One of the ideas behind this blog was to have weird rambling posts that wander through the hazy reaches of my mind (and yes my mind is very hazy) and basically do a brain dump of ideas and thoughts. Some might unkindly call it a brain diarrhoea but lets not go there.
Follow up:
First up is the title of this blog that some have thought was some insightful reference to football or perhaps a cunning and devious hint at Zidanes world cup adventures. Alas it’s a bit more mundane. Stall the ball is a local Cork expression meaning stop or wait up or hold on there for a second. If you want to see some other colloquialisms peculiar to Cork and particularly why Cork seems to have many very foreign expressions have a look at Adams blog not blog and the site he set up to display his uncles dictionary of cork slang. There’s a few in there I had never heard of before but strangely it doesn’t list “Stall the ball”, maybe it’s a northsider southsider thing. Think of it as a Cork to rest of the world translation dictionary.
Speaking of Adam, he’s been banned (again) from boards. Although at the moment he seems to be talking out of his about a hole on his site for some reason. This (Adam getting banned not the hole) got me to wondering about where the line is drawn about forums and what you say on them. If I post some obnoxious comment about a moderator on a forum on my own site could, could or should I be banned from that forum. I suspect the answer is yes. But at least I’d be able to continue on a similar vein here not that it would prove much.
The post before this showed Damien’s blog in trouble as he received so many hits he exceeded his bandwidth allowance. Soon after making the comment I promptly went off and kicked this blog in the head by trying to add a StatCounter script to the pages. So for a few hours yesterday lunchtime the site put up various flavours of server error, script error, the owner of this site is a muppet error and so on. At least Damien had a good excuse. 
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As to Boards, the situation is pretty much an extension of the last time this idiocy came up: I was banned for a silly reason based on a bizarre personal grudge of Jerry Connolly's. When an admin has a grudge against you, and the moderators lick admin arse like confused puppies, there's very little you can do to defend yourself. I could g on the offensive, but I won't. I'll leave the dirty tricks to the scumbags.
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BADINAS: Had never heard of that until I met the missus, her mother uses it to this day, but it raises a few puzzled looks in the locals now that she's living in Meath :)
Badinas when pronounced rather that spelt makes a bit mores sense, sounds like bah-thin-ahhs as in bathing things sort of remembering that "TH" in Cork is usualy pronounced "D".