The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

First topic message reminder :

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 wedding pictures of Dan Carter and Honor Dillon above the bar! And if anyone tells the Australian Womens' Weekly that KiwiRedDevil's Mum smuggled a camera into the service* there'll be hell to pay - they paid a fair amount for the exclusive


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



Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t19779-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub#757023




* Note to any lawyer-y types, that's a joke and is completely and utterly false, Mum forgot to put the camera in her handbag

Leave snow!

I've had to cycle to work when there have been warnings of black ice and that's no fun at all. You can't see it so there's no point looking out for it, you just have to hope for the best and take corners very slowly.

Leave it where Munsty?


MrsP - cripes! can't beleive she did that! At least she didn't hurt herself


Lucky - one of my old housemates slipped on her bike on black ice a couple of years ago, and she was so lucky she was wearing a helmet. When you looked at the damage that had been done to it and imagined that could have just been her head on the kerb - ouch! She did admit she'd been going too fast though.

Have you got much snow there Munsty?

rugbydreamer wrote:Leave it where Munsty?


MrsP - cripes! can't beleive she did that! At least she didn't hurt herself


Lucky - one of my old housemates slipped on her bike on black ice a couple of years ago, and she was so lucky she was wearing a helmet. When you looked at the damage that had been done to it and imagined that could have just been her head on the kerb - ouch! She did admit she'd been going too fast though.

There's a term for that, drivers are also less weary of cyclists who wear helmets. Those safety helmets can be dangerous.

They can be Glas, but I'd much rather wear one then none at all!

Some drivers are idiots. I hope to be one of them.

Dreamer,

My mum-in-law is amazing!

So was my father-in-law. Very quietly determined/bloody minded in the nicest possible way. He had terrible lung problem in his last few years and needed oxygen all the time. Didn't stop him though. Once Gran was on the phone telling me about having to stop Scarifying the lawn so she could go to the hairdressers! Knowing them, I joked about Grampa trying to get his oxygen pipe to reach out to the garden to do it while she was away!

She , with no hint of irony, said,

" Well we did try balancing the wee oxygen cylinder on the top of the lawn mower but it was too tricky."

She seemed surprised at my reaction until I reminded her that their lawn mower was petrol driven.!!!!!!

Before that he used to mow the lawn with 2 chairs. He had one on each side of the garden and he would mow one strip and then have a wee rest to get his breath back before he turned it round to do the next strip!

MrsP wrote:Rodders,

There is a little snow here in the Capital but I doubt there is enough to disturb the airports.

Another for the wall - https://www.606v2.com/t20333-606v2-awards-2011-results-pictures#782723

(I wrote the Kindle blurb just for Hughie and Rava)

That's crazy MrsP! An oxygan tank near petrol! I think it's great how determined some people can be though, regardless of what's going on with them. As long as they don't do harm to themselves in the process that is!


Rodders - are your visitors really that bad??

Iestyn and Georgie not fit for Sunday


That's 2 seasons in a row now the WRU have broken Georgie before key regional matches. Gutted.

They'll be missed, Dreamer, but it's a game you can win if you box clever.

rugbydreamer wrote:
Rodders - are your visitors really that bad??

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!....deep breaths...deep breath....

No of course not, I'm delighted to have them ()

Lucky - aye it is, apart from missing those two I am actually relatively happy with the side. Gambling a bit with moving Rhys to FB and starting Stevo at 10 but that's when we often play our best rugby. Sanjay out on George's wing is a brilliant replacement.

Front row we may very well struggle, it's a huge ask for Rhodri Jones to start against the Munster front row. We've got a great backrow out though, so that should help us. Earls is starting for Munster though I believe, so I've no doubt we'll target him, or at least I hope we will.


Rodders: you'll be fine!

How long will they be staying, Rodders?

Kiwireddevil wrote:Another for the wall - https://www.606v2.com/t20333-606v2-awards-2011-results-pictures#782723

(I wrote the Kindle blurb just for Hughie and Rava)

Kiwi, one of the highlights of 2011 for me was to see you get so much pleasure out of you Kindle mate

luckless_pedestrian wrote:How long will they be staying, Rodders?

'Just' until Monday, luckless. It's a bit thoughtless of them to come over on a HEC weekend though! Was looking forward to a wee trip up to Belfast to catch the Ulster game in a pub then catching the Leinster game later on TG4 with a few . Thats that plan out the feckin window

Father-in-law not a rugby fan?

Rodders, nip out round 12.30 and come over to Ballymoney. Watch the game with me and be back home for 4.30. They won't even have noticed you gone.

Rugby League fan Mrs P. My GF is from Yorkshire. Her auld fella is from London originally but doesn't like Union (but thinks he knows everything about it of course )

Rava if I thought I'd pull that scam off I would do it!

You could offer to give your GF and her folks some "Quality Time" just to themselves?????

Now that might just work, Mrs P!

I am reliably informed by lots of folk in that situation that, even if they absolutely adore their son or daughter-in-law it is still very nice to occasionally have their married off spring to themselves!

As you might have noticed, my mum-in-law and I get on very well but I do make a point of dispatching MrP off to see her on his own sometimes!

I think they know me too well for that to work, especially if all the quality time I suggest they have ties in with the Irish teams HEC fixtures.... .....

I'll find some way to catch the games, it just makes my weekend a tad more complex!

Rava,

I see you got my message.

Roddersm, watch the Leeds United game before the Leinster one. You will be on his good side then. It mightn't be on Sky but somewhere should be showing it.

Urgh, hit it hard last night, only got in at half eight this morning. Interesting night though, fairly sure a prostitute tried to pick me up in a bar last night, one of those high class hookers like. Don't ask how I know, just a feeling I got and when she left my buddy turned round to me and immediately asked if she was so I wasn't the only to think it haha


Ended up picking up this kiwi chick, not one of my best moves like but a bit of craic all the same

Thomond theres two flaws in that plan, the Ulster match is before the Leinster game too......and hes a feckin arsenal fan!

Besides I don't think he'd appreciate spending all afternoon in the pub with me singing SUFTUM and trying to explain to him (not for the 1st time I might add ) why Rugby Union is so much better than league!

By the way just seen the Leinster team. Omally and Mcfadden at center, could be a superb partnership. Trying to figure out the last time neither Bod or darcy didn't startin a Heino game

How can he be from Yorkshire and be an Arsenal fan?! Like the look of that Leinster team.

why can it not be 4:30pm already?

Trying to decide what my drink of choice shall be for tonight
Can't wait for it now though, feels like ages since I've had a proper big big night out in the Diff, should be a cracker of a night.

Hes from London originally Thomond, he's yorkshirized enough to hate RU and like RL though....

Absinthe, Dreamer.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Absinthe, Dreamer.

perhaps not!


I really want mulled wine see, but don't think it's a very good idea to have a whole bottle to myself. Hmm......

hughie1986 wrote:By the way just seen the Leinster team. Omally and Mcfadden at center, could be a superb partnership. Trying to figure out the last time neither Bod or darcy didn't startin a Heino game

Excellent news. The Changing of The Guard starts in the HC. Mark the moment. Hope they rip it up between them on the day. 12 Irish players starting and only one of the buy-ins is really required. Isa. 7 of the 8 bench players are IQ too.

With Cronin coming on strongly and Healy a cert, the dream of an all Irish Leinster side in the HC, comes closer to reality. Man that makes me so happy.

Lovely day in Ealing. Cold though. Hope all are well.

Gibson wrote:only one of the buy-ins is really required.

Do ex Munster, Connacht, Wasps and Leicester players not count as buy ins then?.....

roddersm wrote:

Gibson wrote:only one of the buy-ins is really required.

Do ex Munster, Connacht, Wasps and Leicester players not count as buy ins then?.....

We just lent most of them out Rodders. Its kinda chokka at the RDS roysh.

Fear Sneachta Bán,
Hata ar a cheann,
Sin é Bouli
ag imeacht leis síos,

Éistigí anois,
Agus féachagí,
Seo scéal faoi Bouli,
'S a chairde.

BOULI BOULI!
BOULI BOULI!
BOULI BOULI!

Mick??

Dreamer,

Surely they will be selling Mulled Wine by the glass not by the bottle, no?

Dreamer, that's the theme song to an cartoon which was broadcast in Irish when i was younger. My Serbian mate wanted to learn an Irish christmas carol so i'm teaching him this, it's about a snowman called Bouli.

It's really funny to hear him pronounce everything perfectly, with the help of my phonetic versions as a footnote.

Ah I mean drinking before I leave the flat MrsP, don't think we're heading out until lateish. Would not be a good idea for me to have drunk a bottle of wine before I've even made it to a pub!

ah cool, cheers for explaining Mick! Did a google search and saw a mention of a snowman, but still wasn't sure what it was

That is true I suppose.

You used to be able to get wee "tea bags" that contained the spices to make "instant" mulled wine. Get a box of Fruity Red and put one of those in a pot with a couple of glasses worth and some OJ!

Warm!

Shovey, just you be careful on that mulled wine - I've seen it's effect on you!!

mmm might have to do that MrsP! I do so love drinking some mulled wine.


Hmm, now to move on to another issue for this evening, what to blydi well wear....


oooh just been looking on the Scarlets website and our U16's beat the O's U16's. Nice one!


Asbo - Ha! true that, and that was but one mug of wine...


(I am also tempted to start editing out the use of Shovey from all posts! )

So...

Dreamer,

Who were you shoving?



(please don't let that be a euphanism for something I shouldn't be asking about!)

haha no most definitely not!

And I haven't shoved anyone

Sooo....?