FAP 10 march-- distract me from weeks of homelessness

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ok, it's been talked about on another thread, but i'm suggesting a FAP wednesday next week, as part of the 'cheer me up because i'm living out of a $!@#ing suitcase'

although i'm tempted to have it be north london, i'll settle for central since it's in the middle of the week.

suggestions for venue?

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

wednesday FAP? well, we're getting a little bit closer to a weekend FAP, i suppose...
i'm up for this. i'm not suggesting a venue since i will be mocked for my lack of london knowledge.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

can it be a football pub? there be Champions League shenanigans afoot i think

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Colette you're ruining my 16th March FAP.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

nonsense, she's just maintaining the 1.5 FAPs a week London ILX average

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

He enjoys having his pitch queered.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

what a squeeze!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, ineedy - the Runners-Up Cup second legs are that night. Arsenal will be showing in the pubs, though I'd rather watch Real v Bayern as ~~I heart Becks~~it's a finely balanced tie.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, okay then. But I third calls for a football pub.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

One Tun, Goodge Street?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I fourth or whatever the request for somewhere showing the football! This can also be my first post-eye-op FAP, though since it's only two days after the surgery I don't expect it will be working right yet. (Also, Colette, I assume you are okay for somewhere to stay during this period? I have ample spare space, if not.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

One Tun only has the small TV in the corner doesn't it? are there any NICE pubs in W1 with a big screen?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The PF and I discovered that the Bull and Mouth on Bloomsbury Way has an upstairs room with a huowge screen. They do pretty good food too. And have a very pretty French waitress.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Bull and Mouth was also the venue of the first actual FAP.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Wednesdays = official QNIWFW'$ for me.

HOLD ON b-b-but if it's cancelled for the SODDING REAL ACTUAL FOOPBALL I'll be down the pub moaning grumpily at all the blooming boys...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

BULL AND MOUTH! BETTING ENDS!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

steve there is a VERY LARGE screen in the corner of the one tun as well, you mentalist, we were watching the football on it at the quiz FAP...

upstairs at b&m prone to not being open/booked mid-week, i've found, although they do have a small screen downstairs.

(fear not starry, football only on itv on tuesdays, this will be on the sky)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew thank goodness no pub for me

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The PF and I had the upstairs at the B&M all to ourselves for a long time for the Ireland/Brazil and England/Portugal matches a couple of weeks ago.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Wun Tun or Bool & Mowf? Vort now (Matt DC to thread)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Shtop shtop Stevem, you are not READY for a decision yet!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I vote One Tun. That big screen in the corner was perfectly adequate at the QuizFAP, and at least we know for sure that it will be open and it will be showing the footy. And everyone knows where it is.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(Colette is staying with The Boy for the next couple of weeks, btw Martin, as documented on another thread somewhere around).

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

adds stevem's last post to the "evidence against offering membership of the steering committee" folder...

...fair dos JtN, just reporting on pre-xmas champions league nights (perhaps they are more pro-england than pro-footie...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

that's one bulging folder. who needs your steenking committee anyway?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

football pub is fine with me...wednesday is a little arbitrary anyway, so if tuesday is less of a conflict that's fine...

thanks for the invite martin, i do have a place to stay, but it's just really depressing living out of a suitcase.

and my fish seems really traumatised, and i'm worried about her! good thing i've got an easy couple of days here. moving at work today, woo!

― colette (a2lette), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Gah, bah, etc. etc. Can we have football FAP separate from Colette FAP? Seriously. because I'd rather shoot myself in the head with a nailgun than have to watch football. But I really wanna go to Colette's FAP. Sigh.

― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Not everyone will be watching the football, Kate.

I don't think I can quite manage to be offended that Colette would rather stay with her boyfriend than in my spare room.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i suggest a blindfold kate - everybody's happy. then we can prod you gently every now and then and you won't know who it is, oh the merriment!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I say stevem was funniest poster?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

You all have exactly ten minutes to object otherwise the fascist dictatorship make the One Tun the official venue for this.

Kate's post settles it I think, as the place is ideal for people to watch or ignore the football as they see fit.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Right then - ONE TUN IT IS!

Sorry Bull and Mouthers - I think this is a top choice for a future FAP but I rather want to watch the football and won't be too happy if the fabled upstairs room is closed. Blame CarsmileSteve for sowing the seeds of doubt in my mind.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Great. So what is this "football", then? Do you people have touchdowns? Who are the quarterbacks?

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

don't forget to yell 'you're shit-ahhhhhh' whenever a goalkeeper kickout occurs rob

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

cool. one tun it is. i've never been there. isn't it where the karaoke is? i'm assuming there isn't karaoke and football both as options? that would just be too good to be true.

don't worry rob, we can sit in the corner with kate and talk about hockey or something...

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You've been to the One Tun, Colette - its where we did the pub quiz and you started pimping out random American girls to Stevem.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Grrrrr. Though I must admit that being blindfolded and prodded by Stevem sounds, erm, well, kinky enough to for me to overcome my hatred of football. Where the frick is the One Ton? Why couldn't it have been the bull and mouth; that's just around the corner. sigh.

Someone employ me. PLEASE?!?!?

― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, that was quite a night. oh god, my head hurts just thinking about it.

wonder if she'll still be sitting there waiting for stevem to come back!

kate, we'll have fun even if the football is on, don't worry!

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Pimping blindfolded girls to Steve - quelle horreur! I'm guessing he still left alone.

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve won't tell us, the cad.

This the the One Tun, Kate.

http://www.fancyapint.com/thepubs/pub9.htm

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

no, no, there's no need to pimp kate to steve. they have this special 'bond' that needs no help (not much of a pun intended with the blindfold and stuff). it was a different girl, a stranger, last time at the one tun. and she kept saying things like 'i don't know WHERE to go now!' to steve. i ended up in the troy club and then playing in the snow in chinatown. bad idea for a monday night.

i've got a friend at work that's letting me matchmake him, so that's helping me to leave stevem alone...

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oh....good....

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Special bond? Uuuhhh... is that what compelled me to wear a Moog t-shirt this morning? get out of my closet, Stevemattdc mindmeld!

― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it's their minds that they meld.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ewww.

I remember the FAP when Steve and I turned up wearing the same t-shirt. Now I know how women feel with the "she's wearing my dress! Bitch!" thing.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

remember when my name WASN'T mentioned in every post on a London FAP thread? no me neither

;)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'll miss it when it stops)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

You may have overtaken Gareth as most objectified man on ILE by now.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha fucking hell I've just looked over the last ten or so posts - we're all obsessed with you!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

good job it jumped the shark long before i showed up then

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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I really need a pint now. I've been working like a bastard all afternoon. Sick co-worker Finns suck ass.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Will be a little later than planned, Have had a 'strategy meeting' with one of the bigger bosses sprung on me for 9am tomorrow morning and I have to prepare.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i will be there at 6:30 too. i'm only staying til half 8 though.

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

Liz I'm with you - I swear I've done more real "work" today than I have in the last 2 weeks. I need an adult beverage, pronto.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I won't be staying long unfortunately. Have to get up at 4:30am tomorrow. Ouch.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hate to miss another FAP but Isabel's feeling ill so I'm going to stay home and keep her company. I'm sure I'll see most of you next week anyway.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

dagnabbit, I have to wait in for a replacement replacement vtr. Damn americans and their damned NTSC

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Skidmore's love hotel!!

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

My head hurts, but then so it did before I even got to the pub. A jolly nice evening, with even some interesting football (*gulp* I didn't say that, right?). And, of course, Skidmore's Love Hotel. Make 'em pay by the hour, Martin.

I hope Colette was duly distracted from her homelessness.

Cis and I discussed the works of Mr Arthur Ransome in alarming detail on the bus heading Oop North afterwards. Arrgh ruin.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Taking sides - Skidmore's Love Hotel vs. GIANT TABLE FOOTBALL!

I had much fun, and skipping off at 10.30 and thus escaping that disastrous Last Pint = no ruin for me!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

interesting football

Aieee! No! Come back from the Dark Side!

― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Would it be cruel to point out the pivotal role that Robster's chameleon-like appearance played in the inception of Skidmore's Love Hotel?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now both intrigued and ph34rful.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha-ha, no ruin for me! HSA ran off home early taking mine wallet with him, so I was stopped from having that fateful last pint (or going anywhere near Spain). Alas, this did not stop the long and earnest drunken discussion of who was the most attractive member of Busted. (The men all think it's Charlie Eyebrows. They are wrong. It is James for being, in Cis's words, the "most kickable".)

I say, next time we try to avoid the football, let's *not* sit underneath the giant screen so it feels like the entire pub are staring at us?

(Guess Colette is going to be at work without internet access all day so we'll never find out what happened with the most Canadian Welshman in the world.)

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh i was wondering what the hell the deal was with his voice...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, how do you copy/download pictures in Safari? Anyone know? On a Mac? I am completely lost without my right click button.

For, erm, no reason, really. Honest.

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You do know that Macs actually have a right click?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Press ctrl and click. Or get a PC mouse...

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

There's only one click on this thing. No right click.

Control click, hrmm, I could try that...

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Why the fuck Macs still come with one button mice is beyond me. It's Steve Jobs actually wants to slow me down by making me switch between keyboard and mouse unnecessarily.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Design over utility? I mean, they're pretty and all, but yeah, really annoying.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a two button wheel mouse with laser thingie and life become sweet, with the loveliness of control and the niceness of Macs - it's the dialectial process in action.

I suspect the one button thing was a good idea based on the Palo Alto research by Xerox, but PC 2 button stuff invented things like contextual menus which kicked serious productivity ass. Apple could have and should have changed it, but Jobs prolly thinks that would look like conceding defeat.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Design over utility? I mean, they're pretty and all, but yeah, really annoying.

would it look worse with an extra button?????

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Depressingly enough, you're probably right about that Dave.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd forgotten about the giant table football discussion! but it's all coming back now. whose idea was the hamster-style ball?

i just outlined the table football plans to my officemate, who looked utterly confused, until he realised that he was thinking of subbuteo rather than table football.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The hamster ball was my idea. Oh god. But still: give motive power and a sense of purpose to the ball, and you have a much more exciting game. Errrr like Quidditch or something.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

All this discussion of Macs is interesting, but it is DISTRACTING ME from my downloading of Busted pictures. Sigh. I think it's just the official site doesn't want anyone nicking their photos. Grrrrr. What is the POINT of official sites, except to provide drool-worthy wallpaper material? Fuck off, I don't want a ringtone.

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Lord help me, I am becoming a dirty old woman (no "what do you mean, 'becoming'?" jokes, please!). He was born the week I started high school. This is disgusting.

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Try the Time Out website? The current issue has Busted in nice suits on the cover...

Being a dirty old woman is great. I'm just waiting until I hit 30 for the full toyboy fandango. Sorry, Rob.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

KATE!!!!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to worry, Liz. I'll be well into my Dirty Old Man-hood by then.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Leave your manhood out of this.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Trust me, I've got the Time Out. Does their site let you download images? ::drools::

(HSA is very amused by my dirty old womanhood. He claims that it makes him feel better about his own depravity, knowing that I'm dirtier than him. Oh dear.)

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

or at least wash it first

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn Time Outsite! Download service not available for Macs. I WANT THAT PICTURE AS MY DESKTOP WALLPAPER!!! fuXors!

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

kate you should make HSA dress up like a schoolkid.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

again

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

holy hangover, batman.

thanks so much everyone that came out. it was a really interesting evening. and fun. but interesting. oh god.

i don't remember from about 10:30-12:30, so i don't remember leaving the pub-- hope i didn't leave without saying goodbye again! i ended up in the lovely troy club finishing ANOTHER bottle of wine. i think i got home about 3am. had to teach a training session on policy and planning at 9. i think i was still a little drunk when i woke up, and felt like death. but the class went really well, we finished early, so now i'm back at the boy's house to take a nap before my mind-bogglingly boring meeting tonight.

since i can't remember big chunks of last night, please feel free to tell me what kind of inappropriate things i said or did...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoah. You = hardcore, Miss C! I merely went home and iced a cake.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

weren't you guys supposed to prevent me from staying out so late?

i suspect i would have been better off icing a cake. oh well, the hangover is bound to go away sometime, right?

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I am rubbish enough at icing cakes at the best of times I can't imagine doing so while inebriated. Please tell me the cake has 'Busted roxx u r all gay' written on it in pink icing sugar?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"iced a cake"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

nice to meet you yesterday colette!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry. Nothing so fancy, although I could indeed have done that if I'd thought of it and hadn't been tired and drunk. As it was, a quick whipping up of chocolate buttercream and slathering of the middle of the cake was all that I managed before slumping off to sleep.

I recommend painkillers and lots of them, Colette. Ibuprofen is your friend. Having to teach on 4 hours sleep and a hangover is way harsh.

Xpost obv.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

We did try to make you go home, but you screamed "leave me alone you no fun hataz".

Still if you don't rememebr 10:30, you won't even remember me being there and taking the piss out of your tiny head.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"a quick ...

forget it.

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You are fools. She admitted she had no memories and begged for you to tell her what she had done and said, and you have missed this golden opportunity. Useless.

x-post. Hurrah for Pete, who knows what's what.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The fight at closing time was immense. Poor Stevem. "Think you can get away with stealing our quiz, eh???"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i do remember a conversation about small heads...what the hell started that?

nice to meet you, as well, ken.

yes, i have no memory of anyone trying to make me go home, or of saying goodbye or not. that pub is so ruinous for me! i can't believe i thought it was a good idea to take him off to the troy club!

and what's this about stealing a quiz? i'm so confused...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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