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I really meant curling, you don't need skates for that. I thought you were up for it when we talked about it when aldo was up the last time. However booze --> skating ---> more booze is good fun too. Honest. Or you can stand at the side with an over-priced mulled wine and pish yourself laughing instead.

No-one's going to want to do this, are they?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Curling! I don't know about. I'd go skating though. As long as GF wasn't allowed to stand at the side sniggering when I fell.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

In that sentence, does GF stand for Grimly Fiendish or GirlFriend? Can we both laugh at you?

Im totally up for curling.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

x-post, assuming it means me:

no, when you fell i'd come slip-sliding over and drop a curling stone on your pods.

it'd be funny, honest.

as for being up for curling ... this rings a faint bell. i'd say "ah, but i was drunk" ... only i wasn't drinking that night. hmm.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Stet, I notice that Grimly Fiendish has an unhealthy fascination with causing you pain in a particularly sensitive area. I'm sure you'd already noticed.

Let's go curling in Paisley! Or between Glasgow and Paisley!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure you'd already noticed

wam! bash! zung! ooof! etc.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

*cups stones*

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

it's the two (amusingly mis-sized) stooges. glasgow should be delighted that it's getting all this top-quality entertainment for free.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

*cups stones*

Is that a curling term then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:37 (twenty years ago)

hello :)

cozen, no credit. yes to DFA. who else is coming?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Yes, sorry. Keep meaning to find out who's going and get tickets. Should just get my own, I guess.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

me & ally, apparently

how much?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

eleven.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:02 (twenty years ago)

i think

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:04 (twenty years ago)

yes that's right. 11 in advance & 12 at the door.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

: )

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

yr welcome

in advance also allows you to join the faster moving queue i believe.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

try glasgow more.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

"apparently"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

: )

I am going

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

OK, at massive personal sacrifice I will bring my last 6 butteries. (although I think I have found a recipe and may try making some)

Curling at Paisley on Weds 28th sounds ace. There are still pubs in Paisley you don't automatically get bottled in, aren't there?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

"still"?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm presuming AT SOME POINT IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND there were. I realise this logic may be flawed.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Can anyone tell me anything about a pub called The Tap at 1055-1061 Sauchiehall Street? Apparently they have a pub quiz there on a Tuesday, and a friend is wondering if it would be suitable for a work team outing.
ta!

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

It is a horrid studenty place.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

(I mean, a place for students who are horrid)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

not: "a place for students, who are horrid"

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

So a load of civil servants will stick out like a sore bum?

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

I shouldn't think anyone will care. I just think it's a pretty tacky place.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

it used to be nice

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

We did the quiz there once and it was crap, remember?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

i just opened 3 other threads and browsed ILM in another window in the time it took this one to open.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I just got DFA tix for me, Ally and Richard. I didn't get you one, David, coz I didn't know if you had one already or not. They're on sale at Art School bar (or Monorail if that's closer).

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

(the woman complained that the Squarepusher tickets were easier to rip)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Can anyone tell me anything about a pub called The Tap at 1055-1061 Sauchiehall Street?

it's where i took someone to tell them i didn't want to go out with them any more, which should tell you everything you need to know about it.

alex, you must know it. it's slap bang sod beside the university, one block north from the goat and firebird. almost at the end of university avenue, in fact. it's blue ~~and smells of piss~~.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

The Tap used to be lovely. We used to go there after work on fridays in 1996/7, and I had a ridiculous crush on one of the barmen. Used to have really good beer, and cask strength whiskies.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a ticket yet because I don't have money till friday : /

it better not sell out : /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Doubt it will. It looked like she'd only sold about three so far from a fat book of tickets.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

We did the quiz there once and it was crap, remember?

Oh, Madders, you are the mistress of understatement. As I remember, the bloke who ran it looked like Reece Shearsmith and got a bit upset when we called our team "You look like Reece Shearsmith". Bonus points were awarded for some bloke being able to stretch his bawbag over a pint glass, and then to anyone willing to drink from said pint glass. The tie break was settled by a race around the block.

I have no idea if this makes it suitable for civil servants on the piss or not.

However, as a pub, it has cheap drinks and a pool table and big sofas. It used to be OK.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

we called our team "You look like Reece Shearsmith"

hhhahahhhAHAHAHHAHAHahH hoo, HOO!

Bonus points were awarded for some bloke being able to stretch his bawbag over a pint glass

i take it all back. the tap is obviously utterly grebt.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

That is the best team name evar
*waits to be proved wrong by floods of quiz-goin ILXors*

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Actually, come to think of it, it might have been "I look like Reece Shearsmith" so that when he read our team name out it was like he was admitting to his Reece Shearsmith lookylikeyness. Anyway, the place is shit, and his poxy quiz was even shitter.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

the tap is under new management (again)! we went there on a saturday afternoon semi-recently and it was dead deserted. which made it great for our purposes. i approved. they took away the tvs tho! ally was there. tell them, ally
i am so going ice skating

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

cozen - it won't sell out.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

: )

the day gets better and better

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

THE RISK AGENCY

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

The Tap used to be lovely and then sunk to almost unimaginable depths of awfulness and now seems to have climbed back to a position of just kind of bad. And yeah, that quiz was the worst I have ever been to, I think. But it was like 4 years ago or something, it might be different now.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

i think i must have stumbled across it just as it hit the darkest depths.

anyway, look, this is important but i'm only going to mention it once 'cos this kind of thing might not be good ILE etiquette. but if you care about scotland's finest cinema and don't want it turned into a shit pub that's probably even worse than the tap then, umm, click there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

this kind of thing might not be good ILE etiquette

All cinema saving spam should be accompanied by the atari penis face graphic. Apart from that, it's fine.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

Did you get that from Ath0le, S1mon? Bad news. Amazing it would even be considered, what with the festival and all that. Like any more pubs are needed.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 17 November 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

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