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 pictures of Gibbo's Ma and Brad Thorn above the bar!





Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t24993-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub

Could any editors have a look in the writers section please?

Back now, just reading back

Glas, left some comments for you.

Cheers Biltong

Father's pride. I'm imagining you like the dog in Tom and Jerry "Dats ma boy"

Yeah, he is definitely my pride and joy.

Dreamer, if you have to clear a garden then petrol mixed with biological washing powder effectively = napalm.

Just don't ask me how I know.




In case Ozzy's about.





Honest guv. You've got it wrong. I'm a member of ALE Qaeda. The militant wing of CAMRA.

biltong. In a few years time the littl'un might be running out at Loftus in this

http://www.shoprugby.com/rugby-jerseys-c51/canterbury-south-africa-pro-rugby-jersey-green-and-gold-p9402

I guess that is the dream of many of South African father. But for now as long as he develops a love for the game and play to enjoy it will be a good start.

Maybe one day...

Biltong, there is a way of putting up your own photos in the pub. It's pretty fiddley but it works.

Go to google and drag and drop your photo from your pc onto the search bar. that then stores your photo on a google server but it also gives you a URL address like any website. Then you can either post the link in here or embed the photo using the link button just above the writing box on 606. Just make sure to make it a spoiler or else you'll be in breech of site rules.

To do that, once you've put the link in the image box and clicked "ok", just highlight all the txt, go to "other" options and click spoiler.

Morning All.

Woss occurrin'?

Feel a bit lost and bored now. It's not like I can go and do anything exciting...

Morning, Cari. Feeling any better today? Getting ready to go into Motherwell this morning with my sister - we have a flat to renovate for a new tenant (yes, folks, it's true - Puma grinds faces of the poor).

Hi Puma - not much really, but I'll get there eventually. I bet you're a nice landlady really!

One for the workers: if you're anywhere near a Starbucks, you can get a free latte until noon. nip in if you a fancy a free coffee. I don't think you can have a free anything else though.

biltongbek wrote:I guess that is the dream of many of South African father. But for now as long as he develops a love for the game and play to enjoy it will be a good start.

Maybe one day...

Great stuff Biltong...hey what position does he play?...... we're always on the lookout for good SA players at Ulster......

Haha, Rodders, he plays hooker, front row man just like his father, he was very happy to hear when I told him I was a loose head prop, he reckons now when he plays a game his dad is right next to him.

Mickado wrote:Biltong, there is a way of putting up your own photos in the pub. It's pretty fiddley but it works.

Go to google and drag and drop your photo from your pc onto the search bar. that then stores your photo on a google server but it also gives you a URL address like any website. Then you can either post the link in here or embed the photo using the link button just above the writing box on 606. Just make sure to make it a spoiler or else you'll be in breech of site rules.

To do that, once you've put the link in the image box and clicked "ok", just highlight all the txt, go to "other" options and click spoiler.

I'll give it a go mate, but I tried this spoiler thing before and it didn't work.

Bore da pawb / good morning all. I'm happy to report that this week seems to be passing pretty quickly, which is what you want the week after a week off!

Congratulations to Biltong Jr. - or should I say the next Bismarck du Plessis?

Haha, bismarck will be so lucky.

Nah, just joking, I use recordings of Bismarck to show him what a hooker should be doing.

Anyone else paying attention to American politics of late? I find the whole thing fascinating. A year ago hell even 2 years ago I would have said Obama's dead and buried. The republican antics this year have changed my mind completely though.

biltongbek wrote:Haha, Rodders, he plays hooker, front row man just like his father, he was very happy to hear when I told him I was a loose head prop, he reckons now when he plays a game his dad is right next to him.

Sounds like the man for us! ....

Willy, I'm actually quite annoyed by how much coverage the Republican race is getting. It isn't even a public election, just one party choosing its candidate. There's a presidential election campaign going on in France at the moment and it gets next to no coverage.

Beautiful story BB.

Yeah, Willy... it's funny how opposition parties have a knack of self-imploding or squandering their chances when there is a dip in popularity with the incumbent Party/President/PM.

However, I really like Obama. Very difficult times at present. I hope he's there for another term.

A point on how I see politics. The ruling party writes the history of a nation whilst they are in power, when they fall from grace the new political party writes a new history and that is the history taught to children at school.

Most politicians go into their chosen careers as a wide eyed idealistic person thinking they can change the world. Sadly within a few years the realisation that politicians have to forsake their idealistic views as a whole just to compromise on issues they would normally oppose, just to get one or two of their idealistic views in place bring disillusionment.

Pretty soon all their ideals are forgotten as they fight the impossible fight. Add to that those who go into politics for their own gain and need for power.

In a civilised society, the daily lives of your average Joe is rarely impacted. He can continue with his Take Away Shop, his Video Store or his Engineering business as things rarely change apart from economic cycles.

Hence unles there is civil war in a country, politics mean very little to me.

Morning all

Fecking freezing here today, have had to put the blwdi heating back on!

Shame.

Here by US, in the good RS of A it is early autumn, with daily temperatue of 27 degrees C.

27 degrees. Same as here during the day. It's getting noticeably darker earlier though...

That means one thing - rugby season is here. Posts are going up everywhere and the school kids have been doing drills for the last couple of weeks. They all look semi-professional these days!

To be honest, looking elsewhere I think we should be grateful for the politicians we have.

One the the leading contenders in the French election is a socialist who wants to impose a 75% tax on millionaires. Now whilst that's obviously a good party line to run, it rather overlooks the fact that millionaires presumably have the resources to move away.

Santorum is as republican as they come. Viciously again gay marriage and birth control amongst other things. He's got where he is by scaremongering and he strikes me as a bit of a megalomaniac. Romney is the only republican who can properly challenge Obama.

biltongbek wrote:Haha, bismarck will be so lucky.

Nah, just joking, I use recordings of Bismarck to show him what a hooker should be doing.

Haven't you heard of Rory Best? I'll send the YouTube links to you mate

Rava, send on mate, I am sure my son will learn something from him, I'll just have to remind him the jumper Best is wearing is the wrong colour.

If Mitt Romney is the Republicans' candidate, they'll lose thousands and thousands of far-right voters simply because he's a Mormon. It's a crap reason not to vote for someone, but there you go.

The saddest thing of all is that all the candidates are multi-millionaires. You could be the ideal would-be president but if you don't have money behind you, you'll get nowhere.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:If Mitt Romney is the Republicans' candidate, they'll lose thousands and thousands of far-right voters simply because he's a Mormon. It's a crap reason not to vote for someone, but there you go.

The saddest thing of all is that all the candidates are multi-millionaires. You could be the ideal would-be president but if you don't have money behind you, you'll get nowhere.

That's why I definetly think this election is Obama's to lose. I'd also put my cards on the table and say Cameron is also willing him on as well. He has to deal with enough far right whack jobs in his own party without having to deal with another international leader with more extreme views.

Whilst I share your idealism. Money talks when it comes to elections. That won't change.

WillyGilly wrote:Money talks when it comes to elections. That won't change.

Not with that attitude it won't!

biltongbek wrote:Rava, send on mate, I am sure my son will learn something from him, I'll just have to remind him the jumper Best is wearing is the wrong colour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIMe_0NaezA

We've gotta have faith in 'middle America' again. Fortunately, as you say, we're always hearing the extreme acts of desperation and most good folk are aware of that. It amazes me how this cycle of politics carries on every 4 years with new candidates behaving in similar ways. They'll never have the numbers to go very far.

It's similar to what happens in Oz but - but we don't buy sensationalism in politics and only have these types of politicians on a tiny scale (2 or 3 all up) compared to the US.

This week some Queensland LNP (Liberal National) nutter paid for a shocking add accusing a more centre 'liberal' of "supporting gay marriage or civil union between same sexes". Tacky, offensive and cheap ad designed to shock and spoil but it was immediately jumped on by everyone... including this bloke's brother (who is gay) and who then savaged the ad the most of all! Unbelievable, isn't it? You'd think the nutter might have an inkling that might happen.

Inadvertently, this has played into the hands of the opposition as well as the person he attacked - so all that was achieved was that this man alienated himself even further from the "urbanites" and has done his own party considerable damage. (He's now being compared to Pauline Hanson... or even worse!)

Bore da/Morning all.

Hope everyone's as well as can be, and Cari, hope you get better very soon (and definitely for the weekend!)

I'm still all in a bit of a muddle today. My ability to ignore things that are bothering me never ceases to amaze me (but then I have had years of practice). If you'd asked me even on Sunday, I'd have said I'd be pretty content to stay in Cardiff. Fast forward 2 days and it's a bit of a 'hell no!' situation. Guess there was no point me thinking about it earlier though as I was/am tied in to my flat until the end of May, still, wish I'd given myself a bit more time to to sort my self out

Still, rugby starts again tomorrow. Really hope the Dragons can do the Scarlets a big favour!

Rava wrote:

biltongbek wrote:Rava, send on mate, I am sure my son will learn something from him, I'll just have to remind him the jumper Best is wearing is the wrong colour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIMe_0NaezA

Nice clip that Rava, just a shame about the jumpig lunatic who blocks the view of the try.

you see what I mean about the wrong colour jumper.

I hope we can do you a favour too, Dreamer! A win wouldn't make everything alright, but it would be a real boost for us in what's been a disappointing season. Jason Tovey will want to have a good game to prove a point.

If your son can learn anything from Rory Best its work rate. Hardest working player on the field! And a good hooker needs to be... scrummaging, expected to hit a lot of rucks, expected to be available to carry the ball wider out and apart from all that expected to hit his jumper in every lineout. So not much then!

If you watch guys like Best, Du Plessis, Mario Ledesma etc. the amount of hard work they do in a game of rugby is absolutely astonishing. Might be one of the most demanding positions to excel at.

A pair of mallards have just landed in the yard. Ducks on the docks.

Ledesma

It won't be the same watching Argentina play now...

I think Tovey is due a v good game Lucky. And a lot of your players that are leaving will be looking to prove a point. Really hope you guys can do it

I'm a bit gutted I won't be able to go to the match, but the girl needs to be chipped and have the last of her vaccinations.

testing mickado's theory, so far no joy.

tuuuuune on Radio 2. Love it.

Ah bless her Lucky, is she settling in okay?

and ha! Totally just realised it's pay day tomorrow

Yea that didn't work...

Does this work?

She's doing really well, Dreamer. She's been so easy to house-train - she loves being in the garden - and although she bites quite a bit, I know she's only playing.

Can't see it.

Hmmm, maybe not.
I’m 100% positive that I have done this successfully before though.

Maybe the rules on doing it were changed?

Not for me but I'm on the iPhone.

Disgusting Mikado!

Mick, I searched on google how to add an aimage to google images and it says you can't, it says you must open a blog somewhere and add photo's there.

That’s in then Biltong, google changed their rules. Basically if you can put your photo anywhere online you can put it in here, and you can do it the way I showed you. It’s just putting your photo somewhere online is the stickler.

For the record, that was a picture of my dog