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?




Previous pub: https://www.606v2.com/t13864-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub#475041

I'd say yourself and MrP have in many ways a more intimate and considered relationship than I do with the hairdresser/barber (what is the correct terminology?) I just met today!

I think I'd better leave this conversation before it takes an unwelcome turn!

I'd expect them to do it.

I see. So I should be happy enough.

On another note, is anyone here on Google Plus?

No. I really can't go for another thing like that.

I'm keeping an eye on it with a view to ultimately de-activating my facebook account if it takes off.

What has it got that FB doesn't apart from the novelty factor?

Nothing, I'm just fed up of facebook. Plus, there's a massive data trail of my personal info on facebook. It's impossible to erase it now but de-activating my profile would help.

If I mind my privacy settings from the start with Google+ it won't necessarily be the same. I won't be putting my phone number etc. on there, which is currently on facebook.

Let's not be silly and say Google care about privacy and don't snoop into personal data- they don't and they do. But I would plan to be a bit more savvy about what I put on it.

Just joined it there so if it does kick off, I'm ready.

I often think of deleting my Facebook account. But when it comes down to it, I'm a nosy person.

I would like to do it just so I'm not on it so much but it is a good way of keeping in contact with some people and also there are so many photos on there I don't want to lose.

You'd probably have to go through the courts if you wanted to delete your facebook account lucky. You can only de-activate it. If you decide to come back all your profile information is still there.

This is good because you may have a change of heart, you can pick up where you left of.

This is bad because Facebook retains all the data you have ever entered into their site even if you expressly request that they not. No backsies! And then you wonder who else has that kind of info...

Big Brother. It's here- Google, Facebook etc. are all at it.

People didn't ask questions when they first joined. This is the consequence. Same in Ireland where people spent so much money during the boom years without asking questions.

Yeah, it is. But facebook aren't exactly up front about it. It took a lot of criticism to get them to say anything about it.

I remember when facebook started in the UK in 2006; it was exclusively for students and networking in Universities at that stage. It was just a cool, new, trendy thing to have and people kind of got sucked along without thinking it all the way through.

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing!

Yup. I still remember joining it way back then with a friend from mine in Trinity telling me how cool it was and that I HAD to join.

It's funny to think back to 2006 because I was just starting University in Edinburgh; for us, facebook was the way we negotiated our freshers week and so on. Took over from bebo within about two days, because it was the internet hangout for students by students.

So when they decided to open it to the general public it was this massive deal! Controversial. I mean, just anybody could join and see your photos. Your drunken freshers week photos with all the boobs, beer and joints- and now there was nothing to stop your parents signing up and seeing it. That was so weird to us back then.

Its also the 1st port of call for a prospective employer. They scan all those sites as standard now. People really haven't a clue what they do with that info.

I'm thinking of getting away from GMAIL now and using my ISP mail instead. They are complete and utter, intrusive - basterds and build up a complete profile of you. They scan your message content FFS! They know what is in your private mail. It's like opening some one's letters. Isn't that against the Law? Did I just say Law? Sheesh.


Im soo phhoked. I used get death-threats from Funda-mentalists, who did not like.. lets say... my style of writing or opinions on Youtube. I used go rabid on them, Corporations, Yanks, 911, CIA, Brit intelligence, Mossad, too. All the no-no stuff.


I deleted that particular userid and as much content as I could. But hey... id bet its all still there.
They've got my number if they need me.

Anything good on TV tonight? Got Flash Gordon on at the moment on ITV 4 but wouldn't mind something good.

Gibson wrote:Its also the 1st port of call for a prospective employer. They scan all those sites as standard now. People really haven't a clue what they do with that info.

It's not really what I got into. When I joined the site you needed an e-mail address ending with .ac.uk or international equivalent to get an account. No way for non-students or non-academics to access it. Jeez, did that change quickly!

what's weird is that I still have to log in with my .ac.uk e-mail address even though it's defunct and can't be used for anything else. Weird. I've made sure that I've got maximum privacy settings on mine now though so only friends can see my details.

Munsty - nope looks like there's f all on the teledu tonight. Never seems to be anything good on it much anymore, and deffo not mid week!

And just seen on another article that Scarlets have signed on Garin Jenkins as their forwards/scrummaging coach for the short term. A great move by them I have to say.

I'm so bored I think I might go to the cinema by myself.

Notch wrote:I'm so bored I think I might go to the cinema by myself.

I'd come if I was near you. People here don't go the cinema enough. Especially with all the offers that make it so cheap.

Yeah, hopefully now all my Uni friends have graduated and a lot have moved on I'll make some new Uni friends when my course starts properly on Monday!

I think I'll probably go.

Don't want to start a thread for this, so I suppose this is as good a place as any. From the ER in Munster Rugby. Cinematography David Wallace, starring Troy Smith, Munster Academy from NZ via Middleton & Limerick).

http://yfrog.com/ngeuoz


good, isn't it?

Is it freshers on Monday or the real thing?

Freshers week is on this week in Ireland.

When was the last time anyone wrote a letter about just stuff?

Not congrats or condolences or ritual stuff like Xmas. But just a letter.

I'm searching my memory bank and frankly it must be ten to fifteen years. And I'm pretty certain that most people under 25-30 never have (school-sponsored pen-pals excluded).

A lot of social history will disappear without letters and a lot of present and future burgeoning careers will be peremptorily shortened by the eternal memory of social networking.

Portnoy,everything will be preserved by the internet though,in fact it I would saay that more will live on from this day and age than other eras.

When was the last time you wrote a letter T?

More information will live on indeed as it's entrapped within a web that is far more lethal than that of a spider.

And once the technology evolves to convincingly drill down in a very clever algorithm, then nobody will be safe from flippant or (worse) candid declarations or images or audio etc.

Closing old accounts won't work in the case of people who want to hide their past. And the more technology progresses the more every keystroke/digital interaction will be monitored.

Anyone who truly believes that digital encryption is safe is deluded. Whether by trojans or geeks they will be decryped as the Germans were in the WW2 Enigma Code.

A year or two ago I wrote a letter to a cousing of mine in New York,she doesn't use e-mail and was quite sick at the time,besides that I don't tihnk I have ever written one unless it was a thank you letter,I've mailed CVs and stuff but that's pretty much it.

Evening people, quick before sleep.

Been to my second week of a beginners pottery class tonight. Me and clay are not a good combination! I am officially a messy pup!

The personal letter is of inestimable value. I recall letters I wrote to my mum as a student and she loved and treasured them almost as much as my Dad's from Burma in the War.

There is something very special about a written thought.

Must write one soon. So much more personal than tinterweb.

How long does it take? Ten minutes. Get a stamp and shove it in a post box.

Starting one now to my brother...

Chavhanga deal done

I write a lot of letters when I'm away and the ones I receive off my family mean so much. My good wife writes so often to me and it really makes my day getting blueys (letters) off her, even though there is a way you can type them online.

I was made to write a letter of thanks to an activity centre in North Wales as punishment because three lads and I broke the curfew on a night out. I didn't really see it as punishment though, as we had a great time and so thanking the four instructors (one each) was very worthwhile.

Anyway, later.

Mr and Mrs Swanny-Sharpey. Location: Bollington. Motive: Deep Lurve & a shared fetish for wet clay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud5GMba3rIw&feature=player_detailpage

I loved getting letters but hated writing them.

Portnoy wrote:The personal letter is of inestimable value. I recall letters I wrote to my mum as a student and she loved and treasured them almost as much as my Dad's from Burma in the War.

There is something very special about a written thought.

Must write one soon. So much more personal than tinterweb.

How long does it take? Ten minutes. Get a stamp and shove it in a post box.

Starting one now to my brother...

Lovely post Portnoy. So true.

We have history and shared love. So, send me a letter ya Tigers bollix. X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BQaUs5J2wdI

Sharpey's in Brighton right now Gibbo!

Laters Rev

Ah, as I've hid the link it's not that visible on my last post, but there's finally something official on the Tondi Chavhanga move to Dragons (in that he's confirmed the move). Hope we get to utilise his pace. At least if Adam Hughes is centre, we'll get somebody who can straighten a line and not cut him out.

Just need an official announcement from Rodney Parade Ltd and hopefully the Andy Tuilagi deal will be announced soon too.

Probably only of interest to Lucky and Rhino (if he pops in). On that note, I bid you goodbye for a few days or more.

I used to write letters regularly when I moved from my home town down to the south coast in the mid-90's. Letters to my parents, my sis and to friends were a regular occurence. I think I stopped when I moved back oop north. I did love getting them though.

I hope the Love is not leaving this Pub. Really. Upset about Prop. He's a gorgeous man. He's essential. He makes it nicer in everything he does and says.

Needed to say that.

And Rev... you know you are exactly the same. Held in huge regard by us all. Always were and always will be.

Old Hippie out.

Thomond wrote:Portnoy,everything will be preserved by the internet though,in fact it I would saay that more will live on from this day and age than other eras.

Not quite so, Thomond.

The British Library is obliged to archive everything published in the UK - easy with books, all publishers have to send them a copy; but the internet is proving a nightmare for them; average life of a web-page (a few years ago) was eight months; so if the BL was nine months behind the times, they'd lose it ...

I wonder if they have Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley

Some things are better lost in time Kia.

Like some of our posts on 606. Mad, mad, days and nights.

We have cleaned up our act on here. Its more PC.

But is it better? Maybe its just different.

Having said that, myself, KingKenny and PJHolybloke, had a riot last night/mid morning - without banning. We had to moderate ourselves in the end. And we did. Sooo...

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Why ?

Evening folks,


When I used to go to the Gaeltact as a chizzler it was common practice to write goodbye notes to as many people as possible and every note you'd right/receive would have your/their address with it. Many letters were sent and received and it was brilliant. We were lucky back then as we were on the cusp of this internet age, I guess its all "find me on facebook" now and not a letter exchanged between any of them, shoite buzz.




Just in bed now, having a hot whiskey hoping to blow away the man flu that is creeping up on me. One of my girls is moving back to oz on Sunday and I'm really going to miss her, she's great and not going to lie, have developed a few feelings towards her, another Poopie buzz



Gibbo, just been thinking about something and you will have a PMS asap, its important

Cymro,
People waking up after a long, hard, emotional, drinking, rugby weekend?

Also, a lot came Home for the RWC. So many from old 606.

Could well be just seems odd that it's on a Monday

Gibbo, pm for you

Thomond wrote:Portnoy,everything will be preserved by the internet though,in fact it I would saay that more will live on from this day and age than other eras.

Interesting that you should say that because if you ever get round to reading any of James Lovelock's books he points out that in the event of a global scale disaster and the failure of our energy supplies all of the knowledge we have acquired would be lost to any surviving humans and only those in written text would prevail for future generations.

Maybe starting all over again is not such a bad idea.