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they really needed a good win and well done to them, but ive personally always compared england to spain… overrated (much more than england) and when you sit down to watch another country that has so many great players as england does…. they always dissapoint me (personally).
not to take anything away from what was a great result for the irish, but just getting that out me system lol!!!!
but i know more tracey’s than i do sharon’s geoff!!! my name is quite rare here, believe it or not lol!!!
come on matty, share some stuff, specially as she aint gonna see it!!!! :o :o
i have to admit to finding it a bit boring too :oops:
dont really like to say that. but we got the win, and so did scotland so im happy wiv that.
not much to say on the point of criticising any of the players as i didnt sit down and watch enough of it to have a fair opinion (though i did see stevie’s miskick early on in the first half lol!!) :wink:
tell us bout tracey then (cool name btw…. i know loads and they are all nice) :wink:
i found this whilst looking for other sites to post on where you wouldnt get such negative comments on such a decent human being. steve always new the life he lived was a dangerous one, but he wouldnt have had it any other way,
and neither would his old man: read on
Irwin’s family pleads for time to mourn PRINT FRIENDLY EMAIL STORY
PM – Wednesday, 6 September , 2006 18:25:22
Reporter: Lisa Millar
MARK COLVIN: Steve Irwin’s family may be wanting to deal with their grief privately, but they’re well aware of just what a public figure he was and the extraordinary outpouring of emotion from his fans.With that in mind, his father Bob Irwin today made the tough decision to face the media scrum outside the Australia Zoo where his son lived and worked for most of his life.
He was thankful for the support, but he asked people – and especially the media – to give his daughter-in-law Terri time to mourn.
Lisa Millar joins us now from outside the zoo on the Sunshine Coast.
(to Lisa Millar) Lisa, Bob Irwin’s been there a lot himself working at the zoo, he was its original owner. Did he talk about the dangers that he and his son had faced together?
LISA MILLAR: Well he did, I mean the two of them have been knocking around, as it were, this zoo since Steve Irwin was nine-years-old. And in fact Bob Irwin today promised to try and do whatever he could to keep the zoo operational and to continue the work of his son.
But he was asked whether Steve was perhaps a little bit more game around the animals, and whether the dangers weighed on either of them, and this was how he answered those questions:
BOB IRWIN: Over the years Steve and I have had a lot of adventures together, and there’s been many occasions when anything could have gone wrong, and Steve knew the risks involved with the type of work he was doing, and he wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
Both of us… both of us over the years have had some very close shaves, I suppose you’d say, and we both approached it the same way, in that we made jokes of it. That’s not to say that we were careless, but we treated it like it was just part of the job, nothing to worry about, really.
MARK COLVIN: Steve Irwin’s father Bob.
(to Lisa Millar) Lisa Millar, how does he say that Teri Irwin, Steve’s wife, is coping?
LISA MILLAR: Well she hasn’t been seen at all since she left Tasmania, where she was trekking when she was told about the news of her husband’s death. She’s apparently locked herself away in the home with their children Bob and Bindi, who are three and eight years of age.
He says that she’s doing well considering, but that she’s extremely concerned for the wellbeing of the children. And in fact he made a plea for the media to try and give her a break, to just let her be and to mourn in private.
He and his son, as I said, were very close, and he spent a bit of the time of the press conference today actually reminiscing about what kind of bloke his son was, and the relationship that they had. And this is what he said:
BOB IRWIN: Tough, it’s tough.
Steve and I… I’d like to finish this please, because it’s important…
Steve and I weren’t like father and son, we never were, we were good mates, he’s a buddy. He’s a guy I could go out… he’d come up to the property, and we’d wander off and we’d maybe have a barbecue, maybe we’d just wander off in the scrub, light a fire, I’d have a couple of smokes, because I’m a criminal I smoke. And we might sit around the fire talking for hours on end about nothing really. And it was just so enjoyable.
And I’m a lucky, I’m a lucky, lucky guy that I’ve had the opportunity to have a son like Steve.
MARK COLVIN: Bob Irwin again.
(to Lisa Millar) Lisa Millar, there have been offers of a state funeral in Queensland. Did Bob Irwin give any indication if the family wanted that?
LISA MILLAR: Well he said they haven’t even had a chance really to talk about the burial arrangements, and he did say that the final decision would be up to his daughter-in-law.
But he gave every indication that it’s probably unlikely to happen. He doesn’t think it’s something that his son would have wanted. And of course that sparked a flurry of questions about why on earth Steve Irwin wouldn’t have wanted a state funeral, and this is how he responded:
BOB IRWIN: Because he’s an ordinary guy, he’s just an ordinary bloke, and he wants to be remembered as an ordinary bloke. There’s never been anybody else that I know of that had the personality that Steve had, and the strength, and the conviction of what he believed in. And his message was conservation. And he was such a strong person that people all over the world believed in him.
MARK COLVIN: Bob Irwin, speaking about his son Steve outside the Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast this afternoon to reporters, including our Lisa Millar.
just a polite request
please please please if you do not agree or not like the guy for any reason then please either start another thread so if people agree with you they can do so there (and i will respectfully NOT reply to it, cos that is what i would do), or simply stay stum… it aint a lot to ask.
i started the thread as a condolence thread and if i had any idea that people would feel it appropriate to either criticise the guy or take a poke at me cos i like and understand the need for conservation i would never have posted here….
i have quite a wide knowledge of the work involved in conservation and the everyday struggle that the peole who work constructively in that area have to go through. the education of it is the most important point, something that came natural to a guy like steve.
thats where he was talanted… and the appeal he had to the younger generation (where mr attenborough has yet to break through) was fantastic.
after reading the replies (not only here) where people are just trying to say a big up respect to a guy they admire, to see them shot down in such a shocking mannor is a sad show of how awful the human race has really become… no respect for anyone.
so, i beg you please that unless you want to leave a condolence message, just dont leave any, that would be a great way to end this thread, and hope that conservationists the world over carry on their great work, that they do day in and day out…. not only for animals, but for YOU
no wonder the guy preferred animals to humans……. im sadly starting to understand why
@forumhostpb wrote:
@token_male wrote:
@sharongooner wrote:
his name was URWIN
Irwin actually but we wont split hairs
I was wondering whether or not all those who proffessed their public grief for the late lamented Steve would notice that they couldn’t even spell his name correctly.
Nuff said eh???
it was a typographical error, unlike your deliberate immature mistake
his name was URWIN
he didnt have his head in a crocks head token, so i dont know where your statement comes from “think of my children”…. he died in a freak accident….. 5 million to one.
so, give it all the talk after the bloke is dead, yeah, that makes you great does it?
for jesues sake, instead of replying to mine, start another thread!! and leave mine for people who want to talk of the good the guy did, and people will continue to do in his legacy.
there are loads of parrots that would be near extinct if it wasnt for his conservation of them, never mind the mammals/animals he has given new lives/ a new lease of life too.
please.
do not speak ill of the dead when they cannot speak themselves.
we are the only voice they have and its my pregrogative to ensure that this guy has it
(specially here it seems)
after this im gone
and im not sad about that atall
bollocks to this site actually fuck you all.
its a sad world where you cannot pay yer respects in a forum without saddos dissagreeing aint it.
they couldnt ignore it….. they had to reply didnt they…. what d0es that say bout them.
what a load of shite. you are total irrespectable blinkered basterds…. have a look at the world man,,,, its breaking at the seams. the wind in the last few days? the heatwave? the floods?
at least if i died today id be wiv a geezer… a PROPER GEEZER… who would make ALL MEN NEXT TO HIM FEEL INFERIOR….
cos ya would be..
i can see this post gettin deleted fast.
funny that aint it
you sicko saddos
and you say that next time you have a fag, or have a drink, or walk out in front of a car, or have a car drive into you by accident. come on now, none of us know when we are gonna go.
this was spose to be a thread in RESPECT OF A MAN WHO HAS ACTUALLY WORKED MIRACLES in the world of conservation in areas where certain species would never now exist!!!! have you done that? NO!
give me my thread of respect PLEASE!!!!
or go bury your head in the sand of a polluted animal free WW3 ridden world.
give the geezer a bit of respect PLEASE.
thankyou
