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

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:The handwritten element of the letter makes it more personal. Seeing their style of handwriting spelling mistakes, words scribbled out, maybe jottings in the side margins, doodles on the back.

Plus, it always always more exciting to receive a letter than an email.


South Africa running away with this now.

Tosh! Unless your style of handwriting changes from missive to missive, how can someone who knows you already (ie the recipient) read anything into handwriting style? Most folk would try to avoid scribbled out words, and spelling mistakes would be as commonplace in e-comms; as far jottings in the side margins and doodles on the back?! Hope I never get a letter from you, Munsty!!!

It's coming. Be afraid. Very afraid!

red_stag wrote:Munsty - it wasn't signed. Actually its wasn't handwritten. An envelope with a scrap of paper with printed letters. It said something about cleaning up their act, how can people be expected to live amongst all the flith. It was really random.



But it was addressed to them by name and posted.

That really is sick.

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Another key thing about a letter is that it's an artefact.

No more so than an email that is highly personal to you? I keep all of those too

No, a letter is a physical thing. An email is information only. No lesser a thing for being so, but different.

Yes, I know you can print emails.

I actually prefer a non-physical thing. Thats why I rarely buy newspapers anymore. It feels so, so wasteful to read something and throw it away. Even if it's recycled.

Yea it is Munsty.

Notch wrote:I actually prefer a non-physical thing. Thats why I rarely buy newspapers anymore. It feels so, so wasteful to read something and throw it away. Even if it's recycled.

Much prefer newspapers. There's a culture to it and I enjoy that aspect to it.

MBTGOG wrote:

Notch wrote:I actually prefer a non-physical thing. Thats why I rarely buy newspapers anymore. It feels so, so wasteful to read something and throw it away. Even if it's recycled.

Much prefer newspapers. There's a culture to it and I enjoy that aspect to it.

A culture of chopping down rainforests?!

I can't abide it, all you have is this massive stack of papers after a few days cluttering up the place.

I prefer Books to Kindle, but I now find it easier to focus on a backlit screen than a page.

When I read a paper, I read other stories I never would have seen otherwise. Using the internet is clinical because you just go to what you want and don't venture outside of that.

In a newspaper, it's so wide-ranging.

I use the internet for porn, such a wider range on there than dvd





That is all

hughie1986 wrote:I use the internet for porn, such a wider range on there than dvd





That is all

There's a culture to it and I enjoy that aspect to it.

MBTGOG wrote:When I read a paper, I read other stories I never would have seen otherwise. Using the internet is clinical because you just go to what you want and don't venture outside of that.

In a newspaper, it's so wide-ranging.

Not true, you don't have to, there's nothing to stop you browsing outside your comfort zone. In fact, arguably, by buying the same newspaper everyday, you're already falling victim to reinforcing ideas you already hold and not challening yersel

Mickado wrote:

hughie1986 wrote:I use the internet for porn, such a wider range on there than dvd





That is all

There's a culture to it and I enjoy that aspect to it.

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

Mickado wrote:

hughie1986 wrote:I use the internet for porn, such a wider range on there than dvd





That is all

There's a culture to it and I enjoy that aspect to it.

Also helps you stumble across some stuff that you'd never think youd be into as well. Real eye opener!!! DP anyone????

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:When I read a paper, I read other stories I never would have seen otherwise. Using the internet is clinical because you just go to what you want and don't venture outside of that.

In a newspaper, it's so wide-ranging.

Not true, you don't have to, there's nothing to stop you browsing outside your comfort zone. In fact, arguably, by buying the same newspaper everyday, you're already falling victim to reinforcing ideas you already hold and not challening yersel

No, Munsty has a point. I'm more likely to read all the stories in a newspaper than I am to read all the articles on a website.

N.B. This is not the internet's fault.

hughie1986 wrote:

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

Mickado wrote:

hughie1986 wrote:I use the internet for porn, such a wider range on there than dvd





That is all

There's a culture to it and I enjoy that aspect to it.

Also helps you stumble across some stuff that you'd never think youd be into as well. Real eye opener!!! DP anyone????

Too right, i used to think the Japanese were boring!

Hentai?

hughie1986 wrote:Also helps you stumble across some stuff that you'd never think youd be into as well. Real eye opener!!! DP anyone????

Dan Parks has been in porn?!

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:When I read a paper, I read other stories I never would have seen otherwise. Using the internet is clinical because you just go to what you want and don't venture outside of that.

In a newspaper, it's so wide-ranging.

Not true, you don't have to, there's nothing to stop you browsing outside your comfort zone. In fact, arguably, by buying the same newspaper everyday, you're already falling victim to reinforcing ideas you already hold and not challening yersel

I would like to mention the TED talk on filter bubbles by Eli Pariser. It's something you have to watch really; and it's something very relevant to this debate.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

At the same time, thats the result of a form of passive browsing. I make sure to look for a wide range of sources of news online on Twitter, various internet forums. I'm not passive or selective in looking for news.

I'm not sure that I avoid my own self-imposed filter bubbles in the paper world. I regularly read theguardian but rarely read the Wall Street Journal or Daily Mail. I am more likely to read The Irish News than the The News Letter. I do not read The Economist nor do I read the Socialist Worker. There is no print journalism in this country which is actually unbiased so it's difficult to not let your choice of newspaper influence you.

Most of my online news comes from the BBC and Guardian (UK news) and the Irish Times (Ireland).

Mickado wrote:

hughie1986 wrote:

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

Mickado wrote:

hughie1986 wrote:I use the internet for porn, such a wider range on there than dvd





That is all

There's a culture to it and I enjoy that aspect to it.

Also helps you stumble across some stuff that you'd never think youd be into as well. Real eye opener!!! DP anyone????

Too right, i used to think the Japanese were boring!

Aye me to, until I discovered Japanese Rain Goggles

Nah, nae tackle

A short verse to Mike Ross
All of those years.

Spent in a daze.
Because of the all,Pervading John Hayes.
But when the time came?

And the bull had to go!

You came in.

And ran the show.

Oh So long waiting.

On the call from the boss.
Now without you, we'd be at such a loss.

Your powers immense and you’re an amazing prop.

It was never in doubt you’d make the top.

You crouch & touch & pause, engage

And the poor old Aussies felt your rage.

So we thank Dean Richards in spite of his fake blood.

When you were in trouble, he understood..

And I thank the lord.That you are so pushy.

Or heaven forbid we would be stuck with Mushy

luckless_pedestrian wrote:

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:When I read a paper, I read other stories I never would have seen otherwise. Using the internet is clinical because you just go to what you want and don't venture outside of that.

In a newspaper, it's so wide-ranging.

Not true, you don't have to, there's nothing to stop you browsing outside your comfort zone. In fact, arguably, by buying the same newspaper everyday, you're already falling victim to reinforcing ideas you already hold and not challening yersel

No, Munsty has a point. I'm more likely to read all the stories in a newspaper than I am to read all the articles on a website.

N.B. This is not the internet's fault.

Funnily enough, it is in a way. Search engines will tailor your results to what you are interested in. I have a friend who is a self-described revoloutionary socialist; when she enters a name of a country into google she will get results pertaining to activism and anti-government protests in that country via google news because that's what she regularly reads. Others with a less keen interest in that sphere of current affairs just won't get the same results.

We live in a world where the internet will deliver entirely views on current affairs to a left-winger than to a right-winger. The thing is, I'm not so sure thats so different from the role print media has played for many years.

The other thing is that the articles in a paper run from one to the next as you turn the pages. There isn't that sense of a running order on a website on the whole.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:The other thing is that the articles in a paper run from one to the next as you turn the pages. There isn't that sense of a running order on a website on the whole.

Have you tried the apps?

Morning all.

I am all for progress but still think a written letter holds more intimacy than either email or text. I got one from a young friend recently the sentiments expressed felt different than they would have if I had got an email. Strange but true.

Used to buy newspapers regularly but do so only on a weekend now. Internet has its uses in that respect.

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

luckless_pedestrian wrote:The other thing is that the articles in a paper run from one to the next as you turn the pages. There isn't that sense of a running order on a website on the whole.

Have you tried the apps?

Now you're talking gibberish!

luckless_pedestrian wrote:The other thing is that the articles in a paper run from one to the next as you turn the pages. There isn't that sense of a running order on a website on the whole.

But they're not related? I've never read a paper in a linear fashion so I can't really say this is a problem. I always skip to what interests me, move both and forth, skim over articles that do not interest me, read different sections first.

I start from the back and read the sports pages, then flip over and read from the front. I won't read every article, but I'll have chosen to skip the ones I skip. It won't be that I didn't know they were there.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

luckless_pedestrian wrote:The other thing is that the articles in a paper run from one to the next as you turn the pages. There isn't that sense of a running order on a website on the whole.

Have you tried the apps?

Now you're talking gibberish!

An exampe - I have the Scotsman and Herald apps on my phone cos I rarely have the opportunity to buy them wherever I am and it's great to be able to browse both first thing in the morning over (just kidding, I'm always focused on the ) - but they have what they term a 'newspaper' component, so that it's just like reading thru the paper - loves it, I do

luckless_pedestrian wrote:I start from the back and read the sports pages, then flip over and read from the front. I won't read every article, but I'll have chosen to skip the ones I skip. It won't be that I didn't know they were there.

But how is that different from going onto a website, looking at the sport section and reading what interests you, looking at the front page and reading what interests you, looking at the music section etc. You won't know whats there if you don't look at the relevant section on a website or newspaper.

True, but if you've paid for the paper, you feel some sort of obligation to read the other parts of it.

Asbo I think you eat too many

Just saying

That sounds good, Asbo. Munsty, I agree (except I never go near the business section).

Asbo,

Are you still upset about the bagpipes thing?

Is that why you're so argumentative today?

What's wrong with bagpipes? If I had the money, I'd hire a piper to wake me up every morning with a bagpipe reveille.

MrsP wrote:Asbo,

Are you still upset about the bagpipes thing?

Is that why you're so argumentative today?

Rava wrote:Asbo I think you eat too many

Just saying

Not possible!!

MBTGOG wrote:True, but if you've paid for the paper, you feel some sort of obligation to read the other parts of it.

Even though you don't actually want to? I bought a newspaper the other day, the Irish News, purely for it's coverage of 'the race for the Aras' and how McGuinness is faring in the South with the smear campaign/actual truth coming out in the media. I only had a flick through the rest briefly then threw it away. Read a few other articles and a bit of the sport but a lot of it is sheer dross.

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

Rava wrote:Asbo I think you eat too many

Just saying

Not possible!!

+1

Which area of Wales has:



a - Rugby Club Culture

b - Drinking Culture



Llanelli or Cardiff?

red_stag wrote:Which area of Wales has:



a - Rugby Club Culture

b - Drinking Culture



Llanelli or Cardiff?

What a strange question.

Asbo,

Maybe they should organise "Pipe Link" for the RWC games. You could choose to have a special wee ear piece that played Bagpipe ...?music?... during the game while those who prefer their cats unstrangled could avoid it?

Seeemples!

Both Stag, but I would say Llanelli (or Carmarthenshire) more so.

Mrs P you forgot the....

Beleive it or not Luckless asking these kind of questions is an important part of my job.

How should one turn a bull.
With bread to entice him,
Or a Slav to fight him?

How should one honour Joshua.
The Bible doesn't say,
Perhaps we should pray?

Scarlet Teify man
Such a presence overlooked
How does Warren sleep?

Stag to clarify - I would say Cardiff has more of a drinking culture (student population etc) and that Llanelli (or Llanelli and it's surrounding areas) has much, much more of a rugby club culture but that both have both.

I'm not afraid of the laddy in the skirt Rava!!

I hope my response didn't sound rude, Stag. It's just that both have both a) and b).