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)
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 March 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 1 March 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)
...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)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)
Someone employ me. PLEASE?!?!?
― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
;)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
Aieee! No! Come back from the Dark Side!
― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)
For, erm, no reason, really. Honest.
― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)
Control click, hrmm, I could try that...
― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
would it look worse with an extra button?????
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)
― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)
(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)
xpost
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 March 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)
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)
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)
forget it.
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)
x-post. Hurrah for Pete, who knows what's what.
― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 March 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)
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)