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McDragon posted:The best sports thing will be finished by the 18th. I can only care about one sport at a time, unless it's the Olympics. I hate football with a passion but I love pubs during big games. Its loud and vibrant and chatty.
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UKMT World Cup sweepstake? Winner names a charity and everyone else bungs them a fiver or something?
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Bozza posted:My band is based there, we usually practice near Pirbright, so I get the train from Reading cos lol gently caress Surrey!
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I couldn't give a gently caress less about club-level football, but international level football rules. And whoever said Ghana is great is speaking truth. They seem to play the game like they've all just drank half a dozen espressos each.
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Bozza posted:UKMT World Cup sweepstake? Winner names a charity and everyone else bungs them a fiver or something? ooh this might be fun.
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Jun 2, 2014 16:09
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Coohoolin posted:ooh this might be fun. Just name Scotland and get your fiver out.
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Bozza posted:UKMT World Cup sweepstake? Winner names a charity and everyone else bungs them a fiver or something? Sorted this out. Don't fill in this form if you don't want to bung a fiver to charity. E: If this gets more than 32 I'll repeat teams and if >1 people win we'll split ourselves between the charities. If fewer than 32 and nobody wins, it'll be whichever team did least poo poo. I'll stream the draw if anyone actually gives a toss but really this is just a way to dump money to charity mfcrocker fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Jun 2, 2014 16:18
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mfcrocker posted:Sorted this out. Don't fill in this form if you don't want to bung a fiver to charity.  Just kidding, this is A Good Idea
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Jedit posted:Just name Scotland and get your fiver out. they're not in it la mfcrocker posted:Sorted this out. Don't fill in this form if you don't want to bung a fiver to charity. hope you're all ready for glorious holland to win money for Shelter. Real men wear orange. Hup.
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I filled in the form but didn't get given a team :/
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Zephro posted:Cool. When are you next playing? My four year old daughter would probably think it was the best thing ever. http://www.dcuk.org.uk/contests/contest14_2.html Woking on 29th June. When she's a year or so older, we've got a cadet band for the little nippers where we teach them to play brass/drums/tuned percussion or do our style dance stuff. £3 a week for a couple of hours teaching and the instrument to borrow to play and that. Think they're doing a little display at the show, which is usually very sweet but mostly terrible... I love drum corps, I honestly think it probably saved my life and UK marching band scene is pretty cool little world to get into. edit: url fixed, I think. Awful App you suck Bozza fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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Jun 2, 2014 16:35
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Zephro posted:I filled in the form but didn't get given a team :/ neither did I and I posted about Holland because I briefly forgot how a sweepstake works. I still have to support them though.
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One to watch out for, chaps! TV character The Mogg (whom you may remember from such classics as Have I Got News For You and Prime Ministers Questions) is getting his own show where he plods beyond the border, imposing an identity to the plebs beneath his feat and generally larking about! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82o0uVxSgto
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Tincans posted:One to watch out for, chaps!
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Who gives a poo poo about the World Cup when game one of the Stanley Cup Finals starts on Wednesday. New York vs Los Angeles. East coast vs West coast. It really is the best cup competition. Also it was made in Sheffield!  When you win, during the off-season everybody on the team gets one day with the cup. You can take it to your home town. You can take it fishing on a boat. You can drink from it. One guy even had his son baptised in it. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/the-10-oddest-places-the-stanley-cup-has-ever-visited?urn=nhl,wp6036
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thehustler posted:Who gives a poo poo about the World Cup when game one of the Stanley Cup Finals starts on Wednesday. New York vs Los Angeles. East coast vs West coast. What happens if you break or loose it? My one fact about the Stanley cup is before a game players won't look at it as it brings bad luck.
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notaspy posted:What happens if you break or loose it? Another good one is that if you win the Eastern or Western conference trophy (and hence, go through to the actual Stanley Cup final) you NEVER the conference trophy, as that is also bad luck and you might not win the Stanley Cup. Not sure what happens if you break it. The cup travels with a keeper at all times and his job is to look after it. I imagine if it gets dinged they repair it. Each segment is added on over time. Here's an interview with one of the keepers of the cup: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/keeper-of-stanley-cup-interview - talks about protecting it etc.
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So Spain are the first up in the "quick, its the world cup, bury big news" sweepstakes. Bit early and a bit of a risk, you don't normally see big transfers before the tournament itself.
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Zephro posted:I filled in the form but didn't get given a team :/ Well yes it isn't automatic I have to pick the names out of a hat.
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mfcrocker posted:Well yes it isn't automatic I have to pick the names out of a hat. If I slide a brown envelope full of cash under your door, can I have Brazil?
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thehustler posted:Who gives a poo poo about the World Cup when game one of the Stanley Cup Finals starts on Wednesday. New York vs Los Angeles. East coast vs West coast. We don't give a poo poo cause most people in the UK don't give a poo poo about yank sports, only dull middle class people do.
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Delurking to sweep the hell outta some stakes.
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Hashtag Nascar posted:We don't give a poo poo cause most people in the UK don't give a poo poo about yank sports, only dull middle class people do. Awesome generalisation! Edit: Anyway hockey is mostly a Canadian thing
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Hashtag Nascar posted:We don't give a poo poo cause most people in the UK don't give a poo poo about yank sports, only dull middle class people do. What's nascar?
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thehustler posted:Awesome generalisation! Do you think it's inaccurate?
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Pissflaps posted:Do you think it's inaccurate? I don't have the data to disprove it, and if any data exists I'd like to see it. I have no idea which way it will fall. I just didn't think the generalisation was helpful. Edit: VVV I saw the Bison play Sheffield once and they got absolutely dicked. It was hilarious.
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I went to see the Basingstoke Bison once and it was fun but the crowd probably wasn't as big as an NHL crowd
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:What's nascar? What's A nascar?
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Yeah I'm in for a fiver for charity. Also since the Stanley Cup has been mentioned; does anyone know if GameCenter LIVE works ok in this country? If not, does anyone have any advice on the best legit way to watch it? I'm not bothered about seeing games live because of the time difference and I only have freeview. Ktb fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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I just wish Blitzball was a real sport. Then I would be able to be an obsessive sports fan.
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Ktb posted:Yeah I'm in for a fiver for charity. It works ok but there are blackouts for games that are being shown on Premier Sports. You can get around that with a VPN/proxy setup. Either a browser-based one or do what I do and pay for one which is DNS based so you can use it on PS3s for things like Netflix. https://www.unblock-us.com
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thehustler posted:It works ok but there are blackouts for games that are being shown on Premier Sports. You can get around that with a VPN/proxy setup. Either a browser-based one or do what I do and pay for one which is DNS based so you can use it on PS3s for things like Netflix. https://www.unblock-us.com Nice one, cheers! That's exactly what I was after. I've been living under the rock of postgrad study for this year's games but by autumn hopefully I will have the luxury of free time again 
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Mister Adequate posted:I just wish Blitzball was a real sport. Then I would be able to be an obsessive sports fan. Water polo is an actual sport! Unfortunately it is nowhere near as fun to watch 
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I swept that stake ruthlessly. Also I know all about hockey because I am a big Propagandhi fan
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whoever gets brazil please pick the labour party as your charity
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Ktb posted:Nice one, cheers! That's exactly what I was after. I've been living under the rock of postgrad study for this year's games but by autumn hopefully I will have the luxury of free time again Ps you can go to reddit and get the direct URLs for the GCL streams and not pay but obviously that's  so you should check your conscience first. Also you have to install some weird program to get around the authentication checks.
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I'm in for the sweepstake and also some nice poll results: http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/06/02/five-myths-about-ukips-victory/ Compared to 2009 UKIP's popularity has fallen on the national level (although people who view them positively are now more likely to vote for them), support for continued EU membership has risen, hostility to immigrants has fallen, and a majority of people feel that they have enough money to live comfortably whereas in 2009 only 46% of respondents felt that way. There's a lot to be said for economic recovery.
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Cerv posted:whoever gets brazil please pick the labour party as your charity do not listen to this man
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In for the sweepstake! Go charity! Football! Back into the woodwork I go!
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What happened to that vauge rumour that brazil werent going to be ready and it would have to be shifted to somewhere else? e:girlfiend is now down to 30 stickers for completion, she has been facebooking like a lunatic e:2 that might actually be quite valuable in .... 10 years time Seaside Loafer fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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