The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

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Welcome to the virtual rugby pub - a place where you can come in for a sly beverage and discuss whatever's on your mind, or just eavesdrop on the regulars if you fancy a break from all the rugby chat.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no defacing the Tommy Bowe photo on the bar. That's a banning offence

So pull up a chair....what'll it be?




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irishlondon wrote:meaning.. discussing Irelands victories between now, and into late October

Oh I thought you planned to start posting now and stop in 2 months time.

Where's Hobo? The 'foe'/ignore button is working!

Get that man a manly-mans appeltini

if it's anything like 4 years ago. that might very well happen.

greybeard wrote:Where's Hobo? The 'foe'/ignore button is working!

Get that man a manly-mans appeltini

Yep genius isn't it.

Ghost your not normally a pub dweller. C'mere is McCaw staying in NZ after RWC?

Well that was an experience....hgv driver undertaking me in a bus lane going 60 in a 50 before tailgating me when I do the speed limit and then pushing me off the road at 50mph whilst flicking me the bird.....think a complaint is in order! Rant over!

Afternoon all, juts a very quick stop in here for me as I'm about to head up to Bristol in a bit.

Just want to say hope everyone has brilliant weekends and enjoys all the rugby!

And if any of the lovely people in here who have my number could possibly text me the Welsh team on Thursday and any score updates on Saturday that would be absolutely amazing, pints will be on my next time I see you.

Until Monday then folks, have fun

Dreamer I've got Book 2 bought for my holidays

Stag - awesome, let me know what you think of it!

I'm only a few hundred pages into Book 1 but on holidays I'll fly through it. Really really like it. Very inappropriate at times though Certainly a raunchy read.

wait until you see the tv show!

I was thinking of buying some books I read when I was younger today. I didn't because,I would get some weird looks in the shop and two I would get laughed at by others. The unusual thing is that there is a stigma attached to reading other teenage/children's books but if you told people you were reading Harry Potter they wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Thomond I don't think you would. I worked in a bookshop for years certainly I never thought people buying any book was weird except a guy who once bought 6 "adult literature" books.

Dreamer - my girlfriend picked up the books for me and she flicked through it. She told me I'm a "pervert" for reading some of it

It's true that. And the Harry Potter books are very much Children's Books, especially the early ones, and in terms of vocabulary and themes the entire series is very child orientated. The last few books are more a coming of age story*, fundamentally a series about chilldhood and adolescence, friendship, love, growing up.

Brilliant Childrens Books, to be fair, but all the same... a good Childrens Book or film is one that can resonate with people of nay age despite its target audience. My favourite Childrens Books are the Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. Exceptional stuff. If I have kids I'm going to get those for them for sure.

*Hard to resist using the word bildungsroman there. You know what? I'm going to use it. The last few Harry Potter are a good example of a bildungsroman.

really? Ah I don't think they're so bad. There's not so much of the inappropriate stuff in the later books I wouldn't say.

It was that scene involving Danys wedding. She was half joking really.

pm for red_stag

Blah blah blah blah

Thanks Red.

No bother. Glad it worked for you.

red_stag wrote:Blah blah blah blah

Until I found out why you did this, I actually thought it was one of your more insightful posts.....

Hobo wrote:

red_stag wrote:Blah blah blah blah

Until I found out why you did this, I actually thought it was one of your more insightful posts.....

Most sense he's made in a while

In other news I rang the company of the HGV driver and got through to the transport manager who contacted the driver there and then

Very good Prop. delighted to hear it.

You free now then Stag? How was the exit banter?

Hopefully you didn't leave your number? Or give your name? Actually cone to think of it if the driver was behind you that long he'll probably have your erg memorised anyway.

Not free yet. But I've been having exit banter all day. I'm just killing time really until I leave. I was gonna leave early but father is giving me a lift home and he's not here anyway.

Willy: i wouldn't care what the driver did, i'd just give him a piece of my mind

Stag: Not long to go then! Did they get you a card?!

prop_lyd wrote:Stag: Not long to go then! Did they get you a card?!

They did in a metaphorical sense;

Spoiler:

That's the real reason he's leaving

Enjoy Malaga buddy!

Right, that's my fantasy football team sorted. I'm a bit miffed I can't see anyone else's teams, that's half the fun!

red_stag wrote:Blah blah blah blah

Pretty sure you've been warned already about posting in foreign languages, and even I recognise that as Welsh!

WillyGilly wrote:Hopefully you didn't leave your number? Or give your name? Actually cone to think of it if the driver was behind you that long he'll probably have your erg memorised anyway.

No wonder he was committing road-rage against Prop if he was stuck in the fast lane in a stationary rowing machine? Was it v1 or v2 btw?

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

red_stag wrote:Blah blah blah blah

Pretty sure you've been warned already about posting in foreign languages, and even I recognise that as Welsh!

That's right, Asbo. 'Blah' is Welsh for hooray.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

red_stag wrote:Blah blah blah blah

Pretty sure you've been warned already about posting in foreign languages, and even I recognise that as Welsh!

That's right, Asbo. 'Blah' is Welsh for hooray.

You sure it's not a with its mouth full?

That's when they say hooray, Asbo!

red_stag wrote:I've always thought the Dragons should use amber/orange more. Nobody else uses it. Its distinctive, it looks good.

It's also too Newport coloured to be regional Stag. Switch on mun

Actually Stag, that's kind of a compliment in a way. I might frame it. I always knew you loved the Dragons really.

Ugh, Bayonne 12-0 up over Ulster. All I get are facebook updates from their official facebook page.

20 in 20 on Sky Sports now. The top 20 games from the Premier League that were shown live on Sky.

19-3 now Notch. Is it on tv anywhere?

No.

Internationals time now.

New Irish jersey. Interesting. Can't say I'm a fan to be honest.

All I can hear is 'God Save The Queen' from over beyond the Lisburn Road, and I wondered why until you said that.

I really think that shouldn't be the anthem for 'us', and by that I mean the Northern ireland football team, I really have a problem with that.

Ulster are taking a real hammering, 26-3 now after 49 minutes. A really tough game for us which is what we need at this stage of pre-season, just wish we were fronting up more.

I'm not too worried as the French sides are somewhat ahead of us. Even Leicester took a beating there last weekend.

Do you know what the Bayonne side is Notch?

Bayonne: 1 . Iguiniz 2 . Da Ros 3 . Boyoud 4 . Linde 5 . Flavell 6 . Bernad 7 . Haare 8 . Baget (cap) 9 . C. Garcia 10 . Boyet 11 . O'Connor 12 . Gerber 13 . Lacroix 14 . Lagain 15 . Pietersen

Substitutes : Roumieu, Lafond, Boutaty, Marmouyet, Audy, Otazo, Mazars, April, Carrillo, and Visensang Elhorga.

33-3 now. A real hammering is being handed out to Ulster tonight.

Good sportsmanship is putting the ball out of play when an opponent is injured.

What is not good sportsmanship is from the result throw, kicking the ball down the field and not where the opposition last had the ball.

It annoys me watching football when defenders just wrestle with players. It is annoying. That should have been a penalty for Croatia.

Should have been. Got away with that one.

I like watching Croatia play though, they play some nice stuff. It always makes me so frustrated watching the two Irish sides playing. We never own the ball. Very direct and physical. Just a limited style of football.

It's not really our sport.