London ILB - FAP?

I am doing a phone interview at 6 - but should be there by 7.15 or so?

You will know me easily. I am a large woman with glasses and long red hair, usually accompanied by a tall bloke with glasses.

the Fox's nose is very distinctive.

Oh, it's just me? .. I thought as much.

Hey, did any drunks guys come over to your table, like, "Oy! Wot you prats doin' readin' in a bar?? You're all lucky you got so many pints in front of you or I'd kick everyone one of you asses!"

And someone always woke her at the right stop.

The FAP was grand.

The Irish folk at the FAP were much keener on coemdy Irishness than the other Irish ilxors.

We discussed Donnybrook.

they are TRAITORS!

Books were.

Have had lovely holidays. Now, back to the books.

ILB FAP: 2009 edition. I'd be fine for a drink any day next week Monday-Thursday.

As for pubs: maybe go for one along Borough High Street?

Monday or Thursday would work for me, and Borough High St is A1 for me too.

Thursday's best for me - working a 12 hour shift the other days. Borough High St always a good place to go for a drink.

hey julio, im gonna be down in london next week so pl post details here - hope to come along

i don't live around london. tho i am heading up there for the weekend for the meltdown concerts and maaaay still be around monday/tuesdayish. can't say for sure, though.

hey Ward! This is good timing - hope to see you too. We'll keep details here.

thomp - Oops I knew about meltdown but didn't know if you were going to be around later that week.

Unless Gamaliel can make it Monday (doesn't look like it) I'd say next thur? Looking at the options how about this one just off the main street - Old King's head - but if you all have another option in mind then do tell.

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub473.html

I'll revive thisILE thread now for casual ILB-ers (or otherwise) who might want to come along.

Unless Gamaliel can make it Monday (doesn't look like it)

I really can't unfortunately. Awkward customer I know - the toad work. I will have an ILB FAP by myself on Thursday if it's not possible for others though, to make sure I pay my alcohol/reading duties.

That's not awkward at all! See you and everyone who can come next Thursday.

Should be at the Old King's from six-ish, I shall be reading and drinking if I don't see anyone.

I'll say which book on the day :-)

Might bother to do a 'Balkanized' ILX London FAP thread over at ILE on the day of the meet.

And thomp - if you're in London later this year etc let us know and we can arrange a FAP (although I might see you on Sunday, I guess?).

Will def be along on Thursday, and will similarly post book-holding details (tho' Gamaliel and I can identify one another - we go back)

I might be back from Brighton in time for this FAP. Then again, come to think of it, I guess I don't know anyone who's going to it.

Pinefox we have been in the same FAP several times. I think you also have talked to Ward Fowler.

bit odd how the board has an entirely different clientele to last time. feels a bit like housesitting.

but, yeah, see you sunday maybe. i'll be hanging around the bar reading the bantam edition of dhalgren, i should think.

New generation, innit?

I shall look for the Dhalgren (bantam ed.)

did anything happen with this FAP?

it's nice to know that people think they've been at a FAP with me, but I doubt that I could walk into a bar and say 'hey, aren't you xyzzz__?' I don't think I can even pronounce it.

It's on Thursday. xyzzz is usually my last utterance of any evening in a pub.

I click on the link and I recognize this kind of jar.

Oh hey, so I wrote a quiz, some of which was based on our discussion when I came to London that one time. Can't decide whether to post a link or not.

post the link!

https://learnedleague.com/oneday.php?isaacnewton

do i remember the FAP. was it in the royal oak? what was the conversation? late renaissance/early enlightenment/thomas harriot/school of night stuff?

and thanks for posting!

Yes. Royal Oak. I just remember you talking about the “standing on the shoulders of giants” remark was rumored to be a dig at somebody’s stature, and Tom D talking about Newton sticking a needle in his eye socket.

ah right, yes. god, would be good to be back in the royal oak right now talking shit.

for the sake of epistemic tidiness, i should explicitly point out to others itt that wikipedia, in an entry on the trope, has that rumour as unlikely, as the recipient and newton were on good terms at the time, and the phrase itself having been in relatively common intellectual use since classical times.

I remember the fap but nothing that was discussed. Good quiz but I only got five :(

Five is pretty good!

I remember you and I discussing our mutual dislike of– wait for it– Stoner.

Yes, that “standing on the shoulders” stature thing is apparently a myth, as is the story of Newton destroying all the portraits of him upon becoming president of The Royal Society.

Dates are my weakness when it comes to general knowledge but I was quite surprised that galileo and newton were so close in time, I would have guessed galileo was 100 years earlier.

Well, dates, royalty, sport...

Lol. Actually I could have sworn I learned that fact on that trip as well but in fact the similar thing I learned was that Galileo and Shakespeare were born in the same year.

If cases keep coming down I was thinking of doing this in November. See how it goes.

I've been thinking about FAPs recently, I'm not that optimistic about November though.

Would love to join, especially if it’s outside. Sometimes November is still warmish. Also I don’t think I’ve met a single new person for two years who wasn’t another nursery parent.

Be good to meet Chuck.

I have to say cases are dropping nicely and all of the adult population will be vaxxed by then (apart from the tiny amounts that don't want it). We will know the effect of schools re-opening shortly.

Let's see it then.

I wanted to see what the feeling was on a November meet up. Thinking 18th or 25th.

Obviously cases are now going up but I said I'd revive.

Bumping this up

Yeah, ok, good

I can’t do 18th, can do 25th, would be good to see you all.

Additionally it would be good to see you all on 1st December at the Prince Arthur near Old Street, when we’re launching this new book I’ve been working on. All the details you need here:

https://theedgeoftheobject.com

The 18th also not good for me, 25th should be good, but there should still be a FAP either day that suits people because I would like to attend one eventually given I’m reading again and also to meet Tom D.

is this still on? 25th is def better for me as

Was going to revive towards end of the week.

Let's go for the 25th at the Royal Oak.

Is that the one in Borough?

Yes.

Like the blithering idiot I obviously am I have accepted an invitation to another thing on this evening. I will be along for a swift one after work to say hello to anyone who's about but it can only be the one I'm afraid.

I'll be there!

👌

See you all later, should be there by 6.

Good stuff. How busy is it likely to be in terms of getting seats or whatever

Pre-pandemic you could usually get a table.

Yes - unlikely to be rammed; I imagine I'll be there fairly soon after 5.30 so I feel reasonably confident that we should have a table

I’ll see you there around then Tim, I’m in town myself so should be able to head over fairly early

i'm wandering over from the beano show at somerset house so will probably also be early

Excellent x2

I'm thinking of coming but I probably shouldn't or rather I shouldn't drink but if I can manage to nurse a pint all night I will.

I've stopped drinking during lockdown so if you need someone to look lame next to you I'm there.

It's not so much about looking lame as my inability to go into a pub and not drink more than I should.

Tom D I will be there in solidarity with you! You should come!

Btw picked up a copy of the stories of Heinrich Böll off unwanted books shelf at the station, anyone want it?

FYI Royal Oak closed for an event 🙄 suggest people come to The George on Borough high st instead, everything inside reserved but we have an outside table, wrap up warm I guess

Cool

lovely to see ppl and sorry to scoot like that but i was just s-o-o-o-o cold!

Was lovely to meet people I hadn’t met before and to see the rest of you again, going to go home and hopefully not die of pneumonia now

I was glad to meet poster Gyac from Co. Offaly. I strongly agreed with her comments about "melts".

It was lovely to meet you too pinefox, thank you for validating my comments about melts ❤️

A good discussion at the FAP concerned membership of the Labour Party - why maintain it? One good reason was given: so that you can still look forward to exercising the right to cancel it.

Today I finally cancelled my Direct Debit. I also sent a message via their website noting this. But given the incompetence of the party, I won't be surprised if they keep trying to take my money.

Very proud of you

They got to you, pinefox!!!

(Just kidding; I cancelled mine ages ago. Here's to the New Left Party whenever it feels like starting)