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Barbelith pre-Xmas drinks?

 
  

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ghadis
22:45 / 09.12.04
The Devonshire Arms sounds good as long as it's got enough room. It's sunday and people are gonna get there earlyish so getting tables together should be ok. The lucky dip seems like the best bet. £5 pressie. 8ish is good. I'll make an XMass challenge now for who can make the most Xmassy paper wrapping. Angels wings. Elves halos. Munkey nut santa tits. Bring it on.
 
 
ghadis
23:25 / 09.12.04
And i figure that the 'B' word that Haus is objecting to is 'Bivouac' and he is objecting to my complaint of the Plough having one wall down the left side that opposes the drinkers on the right and causes Shui problem and he thinks that i would rather a 'Bivouac' drinking situation than the one that is obviously put in front of me. Like i'm a hippy or something. Not true. I'd love to drink in a 'B' situation with all of you but Christmas in London is not the time. Maybe on a Barbelith trip to Snowdonia or the Brecons or something. Or i may be paranoid and he just means 'Birthday' or sumthing.
 
 
Ganesh
23:33 / 09.12.04
If it's the B-word I'm thinking of, then I, having had the occasional spectacular near-accident with it myself, wholeheartedly agree with Haus. Careless talk costs huggles.
 
 
ghadis
23:46 / 09.12.04
'Bucket'?
 
 
ghadis
00:14 / 10.12.04
or Benignity or Benthamism...You miserable fuckers!!

Hooray it's xmas!!!!



Hopefully i can get a bigger dictionary for xmas then i can look up some more big wurds and seem more clever than i am alredy!!!
 
 
captain piss
08:15 / 10.12.04
badgers? breeders?

Pah- I can't make it anyway, shitely, as i'm awa' up north a few days before - ah well, off to start the xmas-huggles-in-Glasgow-or-Edinburgh-pub thread
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
14:03 / 10.12.04
The "B" word could be barbelith?

Cherie, your office must be right next to mine, also in picadilly circus. Don't know the pub in question though.
 
 
The Strobe
15:44 / 12.12.04
Make your mind up where it is, and yes, I'm in. I will be as festive as possible, which is pretty tough going for me...
 
 
Benny the Ball
16:50 / 12.12.04
Oh, I would have liked to make an appearance, maybe lurked in a corner, quiet and shy, sipping a drink. But sadly I am not about. I'm off to Barcelona with my Best mate to watch footBall Before heading off to LA to Be with my love.

Next time, next time...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:52 / 13.12.04
Badgers! There MUST be badgers! What would Christmas be without them?

I'm gonna try to make this... although, as is so often the case, I'll be fucking off to work afterwards.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
10:05 / 13.12.04
Certainly okay with The Plough, though it's ability to hold vast numbers of people is questionable, the Princess Louise would be definitely out for the same reason, as we'd all end up squidged into the corner and blurgh. If the Jorene Celeste still has those big tables that might be an idea, or the Fitzrovia? I'd give my primary vote to The Plough, with my second vote for the Jorene Celeste and my third vote for Nader.
 
 
Jack Vincennes
10:07 / 13.12.04
I'll be there too, but drinking nothing stronger than orange juice if I happen to remember quite how rough I feel today.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
13:38 / 13.12.04
Maybe the B-word is "Bear", though I can't imagine why there should be a problem with him?

And absolutely no fucking way am I drinking in the Fitzrovia again.
 
 
Bear
15:11 / 13.12.04
I guess you didn't hear about the heel turn.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
16:22 / 13.12.04
Please not the Fitzrovia. The Jorene Celeste no longer has the big tables I'm afraid, and some people are reportedly very traumatised by its makeover, although if we want somewhere roomy it might still not be a bad idea.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
16:24 / 13.12.04
Wait, didn't we decide on the Plough earlier? Let's not change posishuns, people. You can't change posishuns in a time of war.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
16:46 / 13.12.04
I guess you didn't hear about the heel turn.

A clothesline? With the championship belt? And then the hairy scary beary, Bear's signature move, onto a steel chair?

Is that ringing a bell? Like the RINGING IN MY HEAD?
The other thing about the Plough, mind, is that it shuts at 9:30 on Sundays, if memory serves. This may or may not be a problem.
 
 
ghadis
20:57 / 13.12.04
Shall we stick with the Plough then. 9.30s an odd time to close though but there are other places nearby for later drinking. No idea what the B word is but what i do know is that i should shop posting on Barbelith in the early hours whilst out of my tiny head on tinned beer juice. Let's have the £5 prezzies though.
 
 
Benny the Ball
19:37 / 14.12.04
Out of curiosity here, what happens at a gathering normally? Do you get a regular set in their regular areas? Do you get new people gathering all the time? Do you get new people coming and lurking and not really mingling once or twice?

Part of me would really like to come along to something sometime, but I'm such a social retard that the other part of me thinks that it'd be best to just pop up on the board occasionally and leave it at that.
 
 
ghadis
22:41 / 14.12.04
Oh just come along if you can. It's just people in a pub getting pissed and talking about telly or something
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
10:24 / 15.12.04
Benny, if you aim to get there for when the whole thing starts then very few people actually get there early, so you'd have people to talk to and you can build it up. Alternatively turn up late and everyone will be too drunk to care. The worst crime is to arrive at the same time as everyone else.
 
 
Sekhmet
17:07 / 15.12.04
Someday, godsdammit, I will come to London and meet some of you people. Almost happened this year, but no dice.
 
 
Benny the Ball
17:31 / 15.12.04
I shall make it one day (see earlier post for no-show this time). The thing that I really couldn't get was how does everyone know which group to join if they are new? Or are there tales of Barb folk joining random groups and spending a night non-the-wiser?
 
 
ghadis
22:25 / 15.12.04
group?
 
 
Benny the Ball
04:10 / 16.12.04
Yeah group, as in, if you walk into a pub to meet up with a bunch of people that you do not know and who use nom de plumes, how do you know that you are at a barbelith meet and not a dixons christmas party? Does an 'excuse me, are you here for the Barbelith meet' do, do new folk offer a hand and say 'hi I'm Harrison Ford's Fiction Suit with guns and knives etc'? I'm sure it all becomes apparant, I'm just asking what happens to people on their first time out, are there any stories about peoples first appearences.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
08:46 / 16.12.04
Newbies have to dress with Grant Morrison's hair, Alan Moore's beard and John Byrne's plaid shirt as in that issue of Fantastic Four he turned up in. Otherwise we'll ignore you. I must say that Anna DeL's beard was very impressive.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
09:42 / 16.12.04
There was a change in policy a couple of weeks ago.

They must now have George Morrison's glasses, Adam Moore's moustache and Steve's used underwear.
 
 
gingerbop
13:24 / 16.12.04
And you're not allowed in until you drink a pint of vomit.
 
 
Ganesh
14:39 / 16.12.04
Anna DeL's beard was very impressive

Flyboy? Yes, he certainly impressed me.
 
 
Benny the Ball
18:00 / 16.12.04
gingerpop - one night while out drinking with work collegues many years ago a friend tagged along. The night developed into drinking games, downing pints (which I am god awful at). My friend lost the round (can't remember the point of the game) and so had to down his pint. The game continued, the attention moved away from him, until someone let out a loud 'urgghhhh'. My friend had vomitted back the pint, but the worst of it was that floating in the glass was a whole, undigested plum tomato.

Genesh - your quippy posts make me smile more than anyone elses.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:25 / 16.12.04
We don't use vomit in our Barbelith rituals though, you'll find, so you can relax. Probably wise to go commando for your First Meet, on account of the ass-candling.

How do Barbeneet virgins recognise a barbemeet? My first encounter was upstairs at The Marq
 
 
ghadis
20:39 / 16.12.04
'My friend had vomitted back the pint, but the worst of it was that floating in the glass was a whole, undigested plum tomato.'

Thats my £5 secret santa prezzie sorted out then. How much are tins of plum tomatos these days? Who's for xmas party games?

And as for recognising barbelith bods. Everyone wears a bit of red sting around their wrist like Madonna.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:47 / 16.12.04
(Oops)

The Marquis of Granby and there were only swarming Lithers in the room by the time I sashayed in after Pride. Plus, I came with someone who knew a few Lithers. I think we do look all Barbelithy somehow though, gathered round tables like Menshevik conspirators, decrying filthbeer, lamenting the loss of Buffy.

Juggling two names can be hard and so can finding discreet ways to check out who the cutie in the Jean-Paul-Sartre jumper is, if he is, on the 'Lith. I use to keep an eye out for Mordant's rose tattoo but then she vamoosed abroad. Or Stoatie's gorgeous Bagpuss coiffe, sadly gone long since. Now I look for Anna de Logardiere's rococo coat or I scan for sleazenation's head, since he's eight feet tall.

Come, come, and remember to bring a present for the BarbeSanta ritual. Something interesting but cheap. We like that, because we're cheap and quite interesting.
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
09:21 / 17.12.04
Ooh! Ooh! I might actually be able to make this.

If I knew which pub it was in or what time.

Anyone?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
13:39 / 17.12.04
Rah! Join ussssssss!

I think, rereading the two pages of cat-herding, the consensus is for The Plough.

As to when, I'd guess early afternoon onwards?

Reckon I'll be there about 6, if that's of any interest....
 
  

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