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

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

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

"these days"

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

"Until"?

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

'become'

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

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

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

"North"

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

North? d'oh xpost

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

they're playing catch-up cf Oxford ILX.

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

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

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

Are you actually winning any of these endless quizzes?

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

They won last night's!

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

20 quid on Monday and 50 quid last night, aksherllay

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

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

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

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

Crikey! Drink away boys!

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

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

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

Village christmas quiz - 17th December folks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Michael, do you want this job?"

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

haha are you guys going to the swimmer every night?

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

they probably are and are not telling me

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marlborough AND Marlborough Lights (Marlborough Road)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But yes, in general and in theory I am.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Western Road

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

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

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

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

I'm up for that!

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

Frog & Forget Me Not = BEST PUB NAME EVAH!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sweet!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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did someone say 'book Glasshouse Stores downstairs'?

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

its phear. admit it tim.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have you been peering through our front window again Desouza?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

julio's keyboard is mightier than barry's sword

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*cracks knuckles*

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

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

Answer my question on the other thread, Suzy!

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

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

In general. In my experience. Flippantly.

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

Flip off.

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

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

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

they shd ask more questions abt airfix models in pub quizzes

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

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

you mean that sort of thing?

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

stern john

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

yes!

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

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

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

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

i shd do stand-up

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men are idiots.

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

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

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

Pete -- OTM (for a bloke).

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

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

it's either that or ogle her, sorry

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

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

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

Lick my decals, cochese -- no way.

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

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

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

ha ha Vicky to thread

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

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

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

but she purrs over the power tools

I look forward to getting out of there

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ok which pubs off video-conferencing?

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

Yay!

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

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

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

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

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

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