i love london-- FAP 27 September

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ok, this might sound a bit silly, but i just realised that on 27 september, i'll have been here for THREE YEARS. it feels like about three weeks. so i'm proposing a FAP that evening to celebrate my english anniversary, if people feel up for it...anyone interested?

(unlike my past FAPs, unlikely that there will be food/games at this one. unless people REALLY want them)

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago)

What no speed dating? The first time I'm actually SINGLE at one of your FAPs!!!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:10 (twenty years ago)

you have 26 whole days when this could change.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm not Joe. I don't believe that I can meet the love of my life in 10 days...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago)

Meow! I am bitter today. What's wrong with me?

I'm upset coz the cute bloke on OKCupid hasn't written back yet. Sigh.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago)

i could always set up a special 'kate's speed dating' section...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah! That would be great! All those dirty dronerock boys that you found in Roskilde! ;-)

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago)

anyway, I have oodles of leave to use up and this is a Monday, so long weekend, yeah! What venue(s) d'you have in mind, Colette?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago)

Also, wow, three years. The first three years are the slowest. It'll be six years for me in November!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:18 (twenty years ago)

I know, that made me work it out and I've been in London 8 years as of last Saturday!

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:23 (twenty years ago)

well, i'm partial to the harrow, and haven't been for a while, so i'd suggest that unless anyone really hates it.

i mean, amy brought out her kittens for me last time. that's my kind of pub!

yeah, the three years thing is especially significant because if i married an english person from here on out, i can apply for dual-citizenship. note to any h0me 0ffice people reading this: i am kidding! i'm not planning on getting married for immigration purposes!

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:25 (twenty years ago)

As far as I can see, it's the only reason that people do seem to get married any more. :-(

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:26 (twenty years ago)

erm, bollocks

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:41 (twenty years ago)

amy brought out her kittens for me last time

bringing out her kittens vs. bringing out her puppies.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:42 (twenty years ago)

As far as I can see, it's the only reason that people do seem to get married any more. :-(

jeez, then do you want to take my place at all the bloody weddings i have to go to next year? EVERYONE is getting married!

bringing out her kittens vs. bringing out her puppies.

ewwww.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago)

Colette, after I think another one or two years you will be given indefinite leave and won't have to think of marriage as an immigration issue.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:49 (twenty years ago)

i know, it's another two. which is another reason that 3 years is a big benchmark...more than halfway there!

only concern is whether the chancellor&h0me 0ffice will continue the funding for the project i'm working on for that long. fingers crossed! (don't actually want to get married for any reason, for anyone that doesn't know)

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Erm...wasn't this already in my diary? Well, it's in there again now.

Let's go dancing after the pub.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago)

I don't know ANYONE who is getting married! Can I have some of your married's please? Then I can sit alone at the reception looking bitter with a hipflask of ~~bitter~~GIN or WHISKY perhaps. Perhaps WHISKYGIN.

Ugh.

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:07 (twenty years ago)

I haven't been to a wedding in over a year. The last one was one that Joe dragged me to, and it was awful because we both got very drunk and ended up in a row. I've only ever been to three weddings in my life and one of those was an elopement anyway. I think that elopement is possibly the best option.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago)

starry, if you want to travel to newcastle united's staduim for a wedding, then maybe you can take my place? although i actually like the couple, so i should probably do the old switcheroo with someone i don't mind missing their wedding.

i went to a wedding alone in april, and thought it would be terrible, and it wasn't that bad. although i had to drive from detroit to kalamazoo, so i couldn't drink. which made it harder. there was a magician. there should be magicians at all weddings.

Let's go dancing after the pub.

monday dancing? have we found anywhere for monday dancing yet?

xpost-- i also vote for the elopement + big drunken party. seems easier for everyone involved. except maybe the parents.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm just feeling bitter and self pitying cause I feel like I'll never get married. Pay no attention to me. It must be PMS or something.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:13 (twenty years ago)

you don't want to get married! you want to have affairs with dirty dronerock boys until you die!

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:15 (twenty years ago)

But I do want to get married. I just want to marry a dirty dronerock boy and make sweet WUBWUBWUB until the end of time.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:16 (twenty years ago)

On a related tip, at what point do you stop celebrating your aniversaries in a new country? I remember when I moved to America, at first, I used to mark every year. Then one year I woke up and realised that I hadn't marked an aniversary in ages, and I'd been there for 15 years.

I actually stopped counting aniversaries back in the UK at about three years. Strange.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago)

well, i haven't celebrated it at all since i've been here, but i figure any excuse for a fun night out is ok...

but i'll probably celebrate 5 years, and then if/when my permanent leave to remain comes through, and then dunno if i'll do more than that.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago)

You didn't celebrate your first year? Wow! I did! But my aniversary is in November, so you know, any excuse for a party during the dampest, greyest month.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:28 (twenty years ago)

monday dancing? have we found anywhere for monday dancing yet?

Hmm, I had a feeling that we had done, but actually I might just have been thinking of the cheap cocktails night in the long island ice tea bar. Which might not even happen any more, think it's over a year since I've been...

Well, we've got plenty of time to do research.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago)

yep, let's celebrate in november as well! yay!

ok. if anyone knows somewhere where there's dancing on a monday night...let us know. because i will not go to the long island iced tea bar. there's just something wrong with that. (especially on a night when i'm celebrating being here, not there)

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Go to Trash!

― marianna lcl, Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago)

i think of it as more or less a year of knowing Colette too so am happy to celebrate that if nothing else - happy anniversary you crazed bint!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago)

what and where is trash? sounds like my hometown...

aw, thanks steve! true, it's almost exactly my year anniversary of meeting ilxors in person right about now. woo! can't believe how quickly it went.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago)

i will not go to the long island iced tea bar

Well no, I wasn't suggesting it, I hate it in there. It just reminds me of the night I lost my iPod.

What's Trash?

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago)

i don't even remember what the date was when i moved to england first... actually i think it may be sept 4th! it'll be my 12th year in the UK omg it'll be exactly half my life!!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:47 (twenty years ago)

i mean although if i do the maths properly i'll have to work out the birthday etc thing. but still omg. i'm going to be properly more english than chinese in a few days.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago)

trash is at 'the end' club (off new oxford st just west of tottenham court road). it's been going on for about 7 years. kinda a mix of brit-pop-rock and electro. erol aklan DJs there. it's 5/6 quid to get in, and BE WARNED: there have the 'style police' at the door, i.e. you have to look cool to get in. the trashier the better. i wore eyeliner once, which probably helped. it's good fun people-watching at trash, i have to say. oh, bring earplugs - that place destroys my hearing.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Now I remember why I don't go to Trash. I think, in fact, I got in a shouting match with Charlie No.4 about how I refused point blank to go to a club with style police. :-(

Of course it doesn't take much to make me and Charlie knock heads. Usually just Red Bull. Tee hee.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago)

trash does decorate the place with nice slideshows of 70s/80s rock stars and album covers

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago)

i mean although if i do the maths properly i'll have to work out the birthday etc thing.

That sort of date-maths always mixes me up, but I kind of love it. For years, I looked forward to the day when I was exactly half the age of my mum, just cos there's something pleasing about our relative rates-of-aging, and the feeling that somehow I'm catching up with her. And then one day I was thinking about it and realised that if I was exactly half my mum's age, that'd mean I was exactly the age she was when she had me. And that made it seem even more of an important date. And then I realised I'd already missed it. Boo.

I'm still less than half as old as my dad though. And that's the scary one really, cos once I cross that line, I'll definitely feel like I'm leaving it too late to start having my own kids...

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago)

In six days time I will have been living in London for exactly four years.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago)

i've never been to Trash as i despise club nights with that sort of door policy, tho i always regret the fact that i never tried it. i could probably get guestlist now anyway.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago)

It would be nice if you could get a guest list and then go in your grubbiest, mankiest old cardigan and some old man shoes. Then I would go!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago)

trash sounds way too cool for me. although it's worth a shot, i suppose.

gah, all this talk of marriage and babies on my fap thread, and then one of my last 'cool' co-workers just walked around announcing that she's pregnant. (she prefaced it with 'i know how much you love kids, but...' which amused me, since i don't mind other people's kids, as long as they're well behaved...)

Of course it doesn't take much to make me and Charlie knock heads. Usually just Red Bull. Tee hee.

what?! you and charlie argue? never!

xpost-- anna, are you celebrating at all? do you celebrate that kind of thing?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago)

It's coz we all secretly want to marry you and hvae your babies, Colette. ;-)

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago)

no babies! get away! eek!

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago)

(Quick somebody find that photo of all the babies growing in flowerpots and photoshop Colette's face onto them all!)

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago)

did they always have the style police? i remember going there a few years ago (it was the final night when it was still at the Annexe club on Dean St. rather than The End).. and i remmeber getting in despite looking repectable.

it was kinda fun.. but i've never been since it's at the end. i went to that bar once and it wasn't so great - i paid like 8 quid for a double vodka and red bull (i was on a well paid job at the time). and they were showing kingpin on the projector.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Um no. In the last few years I have been thinking "oh, I had a proper job then."

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to be properly more english than chinese in a few days.

It felt a bit strange when I'd been back in England longer than I'd lived in other places, but I was only 14 or so and didn't really appreciate it. It just seemed like I'd grown roots or something. Ecch. I'm just looking forward to my 10,000th day now.

Trash might be fun. Dressing up is a good way to banish the Monday Demons.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago)

they do have cheap beers before 11:30 at the end. although you can't get in until 11 (!).

here's some pics which should shed some light on the situation:
http://www.trashclub.co.uk/images/photos/1.jpg
http://www.trashclub.co.uk/images/photos/trash-127.jpg
http://www.trashclub.co.uk/images/photos/trash-120.jpg
http://www.trashclub.co.uk/images/photos/155.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago)

bad hair + bad make up + bad clothes hey i can do this!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

liz, that's so cool! i'll be celebrating my 10,000th day by seeing karl bartos at islington academy in october. woo!

hmm. if i dyed my hair black, it's not that different right now from black-shirt girl in the first picture.

if people want to give this trash thing a try after the FAP, i'm more than happy to come out dressed like an idiot.

i'll probably need a stylist, though.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

haha and that dude next to the guy with the green t-shirt is cross-dressing! genius!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:22 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, it appears that cunts may well go to Trash.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago)

I think that's a lady, Ken. The binliner dress person is evidently a moron though.

Hi Barry! How are you feeling today?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:23 (twenty years ago)

I hate the bouncers at The End regardless of whose night it is because they think queue = buzz.

Good things about Trash: Erol, who's ace; the bands he gets to play showcases; the short walk from home that it is, and the vast majority of people that I've met there. Go in back room, find the queer wing of the art world (all nice guys who've been to everything going since Taboo). I like clubs where people make going out into an occasion in imaginative ways.

Bad things about Trash: the odd 19-year-old who thinks black hair dye and a place at a low-ranking art college makes them a charter member of the fucking Bromley Contingent.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago)

OK, those photos confirm every bad thing I've ever thought about it, and now I'm glad of my anti-door policy stance!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago)

i don't love the end because i used to live across the street and it'd keep me awake.

but i don't hold grudges, so it's ok.

suzy, what's your overall vote, then?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago)

I like clubs where people make going out into an occasion in imaginative ways

it's nice but i can't help always thinking of it more as over-compensating for not actually being that interesting other than in image. Trash music philosophy is totally my bag but the density of crowd is not and the bar prices are an insult.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago)

I like clubs where people make going out into an occasion in imaginative ways

i read this as something about making out when i first glanced at it.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago)

i admit i intentionally picked photos that might raise your ire

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago)

naughty rob. canadians always trying to pick fights.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago)

i hate the policies and all, but i have to admit that i have had good times there. mostly due to watching (and laughing at) the majority of the 'cool people' (of which i realise i have impersonated to get in). but yeah, too packed and TOO LOUD is a problem.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago)

I understand about wanting to get dressed up, and make Going Out a special occasion, but to enforce it as a door policy is just ridiculous. Some of the best nights I've ever had out have been the ones where I didn't even know I was going to go out, didn't care what I was dressed like, and had a fantastic time because I didn't care.

Though ha ha, there was a certain club in Hoxton, where the doorpeople would actually recognise me and let me in no matter what I was wearing because "we know you'll always get people dancing."

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I did intentionally keep the tone of my ire low, you know (which wasn't ire at all - I just don't want to be in the same room as at least half of the people in Rob's photos, particularly the one who thinks looking like Lenny K***vitz is a good idea).

Door policies = worst thing ever. Really, go fuck yourselves, door policy enforcers.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Trash looks like loads of fun, although I actually don't the 'The End' as a club. Congrats Colette on your big milestone!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago)

of which i realise i have impersonated to get in

see that's pretty much what EVERYONE there is doing as well i figure, meaning the only people not actually putting the effort into the effort are EA's 104 'resident' friends

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:39 (twenty years ago)

sigh, I remember when Trash was just another indie club (that happened to be on a weeknight)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago)

For my eventual return to London, I'll buy you all Ghanaian clothes made from crazy batik/tye-dye/kente cloth fabrics and THEN we'll go to Trash and show them all what time it is.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago)

See, I just suspect that I don't have the sort of face or body that sits well with that kind of try-hard dress-up. I think I learnt an important lesson at an early age from Marco Pirroni and the inside sleeve of the "Price Charming" album.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago)

i think part of it does actually come down to a dissatisfaction with London tho wrt to the attitude of many clubbers - attire ethos of places like Trash trying to combat that by saying 'come on you lazy London fucks, be stylish, be chic, like on the Continent' but that's just my reading. i agree with it to some extent in theory...i think...and this has been alluded to before on other threads (hipster wars etc.)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago)

i think the time i went must have been when it was still as porkpie remembered it then!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago)

what kind of music do they play now?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Colette, I'd say go and have fun and get a little tipsy first to save cash. It's a fun club and the people who run it really care about it. I don't ever recall seeing people on the door who weren't bouncers denying anyone entry, but then I don't have a paranoid radar for that sort of thing.

Me, I like poofy clubs like Kashpoint and Nag Nag Nag so the clothes here don't offend me at all.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:05 (twenty years ago)

what kind of music do they play now?

they play The Knife - this is the only reason i want to go i think

my Chicago friend got in despite wearing the most American clothes ever (baseball cap, boring sports jacket, sports t-shirt, light blue denim jeans)...so i guess it really just depends how busy it is and what side of the toilet set the bouncers coked up on

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago)

hmm. well, trash is a possibility, does anyone have any alternate suggestions for post-FAP monday night dancing?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Ahahahaha Kashpoint hahahaha marvellous. Fetch me my tutu and EVEN WORSE DOOR POLICE!

Everyone: this door policy is nads - they've let me in LOADS of times and you all know how I dress.

(If you don't, make reference to sack of potatoes like).

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago)

funnily enough i don't know anybody who was turned away from Teh End on a Monday night...the goth is truthin'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:36 (twenty years ago)

well, i have to admit that i hate going places where they tell me what to wear, but if it's as low key as sarah and steve say, could be ok?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I think the style police club doorperson is a bit of a strawman in any case, and nowhere near as insidious as the style policeman wot lives in the head of otherwise secure people.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago)

so, am i getting this right that the goal is to look so trashy and bad that you're cool?

so that probably means that i shouldn't wear a cardigan. or should i?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago)

It has nothing to do with insecurity. I just object to the very *notion* of fashion and being judged according to it. If anything, an over-concern with the notions of fashion and style indicates a deep insecurity with their own self that necessitates the adoption of a mask.

The idea of being judged according to my clothing and hipness (or lack of it) is exactly the sort of thing that some of us moved to a big city to *avoid*. It's ugly, no matter who does it. I wouldn't want to be judged by lawyers in suits, *or* by electroclash hipsters.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:48 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I only backcombed my hair 8 inches for goodness sake.

Colette, just try and dress like a f#cking arse student and you'll get in with no problem.

I get away with dressing like a spod cos of my INNER CHARISMA wot only I haf hem hem.

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago)

the ironing is i pretty much dress like an achingly hip Trash punter most of the time anyway (bar the eyeliner)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago)

and fake tan

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:49 (twenty years ago)

I've been refusing to go to Trash for nigh on 4 or 5 years at this point, though I don't feel like digging out the original email from Charlie...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago)

kate, maybe you should come with us and not think about what to wear, and just see what happens? probably if there's a big group, and some people are cool, they'll let the rest of us in on their cred, right?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago)

But I against it! In principle!

And anyway, I freaking hate electro.

Plus, I have to... wait, no I don't have to work the next day!

I'm just against it!

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:01 (twenty years ago)

i saw some dudes get turned away once. but to be honest, i would have turned them away too - from any club let alone trash. they were drunken city types hollering insults at everyone (not just the trash line-up).

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago)

and suzy is kinda right about the style police - it's not totally serious. as long as you're not a footie yob, frat-boy or obvious city type, you're OK. to be blunt (rob's snottiness comes out!), i don't mind a place that tries to keep these people out, with some degree of success i should add.

just dress however you would be happy going out dancing at a club - their policy is (in theory) that you dress with 'a sense of personal style'. if that means wearing ski boots and fishnets with a basketball jersey, that's cool. whatever blows your skirt up, ya know?

(however what if you dressed like a frat-boy in the 'ironic' sense? would the style police implode from the irony-mobius-strip?)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:21 (twenty years ago)

ick. i don't think i'd dress like a frathole even in an ironic way. eww.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago)

i did see these dudes there once that were dressed like 80s preppies (bordering on a frathole look), so i guess they made it through the irony-o-meter at the door. there was probably a strategically placed indie button of some sort.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago)

like this maybe
http://www.dieselsweeties.com/stickers/emo-button.gif

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago)

we should get some CIF badges, ala

http://www.amic.cz/press/logo/cif%20logo_web.jpg

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)

or make our own ilx badges, and hope they think it's some cool band they've never heard of...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago)

steve, is anyone using the calendar these days? should i add that? can't remember how to do it...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago)

I will have been in London 5 years on the 11th september. OMG wheres my life gone?!

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago)

yay alix! 5 years is a good landmark. wanna have a party?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago)

i think some people are using the calendar Colette, esp. those who don't have time to try and find all the FAP threads.

ah, i see someone has already added it :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

yay, thanks for adding it!

i like the calendar, actually. it's useful...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I keep forgetting about the calendar...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)

to quote shaggy:

it wasn't me

must be the fairies...

http://www.my.calendars.net/ilxfap
if you've forgotten the link Kate

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago)

I will attend in spirit (or pickled in spirits)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I went to Trash a couple of months ago and had no problems getting in, didn't notice anyone get refused entry for not looking cool enough or anything. Bloke I was with was definitely not dressed Trash-style "cool" at all.

We did have a good night there as well. Although some of that was due to my friend trying to pull on the dancefloor later when he was rather inebriated, which I always find amusing!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

heh. i know some of the people in the photos that rob selected.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

i know lauren!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I have met her, also.

I would like to go to the FAP but I don't like nightclubs.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

it's at a pub, dude

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Monday Dancing = Giles Peterson's That How it is and no mistake

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Ahahahaha Kashpoint hahahaha marvellous. Fetch me my tutu and EVEN WORSE DOOR POLICE!

Overheard at the last Kashpoint...
Boys who weren't let despite sporting fabulous outfits: Oh my god! There are two boys inside who are wearing JEANS. And TRAINERS! They were let in? This is so unfair.

Bless

― marianna lcl, Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago)

where was that place that was off charing cross road that had the crazy hat competition?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago)

did see these dudes there once that were dressed like 80s preppies (bordering on a frathole look), so i guess they made it through the irony-o-meter at the door. there was probably a strategically placed indie button of some sort.

I am vaguely worried this may have been me.

(Trash wld be great if it wasn't so loud and expensive, honest honest - it is totally full of people trying too hard, ie good nice insecure human people I can relate to).

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Why not go to the Metro club? There might be dancing GURLS in cages and some Led Zep! Oh I don't know do I. Can't we get special brew and go and sit in Trafalgar Square and drink til 4am, at which point we fall in the fountain and get saved by drowning by BURLY POLICEMENG?

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

And then we can sick up all over their shoes!

It'll be...

ANARCHY!!

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

haha the metro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago)

metro's slogan should really be "Metro - we don't need a style police to be trashy"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I read the Metro!

― the bellefox, Saturday, 4 September 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Ken, Kashpoint with the crazy hats - I was there! So I know. I don't know how we managed to get past the style police (perhaps you were right about your chinese cache!)
If I were in London, I would totally go to Trash with you guys.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 4 September 2004 13:28 (twenty years ago)

aw yeah rrrobyn! maybe they thought the limp bizkit shirt was "ironic" haha.

when are you coming back to trash with us?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Did we ever make a decision on this afterparty/club business?

I would like to go out that night, but I'm in class until 9pm, so if I go out, I'm going to have to get the extra drinking in!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago)

we didn't decide where we'll go yet, although i think we should certainly try for dancing after the fap.

i wasn't going to bump this until next week, since there's several other fap threads happening right now.

but i'm happy for the debate about various clubs and dancing venues to continue. although there's something appealing about starry's suggestion of drinking in the fountains...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago)

If I can slim down enough to get into my leather trousers, then I will go to Trash. But only if I can wear leather jeans with a cardigan and slippers.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago)

how close are you? it's only a week and a half away!

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago)

Still half a stone off, heh heh. I think that was maybe the point, so I could be all "OK, Colette, just for you, I will go to Trash, even though I'm categorically philosophically opposed to it..." and still not have to go in the end. ;-)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago)

smartass

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:54 (twenty years ago)

My ass is so large it probably has it's own IQ, so, yes, you are right...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago)

intelligent ass! awesome

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Don't *make* me google that!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm really disappointed...

Your search - "intelligent ass" - did not match any documents.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago)

the documents are too small

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago)

and the wrong colour

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago)

We did once have the "Unfeasible Ass" Tour, but I think that became the Brown And Sticky Tour by the end of it...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago)

ewwww

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago)

on the other hand going to Trash would involve going into The End.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago)

No! No! The two are not related... argh! Actually, I'm not even sure they were the same tour at all.

You know the joke "What's brown and sticky? A stick!"

So we had to have a joke for every town we played... or passed through... "What's brown in Stickney? A house!"

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago)

bump.

and, since several people seemed confused last night...

this is not for my birthday! remember, you went to my birthday with the yummy krispy kremes in may?

also, let the debate about dancing after recommence!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago)

happy birthday!

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago)

can we have yummy krispy kremes anyway on monday??

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago)

if someone else goes all the way to harrods to get them, then yes.

or, actually, does anyone work at canary wharf? they have one there now, as well.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago)

we have a Krispy Kreme up here in Enfield now as well, not that I've been to it yet.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:30 (twenty years ago)

you should visit them on monday (before FAP)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:04 (twenty years ago)

i am Trashin' it after the pub - anyone with me?

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:15 (twenty years ago)

that's a rubbish idea

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago)

It will have been a long day for me. Work, school, pub-hitting some time after 9... I am not sure that I will be in any fit state for clubbing.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:20 (twenty years ago)

kate, you know you want to!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Remind me again about the dirty rock boys and the magic asses. Wait, isn't Carl Barat's club on Monday nights? Can we go to that instead?

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:02 (twenty years ago)

There's an enormous cutout of Carl'n'Pete behind the tills in Ox St HMV. Bejaysis.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:05 (twenty years ago)

i'm just going along with wherever people want to go, so you guys sort it out for yourselves!

although if we go to trash, someone will have to make wardrobe suggestions for me, since the website wasn't especially helpful or enlightening...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear. Turns out Carl's club was last Monday. Can't find anything else on the site about the next one. I try not to stay there too long because I can't turn the fucking music off, arrgggghhhh!!! and anyway, I keep getting distracted by photos like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/anarchybrent/libertines22.jpg

Good lord, look at all that sweat. Salty, mmmmm.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago)

eew

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Who was it that I was going on about the idea that the next big trend in teenage thrillseeking will be licking sweat to absorb toxins? And soon there will be a huge surge in teenagers running around licking tramps' foreheads and things like that. Was I talking about that here? Or was that Daren's idea?

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago)

um, although there was a certain amount of licking people at my birthday, i don't think this is a good trend for us to try to start on monday...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago)

the licking game!!!!!!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago)

YES!!! YESSSS!!! YESSSSSS!!!!!!

If there is licking, especially of dirty rock boys, I shall be there!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:38 (twenty years ago)

you can lick whoever you want. i'm just not promising that i'll do the same.

(still blushing remembering a game that started with wet willies, and ended up me and tom and jim all licking ali's face. oh god)

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago)

i think Trash is a veritable lick-fest

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago)

(still blushing remembering a game that started with wet willies, and ended up me and tom and jim all licking ali's face. oh god)

you do realise you have to tell the story now.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:40 (twenty years ago)

(If I end the night, stumbling drunkenly about Soho, walking up to random rock boys and begging "Hi, can I lick you?" I will be rather worried...)

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Go up to them and say, "If I can't lick you, can I join you?"

― Dadrockismus (Dada), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago)

lick them and then sing "I get a lick out of you"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I guess I have to dig out my old t-shirt that said "LICK ME, I'M A LOLLIE!"

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago)

If I end the night, stumbling drunkenly about Soho, walking up to random rock boys and begging "Hi, can I lick you?" I will be rather worried...)

lol

you do realise you have to tell the story now.

um, that pretty much is the whole story. two friends brought their friend to my party (with his lovely fiancee) and he gave one or both of my friends wet willies, and then they licked him, and someone licked me, and so i ended up licking poor ali several times on the first night i met him. ken, i'm pretty sure you were there for all of this. but you might have been making time with the fiancee at the time, actually, so maybe you don't remember.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago)

aha! i had to resort to urbandictionary to help me out with "wet willy" and now it seems less sordid than before.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago)

i think i may have been making time with andrew farrell

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:51 (twenty years ago)

i think i may have been making time with andrew farrell

yeah, actually, that might be true...i wonder if that's when he 'lost' his tshirt!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Your parties just sound better and better!!!

Why did I miss that one? Oh yeah, that's right, shitty ex boyfriend. D'oh!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago)

aw, kate, the licking wasn't that good. especially since ali and jim both have stubble. do you know how weird it tastes to lick stubble?

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Yes, I do.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago)

don't encourage her colette

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago)

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago)

I can't help it. I'm hitting that three month mark since I last had sex. I'm just turning into a giant hornball.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:20 (twenty years ago)

sex is overrated.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago)

licking though.....

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago)

don't encourage her ~~colette~~ ken
-- ken c (pykachu10...), September 24th, 2004 12:18 PM. (later)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:25 (twenty years ago)

i think this might be giving people the wrong idea about this FAP...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago)

bump!

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 26 September 2004 12:59 (twenty years ago)

This Harrow, right?

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub578.htm

mmm, fapness.

― cis (cis), Sunday, 26 September 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago)

yep, that's the one!

i'm going to bed now so i can be wide awake for all the fun tomorrow...woo!

― colette (a2lette), Sunday, 26 September 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago)

The Harrow... where's the Harrow?

Today is going to be a long day. I'll swing by after double maths.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:16 (twenty years ago)

what time are people going to be there? i may be up for an early drink or two, but will probably save my full fap energies for thurs/sat.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:38 (twenty years ago)

well, i'm working until 5:30 or so...i'm guessing i'll be there around 7 or so? tend to have a hard time making it anywhere much earlier than that...

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:59 (twenty years ago)

Coming straight from wurk, so I'll be in there at 7.30ish...

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago)

I didn't make it to work yet again today, and I don't know if I'll feel up to it. Have a happy anniversary 'even' if I'm not there, Colette!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago)

i just realised that today is kind of a bad day for me to go out and get lashed also. have fun without me though.

see you guys on thursday.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago)

NNooooooooooo!!!

Lightweights!

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago)

FEEL THE RUIN!!!!

REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS!!!!!!!

COME OUT AND DRINK WITH US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago)

sorry kate. any other day in the year would have been good. and it's not even about being too hungover! will drink with you soon though (and borrow that cool ass music program!)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Spect I'll be out tonight.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 27 September 2004 11:40 (twenty years ago)

grr. after a really frustrating meeting, i'm looking forward to a few drinks tonight.

although i woke up feeling like i'd taken a load of sleeping pills (i hadn't) and still feel quite spacey, so we'll have to see about the dancing thing.

if we end up at trash, what do i wear?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:37 (twenty years ago)

workin late so not sure i'll make this either now, sorry - could still do Trash as am on the list but undecided (not much interest it seems), should def be going next monday anyway as Annie's playing then

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Prob not coming either, sorry like. Don't really feel like talking to people today. Have fun though.

― alix (alix), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago)

I shall be there.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago)

should def be going next monday anyway as Annie's playing then

mmm, sounds good. i'm up for that.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:00 (twenty years ago)

hurrah for Annie!

― alix (alix), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:06 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking of going to this, early. Is anyone else?

― the bellefox, Monday, 27 September 2004 14:18 (twenty years ago)

sounds like toby might be up for an early drink?

i might be along a little earlier than 7, since i can't let myself take a nap tonight or i won't wake up until the morning. note to self: need to start getting MORE sleep on the weekends than the weekdays. i am silly.

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Can we go to Dirty Pretty Things instead of Trash? Can we? Can we, huh? Pretty please?

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

i'm wiped out from my trip last week but will come by for a pint. no trash for me though - mostly since i want to go next week to see this 'annie' person all the kids are talking about these days.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Screw you guys and this trash! I want to see the dirty rock boys!

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Wait, what am I saying? I don't want to go. No, no, no.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

I am wearing:

A grey T-shirt
Baggy khakis
No make up
That's all

Will trash like me? If they won't, I'm not going. That'll show 'em!

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I am wearing:

-blue Primark trousers
-Purple & Green paisley shirt
-fuzzy blue LL Bean fleece

I'm sure neither club will let me in. Sigh.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

kate, what's this thing you're talking about? does it require any fancy clothes?

i'm tired, but could possibly drag myself somewhere, but just don't feel up to figuring out a cryptic dress code tonight, and can't imagine doing much in preparation beyond messing up my hair (using my new, free products from the launch last week, yay!) and putting on some makeup.

xpost...we need a club for people that don't care about fashion. wait, that's what club popular is for, isn't it? yay for thursday!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if it requires fancy clothes or not. I could ask, but that would require... registering. Sigh.

I mean... DIRTY rock boys. They even advertise it in the name. But oh god, the shame, I don't want to go by myself, I mean that might even be too shameful for me (and I'm going to Death Disco this week, as well) oh dear...

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago)

kate, what if we save it for two weeks from tonight? do they do it every week?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I should be able to pop in for one.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)

xpost...we need a club for people that don't care about fashion. wait, that's what club popular is for, isn't it? yay for thursday!

club popular by its nature should be all about fashion!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if it's every week, or every other week. If it happens in two weeks, we should go then, Colette.

But we have to go in, like, disguise or something. It's too shameful!

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago)

But we have to go in, like, disguise or something. It's too shameful!

we're just going as observers...nothing wrong with that!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago)

BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE SEEES US?!?!?

Oh right, it's like the Dublin Castle. Yes, it's shameful to be there, but in order to actually be seen there, you are being seen by someone who is THERE ALREADY THEMSELVES!!!

But still. I want to wear a disguise. Just in case.

Dirty boys... ::uuuuuhhhhhhhh:: Shall I ask if I can smell their towels?

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

people going to Club Popular should have to dress up like someone who had a number 1 hit

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago)

...plus, this is conditional on it not having a dress code.

Though I would imagine if they do, it would be "dress like a crackhead".

(Which strangely, reminds me that I still need to come up with a costume for Emsk's Dalston Theme Party.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Man, I'm bored, I want work to be over already...

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

kate, are you still at work? when are you coming to the pub?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I will come down after eating.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I didn't make it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

people going to Club Popular should have to dress up like someone who had a number 1 hit

-- teh pow! (stevem7...), September 27th, 2004.

I'll come dressed as Mike Skinner then.

― Jasper Milvain, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 06:51 (twenty years ago)

you as well

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 07:00 (twenty years ago)

woo, that was a good night! thanks to everyone that came out, i had a great time.

i'm wondering if kate is still dancing wearing her pigtails.

surprisingly unhungover today. especially since nobody would help drink my bottle of wine, and i didn't have any dinner.

special thanks to liz for her mad oragami skills, magnus for (kind of) figuring out how to tell the future, and everyone that helped put one of only two spectre exes to rest for good. hurrah! (we think he was intimidated by everyone, ha ha!)

also thanks to stevem for getting all of us into trash in the special fast queue. hurrah! i don't know if it was a slower night last night, but there was no probem with clothes. even though i was wearing my leopard-print mini, just in case.

ok, off to the embassy now...

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:03 (twenty years ago)

you'll see suzy in the queue

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago)

suzy Q?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago)

As promised - Origami Porn:

http://underground.zork.net/index.html

That dollar bill fanny is going to give me nightmares. :(

― JimD (JimD), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago)

Print out instructions and bring to next FAP - Pornrigami masterclass!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago)

i've made pron origami before!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago)

i said it like it was some kind of surprise

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes, your 'origami'. It was bobbins.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:37 (twenty years ago)

you diss it, yet you were playing with it at the time.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:38 (twenty years ago)

*raises eyebrow in Roger Moore style*

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago)

you were there rob!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:42 (twenty years ago)

(it was at that people's republik of disco thingie in brixton)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes, and then we invented Melting Wax Jenga.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:43 (twenty years ago)

I've completely ~~wiped it from my memory~~ forgotten.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:44 (twenty years ago)

thankfully we didn't combine the two.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:51 (twenty years ago)

Last week, my flatmate made a massive paper vulva, complete with scrunched-up paper clitoris, out of a page of broadsheet newspaper. It only took him about a minute - I was most impressed. I like living in my house, I learn so much.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:06 (twenty years ago)

i hope he didn't do this with the intention of 'using' it - think of the cuts, NO DON'T

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago)

"it only took him a minute"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:07 (twenty years ago)

They should get boys to do that in sex ed lessons.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago)

just so that the teacher can mark their work?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:12 (twenty years ago)

with what tho?

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago)

his fountain pen

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:15 (twenty years ago)

"fountain pen"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:26 (twenty years ago)

i'd forgotten all about that oragami porn thing. slightly glad liz only had small paper and we weren't getting into big pervy things.

yay, the embassy wasn't *that* painful.

oh yeah-- the (english, not the bald one) friend of my ex sent me a text asking me out. classy!

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago)

You see, the filthy slut look works!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago)

My Colette, he's so upfront & confident sending you a text & all!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago)

You see, the filthy slut look works!

yeah, that's the scary thing!

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Ah, (heterosexual) men.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago)

dude. he just sent me ANOTHER text saying 'hope you enjoyed your three year anniversary, hope you enjoyed trash! x'

clearly i should dress like a filthy slut more often!

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Errrrrrrrrrrrrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, don't let us stop you!

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago)

maybe i can fix your friend up with my txt friend.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 11:52 (twenty years ago)

I heard Hopkins explain how, when he was 14 or 16, he thought people over 20 were buffoons who should not be allowed to make music.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)

i hope that's not on the wrong thread...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

No. I heard it, last night, at a boozer. From a boozer. To a boozer.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Also, quite good, were

a) Markelby on commas debate - LIVE (from the House of Commas)

b) Colette on Gore

c) Cecily on film historians

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago)

i'm sorry to have missed the commas debate

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago)

the gist was pinfox commas = good ; RJG commas = bad; roll on the sub clauses.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago)

don't wanna met RJG's momma, just wanna pinefox's commas.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

haha "commas debate" was a good one, i just got that!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago)

somehow, the comma conversation ended up being fairly interesting. although i kept laughing because i started to hear the commas in the pinefox's conversation, and could practically see them all thought bubble style.

oh god, i'm tired.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Ken.

It was nice of people to praise my commas, but I would never knock RJG's.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Also, we learned that Colette has European roots.

And of differences of opinion, about Bill Drummond.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago)

oh i was just summerising. i am impartial to commas of any kind. although i like other punctuations too.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago)

summarising

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago)

i wonder how one can summerise something

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:29 (twenty years ago)

bermuda shorts

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Also, we learned that Colette has European roots.

what? i don't remember that. unless this was part of the catholic conversation? my background is confusing, like many americans.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)

are they like those triangular undies? xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Trinagular undies that disappear mysteriously

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

stevem is making me laugh on this thread. well done.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I danced until they chucked me out. Damn vodka.

Trash wasn't that awful. It wasn't that great, either. But they did play Run Run Run and No-No-No-Torious and Hey Bulldog and I leapt about like a fool knocking strokes and models out of the way. Fashion clubs bring out the worst in me.

Yes, hurrah to Stevem for the fast queue. Boo to horrid boys that wanted me to play with their hair and wouldn't leave me alone. Quit trying to pull, can't you see I'm just dancing? Fuck off! All the boys in there were 12. I couldn't even get a clit-on, I just felt dirty. So I danced.

Too bad I missed all the interesting conversations. Or maybe not, as my head was too full of maths. I still have the future telling device. I am going to write a mathematical paper on its statistical probability.

Right. So who's up for Death Disco tonight?

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 07:41 (twenty years ago)

I like drinking deep down by the River Fleet, as well. I shall return there, for certain.

(But then again, I fell asleep last night reading Peter Ackroyd and had this strange dream that the Fleet was the Evil Anti-Alpheus which made Clerkenwell the Anti-Arcadia and then I was persued by angry shepherds and Haligonians.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 07:52 (twenty years ago)

But they did play Run Run Run and No-No-No-Torious and Hey Bulldog

But when they played She's Lost Control, it was about 10% too slow, just so that the wanky DJ could beat match it with whatever tedious grunk he'd played before it. That upset me.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago)

You also got upset by my Love Will Tear Us Aparat/Missy mix.
You have Joy Division sensitivity issues, perhaps?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:01 (twenty years ago)

I thought that She's Lost Control was too fast, hrmmmm. The vocals sounded wrong. But I wouldn't have noticed by that point.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago)

joy division wanky mix issues maybe

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago)

'personal jesus' slowed down to as was segued from sped up 'da funk'

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago)

You people think about these things while dancing? Mentalists!

All I think about while dancing is WAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!! VODKA! YIPPEEE!!! OOOH, DDB AT 3 O'CLOCK, GRRRR, GET OUT OF MY WAY, WA-HEY, I LIKE THIS SONG, WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

(which may be why I like dancing so much.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:14 (twenty years ago)

haha la la la Kate went to Trash la la la haha, you suck, St Claire!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:16 (twenty years ago)

There was no door policy and it was free, Fuck off, Chuck!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago)

haha kate that's what i do! apart from the DDB bit eew.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago)

xpost obv

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago)

I still can't believe some random boy was begging me to touch his hair. (because he was jealous of the attention being lavished on Stevem's hair.) I can't believe I actually *DID*! Styling product, ugh! (It was not DDB hair, either. Sigh.)

I can't believe that Colette made me try to nick a random DDB's tie, as well. Sigh.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago)

You have Joy Division sensitivity issues, perhaps?

Hmm, yeah, it's happening a lot, isn't it? No doubt my next night out will feature a Joy Division/Russ Abbott Atmosphere mash up.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I still can't believe some random boy was begging me to touch his hair. (because he was jealous of the attention being lavished on Stevem's hair.)

yeah, he was the inspiration for leaving, for me.there's a big difference between playing with my friend's hair and touching a complete stranger with a slightly crazy look in his eyes.

I can't believe that Colette made me try to nick a random DDB's tie, as well. Sigh.

you suggested it! i only encouraged it! you said 'there's my future husband, i'd like to steal his tie' and so i said 'why don't you go ask him for it, then? at least you got to talk to him!

were all the boys really 12? no wonder i thought they were cute. ugh. i had a crush on a boy wearing fingerless gloves. gross!

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago)

i could do without the hair attention to be honest (to ALL those who trespass on it). not enough electropop at Trash thus early exit, tho i figure next week's will be better.

i think about a lot of stuff while i'm dancing (and in general) but it depends what i'm dancing to - didn't recognise a lot of the stuff or was too hackneyed and it didn't really appeal so ended up too conscious of my surroundings, and surrounding people (c/d: girls right by you taking up the space of about 5 people while they're dancing so you have to stay alert at all times just to avoid being smacked in the face....fun for her tho i expect) - still not all bad.

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago)

TOO MUCH electropop for my liking, but I guess you left before the full on electroset. Gah. What was that endless song about "she shops at something or other" that went on and on and all the New Romantics bum-rushed the DJ booth waving their panties in the air, oh lord.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:02 (twenty years ago)

girls right by you taking up the space of about 5 people while they're dancing

ick, there were two girls that were dancing very near to us for a while that kept doing this. they ran into me so many times that i finally just turned around and stuck my elbows out and let them run into my bony elbows. ha.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear. I think I'm probably guilty of this. But you know, I like to have my SPAAAAAACE while I dance coz I do tend to flail about like a dying go-go dancer.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago)

you tend to go up and down more than out and around. i backed off these girls at first, but it was so extreme that i actually started to get the sense that they were doing it on purpose, so finally dug my heels (or elbows) in.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Were those the ones that I tossed my drink over?

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago)

pointy elbows is always the way forward with wayward dancers...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago)

No, you just turn around & shove them innit?!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I usually just dance back even more aggressively. Silly girls in high heels vs. my Frugging skills? No contest! I'll do The Pony and The Swim all over their dead bodies and do the Watusi on their graves!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago)

they ran into me so many times that i finally just turned around and stuck my elbows out and let them run into my bony elbows. ha.

yeh it's tempting to just stand there rigid and kinda intimidate them into restricting their movement (or you could just start grinding up against them suggestively - would be interesting to see how they react), but that would be fun-hating, club-hating behaviour perhaps (i'm sure someone will berate us for complaining, but this is about having no space to dance because other people are taking up so much - maybe i'm too passive when it comes to this)

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. I just got a bit paranoid that I'd misspelt Russ Abbott's name up there, so I googled him to check, and found this url. Which isn't what it looks like it's going to be, sadly.

http://www.tattoonow.com/Tattoo_Galleries/Russ_Abbott/

or you could just start grinding up against them suggestively

I assumed that's what they were doing to me in the first place. No? Oh.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 13:01 (twenty years ago)

always so hard to tell

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Were those the ones that I tossed my drink over?

um, yeah, actually. i'd forgotten about that. i was so shocked that you actually did it! they looked like they wanted to kill you...it was hilarious.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago)

I quite liked the club actually, I just wussed out early coz I was tired. There was an awful lot of jailbait tho. Oh, and I was cross with myself for putting a quid on bog attendant's silver salver coz it meant I had no money for the bus ticket machine and had to hoof it all the way to Marble Arch, grrr.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago)

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