The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Antananarivo Arms, Madagascar

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Hello and welcome to the Antananarivo Arms 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 Pub has made it's way to Madagascar, where 35,000 raucous fans recently watched the home side upset Namibia in a 110-point thriller.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of the Madagascan team war dance, Japan/NRL-bound Sonny-Bill Williams, Bradley Wiggins and the prematurely-retired Mark Boucher above the bar.





Old Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t32066-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-oxford

Morning all, good session on the last night, putting the world to rights with Rav and Hoog - all I can remember is dilligaf

Clever

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

Magic.....any more? I'm starving!!

"I couldn't give a pair of fat rat's clackers what you think!"... a mate of mine used to tell lots of people.

Good morning everyone...

I got a bit of a shock this morning when I saw some footage of the amount of Australian coal just lying on the docks in China. Mountains of it over acres & acres. Talk about a stockpile! We are in a mining frenzy at the moment, big gas project gets approval. Everyone's ripping resources outta the ground. You've got to see how big these projects are... mind boggling.

However, today I heard again - Demand for steel is dropping off - you'd think they might have realised that fact a while ago when all those tens of thousands of floors of residential and commercial office buildings still remain empty! (but for how long I wonder?)

They had some old Chinese guy from the countryside who had never seen a skyscraper before.

I bet he can't wait 'til he gets to see a 'skyscraper full of people'... (the missing ingredient)...

Well that's cleared the place out...

13 days to go.

MBTGOG wrote:I've met a few guys recently who are part of the Irish hip hop scene. They aren't white though and you can see the difference in both the quality of their raps and also their performances.

A bit like all those white AB's trying to look fearsome and Maorilike when they do the haka - remember Ali Williams and his gurning!!

Ok, we're sorted now lads...

http://www.joe.ie/football/football-news/did-you-hear-about-the-irish-nine-year-old-who-has-just-signed-for-barcelona-0026913-1

http://nswtcalendar.com/ - that's Christmas sorted

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67EncQPwNk

Friend of line who plays guitar a bit was in a jam session in a pub in Roundstone at the weekend. This English guy with shaggy hair and scruffy beard asked could he join them and then proceeded to sing for the next couple of hours - mainly country stuff., My friend said he looked a bit familiar and thought the voice was familiar but only after about the 5th pint did he ask the English guy's name.

"Sorry, my name's Robert Plant", the English guy said. Needless to say, my firend thanked his lucky start tha't he hadn't tried to sing his usual 6th pint party piece of Stairway to Heaven.

Now, it's the Boss on Wed night on the hallowed sward of the RDS. Seems Bruce got mightily miffed at the Isle of Wight when the organisers pulled the plug on the amps just as he was going to do a duet with Macca. Admittedly, Bruce being Bruce that was after 3.5 hours and they were half an hour over the time, but jeez often are you going to see the Boss and Macca on stage together.

Saw a few clips of the gig on Sky Arts last night, the band now has a four-man horn and brass section which Clarence Clemens' nephew. Can't wait for Wed even though only ticket I could get was standing on the pitch and it's bound to p1ss rain

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:http://nswtcalendar.com/ - that's Christmas sorted

Pffft doesn't really do anything for me

Cracker Breno

Anyone else really excited about the olympics?.... nope me neither.

Breaker thats interesting about the demand for steel falling, pretty ominous really. Mind you its a no brainer with so many empty commercial properties around.

I think their govt will do a stimulus package thing - try and keep growth up around the 8% mark. So there will still be plenty of infrastructure-type projects happening there for a long time to come.

Bunnies just holding on 12-10 to the surging Chooks in the Monday night NRL game... 53 mins. Good game so far between these old rivals.

Breaker how come the Australian economy is so strong compared to the other developed economies right now? Everywhere else is struggling to see any growth at all.

Is it because they export to China or is it domestic demand?

Rodders,
the mining & natural resources sector is still only 19% of GDP, services sector about 70%.
Main exports - China 25%, Japan 19%, Korea 9%, India 7%, USA 4%.

We have low debt, low inflation and low unemployment - and the abundance of natural resources has helped us survive through the tough times.

The Roosters have scored a couple of tries. They now lead 22-10. 4 mins to go.

Merrit scores under the posts... 22-18. 90 seconds left.

omg... another try - 3/4 length of the field, amazing movement!!!!

Souths win 24-22. (opposite of Round 1 when Roosters scored the winning try in OT)

Nice one Breaker but do you see that trend continuing or as China's growth slows will that have a significant impact on the Australian growth?

M&S have changed the packaging on our sandwiches. I was not consulted about this. And I'm not happy about it.

Ah an M&S man! Stay where you are sir! Why is the filter coffee so weak? The bags are only half full too!

rodders wrote:Anyone else really excited about the olympics?.... nope me neither.

I'm really looking forward to the Olympics, Rodders; but I'm looking forward to it because it's a whole load of the best athletes on the planet competing against each other, not because it's happening in London. I'd be just as excited if it was being held in Riga or Ankara or anywhere else. Actually, if it was being held somewhere else, I'd be more excited because we wouldn't have had all the media overkill (much more to come), the torch nonsense and the false claims that these games belong to the whole of the UK.

On a sporting level, it's going to be awesome and I can't wait!

rodders wrote:Nice one Breaker but do you see that trend continuing or as China's growth slows will that have a significant impact on the Australian growth?

Continuing for a while yet, Rodders - even with slower growth in China there are still huge contracts to be delivered over next 3-5 years and there are also other developing markets with relatively high demand for our resources.

Still can't get over that game - the Rabbitohs are now 4th on the ladder equal with Brisbane.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

rodders wrote:Anyone else really excited about the olympics?.... nope me neither.

I'm really looking forward to the Olympics, Rodders; but I'm looking forward to it because it's a whole load of the best athletes on the planet competing against each other, not because it's happening in London. I'd be just as excited if it was being held in Riga or Ankara or anywhere else. Actually, if it was being held somewhere else, I'd be more excited because we wouldn't have had all the media overkill (much more to come), the torch nonsense and the false claims that these games belong to the whole of the UK.

On a sporting level, it's going to be awesome and I can't wait!

Same here Lucky... however I think the atmosphere in London will be far better than Riga or Ankara.

Afternoon pub

Oh my! the postman has just delivered my stuff from the bank for my cake making enterprise. Very, very odd to see a company name on a debit card. And my company name at that (thanks to TT ) !!

I'm and all at the same time!

What name did you settle on in the end Swanny?

P.s. congratulations and fair bloody play to ya!

Thanks Mickado

I decided on Tokens of my Confection in the end

Exciting times Swanny... nice work.
Have you worked out a menu yet?

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

rodders wrote:Anyone else really excited about the olympics?.... nope me neither.

I'm really looking forward to the Olympics, Rodders; but I'm looking forward to it because it's a whole load of the best athletes on the planet competing against each other, not because it's happening in London.

I'm not so sure. Apart from the mens 100m I don't think there's that many exciting athletes around these days, compared to the recent past. Because of the weather conditions I'm not sure we'll get that many world records broken in the track and field events either.

I'll probably get into it a bit when it's on but I can't think of too much to get excited about at this stage. Sorry .

Exciting indeed LB, and also very scary. I still have regular WTF am I doing?! moments.

I have a range of cakes I'm confident in making, I can turn them out to the same standard each time, mainly sponge and fruit cakes. I'm steering clear of cupcakes, that market is well and truly covered, and going for the traditional stuff. And I'm looking for a decorating training course, I need to learn more if I'm to improve and get faster at decorating.

Wasn't the Springsteen gig that got cut off at Hyde Park? I did read about it in a haze yesterday.

Afternoon all anyway

RODDERS - there's more to the Olympics than just the athletics. The cycling is going to be immense and I'm particularly interested to see how the mountain bikers get on - in Essex !!!

On a more downbeat note, Gibbo may not be happy with this WEATHER NEWS

Global warming my ar$e !!

littleswannygirl wrote:Exciting indeed LB, and also very scary. I still have regular WTF am I doing?! moments.

I have a range of cakes I'm confident in making, I can turn them out to the same standard each time, mainly sponge and fruit cakes. I'm steering clear of cupcakes, that market is well and truly covered, and going for the traditional stuff. And I'm looking for a decorating training course, I need to learn more if I'm to improve and get faster at decorating.

Saw a great show on RTE last week about a cake shop, it's basically like a Mary Portas type show where Fergal Quinn (a big name in Irish retail) goes to businesses and shows them how to operate. It's probably on the RTE player, it might even be available internationally, worth having a look for either way. Great name by the way!

littleswannygirl wrote:Exciting indeed LB, and also very scary. I still have regular WTF am I doing?! moments.

I have a range of cakes I'm confident in making, I can turn them out to the same standard each time, mainly sponge and fruit cakes. I'm steering clear of cupcakes, that market is well and truly covered, and going for the traditional stuff. And I'm looking for a decorating training course, I need to learn more if I'm to improve and get faster at decorating.

Sounds great.
Are you going to take photos and build up a catalogue of them?
I noticed in Japan they have these very realistic 'food models'... incredible detail and texture. Fooled me once or twice; they look so real.

You're probably right about the world records, Rodders, but you don't need a world record to be broken for an event to be thrilling, in the same way that you can have a cracking game of rugby without a hatload of tries being scored.

Is hatload a word?

There's a concrete floor company in Cork called Apollo Screed. I know a pancake place called What the Crépe? According to some people on Twitter there was a chicken Delivery van called Poultry in Motion. Now that is genius.

There's a hairdressers in Cardiff called Curl Up and Dye.

There's hairdressers everywhere called Called Up and Dye. It's like a requirement. Sherlock Combs in Dublin apparently

There's a concrete floor company in Cork called Apollo Screed.

That would be funnier of it had nothing to do with Rocky at all, the owner not even being aware of the connection.

Thomond wrote:There's a concrete floor company in Cork called Apollo Screed. I know a pancake place called What the Crépe? According to some people on Twitter there was a chicken Delivery van called Poultry in Motion. Now that is genius.

Brilliant name. There's a cafe in Dublin called Blazing Salads. And there's an Indian in Clondalkin called Popadom Preach.

Mickado, had a quick look on RTE player but not found it yet, will keep looking.

LB, yes I will be creating a portfolio

And I just found a sugarcraft course not far from me!

Alexander the Grate (fireplace retailer in Belfast)

http://www.qype.co.uk/place/1949657-Alexander-The-Great-BELFAST

Was there really an optician in Tallaght called the "eye a Tallaght" ? It's nice work of course there's Spruce Spring Clean and Jason Donervan is you run a mobile kebab joint.


Note: I didn't come up with the ones today.

That discount card in the post Swanny?

Here it is Swanny,

http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=10037534

Not sure it will work in the UK but you can try it!

Thomond wrote:Was there really an optician in Tallaght called the "eye a Tallaght" ? It's nice work of course there's Spruce Spring Clean and Jason Donervan is you run a mobile kebab joint.


Note: I didn't come up with the ones today.

Never heard of it, could be...?

The hair salon in the Simpsons is called Hairy Shearers. El classico!

Britches and Hose for a clothes shop. Boom.

A Fish called Rhondda -
HERE

Brilliant.

Also, because there is a branch in pretty much every town in the country i think we forget what a clever name Abrakebabra is.