Pet Peeves

[The Wretch]

Trying to paint the gaff but it fucking rains every day

Same here. Long overdue in my place. I was all set to do it last August, but I had two massive leaks in the house (one in the attic, one in the en-suite above the sitting room) which destroyed the gaff when I was away, ceilings down etc.

I had to move out for nearly 6 months until the repairs were done becuase it turns out all of the other plumbing and electrics were dodgy as fuck too. The crowd that was originally building the estate went bust, so whoever came in to finish things made a balls of everything, cheap wiring and plumbing, no uniformity in anything they used in the houses.

I've been here 15 years or so, and I was lucky to get away with things that long according to the engineer.

Only finishing decorating inside now, but fuck knows when the outside will get started.

[Sworntothecans]

The bog. Ow.

Currently sending the eldest off with in laws to help with the turf (it'll build character 😂) I've done my time in hell. Fuck the bog

[Carnage]

I wish I'd bred so I could do the same. The worst thing is that today was just the first day (footing), tomorrow is going to be fun.

[91/30]

I wish I'd bred so I could do the same. The worst thing is that today was just the first day (footing), tomorrow is going to be fun.

Clamping? 

[Carnage]

No, more footing. Got just over a quarter done today, got rained out of it. That said, the forecast is for rain so I don't think I'll get much done.

[Eoin McLove]

I grew to love being out on the bog over my years doing archeology. As a suburbanite I always thought they looked bleak when I was a kid, it looked like the surface of the moon, or like the setting for a horror movie and gave me the willies. Having grown to love being in that landscape over the years it began to look more and more to me like the surface of the moon or the setting for a horror movie, but in a really good way 

[Carnage]

I'm generally not a fan but it was lovely having a bit of peace and listening to the birds yesterday. I suppose I'm mellowing in my old age but the bit of work now is appreciated more and more in the winter.

[astfgyl]

I love going for a stroll around the local bogs, listening to a bit of George Micheal on the headphones.

Crap jokes aside, we're surrounded with bog here in mid tipp and I love going for a stroll around them. Very bleak but the starkness and the silence is wonderful

[Carnage]

Djokovic. What a twat.

[The Heretic]

Djokovic. What a twat.

A twat indeed! however on that topic, just because you're playing a sport does it automatically give "fans" the right to dole out abuse, booing is one thing, but I see some "fans" here at local GAA games calling their own teams players "a stupid cunt" etc etc, never mind the opposition players, I'm  surprised there aren't more Cantona type moments in sport, I know I'd be the first to jump over the railing to take umbrage to some fucker thinking just because they have payed to see a football game you can dish out abuse, Imagine if you were in a restaurant and you decided to call some poor waitress a stupid bitch because they forgot the red sauce..

And also their lack of awareness of young children or elderly people nearby while swearing. Now I can swear as good as anyone, but there's a time and a place....

[Ollkiller]

When I used to play soccer the crowd would barely register with me. And there would be a few hundred in attendance. If someone was abusing me (and I got it all the time with the long hair) I'd laugh it off. They want you to get riled. Fuck that.

[Carnage]

Djokovic. What a twat.

A twat indeed! however on that topic, just because you're playing a sport does it automatically give "fans" the right to dole out abuse,

He wasn't being booed though, that's the point. The crowd were chanting "Rune", he wouldn't have it even when the interviewer corrected him. By jaysus he'll be booed during his next match though.

[The Heretic]

Djokovic. What a twat.

A twat indeed! however on that topic, just because you're playing a sport does it automatically give "fans" the right to dole out abuse,

He wasn't being booed though, that's the point. The crowd were chanting "Rune", he wouldn't have it even when the interviewer corrected him. By jaysus he'll be booed during his next match though.

I know he wasn't being booed, it was just a general observation on crowds/fans at sport and what is or isn't acceptable or what the boundaries actually are or should be..

One thing that also fucks me off in fans shouting out when a player is throwing darts, it wasn't like that back in the day "best of order now please etc". Perhaps modern darts players are like Ollkiller there who managed to blank it out...

Fuck me I can see myself getting more and more Victor Meldrew like with every day that goes by....

 

[Carnage]

It's the Hearn effect, cheapening everything they touch. Snooker's gone the same, with walk on music and the stupid premier league & shootout tournaments.

Still, they're rotten with money as a result, it's working for them.

[Snare]

When I used to play soccer the crowd would barely register with me. And there would be a few hundred in attendance. If someone was abusing me (and I got it all the time with the long hair) I'd laugh it off. They want you to get riled. Fuck that.

Who did you play with Ollkiller? Fair play in reaching that level anyway.

To echo other point above, the bad language around kids at games drives me daft as well. Get a hold of yerselves like