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 the captains of the World Cup Quarter Finalists pictures on the bar. We've got Sam Warburton, Brian O'Driscoll, Lewis Moody, Thierry Dusautoir, John Smit, James Horwill, Felipe Contepomi and Richie McCaw.

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

I'm thinking about doing Movember again but last year I just ended up with blonde fluff which is off seeing as most of the regs know i've got a good enough beard/chin strap but just can't grow a tache!!

MrsP,

I think I'd tend to agree when I think about it. Probably something to do with the milk used.

Well I was only joking in a "how could anything from the Eire be better than in the North" kind of way!

Seriously though, I would have thought that our shops would be more likely to have Cadbury products manufactured in Tallaght than Birminhgham?

Maybe inport/export stuff over rides the transport costs?

I have to say I've never noticed a difference.

Rava, are you talking about during rationing or something?

It’s entirely possible that there’s a different recipe used. There’s a cadbury’s factory in Dublin which makes stuff for Ireland only I think.

My cousin works there, it’s funny to hear her gossip about the place “JEYSUS Mikey, that place is a nightmare at the moment, Joan on the flakes had a right go a Bernie on the caramels the other day!”

Rav, nordie Tayto are quality alright.

MrsP wrote:

Rava, are you talking about during rationing or something?

Is it pick on Rava day or something? Ageist comments should be kept for Gibson. He's older than I am. (2 days)

I might do that 'Grow a Grav' thing that the Scarlets do. My 'tache might not look as bad in context, like.

I'll go out and say it but I prefer Walkers to Taytos.

Admit it Mickado. Tayto are inferior to these:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fvb6mgImuJA/SstYuBmh2vI/AAAAAAAABj8/n3buUjc29x4/s400/real-handcooked-crisps.jpg

That man is never happy.

Complains when we ignore him.

Complains when we try in allow him an opportunity to tell us about the olden days!





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Cari wrote:Admit it Mickado. Tayto are inferior to these:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fvb6mgImuJA/SstYuBmh2vI/AAAAAAAABj8/n3buUjc29x4/s400/real-handcooked-crisps.jpg

They're good. But good in a have them every so often kind of way. Like an erdinger beer, it's fancy it tastes good and it's nice for a change, but i couldn't give up for it.

I suppose this week would be the wrong time to make you choose between the two Mickado

I've never had Tayto crisps. I had some Tayto Onion Rings that I saw in the cheapy shop once...

My goodness it's real Ravenhill weather out there just now!

MrsP wrote:My goodness it's real Ravenhill weather out there just now!

Not in Cardiff it's not! Windy, but sunny with blue skies.

I was only teasing, Rava, you're a good man. You were the first of the regs to shake my hand at the big Heineken Cup final meet

It has been sunny here too today but just then there was the most enormous deluge.

Stopped now and the sun is trying to come out again.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:I was only teasing, Rava, you're a good man. You were the first of the regs to shake my hand at the big Heineken Cup final meet

I’ve got to come clean on that one Luck, I didn’t realize it was you for about 20 minutes.

Afternoon all.

Cadbury tailors it's recipes to markets - NZ Cadbury (before they closed the factory and began importing from Australia ) used to taste more like UK Galaxy than UK Cadbury.

Who did you think he was?

I wouldn't worry Mickado, Glas told me he expected me to be a girl!

prop_lyd wrote:I'm thinking about doing Movember again but last year I just ended up with blonde fluff which is off seeing as most of the regs know i've got a good enough beard/chin strap but just can't grow a tache!!

Gotta do it prop. I am again and I'm more fluff than tache/beard as well. Treid a handlebar last year but it looked so crap I ended up with a goatee.

Ah no I didn’t think he was another reg (or a girl). I just thought he might have been a friend of a friend or something. there were so many people there, some I had met before some I had never met, some I didn’t know what they looked like etc. I was just a bit overawed!

Don't Northern Ireland have a crisp brand called Tayto that's completely unrelated to the republic of Ireland Tayto brand? I think I heard that once. Can any Ulster fella's enlighten me?

luckless_pedestrian wrote:I wouldn't worry Mickado, Glas told me he expected me to be a girl!

Boy, was he disappointed then!

Feckless Rogue wrote:Don't Northern Ireland have a crisp brand called Tayto that's completely unrelated to the republic of Ireland Tayto brand? I think I heard that once. Can any Ulster fella's enlighten me?

Don't start them off

Mickado wrote:

luckless_pedestrian wrote:I was only teasing, Rava, you're a good man. You were the first of the regs to shake my hand at the big Heineken Cup final meet

I’ve got to come clean on that one Luck, I didn’t realize it was you for about 20 minutes.

Lucky, the others forced me to do it

Feckless Rogue wrote:Don't Northern Ireland have a crisp brand called Tayto that's completely unrelated to the republic of Ireland Tayto brand? I think I heard that once. Can any Ulster fella's enlighten me?

Well you could say that Feckless. It has been the subject of many conversations in here in the past. All you need to know is the Nordie ones are the best.

Good grief if it's not the Paddy Wallace/Gordon D'Arcy debate it's blydi crisps....

Ah Cari. This is nothing.

Not many people realise that what came to be known as "The Troubles" actually started as the great Tatyo Wars.

Why do you think the Famine has such a part to play in Irish History. The real problem was the Potato Blight interferred with the production of crisps!

Yes so the South now have green potatoes and we have orange ones - seemples!!

Those "orange potatoes" are what the rest of you call Carrots!

Sweet potato is an organgey colour isn't it?

Paddy Wallace isn't orange.

MrsP wrote:Those "orange potatoes" are what the rest of you call Carrots!

And the green ones are cabbages. The flag was a combination of the carrot and cabbage with a white parsnip of peace between them. History eh, great stuff...

Mickado wrote:

MrsP wrote:Those "orange potatoes" are what the rest of you call Carrots!

And the green ones are cabbages. The flag was a combination of the carrot and cabbage with a white parsnip of peace between them. History eh, great stuff...

A that made me laugh Mick. Isn't that what we do best - laugh at ourselves

Not a lot of people know this, but when the forty days and forty nights of rain were over, Noah sent out a parsnip to see if there was any dry land. It just floated off, and he felt like a bit of an idiot, so he asked Moses to leave that bit out of the story.

Is that what they taught you Bikkies???

Honestly, the version of Irish history they teach in your schools is so distorted sure you'd hardly find a bit of truth in it!

Cari!

What on earth has Gavin Henson got to do with Irish History?

MrsP - his presence meant Paddy Wallace was overlooked uh-gain!

Here's a story before Saturday...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branwen

Some tale Cari!

I'm stealing "A fo ben, bid bont" ('He would be a leader, let him be a bridge") and sending it to POC

Thats a cryptic enough story - nearly everyone gets killed and the leaders head only returns!
I know it is a big game but surely not that serious?

Anyone noticed the difference between wrappers in Cadbury's milk chocolate in Ireland and the UK? In Ireland, we have the one with the golden tin foil wrapped with the purple paper yet they don't have that here.

Munsty,

You don't think you are getting a wee bit obsessed about the chocolate thing?

RIP Steve Jobs, must admit iCried.

hughie1986 wrote:RIP Steve Jobs, must admit iCried.

iSad

A sad loss for someone so inovative and at just 56 but I can't understand this outpouring of grief from the worldwide public? Iphone vigils, flowers left outside apple stores etc. Are ppl so consumed by their love of his gadgets they feel a connection with him? Wierd

Breadvan wrote:A sad loss for someone so inovative and at just 56 but I can't understand this outpouring of grief from the worldwide public? Iphone vigils, flowers left outside apple stores etc. Are ppl so consumed by their love of his gadgets they feel a connection with him? Wierd

It's an unfortunate aspect of the cult of personality that has grown up around technology as a whole, of which Apple has been a major contributor. They've done it stylishly, but almost to the point where the death of their CEO will be overshadowed by the burning desire for people to be the first blog about it, or come up with an innovative way to mark the moment.

I couldn't call Jobs a 'great man' but he was certainly very good at what he did and will be missed, he saved Apple from dying out as a brand and was a very good busisnessman.

Helloooo!

poissonrouge wrote:Thats a cryptic enough story - nearly everyone gets killed and the leaders head only returns!
I know it is a big game but surely not that serious?

Celtic mythology has a tendancy to exaggerate, but you get the picture...Welsh girlie hooks up with Irish fella, he turns out to be a sh*t, annoys her brothers who start a war and send all his mates over....

Hello how's it going?

Evening cari. Worn out if I'm honest, but plotting the sleeping periods to ensure that I'm tip top for early morning RWC adtion and live games on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.

I've booked Monday off - the weekend will be a messy rugby marathon.

MBTGOG wrote:I'll go out and say it but I prefer Walkers to Taytos.

You've wrapped yourself in the Union Jack! The butchers apron, boy!

Treason Munsty.

Mickado wrote:I'm going to be all over Movember this year again.

I'm going to dress up as the Doctor for Halloween so i'll need to be clean-shaven for that, then it's tache town, population me + some crumbs...

So we have Mickado as the doctor, I'm still looking for ideas this year. Went out as a Chilean last year which went down well. Contemplating going as an all black this year. Dying the hair black and everything. Sherlock Holmes has potential as well, as that's starting up soon on the beeb, but I prefer going as something current and 'in'.