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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Lol I think most people agree that cricket and golf are basically unwatchable :D

    But... THREE DAYS????? :eek:

    You do get breaks to have a wee and things, and you do get to go home at night (I think!). My worse nightmare!
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    oh and dunky this is FOOTBALL :D REAL football ;)(

    honestly... it isnt :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    the Highland Games... usually tossing the caber and the throwing of other heavy things takes place..
    Ah yes! I love that. I've got to coordinate a visit of Scotland with the Highland Games. Maybe PJ can make an effort in planning and play Scotland during that time!
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Lol I think most people agree that cricket and golf are basically unwatchable :D

    But... THREE DAYS????? :eek:

    See I'm a bit of a sport nut :o Will watch anything if I know the rules (therefore excludes Gaelic football and hurling :( ) except golf and horse racing.

    Therefore a 5 day test series is fine by me :) I don't usually watch the whole thing just have it on in the background to dip in and out of :)

    After living in the States I can even sit through American football and baseball and as I was an honourary Hoosier I LOVE basketball :D:D:D
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • Irish Al
    Irish Al Posts: 6,236
    Can someone please tell me whats the point of tossing the caber? It never goes that far and while it is impressive when your faced with a huge fucking log(!!) its not much of a spectator sport??
    I need a coffee!
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Byrnzie wrote:
    However, if I happened not to be in a cosy pub, and it wasn't raining outside, and there was a power cut, then if someone invited me to a hurling match, I reckon I'd be up for it.


    yeah... i set the scene in my favour there ;)

    HHelen is trying to make out i wouldnt sample the cultural delights of Ireland... i would... pubs being one of them.... but Ireland also has those fucking dancing things where people sellotape their arms to their thighs and then dance as if they have just dropped a box of drawing pins and upturned electrical plugs...

    well thats part of Irish culture, just as we have Highland Dancing... both are as equally crap as each other!!!

    so i wouldnt watch Irish dancing as i know it looks boring, just as no sport can match football, in my opinion, so i wouldnt go to that either.... culture has nothing to do with it at all...
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • newagehippie
    newagehippie Posts: 749
    If anyone is intersted, I will be seeing my first PJ show of 06' in 276 hours.....then my second in 300 hours.........


    Thanks for looking into that HH, no worries if we can't get them we will find something else to do......

    the prison and guiness are on the list, you need to think of some more great stuff, and include at leasst a night of camping out in the country if at all possible....;)

    Anyone watch the KY derby???

    Drank Bourbon all day and bet on horses...whatta day :D
    Cheers,
    NEWAGEHIPPIE

    Keep your eyes open, eventually something will happen....
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Chime wrote:
    I can even sit through American football

    What do you mean you can EVEN sit through american football?!?!
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Irish Al wrote:
    Can someone please tell me whats the point of tossing the caber? It never goes that far and while it is impressive when your faced with a huge fucking log(!!) its not much of a spectator sport??

    there is no point... its crap, but people flock to it and my major concern is who invented and how the hell did they invent it???

    Highland sports have more than just caber tossing though... chucking a big iron thingy as well... its the same idea but its a lump of iron instead of wood :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Irish Al wrote:
    Can someone please tell me whats the point of tossing the caber? It never goes that far and while it is impressive when your faced with a huge fucking log(!!) its not much of a spectator sport??

    Do you need a purpose for everything? Just for fun and challenge!
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    redrock wrote:
    What do you mean you can EVEN sit through american football?!?!

    Exactly what I said ;)
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    there is no point... its crap, but people flock to it and my major concern is who invented and how the hell did they invent it???

    Highland sports have more than just caber tossing though... chucking a big iron thingy as well... its the same idea but its a lump of iron instead of wood :)

    Don't they also do big rocks? Aahhh the scots!
  • newagehippie
    newagehippie Posts: 749
    Chime wrote:
    except horse racing.



    Broke my heart........
    Cheers,
    NEWAGEHIPPIE

    Keep your eyes open, eventually something will happen....
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    well thats part of Irish culture, just as we have Highland Dancing... both are as equally crap as each other!!!

    I spent one Hogmanay at a Ceilidh at Murrayfield :)
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • Buru
    Buru Posts: 8,473
    redrock wrote:
    Do you need a purpose for everything? Just for fun and challenge!


    I have no absolutely idea of what this sport (tossing the caber) is about.
    :p
    y la banda de Guille... cuando toca?
  • newagehippie
    newagehippie Posts: 749
    redrock wrote:
    What do you mean you can EVEN sit through american football?!?!


    A great sport.........:)
    Cheers,
    NEWAGEHIPPIE

    Keep your eyes open, eventually something will happen....
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    newagehippie wrote:
    Broke my heart........

    I could watch a one off race and I am going to Royal Ascot for one day this year I just can't watch the hours of racing that are on TV on a Sunday (when it's more about gambling than anything else) plus I don't like it when they bring out the screens and have to shoot a horse :(
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    newagehippie wrote:
    Anyone watch the KY derby???


    sorry.. i also find horse-racing to be crap as well... oompah-loompahs in silk pyjamas and matching hats whipping the shit out of a horse to make it run faster isnt a sport to me.. ;);)

    plus only rich people can "play" it... at least with football, bit of grass and make goals from 2 jumpers and a £5 football and you're off :)

    glad you enjoyed it though.. i like the idea of the bourbon and having a wee bet though...

    i;m only being narky because i'm so jealous you're going to see the band soon :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    newagehippie wrote:
    A great sport.........:)

    I don't mind American football at all actually I just prefer football and rugby ;)
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    redrock wrote:
    Don't they also do big rocks? Aahhh the scots!


    yeah, they carry big rocks to see who can get it the furthest... strange stuff eh?
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.

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