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

red_stag wrote:Munsty its in Scrubs at Dr Cox's brotherinlaw's funeral.

Top call.

Thomond wrote:I know Ulster fans complain about the media not liking them or barely mentioning them but I feel sorry for Spike O'Sullivan, goes out wins a world title in boxing and nobody knows anything about it. If it were Bernard Dunne or anyother boxer the media would have been after him weeks ago. Disappointing to see.

That the guy with the moustache? What title did he win? Sure he was only on the Haye undercard? Bernard Dunne was fighting on RTE.

MBTGOG wrote:

red_stag wrote:Munsty its in Scrubs at Dr Cox's brotherinlaw's funeral.

Top call.

One thing about Scrubs. They always got their music spot on whether it was for comedy or dramatic effect.

Yeah, he won the WBO international Middleweight title. He holds Irish BUI Middleweight and American ABO Light-Middleweight belts too. 15 fights, 15 wins, 9 knockouts. He is climbing up the rankings well. Might have his title defence in Turner's Corss (home of Cork City FC) and if he gets a shot at a bigger one he hopes to have it in Cork. If he were a Dub I think RTE would be all over his jock. He had shamrock shaved into his head previously but he didn't on Saturday. Great guy.

Spoiler:

Also Scrubs is a very good show, started watching it recentyly, have only seen the first season or so but quite good.

WBO international title is not a world title.

Bernard Dunne was WBA world champ, there's no comparison between the two achievements and the level they were fighting at.

Thomond wrote:Yeah, he won the WBO international Middleweight title. He holds Irish BUI Middleweight and American ABO Light-Middleweight belts too. 15 fights, 15 wins, 9 knockouts. He is climbing up the rankings well. Might have his title defence in Turner's Corss (home of Cork City FC) and if he gets a shot at a bigger one he hopes to have it in Cork. If he were a Dub I think RTE would be all over his jock. He had shamrock shaved into his head previously but he didn't on Saturday. Great guy.

Spoiler:

Also Scrubs is a very good show, started watching it recentyly, have only seen the first season or so but quite good.

My advice would be to enjoy up until the third season. After that it just gets silly.

WBO is world boxing organisation is it not? Technically it is a world title. I never mentioned Bernard Dunne, don't know why you brought him up. This guy deserves soem attention, for his pro career so far, he has done pretty well in only 15 fights, he is on the rise.

Thomond wrote:I know Ulster fans complain about the media not liking them or barely mentioning them but I feel sorry for Spike O'Sullivan, goes out wins a world title in boxing and nobody knows anything about it. If it were Bernard Dunne or anyother boxer the media would have been after him weeks ago. Disappointing to see.

You mentioned Dunne Thomond.

WBO is the least credible of the 4 major boxing organisations and the international title isn't the same as the world title, its one of those new stepping stone belts. It would be below British/European/commonwealth level.

Not knocking the bloke, good luck to him..great to see Irish fighters do well but he's not a World champion, yet.

Isn't he trained by Steve Collins?

Thomond wrote:I know Ulster fans complain about the media not liking them or barely mentioning them but I feel sorry for Spike O'Sullivan, goes out wins a world title in boxing and nobody knows anything about it. If it were Bernard Dunne or anyother boxer the media would have been after him weeks ago. Disappointing to see.

He actually won the WBO INTERNATIONAL Title, not the World title, still a very good achievement The WBO have North American, Lationo, Oriental, Asia-Pacific, European-international ...etc

RANKINGS

The current WBO WORLD Champion at middleweight is Dmitry Pirog (Russia) who has 20 wins from 20 fights (15 ko)

So I did, this guy deserves more crddit though, as does Lee who is getting overshadowed a bit. He deserves some attention, although Lee did lose recently and is boxing mainly in America. Lee would be closer to hitting the big heights. Spike is on his way up though, fingers crossed he defends his title in Cork.

Appears I have got the wrong end of the stick on this one, made myself look like a right knobhead apologies.



Trained by brother of Steve and Roddy (not a boxer but reasonably famous) Collins, Paschal.

Boxing is stupid these days with all these silly titles Thomond, don't know what half of them are myself.... easy mistake to make.

Certainly a good win away from home and deserves some credit, but as you can see from the rankings he's someway off world level hence it hasn't generated much publicity.

It not because hes from Cork.... ....

Some of it is Rodders, the big shmoke guys generate all the publicity in individual sports. Andy Lee gets feic all either and he isn't a Corkonian.

I think Spike will rise up the ranks a bit and we will see him defending and going for more belts in a few years .Hopfully in Pairc Uí Chaoimh. Another promising Cork/Cuban boxer is Mike El Rebellio Perez. He is a heavyweight so is a while from making waves. But 18 wins of 18 fights, 12 KOs is a good start.

I prefer the term "Corkney" myself.

Thanks for the video Thomond. I've just got up again and attempted a yoghurt. Hopefully it'll settle my stomach.

Thank you, Cari, for using the original and best* spelling of yoghurt.



* - i.e. my preferred spelling.

Is there another spelling?

Afternoon all.

Sadly when my work PC was upgraded to Windows7 last week IT failed to install Flash. And I can't install it myself without an Admin password. So no youtube for me

Spotted a great typo down in the work cafe at lunch. They have a little board with this month's specials on it, and in keeping with the Olympics they're doing a couple of national "theme" days each week. They lited the countries on a card, with a flag beside each. So at some point we're having a British day, an Argentine day, a Spanish day, a Bulgarian day (?), etc. Except that on one line thay have a New Zealand flag, with "Spain" printed next to it (the Spanish flag and "Spain" appear further down).

Here's hoping there's a roast lamb lunch with pavlova dessert coming next week

Or a Kiwi burger with castanets in it.

Stag, more people spell it without the H these days.

I didn't realise there was more than one spelling of yoghurt. Question is how do you pronounce it: Yo-girt or Yah-gurt?

Thomond wrote:I didn't realise there was more than one spelling of yoghurt. Question is how do you pronounce it: Yo-girt or Yah-gurt?

SKI (showing my age )

Yog like 'bog' and then the 'ut' of 'gut'. That's how I'd say it.

Steve Wright is playing 'Boys Boys Boys' by Sabrina, a total blast from the past. I remember the video for that, it featured Sabrina and plenty of other women in a swimming pool bouncing around in bikinis. My mum was not impressed when that came on Top of the Pops. Funnily enough, she didn't approve of the video for Motley Crue's 'Girls Girls Girls' either.

Boys Boys Boys - what a video. I was at a party last weekend and that was on the music channel!!

Luckless in the video the bikins are WAY too small and they are literally spilling out of them!!

Stag - don't watch the video of "Girls on film" by Duran Duran or you might explode.

I was only saying on another thread, I was googling "le H Cup Photos" for the logo they use in France due to no alcohol advertising in the Heinken Cup.

I was instead greeted with photos of busty ladies (cupsize H)!! Made for awkward explaining to colleagues at work.

What's with the "writer" thing under everones name?

H-Cup jugs Staggy?! Jeysus, anything more than a handful is a waste, apparently...

I've only just noticed that, Mick.

Don't you believe it.

Ah the tales I could tell...

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:I've only just noticed that, Mick.

Yeah, coz they is quite un-obtrusive like

Glas a du wrote:Don't you believe it.

Ah the tales I could tell...

I’m puzzled but reticent to ask you to elaborate Glas…

Where did they go?

Blydi techies - there's no pipe and slippers emoticon to be had! The best I could do was this.

How long were they there? I probably wouldn't have noticed it they hadn't been pointed out.

EDIT: And boo! Where's my 'writer' badge? I've written two articles for the journal! TWO!

Certain people still have them....

Makes sense Thomond.

Hi.

Knocked the Cork trip on the head now. Going to go to a music festival with my wife instead. There's not much interest from the supporters in going to Cork, due to Biarritz in Aug and the trip to Bayonne.

What is the journal?

It's an offshoot of 606v2, Rory:

http://www.v2journal.com/

Rory_Gallagher wrote:What is the journal?

The sister site http://www.v2journal.com/

Thanks! I never knew it existed.

Kiwireddevil wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:What is the journal?

The sister site http://www.v2journal.com/

Kiwi, is that your new badge now?

Does that mean you are the main peanut in the Journal packet?

It has some great stuff written by people, I think that guy who wrote the preview article for Ireland got it bang on. I hear his review of the tour is also great

Thomond wrote:It has some great stuff written by people, I think that guy who wrote the preview article for Ireland got it bang on. I hear his review of the tour is also great

You sure it is only people writing?

nothing wrong with a wee bit of modesty, eh?

biltongbek wrote:

Kiwireddevil wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:What is the journal?

The sister site http://www.v2journal.com/

Kiwi, is that your new badge now?

Does that mean you are the main peanut in the Journal packet?

That's my new badge. The idea is that I focus on Journal stuff with Adam.

Thomond, Biltong, Glas etc, if you fancy writing yourself a blurb I've just remembered that we should probably be updating this: http://www.v2journal.com/the-v2-writing-team.html (pseudenoms are OK if that's your preference)

biltongbek wrote:

Thomond wrote:It has some great stuff written by people, I think that guy who wrote the preview article for Ireland got it bang on. I hear his review of the tour is also great

You sure it is only people writing?

nothing wrong with a wee bit of modesty, eh?

Did you hear of the Cork man with an inferiority complex? He though he was the same as everyone else.

Kiwireddevil wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

Kiwireddevil wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:What is the journal?

The sister site http://www.v2journal.com/

Kiwi, is that your new badge now?

Does that mean you are the main peanut in the Journal packet?

That's my new badge. The idea is that I focus on Journal stuff with Adam.

Thomond, Biltong, Glas etc, if you fancy writing yourself a blurb I've just remembered that we should probably be updating this: http://www.v2journal.com/the-v2-writing-team.html (pseudenoms are OK if that's your preference)

Understandable, it must keep you guys rather busy?

Kiwireddevil wrote:

biltongbek wrote:

Kiwireddevil wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:What is the journal?

The sister site http://www.v2journal.com/

Kiwi, is that your new badge now?

Does that mean you are the main peanut in the Journal packet?

That's my new badge. The idea is that I focus on Journal stuff with Adam.

Thomond, Biltong, Glas etc, if you fancy writing yourself a blurb I've just remembered that we should probably be updating this: http://www.v2journal.com/the-v2-writing-team.html (pseudenoms are OK if that's your preference)

Yeah will give it a go in a minute. Will PM it to you when done.

Thomond wrote:It has some great stuff written by people, I think that guy who wrote the preview article for Ireland got it bang on. I hear his review of the tour is also great

You got a link, to what I am guessing is your work?

We're all writers...aren't we? Then what are we doing here?!

Lucky - I wasn't aware of another spelling of yogut

Penfro - Ski still very much exists....it's just not very nice. I like Rachel's organic fruit ones myself.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

Thomond wrote:It has some great stuff written by people, I think that guy who wrote the preview article for Ireland got it bang on. I hear his review of the tour is also great

You got a link, to what I am guessing is your work?

The review isn't up on the site yet should be up in a few days hopefully. Preview is here but a bit redundant at this stage: http://v2journal.com/irelands-summer-tour.html