yeah brady is easily beaten down too. he cares too much and actually works in the game so a gleeful dunphy can always cut him to pieces.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
I imagine Sadlier was quite cheerful til he encountered the terrifying black cloud of anhedonia that emanates directly from the core of Ray Houghton's being. That kind of encounter changes a man
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
it's a different thing, alright, that lurks behind houghton's eyes.
it's like the end of a fantasy epic, you've killed the brady ogre and the dancing dunphy imp, you've probably been guided by the twinkling gruffness of giles, and you face houghton and think "this should be easy" and then in his eyes......the blackness that eats universes
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
haha - and yet despite his unshakeable evil, he also has less gravitas than the others, cos he just seems like such a fucking whingebag. i've always wanted george hamilton to just lose the rag and go "look we paid for you to sit here, am i going to have to listen to you moaning for the whole match?"
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
the damp mediocrity of true evil, small e evil
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
No discussion of Sadlier complete without mention of his incredible Milwall Christmas Party story - which probably also belongs in the Real England thread...
http://www.newstalk.ie/reader/47.302.347/1754/show_list_0_0/
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
cant read/see that, is it a podcast
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 12:30 (ten years ago) link
neither can I. Must be juicy though, the url is like 0_0
― Number None, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 12:41 (ten years ago) link
That's weird. Hmm.
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=richie+sadlier+milwall+christmas+party
Should see you right, link titled 'The footballer's Christmas Party - Why it all goes wrong'
― Blandford Forum, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 12:50 (ten years ago) link
sounds promising will stream later
ps i am at work and we use explorer 1.0 which might explain difficulties
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link
'The Irish has new answers' i can't help reading this and imagining an exasperated finnish finance minister dreading the latest proposal from noonan
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
I was thinking line from a bad Eleventh Hour sketch myself.
― gyac, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
A government scientist and his attractive counterpart try to save people from deadly
i've read enough i'm in
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
deadly buzz
― Luigi Nono, le petit robot (seandalai), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
o_O
http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/oiche_mhaith/
― Ma mère est habile Mais ma bile est amère (Michael White), Thursday, 3 October 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
DADDY: FUCK OFF
seems legit.
(This is great though. Where did you find this?)
― gyac, Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
what is this
― Victims’ tears deter rodent paedophiles (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
srsly
― Victims’ tears deter rodent paedophiles (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
got bored after everyone died
It's not terribly deep but still, wtf?
― Ma mère est habile Mais ma bile est amère (Michael White), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
deems m8 what were your impressions the first time you saw england
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
"at least the motorways are built properly"
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link
ireland has very few motorways but there's nothing wrong with them in material terms
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
grotty hotel in london overnighting on way to france, school tour. burger king milkshakes were a velvety sensation such as i'd not dreamed of. there were gang fights outside our window and we had to stay indoors. some p cute girls came in, got drunk and danced to lola on our bed. i was reading 'last chance to see'.
i liked it.
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link
xp our roads beat yours into a cocked hat, you can't get anywhere driving in britain it's a fuckin joke.
a fine introduction
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link
who built the irish motorways? i don't mean germany i mean the construction workers themselves
pfunkboy is suggesting all the irish builders were building british motorways
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link
first encounteer with real england was flying knock-wet midlands and virgin training it to old trafford and back to stay in a generic city centre birmingham hotel that night. streets were ugly and threatening and every building looked like the back of another building. kfc zinger box was good. i was reading, iirc, one of robin hobb's farseer trilogy. nobody came in and danced on the bed, but there wasn't as much fighting outside and we could come and go as we pleased. c+
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
thats the old stereotypexp
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link
fianna fail were in charge during the building of a lot of the newer motorways and national routes, so it's quite likely that we sent them over to the brits under agreed terms, organised a terrorist scare so that no work could be carried out, had them back into dun laoghaire that night with the material and equipment and had the job done here before anyone knew different. leases and documents all provided by goodmans meats.
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
can't recall the firms involved tbrr idk if sisk do motorways, twas all eu funding but yeah the roads running through the place now are tip top. the n5 through swinford, which iirc you will have known nakh, has won several awards or so i'm informed every time i sit next to the GIS fella at work outings.
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
spending a couple of nights in wigan certainly made me appreciate ireland that little bit more
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
when I first came to England I thought "I feel like I'm on TV".
― Luigi Nono, le petit robot (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah i recognise that, weatherfield vibes from the walk back from old trafford to the centre, ross kemp on gangs from the front gates of anfield until the safety of the airport bus and rogue cops go wild caught on tv! from birmingham centre after 8pm
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
spent a v memorable night in dulwich after a 0-0 draw with villa in which a cousin had an episode and scratched up several passers by before we spotted her turning, up til then it had all been fond cameraderie and singsongs to total eclipse of the heart and sambuca in the vale i have videos of most of the above iirc
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link
6/10, that one, mainly for total eclipse
weatherfield vibes lol
I was in your County Kerry this year and things got pretty real. Chips on the pavements, smashed up phone boxes, the fuckin lot.
― "Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
by 'your' I am of course addressing the entire irish peoples wherever they may be.
― "Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
tralee?
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
xp we'll take it with good cheer, at least you got the country right
every building looked like the back of another building = this is probably true of most cities of the non-historical/picturesque variety but probably more true of english ones than most other european countries east of the soviet bloc
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link
Nah not tralee. That's a real dump. Right on the coast and that. It's very nice round there tbf.
― "Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link
There was a group of people passing through on the way to puck fair, that's all. All very friendly I'm sure.
― "Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
ballybunion? that can be a bit dodge
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link
jaysus i figured tralee from the warzone depictions, that town has gone ta fuck and no mistake from what i hear
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
Look lads I'm not going to start naming villages cos you just never know, do you.
While I was there I saw a v twee 'cupcakery' and of course it was run by some bloody English.
― "Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
xpost to darragh: it has indeed
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
ah you wouldn't be without the english arts and crafts and suchlike cottage industries, they'll fuckin pay anything for anything if you tell them its local
― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
fuckin eejits