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

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

Thanks Dreamer. Mark.

Nite all

Beeeyonnnceeee on at Glasto! So hot.
Bit like Paddy Wallace's hands.

Predictable choreography one has to say. Much like the Leinster backline...

WillyGilly wrote:Predictable choreography one has to say. Much like the Leinster backline...

Phhoking brilliant Willy.

Up at the craic of dawn, but I've got nobody to share a joke with.

No one would have laughed anyway, Glas.

Bore da / good morning all. Should be another scorcher, but with heavy rain and thunderstorms forecast for later. I like thunderstorms.

England gave the Baby Blacks a scare, didn't they?

Also, I inhaled a fly on the cycle to work this morning.

Morning all, UP THE DUBS!

2 Leinster finals in 2 weekends, And I'll be away for both of them! Gibbo will have to point out a good Irish pub in the Dam for me!!

Morning all,

http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/rugby/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport?mobile-redirect=false
http://sport.scotsman.com/rugby
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/rugbynation/
http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/rugby

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=80
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union




Mick that was never a free for Dublin in the last minute

It was Hughie. The camera’s don’t show the pulling and dragging that went before the free was given. It was clear as day in the stadium.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Also, I inhaled a fly on the cycle to work this morning.

I hate it when that happens - nevermind, Lucky, you could always wash it down with these: &

Morning all, please.

Mick WAS it really a free? Tell the truth now.

Father-in-law quite ill at the minute. Praying he pulls through.

Morning

Sorry to hear about your FIL Rava. Hope he gets well soon.

Mickado - that's the one frustrating thing about listening to the GAA on the radio sometimes I didn't see the foul on Bernie.

Reading the papers this morning, I came across this...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2008414/Is-internet-bringing-dark-How-technology-changing-personalities--worse.html

Mickado wrote:It was Hughie. The camera’s don’t show the pulling and dragging that went before the free was given. It was clear as day in the stadium.

If you actually believe that mick ill take your word for it, but from what I've seen it wasn't a free

Article is interesting Cari, some similarities in here from time to time.

Well, things happen when you’re watching a game live in the stadium and you only get to see them once, like rugby they don’t show contentious decisions on the big screen usually. And what I saw was a cross field ball played into space, once the ball was kicked I watched Brogan (he was the only one going to get near it), he started off apace and slowed up with his arm trailing behind him, I saw it as him being dragged back, if he wasn’t dragged back he would have won possession and I’m sure he would be confident of scoring in that position without the benefit of a free kick so why would he look for the free if there was none.

Sorry to hear about your father in law Rav

Its a very very good article Cari and very true too. I certainly am more blunt here than I would be in real life.

Mickado - so anyway, how was Bernie lookin'?

Staggy - I was interested in what it says about celebs and Twitter. I was actually saying on the off topic thread about Twitter - a lot of celebrities seem to use it to have slanging matches which would be better off unpublished. I suppose seeing something in the written word (as opposed to someone saying it to your face) has more impact and therefore reaction from the other person.

I don't know if I said it in here Cari but I mentioned it to Hobo and Luckless alright. In the last few weeks I've been writing a lot about 606 and how through social networking we are seeing a new type of support emerge and detailing the type of different people who appear on these forums. Kind of like Facebooks meets Fever Pitch. Some of the stuff seems a bit mad when I read back over it.

“society is becoming less civil”

Doesn’t every generation think this though?

Bernie was looking pretty hot Cari, it was 25 degrees and we were all sweating buckets. The smell of alcohol coming out of people’s pores in Croker was acrid!

He won the game for you anyway, he dedicated it to you in the post match interview but they might cut it short on the Sunday game when you see it though

Mickado wrote:“society is becoming less civil”

Doesn’t every generation think this though?

Absolutely Mickado.

Yeah Staggy, like everything else, social networking has his benefits as well as the negatives. This was something I mentioned in the 606 closing speech. The great things that happen don't get publicised. To put it another way, to have two famous people being really nice to each other on Twitter isn't as newsworthy as two well known people slagging each other off it seems.

@ Mickado. Typical bloody cutbacks, having to edit out the post match interviews!

every generation has it's gripes about things. In thirty years we'll all be griping about something that wasn't in "our" day.

Right, I'm off to a meeting....

Apparently the "Cooper rule" has been extended to include the Brogan brothers. This means any time either of them are touched they get a free.

Every generation seems to think that young people are “worse than ever” and that technology is at its zenith.

To bring things into balance maybe people should develop technology that helps people to be more civil?

Slagging matches on Twitter can be gas, BOD and ROG had a few funny exchanges before the HC final.

Its not all good nor all bad Cari of course.

I am quite tolerant of young people, a lot more than I remember my father to be for example. Maybe its because I have young friends. Not that I agree with everything they say and do. But I can understand them I think.

Kia ora, mauri ora all
& please. Blydi hot day yesterday to be running around on a hill in Hampshire. But I came out of (cricketing) retirement with a win at least

Rava wrote:I am quite tolerant of young people, a lot more than I remember my father to be for example. Maybe its because I have young friends. Not that I agree with everything they say and do. But I can understand them I think.

Equally I can understand the elderly

For us to survive we need to regress. Less technology.

Rava,

As my dad says, there is no way could he act towards his father the way we do with him now.

red_stag wrote:

Rava wrote:I am quite tolerant of young people, a lot more than I remember my father to be for example. Maybe its because I have young friends. Not that I agree with everything they say and do. But I can understand them I think.

Equally I can understand the elderly

You understand Gibbo? C'mon, share ...

My dad has been going to matches with a man who’s 20 odd years older than him since I can remember. It’s like a toned down version of me and Gibbo!

Morning all, hope everyone's well on this lovely and sunny (for now!) day.

Rava - hope your father in law gets better soon

MBTGOG wrote:Rava,

As my dad says, there is no way could he act towards his father the way we do with him now.

I know Munsty, I got the clips around the ear to prove it

Luckless, I can’t agree about regression. It’s in our nature to evolve socially and technologically, we need to be responsible with new ideas and technology but we regression is not the answer. For example, what if man continued with the Apollo program instead of pulling all the funding out to defend itself for the cold war, we could be mining priceless fuel there right now, lowering our dependency on fossil fuels and reducing the need to fight with middle eastern countries over oil reserves.

Mickado wrote:Luckless, I can’t agree about regression. It’s in our nature to evolve socially and technologically, we need to be responsible with new ideas and technology but we regression is not the answer. For example, what if man continued with the Apollo program instead of pulling all the funding out to defend itself for the cold war, we could be mining priceless fuel there right now, lowering our dependency on fossil fuels and reducing the need to fight with middle eastern countries over oil reserves.

Profound

But Mickado, if we went back to the horse and cart the only fuel we'd need is food for the horse.

MBTGOG wrote:Rava,

As my dad says, there is no way could he act towards his father the way we do with him now.

True that. Thats a good thing though I think?

It's a different thing Stag. My dad had a different relationship with his dad but there was just as much respect and love as there is in our relationship.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:But Mickado, if we went back to the horse and cart the only fuel we'd need is food for the horse.

... and dedicated teams of poopie shovellers to clean up the by-products

(Hmmm, anyone know any unemployed politicians ...)

When we had the horse and cart the world was a massive place. I couldn’t dream of seeing the places I’ve seen, my horizons have been expanded by travel and I’m a better person for it. I can’t say that a return to simpler times would be anything other than a return to the dark ages.

MBTGOG wrote:It's a different thing Stag. My dad had a different relationship with his dad but there was just as much respect and love as there is in our relationship.

Of course yes. To be honest though I think its good the whole "men not meant to show feelings" stigma is being slowly eroded. Think its healthier.

We should continue pushing forwards with technology for certain things: scientific and medical research, for example. But progress isn't necessarily progress, if that makes sense. If we know that some of the things we do, like burning fossil fuels, are damaging the planet we inhabit, we should stop doing them.

red_stag wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:It's a different thing Stag. My dad had a different relationship with his dad but there was just as much respect and love as there is in our relationship.

Of course yes. To be honest though I think its good the whole "men not meant to show feelings" stigma is being slowly eroded. Think its healthier.

Could not agree more but there are still plenty of guys who have a very set belief in how guys should act.

MBTGOG wrote:

red_stag wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:It's a different thing Stag. My dad had a different relationship with his dad but there was just as much respect and love as there is in our relationship.

Of course yes. To be honest though I think its good the whole "men not meant to show feelings" stigma is being slowly eroded. Think its healthier.

Could not agree more but there are still plenty of guys who have a very set belief in how guys should act.

Even some of our mates not naming names.

First people I thought of.

Morning all.

Rava, hope the FIL is on the mend soon.

Having had barely any sleep all weekend and in practice for 8 hours yesterday and Saturday in the sun, I have a wee bit of sunstroke.

Going to take a half day today to try get some sleep.