Another Drive4show 'Anything goes' thread

[MontysMerkin]

First topic message reminder :

That's why these pursuits should be undertaken in videogames and not in real life. Real life has a nasty habit of finding you out to be the hopeless loser you don't think you are.

[mystiroakey]

Aye. You are way more English than Scottish in the way you act and talk . As said you have a problem with the England football team not the English, But then Many English do as well.

[incontinentia]

you can be a bit Hibernophobic sometimes super but I still love you   

[Bob_the_Job]

But on the plus side, if it comes to penalties.. they've got Welbeck and Jones. Ooopss

[super_realist]

Aye. You are way more English than Scottish in the way you act and talk . As said you have a problem with the England football team not the English, But then Many English do as well.

I absolutely despise (and i do actually hate this thing) the current expectation that in Scotland especially there is an unstated expectation that you are supposed to wallow in some sort of Scottishness.

Being Scottish means nothing to me, and there's a lot more to be ashamed of by being Scottish than there is to be proud.

Scottishness and Scottish Nationalism are horrid things. Reprehensible, disgusting and most often based on nothing other than historical bigotry.

Hibernophobic. Brilliant word.

[mystiroakey]

But on the plus side, if it comes to penalties.. they've got Welbeck and Jones. Ooopss

every Englishman missed in that shoot out mate.. That game gave me nightmares

[super_realist]

But on the plus side, if it comes to penalties.. they've got Welbeck and Jones. Ooopss

every Englishman missed in that shoot out mate.. That game gave me nightmares

They need to get down to a "Beat the Goalie" stand at the local fete.

Who were the best penalty takers? Matt Le Tissier, Graham Alexander?

[mystiroakey]

Rickie Lambert has scored 32 on the spin!

[mystiroakey]

I think Le tis scored 48 in 49!

[super_realist]

I think Le tis scored 48 in 49!

One of my all time favourites.

Unlucky to have Hoddle as ENgland manager at the time.

[westisbest]

Baines has not missed one yet.
 
It makes me laugh how some of these pros miss by a mile.
 
When i used to play sunday league, there were some quality penalties taken.
Must be able to hit the target, fair enough if the keeper saves it.

[super_realist]

Basically, missing the target is like a whiff in golf.

[westisbest]

I've missed the target(fairway) many a time in my golf days.

Must get back to playing this summer, do miss it.

Been about 8 years sine i last played.

[mystiroakey]

Its coming up to 6 months for me!!

To long

[westisbest]

One of the reasons i've not played for so long is not many of my mates like to take part in sport, just like watching.
 
I just faded away from playing then.
 
Only person i play with is my dad, but he lives abroad, only comes back couple of times a year, not long enough to fit a game in
 
Why i enjoyed playing football.

[Hibbz]

I couldn't help but thin when JAS mentioned he was going on a golfig trip with 20 mates, that super probably wouldn't get quite the same participation if he were to hold a birthday bash.

I had a similar thought when he was banging on about only having one mate with a Nike club in their bag. I was staggered it was as many as one and I don't mean Nike club.

edit - and as I read further through the thread it looks like the Nike putter may be for sale in the near future............

[JAS]

I couldn't help but thin when JAS mentioned he was going on a golfig trip with 20 mates, that super probably wouldn't get quite the same participation if he were to hold a birthday bash.

I had a similar thought when he was banging on about only having one mate with a Nike club in their bag. I was staggered it was as many as one and I don't mean Nike club.

edit - and as I read further through the thread it looks like the Nike putter may be for sale in the near future............

He could always invite all of us lot...I'd go

[mystiroakey]

Yep me to JAS

[Davie]

I would too - can I be Maverick? :P

[JAS]

At last...the motivation for a solution to the Syria crisis

http://www.panarabiaenquirer.com/wordpress/syria-only-weeks-away-from-bono-charity-single-warns-un/

[super_realist]

Now Bono is a guy I genuinely do hate, hypocrite, bell end, awful music and he wears sunglasses indoors. What a knob.

[JAS]

I used to like U2, really like them but over the years Bono's complete inability to avoid ranting and rambling on about this cause or that cause has just wore down, actually worn out any likeability that they once had. I've seen them live 3 times, the first time (1987) was awesome, the 2nd time (1993) was also great. The 3rd time (the 360 tour, think it was 2009/2010), I could easily have walked out half way through

He's irritating in the extreme but I still say the Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby are class class albums

[mystiroakey]

U2 are just to commercial.

The last few albums have sounded very similar to other bands music that made success recently before them.

Total sell out band.

Bono isn't a rock star but a celebrity with a voice that we only hear because he is famous.

Reminds me of actors like Penn who spout political nonsense just because they can.

By the way I rate Penn highly as an actor. But he needs to learn to shut up just like bono.

And although I am not a huge fan of U2 they were a very good band. I agree with jas that their early albums deserved success.

[mystiroakey]

Its a good subject though.

Which celebs have totally lost their footing on planet earth . and have got to a n ego level where there think they are either some superhuman or a religious diety

Bono
Cruise
Penn
Travolta
Ali

Any others?

[super_realist]

Any "celebrity" who uses their position as a platform for airing their political views.

I reserve special dislike for Russel Brand who seems to think he has opinions on drugs which are worth changing laws for.

[mystiroakey]

I was pretty shocked by how messed up brands views were on drugs during that documentary he did on them.
Yes he is experienced and yes he has made a success since he beat the drugs. But he seemed half crazy as himself, I don't remember exactly what his views were but i didn't agree fully. He sounded the type that is over paranoid about prescription drugs and legal highs over banned ones.. The type of dope smoker that thinks alcohol is evil..

[super_realist]

He's very irritating and not remotely amusing. You frequently see that annoying type of celebrity with a political view on Question Time, I'd rather they just stuck to Politicians and Journalists on that programme.
Pretty cringeworthy when you see someone like Eddie Izzard making an idiot of themselves.

[mystiroakey]

I like hearing certain peoples views. But I just wish the general population  wouldn't just agree with certain celebs just because they like them..

As you mentioned earlier in the thread they are not super hero's. They just have a voice and in many cases a voice for an agenda they don't fully understand anyway.

Many celebs are just way to used to 'yes men'.
After the constant praise and yes's from people around them they develop a false sense of intellegnce. Its cringy.

[beninho]

I would rather see a celebrity showing an interest in a cause and trying to raise awareness on it then thinking it's nothing to do with them. If they have a little bit of influence then it should be used. If it's something I agree with then all the better. Raising awareness in Syria is not a bad thing. It's horrendous yet barely makes the front pages. If 1/10/100 people take an interest because bono or Clooney flag it up then thats a good thing surely?

I like Russell brand and do not deny it. He can make mps and journos look daft. He did with the horrible guy from the mail if I recall. And I'm not up with his drug views but I don't think he talks about decriminalization of drugs but more help for users and addicts. Not just looking them up with other users as that's not going to help the issue.

[super_realist]

I've never seen Russell Brand look anything other than outclassed when I've seen him on TV programmes made for grown ups. He might look good on E4 or juvenile TV, he's an adolescents comedian after all but in the real world, he's just an angry little pr!ck who thinks the government should be on the side of deadbeats like him. (For the record, only last week he was talking about decriminilisation of all drugs)

He was hideously embarrassing and shown up last time I saw him on Have I Got News For You, and he has a truly grating voice too.

[JAS]

In their earlier days U2 were kind of politically aware and astute and raised issues with a bit more subtlety. At some point though and I guess it started at or just after Live Aid, Bono's ego started to grow exponentially to the point where it became too irritating to listen to which would have been around the time Pop came out (only an egotistically deluded fool could possibly think that album was good)

One of my other heroes, Joe Strummer, was much much more political than Bono but somehow he managed to maintain integrity with it. Had he still been around he'd have bitch slapped Bono's ego down a good few times by now.

Brand I also find irritating, although I do recall one interview he did though where he tore an American interviewer a new one, much as I dislike him by the end of the interview I was cheering him on!!

[Hibbz]

Looks like Brand and Bono won't be on the SR birthday trip then.

I'm usually interested to know what views people I see on tele hold so long as it is their genuine views rather than what they want people to think they think.

Unfortunately the vast majority are far too terrified or too thick to take them seriously though if I'm honest were it likely to cost me income I wouldn't be expressing controversial views all that readily.

Far safer and more fun to have opinions from the anonymity of an internet forum.

[incontinentia]

Didn't Brand release a single for African children a couple years ago? At least he is using his profile to help the less fortunate

[Davie]

Jo Brand and Russell Brand could well have been separated to birth. And both unfunny as fcuk

[mystiroakey]

Yes Ben. In many ways I like brand. That is why I shocked about his stance on drugs.. He was erring on the paranoid..paraphrasing here.. But as if certain prescription drugs were only there to control the populous..

[mystiroakey]

Didn't Brand release a single for African children a couple years ago? At least he is using his profile to help the less fortunate

Lol is that a joke,,

Good one if it is.

Or have you got it all confused..

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H-YCZr0epts&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DH-YCZr0epts

African child from his film get me to the Greek!!!

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[BlueCoverman]

Loved the story of Bono at the end of a concert when he stood in front of the audience and slowly clapped his hands together. "Every time I clap my hands a child in Africa dies" he said in a solemn voice.
 
"Well stop fuc*ing clapping then" somebody in the audience shouted.   

[super_realist]

I wish Bono would die if I clapped my hands

[incontinentia]

Now Bono is a guy I genuinely do hate, hypocrite, bell end, awful music and he wears sunglasses indoors. What a knob.

you forgot Irish, probably the main reason you hate him.

btw his eyes are sensitive to light, thats why he wears sunglasses all the time.

[JAS]

I wish Bono would die if I clapped my hands

Ok he's irritating but that's a tad harsh, I'd reserve that kind of hatred for more deserving victims such as kiddy fiddlers and others who genuinely deserve to be ejected from society e.g. rapists, terrorists etc.

[super_realist]

I wish Bono would die if I clapped my hands

Ok he's irritating but that's a tad harsh, I'd reserve that kind of hatred for more deserving victims such as kiddy fiddlers and others who genuinely deserve to be ejected from society e.g. rapists, terrorists etc.

.....and Bono.

[BlueCoverman]

I wish Bono would die if I clapped my hands

Ok he's irritating but that's a tad harsh, I'd reserve that kind of hatred for more deserving victims such as kiddy fiddlers and others who genuinely deserve to be ejected from society e.g. rapists, terrorists etc.

 
.....and General Managers at 2nd golf clubs?

[super_realist]

Interesting to see the outrage at the floods and the requirement for dredging.

Don't they realise it is like trying to squeeze a camel through the eye of a needle?

[westisbest]

y

I wish Bono would die if I clapped my hands

Ok he's irritating but that's a tad harsh, I'd reserve that kind of hatred for more deserving victims such as kiddy fiddlers and others who genuinely deserve to be ejected from society e.g. rapists, terrorists etc.

Well,said JAS.

[navyblueshorts]

y

I wish Bono would die if I clapped my hands

Ok he's irritating but that's a tad harsh, I'd reserve that kind of hatred for more deserving victims such as kiddy fiddlers and others who genuinely deserve to be ejected from society e.g. rapists, terrorists etc.

Well,said JAS.

All very 'black and white' over this aren't we? Where's my Daily Mail?

[mystiroakey]

For SR

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden

[super_realist]

For SR

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden

Read it,made some good points and some bad ones, but didn't really say anything at all,  plus he's from The Guardian and is some idiot who wears a flat cap but who happens to have a Danish wife. He only really has anything of substance about only 1 of the 5 countries he's talking about, and even that, one of his main points is that Danish TV is crap. Wow, get the shotgun out.
I never said it was a utopia over there, most places have good and bad things about them. Car ownership cost in Denmark for one being a real bad one and the rather dreary landscape being another. Funny he never mentioned those. Probably wouldn't get a smug nod of agreement from his lentil burger eating bourgeois pals.
Hopefully give it a couple of years over there on an expat though. Noticed he wasn't too down on Norway though.

I doubt this bell end is really going to convince the UN/WHO/UNESCO that the Nordic countries are not some of the best places to live in the world through a rather juvenile article.

[mystiroakey]

I only read that article because I head about the backlash from it in Scandinavia.. It supposedly got a lot of media attention and they all started slating the UK in response ..

[super_realist]

I discussed it with some Scandi's in the office yesterday. They didn't take it too seriously.

It's a bit like pointing out that London is supposedly a great place to live, and then pointing out a few of the bits which make it look bad. Doesn't change the overall picture.

[mystiroakey]

I know I just thought I would pass it on. Lol

boobie for tat nonsense.

On the subject. Just finished watching the bridge(Swedish/Danish tv show)

It was decent!!

[navyblueshorts]

For SR

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden

Quite entertaining   . Ta for that Mysti. Grass isn't always greener is it?

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