Bad Beat/Moaning/Venting - pray for Lazare

[dobby]

It's fine now, but it was down for a few mins earlier.

Must take a little longer to travel here. Just crashed.

[dobby]

Maradona > Messi
Madonna > Lady ga ga
Cidona > Top deck
My Sharona > She used to be mine
Liga> Rusks

I refuse to budge.

What is top deck and she used to be mine?

[ComradeCollie]

What is top deck ?

Don't remember that one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Deck_(drink)

[Solskjaer]

What is top deck and she used to be mine?

ah well spotted. My best friends girl friend. On 2nd thought though I was wrong

my best friends girl > my Sharona (I think, urmm feck it's a draw )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSmLh2Hbi0

[Solskjaer]

Hmmm, remarkably if you play the above tune on youtube the very next tune that comes up automatically is My Sharona.. Mad conincidence

[dobby]

ah well spotted. My best friends girl friend. On 2nd thought though I was wrong

my best friends girl > my Sharona (I think, urmm feck it's a draw )
l]

I didn't spot anything. I was genuinely asking. I'd never heard of my best friends girl until now either that top deck looks like shite though.

[Solskjaer]

I didn't spot anything. I was genuinely asking. I'd never heard of my best friends girl until now either that top deck looks like shite though.

Seria a shite or Premier leage shite. ?

Was gross all right but the top deck people just wouldn't agree. Cidona knocks it out of the park imo To me Cidona was La Liga and Top Deck was Seria A. Then somebody walked on the moon and soon the world forgot about the battle of the soda shandys but not me DOBBY not me.

[ComradeCollie]

ah well spotted. My best friends girl friend. On 2nd thought though I was wrong

my best friends girl > my Sharona (I think, urmm feck it's a draw )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSmLh2Hbi0

Really surprised that's as old as 1978. Would have sworn it was early 80's, from the same summer as the abrakebabra song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QyoRzZrF00

[Solskjaer]

One more

Stress

Changing a duvet cover > driving a wagonload of nitroglycerin down the mountainside though bandito territory in Mexico on payday.

[NewApproach]

One more

Stress

Changing a duvet cover > driving a wagonload of nitroglycerin down the mountainside though bandito territory in Mexico on payday.

Im the worst when it comes to housework but duvet covers are a breeze - have it inside out, arms through the middle, grab the corners of the duvet and flip it over. Twenty second job.

[Kayroo]

You seem to be making the better points overall, but your argumentative style is letting you down.

This made me laugh. You argue like a teenage girl

[oleras]

One more

Stress

Changing a duvet cover > driving a wagonload of nitroglycerin down the mountainside though bandito territory in Mexico on payday.

Use the inside out method.

Turn duvet cover inside out, go in from the front and find the 2 furthest corners, grab duvet with same hands and shake inside out.

edit:im late to the domestic goddess sleepover party it seems.

[Solskjaer]

Im the worst when it comes to housework but duvet covers are a breeze - have it inside out, arms through the middle, grab the corners of the duvet and flip it over. Twenty second job.

The missus does that but refuses to let me film it so I can study and learn. I got stuck inside it last time but luckily I had the wherewithal to bring my phone in there with me and was able to call for help.

[cardshark202]

also falls down on passive-aggressive tone here

Wasn't passive aggressive. Was light-hearted.

[cardshark202]

You seem to be making the better points overall, but your argumentative style is letting you down. Quote 2 here copies the same argument style as quote 1. And in each case your 'didn't realise' is just way too extravagant. Quote 3 is some sort of argument by absurdity that doesn't work. Yet while you start with these dodgy argumentative tics, when you get into your actual argument your are able to make it quite convincingly using appropriate claims to authority, data.

Make of this what you will.

Third quote there is satirising the logic that has befallen some of the debaters. Deliberately exaggerating. First two are admittedly somewhat antagonistic I guess, but it's not a serious debate really and not trying to get into some CHD vs iSnow battle of the crazies war or anything.

[Lazare]

For the last 24 hours in here, the duvet changing conversation was by far the most interesting.

Hitch fleetingly broke the boredom though with his confined space stone post.

[CHDad]

I am the King of Crazy.

[dobby]

I am the King of Crazy.

I think Solskjaer is doing his best to take that title. Except his crazy seems to make sense.

[pokerhand]

For the last 24 hours in here, the duvet changing conversation was by far the most interesting.

Agreed.

I am one of those that really stuggled with the duvet changing.

Am looking forward to trying out the new method. Can't believe that there was a method and that I never knew about it.

[TheDrunkenOne]

Am Drunk, Was last day of game fishing season and a few drinks taken. Was a beautiful day. Have to wait till 1st March 2016 till next season. This is last photo I took. [IMG][/IMG]

[The C Kid]

Darcy article yesterday was just pandering to the popular opinion of the masses. The fact that he dresses it up with technical language and some tactical discussion and is widely acclaimed for it says alot more for the standard of rugby writing in the media rather than his own writing talent. Use a few terms that would be common place amongst any AIL 2B coaching session and you're proclaimed at the new messiah. Disappointed as found his earlier articles really interesting but this just felt like cheap clickbait.

Pretty hard to say definitively that Burgess is at fault when (I presume) Darcy is not 100% on the English defensive strategy. Could equally blame Barritt and Farrell for the same moments he highlights if they're employing a different strategy.

The whole Burgess media storm is really off-putting as deep down it's all built on a hatred of rugby league and his background. People want him to fail as it shouldn't be seen as "possible" to get up to international standard in this space of time, and Union supporters don't want to acknowledge that rugby league players could possibly appreciate the nuances of the game (despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary). It's all a bit class warfare too when you read people comparing his education with Jamie Roberts as why he can't pick up the game.

Annoying that the only person to blame Lancaster has had such a convenient and popular scapegoat all week. Burgess cast as the Balotelli to Lancaster's Brendan Rodgers perfectly.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

...

[careca]

This is last photo I took.

Is that you Fredo?

Nice couple of days for it alright.

[Emmet]

Darcy article yesterday was just pandering to the popular opinion of the masses. The fact that he dresses it up with technical language and some tactical discussion and is widely acclaimed for it says alot more for the standard of rugby writing in the media rather than his own writing talent. Use a few terms that would be common place amongst any AIL 2B coaching session and you're proclaimed at the new messiah. Disappointed as found his earlier articles really interesting but this just felt like cheap clickbait.

Pretty hard to say definitively that Burgess is at fault when (I presume) Darcy is not 100% on the English defensive strategy. Could equally blame Barritt and Farrell for the same moments he highlights if they're employing a different strategy.

The whole Burgess media storm is really off-putting as deep down it's all built on a hatred of rugby league and his background. People want him to fail as it shouldn't be seen as "possible" to get up to international standard in this space of time, and Union supporters don't want to acknowledge that rugby league players could possibly appreciate the nuances of the game (despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary). It's all a bit class warfare too when you read people comparing his education with Jamie Roberts as why he can't pick up the game.

Annoying that the only person to blame Lancaster has had such a convenient and popular scapegoat all week. Burgess cast as the Balotelli to Lancaster's Brendan Rodgers perfectly.

You will of course note that he blamed Lancaster for it all...

The quote I posted suggests it

By then the Burgess experiment had been abandoned because the England coaching team accepted, long after everyone else, that he had no idea what was happening around him.

Heck he even gives Burgess a full pass!

It’s simply not possible for him to be ready.

And tells us the villain of the piece

Stuart Lancaster picked a league convert who doesn’t know how to play inside centre for the biggest match England have played since the 2007 World Cup final.

whilst dumping Barritt in it too!

Barritt was arguably worse and badly exposed for the Gareth Davies try.

70 mins: Barritt sells everyone up the river by incorrectly reading the play.

Doesn't really read like you're suggesting it does! And it's kind of lazy to just write off the article as Burgess/League hating. I had to read the name a few times as I thought it might be one of those classic "Anti - 'Anti-British-Sentiment' " posts that The Situation loves making.

D'Arcy's point is clear. Trying to facilitate a player learning on the job at the top level in a RWC game sounds bonkers, and it was borne out. It caused them to have to move Barritt out of position, where he stank up some of the important roles there too.

The Burgess gamble wasn’t calculated. Burrell had proved he can do what they hoped Burgess would do.

Importantly, they didn't need to do any of it. They chose to.

Also, for a complete contradiction of my post, and a complete backing up of yours, see here http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news...ectid=11522152

[Kayroo]

Thanks, I guess.

I'm only kidding. Just miss our Twitter spats I suppose. Like CHD v iSnow except with facts and cited references

[Raoul Duke III]

I'm only kidding. Just miss our Twitter spats I suppose. Like CHD v iSnow except with facts and cited references

And the craziness more subtly concealed.

[Jibzzzz]

Anyone watched Wolfhall? BBC mini series got good reviews. Honda?

[Zod]

This made me laugh. You argue like a teenage girl

SO DOES YOUR FACE

[Kayroo]

And the craziness more subtly concealed.

It's a better brand of crazy

[Raoul Duke III]

It's a better brand of crazy

It bubbles to the surface occasionally!

[Strewelpeter]

Anyone watched Wolfhall? BBC mini series got good reviews. Honda?

It's excellent, might not be for everyone. Could be a bit slow or hard to follow if you are not familiar with the books and the approach she is taking to the history.
10/10 IMO.

[Strewelpeter]

It bubbles to the surface occasionally!

Usually in the form of off suited 5 gappers

[Opr]

The missus does that but refuses to let me film it so I can study and learn. I got stuck inside it last time but luckily I had the wherewithal to bring my phone in there with me and was able to call for help.

I had a mate who was telling me this story recently. He booked into an airbnb place down the country somewhere with his missus. It was a cottage type thing with an attic conversion as an upstairs bedroom. In the middle of the night he woke and could hear this unnerving sound in the bedroom. He said his first instinct was just to ignore it and try continue sleeping but eventually she woke up and started prodding him to wake up. He turned on a bedside lamp and a bat was swooping around the room. He dived under the covers. What do you do in this situation?

SPOILER

He started googling on his phone how to remove a bat from a room

Opr

[eamonhonda]

Anyone watched Wolfhall? BBC mini series got good reviews. Honda?

Never heard of it, looks like it could be worth a spin

[hotspur]

. He turned on a bedside lamp and a bat was swooping around the room. He dived under the covers. What do you do in this situation?

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

[Strewelpeter]

What do you do in this situation?

SPOILER

He started googling on his phone how to remove a bat from a room

Opr

Open the window so it can get out.

[Strewelpeter]

Also, for a complete contradiction of my post, and a complete backing up of yours, see here http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news...ectid=11522152

LOL these lads don't hold back

Former Ireland back Gordon D'Arcy is proving significantly more incisive in print than he ever was on the field. Best known for not being anywhere near as good as Brian O'Driscoll, D'Arcy's savaging of English league convert Sam Burgess in the Irish Times went around the planet in a nanosecond.

According to Mr D'Arcy, Burgess' "naivety embarrassed those around him and severely damaged England's chances of reaching the quarter-finals".

D'Arcy, of course, knows plenty about RWC quarter-finals - it being the stage where Ireland tended to exit the tournament during the 16-odd years of mediocrity that coincided with his international career.

[eamonhonda]

Happy Birthday @The-Rigger. M8

[Bubbleking]

Sorry deleted. I haven't a clue what the story is just told him I'd ask. Wasn't thinking

[ArmaniJeans]

And that's how we became Silk Road III.

[eamonhonda]

Really BK? Take that down FFS, any place you go to do that kinda thing youll get that kinda thing.

[bohsman]

Sorry deleted. I haven't a clue what the story is just told him I'd ask. Wasn't thinking

Just prescribe him something fun.

[AndyFatBastard]

In the eyes of a mechanic you are basically a subhuman if you can't replace your own wiper blades. He gave you the chance to prove you were not one of those people but you failed the test. GG unlucky.

[Tar.Aldarion]

From the album "Thought you were in the business of selling cars" we bring you "First world problems"

My maid is cleaning my bathroom,
so I can't take a shower.
Bought new blades for my Audi,
the help was a disaster.

Can't remember which car,
I drove to Our Conor's stall.
Thirteen hundred duvet,
he won't RIP like a neanderathal.

Sell a few accounts,
To feed the addiction.
Now Hastings won't cough up,
any legal ramification?

Can't book a Friday,
in the Vintage Kitchen.
Gonna give them a call,
the rest you can imagine.

[AndyFatBastard]

You wouldn't buy a dog and then bark yourself.


TL'DR

• I bought a dog
• It wanted me to bark on it's behalf
• I refused
• It barked

You wouldn't buy a pair of shoes and then demand they tie your shoelaces for you. That would be embarassing and demeaning for both you and the staff. As a society we have decided that grown men and women should be able to tie their own shoelaces and affix their own wiper blades.

It just one of those things that everyone knows but nobody talks about. Sorry you missed the memo. I try not to be too judgemental since I only found out about it last year.

[PokerPiper]

move on by, just another customer service rant from the guy who gets upset at shit customer service and interaction.

Called Audi Sandyford to ask about have new wiper blades on my car. Was told, easy peasy, no need to make an appointment just pop in and we will do it for you while you wait. Arrive today, main reception send me to parts where everything starts to unravel. Having requested new blades the guy pops out back and gets them and upon returning pops two boxes containing said blades on the counter and says "there you go, that will be €54". He did so in a very, that's where this ends buddy type of time so I ask if he was going to put them on for me but he told me they were short staffed and he couldn't. I am getting into my lean forward, fix my gaze upon him stance when he says "If you pop your head into the workshop next door you might find someone to stick them in for you". Anyway the rest you can imagine from here but I told him to hold onto the blades for "safekeeping". He reversed and sorted it out but fuck me - this guy should be shown the door.

Now, who can turn this into a song?

Motor industry clearly has turned the corner and jobs are easy to come by again...I'm sure VW need guys like this for the monumental recall thats just about to happen.

[Emmet]

You wouldn't buy a pair of shoes and then demand they tie your shoelaces for you. That would be embarassing and demeaning for both you and the staff. As a society we have decided that grown men and women should be able to tie their own shoelaces and affix their own wiper blades.

It just one of those things that everyone knows but nobody talks about. Sorry you missed the memo. I try not to be too judgemental since I only found out about it last year.

Ah Andy, the analogy was almost perfect.

You wouldn't buy a pair of shoelaces and ask the guy to lace your brogues.

You wouldn't download a car with no windscreen wipers either.

[Guest]

So aaaahhh Tar, that's a bit shitty!

[Dice75]

From the album "Thought you were in the business of selling cars" we bring you "First world problems"


I drove to Our Conor's stall.

he won't RIP like a neanderathal.

Got the gist of most of that but don't get this part. Please explain!

[DeadParrot]

Rugby 'legend' about to start a Q&A in my building.
It'd Keith Woods.... Yay
And shane jennings

[Guest]

Got the gist of most of that but don't get this part. Please explain!

It's Vegan humour

Apparently dead horses are funny if you live on the same food stuffs as them

[Tar.Aldarion]

Got the gist of most of that but don't get this part. Please explain!

Don't really know anything about horses apart from there is some thread here called "IPB Hero Our Conor Memorial Thread" and GAB owns horses and has a an expensive duvet, so just vaguely in relation to that - laying that horse to rest well, not much thought put in tbh.

[Guest]

Rugby 'legend' about to start a Q&A in my building.
Keith Woods.

Always feel sorry for those ex players who have to Shepherd radio competition winning goms around on matchdays. the smalltalk,the soul destroying smalltalk

[DeadParrot]

Big news...

[V for Vendetta]

Don't really know anything about horses apart from there is some thread here called "IPB Hero Our Conor Memorial Thread" and GAB owns horses and has a an expensive duvet, so just vaguely in relation to that - laying that horse to rest well, not much thought put in tbh.

Just say it rhymed yo! Good effort imo. Infairness it's very decent of GAB to provide so much material!!!

We should run a dedicated competition actually. Could be pretty funny.

[Tar.Aldarion]

That is mostly the reason for everything haha, few more goes from people be good, wombatman is the champion.

It's Vegan humour

Apparently dead horses are funny if you live on the same food stuffs as them

wut?

[DeadParrot]

[newbie2]

I'm with AFB on this one.

I'd somewhat understand if it was the whole wiper assembly, but the wiper blade?

Quick test: Do you know what a 710 cap is for?

SPOILER

[Theresa]

I think given todays argument it's fair to say that Dublin aren't the best football team in Ireland.

I also think Solks is spot on with the hell that is changing duvet covers. It's not so much the difficulty, it's that when it goes wrong....it goes horribly wrong.

[eamonhonda]

I think given todays argument it's fair to say that Dublin aren't the best football team in Ireland.

I also think Solks is spot on with the hell that is changing duvet covers. It's not so much the difficulty, it's that when it goes wrong....it goes horribly wrong.

According to a sky sports presenter they are the All England champions