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Ball, ball, ball, footie footie footie - plans for Q-Final Thursday?

 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
07:48 / 23.06.04
Hey, darlings - anyone interested in England-Portugal, in the happy confines of a middle-class pub? Or would it be safer to hide in our homes, texting furiously, to avoid brick/head action?
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
08:19 / 23.06.04
Can you find a pub with an adjoining non-sports one. Then the unfootie of us can await your return to congratulate or point and laugh.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:01 / 23.06.04
And we will pants you.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
11:32 / 23.06.04
In which case I'm going to wear my pants of disrespect.

This should probably go back in the direction of on-topic soon.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
12:11 / 23.06.04
Surely not. I might be interested, provided it's not too loud and shouty.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:24 / 23.06.04
The middle-class pub where Flybs and I and Flowers and AnnnadeL saw the QF was pretty civilised - room to sit down and not a nasty atmosphere... that could work. The Blue Posts woudl have footba' downstairs and no footba' upstairs, but TBH if you're not interested in watching the footie there's probably not a vast amount of point in coming to a footba' watching meet, since it will in effect be two meets. Also, the screen at the Blue Posts is not the biggest...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
14:53 / 23.06.04
Ugh, no, I don't want to watch it at the Blue Posts - a smoke-filled den of iniquity. Nor do I wish to sit upstairs on my own... I will check in tomorrow and see where you are going...
 
 
sleazenation
15:18 / 23.06.04
Am well up for a 'football is small-talk crutch for the conversationally crippled' pub meet, but am fated to be stuck at a work 'do' where the boss has splashed out on a big flat screen TV so that those afflicted with the blight that is footie-love have no excuses for not coming.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
20:48 / 23.06.04
Well, I for one will miss your complaints in every discussion about football that the discussion is about football...

OK, so how about the Golden Lion, Kings Cross Road, just down from the Thameslink station, meet 6:30-7ish?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
21:36 / 23.06.04
Am well up for a 'football is small-talk crutch for the conversationally crippled' pub meet

Sounds like a great night. Am terribly sorry I'll miss it.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
21:43 / 23.06.04
I prefer the term "differently conversationally able" myself.

I'll be the one in the replica strip, drooling and masturbating.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
21:48 / 23.06.04
ROOOOOOHNEUUUUGGHHHHHHH.

Oh, pardon me, it haasn't started yet, has it?

I'll get back to necking my 17th pint, then.
 
 
Cherry Bomb
06:21 / 24.06.04
I'd like to go, but a) I hate football and b) I have no money 'til PAYDAY! tomorrow.

What to do?

Probably see what women-centered movie 5 is showing...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:16 / 24.06.04
OK - Looks like there will be a Barbelith presence from about 6:30. I'll expect to make it about 7...
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
14:13 / 24.06.04
Not a big football fan, but don't mind watching the odd england match, and my drinking plans for this evening have fallen through. Is it the Golden Lion in Kings Cross, where flyboy's birthday was?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:19 / 24.06.04
Yeppers.



The Golden Lion is down Kings Cross Road, on the left as you walk away from Kings Cross Station, not too far down - just after Britannia Street, I guess...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:49 / 24.06.04
Slightly more expansive map here
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
16:19 / 24.06.04
I don't finish work until 8:00, so will be dashing along to the pub at the end of the street to watch it, if England get through is the next match likely to be Monday, 'cos I'll be free for that...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
07:51 / 25.06.04
How on Earth did I spend that much last night? I mean, how? A round, 5 or 6 pints, a sandwich I have *no* memory of eating... it just doesn't add up. Was I pressing tenners into people's hands and begging them to like me?

Ah well. Horrible result, ulcerating tension, but I can't think of a better way of experiencing it. I blame the evil funfair...

Was a bit odd - having been phoned, I returned to the noisy environs of the pub to find that everyone bar Kit-cat had gone. Was it something I said?
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:57 / 25.06.04
Hmm, I think you gave me £1 via fly but I'm not sure if that's real or not. I may just be making it up.

I went home to weep as I cooked dinner. Tears of pain and mourning. If only Croydon had burnt. I hear Jersey burnt. Excellent.
 
 
bjacques
12:20 / 01.07.04
A bunch of us are gonna egg and TP the Dutch coach's house tonight. Wanna come?
 
  
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