So me, mark, Tim, Suzy, xyz - anyone else?! Come out! I will tell the pinefox.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 10:51 (four years ago) link
I'll be there!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
Yay!!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
I'll be there too! It's been a while...
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
:)
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
bump
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 9 May 2019 09:36 (four years ago) link
Have fun guys. Didn't realise this was happening till just now but I doubt I'll make it from Bristol sadly.
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 9 May 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
That's a shame, DL - which reminds me, I really want to make it down to Brizzle again soon.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 9 May 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
Yes! It's been appx one year since we last caught up. Any other Ilxors fancy a trip to the West, I have a lovely blow-up bed in my living room to crash and I know the best place for pie and chips.
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 9 May 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
Time to start another thread, DL!
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
Should be there around 6:30 or a bit before that.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
Me too!
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:45 (four years ago) link
Things that are good at Sam Smith’s pubs - architecture
Things that are not good at Sam Smith’s pubs - beer, food
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 9 May 2019 10:50 (four years ago) link
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.
― Tim, Thursday, 9 May 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
I’m here early
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 9 May 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
Me too! I am sitting at the dual level table in view of the door. Am earing a green jumper and grey jeans.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 9 May 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
* wearing
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 9 May 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Read that as 'eating' - worse ways to stand out at a FAP, I suppose.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 May 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
We’re at the front by the door, for those joining
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 9 May 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
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?
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 10 May 2019 12:53 (four years ago) link
delighted to say they are called TIERED POSEUR TABLES
― mark s, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
and it was v nice to see all the tiered poseurs and and talk abt all these things :)
― mark s, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
We also decided Portillo was good ;-)
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
and Danny Baker was bad!
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 10 May 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
What is this "tankie" you speak of I don't understand
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
whats the first friday in august
dnfiyhm
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Friday, 21 June 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
sounds like a fine time to fap. we'll be there
― imago, Friday, 21 June 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
that seems plausible
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 21 June 2019 23:26 (four years ago) link
fair warnin the mrs is a srs wind up merchant
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Friday, 21 June 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
👍
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 22 June 2019 07:32 (four years ago) link
Pretty certain the first Friday is the 16th, not either of the previous two when I'm across the Atlantic.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 22 June 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
August is a bit of a mission, why don’t yall come to Cambridge
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 22 June 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
weve been to cambridge id not rush to drive those roads again tbh
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Hull's lovely any time of year, just sayin
― Rory end to the lowenbrow (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
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
― calzino, Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
I’m not an alumnus of anywhere, just a lazy East Anglian
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
It wasn't a swipe at thee!
― calzino, Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Didn’t think it was! Just giving my blessing to Cambridge-bash without feeling the need for jk emojis 😉
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
*indignant splutter*
― imago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
raging at the institution, not individuals!
― calzino, Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
tbf i mostly agree
― imago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
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?
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
Ian McKellen owns a cool pub between there and Wapping. Right on the river.
https://thegrapes.co.uk/
― suzy, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
I love The Grapes but it's pretty small...
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
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
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
Bit late to the party here. When is this happening? Remote chance I might be able to make it
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
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
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link