North London ILX - how long until they all become alcoholics?

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Are you guys in the pub, like, every single night these days?!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"these days"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Until"?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

'become'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i love you Matt, you're my best mate you are

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"North"

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

North? d'oh xpost

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

they're playing catch-up cf Oxford ILX.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I am starting to feel it a bit. night off tonight for me

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you actually winning any of these endless quizzes?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

They won last night's!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

20 quid on Monday and 50 quid last night, aksherllay

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

markH it's not a competition...oh wait...

Tom, yes - see the 'what is the largest lake in Scotland thread for details'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Crikey! Drink away boys!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

soon i can quit this job and live entirely off my quiz earnings

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Village christmas quiz - 17th December folks.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i was thinking of going for the hat-trick the week after next - Swimmer on Monday, One Tun on Tuesday and The Village on Wednesday

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

well, I'm playing an Oxford Mail Quiz League match tonite, Shelley Arms vs. Donnington Arms (a.k.a. new pub with dog vs. old pub with dog).

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Also The Old Dairy on Stroud Green Road has a music quiz on Thursday's. It says it's recomended by Time Out. (Gareth and I discovered this when we were, oh dear, in the pub last night.)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so glad I don't live in North London any more! I don't have to leave my flat to get drunk these days!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

there must be a quiz league operating in London somewhere. The thing abt the Oxford Mail one is that ourt mugshots appear in the paper every now and then, which is grebt, mebbe.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still in quiz mode from last night. My boss asked me a question and I refused to answer it unless there was a cash prize.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, add Stroud Green to the list - now we need a Friday quiz and i've got a winning flush

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Michael, do you want this job?"

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

haha are you guys going to the swimmer every night?

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

they probably are and are not telling me

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing abt the Oxford Mail one is that ourt mugshots appear in the paper every now and then, which is grebt, mebbe.

Weird... zoinks, maybe one day I'll recognize a fellow ILXor without them knowing. Crivens.

― Nu-Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

also, you may well be in an Oxford pub when the Mail quiz is happening! IIRC, the pubs in our division are as follows: the Shelley Arms (Cricket Rd) Kite (Mill St), Donnington Arms (Howard St), Royal Sun (Woodstock Road, Begbroke), Wise Alderman (Banbury Road, Kidlington), Black Swan (Crown St), Marlborough AND Marlborough Lights (Marlborough Road).

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

My boss gets confused at 5.30pm when I hand him a piece of paper with the answers to all the questions he's asked me that day. The paper is full of crossings out. It has a beer stain. A deeply unfunny topical name is scribbled at the top.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Marlborough AND Marlborough Lights (Marlborough Road)

Index of how happnin I am: my g/f lived in Marlboro Rd for a year and we live near it now and I gots no idea where these are!!

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll almost definately be at the Old Dairy next Thursday.

The general knowledge on at the Shaftesbury on Hornsey Road is also Thursdays and has a good roll over jackpot. It is also a rathe rnice cheap pub and near my house. Yay.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't deliberately set out to confuse you, Enrique - these 2 teams are both based at the Marlborough House on the corner of Western Road and Marlborough Road. The team that just calls itself the Marlborough used to be the St Cross College team, but none of them are at the college anymore (about half of them never were). One of their number works behind the bar in the Jude in Jericho these days.

given that my blog is called Grandpont Genie, you may have guessed that I am also down that way, but belong to a quiz team at a pub a long way from my house for historical reasons.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's for some south london quizzes? Are there such beasts?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a late-night one just round the corner from my house, starts at 10 something. I'm almost out of the crat eof Stella I won there last time I went.

But yes, in general and in theory I am.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a good one in Cl*ph*m, Tom!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom, if you fancy a hard one with a very big prize, the Cedar Tree in Putney fits the description. I've been a few time and although I think I'm quite a good quizzer I've (or rather my team has) never done better than 4th.

Chris, can I book a place for the Village on the 17th?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I've an idea that they do one at the middle-sized Youngs pub just over the road from the Tooting tube station nearest your place, Tom. Maybe a quiz-curry night in the sunny SWs is the thing.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

hey Matt, i am tempted to go back to the Frog & Forget-Me-Not quiz sometime - i wonder if it would be easier to get back to Harringay than it was to get back to Ruislip

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Western Road

Ah, that pub I kno -- will check the blog, danke

― Enrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Just for the record, tuesday night's Retro Bar pop quiz was the easiest one in ages, but my team still only managed to score 14 out of 20. Note the start of Nelly Furtado's I'm Like A Bird sounds NOTHING LIKE Beautiful by Xtina Ag.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm up for that!

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Frog & Forget Me Not = BEST PUB NAME EVAH!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm like a bird, I can't park and I'm irrational.

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

SW quiz-curry-ect, that is (xposts ahoy!)

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I've done that Tooting one - it was shit. Too easy - there were, I think 120 points on offer and the LOWEST was over 100. We were 3rd with 116 or something!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet!

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

yes Barry, but I may not be there as it's the same day as my work Xmas do at Pinewood, which I may not be going to.....

Also boo to next Thursday which is my department xmas do :o(

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh we've come sixth before despite being only 3 or 4 points off the winning team at the Clapham one before i'm sure

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been to quizzes before now with tie breakers for first place with abt six teams in them.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What we really need to do is have a big pub quiz FAP with several rival ILX teams.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes to Tooting quiz-curry.

There's a lovely looking boozer on fancyapint - the Leather Bottle on the way to Wandsworth, I am keen to check it out ASAP. Dont know about quizzes though.

Yes to Retro for that matter, loved it the one time I went.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll do the Retro as well.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it say that the leather Bottle has a big beer garden? I think I've been in it, on a cup final day years ago (Arsenal beat Newcastle)

Good boozer if so, I won 20 quid onthe quizzer

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I have London on my mind today. I found this:

http://www.iamcal.com/misc/londonbloggers/

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt the problem with that plan is that we'd have to get an independent QM to avoid accusations of bias for or against one ILX0r or another. "You deliberately didn't put ANY questions in that round about archaeology OR dronerock, you CHEAT!" (All apologies to Kate but it seemed a good example).

And if we turned up mob handed to some unsuspecting quiz night they'd probably chase us away with large knobbly staffs.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

How about the Christmas FAP be a quiz one this year - or maybe we should just start our own quiz, how would we persuade a place to let us do one?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Christmas FAP quiz is a brilliant idea!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a terrible but genuine propensity to fairness - I'd be happy to act as quizmaster/question provider for a FAPquiz if people wanted one.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Markelby for Question Master, yay!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

We should have a load of different rounds all set by different people, more room for argument that way

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh sweet lord.

Can't we just do the Bar Billiards thing?

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

but that is *so* 2002, Tim!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Quiz is too much to organise pre-xmas i'd think, bar billiards and then the quiz sometime in the new year maybe?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

max team number = 5?

each participant could contribute a question in advance?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

that should be 'max team size'

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I'd never done a pub quiz in my life I'd like to. I won't get drunk promise.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i bet i get picked last :(

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

surely not with yr supa dupa book smarts.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark is supa smart
Supa dupa smart

― Missy Elliott (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The 'match the guitar solo to the song' quiz remains sadly nonexistant so I never win anything ever!

― dave q, Thursday, 4 December 2003 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Alan you bastard, I've got that bloody song going round in my head, and i can't get rid of it.

Given how fast the diaries are filling up should we not be arranging a date for the London christmas fap?

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 5 December 2003 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"You deliberately didn't put ANY questions in that round about archaeology OR dronerock, you CHEAT!" (All apologies to Kate but it seemed a good example).

You only drop in quotes like that to see if I'm reading, don't you?

I've done one pub quiz in my life. It was in Hertfordshire, with my godfather. We came in third and won a pint of cider. I've told this story before. I would only ever participate in a pub quiz if they banned all questions about sport. I mean, the best pub quiz ever would be the UCL Archeology Department's pub quiz at the Jeremy Bentham.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not a pub quiz if there's no sport questions, it's all about a broad base of knowledge, that's why you have teams!

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Humph. Well, then I'll only play if I can have Nigel Spivey on my team to answer the questions about the Hammer Toss.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i really like the pies.
at the bentham, i mean.
i actually photographed them.
that has nothing to do with pub quizzes, sorry.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I would only ever participate in a pub quiz if they banned all questions about sport.

Yess! Entirely OTM. I'd do a lot more quizzes, cos I rock at them, if it weren't for BAWRIN spotz questions.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Except the Archeology Dept's sport questions would be like "What modern sport was actually invented by the Aztecs, except they would chop your hands off for touching the ball, and in place of a ball, they used the heart from a human sacrifice? (well, theoretically, at least.)"

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Sport questions are a necessary and key part of pub quizzes because it levels the playing field and stops every quiz being won by a team of geeky academic types who run like girls.

This is also true, to a lesser extent, of the music round, which is also essential.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Last year myself and a mate were staying up in Oxford with friends and gatecrashed one of their student bar quiz type things (although it was actually held in a *spit* common room). Between the two of us we successfully beat every other team because all the questions were about football and telly and pop music and not about Egyptology and all that nonsense.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, but when they dragged you back to the Quad for a pop quiz YOU WERE RUINED, FOOLZ!!! Pub Quizes are the only place where Normals actually get to feel smarter than and more financially rewarded than us smart people, so you might as well enjoy your hollow victories while you can.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't be silly Matt; I know all about TV and pop music and, well, not Egyptology, but 'serious' academic shit. But sport is rub and also IT'S BOYS ONLY STUFF. An all-girl team is far less likely to know about sport. Fact.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Vicky to thread!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

SOME gurls know about sport, probably, but none I know.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

More FACTS about girls please.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Enrique, I'd run from my Mrs now if I were you.

x-post but I'm still posting

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

When I buy a pub, I will have the BEST PUB QUIZ IN THE WORLD because instead of sport questions, it will have things like "what makes FERIA COLOUR different from other hair dyes?" which no boy will ever know.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

and no boy will ever go ;o)

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The next All-Girl FAP will have a pub quiz. I will write it, of course!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Erm, would 'Girls tend to know more about cosmetics than boys. Fact' do yer?

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Keep going!

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Feria is not cosmetics. It's hair dye.

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

To be fair to Enrique he did put in the caveat more likely... for a girl I don't have a bad knowledge of sport, but I'd still be pretty useless in a sports round of a pub quiz, to be honest.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim, see the love in my eyes! I know shit-all about sport. And girls.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

'Girls tend to know more about cosmetics than boys. Fact'

Feria is not cosmetics. It's hair dye.

That smell is vindication, dogg.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway Vicky was right, we should organise a date for the Christmas FAP or it'll be in February.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that deserves its own thread...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't look at me.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't looking at you i swear

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Will someone do it, or have they done it already and it just hasn't appeared yet?

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we should force Hopmkins to do it. This fear of starting threads is neither big nor clever.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Refusal != fear.

You can't force me, you swine.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

did someone say 'book Glasshouse Stores downstairs'?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

its phear. admit it tim.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's hack his account and sort this out once and for all.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Do it. I've been looking for an excuse to stormn out of here in a hissy fit anyway.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd never thought I'd see you have a hissy fit on the boards (seen enough of those off the boards tho').

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you been peering through our front window again Desouza?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I have far better things to do with my time tim.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

He's got no choice because Barry Lasagne's bundled him out the front door, innit?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I let him do it. all my fighting is done on the boards.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

julio's keyboard is mightier than barry's sword

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

far better things to do with yr time = listening to improv, julio? go to the pub!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

far better things to do with my time= listening to the human league ;)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to stand up for the non-girly faction of the allegedly fairer sex and say I know bugger all about cosmetics and lots about sport. The latter was proven by science in the pub quiz when we got FULL MARKS in the sport round in the last pub quiz we went to, and I got most of the questions (OK, all of them) whilst mr ailsa looked perplexed and said "if you say so" a lot as I was frantically scribbling down the answers.

It would seem from the football threads that Vicky undoubtedly knows a lot more about the Premiership than I, and lots of blokes, do, though I imagine she has to in order to have any sort of meaningful conversation with Chris.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 December 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I know bugger all about cosmetics myself, but apparently I know more than most boys, in that I know enough to know that HAIR DYE IS NOT COSMETICS. It's dye.

― THAT Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, it makes a cosmetic change to your appearance. I think we can let that one through.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

*cracks knuckles*

Can do more of the sportif questions than most other Effetes and as to the other stuff...

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Answer my question on the other thread, Suzy!

― THAT Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

No, don't let it through, cos my ignorance proves my point which was meant flippantly anyway but is still an IRON LAW in my general experience that girls know more about cosmetics than boys and boys know more about football, airfix models, etc, than girls.

In general. In my experience. Flippantly.

― N-Ri-K (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Flip off.

― THAT Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry foax -- mea culpa. I was being wrong and prejudiced and really wack. Of course everyone is the same, everyone knows equal amounts about football and cosmetics and to suggest otherwise is really something even Richard Littlejohn would consider a bit much, and to suggest it flippantly, ie not meaning it, makes it far, far worse. Duh.

― N-Ri-K (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

they shd ask more questions abt airfix models in pub quizzes

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

which countries markings were suppiled with the Airfix 1:72 Dornier Alphajet?

you mean that sort of thing?

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

stern john

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

yes!

which is the most likely piece to be missing of the "mary rose w.full rigging"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

why is it called "airfix"? in my experience when you launched them into the air they become non-fixed

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i shd do stand-up

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

it was Italy, Germany and another one, maybe Spain.

WHy do I remember such crap, when I can never remember to ring the dentist? which reminds me........

that quesrtion though Mark, I have no idea????

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

An airfix thread would be very dangerous for me. I feel it could lead to real problems.

Not Spain as such but the Condor Legion, I shd think.

― N-Ri-K (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hink the Condor legion 1970's jet trainer. there was a roundel that had three different nations on it on the tail.

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Enrique, I am in no way suggesting that I am representative of all women. I know I'm in the minority, but hey. I also don't think I'm representative of all unemployed people, all thirty-year olds, all married women, or whatever "category" I fall into just now. So, in short, I wish I hadn't risen to the bait now. Duh indeed.

Airfix kits are the entire source of my knowledge of which aircraft manufacturers made which planes. Sopwith Camels? Hawker Hurricanes? Bring it on.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Good point, I was making 30s associations from 'Dornier' (and having 3 fascist countries). Didn't read 'alphajet'.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ailsa, it wasn't directed at you, sorry, I got riled by being told to flip off is all. I'm male and know nada about sport, cars, etc, but I still cling to a few generalizations.

― N-Ri-K (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It was intended as a facetious joke, but hey, whatever. I'm sick of generalisations. Especially ill-founded gender ones, specifically when they're made by people not of that gender.

― THAT Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, fair dos. I'll stick to generalizing about blerks from now on.

― Ultra Male Secretary (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Men are idiots.

― Idiot Pete (Pete), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

who is more idiotic? the idiot or the idiot who marries him?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete -- OTM (for a bloke).

stevem -- don't talk about my bird like that.

― NRK (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

it's either that or ogle her, sorry

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

decals are cosmetics coz they make cosmetic changes to an Airfix model's appearance.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Lick my decals, cochese -- no way.

― En-Ri-K (Enrique), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, MarkH. If hair dye qualifies as cosmetics, so does house paint and loads of other crap that boys buy at B&Q.

― THAT Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha Vicky to thread

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(I'm sure girls buy paint at B&Q, too, yes. I was trying to pick something gender neutral.)

― THAT Kate (kate), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

but she purrs over the power tools

I look forward to getting out of there

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

God I dread to think how much I spent in Homebase this time last year. And once I actually found myself round a table in a pub comparing homebase loyalty cards, and discussing how much we'd all spent. Yikes.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't in that conversation - thank goodness, or at least I've blanked it from my memory

― chris (chris), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanna be at a London ILX pub quiz! :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ok which pubs off video-conferencing?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

why is it called "airfix"? in my experience when you launched them into the air they become non-fixed

It's because the glue needs contact with the air in order to bond. Failure of Airfix models *on the ground* is a key indicator that you're living in a vacuum.

South London quizzers - the Quebec Curve in Rotherhithe is surely worth another shot, Timbo?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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