FAP London

Should be there around 6:30 or a bit before that.

Me too!

I'm going to grab something to eat first (IIRC the food at Sam Smiths places is either not-good or just crisps) so I'll likely be there around the same time.

Things that are good at Sam Smith’s pubs - architecture

Things that are not good at Sam Smith’s pubs - beer, food

Unexpected nostalgia-suffused benefit of this venue: Ed complaining about Sam Smiths, even from halfway round the world. Sad you couldn't fit in an old socks reference, Ed.

I’m here early

Me too! I am sitting at the dual level table in view of the door. Am earing a green jumper and grey jeans.

* wearing

Read that as 'eating' - worse ways to stand out at a FAP, I suppose.

We’re at the front by the door, for those joining

So great to see everyone again! Fueled in my case by Sam Smiths Extra Stout -- which is excellent, and any antipodean opinions on the topic are henceforth declared redundant -- a lot of ground was covered, including self-publishing, printing sets, neighbours, freelancing, typesetting, typefaces, journals, journalism, prog rock, Factory Records, podcasts, weddings, Bill Heine his shark and his cinemas, gullible housemates, Boston, Washington, Hackney, the military, the Tower of London, fishmongers, absent friends, internet factions, past FAPs, ILX history, football clubs and their ownership, cider (with or without sherry)...and...pause for breath, they were just the things I remember / heard.

Is there a name for the table on a table thing in the Blue Posts? You know, the little round table that's on a round table? Tiered table, if you will.

But anyway, where was Lou15 Jagg3r?

delighted to say they are called TIERED POSEUR TABLES

and it was v nice to see all the tiered poseurs and and talk abt all these things :)

We also decided Portillo was good ;-)

and Danny Baker was bad!

tbf "we" decided neither of those things

the first was unexpectedly announced as the CURRENT TANKIE LINE and the second was the mass judgment of twitter, raw but true

What is this "tankie" you speak of I don't understand

whats the first friday in august

dnfiyhm

sounds like a fine time to fap. we'll be there

that seems plausible

fair warnin the mrs is a srs wind up merchant

👍

Pretty certain the first Friday is the 16th, not either of the previous two when I'm across the Atlantic.

August is a bit of a mission, why don’t yall come to Cambridge

weve been to cambridge id not rush to drive those roads again tbh

Hull's lovely any time of year, just sayin

i preferred Cambridge when it used to produce lots of commie spies in the 20's/30's. its alumni have been a right load of punts since then :P

I’m not an alumnus of anywhere, just a lazy East Anglian

It wasn't a swipe at thee!

Didn’t think it was! Just giving my blessing to Cambridge-bash without feeling the need for jk emojis 😉

*indignant splutter*

raging at the institution, not individuals!

tbf i mostly agree

Hello hello I am here to organize the damn thing.

A smol bird with a brogue told me the visitors will be staying near canary wharf. I don’t know that this matters in terms of where we meet but maybe it does?

Ian McKellen owns a cool pub between there and Wapping. Right on the river.

https://thegrapes.co.uk/

I love The Grapes but it's pretty small...

smol (avg height, chubby tbh) bird (more hamster with a glare tbh) with a brogue (only when excited but even then its prob more of a squall) was on to enbb since to suggest that soho-ish might work as we're lunchin around there and moochin afterwards and we might as well be earlyish starting given a long day might mean bed calls us sooner than eg fizzles might have made you to expect

How much time do you want to spend mooching around Soho? If you're lunching late (or shopping) it should be fine but otherwise that's a lot of time in a relatively small area.

London will have emptied out a bit by then but even then Soho on a Friday can be on the hectic side. There's always hardy ILX perennials the Glasshouse Stores or the Blue Posts Newman Street but only if neither of you particularly mind about drinking decent beer and certainly not if you're drinking wine.

More generally anywhere reasonably central on the Jubilee Line should be pretty easy for you.

Bit late to the party here. When is this happening? Remote chance I might be able to make it

happy to hear what would work best, i mean we're going to get home easily enough id have thought

xp my wife is going to a fap, dl

when’s this happening again. i need to ringfence some time before and after.

fri 2nd august if the 2nd august is a fri

destination open for ideas tbh

First Friday after payday is usually a session in my work, so apologies in advance if I turn up at 10.30 pished.

There may be a huge schedule conflict as an OG ILXOR is leaving his job after 20+ years and that’s the night of the leaving do.

feckit!

Yes, I am leaving my work after 21 years on the 2nd August. Leaving drinks in SOAS Bar (last official night I am a licensee there) - I'd happily extend the invite to FAPpers - though I'd understand it if would feel weird.

let's cross the streams!

(in order to be convenient for me)

Ah darn it. Between working from home that day and a 7:30am train Saturday I don’t think I can make it.

So it's FAP 2nd August?

It's been so long, I wouldn't mind making it Glasshouse Stores for old times' sake.

double FAP and no backsies*

*where backsies = traipsing from one venue to another