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 Stephen Jones photo on the bar. That's a banning offence

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

Bring him to Rome and show him all the stuff they built is still there, so don't mess things up because the world would be a better place now of they didn't. We would probably have been to mars by the 15th century

Thomond wrote:Didn't you ask that before Stag? Or sometihng like it anyway. On the topic of making an Irish reality series, I would have thought D4 people would have been better. How wants to see a bunch of fellas from Tallaght looking for needles?

Yea I asked it other way around. If you visited them what thing would you bring them. Here its about them experiencing something from our time. Like standing in the middle of a massive city.

Thomond - people LOVE putting the working classes on TV. . . aparently.

red_stag wrote:Here's a question. If some bloke from 2000 years ago was transported to our world for a few hours and you had to show him something, bring him somewhere etc what you show or give to him. He can't take anything back with him.

I'd sit him in front of a PC and show him the world via the internet. Can listen to music at the same time as well

Bikkies at the Beauty salon!!!!

There are somethings that should not be shared on here and that is one of them!!!

hughie1986 wrote:Bring him to Rome and show him all the stuff they built is still there, so don't mess things up because the world would be a better place now of they didn't. We would probably have been to mars by the 15th century

Shouldn't that be someone from the 4th or 5th century instead?

Stag,

I'd get him on a plane and show him the world is round.

Mickado wrote:

red_stag wrote:Here's a question. If some bloke from 2000 years ago was transported to our world for a few hours and you had to show him something, bring him somewhere etc what you show or give to him. He can't take anything back with him.

I’d play him some music, take him to a match, and show him the advances in bikini line hair removal.

Dr Who did that with Van Gogh - he took him to the Van Gogh gallery. Still committed suicide though. Twas sad.


I personally would get Judas and Pilate and bring them to Waterstones and show them a potboiler called the Bible (in the Fiction section). I would show them that they are going to be remembered for being the ultimate pantomime villains.

Butterfly effect.........L Ron Hubbard book sales go up.....

Stag,there's a show with rich people from Chelsea and I wouldn't have thought Essex is an incredibly working class area.

Watching Storm v Dragons at work. Love this job. Have to say I thought the fuss they made over Billy Slater for his 200th appearance was a really nice touch. Came out met his kids and family and ran through a big banner with his name on it.

I think he meant Chavs Thomond. There's a difference between Chavs and working class people.

Thomond wrote:Stag,there's a show with rich people from Chelsea and I wouldn't have thought Essex is an incredibly working class area.

Not EVERY show of course.

Thanks for reminding me about that game Stag.

MBTGOG wrote:Stag,

I'd get him on a plane and show him the world is round.

Loads of people thought the world was round before it was proven. Of course, somepeople thought it was a flat disc sitting on the back of a turtle.

Maybe teaching them some of the fundamentals of modern science and medicine would mean we'd instantly get moved forward a few hundred years?

You are right a lot of reality shows are about working class people but I was just saying not all of them are.

Only just started. Still 0-0. I've watched so much NRL since starting here.

Thomond wrote:Stag,there's a show with rich people from Chelsea and I wouldn't have thought Essex is an incredibly working class area.

Essex might not be working class but it certainly isn't D4.

Okay, here's a question, if you go into the past, do you change the future or has it already happened and everything stays the same?

Stag, I'd definitely steer him clear of libraries, bookshops, TV and the internet. The last thing I'd want him to find out is what happens in the world between his time and now. How utterly demoralising would it be to know that there are centuries of warfare and massacre ahead of you.

Then again, isn't that what's likely to be ahead of us?

Happy Friday, everyone...

You can't physically go into the past though.

Watching the game myself, gotten into the NRL a bit this season due to the fact I live with an ozzie who is made for it, PARA are my team now

Cari wrote:You can't physically go into the past though.

Why not?

We can't YET you mean Cari

Munsty I think things would have to change.

hughie1986 wrote:Watching the game myself, gotten into the NRL a bit this season due to the fact I live with an ozzie who is made for it, PARA are my team now

It's a shame they're rubbish.

If we learned anything from Back to the Future,it's that you must stay away from your mother when you go into the past!

Munsty - I'm not a scientist and I'm not even going to attempt a discussion about it as I'd be out of my depth but as far as I'm aware no one has invented any sort of contraption that can physically take them back through time.

MBTGOG wrote:Okay, here's a question, if you go into the past, do you change the future or has it already happened and everything stays the same?

Munsty there is a great two part documentary about that. It's called Back to the Future. Really informative

Cari wrote:Munsty - I'm not a scientist and I'm not even going to attempt a discussion about it as I'd be out of my depth but as far as I'm aware no one has invented any sort of contraption that can physically take them back through time.

I wasn't really talking about that Cari and I never believed it was possible. Just a hypothetical question.

Hughie,it's actually a 3 part.

hughie1986 wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:Okay, here's a question, if you go into the past, do you change the future or has it already happened and everything stays the same?

Munsty there is a great two part documentary about that. It's called Back to the Future. Really informative

And what did it say?

Munsty if you physically go back into the past you are capable of changing the future yes. Time travel isn't possible though. Einstein proved that. Time viewing though has potential. Based on the idea that if you know the location of every single atom and it's direction and velocity you should be able to accurately predict their path. That whole 'every single atom' thing though is 1000s years away from being known. You'd need dozens of supercomputers and all sorts.

If you step across the international date line you can go into the past.

Depending on what you do you would change the present by differing amounts. I don't believe that the butterfly effect would be as obvious as somepeople think, like when homer sneezes on a dragonfly and comes back to the present to discover that Flanders is the king of the world. If you shot Hitler (or something massivly significant) then maybe things would be different though.

Thomond wrote:Hughie,it's actually a 3 part.

But the third part is a different documentary, only 1 and 2 about the same subject

If you shot Hitler, then perhaps Stalin would have taken over the world? Nyet

MBTGOG wrote:

Cari wrote:Munsty - I'm not a scientist and I'm not even going to attempt a discussion about it as I'd be out of my depth but as far as I'm aware no one has invented any sort of contraption that can physically take them back through time.

I wasn't really talking about that Cari and I never believed it was possible. Just a hypothetical question.

That was my response to your question "Why not" when I said you couldn't physically go back....but like I said, I'm out of my depth here, so...

'I wish I wish I hadn't killed that fish.'

See the blonde carrying the stretcher off there lads, nice!!!

One butterfly effect I've wondered is if Munster had won Heineken Cup in 2000 would we have enjoyed the near decade of good European campaigns after. Or would we have ended up like the flash in the pan lesser teams like Brive, Ulster, Northamtpon or Bath?

hughie1986 wrote:Watching the game myself, gotten into the NRL a bit this season due to the fact I live with an ozzie who is made for it, PARA are my team now

Yeah, now, who's it going to be next week Hughie the pub's golfer , more clubs than Jack Nicklaus

PenfroPete wrote:

hughie1986 wrote:Watching the game myself, gotten into the NRL a bit this season due to the fact I live with an ozzie who is made for it, PARA are my team now

Yeah, now, who's it going to be next week Hughie the pub's golfer , more clubs than Jack Nicklaus

Yeah I have my 3 woods, irons and putter just like most golfers

Does anyone here think it's odd,that people use "my" when referring to a team they support in a foreign league? I support Leeds in the championship but I would never use "my" as they are not really my team. Same with the NFL team I support.( I probably could use "my" as I spent a part of my life in that area)

Thomond wrote:Does anyone here think it's odd,that people use "my" when referring to a team they support in a foreign league? I support Leeds in the championship but I would never use "my" as they are not really my team. Same with the NFL team I support.( I probably could use "my" as I spent a part of my life in that area)

No

Try for the Dragons.

Thomond wrote:Does anyone here think it's odd,that people use "my" when referring to a team they support in a foreign league? I support Leeds in the championship but I would never use "my" as they are not really my team. Same with the NFL team I support.( I probably could use "my" as I spent a part of my life in that area)

Yes.

Thomond wrote:Does anyone here think it's odd,that people use "my" when referring to a team they support in a foreign league? I support Leeds in the championship but I would never use "my" as they are not really my team. Same with the NFL team I support.( I probably could use "my" as I spent a part of my life in that area)

Yes. Was it Mick who was telling us about his friend from Dublin who was unhappy to hear his son wanted to support Man Utd. He said "No he'll be a Scouse like his Dad".

And the blokes from Ireland.

MBTGOG wrote:Try for the Dragons.

See the chicken dance for the conversion munsty?? I love it, its hilarious

And your "rescue club"...Leinster?

Anyone seen that Lifestyle ad? It's on in their shop it's the most cringeworthy thing I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2mSTAv2Tuc

Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU

hughie1986 wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:Try for the Dragons.

See the chicken dance for the conversion munsty?? I love it, its hilarious

Yeah, it's, shall we say, interesting.

Try for Melbourne.

red_stag wrote:

Thomond wrote:Does anyone here think it's odd,that people use "my" when referring to a team they support in a foreign league? I support Leeds in the championship but I would never use "my" as they are not really my team. Same with the NFL team I support.( I probably could use "my" as I spent a part of my life in that area)

Yes. Was it Mick who was telling us about his friend from Dublin who was unhappy to hear his son wanted to support Man Utd. He said "No he'll be a Scouse like his Dad".

And the blokes from Ireland.

But how can you support a team if you feel no affiliation towards the team??? Regarding yourself as one of them allows you to feel some Passion towards the team. Without it your just watching a bunch of lads run round a pitch and are emotionally closed off from the team

I don't think it's odd Thomond. I see it as a shortened way of saying "my favourite team".