Post of the Year 2017

[Julio_Geordio]

Following on from a discussion in another thread.
The following are all posts which have received 25 likes or more in 2017.

In December.

Things that continue to be right

Getting a letter with a permanent job offer a week before Christmas

Are you all set for The Christmas

Brought the boys to Santa today in Kia Ora Farm outside Gorey. Not exaggerating when I say it was excellent. We had a full 5 mins if not more in the room with the man himself and they give you a key then to go into a massive cabin to pick out presents. Our eldest lad could not get over it and has been singing Jingle Bells and Rudolph all evening since he got back home. We’ve had a tough run of things with our youngest lad who’s had a couple of stints in hospital since October but this evening w…

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

an elderly friend of mine, having recently recovered from a serious illness, ventured into the city centre recently to meet some old friends. he was a little apprehensive about going in at such a busy time but we all persuaded him it was a good idea and that he coudl avail of public transport home. after a few well deserved drinks with the childhood friends he had from the orphanage he went to get the bus back to the hospice from where he remembered the bus stop used to be when he worked in town…

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

A family member of my lady had a number of miscarriages as well (maybe 6 or 7) and also a stillborn, which is without a doubt the saddest thing I have ever witnessed in my life. She is pregnant again now though and past the 3 months with all well. If ever someone deserved it. This lady gave birth to a healthy baby boy this morning. I am so delighted for her and her husband.

The Official TFK Father's Issues Thread. I don't know how they do it

Signing in again. The third girl, absolutely over the moon, she’s beautiful but in 8-10 years time my life is going to be cc @KinvarasPassion

The Weather Thread

Enjoy. Usually you wait until Saturday night

Cunt of the Year 2017

Eddie Hobbs I’d say

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

Finally some comeuppance for the cunt that adviced me to take the boat to Howth with my 2 year old. I’m enjoying this.

I only drink so I can take photos of pints

[EF8B525D-E4A4-4A5C-9A3F-CB665BE53CCA] Head wetting

The Canine Corner

Joined the dog owning ranks. Missus arrived home last night from four days training at the Irish Guide Dog Centre in Cork with an assistance dog for the little fellow. He’s a magnificent creature.

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November

The Official TFK Father's Issues Thread. I don't know how they do it

Signing in! Baby girl, fit and healthy. Ms Locke good too

Starting a Gaa club

There needs to be awkward bolox like you in every club so that’s one box ticked.

Schadenfreude

panto audience " its behind you" Al porter “what is it” panto audience " your career"

The Official TFK Father's Issues Thread. I don't know how they do it

Signing in.

New York City the greatest city on earth?

I’m here too lads. Going to Scotty’s in the morning. [Before-AerialFromRiver]

New York City the greatest city on earth?

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Are you all set for the Yule?

Well done mate, be a handy few quid for you

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October

When was the last time you did drugs or had a packet of tayto with a pint

I rather watch a freshly painted wall dry

Tom Humphries thread

What was the gist of it for those of us that don’t work in a hairdressers or drive taxis?

Great Sporting Pictures sponsored by Sportsfile

Some skill levels on display there. It’s like a scene from the ramp of a cattle truck when the ones you’ve already loaded turn back on top of the ones going up the ramp.

Things that are right

My father was driving the cork to mallow road yesterday when a lorry swerved right across the main road coming against him. A car had gone up inside the lorry and hit the ditch and taken off, the lorry driver had swerved out to avoid it and lost control. My old man had veered into his own ditch firstly to avoid lorry but when he realised the lorry was out of control he swerved right and made it out behind the tail of the lorry into open road. He came close to a heart attack id say having had tw…

Tom Humphries thread

You are the one making a connection between Hook and the Cusack/TH case where there is none. You are assuming some ‘logical’ follow on, logical in your head only. You are characterising it as victim blaming (again people disagree with that assertion), it is your assertion and then you are using it as a stick to beat posters who find Cusack’s reference abhorrent. Defending Cusack’s character reference with your mental gymnastics is bizarre here. No, he wouldn’t have anyone defending him. You…

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

Fair fuck to the two of ye for doing that. But your cover story won’t hold up to any serious probing

Shit that makes you feel old

I met a lady tonight, that I hadn’t seen for decades. Though we never had a relationship we were very fond of each other. Anyway she moved abroad a long time ago and we had a chance encounter in Dublin today. She looked great. When I had last seen her I was in my absolute prime. As I introduced myself to her a look came over her that put me in mind of that Liam O Flaithearta story that was on the leaving where the lad emigrated leaving his beautiful love behind and he yearns for her for years a…

Journalist Investigated over Teenage Girl

You haven’t received a PM in over a month.

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

Don’t fall into the trap of staying together “for the kids”, mate. Just rip the plaster off and move out at the weekend. No point in prolonging this sham of a marriage.

Journalist Investigated over Teenage Girl

In fairness, it looks like he had an eating disorder too

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September:

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

My mother texts in text speak, where a lot of stuff is shortened. “Der is a bite at home 4 u” kind of thing. Anyway she uses ‘cum’ in place of ‘come’. I shudder every time she uses it but it seems worse to correct her on the cum/come matter as it would involve explaining or highlighting the difference, so I put up with it for now and avoid getting into text exchanges with her. There was a possibility yesterday that I’d have to collect her from somewhere and sure enough in the evening I got the c…

Wedding Etiquette

Lovely mate. .I got the same set in Dunnes when I started my first job in Dublin.

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

Resigned yesterday. The company I originally wanted to work for have been talking to me for a couple of months and came back with a much improved offer. So I’m going there to sell tech to corporates. Reduces commute to work to about an hour, brilliant place to work, back in civilisation, away from Western Sydney. Money’s great, opportunity is better. Finish here next week and then a week off. Flying it.

Ravenous Part Deux, the cheap likes thread

A similar approach myself this evening. [Screenshot_20170912-173848]

Irish Travellers - A Proud Ethnic Group

Gordon used the term knacker (referencing himself). John Connors, who has worked tirelessly to remove the stereotyping around travellers and traveller culture, challenged him to a bare knuckle boxing match.

The Official TFK Father's Issues Thread. I don't know how they do it

Signing in. Healthy baby girl born this afternoon.

2017 All Ireland final Galway v Waterford - Pretend Galway Fans spouting shit

Well done Galway. Better team won there. No ifs and buts no hard luck stories. I wouldn’t begrudge it to ye for a second.

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August;

The Official TFK Father's Issues Thread. I don't know how they do it

I’ve never liked cats, horrible fuckers everyone of them I’ve ever encountered. So last Saturday morning when I opened the front door here was a kitten, I’d say a couple of months old, sitting looking up at me. After failing to scatter the thing out comes the 4 year old and immediately and unconditionally fell in love with the fur ball. Bowls were bought, new cat beds bought, blankets for the cat, you name it herself went and got it. After failing to find an owner, the cat became part of the fa…

Stag destination

So… [image] I just woke up in the regional

New York City the greatest city on earth

Go to Scotty’s diner on Lexington avenue for breakfast. I used to go there every morning without fail for breakfast the two times I was in New York. It’s run by an old Italian guy and he’ll set you up for the day with a fine breakfast and all the coffee you can drink. Every morning when I used to go in he’d see me coming in the door and spread his arms apart and tilt backwards and go “Ehhh, you’re back!” I think he really appreciated that I’d return every morning whatever the weather. He used t…

Top Gangland Boss Shot Dead

These lads are getting smarter. They’re only using cars that set themselves on fire now.

2017 All Ireland final Galway v Waterford - Pretend Galway Fans spouting shit

I changed everything about my preparation for the Championship this year. I bought a season ticket because it would guarantee me an All Ireland Final ticket. I consulted the GAA calendar before booking holiday breaks. I took a chance there’d be no replays. I had a superstition about wearing county colors to matches. I ditched this when the nephews got me a present of an Azzurri polo and top. That required mental strength but I saw it through. I had a little tradition of posting up twee photo…

‍♀️ Lookalikes Thread

Retiring Supreme Court Justice Mary Laffoy [image] Former Arsenal striker Gervinho [image]

CLG na Gaillimhe - ta siad ag teacht

Wouldn’t know where to start with Tony Keady… I didn’t know the man personally myself only to greet him the odd time at the gym in Oranmore. Everyone seemed to know him, everyone loved him. A huge character in his chosen home of Oranmore. His family aside the biggest loss will be felt up in Calisancious college in Oranmore where he worked as a caretaker and hurling coach. A teacher friend of ours was at the house earlier in complete shock, he was a huge part of everyone’s daily life up there. …

Athletics Thread

Ive taught a few lads with dyspraxia down through the years. All very similar to your lad. Had a kid this year in sixth year. Very bright and hardworking. Terrible handwriting, poor coordination and would have given up rugby in TY. He was very OCD aswell. Basically ticked every box for dyspraxia. Some of the lads in his class would try and needle him. They knew what buttons to push to make him flip. He almost swung for me out of the blue early this year. He was out sick previous day an…

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July;

‍♀️ Lookalikes Thread

Tom from Fr. Ted [image] Damien Comer [image]

Things that are right

It’s a wonderful gesture from all TFK members to give up their money for such a worthwhile cause. Money that could otherwise have been spent on the following: Pints Fags Bullet Proof Coffees Brazzers Fixies Mastitis Antibiotics Little bottles of gay beer Breakfast Rolls Trainers Tins of baked beans One way flights to London Church offertory Child support maintenance Washed Diesel Really bad pairs of Ecco shoes Bottles of wine bought at a petrol station

Things that are right

This is as good a place as any, the person in question hasn’t made any request for this to be made public or otherwise but it deserves some recognition. as some will know myself and @Nembo_Kid had a bet on the football game on Saturday, when I contacted him re the settlement of the debt he asked me to contribute to a charity of MY choice and that he would match my donation, stunning display of generosity and all that is good about TFK, me and him have had a fractious relationship in the past an…

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

Hey lads, Thanks all for the messages and so on. I got a text from my pal @ChocolateMice about it, and as I said to him, I really just needed to dump the info outta me And this weirdly seemed like the most appropriate place. Her Bro’s wife had 4 of them before having 4 girls, my best man 3 before having two kids, and another really good friend 2 before have one. We know many people who have been down this road and ‘we go again’. My mother even told me today she had one before my sister and …

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

Leaving your wife in the maternity hospital for the next few nights for observation after a miscarriage and concerns that there may be a second eptopic one, and feeling stone cold useless. Sorry for sharing something as personal, but she’s braver than me on this front and said I need to talk about it. Might as well say it to a bunch of relative strangers as anyone else. She’s a city girl but my roaster behaviour has rubbed off on her. She asked me to bring her in a veg burger meal from superma…

The Official TFK Father's Issues Thread. I don't know how they do it

Brought the six year old for to Croke Park yesterday for his first trip. Combining tfk classics of gambling and sport I told him I put a bet on so if Dublin won he would win 10 euro. This was to ensure he stayed involved in the game. He was gripped by the game to such an extent that when we got home he was able to tell his mother the points gap at half time and throughout the second half and how nervous he was at Dublin losing although he added Kildare never really got close. I hope I have…

Ravenous Part Deux, the cheap likes thread

Just banged together this bit of grub there because I felt like it. [image]

I'm on top of the world thread

I moved into my own house last week. First weekend morning here, sitting eating pancakes and having coffee. I’m on top of the world.

[Julio_Geordio]

June;

Wedding Etiquette

[quote=“Smark, post:1721, topic:16951, full:true”] I’ve two weddings on back to back weekends coming up i’m dreading it. [/quote] I like you @Smark your punting tips, down the fields yarns and yer frugal oul’ lad yarns so what gives here. Weddings are great affairs altogether ffs. There’s no need to know anybody to have a rip of a day. A small case in point… I booked a weekend back years ago in some “hotel” thingy near Dromoland for herself and myself - possibly a place called Lynch’s Castl…

The Official TFK Farming Thread - Keeping the country going

I was out with the old man and one of the brothers yesterday evening, turning the turf with hay rakes. The turf bank, which has been linked to the family farm for over 150 years, is one of the EU’s conservation and heritage designated bogs, so for the past few years the farm contractor has had to go in under cover of dark and cut. As a result, we don’t have much, if any, leeway regarding what weather conditions we cut in; this year it rained for two weeks solid after it was cut, leaving it in …

The Official TFK Farming Thread - Keeping the country going

Fit for baling at noon tomorrow. Lovely smell blowing in off the meadow, birds singing and the sun just gone behind the mountain. [image] [image]

Significant people's (not celebrities) deaths

Thanks for all the messages folks. Means a lot on a tough day like today.

‍♀️ Lookalikes Thread

Cian Healy [image] Pig in a barrel [image]

The demise of Bandage

I’m not surprised your heart was soaring. Were you taking drugs? You’re claiming you were jogging at 300 km/h, you daft cunt.

Wexford V Kilkenny Leinster S.H.C Semi Final, 7pm Saturday 10th June, Innovate Wexford Park

Eddie Keher, Henry Shefflin, DJ and your 21 fucking steps, every cunt called Aylward, Cody, Nicky Brennan, all the fucking Canice’s, Edmund Rice, Eddie Brennan, Mahon McPhillips, Liam Fennelly, Willie and Eddie you robbing training cunts, Noel Hickey, Ian Dowling, The Smithwicks family and your fucking bland red ale, all the poaching cunts working in Kierans, your boys, your boys didn’t just take a beating, they were fucking destroyed

The Celebrity Spotting Thread Part Twee (or help Flatty identify the celeb he just spotted)

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OTB (Off The Ball)

have you got O’Neil destroying Gilroy? Ger Gilroy: Yeah, except the thing about the national team is that… A lot of the the… A lot of the language around it is dictated, by the TV punditry And I don’t know if the view is necessarily dictated the way it would have been when we were kids growing up, where there was… like… No access No other analysis No other media around it It was like the two lads, said whatever they said The public parroted that Maybe, I think now people have much mor…

[JonSnow]

What’s this shit?

[Sidney]

[Mac]

I got 3 posts with over 25 likes? Fuckin hell, it must have been a slow year.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@Mac

I got 3 posts with over 25 likes? Fuckin hell, it must have been a slow year.

[Mac]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

@Mac

I got 3 posts with over 25 likes? Fuckin hell, it must have been a slow year.

[Julio_Geordio]

May;

Affairs

Throw up a picture of her and I will let you know.

Affairs

One thing cheating on the wife. But if you skip training you are cheating on yourself.

Anyone ever live in the Middle East?

Know a guy from Cork who lived in Israel working for one of the big semi conductor companies. He married a bird out there and they have a kid. Said the place is bat shit crazy and they ended up moving back to Ireland. The wife is nuts though and there’s a fair chance she’ll stab him some night when he’s passed out after a few cans and flee back to Israel with the child.

Cork v Tipperary

just back home it was like 2003 there again today towards the end, magical scences in the old stand, we havent had too many memorable moments in the last 4 or 5 years, i listened to the entire 2013 championship on he radio in israel, to this day i have never seen any of it , i would say tho that the feeling of joy i had when we beat clare in 2013 was the same as today, (albeit in a different setting), 2013 was a very private experience for me as nobody around me know what i was doing as i wa…

Life is too short

Glad to hear that you are ok mate but I think its important that you and your family take it easy over the next few weeks as there might be some residual shock and anxiety floating around. Keep a close eye on your kids mate Its terrible that this happened but thank fuck you are ok. While we all have pops on here at each other constantly its all in jest so God bless

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Things that are right

Becoming a father for the first time.Surreal stuff. I’ll still go to the Limerick Minor game tomorrow night though, sure tis only next door from the maternity n’all

Post a picture that reminds you of a TFK poster

@balbec [image]

Pubs To Frequent

Real Ra lads robbing the Pretend Ra lads.

‍♀️ Lookalikes Thread

Butthead [image] Recently retired government shill David Davin Power [image]

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April;

The Pretend Fitness Thread

[image] A bit of a horror show on my first marathon. It all went a bit pear shaped from 24-33km, and my ambitions for a good time plummeted. Seriously plummeted. Went out way too fast thinking I could hold it as training had gone well the last few weeks but suffered like hell and was in a dark place. Told myself to cop on and got to the end of it. Met the Mrs on O Callaghan strand after mile 21. Took a gel and ate half a snickers I had for after the race and walked with her for 500m. Then I j…

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

Rascal is home and in flying form. The good wishes from the TFK family are much appreciated.

Munster Rugby

Only know the one way home though, with their tails between their legs.

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Holidays

On my own at the moment, been on the road for 6 weeks now. Had an chance to travel due to a career move, so took the opportunity and handed in my notice early so I could get a decent break. Colombia is great, one of the nicest countries I’ve been to. Cartagena is brilliant, especially the old walled city. Not sure if it fits ye’re ideal honeymoon destination, but I’d say there are plenty of great spots along the Carribbean coast. The water is warm and the sand is perfect, the better beaches bei…

People on Bikes

Shit just got real on the peninsula. [image][image][image]

The Ultrarunning Thread

I just want to say something, I lined up behind the 3:45 pacer lad at the start this morning and there was a lad running in memory of his daughter, he had her photograph on the back of his shirt, she must only have been 8 or 9, I had no sun glasses on today as I threw them away in a temper last week when things were getting tough, I started crying when I saw that picture, I was overcome with the emotion of it all, I looked around and saw the greatness of humanity lined up beside me. I run for …

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March;

People who are beginning to give me a pain in the hole

Have we mentioned before that these county finals were Division 3 and that ye were a thundering disgrace to be playing in that grade? A town of 20,000 people with only 1 hurling team playing in Division 3 to avoid the top teams. And a cunt on the internet still dining out on it.

People Kev knows

On one side you’ve grown men asking for a stranger to deposit 6.25k to another stranger, the middle man, on the INTERNET as part of a bet. On the other you’ve a lad taking the high moral ground on literally every single topic, condescension dripping towards every other poster, accusing lads of being alcoholics and sneerily dismissing anyone with a different view point to him. It’s unreal. Only on TFK. And the gas thing is in six months time I’ll still be here wading through hundreds of posts …

Career Change

Success!!!

Irelands greatest ever Statesman - Martin McGuinness

'He didn’t go to fight a war…he didn’t board an aeroplane and travel thousands of miles to fight in some one elses country…He fought when the soldiers came to his road…his town… his place. Martin Mc Guinness fought back… there will always be those that fight back. I never had my father or my brother dragged out of my house by the hair being beaten and kicked by thugs in uniform. The war came to them… Mc Guinness made peace… the people saw their strongest warrior compromise and reach out to his e…

More Things That Are Wrong, just plain wrong

[quote=“Boxtyeater, post:4540, topic:20929, full:true”] A good oul’ mate of mine was dealt an hammer blow on Saturday morning when his wife had a brain tumour/stroke. She’s on life support awaiting/hoping for a transfer to Beaumont. He’d be more or less potless God help him. I was there all evening - he doesn’t know which side of him is up… His great friends were there - to a man…I discreetly sussed the gathering and we agreed between us that we’d fund the funeral. I know in my heart of hear…

The Celebrity Spotting Thread Part Twee (or help Flatty identify the celeb he just spotted)

Fanning sat with his back to the window, a brave move deep in kinahan heartland. he enjoyed a kenyan blend coffee while his 2 companions had milk based coffee. the trio were deep in conversation but unsurprisingly it was fanning who dominated the discussions. body language and tone suggested a degree of subservience from his female companion, his male companion just seemed a little slow. the conversation was an animated discussion about a mutual acquaintance. i had ordered a take away coffee bu…

OTB (Off The Ball)

It’s a very unusual disease Fagan. If there is a plus side to it, it is that people tend to develop a very sallow skin. My wife looks like she’s just back from Spain in the middle of December. If we get a good summer she just goes bronze. Before we got married the wife attended a specialist in Dublin and he told her it was unlikely she’d carry a baby to full term. When she did get pregnant and the time came, we had half the gynaecologists in the country parked up in Limerick for the birth. I…

[Julio_Geordio]

February;

Important Announcement

You sacked the last head chef after his mediocre food, why are you giving this chef so much leeway? I hear you are paying him a fortune as well, just because he had some good food previously. I haven’t seen anything to suggest he’s getting the best out of the ingredients he has, and his new menu additions have been poor and overly expensive, while he has gotten rid of other options prematurely. I’ve heard some criticisms that your previous chef might have been overly reliant on that one South …

The Roaster Thread

I saw a lovely roasterish incident yesterday in Castlebar. Myself and the old man had arranged to meet the rest of the family at An Sportlann (the Castlebar Mitchells clubhouse which is beside McHale Park) before the match to get some food and watch the Ireland match (democracy is a curse). There was already a decent crowd gathered in the bar at half four. As I was silently willing the French on, I noticed there was a trio of elderly men sitting at a table far away from the TV, shouting at anyo…

HBV - A Poll to decide if the forum wants him back (non binding)

Dear oh dear - resorting to foul language on t’internet. Look @anon7035031 and indeed @Sidney, this puerile “banter” is boring and only absorbing your own braincells. I couldn’t give a flying fuck what either of you care about the current American President or the posting status of @HBV, but for the sake of the forum give yourselves a break. In case you’ve missed it, the forum charter indicates a willingness to engage in discussion/banter/slagging on predominately GAA or agricultural matters. …

The Official TFK Father's Issues Thread. I don't know how they do it

The missus had a wee baby girl today alls well.happy days…renewing the gun licence tomorrow and upgrading the dog!

The English Premier League 2016/17™

Should be back for Easter.

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January;

Superbowl LI: The Road to Houston, Texas

It’s akin to you waffling on about Celtic signing Jockstrap McHaggishead or Hamish McCabertoss from Raith Rover or East Fife. At the end of the day nobody else really gives a fuck

Abortion Referendum Thread

After we were told that our daughter was a child with Down Syndrome, of course you are gutted, but the child has just been born, as in you have the child, taken over to one side, checked and then they come back and say that your daughter more than likely is a child with Down Syndrome. So the emotion of child birth and the beauty that goes with that is very quickly taken away from you. My sorrow was that we knew we were having a girl so I had projected 30 years down the line and walking her dow…

Limerick GAA - Box Office

Just back from Fraher Field, Dungarvan. Things that are wrong - hurling in January on boggy pitches. Decent work out but Waterford putting out the B team rendered it null and void as a meaningful contest. We were all at sea early on. Waterford had their usual tactic of a one man forward line as they packed the midfield, leaving one attacker inside with an ocean of space. Richie McCarthy was repeatedly exposed by either Bennett or Foran who rotated as their sole forward. Bennett slipped inside…

Words or phrases that strike the fear of God into you

Dear Sir I am writing on behalf of my client who has been defamed on your website…

[Julio_Geordio]

Again having a kid is the quickest route to a “Good Reply”
Followed by being a farmer, getting new job or going to Scotty’s diner.

[farmerinthecity]

Is there a post that actually had the greatest number of likes?

[Julio_Geordio]

That’s one for @rocko.