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?

Quick message and appeal - does anyone want to take over the Rugby League Twitter account? I have got it started but just have too much on my hands at the moment with link ups etc.

Some BIG announcements coming next week

Hobo wrote:Quick message and appeal - does anyone want to take over the Rugby League Twitter account? I have got it started but just have too much on my hands at the moment with link ups etc.

Some BIG announcements coming next week

Why don't you try the RL board ? Oh hang on, nobody posts on there

This annoys me:

"Liquid water is absolutely essential for life," said Dr Lewis Dartnell, astrobiologist at University College London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408928

Yes, absolutely essential for life on this planet - but it annoys me that some clearly very bright people assume that it'll be essential for life anywhere else in the cosmos.

Hobo wrote:Quick message and appeal - does anyone want to take over the Rugby League Twitter account? I have got it started but just have too much on my hands at the moment with link ups etc.

Some BIG announcements coming next week

Munsty and Rev are big fans, but I don't know if they'll have the time, especially Rev (Service And Security)

Such A Sap

luckless_pedestrian wrote:This annoys me:

"Liquid water is absolutely essential for life," said Dr Lewis Dartnell, astrobiologist at University College London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14408928

Yes, absolutely essential for life on this planet - but it annoys me that some clearly very bright people assume that it'll be essential for life anywhere else in the cosmos.

Luckless, astrobiologists are well aware of that. They are open to the idea that there may be lifeforms that are based on an entirely different chemsitry.

One problem with that is, would we recognise something as a living organism if we saw it? Quite possibly not if it was entirely different to what we are used to. If it's not a water dependent carbon based organism we probably wouldn't know where to start investigating.

So if we are looking for signs of extra terrestrial life, it is only natural that we look for things that we know have been important to life as we know it. We search based on what we know works, rather than looking everywhere for anything.

It does narrow the search a bit, but it helps, because at least if we find something we can tell if it's alive because it'll be based on a similar construction such as our own.

Thanks for that, Greybeard. If the astrobiologist had added 'as we know it' to his sentence I wouldn't have a problem at all!

Shall I put you don't as another tick in the box for "Imprecision" on the 'that really grinds my gears' thread?

red_stag wrote:Stunning And Sexy

Awh Stag I didn't know you felt like that.

Risca Rev wrote:

red_stag wrote:Stunning And Sexy

Awh Stag I didn't know you felt like that.

I'm just shy

I'm just shy

You talk a lot for a shy person.

I'm just shy around Rev who I was disappointed to learn wasn't actually a priest. I had imagined a rogue warrior military priest

Sounds like a film in the making there stag!! Currently enjoying lunch in the park and sun! Gym later then off to be macho and watch cars 2!!

No, he types a lot for a shy person.

I've been learning from Game of Thrones how the crowned Stag and the Dragon are natural enemies. Explains Revs anti Munster tendencies.

Afternoon all.

1 hour to go until the weekend. There will be a mickado shaped hole in the front door when that whistle* goes!

*there is no bell, I don’t work in a the mine in bedrock

But you are a Caveman?

I've just discovered what a music geek I am on another thread.

Cari wrote:I've just discovered what a music geek I am on another thread.

I find out what I geek I am all the time. You'll get used to it.

Notch wrote:But you are a Caveman?

Not anymore, i had a shave yesterday.

There's no shame in being a music geek, Cari - or any other kind of geek for that matter.

Oh I'm not bothered...just surprised myself at the rubbish I remember!

It all comes down to the venn diagram

Spoiler:

red_stag wrote:I'm just shy around Rev who I was disappointed to learn wasn't actually a priest. I had imagined a rogue warrior military priest

My email off the Universal Life Church Monastery tells me I am a Reverend, so there. Coincidentally I've just discovered I did that exactly two years ago.

This something of Thrones sounds awesome though.

Risca - do you do confession?

Risca Rev wrote:This something of Thrones sounds awesome though.

Dreamer told me to read it. I'm only a bit into it. It seems to be paralleling real life. The Stag King is this old bloke who used to be a great warrior and is kinda living off his reputation. The Dragons are kinda under the radar a bit (and IMO are being portrayed as the bad guys). Its all very tense but its gonna kick off on the opening of the Pro 12 (I mean over the next few chapters)

Cari, I don't think an innocent mind like mine could handle that.

Stag, sounds awesome. I shall look it up.

red_stag wrote:I've been learning from Game of Thrones how the crowned Stag and the Dragon are natural enemies. Explains Revs anti Munster tendencies.

love that.


It is a good series, highly recommend it to anyone to read. I've almost finished book 3 part 1 now. Am finding them all seriously addictive.

Afternoon all.

On a bit of a high here. Beat one of my friends on FIFA by probably the largest margin I've beaten him by.

1-0 munsty?

Close Prop.


To what he score anyway.

5 - 4 on penalties (Nil - Nil AET) ??

You would be lucky to get a penalty score line that Penfro. They're solid.

Munsty doesn't play penalties anyway.

1-3?

REV - you great lump How was Canada ? Reading backed seemed you got very 'tired' ? Haven't started reading the books but the Game of Thrones on TV was excellent - LINK

I intentionally haven't watched any of it Penfro. Its rare that I'll get my hands on a top book and be completely unware of the characters or how it ends.

STAG - just saw the series advertised on TV, then after the first episode found out about the books

Why don't you play penalties,Munsty? They're a lot harder in Fifa 11.

Thomond wrote:Why don't you play penalties,Munsty? They're a lot harder in Fifa 11.

I dunno. We always have to call it a draw if we finish level with him. I don't get it.

BTW Thomond did I hear your in lurve.

It would be news to me anyway Stag!

Thomond wrote:It would be news to me anyway Stag!

Oh thought I read that back earlier. Maybe got my wires crossed.

red_stag wrote: [I dunno. We always have to call it a draw if we finish level with him. I don't get it.

Did you not know about the Kiwi side of Munstys family - he won't go to penalties as he's afraid he'll 'choke'

Wasn't Munsty born in England? Explains his aversion to penalties.

Penfro, yeah I'm tired. Still jetlagged but I'm not helping myself by lying in bed all day. A few pints tomorrow will cure it (though it didn't help last night).

I've discovered why my pre-season is so hard. It's being done by one of our ex flankers who once smashed Scott Gibbs when he was in his 97 Lions form (Risca v Swansea, Swalec Cup in the rebel season). The man's a lunatic.

It's only friendlies. Penalties aren't needed to decide who goes through or anything. If neither person has won after normal time, the draw is the right result in my eyes.

Pete did you ever hear the story of the wicked witch who cursed the All Blacks.

In 1995 this evil witch Zoosi put a spell on their food which caused them to choke. Since then every 4 years the spell resurfaces and the team chokes once again

It is said only one truly skilled in the dark arts of the breakdown can break this curse.

Good to see the media aren't scaremongering this latest financial crisis.