[girbo]

This one's for general musings and meanderings on whatever topic you like, rather than starting a new topic/thread each time. Call it a pub conversation where the subject changes every two minutes and after a couple of pints, you don't know what started you off in the first place.

Chat forums are funny places. You start off thinking "I couldn't really see myself writing into an anonymous soccer message board to people I've never met, have no idea where they live or what they look like", and yet end up carrying on an intermittent conversation for a year or more. At this stage, I've been on about 3 or 4 different sport forums, have ended up meeting some people who have visited me or I've visited them from places as far apart as States, Denmark and Asia, have met a couple who met on the net and got married and generally had a good time.

Ten years ago, would you have thought this was even possible? Truly sport has become the universal language - no matter what tongue you speak.

[usscouse]

Originally posted by girbo
This one's for general musings and meanderings on whatever topic you like, rather than starting a new topic/thread each time. Call it a pub conversation where the subject changes every two minutes and after a couple of pints, you don't know what started you off in the first place.

Chat forums are funny places. You start off thinking "I couldn't really see myself writing into an anonymous soccer message board to people I've never met, have no idea where they live or what they look like", and yet end up carrying on an intermittent conversation for a year or more. At this stage, I've been on about 3 or 4 different sport forums, have ended up meeting some people who have visited me or I've visited them from places as far apart as States, Denmark and Asia, have met a couple who met on the net and got married and generally had a good time.

Ten years ago, would you have thought this was even possible? Truly sport has become the universal language - no matter what tongue you speak.

Make mine a pint of bitter and I’ll explain how Glen Hoddle will run Spurs into Div. 1……!
How big is your guest room …….

[Naco]

Stern John will have GOTY, have the most Premiership goals, and Birmingham will still get relegated.

Sean

[BrianCappellieri]

We are Brummies! We are Brummies! Yes, we are! We are Brummies! Yes, we are!

You are wankers! You are wankers! Yes, you are!

[kerpow]

Oh how I miss pubs. Bars in America are great, most have pool tables and Golden Tee (a computerised Golf game that can be quite addictive) and are open till 3am but they're just not the same as an English pub. Bars have fewer drinks on draft and I hate Lite beers so usually end up drinking over priced bottles. Though I did manage to find a bar in Chicago that sold Stella. Magic!!

Watching Football in a pub is great aswell. Everyone crammed in close together and beer flying everywhere when ever there's a goal.

Which are better do you all reckon? American or British watering holes?

How about you have to end each post with a joke in this thread aswell?

Here's mine - a bit crap I know but.....


A warning for those who don't listen to their mothers when they used to tell us DO NOT talk to
strangers.

While waiting to catch a plane in the Melbourne Airport, I decided to visit the restroom. The first stall was occupied, so I went into the second one. I was no sooner seated and comfortable than I heard a voice from the first stall ask, "Hi, how are you doing?" Well, I am not the type to chat with strangers in restrooms, and I really don't know quite what possessed me, but anyway, I answered, a little embarrassed:
"Not bad." And the stranger said: "And, what are you up to?" Talk about your dumb questions! I was really beginning to think this was too weird! So I said: "Well, just like you, I'm waiting to board a plane." Then, I heard the stranger, all upset, say, "Look, I'll call you back. There's some dickhead in the next stall answering all the
questions I'm asking you!"

[benine]

Originally posted by kerpow
Oh how I miss pubs. Bars in America are great, most have pool tables and Golden Tee (a computerised Golf game that can be quite addictive) and are open till 3am but they're just not the same as an English pub. Bars have fewer drinks on draft and I hate Lite beers so usually end up drinking over priced bottles. Though I did manage to find a bar in Chicago that sold Stella. Magic!!

Watching Football in a pub is great aswell. Everyone crammed in close together and beer flying everywhere when ever there's a goal.

Which are better do you all reckon? American or British watering holes?

How about you have to end each post with a joke in this thread aswell?

Here's mine - a bit crap I know but.....


A warning for those who don't listen to their mothers when they used to tell us DO NOT talk to
strangers.

While waiting to catch a plane in the Melbourne Airport, I decided to visit the restroom. The first stall was occupied, so I went into the second one. I was no sooner seated and comfortable than I heard a voice from the first stall ask, "Hi, how are you doing?" Well, I am not the type to chat with strangers in restrooms, and I really don't know quite what possessed me, but anyway, I answered, a little embarrassed:
"Not bad." And the stranger said: "And, what are you up to?" Talk about your dumb questions! I was really beginning to think this was too weird! So I said: "Well, just like you, I'm waiting to board a plane." Then, I heard the stranger, all upset, say, "Look, I'll call you back. There's some dickhead in the next stall answering all the
questions I'm asking you!"

HA! Golden Tee...great stuff. Those games are insane, they cost between $10k-$20k per unit but are said to make the average bar nearly $100k per month on the drunks who throw down there quarter-per-hole. Well, i'm sure youd love the new trend of bars in america being dolled up to look like Irish/English pubs, even going so far as to buy old pub-storefronts and back bars and having them shipped over, all to be able to make believe that your $7 pint of Newcastle is "authentic" or the Irish breakfast (containing the very un-irish belgium waffle) is the 'real deal'.

[girbo]

Hmmm.... maybe I should have decided to call this The Pub topic instead.

Iwouldn't knock all US bars, there are some great ones I've been in places as far apart as Miami, Fort Myers, Atlanta, Savannah, New York and Boston. All East Coast admittedly, but maybe they just do things different out west.

Hate some English boozers - too stuffy, and polite. But great craic other ones as well. Irish pubs - well they practically invented them, didn't they? But like England, there's quite a few superpubs the size of footie pitches that are soulless dives I wouldn't seen dead in.

Watched the Man United match tonight and poor oul Fergie was not looking too chipper afterwards. That's a fairly embarassing defeat considering the minoows they were playing.

Reckon he's gonna have his hands full this season keeping those guys in order.

Talking of which, will wor Kev manage to keep his hat on in trying to stay up this season?