Pub quiz in Edinburgh

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Tonight like (Thursday)? Preferably for cash and centralish. Ta muchly ILE.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago) link

running short of pennies dave?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 3 June 2004 07:41 (twenty years ago) link

Got a group meet thing going on and want to turn our accumulated educations into (scottish) pounds.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:11 (twenty years ago) link

And there I was thinking this was an invitation.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

Soz like - am meeting an old uni mate who now lives here and some new fwends...yeah yeah organised fun etc

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:23 (twenty years ago) link

A pub quiz? Just get pissed!

Decent Edinburgh pub quizes are more the Sunday night (the Argyle, Marchmont - if it still runs) or Tuesday and Wednesday.

Can't think of any on Thursday.

And I agree with Madchen. not very hospitable to us, is it?

― ___ (___), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:30 (twenty years ago) link

You're in Edinburgh, Dave B? Will that not make watching Euro 2004 problematic?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago) link

I am here for a week, and will be here for Eng-Fra but no more games.

It's not that inhospitable really is it? There's a time and a place for meeting new folks, and when you already have an arrangement with an old friend isn't one of them.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:58 (twenty years ago) link

I'm being facetious Dave!

― ___ (___), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:59 (twenty years ago) link

I was worried I'd committed a faux pas

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago) link

Shouldn't be too much anti-England Team feeling for the first game but once the full horror of the TV/media coverage kicks in then expect the non-English UK residents to be slightly less than enthusiastic about England's progress.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:03 (twenty years ago) link

Dadaismus - I think you make more of it than there is. I don't think the Scots particularly care, but for a preference that England don't win it.

There are a few pubs I wouldn't watch the games in, but that is always the case due to their affiliations.

Dave - if you need somewhere to watch the England game, the Pear Tree is a definite pro-England haunt.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

Does that mean it's full of braying poshboys?

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago) link

There used to be on in the Southern Bar on south clerk street on thursday evenings - not sure if it still runs.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:21 (twenty years ago) link

Ha ha. Braying poshboys in Edinburgh? Well, I never...

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:22 (twenty years ago) link

Err...it is a bit near the Uni. Poshboys not so much so - more a guaranteed lack of neds.

Other places for football - The Park Bar (Bruntsfield), there's some schemie sports bar near the Station, The Cask and Barrel (Broughton), The International Bar (home to the Celtic supporters club)...

― ___ (___), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:24 (twenty years ago) link

DB: give my love to Steve.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:57 (twenty years ago) link

I shall snog him whilst channeling you.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago) link

Oh. OK then.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago) link

Tongues or cheeks?

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago) link

We'll decide on that during the channelling.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 3 June 2004 10:43 (twenty years ago) link

> the Pear Tree is a definite pro-England haunt.

Bizarre! The pear tree used to be choc-a-bloc with bikers and crusties, until they banned dogs on strings!

― Keith Watson (kmw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

Until I moved away from Edinburgh last week, I used to go to the pub quiz at the Auld Hoose, on Tuesdays. We won £109 there a couple of weeks ago.

The same bloke that does that one used to do the one at the Pear Tree on Mondays. He also does one at the Blind Poet on Sundays, and I think he might do the one that's at the Southsider on Wednesdays.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

Oh god - the Southsider. I never thought that place would haunt me on here!

― ___ (___), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:07 (twenty years ago) link

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