Alba is in London next week - it would be nice to see people on Wednesday

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Wednesday the 22nd. A week today.

The... Glasshouse Stores?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds perfectly doable.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't we go to a... bar?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you trying to provoke controversy, Mr The Nipper?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just being a ponce.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my lord.... GAH! I have rehearsal that day! what are we doing rehearsing on a Wednesday? maybe we can shift it back to Friday unless The Kidz actually have developped a social life or something...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I might be around but have a strangely busy week and I'm not sure I can do two FAPs in three days. I'd like to see you though, as it'll be nice to remind each other tha we're actually friends in real life.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

gah, we are going round some friends' for dinner. though i guess an early pint would be doable.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I would love to go to a bar, but I fear it would only be me and you turning up, Jerry.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i would prefer a bar, too.

two faps in 3 days, mark? what's the other one?

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

When is the other FAP that week?

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, did I get it wrong? I had Colette's FAP in my diary for the Monday but, having a closer look, I also have it in there for the following Mopnday. I guess the latter is right and there's no problem after all. Is there?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.my.calendars.net/ilxfap

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit. Is that when I'm going to Sean and Zoe's with you Toby? Nick, I'm an idiot. I was all 'oh yes, Wednesday will be great, it will be lovely to see you'. I am such a bloody idiot.

(I would go to a bar.)

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, an early drink then?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Definately. Depending on what you're doing I could even meet you before hand.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

What are you doing in the London, Mr D? Top-secret media spying?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

aargh there's a gig on the same day...from what time do you think you'll be there N ?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If someone can suggest a decent bar, I'll go. We've been trying to find one to go to on Friday but I only know BOOZERS, don't I. Do cocktails come in pints?

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i would go to a bar.

and (for anyone too lazy to click on the link to the calendar), my fap is the 27th. woo! yay!

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

count me in, bar or pub.

alba, we were quite shocked to see ian brown on telly the other day and realising that HE IS TURNING INTO YOU!!!!

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ian brown was on the Big Issue cover the other day there was a resemblance, definitely.

starry cocktails sometimes come in jugs.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What is this crazy bar bandwagon? Times have changed.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Except N. sounds just like Joe Cornish. Really, I phoned him while Joe Cornish was on telly to check.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

So it's the Glasshouse Stores then?

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah! I'll definitely be coming out.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Anna, that show was prerecorded.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm very touched by all the enthusiasm, btw.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

But i could still hear what he sounded like. Is this actually your job? Do you secretly overdub all of Joe Cornish's TV apperances?

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't remember ever hearing N's voice, even tho i met him at Glastonbury

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

he sounds something like this:

"I don't think so..."

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't remember ever hearing N's voice, even tho i met him at Glastonbury

oh yeah, was he one of the crowd of guys wearing construction overalls or something, that i thought was a random passerby, but turned out not to be?

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

whoa! looks like Ian Brown and sounds like joe cornish, what a freak!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think maybe we're all sick of the same old men's boozers and want N. to inject a little glamour into things.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

You have an interesting definition of glamour barry.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

from now on Mark will do the thinking for all of us...

but yeh, a change is as good as a fap - i just can't think of any adequate bars, my bar knowledge is lacking, no bar expert me, you may deride my bar-recommending ability

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

are there bars with bar billiards?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The gig I'm planning to go to takes place downstairs at a bar. Its in stoke newington, tho'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Bars:

Freud most cocktails under a fiver and generous, top of shaftsbury av, no tap beers, stuck in 1992 but in a good way

YO Below, Poland St, Karaeoke, beer on tap at the table (danger danger), japanese snacks

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

keston lodge in islington would actually have room for all of us, and isn't stupid expensive...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds alright, and i can hobnob with Centaur staff ("don't you think £5.50 is a bit of a joke price for Creative Review?")

xpost

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

went to the goodge bar on goodge street once and it was ok

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

is that frevd related to the oxford frevd ed? also haven't i asked you this quesiton before?

(keston lodge being what used to be granita, and run by the same people who run the lock tavern, fact fans)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm going to check out YO below one of these days.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, The Social on little Titchfield st

We could compromise and ggo to one of the Bierodromes and rink expensive beers

Steve, I don't know?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't remember ever hearing N's voice, even tho i met him at Glastonbury

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

keston lodge actually used to be an all bar one...granita was a couple doors down, and is now a turkish restaurant.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

yes?

xpost

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

http://www.fluidfoundation.com/venueDetails.asp?Venue_ID=1077

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

what about The Lab on old compton street? i've heard good things about it.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

My gay husband works there.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't the main problem with freud that it's too small for all of us? (unless there's no other customers, i mean)

xpost-- the lab is great but EXPENSIVE. nice for one cocktail, too much for staying for a whole evening.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Lab and Freuds are both teeny tiny.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

If you get to freud early doors then ilx can take over the rea to the right of the door as you go in. It never gets really busy till after 8 anyway.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

That is a point.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick isn't fussy. are you Nick?

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Bar? Bah more like.

When a place can get a plug by being not as expensive as you'd think, there's immediately a big flashing warning light which says 'at least 3 pounds a pint' goes off.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha. "Pint."

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I am cool with anything as long as it doesn't involve endless fannying around.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with MDC. I think Alba or the steering commitee should state a place and a time and should be the end of the matter.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an idea. I will be free earlier on, when I can see anyone who a) is around and b) doesn't hate bars in one of the suggestions above (the Lab or Freud's).

We can move onto the pub at 8pm or something, by which time we will all run out of money for £20 cocktails anyway.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Anna and Toby - when will you two have to leave for your dinner party?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

considering virtually none of the founding members of the steering committee post any more i think others need to take up the reigns, innit...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Freuds early on, Glasshouse Stores after

see you next week (if not before)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Fancy a Ponce

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

woah, look at manniong stepping up to the plate, if only ancient history wasn't against him, he'd be a shoe in ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Uncharacteristic decisiveness there from Stevem. I approve.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

IT WAS MY IDEA. But I accept that Captain Manni0n stamped his authority on it.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

earlier on means about 6pm?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

you are all gaye

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahem. It is spelt 'gheye'.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

not the way i mean

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah well you're probably just nicking someone else's definition anyway so what does it matter?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

;)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

earlier on means about 6pm?

MAYBE EVEN EARLIER

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

:-0

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Watch your bags in Freud's - people's got nicked last time I was in there. And it IS tiny (and pretty uncomfortable, and expensive), but as it's a school night it might be alright.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I can get to Freud at about 5.35. Maybe even 5.33.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw man, Freud's has the BEST Long Island Iced Teas on earth...

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

just don't drink so much of it.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

or at least wear grippy shoes

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

a slip there can be extra embarassing.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What? I've never injured myself coming out of Freuds - don't know why, tempting fate.

I'm just begrudging the fact that I have rehearsal that night, and can't go anywhere.

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Spend strategically and you can achieve Freudian ruin for £10. Japanese Slippers £3.40. LICE Tea about £6.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ruin in under two drinks?

Sorry, those LICE Teas are strong, but not that strong!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to remember a 4pm drink there where one LICE Tea was enough for a fair whack of tiddliness. Or it may have been to do with a bassist.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Bassist? What bassist? One of my bassists, or that bassist that used to live around the corner?

(that's half the reason I like Freud - the other half is coz they have slate tables and let you draw on them in coloured chalk when it's not busy.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i am intrigued by this freud's, i've never been there. barry - under five quid for cocktails doesn't sound expensive to me.

Anna and Toby - when will you two have to leave for your dinner party?

it is not a dinner party, it is dinner. ahem. i have emailed to enquire, i don't imagine we'd have to leave too early, hopefully.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Freud's the place that has a set of steps leading up to a mirror (and banged head)?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup. Excellent vodka Mojitos too.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

FREVD does surprisingly good, cheap food also!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I realise this is rather late, but:

oh yeah, was he one of the crowd of guys wearing construction overalls or something, that i thought was a random passerby, but turned out not to be?

???

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you turn up at any point during the ruinous and very noisy proceedings in the early hours of Monday morning?

(Actually, what DID you do in between Saturday morning and the end of the festival because I don't think I saw you once at that time despite being in the same group of tents?)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly even from Friday morning onward...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember one night when i was visiting the ilx camp, and a group of guys all dressed the same (and i vaguely think it was overalls, or bright flourescent raincoats or something?) and i thought it was just random people passing through and talking to strangers, and then once you'd left, someone said it was you.

can anyone fill in the gaps in my memory, here?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I was... up to things.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Was N. a droog?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I was emphatically not wearing overalls at any point.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

This post is amazing, in a way.

I have often meant to post about the fact that N. never comes to see any of us when he is in London.

And now, for once, he is actually asking to see us.

It's not that I am unhappy about that. I like seeing N.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant: this *thread* is amazing.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

bright yellow jackets?

even if it wasn't you, i'm totally not making this up. does anyone else have any idea what i'm talking about?

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mean to jump on the guiser bandwagon: I say this a little reluctantly - but I think I agree, a lot, with Boyle about bars. I can't see that he is wrong.

But if JtN is right about the FreVd food, then, OK, interesting.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember that being the story, colette. but i'm pretty sure i only heard this from you, so i can't really back you up.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i can confirm this story, though only by sound, not by sight.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember three blokes turning up and standing near the edge of the circle for a bit. No idea who they were or what they were wearing mind. I was too busy singing loudly and spilling the last of my wine.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i think starry might have been the one that identified the mysterious group of guys...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Bar? Bah more like.
When a place can get a plug by being not as expensive as you'd think, there's immediately a big flashing warning light which says 'at least 3 pounds a pint' goes off.

the swimmer at the grafton arms is like £2.80 a pint and no one seems to mind. (and if you're stevem you drink the £4 strawberry stuff ;))

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

it's cherry beer, and i am a ponce

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we should have another Swimmer FAP soon. (Since I can now walk home afterwards.)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I am all for Swimmer FAPs for similar reasons.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I live nowhere near it, but I like it anyway!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(There was a whole table of dirty rock boys the last (only) time I was in there.)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

if you drink enough you can pretend to have swum home

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If I get drunk enough, I'm sure one of the dirty rock boys will let me sleep with them!

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

do dirty drone boys prefer drunks?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, no, apparently, according to Q or the NME or something, it's all about crack now, but hey, whatever it takes, you know? ;-)

― Danger Whore (kate), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw N on the Saturday night/Sunday morning at Glastonbury. He looked tired.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Was he speaking in tongues?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus, I spend all day on a meeting and you lot let the barponces take over. I've been to Frevd twice ever, in my life I'll only go twice ever. Overpriced and uncomfortable, and full of challenging haircuts, just plain crap.

I'll be with Boyler in the pub.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

see you there than darling, MWAH!

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Negronis, whisky sours and ruin all round

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Porky and I agree on something at last! I've been looking forward to this moment. Hugglez?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn! I am going to see Tony Benn on this day!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

oh christ, I'm not as well am I? is that the day of the thing at the post office?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Post Office? Tony Benn? WTF??

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

he's doing a lecture at V's work soon, hopefully not on this day

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm seeing an audience with TB in Hayes!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

cool, I'll be in the pub waiting for N to be de-poncified

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that like defrocked?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

kinda, yes.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I still don't know why Alba is leaving Alba.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

This is all tremendously exciting. I'll be out of my Personal Work Hell by then and may even be able to swan off early, so the possibility of intercepting Da Dast before even this Fraud place and luring him back to my smack den/walking round a park looking at the duckies is there, certainly. Certainly, it is there.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Where is this Freud's? I plan to get there and stay for the pub, I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't sure myself, Ally C, until I found about this duckies thing.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You are a mysterious man. I am going to the pub to watch whatever football is on, incase you want to come.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had it with football.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, Top of ShaftesburyAv. opposite forbidden planet.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Pot sã-þi vorbesc între patru ochi?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, that didn't work.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Things rarely do.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(Oh, wait - Central European settings. That works.)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

hold on a sec, I was just conversing with the GLW, and why bother with the Glasshouse stores if ponces are going to Fr(Ps)eud? Why don't we congregate at the Angel which is just round the corner?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Angel is tiny and smoky. Seriously, it's a shit place for more than half a dozen people.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the right hand side is much better, surely?

anyway, there's no point trekking to the GHS when there's loads of pubs nearer

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, I like the way Suzy assumes that directing me by comic shops is the best approach. She's right, obviously.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris has a point - there is no point having the two venues that far apart. It wastes good drinking time.

But when a final decision has been made I think it should be put in the subject line to save confusion.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(Actually I think the last line is true for all FAP threads)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Whining about bar/pub divide worthless waste of time. Obviously we always go to pubs so whingers might just let someone else have their say/way for once. Compromise good, eh?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

suzy is otm.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

No she's not, I'm afraid that if there's a fap in a pub that I really disliked, then I just wouldn't come, and I've been to Frevds and really dislike it, so won't be darkening it's doors again. It's not a matter of compromise, it's matter of personal comfort.

(sorry Nick!)

(plus money's tight this month, and try as you might to convince people that there's bargains to be had, I know from experience that this is just lip service)

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I will not be offended if anyone refuses to come to Freuds, or the Glasshouse Stores, or wherever it is that is set to replace the Glasshouse Stores.

I am sorry to have exposed such tensions.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I think good company transcends the cornholiest bungholio. And this whole ponces calling is stupid too. There is nothing poncier than throwing toys out of pram when someone picks a rendezvous point that you dislike, and pulling a flounce about it after the window of opportunity has long closed to rearrange. I think that is part of my annoyance.

Sorry you have not had fun at Freud, V. You ought to reconsider; it is always good when we go. I rarely have more than two or three drinks out no matter my finances, as to keep the economies of scale that make me a cheap drunk. Slimming,too.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we establish whether it is called Freud, Freud's or Freuds? It is unsettling me. I think I trust suzy in this matter, so I assume the first is correct.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, is any member of the Freud dynasty likely to be in attendance?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Good company doesn't trascend somewhere where a dozen people have 4 seats between them. That's Freud's.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

But we are getting there early - I thought we'd be OK? If you are sure there will be no seats then I suppose objection is valid.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, but the two times I've been there have been horrible, in fact one time was one of my worst nights in London (a personal thing, but one that means I won't be going back)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I can understand the not wanting to go somewhere that one dislikes thing (i do that a lot), but i just feel sometimes there is a disproportionate amount of animosity against going somewhere different just for once or twice, like, way more than just "not turning up" kind of protest.

for this occasion there will be pubbing later on though right?

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I do think its rude to dump yr issues all over plans a large number have endorsed. Also, where Chris is concerned complaining about bars is his schtick, it is as predictable as a German railway timetable and in this one instance the sense-memory neurosis moment hes citing seems convenient and over-wrought. It really does seem like wanting own way all the time.

Unlikely, Alba. It is, as Nipped earlier, FREVD on its shopfront but Freud in actual English. Early works well for seats as all the offices nearby are media and that means school is out at 6.30 round those parts. Therefore 6 good, 5.30 even better.

Mark, if you as a born Londoner cannot keep random office workers at bay to seat your pals, deary deary me.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

5.30 is cool. I think Anna will be able to get there early, so that will be two of us at least.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

what about the princess louise as the pub? not too far...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the name! Can we go there?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry - that's not a terribly pubbist way of choosing a pub, is it?)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i think most people like the princess louise...it isn't stupid expensive, it's easy to find, it's less than a 5 minute walk from freud

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair number of seats?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It was also the acid house meetup pub of history for Shooom and the like, and has an upstairs and is virtually atop Holborn. I do not drink BEER so I cannot use that criteria, to determine quality. But it is good.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Colette, the louise is a great pub, so long as there are seats - if upstairs isn't open then there might be a problem....

Suzy, Chris's Schtick is being a curmudgeon, if you hadn't noticed! There is a regular ilx gathering at a bar, every time there is a freaky trigger event.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps I should find out if upstairs will be open. Otherwise it sounds perfect.

And we can go to an acid house party afterwards.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

hey we've all got out schticks, I'm a miserable curmudgeon, while other people are shameless namedroppers.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

People are to stop fighting on my thread.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost) Yawn. Pathetic.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be there early too, Alba - 5.30ish, if I can make it at all.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Excellent - I'm quite excited about the whole thing!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I've finalised arrangements in a sound file!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, bless! You are allowed more than one take, y'know!

Princess Louise is 30 seconds from where I work, so: smashing.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

London's great after all.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael - that was the 4th take. I felt it was getting stale.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

can't hear it, my computer sucks: will have to wait a week to hear alba cornish's voice.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet he doesn't speak, to you.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll just listen to him; speaking to others, then.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

that made me laugh a lot

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I will make a point of speaking everyone. Even stevem.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

To everyone.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Alba is a very well spoken individual.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you. Unfortunately it appears I am unable to string a sentence together. Imagine what I'll be like after a few Long Island Iced Teas.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

This excites me, having never met Alba at all, but having found myself agreeing with him on the interweb much, and liking his sense of humour.

Ps - this is not a come on

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Romanian is soooo passé.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I can be there super early Nicholas. The recording is lovely.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

every fap needs an mp3, i think. although i'd like to hear the outtakes.

will be there pretty early i imagine, though i'll have to leave at around seven so will miss out on the princess louise's loos. never mind.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 16 September 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet Christian Bale wouldn't have flubbed his FAPmp3.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 16 September 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

So this is at the Lousy then? Excellent stuff. I will probably do both places.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My suggestions:

CRO-BAR.

That lovely place what went to near Waterloo.

My observations:

I tend to get lost on my way back from Islington.

I didn't think much of the Glasshouse Stores.

I have never met N. If I do, will he be my Friendster?

I haven't read every single post here, there are so many.

I would like to look at the duckies too, assuming I am not suddenly snowed under (stranger things have happened).

I am looking forward to this. I will start saving up.

My questions:

Will Mooro come?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

can there be a text version of the above mp3 please for all the deaf people that may want to attend (and who can't follow the to-ing and fro-ing of this thread)?

and / or put it in the calendar

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah for the Lousy. Maybe a cocktail as well.

It's astonishing that Mr Miller and Mr Alba have not met, bastions of the Sinister past that they are. It will be an historic occasion, no doubt.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe the final instructions are:

Freud (Shaftesbury Ave, opposite Forbidden Planet) from fairly early - just before 8pm.

Princess Louise (Holburn) 8pm - close.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

is "lousy" pronounced "loo see" or "lau see"?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"lao-tse". London fappers are hardcore Taoists.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I might make it, but I still have other demands on my time, and it is Freshers' Week (i will be hot from the first SOAS quiz so will be unable to make Freud's, shame).

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the idea of quizzes making Pete hot

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It is Freshers Week...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god I forgot all about fresher's week. Colour me bored of directing lost, hungover 18-year-olds to places they don't want to go in the first place, please.

I wd like to have a trip to London to hang out with some nice intelligent people, but I fear it won't be possible.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Princess Louise will be full of ~~nubile young people in search of cheap booze~~ students as well, there will be no escape there.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been oversteered again...i hate you all...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Emma and I will be on holilday. bah.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

you ought to get a stand-in

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

teh Hamiltons!

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

N. were you st0ned when you recorded your little message?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Not in the least!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

So a lot?

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I was not stoned or drunk or anything. I was just bored.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the whole ILx calendar should be available in a "Read by Alba" format. With the old Alan 'Fluff' Freeman Top 40 music playing in the background.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

How old is Alan Freeman now? He seems to have been old forever.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

77!

http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/alan_freeman_page.htm

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"And with that all important FAP on the 22nd, it's...Alba!" I loved Alan Freeman's chart rundowns.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

alright?

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Not 'arf.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

That was really sweet Nick, even if I did keep expecting you to wish that the seed of my loins be fruitful in the belly of my woman (or similarl, you know what I mean) :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure I do.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

What a great photo:

http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/images/freeman_genesis.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get it about N. making a sound file.

I like Miller's posts, always.

I am looking forward to seeing N. - but I find that I am also looking forward to seeing Suzy!

I don't think I get why there is both bar + pub action in one night.

I have somewhat gone back on what I said about bars earlier. I find that the bar thing here appeals, now, for some reason.

Colette is right, the Princess Louise is fine, as many will agree.

RJG's post made me smile, as he does, always.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Fresher's Week? :'(

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yes that is a shame.

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Fresher's Week was the only time period on earth I was capable of convincing myself I could get laid, seeing as the rest of the time, I'm a realist.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Though, even if I was around for this, I'm pretty certain I'm out of N's league.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

But vomity freshers are nasty! I'm not saying I haven't done ~~them~~it myself, but you know...

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Will freshers have ventured beyond their union bars by this point, though?

Pinefox - a sound file is a computer file encoded with sound. If you click on the blue writing I provided, it will connect you to this. If your computer is suitably equipped, you will hear me 30 seconds of me talking about the arrangements for next Wednesday.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What league are we talkng about? Is it about having sex with freshers? I have certainly never done that.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ew freshers. It is even more wrong and dirty to fancy them now I have to actually work with them, isn't it? Not that I do. Fancy them.

(Although I have a small crush on you Nick, after listening to the sound file :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

What league are we talkng about? Is it about having sex with freshers? I have certainly never done that.

I guess we're both in the softballs league then.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Barms, unless my memory's totally gone to buggery you're *extremely* good-looking. Why the modesty all the time?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

you never showed him enough attention!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/ifc_films/jump_tomorrow/_group_photos/hippolyte_girardot5.jpg

Ronan and Barima watch the girls go by

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

jesus christ

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That guy looks identical to Billy Bragg, but I assume it's not him.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy Bragg doesn't wear glasses!

― the neurotic rassafrassa of harrumph (blueski), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

No, the white guy.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

nick, you are ridiculous sometimes.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

except when I like you.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

For a while there I thought they had the most awesome milkshakes in the world.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

That guy looks nothing like Billy Bragg. Stop saying everyone looks like Billy Bragg. I am still confused. The Princess Louise has the nicest toilets in the world. How, in the world, has Alba never been there?

I like the sound.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I have been. I don't know. There have been so many.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think even I've been.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

A love story built on honest, clever, quiet jubilation--steering clear of mushiness and sentamentalism--JUMP TOMORROW interweaves the lives and dreams of three unique characters. George, aka Jorge (Tunde Adebimpe), is a sweet, shy man with deadpan facial expressions and a monotone voice. But underneath his stoic surface, Jorge is a true tiger with wild dreams and a passion for life. He takes a few days off work to travel to Niagara Falls where he is to meet his bride, Sophie, for a marriage arranged by his African relatives. On the way to Niagara, Jorge meets Gérard (Hippolyte Girardot), an outspoken French man with his heart on his sleeve whose would-be fiancée has just refused to marry him. The two forlorn men are invited to a party by a beautiful, exciting Spanish woman, Alicia (Natalia Verbeke), with whom Jorge falls instantly in love. The rest of the film is a game of leapfrog, with the unlikely--but perfectly compatible--pair of Jorge and Gérard piggybacking Alicia and her spaced out Canadian boyfriend, Nathan, along the highway to Niagara Falls...and beyond.

― WHAT, Thursday, 16 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That lovely place what went to near Waterloo.

Was it the Kings Arms?

Will Mooro come?

He would like to, so he will try, but the work devils might be against him.

Why does Vanessa Felch on 'Cosmetic Surgery Live' remind me of Alba? I don't suspect him to have had Botox yet, but there is something going on there.

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 16 September 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

N: I think I didn't get why you needed to make a sound file, and how you made it. Also, I have never had a computer that can play such things to me. So I have not heard it.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 18 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched some Cosmetic Surgery Live. I think it was a man-woman who had had tits. They were saying wowo your tits look fantastic but they didn't, they looked like two lumps of fucking play-do.

Yes, that's the one, Mooro.

Can someone, preferably Carsmile, do the map thing for this Freud's Place. I hope it's not poncey.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

That penultimate line was terrific.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What, 'yes, that the one, Mooro'?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I have typing problems today.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

No: the one with the hidden sinister retro reference.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 18 September 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530094&Y=181249&A=Y&Z=1

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know there was a hidden sinister retro reference.

Thank you, Ed.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 19 September 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Cor, it looks like it's right in the middle of one of those nuclear bomb maps from the 80s.

Is Lincoln's Inn Fields good at all?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 19 September 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Very. you can walk through the inns of court right down to the rivervhardly having to see a car.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 19 September 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if it still operates nowadays, but there used to be a nocturnal soup kitchen run in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Probably no longer necessary though, seeing as London doesn't have a homeless problem any more.

― Mooro (Mooro), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that a post-pub suggestion?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

To sleep on the street?

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

A bit of the old poverty tourism - it's all the rage.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You could just come round to our flat.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've done that already - this is a nationwide poverty tour.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ally's flat reminded me of my friend toby's house in london. toby's old house, rather. the third floor was about to collapse so he finally had to move out.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Twitch said a similar reason had forced them to relocate the brwh. Maybe he should hold the next one at Ally's flat.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, I am very much looking forward to Wednesday, whatever happens.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I shouldn't tempt fate like that. Apologies if the world ends.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ally's flat?

don't believe the hype.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Fight The Power.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

fear of a cack planet.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

you two.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

My heavy friends (I think they are still friends) were commenting on the lack of poor peoaple on the streets and then as if by magic there was an old woman widdling in the middle of the pavement. I tried to explain Cardboard City in Spanish to no avail. Later on in the week realised it was much more effective to just make things up.

Assuming I can afford to come at all, I will be in London EARLY DOORS on Wednesday to do something INTERESTING yet to be decided, so if anyone wants to chum up, just say the word.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 20 September 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

What time are people going to be a Freud? I'm wondering if I can stop by on my way to rehearsal. A couple of Long Island Iced Teas might stop me from bottling Pete again.

― The 120 Days Of Streatham (kate), Monday, 20 September 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw peeing, in the street, in madrid, once.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 20 September 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Par for the course for them lot.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be there 5.30ish, I think, if I make it at all, which I probably will.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I am hoping to be there by five.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 20 September 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

18:10

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 September 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

20:03:17

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 20 September 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometime between ten past Martin and quarter to Gareth.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 20 September 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

See, this is much better than your feeble 'clock' system!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 20 September 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone explain, about the ducks and things, earlier? I might be there, if I knew what it was.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of us, Steady Mike included, were wondering whether there might be something to do earlier on in the day. Mike suggested lobbing bread at ducks. Nothing more has been said on the subject, but I am after for Early Doors antics so that I can get my money's worth for the train fare. I don't know whether N has to be involved or not. Perhaps nothing else was said because he didn't say anything.

Anyway, I'm up for afternoon tea or whatever. I was thinking of going to one of those poofy art gallery places and maybe Mr CD.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Explanation: I was talking rubbish and a couple of people joined in. Thankfully things moved swiftly on.

I will try to arrive at Housefrau's at precisely the same time as Nick, so it looks like we're on a date.

(xpost)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Housefrau's mean Freud's, or have I missed another clue, or cue?

Miller, let us have tea, together.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

someone might like to point out to stevem that if he turns up at frueds at 20:03:17 he'd be drinking alone as migration to princess louise happens at 8pm

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm only coming to this if i receive a haircut beforehand.

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ken i didn't say i'd be at frueds at that time

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Afternoon tea - we could start c. 4pm, at ... ?

― the duckfox, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Wykorzystamy resztê œwiat³a do zrobienia zdjêæ domu.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and he has!

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't be bothered reading the whole thread - where is the FAP?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

madame jo jo's

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I know: I will ring PJM.

PJM -- I will ring you.

Be warned.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Not AGAIN, I'm never out of that place! (xpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the FAP (from upthread)

Freud (Shaftesbury Ave, opposite Forbidden Planet) from fairly early - just before 8pm.

Princess Louise (Holburn) 8pm - close.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

From "just before 8pm" till 8pm - boy, that place must really suck

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

You think of somewhere for tea at 4, The Pinefox. It can be somehwere near where you 'work', if you are 'working' tomorrow. Or somewhere very far away, if you prefer.

I am sorry Mike was talking rubbish. I wasn't talking rubbish. I think the Diana Memorial would have been a good place to feed the ducks.

I have been watching a DVD with some Everton on it. I thought about Mike.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i want tea and to feed ducks! but i have to work!

can we do this another time as well?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Since its got a bit colder, the waterfowl in St James's Park have have stopped swimming as much and started just walking round the edge waiting for people to feed them. On my regular lunchtime walk today it reminded me that while I love geese when they are swimming around, I am abjectly terrified of them when they are right on the path in front of me pecking around. *shudder*

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The only reason I would visit the Diana Memorial would be to blow it up

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/rm493-591/fall2000/students/sacilotto/Wood%20Duck.jpg

I fed some of these fellows in Regents Park, yesterday.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm getting my hair cut like that

― teh pow! (blueski), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, roughly how placid are pelicans? They scare the shit out of me too. Possibly because they look like they could actually devour a small child.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I was only dimly aware that I was talking rubbish at the time, PJM; I thought you were humouring me, then I was lost in the threadstampede and became convinced that I had, in fact, been talking rubbish.

Turns out I was talking breadcrumbs. I'm glad to see the ducky meme roar back. I originally meant camp men.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

whereas swans of course ~~can break a man's arm~~ USE OTHER FACTS PLEASE

(i can't remember if we got our strikethrough priviledges back or not, so that might not work proper like...)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(oh hurrah we did!)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

strike through, pah

I want my TT

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's actually quite good, Dadaismus.

Matt DC, are you a GUARDSMAN or do you work in the CABINET WAR ROOMS?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

They are good ducks, Jerry.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a memorial to Princess Diana - by definition it is not good

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Sadly not. Do they usually let people who are scared of geese into such priveleged positions? If so, god help us if there's a war. Or if Al Qaeda start training waterfowl.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

So would you jump and shriek like a girl if one were to suddenly brndish at you, for instance, a rubber duckie?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Just asking like. Brandish.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Argh, where is the picture of the baby and the giant duck when you need it?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, matt's greatest fear: a girl approaching him with her pet goose, inviting him to grind.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

not quite a duck but fond memories of this photo

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/eb5f5b5_m40c466cd/bc/8175/__sr_/1f2e.jpg?phFcFUBBH6srqzTy

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Big action-packed day tomorrow; will deffo need some poncey booze. 18.15.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I like ducks, as a rule, but there is something not-nice, about the nipper's.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My greatest fear was actually discussed in the pub on Friday night. We all agreed it is very scary indeed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG, you like those horrible manky Kelvin ducks that stink of widdle.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

An email sent literally moments ago:

Dear PF,

I propose meeting at 4 outside the FORBIDDEN PLANET opposite FREUD'S where I
am sure we will find somewhere suitable for a Chimps' Tea Party and then be
ready to pounce on an unsuspecting DASTOOR and JONES as they attempt to
sneak into FREUD'S for a gay tryst.

I am going to post this on the appropriate thread in case anyone else wants
to come. If you have any better ideas, mobile phone me (it will be switched
off if I'm anywhere poncey, but I will switch it on again later) and post
details on the appropriate thread in case anyone esle wants to come. Try to
discourage RIFF-RAFF.

PJM

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

watch out for the dalek

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:26 (twenty-one years ago)

And the big Hulk head.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:29 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, after rooting for the bar idea and suggesting the pub, i don't know if i'll make this or not. i'm now going to some fashion show and dinner and stuff. which sounds fun (free champagne and famous people to gawk at, maybe) but i'm also freaking out because what do i wear?!

so if it ends early enough, i'll come along to the pub. also, if the fashionable people laugh and point and i have to run away crying, i'll be there earlier.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

just wear what you wore in that photo on the latest WDYLL thread

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah totally Colette! Rock on & stick your fingers up at any fashionista scum!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

er, i'd rather fade into the background so i can get drunk and hopefully be able to drool over chr1st1an sl47er...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Work has returned, with great abruptness, to Normal and today that means leaving at 4:50 after a solid seven-point-five hammering away at D**e G****n's G*********k A*******e. So the PG Tips will have make like Lipton and go on ice. Plimpton. Trumpton.

I'll be swanning into Freda's nice and early though, with my own tankard and a half-crown for the juker.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I am (possibly!!) going to the GIM before this!

Bring yer nosepegs.

― Starry (hello chickens), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Kidnap random slebs and bring them to the FAP.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, ok. can you imagine how funny it would be if a load of famous people came down to the princess louise with me? ha.

i'll give it a try, though. it'll be a project for me to work on so i don't spend the whole time worrying about what i'm wearing.

i think i need anna or suzy to dress me! i'm so hopeless about fashion...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

> D**e G****n's G*********k A*******e

need more letters...

ah, got it now. involves a very big number?

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah mate, that's 'plex' not 'whack' innit.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i was thinking of 10^100 (which is still pretty big as numbers go) rather than 10^(10^100)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 10:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(plus it's spelt differently, something that i'd forgotten)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

As I said on my thread, I won't be available tonight, despite being in town, so enjoy yourselves, N et al.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

g****ew***k always sounds more like surfing for p**n than looking for t*o w**ds that r****n just one r****t

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Colette, you always seem very well dressed to me. Then again, I'm about as far from being an expert on fashion as you can get and still know what clothes are.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Mike never talks rubbish, really. He is too talented for that. But like James Joyce, his talent can make him obscure to the uninitiated, at moments.

I love the Chimps' Tea Party motif, for some reason.

I like RJG's post. I always do!

It is going to be a struggle to make it to meet Miller.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

colette's fashion sense has raised sky high ever since that day i gave her indie-rock clothing advice.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I fear the Pinefox has gone Too Far. By a Bridge. Or by a nose.

I may have a cocktail this evening. I expect it's too classy a place to employ double entendre like, say, the Cactus Cafe in Loughborough. I imagine they're called stuff like Snow Falling On CeBars or The Shawshank ReDrinktion.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

> I expect it's too classy a place to employ double entendre

double entendres would fit perfectly with the name of the place.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Its too much of a struggle - have fun alba and everybodee!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the trepidation has turned to anticipation.

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The hour is at hand. I've got butterflies. I've also got Butterflies on VHS, but that won't get me a mineral water in this place.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

life is not, in any way, like a butterfly, i have come to realise. Wendy Craig should be shot.

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This provides a neat link back to PJM's rocker pubs thread as WC is/was a daughter of Maidenhead and there's a glowing photo of her somewhere in a M'head shop window. Or maybe it's been sequestered.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

actually glowing?

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean she was pissed in the picture. Or pregnant.

I'm joking, Wendy.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://base58.com/ilx/wendyhein.jpg

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

how odd, i was just discussing cheltenham in the office then i click on this thread...

...hey! it's COCKTAIL TIME!!

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It is LOVE that is like a butterfly, Stevem. Leave poor Wendy alone.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry butterflies set in cheltenham, for those of you who didn't know)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

it was a typo Jerry, honest! and NO, NEVER...

― teh pow! (blueski), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh, hope you all have(having) a good time. wish i could be there to be honest, if i didnt live miles away.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

If I could gatecrash any occasion, I think it would be this one.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Over Britney's tracksuit wedding??

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

We could combine the two.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You silver tongued minx!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dance with me, in shellsuits.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

no heavy petting and no flammable clothes, on the dancefloor.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a cotton-lamb's wool mix. (I would bloody love a night on Renfrew Street eating those indian chicken things out of a paper bag. I'll have to try Glasgow more. Again)

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a funny feeling that Christina Slater may have turned up for Alba's drinks...

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it was actually funnier than that, who turned up.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

you can't say that and not tell us

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think she might just have :-(

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

To confirm - Christian Slater was in A pub in London but alas perhaps not THE pub. I was hoping against hope that he might have been posting under 'The Pinefox' all the while...

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

No, let someone else much more drunk than me come back and tell tales! Also someone else gets a turn to drop names this time, and I am knackered.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, but this had better be good after you whetting our appetities for intrigue!!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Also it happened at Freuds and not that office-bod pub.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It wasn't me.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

You're feeding us crumbs, lady!!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Was it you in disguise?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Why would Suzy disguise herself?

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The four individuals concerned haven't been seen 'as four' in quite some time. I think they were trying to have a discreet drink with their manager in tow (which I hope they didn't think I would write about, that's how they know me). That's the exciting newsworthy bit - and it was good to see them out. One of them bought me a Japanese Slipper drink and we caught up on married friends, friends with kids, all that.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

BOYZONE. I fucking knew it!

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

If it's not them, it's definitely Showaddywaddy.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i missed all the famous people.

but i was asked to be in a film, by a man that designs hats. weird night. but fun! within moments of meeting, i'd managed to make the guest of honor's hair look like something i think kate would have really really liked...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

That was a good night! Apologies for being such a blushingly dull FAP virgin - y'all were exactly as I'd hoped, except most of you, who were much better.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry i couldn't make it. my wasp stung toe would have made me cry if i didn't come home straight after work and abstain from any walking

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No, let someone else much more drunk than me come back and tell tales! Also someone else gets a turn to drop names this time, and I am knackered.

Suzy's memory maybe in a Blur.

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

PH1ll1p TR44cy?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 23 September 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew that 'Jarvis and Alex Built A Fort (And Get It On)' would come back to haunt me. Curse you StClaire.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 September 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

did the Nipper ever show? i had stuff for him. i didn't make it to Frauds (well, i did but only after everyone had left) so maybe he left after that. or maybe arranging to meet somewhere as terrible as Frauds and then not turning up himself is his idea of Teh Funny.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 September 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the Nipper sat at home, reading this thread and rubbing his hands together in evil glee at the fuss he had caused.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 23 September 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Freud's wasn't my idea! I'm sorry I didn't make this - I have a Life Full O'Work at the moment.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 23 September 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

> Can't we go to a... bar?
>-- Jerry the Nipper (jer...@a...il.com), September 15th, 2004 12:03 PM.

this looks like the germ of the idea right there. 8)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 September 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

On my computer that was set in the typeface Ironic Bold.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 23 September 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm gutted i missed Dave, would've been good to chat.

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sorry I did not chat more; was feeling a bit rub after my bout of bad chips the night before.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i meant the other Dave, the famous one

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

even though he wasn't feeling well, dave b still managed to make water come out my nose (in collaboration with carsmile). well done!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Beautiful!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Did he screw a hose into the base of your skull? He's done that to me before. I mean, it's sweet an' all, but...

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Shouldn't that be on the Carry on ILX thread?!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

What is in a Long Island Tea again? I'm sure mine had some enriched uranium in it. I only had four drinks, but it felt like ten. Why didn't we go to McDonald's at half time?

It took me almost two hours to get home.

There is something called a Hellboy Gauntlet in that Forbidden Planet window. Ideal for devotees of Fantasy Fisting.

The people we saw in the BAR were the guys from Britpop sensations BLUR, including the speccy one. It was very very exciting.

And then they were gone.

I said 'Paper Chase' by Richard Harris was a cracker, but I was thinking of a different song.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It was really good to see everyone, except Blur. I could teach them a thing or two about having a discreet drink if that's their idea of going dark.

There's a piece of paper in front of me that says:

COLETTE: JULIO, JOL, JULIO, JE

Which is a bit fucking weird. I didn't write it.

It's a shame about the ducks.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't anyone physically assault Blur? I should've thought it would have been compulsory.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

damn! did someone expose that julio and i are actually the same person?

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

This mysterious document also says:

FRANZ: TOM, SARAH, MATT, J

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

'Alba'

As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.

- Ezra Pound

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Looks like a list of who nominated who in Trig Brother IV to me.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, I think that's from Trig Bruv....

x-post!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone seemed on an especially good form - or it could be that after weeks of work-imposed purdah, a sea of familiar faces left me overstimulated. I left with a Left Legged Pineapple bag full of aging vinyl and an A4 sheet of notes on Finno-Ugric languages. I bet that's more than Damon Allbran went home with.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He left with nothing.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the Trig Brother revelation. I was a bit worried I was unwittingly revealing some state secrets and was going to be in big trouble.

I think I was on good form. I was trying to explain this to the pinefox at one point, with reference to virtuous circles.

I'm glad I (think I) managed to at least say hello to everyone there, even if I thought Peter Miller was a tramp at first.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

were members of blur nasty to our alba since he collaborated with the enemy?

shame to miss ya.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the pinefox thought you were on good form, as well, since he told me several times how well you've aged.

which all made me giggle a little.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I've aged?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it is the way of all things

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

alba had a gig with oasis??

I am disappointed about the trig brother thing, I was hoping you guys were doing that "FLAME" love matching game that we used to do in school.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

where were you anyway?

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry i couldn't make it. my wasp stung toe would have made me cry if i didn't come home straight after work and abstain from any walking
-- ken c (pykachu10...), September 22nd, 2004 11:41 PM. (later)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor Ken. How's yr damaged digit?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to love playing FLAME!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what is "FLAME", you burn people alive and if they survive they are in love with you???

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what is "FLAME", you burn people alive and if they survive they are in love with you???

i'm not THAT bad!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds like a terrific game!

x-post. Oh, shame.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot believe Dastoor is accusing people of looking like a tramp.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that I thought he looked like a tramp. It was just the way the pinefox introduced him. Bear in mind that I have been waiting 7 years to meet Peter Miller. "I've brought along someone" was not the introduction I was hoping for.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i forget the mechanics of the flame game now.. it involved writing down names on a piece of paper.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a lovely evening. I cuddled Nick quite a lot, which was less painful than it sounds.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought sarah's back already.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember all this cuddling. Please apologise to your girlfriend on my behalf - I spoke complete rubbish to her, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

'alba had a gig with oasis??'

no but he has just collaborated with noel gallagher.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 September 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I would've loved to have met Blur. Of course, the first thing (well, fifth) I didn't want to say to my mum was "I know I just got back this morning, but can I go out tonight and meet a group of interweb people and a famous pop band for one too many drinks?", although I know she would've said "yes".

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Damon Alba?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Alba was on top form, Ally C.

Nobody else met them except for Ed when he came over to a) get served and b) see what the fuck the popstars and his girlfriend were giggling about. We were merely having a shared WTF? moment when he arrived, honest, Guv.

Barima, they stayed for like two drinks, and Demon let the barmaid keep change from a £50 note on a £20 bar bill.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

What was strange is that they looked so emphatically like Blur I assumed they were lookalikes. They were almost caricatures. I didn't tell anyone this at the time. I just trotted out my story about seeing DA in Habitat being sullen. Which was slightly redundant in the circumstances.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody else met them

har, that's right, rub it in...

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I had that feeling when Des Moines said 'and you can keep the rest, awroight daw-lin?' to the bargirl. Also, the coxswain looked astonishingly healthy and good compared to the last time I saw him.

I have now brought Kate up to speed on events, and what I thought they were up to. She is quite chuffed.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys should have trumped him by telling the girl she can keep the change from a £50 note for a £10 bill.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

all whilst talking on a mobile phone

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Did nobody manage to sneakily get them in the background of photographs? Speaking of which, are there any photos at all for us to laugh at?

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i took a couple of pictures, but left the cable for my camera at home. will post later!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

(not of the band, by the way. just some standard ilxor shots including, if i reacall correctly, stevem looking both very gay and then very 'macho')

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody else met them

You lot were all hiding in a corner giggling and whispering like star-struck schoolgirls, weren't you?

Wish I'd known this was happening, tho I'd promised to go see Coffee And Cigarettes instead and was slightly uh irritable and exhausted from plane jouney, so wouldn't really have been good company.

― cis (cis), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I leave £30 tipping to the people who can easily bestow such things: millionaires.

Dunno about the photos. I went to the bar because I DID NOT EVEN WANT TO KNOW PEOPLE WERE GOING TO DO THAT.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I took loads but I doubt BlurBlokes feature. I was trying to get the perfect high-ISO grainy Dastoor portrait. He has a different expression in every picture. You can tell he's an Actor.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

coffee & cigarettes vs coffee & tv

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't you get my txt cis?

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Steady Mike's Ixus is like half the depth of mine, I was impressed.

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem spent half of the time in the princess louise asking people if the got his texts, seems like.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It's about half as good, SteveM. If I'd thought to bring it in to work with a USB cable I'd be photobucketing right now. As it is you'll have to wait until beyond the point where anyone cares to see them.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Didnt't get the text until like midnight. :(

Having communication problems, mister m?

― cis (cis), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i only txted two people

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't txt me :\

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too. It was dinky and stuff. I was envious.

In Lousy chat related googling - I still cannot find the origin of 'How's your father'.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

a bit of the old "how's your father"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No one has recounted that Anna, who had left just before Blur showed, is trying to research an article about groupies. I suggested that, to be helpful to Anna, someone should seduce Blur and report back, but no one was up to it. Then it occurred to me that The Pinefox has made records, so I tried to seduce him, but it didn't really take. Sorry, Anna: at least I tried.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I put a 20p tip into their stupid fucking glass of water. I wish I hadn't bothered now.

I thought Blur seemed quite nice.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure they're good to their mams

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

They were right in front of me when I walked into Freuds so it looked as if I was with them - I could see people all over the bar, turning to their confreres and saying, "Who are those guys with Dadaismus?"

― Dadrockismus (Dada), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you were just a PAWN in their game

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

-- Dadrockismus (kcoyne3...), September 23rd, 2004. (later)

nice- about time you did that.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Dada, at first I thought your sharp Crombie marked you out as part of their entourage, as possibly an assistant from CMO (mgmt co).

A13x used to live on 3nd311 Street and it's his old local (he lives out of London now). Were they not having a pleasurable business drink, I'd have stayed chatting to him for ages, probably. Mostly I was sharing some *extreme* good news about work and inviting them to the corresponding launch at the end of October (finally able to reciprocate some of the hospitality they've showed me, which is nice).

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin S, I did not know that you were trying to seduce me. I did point out that you looked smart, when you entered.

I don't think that cuddling N. sounds painful. I would like to do it myself, in theory.

If I seemed to be saying that N. had aged, what I was trying to say was that he had not. What I was saying was that he still looked terrific. I will reiterate that now, for clarity.

N. was on form. I told him, not that so much, but a more detailed version. I told him that his absence had grown more vivid. I found him a slightly changed person, in a way - a good way. His company warmed my heart, for a little while.

It is funny when N. says that he thought PJM was a tramp.

Why is Lara saying that Christian Slater might be posting as me, and what is the relation between 'Christian Slater' and 'Christina Slater'?

I don't really get what JtN says about ironic bold. My sense was that he did want to go to a bar, and I believe that we would not have gone to a bar if he had not made the suggestion.

'Paper Chase' by Jimmy Webb, recorded by Art Garfunkel, is good.

It was good to see the pome, Cozen.

Steady M's point about caricatures is about right. Even the expressions and the way they acted did have an air of caricature, it's true. My feeling was of, say, a hyperreality. They were real, flesh and blood like you and I were; but they were also echoes of many years' worth of representation. Perhaps the result is aura. Perhaps this is related to what Walker Percy says about stars in The Moviegoer.

― the bellefox, Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Mother of jaysus.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Greatest post in the history of ILE there, above, from the Pinefox.

I like how he gently tries to set the record straight, compliments people and seeks to clarify misunderstandings.

I wish I had been able to be there, last night.

Note several extra commas were included in this post, [there goes another one] in homage to The Pinefox.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

But the Pinefox's use, of commas, is, surely, an homage, of sorts, to RJ, G?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I tht it wz the Pinefox, who started it.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I see. The pupil has outstripped the master. Like Westlife and Boyzone.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

And Darth Vader.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Comma Me Badd

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Comma Comedians

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Throw Comma From The Train.

I have always thought of it, as an RJG thang.

The Pinefox has so many other, thangs.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pinefox, the 'seduction' was me suggesting I should shag you to help Anna's article. You took it as a joke, which is fair enough.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The commas thing is pathetic.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

markelby = comma police

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Saucer, of milk, Barry?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

people who disguise themselves in commas = comma chameleon

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

when people get bored by commas = comma coma

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

people who destroy commas = comma killer

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is now officially dead. Please stop fucking it in the skull.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

And that's a full stop.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

commas are ok.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

good even.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

What happened to the full, stop?.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

u.g.l.y.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

markelby is a prick.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Look, no commas!!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd never noticed a comma thing, to be honest.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it's everywhere; it's very comma-on.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I mean, inappropriate use of commas.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Tony Benn was cool, he smoked his pipe.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

c,r,o,s,s,p,o,s,t,

Oh, right, I see. Must have, to some extent, escaped your attention, jel. RJ,G uses them for dramatic effect, mostly.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin wants to sleep with comma people

― teh pow! (blueski), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

This is like the Commalympics.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

commas die.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

comma stay.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 23 September 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine was a xpost.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 23 September 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Some pictures from Fried:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Pernfors88/PinefoxandAlba2.jpg
ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Pernfors88/PinefoxandAlba1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Pernfors88/Badasshat.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Alba still resembles my best friend from junior high. It's quite eerie. She was a nice girl. I'm not saying you look like a girl, Nick. I'm saying she looked like a handsome young man.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm only posting the very stoopid pic of me in Starry's hat cos Alba took it. PinefoxandAlba1 seemingly falls foul of the new size rules cos it's portrait not landscape. Go and link, it's the best one.

Later things got even grainier. There's a Baconesque pic of Carsmile I can't post because it'll be before the watershed in some time zone.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 23 September 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

awww

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

awww. it looks like alba is drinking a cosmpolitan.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 24 September 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

so, er, which one's damon?

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

that looks like a nice place to have a quiet drink.

― youn, Friday, 24 September 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait - what's that The Pinefox is modelling? Why it's a one-armed cap-sleeve t-shirt!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

He really needs a pack of Marlboros wedged under that capsleeve, I think.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

And is Mike going for this look?

http://www.maximonline.de/prodsysimg/articles/ger/2/46136/xcms_CSA879080_CSA433838_CSA1142269.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

herringbone is better than whatever that pattern is.

the pinefox doesn't smoke, does he? but he could hold onto them for alba.

― youn, Friday, 24 September 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord, my band is killing my social life. I was halfway through setting up (read: shouting at Dan C6 to put the mics in the right place) when I started getting these odd messages saying "When are you coming out? All of Blur have just walked through the door" and me getting cross and saying "Stop pulling my leg, I *told* you we were rehearsing tonight, you cannot get me to come drinking with such fables!!!" and the text messages kept coming, even as the rest of the band were playing, and I was getting ribbing from (Blur-obsessed) bandmates when I'm trying to protest "Sorry my mobile keeps going off in the middle of songs, my friends are at Freud and Blur - EVEN GRAHAM!!! - are all there!!!" and bandmates are all "No, sorry, Kate, pull the other one, we don't believe you, you are not skipping out on rehearsal to go drinking on such a flimsy excuse" etc.

Needless to say we were all quite shocked to find out that it was true, and not a made-up drinking excuse "Grham C0x0n ate my guitar pedals, teacher!!!" stylee.

Or, erm, something. Sigh.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think Blur looked like caricatures, I think they look like caricatures on the telly, when they're trying to look 'cool'.

Did Alex James really live on Bellend Street? Why wasn't his local 'the oldest licensed premises in London'?

I think Damon would be better off giving thirty pounds to a good cause. Not that I'm implying he doesn't do that already.

That hat makes you look quite rugged, Michael, in a 'Hector's House' kind of way.

'A Tramp, Shining'

I thought commas were a PF thing. I am, however, happy to pay tribute to RJG as long as he stops calling people a prick. Markelby has a zero tolerance approach to punctuation.

I have asked Alba to be my Friendster. Maybe I should ask some other people too.

It's not that nice a place, Youn, you have to go down some very steep steps and it would be very difficult to get out if there was a fire. I'm surprised it's allowed, frankly.

Kate, if it's any consolation, I thought Suzy was you for the whole evening. So you were there in spirit.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha! Right now I am trying to imagine how someone could possibly mix up Suzy and I, and getting a very amusing image of Suzy rocking out with a Danelectro, and me staggering around in her Slut Boots.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, well, I did tell Ed to be brief and informative in the texting department and add the crucial 'with MANAGER, big stuff afoot' line. I knew sending that text would be like firing one straight into the belly of the Beast, what with the high concentration of Coxon obsessives over at yr. rehearsal.

Kate would be about 6'3" in my slut boots. I'm almost a foot shorter than that!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://base58.com/ilx/faps/0409/edlb.jpg
http://base58.com/ilx/faps/0409/andykoogs.jpg
http://base58.com/ilx/faps/0409/colette.jpg
http://base58.com/ilx/faps/0409/petebaran.jpg

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Your slut boots have seven inch heels? Now I'm even MORE impressed that you can walk in them!

x-post, oh MY!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Eep, demonic Ed, seductive Andy, sleepy Colette, business-as-usual Pete. Lawks.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaysis the edge that Pete picture is alarming.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Who is Colette trying to get drunk there?

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

herself

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

No, she is clearly proffering a glass of gin to some faceless dirty rock boy in a khaki shirt.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

pete looked nothing like the edge on that pic

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

that's alba's arm in colette pic

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god... ::shoots self::

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you sure that's N in that picture? If so, he somehow managed to change clothes between Freud's and the Lousy.

It might be Greg P in the picture. Still, its a glass of water and therefore harmless to even the smallest child.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, it might just be the lighting in Jonesy's pictures confusing me.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew, the idea that I might have accidentally perved on Alba would surely be horrifying to both of us!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

glass of "water"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It was a cosmopolitan, I bought it. Alba bought me a Long Island Ice Tea in exchange and from then on I was stupidly drunk.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

PF looks like a nicer Dylan Moran doesn't he? Glad you all had a nice time.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 24 September 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

it's definitely N in the picture of Colette

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

You're just saying that to make me feel icky inside.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing about that PF picture is I distinctly remember him rolling his sleeve up and me having to repress my motherly instincts by not telling him to roll it down again for the photo.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

another slashfic?

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, that and because it IS

xpost

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, that's like the worst picture of me ever. mean stevem, you said you weren't going to post it!

i am holding water, since i'd had about 2.5 bottles of nice (free) champagne and started drinking at 4pm. it was indeed N in the picture, you can tell by the 'creative' use of redken's special mousse and 'hair concrete'

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Stop rubbing it in that I perved over N's hair by accident. I will never live this down, will I?

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's a good pic colette, i wouldn't have posted it otherwise

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

and what's your excuse for posting that one of me? my usual trick of getting too close to the camera to be in focus was obviously foiled by technology.

talked to markelby upstairs at the louise about something he'd posted the other day only to have him deny knowing what i was talking about. maybe i just wasn't explaining myself too well but it was this: One for ILM really, but can you help me identify this music video? and the offer still stands.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 24 September 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pinefox, the 'seduction' was me suggesting I should shag you to help Anna's article. You took it as a joke, which is fair enough.

Oh, I see - so it wasn't meant as one.

I wonder what N's Commapolitan tasted like. The comma exchange upthread was tremendous, from several posters. Jones, Lara and Chu all excelled. So did Cookie. It's true, I am no longer the king of commas, C.

― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

but can the rolled up t-shirt sleeve be explained?

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

For the intravenous injection of reefers

― Dadrockismus (Dada), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"oh it's such a perfect day, i'm glad i shared it with you"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost kinda

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy, I am teh dumbass. Sorry to have doubted you.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Overuse of 'teh' is getting almost as annoying as the commas thing.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa, barry/mdc personality switch shocka!

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

any schtick gets annoying in time.

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm going to change my name now in response to DC's outburst...

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM

― Dadrockismus (Dada), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Except teh pow! actually. Its the exclamation mark that makes it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Everytime I see your name, Steve, I get a blast of 'Chinerrrr in your hand'. 'Snot nice.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why I like it. It reminds me of early Monday morning at Glasto.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

is there a Jon Williams Posting Name Generator out there?

― the pow (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"teh pow!" is great, "Teh" is great, especially if in contexts:

"teh funney"
"teh sukc"

you miserable lot, you.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Overuse of 'teh' is getting almost as annoying as the commas thing.
-- Matt DC (runmd...), September 24th, 2004 1:09 PM. (later)
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whoa, barry/mdc personality switch shocka!
-- colette (a2lett...), September 24th, 2004 1:10 PM. (later)
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any schtick gets annoying in time.
-- teh pow! (stevem7...), September 24th, 2004 1:12 PM. (later)
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i'm going to change my name now in response to DC's outburst...
-- teh pow! (stevem7...), September 24th, 2004 1:13 PM. (later)
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OTM
-- Dadrockismus (kcoyne3...), September 24th, 2004 1:13 PM. (later)

this exchange reminds me of when every now and then in the Simpsons all the characters will do their catchphrase/thing one after another. which makes me laff.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

PWN3D!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

;)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

pashmina it's "teh funneh"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

D'oh!

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd still like to know about the rolled up t-shirt sleeve

― teh pow!fox (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to know about the rolled down t-shirt sleeve

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

YUO = TEH PWNZ0R3D

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ROFFLE

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The actual FAP occurred 201 posts ago. I'm keen to see how long this thread can continue beyond its natural life.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Markelby will remember, I hope, the time that he asked me to play 'China In Your Hand' for him - for him to sing, was it? - and he did.

It was on Primrose Hill. Making him happy at that moment made me happy.

― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

That's beautiful. Please tell me the Sinister kids slowdanced as the sun set over London.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

matt were you actually counting???

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

some friday afternoon fun

pinefox - looks like a pensive bauhaus fan
alba - looks like a happy mondays fun
ed - looks like a psyc-trance fan and/or an ozric tentactles fan
Collete's style reminds me of Ricki Lake
Why is Pete doing an impersonation of Ricky Gervais?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i think all of those people will consider that a cutting insult

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed likes trance.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Martian. You're always fun.

I have never heard Bauhaus.

I think Colette looks somewhat different from Ricki Lake, last time I saw RL, if ever.

Somehow your comment on Ed is very comical!

― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Collete's style reminds me of Ricki Lake

stevem, i TOLD you that was a terrible picture!

i'm going to go cuddle my goldfish now.

(i also wondered why the pinefox was rocking the muscle shirt look on only one arm, in that picture)

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I like hard hard hard psy -trace if it sounds like techno and nothing fluffy or housey.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That is the best photo of me ever.
Not.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, everyone posed for those pics, except andy

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Re-reading this entire thread, which is, I think, a worthwhile exercise, I was delighted to see Alex James of Blur getting a kind of secret code namecheck very early on in the thread. If I had read it, and understood it, before, I could have been ready for his appearance. I think he liked me anyway.

Roger McGough has a poem about seeing Oasis outside a pub. I might write one about seeing Blur in a bar.

Much as I enjoyed myself, I think I would have preferred seeing Tony Benn in Hayes. I could even have got the same sodding train home.

I have been unable to find the photo of Wendy Craig.

It is almost time for Top of the Pops.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://base58.com/ilx/faps/0409/petebaran.jpg

"WHERE THE TITTIES AT?"

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

whoops, i seem to have upset some people:

http://forums.grahamcoxon.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1341

http://forums.grahamcoxon.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1536&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know there was a Graham Coxon forum. I'm scared now.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

You've been on ILX long enough Steve - those people are hardly upset in the classic Marcello/Barry/Doomie sense of the word, are they?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's icky how they are treating Graham like a surrogate newborn, who needs protecting from all the bad things in the world. I wonder if we were like that on Sinister?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it possible that the guy we saw was some lookalike bassist, as suggested? It certainly looked like Graham Coxon to me, and he was all of two yards away, but who can tell with these plastic-surgeried imposters?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i think you should tell them they're all idiots. because they obviously are. why would you make that up?

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

No way, it was definitely Graham Coxon. Trust the person who had a Smash Hits sticker of him on their History file. I'd recognise him ANYWHERE. Same for Alex James who is lardier in his belly than before but still has NO ARSE. What's THAT all about?

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's icky how they are treating Graham like a surrogate newborn, who needs protecting from all the bad things in the world.

BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAHAAAAAAHHHH!!!

See, yes, this is actually your stereotypical Graham fan. The codependent mothering type. It's actually quite scary.

(Not that I've ever had any altercations with sick, sad, rabid Graham fans in the past...)

OK, I'll shut up now before I get myself in any more trouble.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so glad I don't know any of these people.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Are all four original Blurs even allowed to travel together? What if there were a terrorist attack?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Blur were never really that good, though.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

terrorists only target the really good bands, like Keane or U2.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i think you mean the terrorists want Keane banned

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

at last some common ground!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps Keane can be a key pawn in negotiations which will one day see the end of all terrorism.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 8 October 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

er, which Keane are you talking about now?

― Freelance Keanelover (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Roy Keane. We should sit him down between Arafat and Sharon and THEN THEY'LL KNOW THE TRUE MEANING OF TERROR.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I phoned Kofi Annan and he agreed it was ridiculous...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I phoned Kofi Annan and he agreed it was a ridiculous proposal.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Horrendous mindmeld!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. That is special even by our usual standards.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I nearly went with your wording, too.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

There are only two people who can safely say they've given their best in these negotiations - Bertie Aherne and David Trimble. The rest of us have just not been pulling our weight.

*dead eyed stare at Ian Paisley*

YOU COST US THE PEACE PROCESS!

― Roy Keane (Matt DC), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It was definitely Graham Coxon. He was standing exactly like that milk carton in the video. I had no trouble recognising him or Alex James, it took me a while to spot Damon even though I was looking straight at him (he has filled out a bit) and I didn't see Dave the drummer at all.

Of course you all know this but I'm too scared to post on that board.

It doesn't necessarily mean he's rejoined Blur though. I sometimes go out with former flatmates, but it doesn't mean I'm going to move in with them.

But I do think he's rejoining.

Also Michael Owen will be back soon, probably playing for Middlesborough or Bolton.

Shortly before Darko Kovacevic signed for Juventus, I saw him in the street with his agent. If only I had known about whatever the sport blog is called.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not sure using the blog to post about who you saw in the street is really worthwhile. or maybe i should milk my Bjork sighting the other day more on NYLPM?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it is the most worthwhile thing ever to appear on the blog. Carsmile is the Richard Littlejohn of his generation. Is that right? Or is he the bloke who does the racing? Please tell us about Bjork. She is on Jonathan Ross tonight. I wonder if the other voices will all be there. I hope so.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Please don't milk Bjork. It's not right.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i find Carsmile to be a smart, witty, well-read, indie hero. very much the antithesis of Mr Littlejohn.

other voices?

― Freelance Bjorkspotter (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Stevem trying it again?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The album consists entirely of voices, rather than instruments.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

album? i thought Bjork was just an actress!

― Freelance Bjorklover (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

You're thinking of Minnie Driver.

Recently seen in the company of champion jockey Lester Piggot, my spies tell me.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Lester Piggott was an utter cad to my ex's mum. Flee, Minnie!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What's this about Blur now?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

GET THIS BLUR FILTH OF MY THREAD.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

err... "OFF".

Blurillaz in the system.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Blur lezzed it up to spite ilx.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Alba's bitterness after auditioning to replace Graham Coxon has clearly not subsided.

― ___ (___), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Put the brown cover on this one.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought there would be more pictures on this thread.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v336/deathrattledance/bye_bigair.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oof, you've busted yr bandwidth, Alba. (I don't have this problem as no one wants to look at me pictures).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not actually my bandwidth.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it my bandwidth? Has someone left their bandwidth on your thread?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's just some random person, to quench PJ Miller's desire for pictures.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 18 October 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

One of Our Bandwidth's is Missing!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 18 October 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend just heard on xFM that ~~Gorillaz~~ Blur are back with their original line-up.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray! Eat my blog!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

C&P it into your browser - worked fine for me

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Not that I know who it is.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend just heard on xFM that ~~Gorillaz~~ Blur are back with their original line-up.

I blame Alba.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It's okay, 6Music is claiming they've officially denied it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I really hope they don't know about this thread. I have info but am wary of posting it as I would like them to carry on writing together.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I'm all confused :-(

PS: I don't care about Blur, I just want Carsmile to be vindicated.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it possible that xFM announced it as a result of this thread??

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have info, and am wary of posting it in case it does not exist.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I am wary of The Pinefox's wariness.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I made a mistake earlier. I meant to say:

I am interested in Blur, and I want Carsmile to be named and shamed on XFM and 6 Music.

Let's have an indie Hutton Report and get to the bottom of this matter once and for all.

There are still very few pictures on this thread.

I have got a digital camera now too as well. It uses a lot of batteries. I find this inconvenient and costly.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

PJM: I bought rechargeable batteries, for mine!

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

PF: I think that's what I'm going to do! I actually have nightmares, about my batteries, running out! But I bought a job lot, from Argos! I'd better use those, first!

You can get that Gorillaz DVD really cheap, and Mali Music too. I just mention that in case Blur are all sitting round each other's house and have random googled themselves and need cheering up.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Rechargeable batteries??? The Pinefox is only a breath away from burning CDs and buying an iPod!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I have WITNESSED The Pinefox burning a CD. I have that CD in my possession. It is entitled 'The Spaniard That Blighted My Life' but I retitled it 'This Is Radio Pinefox'. I held it in my hands just a few minutes ago. Admittedly Steady Mike helped him to burn it, but still.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

He's like the KLF.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

He has got a bit of the look about him, yes.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

He gets a proud, mischievous look in his eye when he amazes people with his digital camera mastery.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a CD-R that was forged on the The Pinefox's magical music anvil too. It isn't in my hands, but it is in my car.

The photo I put on the front made me want to title it "The Look Of Love" but an alternative just about Covers it.

Every digital camera I have ever used or seen others use just plain gobbles up battery life, whether re-chargeable or not. What does Steady Mike use in his wonderful camera, that is so small that stupid me thought that it was a phone?

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I can take about 50 pictures (with flash) on mine before the batteries wear down. Make sure you have Ni-Mh rechargeable batteries, not Ni-Cad. I expect you know that.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It's true: why is Steady Mike's camera so much inherently better, in every way, than everyone else's?

I don't have an I Pod.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I know it, but I don't know what it means, apart from 'more expensive'.

I was hoping I would be able to ram my camera right up close to things and take perfectly good pictures of them, like Steady Mike does, but all I get is a.... BLUR!

And that will bring us back to d'oh.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

My camera is not better, for instance, than SteveM's. In fact, it is specifically designed to be inferior. The Macro mode is the easy way to impress people - "Look, the edge of the desk! You can see the grain."

It has a Li-Ion battery pack which supposedly lasts for 190 photos (within the constraints of Canon's idealised view of how people take pictures); I've had it about ten weeks, taken about 1400 pix and charged it perhaps fifteen times. I don't use flash if I can help it.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I find the flash is a bit too bright anyway.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish my camera had a half-power flash. I reckon I need a new one anyway - if only Steady Mike's had an optical zoom :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i was impressed by the look of Mike's camera - sleek and elegant, just as he. he has confirmed it's supposed technical inferiority though. but, as we all know, it's the operator that makes the difference.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I hold my finger over half of my camera's flashblub quite often.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You clever man!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It works quite well. I am clever.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Get her with her big hips and kinky arm.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Vorderman is just the type to advertise to potential employers, suitors and viewers the undeniable fact of her double-jointedness.

Shhhh! .rehtegot oiduts eht ni D & G em dlot reganaM

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

.smra s'namredroV loraC tuoba si daerht siht tub ,llew yrev lla s'tahT

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

.svokenhsalaK fo ehcac egral a gnikniht m'I

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 October 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yag lla r u

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

mottob kcor tih sah daerht sihT

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it was too difficult to make every word an actual dnoucnrmu

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Shhhhhhh! Graham Coxon is on 'The Frank Skinner Show' tonight! It says in the paper that it continues after the news! I can only think of one possible piece of news they could be referring to! So that's it then, it's official!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I will buy a digital camera, before I go to Dublin and London and Italy, and other places, I think. Tell me what to buy, Mikeorsomeoneelse.

How much do these things cost, nowadays? I have no idea.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Pennies.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, there's a really cute Ixus with lovely zoom for under £200.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

COXON? ON FRANK SKINNER'S SHOW? the mind bogles

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

With Pamela Anderson.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

now i understand

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, there's a really cute Ixus with lovely zoom for under £200.
Why does this sound so perverted?!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Because it's me saying it, I expect.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

How did you make the words go back to front?

I cannot read them, easily.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

it's this thing that on earth we call "typing"

― L Ron Mother Hubbard, Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I want Carol Vorderman to do deliciously nasty and perverted things to me with her .smra

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

now it is us who are eating our breakfasts for the second time

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

MRSA?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a conundrum

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I certainly don't want any part of Carol Vorderman's MRSA.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Digital cameras? Oh, I dunno - I can't believe Canon has a complete monopoly on affordable-but-gosh-isn't-it-good? point-and-shoots so, er, look at some others too. I never see my Ixus i in shop windows along TCR so I can only assume it's old hat and there's something even sleeker with an optical zoom, dental floss and an ejector seat coming onto the market.

I just got a batch of SLR photos back from Snappy Snaps - they're almost all rubbish and when you've spent £6 that actually matters.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

you have the best old hat

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 21 October 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

We have Panasonic DMC-LC50EB, which you get from their website. It is advertised in newspapers. I think it was just under 150 quid, but then you have to spend about 50 on extra things like memory card and either battery charger or wheelbarrowful of batteries. And a case. 3.2 mega pixels, 9x digital zoom, 3x optical zoom, whatever that means. You can get it to do all the thinking for you. My main disgruntlement is that it takes a while between starting to press the shutter and the picture actually being taken, so I get quite a few pictures of places where someone has just walked past. The supposedly big deal is it has got a Leica lens. I'm not sure whether I recommend it or not, because I don't have anyhting to compare it with. It's a lovely little toy though.

Snappy Snaps usually charge me 9 pounds. It is run by goths.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, Frank Skinner clashes with Question Time.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 October 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

How can anything involving Skinner result in a clash?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I am told he SPOKE OF THE BAR MEETING and DENIED THEY WERE WORKING TOGETHER.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't face it after two minutes of Pamela Anderson talking shite.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

His programme's in trouble if Pamela Anderson's the best he can do in terms of guests. I suppose Tara P-T will be back on soon, seeing as she is, as it were, back on (the wagon).

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 22 October 2004 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the radio 6 news said the announcement denied rumours that were printed in the daily mirror. carsmile's posts certainly get around 8)

makes me wonder what mischief we could conjure up if we put our minds to it.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I'd never brought Blur to that bar in the first place

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I'd never brought Blair to the bar in the first place.

― John Smith RIP, Friday, 22 October 2004 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Derry Irvine shurely? Shcotch anyone?

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I aaw Graham Coxon on the repeat of Frank Skinner. I was surprised at how much of a freak he appears to be. Skinner did indeed mention the meeting, saying he'd read it in the paper. What paper? The Daily Carsmile? The Carsmile Bugle? The Carsmile Examiner? He didn't give much away, but he was at pains to point out that it wasn't a secret meeting and that they didn't go out in false beards, so perhaps we don't need to write everything backwards after all. Wehp! It was quite a good interview, but a bit strange, mainly because no one laughed, which seems to be the point of Frank Skinner. Coxon's performance (musical) was very good, I thought. Then I switched over and it was Chuck Berry and he was about ten million times better.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 23 October 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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