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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: Oli on 10 Jan 2008, 17:15
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Basically there are a few people who are going to be in the bonnie city of Glasgae, Scotland from Friday the 1st to Wednesday the 5th of March. Some are leaving earlier than that and I'll be here longer than that because I live here.
So if you're able to make it - even just for a day - you should come along.
Post in this thread if you're think you can make it/want to come.
I don't know what we'll get up tae but it'll probably involve drinking. This could prove problematic for forumites under 18 depending where we go. The best option is my student union but under 18 year olds that aren't members won't get in after they start checking people at the door. I can also only sign a limited number of people in, but I have friends that'll be able to sign you in if we're too many. Post other suggestions.
I can't offer anyone a place to sleep because I stay in Uni halls and have already offered my very limited floor space to someone.
If you're coming PM me to get my mobile number before hand so that you don't get lost before meeting us.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you call Glasgae "Glasvegas" I'll probably have to bottle you.
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Other suggestions? You're the only person under 18 likely to be there drinking, unless Dan comes, I think he's seventeen. How about a *real* bar? It can't be that hard to get one or two people smuggled into one.
I can almost certainly do this guys, but for how long depends on where I can stay. If I can crash on a floor or share a hotel room, that'd be fantastic.
I won't say which dates I can do this until the rest of you have. I don't want to miss the important people, see.
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Getting in at GLA airport at 8pm, iirc, on March 1. I have to be at the airport at 10am on the 5th to catch a plane back to Londinium. My dates are finite because I am paying for this plane ticket. It is the second one in my whole life that I have paid for! Oh boy!
I think I am staying with Pickle maybe? I haven't really asked him yet but it was implied. Well, then again, I learned last time that he is not to be trusted with implicated lodgings, so I will ask him next time he is awake.
I am game for anything! I do not really care what we doooooo. (Drinking sounds pretty good to me!)
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Wish i had discovered this forum a long time ago. Then i might have known some of you well enough to go to this cause i stay near Oban which is only a 3 hour train journey to Glasgow.
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How about a *real* bar?
My student union is an excellent place. It's cheap, cheerful, there are plenty of pool tables, 2 bars open during the day 4 on a club/gig night, there's a place upstairs for cheap food and you can borrow a multitude of games (including scrabble, giant jenga, and connect 4) from behind the main bar.
There are plenty of other pubs we can go to that I, plus any other underagers who don't look like they are 15, will easily get into. Basically this is not a problem.
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Yeah, but in your student union bar, I could have a great time talking to a girl only to find that
...that's a silly scenario Darryl, shut up.
LH, drop by anyway! It's not like we'll stab you, and as long as you're not an asshole, we'll enjoy your company. Actually, Pete is an asshole, and we like him, so I guess that you might get away with it too.
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I'll actually have school and work (its an odd situation I'm in) to go to anyway. Should have thought about that before i posted. I am le fool
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This sounds feasible! I can fly in on the afternoon of the 1st and be gone by the afternoon of the 2nd. I can either find somewhere cheap to stay or stay up all night. How would I tell my parents? "Bye mum!" "Where are you going?" "Glasgow" "WHAT?"
EDIT: actually it would be less lame of me to fly in on the 1st and stay till the 4th, that way I can actually meet people properly
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i am going to buy my ticket as soon as ryanair allows me to purchase a ticket for March 2nd. i'll probably be there from february 29 - march 2.
if i can share a hotel room with someone or crash on somebody's floor that would be awesome because i am very poor!
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Alright, I'll wait a little longer before confirming this, but I think maybe, from the 2nd to the 4th? 1st to the 3rd?
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if i can share a hotel room with someone or crash on somebody's floor that would be awesome because i am very poor!
I would offer to share but I don't want Tommy to end diplomatic relations.
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If it works out cheaper/I can afford a nice hotel, I'd split a room, sure.
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I was gonna go for 1st to 3rd, if i can go, 'cause the flights on the weekend are dirt cheap. This way I get one 1p flight.
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And about £17.80 in taxes.
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guys we need to get as runk as I m no ww
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This is A Thing I Am Interested In.
My most likely plan of attack would be either staying the nights of the saturday and sunday (1-3) or just the sunday (2-3) depending on when I have to be in university. Having said that, there is not much to do on sunday nights.
What does one do in Glasgow apart from get very drunk and pass out in a doorway, shouting barely intelligible insults at bypassers?
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What does one do in Glasgow apart from get very drunk and pass out in a doorway, shouting barely intelligible insults at bypassers?
Go to the botanic gardens, they're very nice. There's also more art than you can shake an extremely large stick at in Glasgow (some of it in the botanic gardens), the Tramway often has very good stuff on and it's a really nice building.
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*dusts down qc forum account*
Errm yeah, hi! I live in Glasgow, Calenlass is invited to crash at mine.
Those looking for cheap accommodation and unable to find crash-space could stay at the Eurohostel (http://www.euro-hostels.co.uk/Glasgow_hostel/). You won't find much else that's cheaper and it's very handily right in the city centre. Although the website is saying it's fully booked at the time in question, it might be worth giving them a call as the website isn't always correct.
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Hoorj pickle! <3
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Oh yeah and also...
I presume, from the description, that Oli is talking about Glasgow University Union.
I'm a Strathclyde University student, so can sign people in to any union, but also, having been a student for over 7 years I know the door staff at Strathy Union so if there is not-too-large a group of us then I could most likely get not-quite-18-yr-olds into The Union as long as they behaved themselves.
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Those looking for cheap accommodation and unable to find crash-space could stay at the Eurohostel (http://www.euro-hostels.co.uk/Glasgow_hostel/). You won't find much else that's cheaper and it's very handily right in the city centre. Although the website is saying it's fully booked at the time in question, it might be worth giving them a call as the website isn't always correct.
Yeah, I was looking at that, doesn't seem bad. There's a few other hostels which I'll take a look at.
Pickle, I am a good boy.
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I presume, from the description, that Oli is talking about Glasgow University Union.
The QMU. Our other union. The GUU is for rapists.
What does one do in Glasgow apart from get very drunk and pass out in a doorway, shouting barely intelligible insults at bypassers?
There's the cinema, the other cinema, various club nights or gigs (also there are free gigs on very often, not neccessarily good ones though) on every night, Kelvingrove museum and Kelvingrove art museum, the museum of modern art, if it's a nice day we could go sit in Kelvingrove park. It's pretty much like any other city. If you want to do touristy stuff then there's that too I guess.
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I vote for museums. Like seriously, probably the best place to go in London is the British Museum (http://www.britishmuseum.org/). So I say Kelvingrove is good, and maybe the Kelvingrove Art Museum if we're in the mood for Serious Art Contemplation.
If we do touristy things and act like tourists I also vote that we keep it confined to one day. I think it could be really fun to take lots and lots of pictures and ask everyone we see for directions and get in the way of traffic and talk really loudly about things like how everyone is driving on the wrong side of the road ha ha, but that is a lot of work!
Edit: Oh also Gemm told me about EasyJet so I have bought cheaper tickets than I would have otherwise! Hooray! This means that I am getting into the Glasgae airport on the 1st at 8pm, and have to be at the airport to leave on the 5th at 3pm.
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I'm still trying to think of excuses to tell my parents.
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You are meeting us in Glasgae to go to museums and art galleries and generally have a fun weekend. What is there to excuse?
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It's my mum, what isn't there to excuse?
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all flights from glasgow to rome on march 2 & 3 are completely full. i would just fly back on the 4th, but it is midterms week.
i may still go, and stay from february 28th - march 1st. i'm not sure, though.
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This is the week before I get off for Easter. This is pretty much the exact worst time a fun thing could occur due to essays. GRRRR.
This does not mean I will not try to go.
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all flights from glasgow to rome on march 2 & 3 are completely full. i would just fly back on the 4th, but it is midterms week.
i may still go, and stay from february 28th - march 1st. i'm not sure, though.
I- but- you- we wouldn't actually get to see each other this way! HLAUGBHLAUGBHLAUGB
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Do you remember that whole bit where I am extremely impatient?
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last night i decided "fuck it, i will just get my ticket back for march 4th, and then make up some lie to my teachers if i have midterms that day."
this morning i got on the computer to buy my ticket... and all the tickets for march 4th are sold out too! what the fuck!!!
i am buying my tickets for Feb. 28 - March 1st before they disappear/the price shoots up another $50. sorry, katie :(
EDIT: nevermind, i actually found a ticket for march 4! then i couldn't pay for it because i only have an american express right now.
oh well, see you all at tronnocon :P
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Due to a slight money issue (banks!) i am not booking my tickets yet. I still plan on going though.
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"Is it ok if I go to Glasgow for 5 days in March?" "I don't see why not."
I'm booking the flights a bit later, if anyone wants to share a room let me know asap!
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Hot shit yes!
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I shall whisk you away to a world of Lambrini and budget hotels.
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So when I am on trips, generally with parents, because they pay for hotels while I crash on strangers' floors, I stay in places like the Super 8 Motel or Comfort Inn Suites or something like that, because the rooms are pretty cheap, and then you throw in the discount I get because they are somehow partners with my car insurance company. That discount is like 15% off the total or something.
I have never stayed in a hostel, though! (I won't be in glasgae, either.) What is it like!
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I would go if my friends in Doune still lived in Doune. Damn them for moving to Yorkshire...
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The flights are so fucking booked.
I arrive at 5pm on the 1st and leave at 3:50pm on the 5th.
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You should wait until I land at 7:45 and then we can have hot makeouts in the airport.
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All I can see is hot makeouts and your avatar.
It's distressing.
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I have never stayed in a hostel, though! (I won't be in glasgae, either.) What is it like!
(http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v130/203/41/532260047/n532260047_1566237_3787.jpg)
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What that photo doesn't show is the seven other people in the room, all snoring or farting or listening to loud head-phone music or coming in and out of the room constantly.
On the plus side, once you've spent a significant period of time staying in hostels, you'll never have trouble sleeping through disturbances at night ever again!
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They're also, y'know, cheap.
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I'ma be there! on account of I'm hitching rides up. I am wearing my sleeping-bag coat on account of if I can't find a hostel?
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Roddy are you still coming to the states next month. Also dude you and I are hanging out in London from the 5 to the 7, remember? I am not really sure how you are going to work both.
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He's taking you with him, is my guess.
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Or rather him with me, because I have already bought my plane tickets to and from Glasgae.
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Drick, I think me and Darryl are grabbing a three bed room in the hostel, you'd be more than welcome to split the cost with us. More than welcome.
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Glasgae08:
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a300/calenlass/SPM_A0522.jpg)
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(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a300/calenlass/DSCF00112.jpg)
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Primo posting!
Looks like I'm not allowed in hostels. It'll be £100 for me to stay on my own for 4 nights, I'm pretty sure Darryl is coming though so if someone wants to stay in a triple with us it'll only be £92 each. That's like 3 more drinks for each of us!
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Hey october1983 we should hang out in London (you are in London-ish, right?) when I am there from the 5-7. This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I think you are hot.
Also on the 1st I am getting in at 9am from Atlanta and leaving for Glasgae at 6pm. Since I can't sleep in the airport, I guess I could read, but food in the airport is expensive and there are TRAINS and FUN THINGS that will let me go exploring. Any suggestions?
Also also Roddy what the fuck are you doing? I don't even know anymore. Make up your mind!
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Hey Katie! I believe you're wanting to know where I live. I live in Dennistoun, about 30min walk east of the city centre.
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Man shut up Tommy you will give it all away god.
Pickle! That is a Good Thing to Know! <3
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Hey october1983 we should hang out in London (you are in London-ish, right?) when I am there from the 5-7.
Yeah, I'm in London. God knows if I have plans around then, but chances are not, so hanging out sounds fun.
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Can I come? I also stay in shitty student accom but it has 2 couches, we have an unoccupied room and alot of floor space where people are more than welcome to sleep.
What union do you mean? if you mean "The Union" IMHO okay for a few games of pool and a pint at lunch but the bar/club area on the second floor smells like piss.
Why not just the counting house or somewhere nice to eat? I am trying to think of a hangout big enough for people, maybe cellars and occupy one of the bits with couches? 1.50 a pint!
Whatever is up I am up for it if that's coo'.
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How do I know you're not a rapist?
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Aw but I thought you liked that kind of thing, Dan.
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Don't check the forums out that often anymore, but hell, I live in Glasgow and so I don't think it would be too hard for me to *maybe* make an appearance. I'll keep an eye on the thread to see what transpires.....
8-)
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Leo! Oh yes yes yes you should!
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I've decided I'm going to stay up for about three days, I don't want to end up spending all my money. Which days, I'm still undecided on. For now, let's say 1st-3rd?
I don't imagine there would be much to do besides play pool, which I do TERRIBLY. I don't plan on doing any heavy drinking, and I would love to do some touristy things, such as observing the locals doing whatever it is they do in Glasgow.
I would actually LOVE to go shopping with some of you, unfortunately, I end up buying the most pointless items. Who would enjoy a shopping spree?
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That all depends on what we end up shopping for. If it is booze or hookers, then I am all for it.
(I might be game for just about anything for a while, really. Shoes, music, games, electronics, pretentious teas and coffees, etc)
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That's just it. For me, shopping means 'Anything that catches my eye, we examine thoroughly'.
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I would love to do some touristy things, such as observing the locals doing whatever it is they do in Glasgow.
So you're basically saying that you want to watch people build ships?
Actually that would be pretty fascinating.
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Eeee! Shopping buddies!
What?
(Also Leo should come)
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I don't plan on doing any heavy drinking,
observing the locals doing whatever it is they do in Glasgow.
heavy drinking,
Incidently Glasgow is the 2nd best city for shopping in Britain (after London of course), apparently.
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You don't know I am not a rapist, I also don't know YOU are not a rapist. What I DO know is I have a bit of space for people to crash out in and a lock on my bedroom door.
People are welcome, just tell me first please.
Also my mum came through for dinner the other nite and (since I moved/was kicked out she has totally changed the house, redecorated my room and removed any trace of me ever having lived in it) has come across a bunch of sleeping bags we used to sleep in as kids or snuggle up in to watch Saturday morning cartoons and eat cerial which she said I could have if I need them which I do because I often have a few frinds crash. Same rules for you guys applies, "You stay you pay" which means you buy me a drink. Comparative to a bed and fifty quid or a warm room/desk/floor/duvet/couch and two quid.
Normally 3-6 people crash over safe and warm so I can go a night only having to buy like 2/3 rounds :D
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Bringing yourself doesn't count, dear.
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Can I make a reservation?
And what the hell are you talking about Pat? You're a crazy person. Go to a dungeon.
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Lodging for the price of drinks is completely acceptable. I win!
Also do you want me to bring you anything American as partial payment?
*cough*
Is that my hospitality being refused then?
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Jesus christ i need sleep. I thought clockworkjames was october1983 for a second. I am sorry for everyone whom I confused!
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Leo! Oh yes yes yes you should!
Well, I will certainly try my best. My job means that I work pretty unsocial shifts, and it just so happens that I'm on night shift on the 1st and 2nd of March (on the 3rd I have plans). That means I won't be out making a big night of it, but if something gets organised and I can make it then I certainly shall.
Also, if people have any ideas about what they are wnating to do or where to meet up I'm certainly able to come up with a few suggestions if needed.
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Jesus christ i need sleep. I thought clockworkjames was october1983 for a second. I am sorry for everyone whom I confused!
waitwhat?
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What the fuuuuuck...
:-D
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I am retarded and sleep-deprived! No worries!
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I'll be booking my room soon!
http://www.belgraveguesthouse.co.uk/
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If i do come is there any chance of a space on someones couch/floor/whatever?
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That rapist offered somewhere to stay in return for a few drinks (Rohypnol ain't cheap).
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I'll go if somebody can pay for my ticket and can give me some place to stay.
In return, I will serenade them with my acoustic guitar and crooning voice. Also, sexual favors.
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Sorry dawg. The only reason I can swing this is precisely because I don't have to buy a plane ticket over.
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Looks like somebody doesn't want sexual favors.
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Nah, she just doesn't want them from you.
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Look, you, I posted a different photo on the Quiki, get off my back.
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Dude I am not sure I want peanut butter involved in our, er, "relations" that way.
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I am not a rapist. The only thing I rape is the English language on occasions.
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So is this idea any further along??? :-)
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I do not know but I am still going with my original plans!
I just need something to do in London.
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Update: I still have nothing to do in London! I still have not gotten myself any place to stay! At this point I think I am going to just go and hang out in pubs and hope someone offers me a sofa, because if I do not have a job by the end of the week I will pretty much not have any money to pay for a lodging if I want to also pay for food things. Oh boy!
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A minimum of £92 is a lot of money, especially when James was offering a free bed. Has that offer changed at all since you posted it?
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Not in Scotland, you silly bastard! In Glasgae I am staying with Pickle!
Geez, this is why we were best enemies in the first place: because you are so goddamn stoopid.
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Yeah, and because you keep getting our identities mixed up, I was referring to what Dan said earlier about the cost of the hotel. In Glasgow. Where I'll be going. And the offer of cheap bed.
Jeeze Katie, learn to read!
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You did not specify to whom you were replying! Except the last bit, where I assumed you meant James! But whatever!
Grrrrrr.
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It should have been obvious! To anybody WHO CAN READ.
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Ha ha ha Katie is illiterate let's make fun of her.
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This got messed up faaaast...
Yeah people can crash, I got 2 sleeping bags spare too. Mum came over yesterday and dropped stuff off.
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Fantastic! That frees me up some. I have to do my own groceries now, so I'll be shorter on money that I'd hoped.
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So dudes, since no one has really said anything about hanging out in London, and I cannot really afford to pay to stay anywhere either, I am thinking of leaving the day before and just heading to NYC on the 6 instead. This has the distinct advantage of putting me back stateside in time for hangouts with NYC folk and also getting back to Atlanta by Sunday (9) morning to see my sister in her high school play thingy, which I hadn't known about until just now.
Objections?
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Fuck it, take the 90 quid flight from Gatwick to Tirana and come hang here for a while.
I would have to check with my mother, seeing as how my pathetic ass still living with her is the only reason I'm able to be here, but it's not like she hasn't had her own inter-nets people come stay without either of us ever having met the person before.
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Last time I went to glasgow for a day I was drunk by 12. in the morning. I'm not sure I want to repeat.
Who opens their bars before 12 anyway?
SUM 41 are going to be there on the first guys! Wooo!
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Fuck it, take the 90 quid flight from Gatwick to Tirana and come hang here for a while.
I would have to check with my mother, seeing as how my pathetic ass still living with her is the only reason I'm able to be here, but it's not like she hasn't had her own inter-nets people come stay without either of us ever having met the person before.
A one-way flight to your place is just £90? Tempting, just for the hilarious photo ops, given that you're like, 3ft taller than I am.
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Last time I went to glasgow for a day I was drunk by 12. in the morning. I'm not sure I want to repeat.
Who opens their bars before 12 anyway?
Not Scotland?
Pubs in Scotland can only legally operate between 12pm and 12am except for rare occasions where they use one of their late licences (I think they get 3 a year, and most pubs will save them for christmas and new year) which means they can stay open till 3am. Shops can only sell alcohol from 12pm till 10pm and drinking alcohol in the street is illegal. England actually has far less strict drinking laws than Scotland.
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A one-way flight to your place is just £90? Tempting, just for the hilarious photo ops, given that you're like, 3ft taller than I am.
I'd be quite happy to have you, Darryl. And that's round-trip, not one way, if I remember correctly. Either way it really is a hell of a deal. Just do it before May, I hope to be moving to the States more permanently then.
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Oof, that's short notice. I don't even have a passport.
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Clubs are open until 3AM most of the time, and sometimes 4 or 5 for halloween/newyears etc.
Pubs you drink up and are kicked out before midnight but you should be in a club by then.
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Not Scotland?
Pubs in Scotland can only legally operate between 12pm and 12am except for rare occasions where they use one of their late licences
This is not really correct. Infact, it's completely wrong.
You can get a pint, in a pub, with your breakfast (a roll and sausage) at 08:00 if you know where to go. You are not encouraged to eat the roll and sausage, instead there is a large bin provided for it. Granted, most pubs only serve from 11:00 until midnight but some pubs, such as Blackfriars, have a license to stay open until 01:00. Others, such as Bunker or JT Rochead's, are open until 03:00 on Friday & Saturday nights.
As CWJ has mentioned, clubs are open until 02:00 (West End) or 03:00 (City Centre)
Shops can only sell alcohol from 12pm till 10pm and drinking alcohol in the street is illegal. England actually has far less strict drinking laws than Scotland.
Wrong again, off-license sales can start from 08:00 until 22:00 as standard but there are places such as Peckham's which are allowed to sell alcohol until midnight. On the no-drinking-in-the-streets law, it's something which has been in Glasgow for quite a few years and is becoming more common across at least Scotland. It's designed to stop 'un-sociable' drinking i.e. teenagers with their cheap cider/Buckfast or hobos (jaikies in the local parlance) rather than an outright ban on drinking in streets/parks. Standard police technique is to confiscate the alcohol (which is rarely palatable by those with remaining taste-buds) off the, commonly under-age, neds and pour it down the drain in front of them. It's great fun to watch.
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Yah more than once I have gone into tesco and bought a forty to set me up for a day at work then drank it in the alleyway between halfords and sports world. Classy.
Didn't want to say anything about offlicences because I didn't really know the rules but now I do (thanks pickle) and it makes sense because alot of people go into corner shops in the morning for a half bottle of vodka or scotch, a few scratchcards, a pack of smokes and a newspaper.
The aforementioned "Jaikies" who ask you for 20p are often among the perpetrators. That and the baby dispensing "women" who spend their husbands disability check on these essentials.
Or something, I dunno and now I am just being a bit mean because it is almost 6AM and I will feel like shit tomorrow at college if I go.
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Okay, this is off-topic in that I am most certainly not going to the UK, but do any of you know whether Fried Hagus is any good? I saw it on No Reservations and if I do end up going someday I want to know what sort of thing to be on the lookout for.
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Haggis* is amazing and, surprising to my Georgia-raised ass, tastes oddly like Jimmy Dean sausage.
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Okay, this is off-topic in that I am most certainly not going to the UK, but do any of you know whether Fried Hagus is any good? I saw it on No Reservations and if I do end up going someday I want to know what sort of thing to be on the lookout for.
If you're going to be eating haggis then eat it in the traditional manner. Why anyone would want it fried...... :|
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Guys Haggis is so good. Also Patrick maybe, because I think it tastes more like the ground beef you get in Red Beans and Chilli [pepper] recipes. (Most of the places I have ever had it except at family things it was made without the stuffing-it-into-intestines bit.)
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You can buy it like white/black pudding from a chip shop, battered and deep fried.
I had one Friday at 4AM wasted between a club and a friends house. Tasted AMAZING.
Not eaten in 29 hours now so I am really hungry thinking about that... fuck noodles I might go get some fast food.
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Haggis is good.
But fried haggis will generally be from a chip shop and will therefore probably not be a good example of haggis. But it fills a hole.
Also, if you've only bought and tried 'haggis' in the US then you haven't tried haggis. Haggis isn't allowed in the US because it uses too many squidgy parts of animals.
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But fried haggis will generally be from a chip shop and will therefore probably not be a good example of haggis. But it fills a hole.
QFT
I don't advocate trying it from a chip shop without being drunk enough to know it.
Real haggis (warm reekin rich) cut (up wi ready slight) on a plate with mash potatoes and neeps, maybe a little bit of ground pepper is more awesome and VERY good.
I think in America, haggis comes in tins.
But it's not "Haggis"
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You can get it in tins? What?
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You can get everything in tins.
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(http://www.mcphees.co.nz/images/food/imported/FIMP1.jpg)
In Germany, burgers come in tins!
In Canada milk comes in bags!
In Soviet Windhurst Chocobo rides YOU!
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*is Glaswegian*
You are officially made of awesome.
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Right, back on topic. So are any of us catching up in Glasgow then, as we still need to find a time and a place in that case.....
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We are going to sit in our hotel rooms in silence.
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The good doctor Gunther von Hagens! (http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGunther_von_Hagens&ei=MLy6R8nAOp7E0QSW19jGDA&usg=AFQjCNGbkJoYlF5PC5Q7kaiUOZyKkwVdYA&sig2=5jExFp6DCRIK19eIBvP75g)
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In other news, I have no idea who's actually coming.
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If you look at Jandek's dick, it looks back at you, and you can't stop looking.
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So, on the "who's actually going to be in Glasgow" front?
By virtue of they live there:
pickle
Leonidas
cwj
Oli
Fi
I'm pretty sure they're definitely coming:
Calenlass (1st to 5th)
Öde
Spinless
Have mentioned the intend to come but I don't know for sure if they are:
Astaldo
ZJGent
Has not said one way or other but has had a lot to say in the thread and completely dingied my text asking if he was coming:
tommydski
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Darryl (Spinless) is maybe not coming, he's said stuff about either going to Glasgow or Comicon, but not both. I am definitely coming from the 1st to the 5th. Pete (Astaldo) isn't coming because he's a poor student.
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Sad but true.
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Rawr!
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My mum has offered to reimburse me the money for my plane tickets to glasgow, if I don't go. I am considering this since EMA are being shitdicks and not giving me the money I was expecting.
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Awwww, but then I have to walk back to the flat alone :(
Unless we end up in a club... :-D
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Don't worry, I think I will come. I haven't learnt any lessons from impulsive spending yet!
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Your punk ass better be there. Punk.
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If this spledid clockwork chap lets me sleep on his floor for four nights, I should be able to afford it. The thing is my mum will hate me for going.
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Secret: My parents were so fucking angry about me going to ComiCon that they were almost not going to let me go, and I was prepared to drop a thousand bucks on a plane ticket if I had to at the last minute just to prove a point. (Luckily my shrink talked sense into them, or I would've been broke as shit and totally put out for the entire con.)
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It's not even a floor, it's a fucking BED in your own BEDROOM with en suite shower toilet and sink!
A desk and sleeping bags!
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Luxury!
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James (I'm guessing that's your name), I would just like to take this time to point out that every time I see your avatar I chuckle. Thank you.
This post is a waste of a perfectly good page break. I am sorry.
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I think with monetary concerns and coursework deadlines, I won't be coming.
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ASKDF
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I AM TRYING NOT TO FAIL BUT THIS SEEMS LIKE A LOSE/LOSE SITUATION.
What this means for you: party in Bournemouth!
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Heh, stories behind me using that avatar. Big long inside joke stories but if you see this picture (http://a524.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/124/l_5331bf4a2c3a596b426bb3532c264883.jpg) and watch this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-Nyt4Bmi8) you will get the most of it :)
And yes my name is James :-D
And dude, fuck education you are coming to Glasgow.
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We will see. It requires me getting all my work done before the last minute, and that's never happened before!
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guys
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Sorry ):
Also my brother visited today!
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Dudes what are we doing tomorrow? And who all is actually here? Pickle and I went and got dinner and some drinks tonight and I am going to see if he wants to watch Devil's Backbone or something but I am not full enough of alcohol yet for this to be kicking off.
WHAT ARE YOUR IDEAS PEOPLE
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I will be in Glasgow and avaliable from about 6pm onwards tomorrow.
PM me a phone number or some shit and we can meet up somewhere.
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Woah shit, that's this week? Lets do something :D I only realised when Pickle texted me heh. I will be in town all day from like, 1pm tomorrow someone say do something at nite I will be at LAN about 3 so I will check this thread. Also got money since I sold my old pc :-D BEER!
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I have no money, i definitely shall not be coming. I wouldn't want to dirty myself on people from the internet anyway, who knows what scum congeals on there dirty skin.
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I met people from the internet.
(http://c-nic.org/tmp/aurostion/internet.jpg)
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Well it seems that peoples did meet up in Glasgow after all.
Sorry I couldn't make it. I've been working night shift the past week, and added to that it was my Mum's 60th birthday weekend and so my spare time before going to work was spent doing family stuff.
Hope you had a good night.
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We did, and I have an assessment in 4 hours which is not good.
Moar pictures this time from a camera that is made of suck and phone.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2308820641_eb0da21af1.jpg?v=0)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2280/2309625238_8e1cc3a3df.jpg?v=0)
Yay!
Also I totally got lost trying to find the first pub, even although I had been to several pubs near it before it took me about an hour to get there when it should have took maybe 20 mins.
:-D People from the internet are awesome!
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Well it seems that peoples did meet up in Glasgow after all.
Sorry I couldn't make it. I've been working night shift the past week, and added to that it was my Mum's 60th birthday weekend and so my spare time before going to work was spent doing family stuff.
Hope you had a good night.
More meet-ups today/tonight if you're interested, Katie doesn't start her journey home until tomorrow.
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Boo ):
I guess I am happy that I am not going to fail college.
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FIRST!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3172/2311773268_5b4ce42f09.jpg?v=0)
CHEAH! :-D
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It's not about being first Jame, quality matters.
OH NOE IT'S A CERATOSAUR!
(http://c-nic.org/tmp/aurostion/ceratosaur.jpg)
(http://c-nic.org/tmp/aurostion/achilles.jpg)
Katie and Oli are very disappointed. The bust of Achilles looks nothing like Brad Pitt.
Oli cheered up later though, he has a terribly dashing moustache.
(http://c-nic.org/tmp/aurostion/oli_moustache.jpg)
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man, i am so upset i couldn't go. especially because last week i was comforting myself by thinking "well, i guess it is a good thing i didn't go since i have 3 exams and two papers due next (this) week."
BUT THEN THEY ALL ALL GOT POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT WEEK.
:(
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Damnit. I wish i could have been there :(
Ohwell, maybe later sometimeday.
(i might be in scotsmanland somewhere in autumn?)
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Synopsis:
-No one in Scotland is allowed to get Culture after 5pm. After 5, the only things left to do are go to pubs and clubs.
-HAGGIS
-Best Kebab is the best kebab shop, guys.
-Pickle smells funny and Oli has silly hair.
-We never got to meet Marco!
-Pickle makes really good pancakes.
-Don't go to Kelvingrove Park with bandanas hanging out of your pockets funny.
-I still want to know if James ever got to hook up with that crazy old drunk lady from Firewater.
-Pickle has less hair than I do.
-I cannot remember the name of the pub we went to with Sandy and Neil and Seven with the live music on Sunday night, but that might have been the best one.
-My scottish accent is not as good as I thought it was!
-It is always sunny in Dennistoun!
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-Achilles was less attractive than Brad Pitt.
-William Wallace was more attractive than Mel Gibson.
-Dinosaurs are terrifying.
-Comedy is funny.
-Excitement is exciting.
-SNOW!
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-Best Kebab is a really bad kebab shop, guys.
-I am going to go hang out with Marco!
-Pickle is funnier when drunk.
-Don't go to Kelvingrove Park.
-James will never ever hook up with that crazy old drunk lady from Firewater.
-Calenlass grabs butts. BEWARE.
-Oli likes udon noodles.
-Funny high comedian lady is funny high and comedic.
-Snow is cold.
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What was her name again? Marina something. She was pretty fucking funny. Also kind of hot. Also very stoned.
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-Best Kebab is the best kebab shop, guys. But it's a kebab shop in the UK so it doesn't necessarily mean it's good.
-Don't go to Kelvingrove Park. Unless you like bears.
-James will hook up with that crazy old drunk lady from Firewater, he just doesn't know it yet.
-Calenlass grabs butts. Make sure yours is part of the game. It's fun.
-Funny high comedian lady is funny high and comedic. And is called Marina Franklin (http://www.marinafranklin.com/)
-Pickle has less hair than Katie does. But does not leave lots of long hairs everywhere.
-We went to Uisge Beatha with Sandy and Neil and Seven with the live music on Sunday night, which Katie thought might have been the best one.
-Katie's Scottish accent is terrible.
-It is always sunny in Dennistoun! Damn right.
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Oh, and a few for Richard, if he survived Wednesday night:
-Portland Oregon!
-Greyhounds and Whippets!
-Atlanta Georgia! (Are you from Atlanta Georgia?)
-Denver Colorado!
-Jesus invented tables. Jesus is from Portland Oregon. In Portland Oregon they use tables for currency. Jesus set up an export service because they had such a surplus of tables, and that is how tables came to the rest of the world.
-Albuquerque New Mexico is apparently named after the guy who invented shoelaces.
-These are the four corners of the United States.
-Mary Dugger wrote a book about lesbians (http://www.amazon.com/History-Lesbian-Hair-Mary-Dugger/dp/0385480377).
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-Stupid bints should show some patience at baggage reclaim.
-I should always start drinking at 3pm.
-In Portland Oregon, they have ten thousand spoons AND a knife.
-My living room is in a permanent state of disarray.
-Taylor had midterms. Boring.
-Lesbian haircuts are even more amusing than you might first imagine.
-Non sequiturs are fun!
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-Deerhoof are still awesome, by the way.
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Oli do you have a death wish?
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Deerhoof are awesome and the little mermaid is not as good as the lion king.
TAKE THAT!
(please don't hurt me)
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You ever seen the statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen? It really does live up to its name, its very little and rather disappointing.
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/r/equesting <DICK>< picture of me and oli :-D
On reading that and thinking of what Calenlass suggested in firewater I feel weird and a little bit afraid.
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-Calenlass grabs butts. BEWARE.
You mean I missed having my ass grabbed by Calenlass?
God damnit.
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Oh my god you guys do you know what I remembered today? I am completely astounded that we could have forgotten!
-No, fuck YOUR couch!