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Subject: Virtual Irish Pub

Posted by: Chavs
Date: May 14 13

Welcome to the Virtual Irish Pub - aka the VIP blog - a meeting place for any and all Fun Trivia Players from the island of Ireland.

Nice to meet you, pull up a chair and introduce yourself. Call in to the blog anytime just to say hello, meet other players from Ireland, chat about the weather or current events, start a topic for conversation, or simply to keep in touch. This is your blog!

Also welcome to post here are Fun Trivia players from all over the world who may have visited Ireland, or may want to visit Ireland, or may have family from Ireland, or may have celtic souls, or may just like Irish Pubs.

Please join the VIP private tournament @

http://www.funtrivia.com/private/main.cfm?tid=101321 -- active link and instructions for registration follow in the first post.

CÃ©ad mÃle fÃ¡ilte!

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Chavs

Good, good. Started on the Ascension thingamajig yet?

Reply #21. May 14 13, 4:39 PM

Chavs

dsimpy wrote:
***In a previous post (on the departed and lamented Ireland board)...***

RIP!

***I mentioned the glorious and iconic sculpture at the bottom of the M1 as you enter Belfast.
Consisting of two white balls (one inside the other) and officially named 'Rise', its better-known local name - because of its proximity to the Falls Road - is 'the Balls on the Falls'.***

:D giggle

***However when I was driving past it today while giving a colleague a lift, I learned it has a second nickname. Due to being on the edge of West Belfast, and the aforementioned balls, my friend tells me it's also known as 'the Westicles'.***

:D rofl

Thanks for the update. Any other names we should know about?

Is this an Irish phenomenon? Can't be!!

Reply #22. May 14 13, 4:42 PM

jemser

Hi Chavs, thanks for the invitation to VIP

Reply #23. May 15 13, 6:54 AM

Chavs

Hi Jemser, glad you could make it! :)

Reply #24. May 15 13, 7:12 AM

dsimpy

Chavs: Good, good. Started on the Ascension thingamajig yet?

Reply #21. May 14 13, 4:39 PM
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I started ascending yesterday but I seem to be stuck on the runway at the moment. I needed 1300 in Team Heroes yesterday, but I'd played before Ascension started so my magnificent(!) score didn't count, and then I failed to rock at today's 'Alternative Rock' Team Heroes, which has kinda left me ... erm ... between a rock and a hard place (groan) and unable to move on. I could be here for days! :(

Reply #25. May 15 13, 9:57 AM

daver852

You and me both.

Reply #26. May 15 13, 11:05 AM

dsimpy

Good to see you here Dave! :)

Pubs in Ireland are (by law) non-smoking, but ... since this is a virtual pub ... sit down, throw your feet up, and please yourself! :)

Reply #27. May 15 13, 11:56 AM

Chavs

Virtual cigarettes are fine but I'm not cleaning the virtual ashtrays.

Reply #28. May 15 13, 2:49 PM

Chavs

Hi Daver. :)

I think most of the site was stumped by alternative rock. Maybe tomorrow will be something kinder. Like ... obscure Belgian soap opera characters of the sixties and seventies.

Reply #29. May 15 13, 2:51 PM

daver852

I'm aware of that, Daithi. You'll note that Ireland's economy crashed right after they passed that ridiculous law.

Reply #30. May 15 13, 3:29 PM

Chavs

On the other hand, pubs had to start getting creative about getting customers back, so they reverted to free, good, live music which had begun to disappear ... and the quality of a night in the pub vastly improved.

Reply #31. May 15 13, 3:33 PM

DiaDuit73

Oh I didn't know you could play more than one private tournament at the same time. Thanks Chavs.

Reply #32. May 15 13, 3:59 PM

dsimpy

When my daughters were a bit younger, the highlight of the year was heading off to 'the South' (Donegal, Mayo or Galway usually) for a week's holiday.

The highlights of THAT for them were two-fold: being able to burn turf in whatever cottage we'd rented, and sitting around in smokey pubs with a bit of diddly-dee music playing and a bottle of Cidona in front of them.

They were devastated when the government in the South banned smoking in pubs (not because they smoked themselves - of course!, they were only youngsters - but because it was part of their sense of country Irish culture - being 'big city' kids themselves).

So, okay - the nation's health might have improved ... but I'm not sure, many years later, that my daughters have got over their disappointment! :(

Reply #33. May 15 13, 4:12 PM

dsimpy

Jeez, Diaduit73, I see you're a whizz at the Eurovision! (Dark horse!) :)

Reply #34. May 15 13, 4:15 PM

Chavs

Yes, I'd agree with your daughters about having lost something, but I think we'd be in shock now if it was brought back in, and we'd hate it.

I remember getting the bus home from school in the good olde days when the top deck was a smoking area. If there were seats available they would only ever be on the top deck, and the bus conductor would force us up the stairs where we sat for half an hour in the thickest of fogs -- all windows closed too because of the rain...man, there were serious cigar-and-pipe-smoking clubs being held up there, I swear it.

Can you imagine that now? We'd be up in arms about it. :D

Where's Santana? She'd back me up on this. They were lethal, those buses.

And the cinemas...how is one row smoking and the other non-smoking when they are only separated by a rope?

For everything we've lost, we've gained more. :)

Reply #35. May 15 13, 4:22 PM

Chavs

Hey DiaDuit, my eurovision friend ;) ;D

Reply #36. May 15 13, 4:23 PM

Chavs

Found a shortlist of nicknames for some of the Dublin statues. Excuse any rudeness, naturally (warning: they are all a little rude but that's Dub humour for you.) http://www.welovedonegal.com/dublin-statues.html

I think the "Spike" is more often called the "Spire", by the way. And another nickname not listed in that blog is "The Junkie's Needle".

My personal favourites are for the Anna Livia -- the floozy in the jacuzzi / whoor in the sewer -- some people are very quick witted!

Reply #37. May 15 13, 4:27 PM

DiaDuit73

I am not a die hard (Eurovision) fan but I do watch it every year. I know most people are ashamed to admit that. :)

I don't mind the smoking ban except on really cold nights. My local has no smoking room which is not fair when all the other pubs in nearby villages and towns do.

Reply #38. May 15 13, 4:59 PM

Chavs

It was really tough on all those bars with no garden/outdoor access, wasn't it? A place a round the corner from me managed to put up a giant shed with a few missing slats of wood, and heating, and TVs on the walls -- it was doing a fine trade!

I watch Eurovision most years. I regret it a lot, though - well, recently anyway; it's too long for a start.

Any favourite years/ songs/ wins? We'll never be able to beat the fun of Johnny Logan, I reckon.

Reply #39. May 15 13, 5:04 PM

postcards2go

Thanks to Chavs for my honorary membership invite :-)

For those who don't know, in the waning days of the Regional Boards I discovered the Ireland board, and became enchanted by its friendliness. Great to see that the tradition continues!

... Also stymied by 'Alternative Rock' LOL

Reply #40. May 15 13, 5:32 PM

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