The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Sea of Tranquility, Luna

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Hello and 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 Pub has made its way to the Moon, in honour of the late Neil Armstrong. One small step for man ...

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Lance Armstrong in yellow, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin moonwalking, or the shot of Joe Ansbro breaking the line.



Last pub: https://www.606v2.com/t33620p1000-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-mendoza#1499265

Precisely Lucky. The joy of rugby hasn't been coached out of them.

Ha, now that's I think the one card game I don't know how to play. I bet I'd love it though, the whole poker face thing, I'd most likely be up against my eldest brother-in-law who is like a drooling dog when he has a good hand!

How's the cough now?

Final NRL Table and finals matches for next week.
St George finished in 9th place having just beaten Parramatta 29-8.

https://www.606v2.com/t27604-2012-nrl-premiership-results-and-table#1130392

Those Gogs can pen a decent tune:

https://youtu.be/J4eSGO2XeiA

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:Ha, now that's I think the one card game I don't know how to play. I bet I'd love it though, the whole poker face thing, I'd most likely be up against my eldest brother-in-law who is like a drooling dog when he has a good hand!

How's the cough now?

No real change yet, last night my flatmate was threatening to frogmarch me to the doctor again today. Basically I have a long coughing fit every hour or so, and some of them make me start choking for air and go bright red.

I'm an ok poker player, I managed to win the last tournament we had at work.

Didn't I hear you're 'naturalised' now, Pete? How does that feel?

Kiwi when you get the coughing fits do you have the use of an inhaler?
Should help a bit. I would ask the doc for a prescription.

You need to be careful with the inhalers, Rava. Have you seen The Hand that Rocks the Cradle?

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:Didn't I hear you're 'naturalised' now, Pete? How does that feel?

Not yet. End of November, so I still have time to develop a pommie accent .

Rav, I'll have to look into the inhaler idea. After a bit of time trawling through various "symptoms for hypochondriacs" sites I have suspicions about it being whooping cough.

Did you have the cough in France?

Have you not been to the doctor yet Pete?

If you think it's whooping cough you better get to the doc.
My sister had a cough recently which sounds similar. Doc gave her the anti-biotics and an inhaler. Sorted in no time.

Pete, aren't you vaccinated against whooping cough? It's treated with antibiotics anyway

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:You need to be careful with the inhalers, Rava. Have you seen The Hand that Rocks the Cradle?

Kiwi should be careful not to win too much at poker then

If you have a chronic cough that is affecting your daily life, you've got to go to a doctor, Pete. Just to be safe and they can fix it pretty quickly probably

Says a soon-to-be GP

littleswannygirl wrote:Have you not been to the doctor yet Pete?

I got given an antibiotics prescription on Wed. But I saw the doc in the morning (which is usually better coughwise than afternoon) and I think the doc thought I was being a bit drama queen. If it is whooping cough the antibiotics should kill off the bacteria, but the cough lasts until the damaged cilia in the lungs grows back.

I thought I had been vaccinated, though the vaccination program in NZ had issues back in the day. Back in primary school my entire class got measles, and they worked out it we'd all received vaccine from the same batch in the late 70s

Screw that, I have no wish to be a GP!

ChequeredJersey wrote:Screw that, I have no wish to be a GP!

I'm sure you've mentioned it before CJ, but i cant remember, have you decided what you're going to specialise in?

Ah, at least you've been Pete. We'll stop ganging up on you now! Hopefully the antib's will kick in soon.

Ok, I gotta go see my mum. Not going to be a particularly pleasant drive, the weather is pants

Have a good day/evening all

Hospital medicine, currently Neuro is the most attractive, but Paeds and some other bits look good too. Won't know till I've tried a few things

'Come Outside' Program starting on CBeebies now entitled 'useful holes'

ChequeredJersey wrote:Hospital medicine, currently Neuro is the most attractive, but Paeds and some other bits look good too. Won't know till I've tried a few things

The idea of a doc trying a few things fills me with confidence

ChequeredJersey wrote:Paeds and some other bits look good too.

You really need to keep that to yourself...

I'm not a doctor, you know we have to learn this stuff sometime right?

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:

ChequeredJersey wrote:Paeds and some oth

er bits look good too.

You really need to keep that to yourself...

I wondered who'd be the first to make a joke on that

Is that what you say when you land in Thailand?

ChequeredJersey wrote:I'm not a doctor, you know we have to learn this stuff sometime right?

Of course I know that. The should indicate I was joking.

If you ever meet Rava, that is exactly what he looks like.

Gold for Aled Davies in the discus to add to his shot put Bronze. Boooom yeah!

just making sure Rava. Not sure some of my patients ever worked out I wasn't a doctor, must have thought the standard of physicians in the NHS was going to pot!

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:If you ever meet Rava, that is exactly what he looks like.

with a beard though.

Rava, mate, I hate to tell you mate, but it looks like you've got jaundice. Any pain in the tummy or excessive drinking?

ChequeredJersey wrote:Rava, mate, I hate to tell you mate, but it looks like you've got jaundice. Any pain in the tummy or excessive drinking?

Excessive drinking and a pain in the neck, Doc

Ah Rava, that's a normal physiological reaction to exposure to AWOP, no worries it'll improve with a course of watching domestic rugby

AWOP is good value, though.

Yeah I do actually rather like the blighter

Whats happened to AWOP?

Nothing to my knowledge

ChequeredJersey wrote:Nothing to my knowledge

He'll be back in a few days. Got a bit carried away on Friday night.

AWOP gets a little excited at times but i like him. He can be dead funny

Does anyone know if the 23 man squads are coming into international rugby?

MBTGOG wrote:Does anyone know if the 23 man squads are coming into international rugby?

I think so

6N time I think I heard. Mayo bottlingit v Dublin. Will end in a draw to boost the GAA coffers though. Mark it.

Oh why? I believe that is a terrible decision.

23 men? Why would you say that? I would have thought it ends any chance of uncontested scrums.


GAA and Mayo did their best to turn it into a replay but Mayo take it. They will get killed by Donegal.

It helps player safety a lot, and would stop the eventuality you saw when England absolutely massacred your scrum in last year's 6N though MGTGOG!

Thomond wrote:23 men? Why would you say that? I would have thought it ends any chance of uncontested scrums.


GAA and Mayo did their best to turn it into a replay but Mayo take it. They will get killed by Donegal.

Big win for Mayo. I'd like to see Donegal win. They played some cracking stuff in their semi.

I haven't seen any uncontested scrums at international level for a long time.

Do not mention that game again Munsty. You think Deccie is clueless. Counihan is as bad,. How you get to the top of GAA management and don't know how to beat a blanket defence I don't know. Two ways to do it. Low and fast with guys running off or pass and move while drawing the man like in rugby. Donegal were superb but that was diabolical from Cork. Counihan has had the best squad in the country for 3 years and has only won AI that is aboslutely pathetic.


On the rugby side, I don't think it will make much of a difference either way to be honest.