The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

by Guest Tue 20 Dec - 12:00

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 Father Christmas, Sean Lamont and Paddy Wallace above the bar!

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

Ale

Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t20203-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub

by maestegmafia Wed 28 Dec - 10:35

I had a touch of work last night, a corporate invitation to the Cabbage Patch for Quins vs Sarries. Luckily got the work bit done before the first points.

I am looking forward to this weekends Derby games. May well be down in Cornwall for NYE and was hoping to catch the Pirates play but unfortunately they are away on Sunday. May have to head home early with a sore head and make the Liberty to see the Ospreys vs Blues game...!

by Hound_of_Harrow Wed 28 Dec - 10:53

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I'm in work we're about 1/4 staffed. Just clearing the decks and prepping stuff for next year.

Dunno if the Welsh/Scarlets fans have seen it, but George North was reported in The Rugby Paper yesterday as wanting to stay in Wales with the Scarlets at the moment. He hasn’t ruled out a move abroad (France) later in his career though. He also understands why so many Welsh players have made the move to France, and why others and will do the same.

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Wed 28 Dec - 12:07

Just went and wasted an hour playing pool in the staff room Smile

Now to actually look at some work Whistle

by Guest Wed 28 Dec - 13:11

Georgie shouldn't leave us for a while Hound, he signed a 3 year extension on his contract last season so he should be safe with us for now (hope so anyways!)

And afternoon all, hope you've all had a wonderful time over Christmas. I've absolutely loved it this year, and the Scarlets got a win for me too, so I'm one happy Dreamer.

Heading off to Carmarthen in a bit to get a train back to the Diff for work tomorrow and Fri, but then I'll be straight back home again for New Years. I blydi welllove this time of year Smile

Also a

for Rev, for whenever he pops his head around the door again.

by Hound_of_Harrow Wed 28 Dec - 13:27

Yeah - Seasons Greetings to Rev and his colleagues thumbsup

Dreamer- I think North was just reconfirming things then, after all the high profile departures, and rumoured departures across the Channel (not the Bristol one Wink

)

It looks like a full days work for us each day this week.

by PenfroPete Wed 28 Dec - 13:31

Sweet mother of God, was I that evil in a former life - WALL ARTICLE

by **Ozzy3213** Wed 28 Dec - 13:46

No, just in tis one I believe Pete Wink

by PenfroPete Wed 28 Dec - 14:01

well I'm feeling devil

at the moment. Stuck in the office and it's like the Marie Celeste - payback for those 8 weeks off Erm

by **Pal Joey** Wed 28 Dec - 14:10

Any sign of land yet Pete? And what's that flapping sound up on deck? Erm

by PenfroPete Wed 28 Dec - 14:16

That'll be my manager on the 3rd floor, panicking about our deadlines Shocked

by Gibson Wed 28 Dec - 14:18

Ola regs. Hope all are well.

Just saw my son and his other half, off on a 2 month trip around Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Lucky feckers. What a dream trip. While his aul Da suffers a grey, cold, wet miserable winter.

Gotta get away for a few weeks. Need to go diving and talk to the fish. zen

by PenfroPete Wed 28 Dec - 14:34

Gibson wrote:Gotta get away for a few weeks. Need to go diving and talk to the fish.

JFDI Gibbo, JFDI thumbsup

by Suspicious lurker Wed 28 Dec - 14:37

Afternoon folks.

Back in London

Not much else to add right now

by Thomond Wed 28 Dec - 14:47

How are the lads? Training this morning. Catching up to a back in the sprints was a highlight! My sister had a seizure though so that's not very good she seems to be alright now though.

by Gibson Wed 28 Dec - 14:55

hughie1986 wrote:Afternoon folks.

Back in London

Not much else to add right now

Hugs. Pints?

Penfron,
I am busy looking at sites now. JFDI. That' s what my son said before he left. " Stop faffing around and come and meet up with us Da" kiss

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 15:06

Gibbo,

You called?

Okay my little gaming friends.

XBox or PS3?

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Wed 28 Dec - 15:09

MrsP wrote:Gibbo,

You called?

Okay my little gaming friends.

XBox or PS3?

I asked a few friends that recently, and got told PS3 by most - personally no idea.

Per my comment on the 2 Xmases in one year vote thread MrsP, how are the plans for 2nd Xmas coming along?
Run

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 15:13

Well,

If I was about to have another Christmas just now it would actually be our 3rd this year and that would definately be extracting the Michael!

MrP's B'day tomoz so I suppose ...

You might be able to have a wild guess at what his pressie might be?

Whistle

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Wed 28 Dec - 15:15

MrsP wrote:Well,

If I was about to have another Christmas just now it would actually be our 3rd this year and that would definately be extracting the Michael!

MrP's B'day tomoz so I suppose ...

You might be able to have a wild guess at what his pressie might be?

I was more thinking about the 1st anniversary of your January Xmas MrsP, but if you want to add MrP's birthday to the list Whistle

by Pete C (Kiwireddevil) Wed 28 Dec - 15:20

It's just come to my attention that ex-Wallaby and now Sydney Morning Herald journalist Peter Fitzsimons made the Guinness Book of Records after being interviewed live on a radio station in Sydney for 24 hours, doubling the previous world record for longest live radio interview.

Starting last Sunday at 10am, Richard Glover did indeed start to interview me on ABC Digital Radio. We did indeed go for 24 hours straight and, as planned, got ourselves into Guinness World Records. Why was the previous record of just 12 hours, 30 minutes so soft? I think it is because there are certain preconditions to go for such a record that are not easily met. You need an interviewer and a subject who are substantial enough to sustain an interview for that long, with enough subjects to fill it, while still being shallow enough to want to be in Guinness World Records in the first place. And you need a broadcaster not so worried about ratings that they are happy to put it to air. Thunderbirds are go! And in the end, it really was surprisingly easy. If there is a better drug than talking into an open microphone about ''Me, my life and what I think about things,'' to an interviewer who is obliged to say at regular intervals, ''That really is fascinating, please do tell me more,'' then I don't know what it is. After a full day of it, I felt as if I had barely cleared my throat.

From: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/and-i-was-just-getting-started-20111217-1ozpc.html#ixzz1hqKPcQUO

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 15:21

Actually we have celebrated our "proper" Christmas in January for a few years in a row now but the kids had forgotten that when I brought up the whole "Potentially Devastating Anomaly" thing!

We have been away for the last 3 or 4 Christmases (or 5 if you count the doubles) and so we have our pressies on a day after we have got home and Santa's little helpers have got the washing done and the pressies wrapped. the kids were saying it was strange this year knowing exactly which day to expect Santa to pay us a visit!

by Gibson Wed 28 Dec - 15:22

Jeez, left-handed soup-drinkers really have it all eh? 3 x Christmases and a Festive birthday in one year. Man. Us Tims just cant compete with that kinda level... kiss

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 15:26

Actually 2 festive B'days as middleP's is just before Christmas.

I think this was the first year she has ever had to go to school on her B'day!

And, just for the record, you are the left-footers!

So.... What were you wanting to talk to us fishes about then?

by Glas a du Wed 28 Dec - 15:30

Holidays at Xmas time, the excesses of the upper middle class!

Yikes

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 15:32

Says the Lawyer who collects £5,000 sheep for a hobby!

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by Thomond Wed 28 Dec - 15:32

MrsP, the PS3 is better. It has a blu-ray player to watch high definition DVDs and Blu-ray discs aswell as HD gaming. I have an Xbox too( I got it for €25 and while I don't use it really, haven't played it since August, it was dead cheap ) and it has its advantages such as the kinect and the controller but the PS3 is way better in my opinion. The PSN store is also easier to use than Xbox live Marketplace.

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 15:38

Thanks lads.

It's amazing what you learn on here!

I have never even seen either of these things in the flesh but I seem to remember you lads chatting one time about them and someone said the XBox was really good for gaming but the PS3 was better all around.

I repeated this to the hubby earlier and the look on his face was a picture!!

I had to confess that I was merely repeating what I thought I had heard on here but I wanted to check as I could very easily have got them the wrong way round!

PS3 it is then.

There should be a couple of very happy lads in our house sometime over the next couple of days!

by PenfroPete Wed 28 Dec - 16:04

MrsP wrote:You might be able to have a wild guess at what his pressie might be?

Will it look like this MrsP - GAME Wink

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 16:15

I haven't a clue what that is Penfro!

Whistle

Or, could it be one of those games we used to have....erm....I mean one of those games my grandfather told me about!!!!

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by PenfroPete Wed 28 Dec - 16:20

I think Gibbo was a world champ Run

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 16:32

I know he's not so bright but I wouldn't necessarily go quite so far as to call him a chump!

Oh!

Sorry.

My bad!

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by PenfroPete Wed 28 Dec - 16:33

Sure, Gibbo would be the man to sort this problem wouldn't he - https://www.606v2.com/t20914-the-cabbage-patch thumbsup

by Glas a du Wed 28 Dec - 16:57

Your bad what Mrs Posh?

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 17:05

Doh Glas!

Get with the program!!!

It's an expression first used by Shakespear in his Sonnet 112.

It was then taken up by Basketball players.

It means: My mistake.

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by Gibson Wed 28 Dec - 17:13

PenfroPete wrote:I think Gibbo was a world champ

I was! That and Space Invaders and Asteroids. Got lost after that. Every time I go to the Poissons, a little darlin (who I am in love with) whacks me at every WiI game. And then she does a victory-dance to rub it in.

Humiliation.com.

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 17:16

Gibbo!

You're making me blush!!!

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by Gibson Wed 28 Dec - 17:25

Not oldest little redheaded girlie bombshell P, darlin. Youngest P dahling. zen

Please give her and all the other little P's, a kusje from me. Hug

by red_stag Wed 28 Dec - 17:27

Hi all,

Had a top Christmas watching loadsa great family movies - Home Alone, Gremlins, Muppets Christmas Carol, The Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka etc.

In a bit of shoite mood today, someone gave me an honest opinion about something that has left me quite miffed. Shiite buzz.

Also, MrsP I was playing PS3 earlier and I played a user called Poissonrouge79?? Any ideas?

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 17:32

So....

You weren't talking about me then?

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Stag!

I thought "Honest Opinion" was your M.O., no?

Poissonrouge79 must be an impostor Stag. The PS3 is only being set up as I type.

And MrP is too old to have been born in 1979 and not quite old enough to be 79 so...

by prop_lyd Wed 28 Dec - 17:34

Evening all, just caught up with my mate in Bristol and now back in Lydney for tonight before Cardiff tomorrow and then Brighton Yahoo

by red_stag Wed 28 Dec - 17:36

Yea it is MrsP. Just its a real bummer when its not what you want to hear. Not at all in fact. I don't really want to dwell on it to much to be honest. It'll just make me unhappy.

The Poissonrouge79 must have indeed been an imposter. I thought 79 may have been another reference. I hope you celebrated Christmas.

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 17:41

Of course we celebrated.

606 V2 said we had to!

by red_stag Wed 28 Dec - 17:43

What kind of crazy thinking was that in the first place MrsP? Christmas got delayed by a few weeks in 2010 so lets cancel the 2011 Christmas that is 11 months later?

by Gibson Wed 28 Dec - 17:43

MrsP wrote:So....

You weren't talking about me then?

Stag!

I thought "Honest Opinion" was your M.O., no?

Poissonrouge79 must be an impostor Stag. The PS3 is only being set up as I type.

And MrP is too old to have been born in 1979 and not quite old enough to be 79 so...

Ah I was MrsP. Just in code like. Cant be too careful these days. Anyone could read it.

Story MrP? Whats it like sharing yer life with a live-in ageist mo chara? Whistle

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 17:50

Ah Stag I was just winding the kids up!

They had great fun checking the votes!

Stag, still not coming up for the BIG game on Friday then?

by red_stag Wed 28 Dec - 17:53

Just can't stretch the funds that far MrsP. I really wish I was. One of the lads I played all my age level rugby scored a try on his Munster debut against Connacht. It would be great to see him start in Ravenhil.

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 17:56

Well I hope we give a better account of ourselves than the last time you were here!

Who's the youngun you're talking about? I remember Munsty talking about some young fella too but that was a few weeks ago I thought?

Gibbo, when do you return to the low lands?

by Gibson Wed 28 Dec - 18:01

Back on the 2nd of Jan MrsP. It's been so nice here, but even nicer to get home, ya know? 1st, a wee break in the Sun. Then, some serious contract-hunting.

by MrsP Wed 28 Dec - 18:07

Well find somewhere nice for your hols Gibbo.

Somewhere nice and quiet.

by Glas a du Wed 28 Dec - 18:07

So when did you take up basketball? Headscratch

Stag, how are you? Missed your incitefullness on here pal. Your point about the Scarlets could not have been more apt for the Stephen's day match. I was as isolated as Subsbench was in the Munster match. The Osprey fans were a pale imitation of the Munster lot though.

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