The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

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 collage of great current hookers pictures on the bar. We've got Tincu, Ledesma, Ford, Best, Thompson and Bennett all in action. Graffiti's a banning offence

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




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Oh, never realised you became a moderator Munsty

The lunatics are taking over the asylum!

Im all good Micky - you were away or something were you? In the Uk was it?

Mark Clark.

I'll take that as a compliment Micky.

A guy who I have made good friends with over the summer has his leaving do tonight (he's going to London for a masters). I know this is university life and the turnover is high but he has been an important friend to me.

He will be back often enough due to having a girlfriend up here but it's still a little weird.

MBTGOG wrote:
You know when you genuinely come up with a joke, no one ever believes you. Where do they think jokes originate?



Mobile Phone companies make up the jokes.

Reposted this to the new pub.

Ah brilliant. I’ve found a way to get all of the TV shows I have downloaded sorted and ordered by some nifty software.
Now instead of double clicking them in windows explorer to play them they’ll be laid out in a lickable menu with proper DVD art in the background, proper episode names, proper summary of each episode etc.

It’s the little things in life…

You'll still stay in touch with him though won't you, Munsty?

luckless_pedestrian wrote:You'll still stay in touch with him though won't you, Munsty?

Send him letters like?

luckless_pedestrian wrote:You'll still stay in touch with him though won't you, Munsty?

I will do. I think I said it on a similar discussion before but it's something I've struggled with in the past but just need to get past that little bit.

Tech savy people - is it worth buying box sets of DVDs or will they be obsolete like Video Cassettes are now.



Munsty I feel for you. I've had a serious amount of that in the last 12 months. Really only made my peace with it all this summer.

Letters? Pfft! Just write your message on a piece of paper, take a photo of yourself holding it and text him the photo.

MBTGOG wrote:

luckless_pedestrian wrote:You'll still stay in touch with him though won't you, Munsty?

I will do. I think I said it on a similar discussion before but it's something I've struggled with in the past but just need to get past that little bit.

Why don't you send him a nice letter with some doodles?

Or carrier pidgeons. How would you react if this pigeon wearing goggles and carrying a satchel chased you all over trying to deliver a letter.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Letters? Pfft! Just write your message on a piece of paper, take a photo of yourself holding it and text him the photo.

Lucky, no, no, no, the written word must be placed in an empty glass bottle and lobbed into the seas

Yeh Stag, I was over the UK for a band competition last weekend is all.

we finished our two year program with a competition in stafford.

spent in total about 19 hours of the weekend on buses, 6.5 hours on buses.

about 7 hours in service station stop off areas (which are excellent by the by)

and the rest on the floor of a crummy hall. And yet it was just a perfect weekend to send off members that are leaving and as well as the show we have been slaving over.

red_stag wrote:Or carrier pidgeons.

Carrier pigeons can't write?

Paper aeroplane?

Thats cool Micky.



I'm about to start an extermely busy year with work and a new university course.

red_stag wrote:Tech savy people - is it worth buying box sets of DVDs or will they be obsolete like Video Cassettes are now.



Munsty I feel for you. I've had a serious amount of that in the last 12 months. Really only made my peace with it all this summer.

Mate, I haven’t bought a DVD in ages, I download everything.

You can pick up a media center for about 100 quid, store all the stuff you’ve downloaded on it and play it through your TV in HD quality.

I’m going down a slightly more elaborate route and buying a PC to use exclusively on the TV, it has media software on it so you browse your media library on the screen rather than on your bookshelf at home. And it looks pretty gorgeous!

Check it out:

Spoiler:

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:

luckless_pedestrian wrote:You'll still stay in touch with him though won't you, Munsty?

I will do. I think I said it on a similar discussion before but it's something I've struggled with in the past but just need to get past that little bit.

Why don't you send him a nice letter with some doodles?

Sending him a book actually

Tee hee

red_stag wrote:Tech savy people - is it worth buying box sets of DVDs or will they be obsolete like Video Cassettes are now.



Munsty I feel for you. I've had a serious amount of that in the last 12 months. Really only made my peace with it all this summer.

How, if you don't mind me asking?

Has anyone in here read Trinity by Leon Uris?

Ok the image is too big to be shown on here, but have a look on google images at "XBMC Aeon". Epic.

Can't say I have, Munsty.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Paper aeroplane?

Lucky, perhaps if he's a special friend, a French letter?

Munsty, when I got back from Ghana basically all my friends had gone. Cork, Dublin and UK. I had barely any of my close friends left about and I was just literally doing nothing. I eventually made a point of actively making an effort to meet with them and realised its not that hard to keep in touch.



Now I know I am more busy between my job, my uni and the time I want to spend refereeing. I'm very conscious about making the time to keep in touch and because I have to be time conscious its easier to appreciate when I see them.

Stag - good on you I say. I'm finding it really difficult to do at the minute, have done since Uni really. All of my friends are dotted all over the UK or abroad, and a lot of the people who lived in Cardiff when I first moved here have gone as well. I really need to start putting the effort in more to meet up and keep in touch. It doesn't take much, I can't understand why sometimes I find it so difficult.

Munsty - nope sorry, I've not read that book.

To be fair Dreamer, it does actually take much when you're busy. But its worth it and its a way of relaxing.



For example next weekend; I'll finish work at 5.30, then get the train from Limerick to Dublin, have a beer and a pizza with my friend living up there. Saturday morning I'll go to university and head back down to Limerick as my friend from the UK is over for his brothers birthday. I've already rang the Munster Referees Association to say I can't referee that weekend.



Its a lot of effort but all worth it. Thats making time for two friends I don't usually see when it would be easier but less enjoyable to only committ to seeing one of them.

I'm about half way through it and even though it might be different once I've finished it, it is one of the best best books I've ever read. Anyone interested in Irish history or wanting to gain an understanding will love it.

red_stag wrote:To be fair Dreamer, it does actually take much when you're busy. But its worth it and its a way of relaxing.



For example next weekend; I'll finish work at 5.30, then get the train from Limerick to Dublin, have a beer and a pizza with my friend living up there. Saturday morning I'll go to university and head back down to Limerick as my friend from the UK is over for his brothers birthday. I've already rang the Munster Referees Association to say I can't referee that weekend.



Its a lot of effort but all worth it. Thats making time for two friends I don't usually see when it would be easier but less enjoyable to only committ to seeing one of them.

That's me by the by. Not sure why he gave me anonymity.

ah yeah but I'm never all that busy, although that'll be changing a bit as of Monday when I start my Welsh course.

Tis really good that you're doing it though

MBTGOG wrote:I'm about half way through it and even though it might be different once I've finished it, it is one of the best best books I've ever read. Anyone interested in Irish history or wanting to gain an understanding will love it.

nice one Munsty, I shall make a note of it then, and add it to my ever growing to read pile

I was conscious you didn't invite any of the others Munsty



Anyone have any plans for Arthurs Day. Personally I'm not celebrating it.

I'm going to Oktoberfest in Dublin. There won't be a pint of to be seen.

Bikkies,

Isn't that a bit...unsanitary...?

And unpleasant?

Having to lick the screen an all like!


On the subject of DVDs becoming obselete.

I help with reading at my kids primary school and today the story mentioned a Video player.

The kids laughed!

I am annoyed in a way that some of my best videos became obsolete once of the video recorder went and the DVD came in. But hey, life is always moving.

... except when it comes to methods of communication!

Yea it is a pain isn't it Munsty. Thats what always has me reluctant to buy box sets; that rather than having them for years I'll get at most a decade out of them before its all digital.

I hear smoke signals are coming back into fashion.

They still sell video recorders you know. I still have some amazing video's but can only watching them on the vcr at home now. I love them.

Me either Stag. Its just an advertising scam. Ah sure...

Munsty,
Trinity by Leon Uris is a Masterpiece. A book you will read again and again in your life. I have.

I'd imagine every day is Guinness Day for you Gibbo?



I have friends headed out tonight. I'm gonna take it easy, cook something nice and watch a movie with herself.



Tomorrow is Friday!!

Gibson wrote:Munsty,
Trinity by Leon Uris is a Masterpiece. A book you will read again and again in your life. I have.

I really think I might do. It's having a real effect on me.

Does it take a side Munsty or is it impartial?

Takes a side but doesn't seem to be massively unfair.

Thats ok. Normally I find the whole Catholic Protestant thing to be a bit heavy and impartial.