All-Ireland Hurling Championship 2019***

anon61878697 · July 9, 2019, 11:09am

Are we prisoners of language or do we make language our prison?

Bandage · July 9, 2019, 11:10am

The thing with Kilkenny is, even though they’re not the force of old, they’re still very hard to shake off. Very committed, dogged, full of self belief, completely relentless. Sure you can’t bate tradition in that way.

flattythehurdler · July 9, 2019, 11:10am

Bit of both mate.

anon61878697 · July 9, 2019, 11:11am

I agree pal. Language is a game and we are quite often trapped by the rules.

flattythehurdler · July 9, 2019, 11:12am

Idiots that we are.

Malarkey · July 9, 2019, 11:13am

Sidney:

A lot of presumption and projection there again, mate, your inangination must be working overtime, shame it’s chanelled completely through the medium of hackneyed cliche

Thanks for the bit about Mark E. Smith though

You should have tried to work “Who Makes The Nazis” into it

The “stickie” thing has really gone to your head, hasn’t it, sticks on the brain, or perhaps one blow too many from one

But trust you to have an irrational obsessession with a term which has no relevance to anybody in 21st century Ireland and which few people have even heard of in 21st century Ireland

In terms of cultural cringe, you’re reached full blown preacher status - purity of cringe may be a contradiction in terms but then purity of contradiction is your specialty, with all the sneering and lack of self awareness that goes with such a thing

The “basic question” was one you couldn’t even understand, never mind respond correctly to

So, like all egotistical gobshites who have been caught out on a basic question beyond the limits of their own overinflated sense of “understanding”, you try and change the question

Who knew you dreamt of being Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Paper Tiger springs to mind, or perhaps Trout Mask Replica, given that your posts on this thread lately have stunk the place out

Look, meeting the articulate stupid really is a trial. You have no appreciation of what is entailed by saying GAA intercounty games are “more important” than GAA club games. Not to grasp the entailment is moronic.

Spew on away. You got your intellectual gym, alas.

You no more believe in socialism than Bono believes in sound engineers.

Malarkey · July 9, 2019, 11:14am

Thank you.

anon61878697 · July 9, 2019, 11:15am

As Wittgenstein said, all of life’s great problem’s are merely language problems… or something to that affect.

artfoley · July 9, 2019, 11:17am

effect

anon61878697 · July 9, 2019, 11:17am

I was waiting for it…

flattythehurdler · July 9, 2019, 11:18am

I see your pun went over foleys head.

artfoley · July 9, 2019, 11:19am

i was just helpfully playing ball

flattythehurdler · July 9, 2019, 11:19am

Sidney · July 9, 2019, 11:23am

It certainly is, luckily for you there’s no jury here

They are more important

That’s a fact

It entails that inter-county games are more important than club games, which they are

There’s no such a thing as an intellectual gym, pal, it’s just one more meaningless buzzphrase you thought up to try and sound intelligent which just ends up making you look stupid

Funnily enough critics of U2 sometimes say that their sound was over dependent on sound engineers and a quick listen to any of their albums from 1984 to 1997 would confirm that sound engineering was a key part of their production

You haven’t a clue what I believe

Ashman · July 9, 2019, 11:30am

Joe faylunn !!!

Malarkey · July 9, 2019, 11:31am

Sidney:

Malarkey:

Look, meeting the articulate stupid really is a trial.

It certainly is, luckily for you there’s no jury here

Malarkey:

You have no appreciation of what is entailed by saying GAA intercounty games are “more important” than GAA club games.

They are more important

That’s a fact

Malarkey:

Not to grasp the entailment is moronic.

It entails that inter-county games are more important than club games, which they are

Malarkey:

Spew on away. You got your intellectual gym, alas.

There’s no such a thing as an intellectual gym, pal, it’s just one more meaningless buzzphrase you thought up to try and sound intelligent which just ends up making you look stupid

Malarkey:

You no more believe in socialism than Bono believes in sound engineers.

Funnily enough critics of U2 sometimes say that their sound was over dependent on sound engineers and a quick listen to any of their albums from 1984 to 1997 would confirm that sound engineering was a key part of their production

You haven’t a clue what I believe

You truly are a moron. Quite a feat.

“That’s a fact”

Do you want to tell us why?

Is rain more important than clouds?

Perez2017 · July 9, 2019, 11:32am

Sid does not follow a gaa club so he is not qualified to comment.

anon61878697 · July 9, 2019, 11:37am

What’s even being argued here? Couple of lads trying to flex their intellectual prowess … an e- dick measuring contest.

Malarkey · July 9, 2019, 11:40am

What is being argued is whether intercounty games are “more important” than club games – and how ‘importance’ should be defined/construed.

A pretty important topic, all told.

Sidney · July 9, 2019, 11:44am

Given that you so pride yourself on being a self styled “grass roots” man it’s ironic that your little metaphor about rain is quite literally a top down one rather than a bottom up one

The importance of inter-county games versus club games is quite easily explained

Inter-county games draw much bigger crowds, draw higher viewing figures, generate more discussion and more money, have fiercer competition, and players put in far bigger preparation to play in them than they do for club games

That is a simple reality that a lot of people have a lot of trouble dealing with

If you want to debate the sociology of sport vis a vis community, that’s a totally different argument, and one which is irrelevant to the fact that inter-county games are more important than club games

The proof of the pudding is in the eating