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 Tommy Bowe photo on the bar. That's a banning offence

So pull up a chair....what'll it be?

mickyt wrote:Hi all (3rd time saying hello the last 3 days. see looking to see if anyone will reply)

Bored silly here for some reason. just restless.

watching the tennis myself now while trying to copy some stuff onto a network drive.. taking an age as it's via ethernet.

Ethernet should be quick. Wired or wireless ?

Ulster Rugby have just posted this on FB and I thought I would share it with you. Trimble's try agains the Saints. It really was a fabulous try. Look out for one great bit of clearing out by BJ half way through the clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjKPGOSShQg&feature=relmfu

Hi all quick stop: had a manic day, looks like my fraud is going to get solicitors involved due to natwests incompitentce. And someone who admitted hiting and scratching my car has now said they didn't do it and is refusing to pay me!! Rant over!!

Passed the 1st part of my med gases, yay, and now having a to relax

prop_lyd wrote:Hi all quick stop: had a manic day, looks like my fraud is going to get solicitors involved due to natwests incompitentce. And someone who admitted hiting and scratching my car has now said they didn't do it and is refusing to pay me!! Rant over!!

Passed the 1st part of my med gases, yay, and now having a to relax

Hi Prop. Shame about the car

Well done with the Med Gases

Cheers Rava!! Up my sister's to cool off at the moment!! Hoping I can get someone to fix it on the cheap!!

Morning folks


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Morning hughie, did you rudey poo the bed again? Bit early for , so I'll just have a pls?

Morning lads. Tae and a shmoke for me, too early for food.

"another day, another dollar"

Never understood this one, I wouldn't fancy working for a dollar a day, poor wages AND you only end up with about 80c in Europeans. Mug...

Julia by the Beatles just came on shuffle. Hidden gem of a song.

Bore da / good morning all.

I love it when the shuffle throws up an overlooked pearl of a song like that.

I found out this morning that the alarm on my new phone won't go off when the phone's turned off, unlike others I've had. So I woke up an hour later than usual and was running around like a blue-bothered fly trying to get ready for work. But I'm here and drinking tea, so all is well

There's nothing quite like the panic of waking up with no alarm going off. I must have woken up 10 times Before mine this morning. Crepe!

Oh man!!

Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart

Tune!!

I like your iPod's taste in music!

Hadn't listened to that one in a while. Just thinking how much I loved all of their songs but never understood a bloody thing they were saying!!!

Lack of understanding - the vaccines

Another serious tune.

Their lyrics were quite dense, weren't they. On 'Motorcycle Emptiness' I thought some of what he was singing was French.

Big time, I thought he had a speech impediment for a while, then after months of intensive Manics training my ear became tuned into him. Little baby nothing still leaves me confused.

"eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower"

Eh, say that again?!?

If James Dean Bradfield was writing the lyrics as well at the tunes they might flow a bit more naturally. But then they wouldn't be half the band they are.

Bore da/Good morning all, hope everyone's well today!

I love the Manics, need to get myself some more of their stuff, when my ipod died a few years back and I had a problem with itunes on my laptop I lost a load of songs

Very true. The only Manics song I can think of that he wrote music and lyrics was Ocean Spray. Which wasn’t bad, but it was forgettable when compared to the rest. Didn’t he come out a few years ago and say that he never understood any of the lyrics that Nicky or Richie wrote? I think our resident Manics guru and former editor of their fanzine would know for sure…

Thinking about it, to put Motorcycle emptiness (as just one example), which is a poem by all accounts, to music and make it sound like a proper PROPER rock song, some achievement. It certainly wasn’t rock by numbers, Kings of Leon be warned!

Kia ora, mauri ora all.

Another nice morning here, though the Tube actually felt hotter than yesterday - joys of heat being retained underground ...

What happened to Kings of Leon? Their first album was cracking, proper Southern rock, but after a while they decided to go stadium. Fair play to them I suppose, they're raking it in.

One for the wall (not much of an article, really):

https://www.606v2.com/t8048-mike-phillips-s-non-punishment#223376

Ah Kiwi, i'd say the tube is cruel on a day like this! Not good pal!

Lucko - that's exactly it, they decided to write music for the masses and make money. It's garbage but people like it. That being said, any KoL fans i know hate the new stuff, so who is buying it!

Lucky - I've merged that with the Phillips returns to Wales squad article

Right, reckon I'd best actually get on with some work now....

Okay, Dreamer - I wondered where it'd gone!

Housewives are buying their records now, Mickado. Housewives and people who don't really care about music. That's my take on it, anyway.

I do own 3 of their albums. Couldn't bring myself to go near the latest one though ...

I've got the first three, Kiwi. The first two are great.

Morning all please. In Belfast today and the sun is shining although I am placed in the corner of this building furthest away from it. Still not warm enough for June though. I'm a bit envious of the weather you are having Kiwi.

Mickado, the Kings of Leon original fans are being replaced by Kings of Leon new fans (People like me with little taste in music ).

I watched a good programme last night called Times of Their Lives on Sky Sports 1! It was a discussion by John Jefferies, Craig Chalmers and Gavin Hastings about the lead up to the 1990 Grand Slam winning game against England. Very enjoyable.

Please don't start sending me loads of spam emails now I've called you a housewife, Rava!

Mickado wrote:Very true. The only Manics song I can think of that he wrote music and lyrics was Ocean Spray. Which wasn’t bad, but it was forgettable when compared to the rest. Didn’t he come out a few years ago and say that he never understood any of the lyrics that Nicky or Richie wrote? I think our resident Manics guru and former editor of their fanzine would know for sure…

Thinking about it, to put Motorcycle emptiness (as just one example), which is a poem by all accounts, to music and make it sound like a proper PROPER rock song, some achievement. It certainly wasn’t rock by numbers, Kings of Leon be warned!

Mickado - it's not so much he didn't really understand them, he just didn't give as much thought to them in the same way Nick/Rich did I think. When you consider that JDB was just given reams of lyrics which he then wrote some class tunes tunes to, it shows what an underrated fine musician he is. Richie had no idea about music or constructing songs either, so you can imagine the lyrics JDB had to work through to get a tune, although that's where Nicky came in lyrically, he simplified Richie's ramblings a bit. JDB's not a lyricist though, and he's pretty much admitted that himself.

Lucky - disagree about Gold Against The Soul - way too polished and over produced. Also has some of the worst Manics lyrics, there is only one or two great tracks on it really.

Morning All BTW

Balls. I just realised you were on about KOL not MSP Lucky

Morning Cari. I don't think I mentioned Gold Against the Soul...

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Morning Cari. I don't think I mentioned Gold Against the Soul...

I know I effed up your posts. I think you were on about the first two KOL albums not Manics?

Ah feck it...I'm going out and coming back. Not with it today.

Crossed wires, by the looks of it! But Gold Against the Soul isn't great. They more than made up for its excesses with The Holy Bible, though. Their finest hour, for me.

Don't go, Cari - your next coffee's on me

Rav, don’t get me wrong. The KoL were never my cuppan tae, but I know some people who hate the new stuff!

Agree with you Cari about Gold against the soul. La tristessa durera and from despair to where are classics, but there’s some pretty crep numbers on there too!

My most favouritist album would be Everything must go, which isn’t for the purists I suppose. But it’s the best of Richie and Nicky on the same album, not many of them had that balance. Interiors is, to most, a throwaway song. But it’s got a cracking hook, a cracking chorus and probably JDB’s best scream!

“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT YOU HAAAAAAVE!!!!!!!”

Cheers Lucky

Mickado - it really pished me off when EMG came out and the Richeyphiles were bleating about how it shouldn't have been made, and it was rubbish - and yet there they all were at every gig...As an "old" fan myself I loved it, and I'm glad that they went in the direction they did. Apparently Richie's plan for the next album after THB was "...Pantera meets Nine Inch Nails"

That's a cracking album, too. 'Kevin Carter' and 'No Surface, All Feeling' are great songs. They demand to be played loud.

Ooooooo oooooo, My Sex is on Firrrrre!!

Jeypurs! That’s a quaint combo isn’t it!

EGM doesn’t have a bad song on it, that’s why it’s right up there in my favourite album list.

Rava wrote:Ooooooo oooooo, My Sex is on Firrrrre!!

That'll be thrush Rava. You'd better get that seen to.

Actually I never understand that bloody lyric. I mean if he sang "woooooaaah, my socks are on fire" I'd get it.

Oh did I ever tell you about the time me and my mates were busking in town, it was about 6 years ago, we were at the height of our Manics obsession and we were playing in temple bar. The was a chap standing listening to us who was the spitting image of Richie, when we finished a song I turned to the lads and said “jeysus, it’s yer man the spit of…” and the both interrupted with “RICHIE!!”. So one of them shouted over “hey Richie!” and he literally ran away. We know it wasn’t him, kinda… but still.

Mickado - yeah you told me that story in Kielys. I must've sounded a right kn0b myself though on about those I'd met...

Canesten Cream - always works

It's 'this sex is on fire,' isn't it? I actually liked that song when it came out, but talk about overkill, it was everywhere. And then when that bloke sang it on the X Factor, that was the last straw.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:It's 'this sex is on fire,' isn't it? I actually liked that song when it came out, but talk about overkill, it was everywhere. And then when that bloke sang it on the X Factor, that was the last straw.

Yeah, and Leinster playing it for a certain player is overkill an' all....

I actually prefer "Closer" and "Use Somebody" from that KOL album.

Oops, I did tell ya. Nah you didn’t sound like a knob, I was really interested.

Leinster don’t play Sexton’s on fire, the crowd sing it sometimes though. Amanda reckons they should play “sexy boy” by Air when he scores, not sure she gets it though, ya know…?

Don't they? Ah must've been the banner that I've seen...I just assumed at the RDS they played the chorus when he kicks a score or something. That would get on his jubblies to be fair. Sexy boy...? Bless...I don't see it myself

Did you enjoy the DVD Mickado? Did you spot Gibbo? That media hoor got on twice.

I actually only got around to watching the first disc so haven't seen your Sky Sports debut! I'll take a screen shot and put it up on FB though, you'll be famous!!

Mickado wrote:I actually only got around to watching the first disc so haven't seen your Sky Sports debut! I'll take a screen shot and put it up on FB though, you'll be famous!!

I'm not in it thankfully - must've been bent down doing something...Gibbo's fizzog's there for all to see anyway - especially after D'Arcy's try.

Morning all!! Hoping for a better day today compared to how yesterday finished!!

Squash followed by gym and finishing it off with a local punk gig so that should help!!