This Country's Fucking Obsession with Horse Racing (1 Viewer)

[rettucs]

RIP to that horse who died today cos he broke his back

 

[Unicron]

RIP to that horse who died today cos he broke his back

 

[shidheat]

what's the "dead women" reference, anyone?

 

[Unicron]

what's the "dead women" reference, anyone?

Paddy Power took odds on whether or not Pistorious would be found guilty of murdering his girlfriend.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Up €75 so far. Which, added to my dole payment, is not a million miles off what I was being paid per week in my old job.

 

[washingcattle]

Up €75 so far. Which, added to my dole payment, is not a million miles off what I was being paid per week in my old job.

A scrounger and a gambler and here he is thinking he's cock of the walk because he's off the booze a few days.

Shitehawkery if ever I saw it.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

A scrounger and a gambler and here he is thinking he's cock of the walk because he's off the booze a few days.

Shitehawkery if ever I saw it.

That's me. I'll be featuring in the Irish Daily Mail at the weekend.

 

[rettucs]

THERES A RACE ON TODAY

 

[rettucs]

Five horses killed at Clonmel race meeting - Racing Results | Horse Racing Times, Race Cards & Winners - Sat, Jun 14, 2014

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Why aren't people/the media raging about this the same way they were about travellers and their sulky racing?

 

[ann post]

Why aren't people/the media raging about this the same way they were about travellers and their sulky racing?

The media aren't supposed to rage about anything really.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

True. Endlessly hype may have been a better expression.

 

[ann post]

Its strangely organic these days. Linkbait is the online industry. If that article gets a lot of clicks,the editors will ask for more on that topic. People give out shit every day about 'why isn't XX on the front page??' and the answer is democracy and people not giving a fuck.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

The problem then is that people are generally stupid and we end up with what is essentially mob-rule.

 

[rettucs]

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[Cormcolash]

So, we won't have one more, then?

 

[therealjohnny]

Cheltenham Festival Fatalities - Animal Aid

A list of the horses who have died running at the Cheltenham Festival between 2000 and 2018.

www.animalaid.org.uk

Race Horse Death Watch

www.horsedeathwatch.com

 

[GO]

Boycott Colm Meaney the stupid cunt

 

[ernesto]

gamblor has spoken.
His sacrifice was not enough.
Colm Meaney to be next

 

[Cormcolash]

Horses, a great bunch of lads