try glasgow more

Ward, that can easily be arranged!

I like Heavenly, because a city centre bar where you can get change out of three quid for a pint of Guinness without being surrounded by muttering jakies is something of a rarity.

Can this wait until early February? I have a lot of January left with v little pay packet to cover it.

excellent, thanks ailsa! am also skint for the next month or so, but will be in touch after that...

and a Heavenly FAP sounds a good idea (a friend of mine has been there for an indie pop pub quiz or two, am sure an ILX Krew wld Klean up!)

That would be good with me too, I'm really busy with photographing at the moment.

I've heard positive things about Heavenly. I believe that Bubblegum Records are involved to some degree.

I will be in town on 11th Feb at lunchtime - could manage a couple before you go off to the ICT match?

Me and a mate are regular second-placers in the indie quiz.

Ward, Celtic don't have a home game until mid-Feb anyway. I will warn you in advance that we sit so far away from the pitch that you may need breathing apparatus and a set of binoculars.

xpost, yes 11th Feb to be precise. I say yay to pint with aldo.

I'll be working on Saturday 11th Feb, but could nip out on my break for an hour or so, depending on the time. Would be fun.

Cool, a pint with aldo and then a football match sounds like a grand day out.

I shall investigate tickets up our bit of the stadium - there'll be plenty scope for moving a few rows or seats away as ICT games won't attract too much of a walk-up crowd unless we sign someone proper good in the transfer window that people want to see.

(n.b. that is not going to happen)

Newbie question - what's an ICT game??

Supercaleygoballistic etc

TY, sounds exactly the right fixture for me, think I have to work my way up to an Old Firm game (only ground I've been to in Scotland = Cappielow Park)

Yikes

Never been to a football match in my life.

Things to do in 2012, Krakow!

tbh don't mind going to the match myself.

What a shame that I'll be working.

Celtic v Rangers games - vastly over-rated, usually a terrible game, 90 minutes of shiting myself that the stadium is going to fall down.

Surprised and pleased to be included in jed's roll call considering I rarely post on ilx. I would be very tempted to turn up at a Glasgow FAP - not this month though, for the same reason others have given.

Nice bit of propaganda for Weegies. The study was written by my brother's girlfriend, but she's not biased, oh no.

I had done a quick scan of the thread prior to posting sorry i missed Jim or he was hidden!

I'm definitely up for a drink in february.

I would say are there any plans yet given it's next weekend, but I know what Glasgow's like.

I just remembered about this last night! I am v. skint, but am up for moderate amounts of boozing.

up for't.

Are we going to the match y/n?

I guess the best place for a pint is somewhere handy for krakow to nip out to at lunchtime. Since I don't know where he works and haven't been out in Glasgow for maybe a couple of years then somebody call it. Noon?

krakow works near qn street station iirc.

oh is this a football thing?

Doesn't have to be - I'm not bothered either way. I had assumed ailsa and/or onimo would be going to watch the rematch of today but that was more of a guess than anything else.

Not necessarily football for everyone - onimo and I (and maybe aldo?) are going to the football that afternoon, hence early start in pub. Ward F had mentioned about maybe joining us, but I don't know if that's happening.

xpost

Krakow, how long do you get for lunch and how near your work would you like us?

... there are very few decent pubs near krakow's work, it's Wetherspoon central, mostly.

Saying that, Wetherspoon = cheap real ales + very real likelihood of seats.

The vale is alright iirc.

I like the Vale, but (1) don't see it as fap-friendly and (2) doesn't it get quite busy before Celtic games? It is approx 10000000000 x better than the shithole next door.

How about Heavenly? I can take an hour & that's not far at all; I'm a fast walker.

I'm easy though, anything within that kind of distance would suit me. I'm happy at Wetherspoons nowadays and would be interested to try the Vale if it weren't too busy. As long as I know in the morning to give my fellow workmate friend warning ahead of time so we can arrange for him to get his lunch at a decent time, I can take a break pretty much whenever.

Vale is fine by me if fine with others - v handy for your work and v handy for onward travel to football. Guess being in early doors will secure seats.

Cool. It would indeed be super handy. Not somewhere I would ever think to go myself.

Given the random and unexpected success of fappage in the Alpen Lodge, I'm all for random odd pubs.

Oh god, that time in the Alpen Lodge when it played all the tracks we would have on the jukebox for free.

And then played JAMC even though it wasn't on the jukebox.

Did we collectively hallucinate that? Good times!

unfortunately i have an absolute ton of freelance work to do this weekend, subbing an old ppl's magazine, so i can't come out to play - but would still like to 'do' parkhead, at some point.

I am v. skint, so the cheaper the better if you ask me. Who's in for definite - me, aldo, krakow, jed. Jim? Eyeball Kicks?

Yeah, I'm definitely in for a little break-time ILX meeting!

Aye, me.

G says he's taking the boys but has a spare if we meet him by the ground before.

Do we have a back-up plan in case this bomb guy's obliterated the area before tomorrow?

(aldo, I appear to have lost your phone number).

We go into Queen Street so g_d only knows where we'll end up if it goes off.

Ok. If Glasgow is blown up then Alpen Lodge. We all know where it is. I will still aim off to be wherever at about 12. For those who haven't met me before I will be wearing a grey Circle (the Finnish band) t-shirt and/or a Neurosis hoodie.

Ailsa , does your number still end FOUR ZERO? I will text you if it does.

aldo, we'd better co-ordinate our Circle t-shirt choice! NWOFHM is all that I wear!

Aldo, no, it doesn't. email me or else get my number off onimo if you're in touch with him.

I will wear the one from last autumn with the round logo that you can't make out which band it's for. Which kind of makes my last post redundant to everyone except you. NWOFHM xpost