FAP London

... oh, you mean Halloween... not, uh, the Friday before, uh, Halloween, listen it's been a long day.

Is this a thread for London FAPs?

It is

no it's a thread for FAP London

mysterious

FAP Dewsbury tomorrow, we meet at The Timepiece.

it will be me, David Peace's dad and some guy with some m-cat.

when are you around S-? KBP and QGP will be in that LDN on the 31st.

Just a wee shout about the gig my band and (by some coincidence) emil.y's band are playing at the Windmill in Brixton on Halloween Friday at the Windmill.

if i could just rewind this thing, how did this all go off anyway?

It didn't really turn into a FAP, I did spend a couple of hours chatting to Fizzles but DL & emily. both looked busy with their respective bands/entourages so we left them to it. It was a fun evening though.

yeah, was gonna say, very enjoyable evening getting drunk monitoring alcohol intake with Colonel Poo, and enjoyed the bands but it didn't really go full FAP.

Well I would be interested in any FAPs not before the 7th of February.

So do ppl still do this? Early January beat the post holiday blues FAP?

I would be interested in this plan.

ILB FAPs, no-one else seems to anymore.

Yes at ILB a few of us gather around once a season.

Around on the 1st or 2nd that week - and possibly for a bit of the weekend.

I could be down for this - will be almost exactly a year after I had beers with a bunch of ilxors in New York!

Aw, yay. Let’s make it happen then! :) Maybe the 3rd, 4th or 5th?

dublin is a short hop ye lazy sods

Right so clearly you should come then!

better pubs here

and a better % of excellent posters yeah i said it

Lol. So, you flew here for what was basically lunch a couple weeks ago but wouldn’t to enjoy our delightful company? I see how it is.

I trust ilx to know which is the good pub in London

i do like nice snug pub snub grub

Bump because I’m hellbent on making this happen. Where is central - Soho-ish?

*bumping this up* Blue posts maybe - haven't been there in years?

I will try to make it along also.

Good job xyzzz on suggesting "The" Blue Posts, famous for being a pub name that occurs several times within a too-close area, introducing old-days style FD. Which Blue Posts did you have in mind? (I basically never drink in the West End any more, FWIW, so I've pretty much lost touch with where might be OK.)

lol I don't remember there being so many Blue Posts. Think its the one on Berwick st.?

Newman Street was FAP location of yore.

After an intensive nostalgia fest of reading 2002 - 2005 threads earlier this year, it was a weird feeling whenever I happened to visit any of the London pubs featured (eg Pineapple in Camden, the Clerk and Well, and various pubs in Fitzrovia) - and imagining the long-gone ghosts of previous FAPS.

Pineapple is in Kentish Town btw.

You’re right. Nice pub. It was a flying visit to Kentish Town - I didn’t get a chance to check out the Bull & Gate however.

Probably for the best - it's gone Gastro.

Indeed it has :(

If there’s a Blue Pollsts then I’d probably Newman Street, it’s a little quieter up there.

I once went round every Blue Posts to see if anyone knew why they were called the Blue Posts and no one did outside of the usual spurious sounding and heavily caveated theories.

Pretty sure The Harp is surely just near St Martins-in-the-Fields is my favourite west end pub these days and if you can guarantee the upstairs room would be *perfect* for a FAP. downstairs is tight tho.

Fitzrovia side is a good call tho my aversion to Sam Smith’s pubs means it takes a few out at a swipe - the aforementioned Newman St Blue Posts, The Champion and The Fitzrovia itself.

Tho as several ilxors will attest this discrimination around pubs is for show only. i will drink anywhere.

xp I'd agree on both halves of that.

The Blue Posts myth is that they're basically taxi ranks for sedan chairs?

Because I'm not bright I have only just realised that sedan-carriers are what's being referred to in The Crown and Two Chairmen

yep, sedan chairs, postal collection points (indicated by blue posts), perimeter boundary of some sort. think there were a couple others.

my general rule on pub names unless they’re bleeding obvious is to assume we don’t know and inventive explanations are invariably rong.

Tho as several ilxors will attest this discrimination around pubs is for show only. i will drink anywhere.

― Fizzles, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 14:19 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

found you picky enough tbh

ENBB where roughly in town are you staying? Everywhere will be quietish in early January.

Newman Street is the best of the Blue Posts (I believe there are four) but others in our party may have strong opinions about Sam Smiths. It would be pleasingly old-school though.

I found ENBB's FAP thread!

Hope to make it.

that blue posts on newman street is fine. spacious and quiet enough as you say.

MDC - In South London but am happy to meet at this Newman street location. Yay! Thank you for working that out. Wouldn’t have known where to suggest so this is great. What day would work best - 3rd, 4th or 5th? Again, I’m flexible so whatever is best for others.

If it's on the 3rd I can probably pop in as I'm working in London that day

I'm free all three days.

Though I'll be in a pub on the 2nd, so slight preference for not the 3rd.

Bah I somehow saw that before seeing CP's response - slight preference for the 3rd now.

Third works for me. Let’s see what others think I guess. Yay!

3rd is the one day I can't do but I organise the ILB FAP once a season so no worries - have a good time