i.e. the USA's effort in Haiti but of course you're so busy falling over yourself to tackle the man that you couldn't pick the ball up when it bounced in front of you, a**h*le.

QuoteWith political insight like this it is no wonder that idiots of the calibre of G W Bush and Sarah Palin can garner such levels of support from the US public.
Surely you know by now that the statement above makes you sound like an ignorant idiot!
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Well actually no I don't. Bush and Palin are idiots and it is a sad reflection of a, thankfully, minority of Americans that these clowns can garner substantial support. From your comments on here, which display a complete lack of awareness of how the US is perceived abroad, I presumed, and I beg your pardon if I presumed incorrectly, that you would be a supporter of these 2 who display a similar lack of knowledge and awareness.
#1395
Spot on Zig.