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 collage of great current hookers pictures on the bar. We've got Tincu, Ledesma, Ford, Best, Thompson and Bennett all in action. Graffiti's a banning offence

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




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I really don't like those baggy beanies you see people wearing. A few weeks ago I saw a bloke wearing one of those gnome hats, a pair of jeans and flip-flops. If it's warm enough to be wearing flip-flops, it's not cold enough to be wearing a woollen hat!

Luckless it'll be me and you trendsetters.



I know Munsty likes hats. I've know him to wear flat caps.

Hats suit me.

Because I'm a redhead

Hi Micko - working hard here bud.

USA were the only team to score a try v Oz in 99. In a 55-19 pool game defeat.

Have any of you had the misfortune to see me in my Russian hat?

All I can say is that it has to be very very very cold before I am willing to wear it.

That is how little I suit hats!

Funny thing is, all my kids really suit hats!

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!







That is all!

MrsP wrote:Have any of you had the misfortune to see me in my Russian hat?!

Ravenhill, you perched up in the stand with your Russian hat and posh crisps

Thanks for the support there Stag!

You were supposed to reassure me that it was a lovely hat and I really looked good in it!

I remember Rava, Notch and myself remarking that you looked very regal. Like her Maj if she was an Ulster fan

I'm not a hat person either.

Pete - you okay??

Quality trivia Hound.

My girlfriend wears hats, all kinds of mad hats that I’d never wear. Like, what’s the one that the 40’s / 50’s new reporters stuck their press card in (you know, in all those stereotypes)? She’s got one of them. Looks good on her, I look like a deviant in it though…

Afternoon people

I love hats, I have quite a collection. They're all small ones though as I too am a pin head

PC take yer pick, or have all three

I thought Pete was just voicing his opinion on the hat debate.


As a member of Londons finest, he has no doubt to always have the head covered.

You need to have a certain style to be able to wear some hats and get away with it. If I was to wear a flat cap, say, it would look so out of place balancing on my head.

Trilby?

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=Trilby&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-ContextMenu&rlz=1I7GGLL_en-GB&tbm=isch&tbnid=QLOYlaoyjlX9QM:&imgrefurl=http://londonparticulars.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-quest-for-the-black-fedora/&docid=q5iuwoCJEVyVjM&w=325&h=275&ei=w_J5TrGmJaLA0QXKhpHJAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=175&vpy=177&dur=1841&hovh=206&hovw=244&tx=151&ty=151&page=1&tbnh=134&tbnw=158&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&biw=1344&bih=670

I'm partial to the odd hat. Baseball cap,wooly sometimes those things that Antartic explorers wear. I would never wear a farmers hat though.

MrsP wrote:Trilby?

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=Trilby&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&rls=com.microsoft:en-gb:IE-ContextMenu&rlz=1I7GGLL_en-GB&tbm=isch&tbnid=QLOYlaoyjlX9QM:&imgrefurl=http://londonparticulars.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-quest-for-the-black-fedora/&docid=q5iuwoCJEVyVjM&w=325&h=275&ei=w_J5TrGmJaLA0QXKhpHJAQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=175&vpy=177&dur=1841&hovh=206&hovw=244&tx=151&ty=151&page=1&tbnh=134&tbnw=158&start=0&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&biw=1344&bih=670

Now you're on the trolley!


... i mean, yeah that's the one.

Check out the unusual hat this guys rocking, what a cool dude!

Spoiler:

Where does he keep his Press pass?

Bad day at the office. I'll be right though, just a few problems that have landed in my lap. Going to be a test of my problem solving ability to get round them, as well as my juggling of resources ability!!!

Hats don't look good on me, I hated wearing mine when I was in uniform, always looked huge on my head.

And Mickado, you look like a deviant, hat or no hat!

Pete,he is from Dublin (Tallaght at that!) of course he is!

Ah thanks lads, I’m off to put a cat on my head straight away!

What kind of hat do you wear for uniform Pete? A flat cap type affair or is it more in the helmet style of things?

Check me out, hat expert!

Mickado, I hope you have more experience/sense in fashion than Paul Galvin. For those who are wondering who Paul is,I think this photo says it all.

I have a custodian helmet and a flat cap.

Custodian for foot patrol, flat cap when driving.

Having said that, as a force we have a new uniform now, and I don't think the custodians are worn much as they don't look right with the new tops.

Interesting that Pete. Sent me off to look up uniforms for Police officers in Northern Ireland and I found this;

The PSNI badge features the St. Patrick's saltire, and six symbols representing different and shared traditions:
The Scales of Justice (representing equality and justice)
The harp (a traditional Irish symbol but not the Brian Boru harp used as an official emblem in the Republic)
A torch (representing enlightenment and a new beginning)
An olive branch (a peace symbol from Ancient Greece)
A shamrock (a traditional Irish symbol, used by St Patrick, patron saint of all Ireland, to explain the Christian Trinity)
A crown (a traditional symbol of royalty but not one worn by or representing the British Sovereign)

Eh, right so! You're fooling nobody there PSNI. I know your game

Those old style Police hats are classics of design. Is it true that if you're caught short as a member of the public you can request to use a Policeman's Helmet as an... erm... appropriate device to avoid the desecration of public walkways? Or is that an urban myth?

I believe it's an urban myth notch, although I stand to be corrected if anyone can find me the ancient legislation petaining to it.

Apparently in Ireland the Gardai are allowed to hit you with their torch, but they don’t carry around batons/nightsticks whatever their called.

You’d think if they’re lawfully allowed to hit you with a torch, which is pretty bloody big and heavy, they’d just cut the charade and give them a proper head whomping stick…

I think if you ask for your rights as Gaeilge to a Garda in Irish and they don't know how to say it then you are scot free. It's something like that I think.

Thomond wrote:I think if you ask for your rights as Gaeilge to a Garda in Irish and they don't know how to say it then you are scot free. It's something like that I think.

Noted.

For golf I wear baseball hats in one form or another. I must have bought half a dozen on my last trip to USA.

For Rugby it is normally beannie but I do have a baseball one.

Bowler for the Marching Season

I'd love a new baseball cap. Hard to find one I'm happy with.

Thomond wrote:I think if you ask for your rights as Gaeilge to a Garda in Irish and they don't know how to say it then you are scot free. It's something like that I think.

Nonsense. They don't even have to say for what reason they are arresting you in Ireland.

red_stag wrote:

Thomond wrote:I think if you ask for your rights as Gaeilge to a Garda in Irish and they don't know how to say it then you are scot free. It's something like that I think.

Nonsense. They don't even have to say for what reason they are arresting you in Ireland.

But they probably will ask you a sarcastic question trying to bait you.

Garda not popular with you lot then?

Oh, and you will notice that I am changing my username, will lose the LDCPete bit completely in the near future. Means I will have the same username on all forums and social media that I use.

They're grand Pete. Stag,no need to fly off the handle,it was another urban tale kind of a deal.

When my dad was young he lived in a mixed area and he says that when certain lads caught you they would get you to say the Hail Mary in Irish to prove which "foot you kicked with".

It's the only words of Irish he remembers!

Not flying off the handle at all Thomond. Nothing of the sort in fact

Ozzy(Pete),

I think they do a fine job but I just get annoyed by the questions they ask and the way they ask them. If you reply in the same tone/manner, you'll be in trouble.

Ah, we have some officers like that here as well though Munsty.

It's not just an Irish police issue, I think it's just people. You get good and bad in every walk of life.

I don't think they're bad people but it causes trouble where there wouldn't be in the first place.

I've no beef with the fuzz.

Never had any trouble so I've never had any reason to talk to them.

MrsP, that's probably not the best way to learn a language but it's bloody effective!

Pete, why the change of Moniker? Have I missed something?

Just so I have all forums and social media that I use witht he same username. This is the only one I am LDCPete on.

He only learned the first line or so but it was all he needed at the time.

Hasn't had much call to use it since though.

Mickado wrote:Apparently in Ireland the Gardai are allowed to hit you with their torch, but they don’t carry around batons/nightsticks whatever their called.

You’d think if they’re lawfully allowed to hit you with a torch, which is pretty bloody big and heavy, they’d just cut the charade and give them a proper head whomping stick…

You know the Gardai are one of the most heavy-handed police forces in Europe?

Funny enough, I hardly believed it myself until last time I was down in Dublin. Was walking down O'Connell Street when I noticed a guy in tracksuit arguing with some girls who were dressed as if on a Hen night- next thing is the Gaurds arrive, grab this guy, force him to the ground, roughly push his head down into the pavement and handcuff him. Throw him in the back of the cafr and off they go. No warning; no reading of rights or dialogue. I've no idea what the lad had done or not done but it seemed a wee bit... pre-emptive.

There was of course one South Dublin woman shouting about police brutality to the large crowd that assembled- in Ireland, sometimes everyone has a strong opinion about everything they're not shy of voicing! To be fair I could see her point.

MrsP wrote:When my dad was young he lived in a mixed area and he says that when certain lads caught you they would get you to say the Hail Mary in Irish to prove which "foot you kicked with".

It's the only words of Irish he remembers!

Aye, you're be fairly sweating it when you run into that situation!

Mickado wrote:MrsP, that's probably not the best way to learn a language but it's bloody effective!

That's basically how they used to teach Irish in Schools before World War 2 to be fair. Those lads were, in their own simple way, doing their bit for cross-community relations and education in the North.

So, a weird thing happened in the barbers today- I was getting a haircut, and the fella shaved my neck. Is this normal? He didn't shave it all the way down either. I suppose he was worrying about wandering into back territory, but I was generally just looking for him to deal with the head.

He didn't mention it either, he just kind of did it. Should I be happy?

I think that was how they taught most things until about 1985!

Ah I thought I would edit my previous post to avoid doing two consecutive posts, but you ninja'd me!

I cut MrPs hair and neck shaving is all part of the package, although, I may be the least qualified person around to comment!

Stag seems to be the pub's "male grooming" expert!