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IT HAS BEEN more than a decade since the cast of Friends graced television screens around the world.
The show – which aired for 10 seasons and finished in 2004 – left million of devastated fans in its wake.
Well now, 22 years after it was first broadcast, it looks like the cast will be reunited for a two-hour special.
This was confirmed by NBC yesterday evening at the Television Critics Association’s press tour which was making a stop in Pasadena.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the reunion will not be an episode but as part of a tribute to comedy director James Burrows, who helmed a number of Friends’ episodes.
However, if you’re looking forward to seeing Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer on screen again you might be left disappointed.
It looks like all of the cast members might not be appearing together.
In the past it has been rumoured that some of the cast have been reluctant to take part in a full reunion, and according to Buzzfeed, NBC’s chair of entertainment Bob Greenblatt isn’t making any promises.
“I’m hoping all six of them will be all in the same room at the same time, but I’m not sure if we can logistically pull that off,” he said.
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I think Oscar Wilde’s quote sums it up nicely ‘The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable’……..
What kind of person gets a thrill watching a pack of dogs tear another animal to pieces, clearly their not right in the head, these hot toddy drinking sadistic excuse for a human only proves one thing that is that the man is more savage than the beast.
@Slim Browne: Yawn!
@Missyb211: sorry, that was for Trev!er..
@Missyb211: Yawn? Defend the hunt if you can, or argue his comment, but don’t yawn. It makes you out to be a simpleton that enjoys cruelty and nothing more.
@Missyb211: well go back to bed then, uv brought nothing useful to the conversation, so Tally Ho.
@Slim Browne: Fine Gael Elite
@Slim Browne: Me
@Slim Browne: leave hot Toddies out of this!
I live in an area of Meath where these A holes meet regularly. Take over the roads, park there jeeps and horse boxes everywhere. No regard for anyone or anything else. An antiquated tradition that should be banned . Complete conts the lot of them.
@Tony Murphy: Not to mention the amount of horse$hite everywhere. Couldnt agree with you more. I have spoken here about a time i was out for a walk. 2 guys on horses said hello and i continued up a country road. I met 40+ beagles barking like crazy. I had to climb up on a high wall. Do you think the a$$holes could have warned me. I dont know if sadists is the correct name for them. Maybe they are more like cavemen. The “sport” should be banned!
The most disgusting part of this so called sport is that its participants make statements about regulations and protocols,
and animal welfare!! They will insist they are helping to cull the fox population at the same time trying to convince you that very few foxes are killed during the hunt!
Nothing wrong, as they see it , in exposing residents including children and people with domestic pets to
the savagery of an unfortunate animal being torn to pieces.
The contamination of farmland from dozens of hounds and galloping horses crossing it doesn’t seem to bother them in the least.
Of course we’ll get the usual stuff about the foxes killing poultry and so on, well, those who keep poultry should be responsible enough to ensure they are kept in secure housing particularly at night.
Ban them.
Fox hunting is unnecessary. Fox don’t attack livestock and if you have poultry you need to have them secured from predators otherwise a mink, dog or fox will wreak havoc. Regardless of your views on this sport, and I would be among those who find it barbaric, hounds running through a housing estate will kill on sight any small defenseless animal including small children or pet cats and dogs. They should be nowhere near a housing estate.
@Sean: When was a child last killed by a hunt? I’m intrigued
@John Tierney: How about you tell us what’s stopping the dogs from doing it?
How about you sit your wee kid in a field where the fox has to run past with the hounds following and then we might believe they wont go for a kid – go on!
@Pablo: You are of course right!
http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/15/killer-urban-fox-attacks-baby-bouncer-sneaking-family-home-7314171/
Dogs are savage. Oh wait, this a about killer foxes! Disregard!
@John Tierney: Nice straw man argument though.
Let me just get this right – your logic is because a fox can bite a human 30 dogs won’t …. genius.
@Pablo: Still waiting for an example of when hunt dogs attacked a child.
@John Tierney: I’m waiting on the video of your kids out playing while the hounds wander past them to tear the fox apart. Let’s see it John.
I’m guessing you don’t work in a job where logic is required. I’m giving up now before you drag me down to your level.
Absolutely disgusting, it appears we have a group of royalists in the kingdom of Kerry.
@Trevor Hayden: yes, a ‘sport’ we should have sent home with the Brits.
@john Appleseed: I wonder if Shane Ross will see this as a ” jolly good old tradition” that requires further investment?
@john Appleseed: Even the Brits have outlawed this barbarity!
Disgusting. I hate this. So the Dail decided that this is ok. They decided on my behalf that this is acceptable. This is totally NOT acceptable. Give the vote to the people. Let us decide!
@Anne: yes Ann! Let us decide.
@Anne: Not being deliberately political, but you hardly expected FF or FG to annoy their masters by trying to stop something like this. They get their payments and everyone and everything else is up for sale. Look at who sold themselves for 250k in FF to Denis O’Brien. That story ran in the Irish Times yesterday after a court hearing
Nothing on the DOB owned media though. I heard somewhere DOB loves a good hunt also and pays a lot for it. Please excuse my spelling in places.
The Hunting Association said that they have a detailed code of conduct for fox hunting?!? Give me a break! No one who takes part in this disgusting ‘sport’ has any ethics, empathy or morality whatsoever and are therefore never going to abide by a code of conduct. They simply don’t care, end of.
So ripping defenceless animals apart still gives some people a warm fuzzy feeling in their pants.
Stay classy down there, ya sickos.
@Cheeky Bums: there can be a case for culling, I don’t agree with in this case, but this is not how you go about it. Bunch of sad toffs, they should be chased by a pack a dogs that is a sport worth watching. If they get caught they have to spend the day mucking out in the DSPCA
Whenever i hear that a member of a hunt gets injured or falls off a horse it serves them right and if they break a leg or arm they get what they deserve.
@Marie Gunbay: You just need to cop yourself on.
@Marie Gunbay: pity the don’t fall and break body parts more often
Ban this barbaric practice. Fox hunting, hare coursing, greyhound racing are barbarous persuits. Ban them all!
As I understand the law every dog must be on a lead in a public place, if not, the owner must show that the dog is under the control of the owner at all times. As these dogs were not accompanied by the owners and were clearly out of control they can and should be taken by a dog warden and a fine must be paid by the owner to have them returned. If the owner does not collect the dog within a specified time the dog may be put down. Also, the dogs MUST all be micro-chipped which will identify the owner.
@John Hagin Meade: well then let’s blame the dog warden for not taking appropriate action.
Maybe the government should put additional funding into this area and tax us else where to make up for loss of money.
We as humans are at fault for our own down fall
Ok lads, I hear your concern and accept it but have you ever spared a thought for a diary cow? Selectively bred to twice a day produce an udder of milk she can hardly bear the weigh of (the reason they queue to get milked is for relief and grain). She is bred from each year by an artificial method which involves a person inserting an arm in her rectum up to a man’s shoulder. The produce of this breeding is taken away from its mother immediately it’s born and she is sent back into the system to be milked for humans. Male calfs are virtually worthless and barely worth feeding. The cow does this for approximately 10 years and the minute her milk production drops off she is culled from the herd and sent to slaughter. Not excusing the fox hunting but he had one bad day, I would rather that to life time of low level cruelty. People who get up in arms about hunting are often blind to this cruelty.
@Sheena Hanley: Ok Sheena, I hear your point but there are children dying in Syria. You get my point, I hope!
@Michael Evans: Apply your own logic to your earlier posts about fox hunting #basicbish.
@Michael Evans: Oh sorry, i just realised you’re only interested in being an advocate for animals that it doesn’t involve you having to change your diet to assist
@Sheena Hanley: a male calf can be sold for veal, they’re hardly useless.
@Sheena Hanley: That’s just an assumption on your behalf and an incorrect one at that. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 25 years.
@Sheena Hanley: “involves a person inserting an arm in her rectum” I think that would be vagina. I’ve never heard of anyone falling out of their mother’s ass. Most Dairy farmers use beef bull AI. So the male Calfs are quite valuable. Sorry to dispell your vegan myth.
@Michael Evans: You know dairy cows get slaughtered too? @karen Wellington: There’s 1.2million diary cows in Ireland alone in 2015 census. That’s 1.2million calves per year, roughly half of them are male. They are considered a bi product.
@Sheena Hanley: What you need to do is go out and get facts yourself before spouting stuff, go and talk to a farmer, maybe then you can ‘teach’, us things. Male calves are not a bi product, they are sold on to be bred for meat and culled at about 3 years of age.
@Hatchjaw: you need to study up not me. Ai process involves inserting an arm in the cows arsehole to locate the uterus, the straw is then inserted in her vagina to carry our the insemination. I grew up on a farm in Ireland so I know first hand about the ins and outs of farm life. Next.
@Stephen O’Donoghue: definition of bi product is “something produced in the process of making something else”. Beef cattle are bred to make Beef, dairy cattle are bred to produce milk, male calves are born but they cant produce milk. I’m sorry to the people who don’t like hearing this but my point is that people need to stop pretending it’s grand, especially ones up in arms about fox hunting.
Foxes DO NOT kill lambs. Foxes are barely bigger than a new born lamb. This illusion that foxes are some big dangerous predator needs to end. I live in a rural area surrounded by fields full of sheep and every year I see a fox walking through the field and all the sheep and lambs ignore the fox. Foxes eat rodents and berries and other plants.
Have any of you ever walked out to a hen house and seen the devastation to a flock after a fox? Sometimes they don’t just carry off what they want to eat they actually savage the remaining birds and cause devastating injuries without needing them for food. Sometimes they are half dead and have to be destroyed afterwards.Foxes are pests. Though I’m at a loss how a pack of hounds was unsupervised in a housing estate.
@Karen: A fox is an animal, it knows no better, it is just doing what is instinctual to it. Humans, I would have thought, have a little more intelligence than to want to do the same. Humans, also have the intelligence to build a fox proof enclosure for their chickens, if they have a damn in the first place but chickens are cheaper to replace so why bother!
@Karen: So you think it’s o.k to let a pack of hounds rip a fox apart because the fox done likewise in the hen house? Grow up. My father keeps hens so I know the damage that can be done when they aren’t secured. However, the last thing I think when I see that is I hope the dogs get that Fox for being a fox! No, we set traps and destroy the Fox in a humane manner.
@Karen: Fox can be shot. That is far more efficient than 30 people galloping on horses for miles and miles accompanied with 50 crazed up dogs.
@Karen: that sounds more like the work of a mink tbh
@Karen: did you ever hear of locking a door and securing the poultry?
@Enda Reynolds: Agreed Enda, and I have had both type of attacks.
@Karen:you’re more of a pest than any foxes
@Pat Patovic: you can’t beat it… great banter and it’s gonna live on. Up the Kildares!
@Karen: I hail from Leicestershire where we did keep hens which were on one occasion got at resulting in 23 dead.The solution is not to call the local hunt ,who actually rarely caught a fox ,but to contact the local farmer whose part time occupation is to track and kill the fox with his .22 rifle.The hunt are actually pretty useless when it comes to killing foxes .On one occasion my sister looked out from her farmhouse window to see the Cottesmore in full pursuit across one of her fields .Ten minutes later they were back and ten minutes after that the Fox came trotting along without a care in the world.
Foxhunting is both cruel and anti-farmer…Hunts devastate the lives of farmers nationwide with their repeated incursions every season: Whole fields of crops churned up…livestock scattered…fencing ripped down…family pets killed in front of children in farmyards. That’s apart from hunts charging into housing estates in rural towns and villages to show off their savagery and demonstrate their arrogance in refusing to acknowledge damage to property and willful trespass.
And foxhunting brings cruelty to a fine art…the spade and terrier thugs are called in when a fox escapes underground. Half starved dogs are dropped down into the refuge, resulting in horrific injuries to dog and fox alike…Another method of unearthing a fox is to use a pole wrapped with barbed wire. This is lowered to make contact with the fox, which is then dragged to the surface.
The pain racked animal is then tossed to the waiting pack, as “sportspeople” sip brandy or port from hip flasks and the thuggish element swig from beer cans, leaning on their spades.
Foxhunting continues thanks to a powerful and incredibly wealthy pro blood sport lobby. It will cease only when we get an ethical government that considers the practice on its own merits…instead of pandering to the sadistic minority that get their kicks from watching an animal suffer and die and from listening to its pitiful screams of agony.
That’s absolutely shocking stuff, how can people support this antiquated savagery?
Defenceless animals being torn to shreds , shame on the people who organise these type of events.
Charge the dogs with murder so
@frank murphy: Hold the hunters accountable for cruelty and public order offences. That’s horrible.
@johngough:
If an individual owned an out-of-control pet dog that was running amok and terrorising the residents of a housing estate they would be prosecuted and fined – let’s hope the same happens here.
A red coat doesn’t give you class. You’ll only ever be aping your betters. Savages on horse back
Does your cat kill mice? Isn’t that why you keep a mouse?
@Liam Treacy: yes exactly why.. every Saturday I dress up like a pillock and we chase mice around the estate. Purely pest control. Tally ho
@Liam Treacy: You keep mice? For hunting?
Fox hunting is a barbaric practice with no value whatsoever. It is not a valid culling method. That argument is moronic.
@Liam Treacy: Is this satire ? You poor chap.
They do as they please over there .
Not anti hunting but not a fan of pack hunting. Luckily no children or family pets out on the green, these pack dogs don’t differentiate once there’s blood in the air.
Who cares… why is the fact an animal (or bunch) of animals, have eaten another animal. Like jeez are we supposed to wrap every one in cotton wool or what?
The west of Ireland isn’t exactly urbanized the same way cities are. So, if you live there, you gotta put up with that
Stop whining and accept life.
I agree that dozens of inbred horse faced idiots on horseback hunting with 50 ór so hounds is an effective method of pest control. My local hunt has agreed to aid me with a mouse problem in my small back garden. When faced with a mouse in the shed my local hunt kindly obliged (they say as a mouse is small they will only need to use 8 horses and 20 hounds). They are due in tomorrow, lovely people.
Sure Brendan said it was a once off .Sure that’s ok then .
But I decide to hunt hounds, not that’s NOT ok…?
Disgusting act…
Shitheads
If this occurred within the National Park or Mucross make a complaint to the Rangers..NPWS…..not that they have the resources but at least let them know…this impacts on the ecological integrity of the park.
Control of Dogs Act 1986: dogs must be under effectual control in a public place. Why is this not being applied to hunting hounds, not the first time a pack has got out of control.
I keep hens, I make sure they have safe housing so they don’t get attacked at night. During the day, I accept that if I let them free range, a fox may take one, foxes only go on a frenzy when hens are cooped up. We co-exist with the fox, we understand it. They will kill when the killing is good, and come back for the bodies. If you kill a fox, another one will move into that territory so the whole pest control argument does not stand up. Let’s not forget how the white man killed all the buffalo for their own gain when the native Indians killed only when they needed to. Some humans hate the fox, perhaps they see themselves. in it. We are supposed the be the more intelligent species, lets start acting like it.
Agreed 100%.broken neck be even better
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