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

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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)

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