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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #50 on: 20 May 2008, 15:53 »

I honestly figured we could locate eachother by trial and error. Just keep your eyes open for the unattractive man with short brown hair standing next to the young blonde girl?
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #51 on: 20 May 2008, 16:05 »

When I met Jamie I looked around for a girl who looked vaguely like her and then stood ten feet away and text messaged her to see if her phone went off.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #52 on: 20 May 2008, 16:09 »

Each person from the forums that I have met looked exactly like their pictures. No problems had recognising any of them.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #53 on: 20 May 2008, 16:43 »

Tommy snuck up on me.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #54 on: 21 May 2008, 04:37 »

I will be wearing hot pink, either a jumper or a t shirt with a bright blue skirt. You would have to be colourblind to miss me.

I might also wear my black fedora (similar to the one the parrot is wearing) for even easier identification.

This should be simple, no?
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #55 on: 21 May 2008, 06:53 »

In the Leeds city bus station? You'd be surprised. I'm never able to say what I'll be wearing on a certain day because I have to spend hours each morning deciding. I don't want to wear the 'wrong' clothes. Yeah, I'm one of 'those' people.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #56 on: 21 May 2008, 08:02 »

It's fairly unavoidable that I'll be wearing hot pink, since I don't have many clothes. The ones I've packed are either pink or black, so pink it is.

Anyway I'll message you my mobile number and then we can find each other using Luchy's technique.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #57 on: 21 May 2008, 18:19 »

I will be wearing whatever is clean on Saturday. I might wear my black University of Manchester Mens Hockey Team hoodie since for social convenience it has my name on it. This is unless by some bizarre act of nature it is really wamr in which case I will probably jsut wear a t-shirt.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #58 on: 23 May 2008, 04:34 »

Alright, it's tomorrow. Just a reminder, B-Moo, 10am, bus stop. Luke, Will, bus station, middayish?
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #59 on: 23 May 2008, 08:44 »

Spiffy, I shall be there :-)
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #60 on: 23 May 2008, 09:50 »

Alright, it's tomorrow. Just a reminder, B-Moo, 10am, bus stop. Luke, Will, bus station, middayish?

Yep, I'll be there about 12ish.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #61 on: 23 May 2008, 10:58 »

Rather than pm you both, I'll just post it here. 0789 648 2050.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #62 on: 23 May 2008, 11:08 »

I think most people on these forums know me well enough by now to know that frankly, it's a miracle I'm still alive.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #63 on: 23 May 2008, 14:38 »

I'm very impressed that you'd be able to track someone down using their mobile number. Please teach me how to do this (for non-violent purposes).
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #64 on: 23 May 2008, 15:30 »

If I wasn't 95% certain you're in bed right now, I would show you how easy it is to track somebody by their mobile number.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #65 on: 23 May 2008, 15:42 »

Do you not have services (online or via SMS/phone) where you can find someone's name and adress based on their phone number or cell phone number? I'm genuinely curious, because to me, this is a given, but once when I was called up by someone in the UK, and wanted to find out who it was, some Brit I talked to said that he didn't think such a thing existed.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #66 on: 23 May 2008, 15:54 »

Of course we have mobile tracking services in the UK - but the consent of the tracked mobile owner is required before you can do it.  The services are aimed at parents and companies.  Getting their name and address is another matter.

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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #67 on: 23 May 2008, 16:01 »

Actually, I was just gonna call her up and ask exactly where she was. I guess tracing works too. MIDNIGHT! I gotta get up tomorrow! night folks.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #68 on: 23 May 2008, 16:02 »

That's not what I meant - I meant like a "phone book" (online or via sms/phone) where you can also do "reversed" searches, pretty much. Someone you don't know calls you, you want to know who it is, you look up the number? He claimed it wasn't possible - that you'd have to know the name to find any info.. Which seems weird to me, but maybe not? I don't know.

Here, if you buy a cell phone, the number will be searchable (at www.telefonkatalogen.no) unless you ask specifically for it not to be. I guess I just assumed that would be standard practice most places.

So.. I'm not talking tracking as in finding out where they are atm, but tracking someone down as in finding out who they are/where they live.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #69 on: 26 May 2008, 03:53 »

Well we found each other without it, so it was all ok :-) I have pictures but I'm too lazy to put them up just yet.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #70 on: 26 May 2008, 04:25 »

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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #71 on: 26 May 2008, 05:06 »

We went to a pub
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2523472167_6d05b48d71.jpg?v=0" width=500>

Darryl tried on some hats
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I posed embarrassingly for a photo
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There were bagpipe players
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Also dinosaurs
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We went to another pub and the girl behind the bar was very cool
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #72 on: 26 May 2008, 05:37 »

We trekked from one side of the city to the other, just because I wanted to drop change on top of a lemon.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #73 on: 26 May 2008, 05:38 »

And it was AWESOME.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #74 on: 26 May 2008, 06:27 »

It was awesome. More photos shall I appear later (when I can be bothered to upload them)
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #75 on: 27 May 2008, 04:12 »

Is it just me, or do I look rather too much like a deranged psychopath in that photo?

We really have to go back to that pub and defeat that lemon sometime.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #76 on: 29 May 2008, 16:26 »

We ate, some of us attempted to use chop sticks.

We visited a pub

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We shall conquer the lemon and the rejoice, for it shall be awesome.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #77 on: 29 May 2008, 16:45 »

Since Luke managed to take the single most unflattering picture of me, ever, I had to post a better one of how I appeared the very next day.



Liz, I told you, HAT HAIR. Terrible.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #78 on: 29 May 2008, 17:01 »

Tell me she is the barmaid from that story about your slint shirt.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #79 on: 29 May 2008, 17:29 »

(Can I just say please that Darryl looks fantastic in all of those photos and I really like the way his hair is at the moment.)
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #80 on: 29 May 2008, 17:35 »

The barmaid from the Slint shirt story was from Estonia. She looked like Corin Tucker.
Duly noted.

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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #81 on: 30 May 2008, 11:28 »

I used to think that about me, but people from the internet keep dropping by for repeated visits. I'd love to hang out with you in London, but I would also love to own a drum kit. We'll see which happens first and how much money is left over.
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Re: Who's up for last minute plans?
« Reply #82 on: 30 May 2008, 11:53 »

I forgot to comment about how awesome Will's Void t-shirt is because I've never actually seen one before.

Very cool!
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