The Zone Virtual Sports Bar, Hamilton.

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Hello and welcome to the Zone Sports Bar, 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.

This week the pub has set up in Sky City Hamilton, where the Crusaders take on the Chiefs in the Super XV semi final.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Bradley Wiggins, Ernie Els, Irene van Dyk, Sonny Bill Williams and his newly capped All Black team mate Sam Cane.



Previous pub. https://www.606v2.com/t32740-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-bridgend

Kiwireddevil wrote:

Gibson wrote:

Mickado wrote:

Gibson wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:How's the Dam today, Gibbo?

Melting, Lucky. Hit 30 earlier and now it is heavy man. Just got back from a back ride and have had 2 litres of iced-water already. Still, musn't grumble.

Spoiler:

Mr Gibson.

Will you be joining the London contingent for their trip to the RDS for round 1 of the Leinster Cup?

Sorry, the HEINEKEN Cup, I keep calling it that!

Good chance of it Mick yeah. Be great to see the Chiefs in their 1st ever HC game also. And Asbos' fisog. I bet Hoog will shout for his Home team. In an Indian head-dress. And a big skirt.

Its a great aul comp all roysh. The Leinster Perpetual Trophy. Be even better when the others catch up.

Leinster could always apply for promotion to Super Rugby rather than waiting for the others Gibbo

Well Sarries play home games away. I spose we could too.

Whaadiya mean promotion???!!!

Lookin forward to seeing you next week pal. Be nice.

Gibson wrote:

Kiwireddevil wrote:

Gibson wrote:

Mickado wrote:

Gibson wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:How's the Dam today, Gibbo?

Melting, Lucky. Hit 30 earlier and now it is heavy man. Just got back from a back ride and have had 2 litres of iced-water already. Still, musn't grumble.

Spoiler:

Mr Gibson.

Will you be joining the London contingent for their trip to the RDS for round 1 of the Leinster Cup?

Sorry, the HEINEKEN Cup, I keep calling it that!

Good chance of it Mick yeah. Be great to see the Chiefs in their 1st ever HC game also. And Asbos' fisog. I bet Hoog will shout for his Home team. In an Indian head-dress. And a big skirt.

Its a great aul comp all roysh. The Leinster Perpetual Trophy. Be even better when the others catch up.

Leinster could always apply for promotion to Super Rugby rather than waiting for the others Gibbo

Well Sarries play home games away. I spose we could too.

Whaadiya mean promotion???!!!

Lookin forward to seeing you next week pal. Be nice.

Couldn't resist

Hey Mick, ya know what mate? I'd love to see them play in Clontarf. Enough of their players came thro and were based there.

I hope they keep this up with the Summer-friendlies and move em around.

Spread the love.

Our PR crowd are just brilliant really. Morkeshing geniuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G54lfxiid_w

Hey guys, really need some IT help. I tried to make a video file open with Windows Media Player, now everything is trying to open with it and obviously they can't. Anyone know how to fix it? Help is greatly appreciated.

MBTGOG wrote:Hey guys, really need some IT help. I tried to make a video file open with Windows Media Player, now everything is trying to open with it and obviously they can't. Anyone know how to fix it? Help is greatly appreciated.

Simple, Munsty. Use VLC. Pick just one video in yer catalog (Right-click -> Open With) and there is an option (choose default program) to make it the standard for all videos. Et voila. It plays everything. And plays it well.

I mean Gibbo it is trying to open Google Chrome in windows media player and Skype in Windows media player.

Hi all. Check out the Matt cartoon on the front of today's DT

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ news/matt



If Dublin got the games, would they be the O'lympics?

MBTGOG wrote:I mean Gibbo it is trying to open Google Chrome in windows media player and Skype in Windows media player.

Ok ok, you made it a default for every bleedin ting.

Hit the windows button at bottom-left. Gives you a right-hand side panel. Go into Default Programs -> Set Your Default Programs. Change it there. Un-check Windoze Meeeja Player to stop it playing everything - specially htmls and HTTP's.

Undo what ya done.

WMP is a load of shoite. Never use it, even to play vids. You USE GOOGLE Chrome? Man. They own you.

EDIT: I just set WMP as default for everything it can handle and all is ok with SKYPE & Firefox yada yada. Hmmmm... I know - reboot!

I'll check it out what could have happened here.

Clever lad. Well done.

VLC is the king of media players. Gibbo's spot on.

Plays every type of video and audio file much better.

Afternoon pub.

Just got back from a cheeky trip to Chester, drank some nice ale thanks to reccomends from Munsty & Rava, had lovely weather to soak up the 2000 years of history, and didn't have to trail round all the shops as I took the precaution of booking the trip through Carlsberg...

Spoiler:

Mickado wrote:

Gibson wrote:

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:How's the Dam today, Gibbo?

Melting, Lucky. Hit 30 earlier and now it is heavy man. Just got back from a back ride and have had 2 litres of iced-water already. Still, musn't grumble.

Spoiler:

Mr Gibson.

Will you be joining the London contingent for their trip to the RDS for round 1 of the Leinster Cup?

Sorry, the HEINEKEN Cup, I keep calling it that!

Cheeky. Everyone know that Exeter are going to win it this year

I really want to watch Quins vs Leinster. We'd lose (probably) but it'd be a cracking game

PJHolybloke wrote:Afternoon pub.

Just got back from a cheeky trip to Chester, drank some nice ale thanks to reccomends from Munsty & Rava, had lovely weather to soak up the 2000 years of history, and didn't have to trail round all the shops as I took the precaution of booking the trip through Carlsberg...

Spoiler:

I bet you brought that apparatus home PJ.

She looks lovely, btw way bro.

Gibson wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:Afternoon pub.

Just got back from a cheeky trip to Chester, drank some nice ale thanks to reccomends from Munsty & Rava, had lovely weather to soak up the 2000 years of history, and didn't have to trail round all the shops as I took the precaution of booking the trip through Carlsberg...

Spoiler:

I bet you brought that apparatus home PJ.

She looks lovely, btw way bro.

I've one of those in the bedroom

Glad you had a good time PJ. I knew the pub wouldn't disappoint

Mickado, any truth in the rumour that Leinster only agreed to that game in Tallafornia once the learned you had moved away from the area? .....

It's the opposite Rav, they found out I moved away and quickly set the wheels in motion to get a friendly out there so as capitalise on my groundwork before the locals had forgotten about me.



CJ, a Quins Leinster game would be cracking, two teams who like to throw it around

Evening pub

Happy birthday to Kia Rose and Portnoy who are both celebrating today

Looking forward to the opening ceremony this evening though I'm not sure I'll sit through the entire 2 hours of build up. We'll see. Might have to nip out and get something suitable to drink. Probably steal Dreamer's idea and crack open the Pimms.

Thanks for the help Gibbo, but that still didn't work.

littleswannygirl wrote:Evening pub

Happy birthday to Kia Rose and Portnoy who are both celebrating today

Looking forward to the opening ceremony this evening though I'm not sure I'll sit through the entire 2 hours of build up. We'll see. Might have to nip out and get something suitable to drink. Probably steal Dreamer's idea and crack open the Pimms.

Great shout that, swanny, hippy burpday to Kia and the mad old P

Evenin' all - one for the wall:

https://www.606v2.com/t33062-your-favourite-gold-medal-winning-performance#1426462

Damn MOD's changing the set up of the page and knocking Rugby down to 4th. I keep clicking on the damn golf

Evening all.

Happy Birthday Kia Rose and Portnoy

It's also Don Alfonso's birthday. He frequented the old Pubs.

Penblwydd hapus to all three, then!

Rava wrote:

Gibson wrote:

PJHolybloke wrote:Afternoon pub.

Just got back from a cheeky trip to Chester, drank some nice ale thanks to reccomends from Munsty & Rava, had lovely weather to soak up the 2000 years of history, and didn't have to trail round all the shops as I took the precaution of booking the trip through Carlsberg...

Spoiler:

I bet you brought that apparatus home PJ.

She looks lovely, btw way bro.

I've one of those in the bedroom

Glad you had a good time PJ. I knew the pub wouldn't disappoint

The pair of yous is dorty, twisted-minded reprobates, but I do love you for those qualities alone, nevermind the rest of them.

Many happy returns to KiaRose ... and... err... Portus the curmudgeonly Tigger; 'spose.

Evening pub frequenters

Many happy returns to those with birthdays.

No, I'm not watching the blimpics because I'm up early again tomorrow doing more overtime. Wonder what interesting characters I will meet early tomorrow morning? Last week I met a still drunk/wired youngster on his way home to St Mellons* from a party in town.

*A suburb of Cardiff possibly named after a t*t man

Evening Cari nice one on the overtime, take it while it's available!

Rava, so it is Don's birthday too! for him.

That's what I'm doing Swanny. Been working really hard this month. (Un)fortunately the big project is now over and tomorrow's the last day of OT available for a while, but it's all going on trips away, so it'll help

So here we go with the OC. Working in central London you can feel the buzz about the Olympics buildiing.

Feic, I would be envious if Paris was hosting this.

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:So here we go with the OC. Working in central London you can feel the buzz about the Olympics buildiing.

Feic, I would be envious if Paris was hosting this.

This was the biggest surprise for me in the Olympic opening ceremony;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO6bAPOH3Zs

Clip featured prominently in the little Northern Ireland section at the start. On twitter the ummm, was quick to point out Noel Mannion is a Connacht man

Happy birthday to Kia, the Don and Portnoys

Mon Dieu, what a show Danny Boyle is putting on.

Should I be watching?

Has to be said. That first bit with fields and stuff didn't do anything for me. They've pulled it right out of the bag now though. Well in Mr Boyle.

Oh there's Daniel Craig as Bond, escorting the actual queen. Wow!

Rava wrote:Should I be watching?

If you like Opening Cermonies, I mean it is what it is. It is better than most of these things usually are. Very pomp and circumstance.

It's quite wacky actually.

The Queen just parachuted into the Stadium to the James Bond theme tune. Or maybe it was Daniel Craig. It's all such a blur right now.

I'm watching

What an entrance by the Queen and Big Phil

Loved the start that recognised and celebrated all elements of the UK, but without wishing to come across as xenophobic; what's with the feckin French gibberish?

There's a LOT of patriotism flowing around London right now, evidently.

Thinking back to RWC 2011 (being the MTV generation means that as far back as I can remember at all. Even thats a struggle ) it was more about the sport itself and not the hosts as much. This is more about the host country than the Olympics themselves. It's more a celebration of Britain, of Britains history, than something symbolising the ethos of the Games themselves. Is it normally like this with Olympic opening ceremonies? I honestly can't remember. These things rarely stick in my mind.

And this one, to be fair to Danny Boyle, will. Especially the bit with Noel Mannion

It's just so....different. Everyone in the pub thinks it's fantastic.

It's certainly unique!

Hound_of_Harrow wrote:It's just so....different. Everyone in the pub thinks it's fantastic.

Too many

A host of Mary Poppins to help the medicine go down.

You've got to say; if you're going to celebrate anything about Britain it's the NHS. So it's great that Boyle did that.

I think its been really been different so far. They copied no one. Show's confidence. Good on ya Lahndaaan!

Notch wrote:You've got to say; if you're going to celebrate anything about Britain it's the NHS. So it's great that Boyle did that.

Something for Romney & the US to think about?

Nah, he's having a laff. There's not that many beds in the NHS!

Diane Abbott (Labour MP) tweeting that David Cameron wanted the section devoted to the NHS cut? Could be spurious... but not surprising if true.

He needn't worry. With all of the Poppinses and Childcatchers, that one will have gone over the heads of most of the international audience!

The Iconic Mr Bean. Everyone's favourite Johnny Englishman

Ronan Attkinson as Mr Bean. Brilliant