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23rd February - Rothkoid birthday bunfight

 
  

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Kit-Cat Club
13:11 / 13.02.02
London and surrounding Barbeloids alert:

as it is Rothkoid's birthday in the not-too-distant future (February 25) we are having a celebratory bash on Saturday February 23 - late afternoon onwards - exact venue TBC (see the 'Pub info' thread if you have any suggestions), but somewhere in zones 1 or 2. Drink, food, merrymaking, intense discussions of Coldwater Suplex artistes and Kif Kroker impressions.
 
 
Ariadne
13:13 / 13.02.02
Bugger. Well happy birthday when it comes, Rothkoid!
 
 
Ierne
13:55 / 13.02.02
Oh man, I am so on the wrong side of the ocean...

Peoples, show Rothkoid some serious love on his B-day. He's the fucking BomB! He rocks! And he's a fellow Pisces to boot...

Party it Up! (But don't do it without your fez on...)
 
 
Persephone
14:40 / 13.02.02
Ah, that's what the mystery's all about...
 
 
Seth
15:21 / 13.02.02
Wicked - I'll do my best to be there (I'll have to check the wallet first). What time? I'll be working 'til 12.15 that day.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:14 / 13.02.02
Alas and alack, I shall be up in Sheff helping to celebrate someone else's birthday...
 
 
Ganesh
17:01 / 13.02.02
Tchoh! I'll be in Edinburgh that weekend. Have a good one when it comes.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
19:55 / 13.02.02
Money is always an issue that time of the month - but I shall be there. Oh yes. Wouldn't miss it for anything.

Party shoes on... heh heh heh...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
20:14 / 13.02.02
I'll be there, with a birthday plank.
 
 
_pin
20:21 / 13.02.02
Damn! No can do, I'm afraid.

But happy birthday for it, I'd be there if I could. And probablly should be, if only to buy you a drink for the copy of Clow Chocolate Autopsy and say sorry for only saying the word "No" to you for the entire Barbejam...

[ 13-02-2002: Message edited by: Glint ]
 
 
captain piss
06:37 / 14.02.02
I'll definitely be there -drinking trousers on, laughing in the face of poverty (mine, that is )
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
08:11 / 14.02.02
Yay! I'm not fucking working that weekend! (Well, I am that afternoon, but late afternoon/evening's free!!!)
I shall do my damnedest (and that's pretty fucking damned) to be there.
 
 
alas
13:18 / 14.02.02
alas! i am flying away from London-town that morning! (with my sister alack!)
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
13:27 / 14.02.02
Time - I'm not sure yet, but I am guessing late afternoon - about four or five (thus hopefully striking a balance between getting a table and being horribly drunk by eight). So you should be fine, expressionless...
 
 
alas
02:54 / 15.02.02
but happy birthday, rothkoid...anyway...
 
 
mondo a-go-go
02:54 / 15.02.02
why does it have to be a pub? if there's proper food involved, then why not (for a change) actually book a (few) table(s) at a restaurant? lessee: peeps who say yay:
rothkoid
kit-cat
angel
jack the bodiless +1 (?)
flyboy
expressionless
sleazenation
moominstoat
me (perhaps. ish)
meme buggerer

that's 10. make reservations for maybe twice that many and it should be fine. certainly so if people confirm finally for say a week from today. and then onto a pub afterwards, perhaps...

though personally i will have to say that, not drinking, it's really boring watching pissheads repeat themselves ad nauseum all night so i'm less inclined to spend the whole time in a pub. though i will come along for an hour or two...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
02:54 / 15.02.02
I can vouch for the fact that Rothkoid's charming friends are not 'pissheads'...
 
 
mondo a-go-go
02:54 / 15.02.02
maybe not, but this lot are!

when was the last time we had a barbemeet that wasn't in a pub or bar?
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
02:54 / 15.02.02
Kooks, hon, it's Rothkoid's birthday, not a barbemeet as such. If he wants to go to a pub, it's up to him, shurely?
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
02:54 / 15.02.02
The Barbejam, if that counts... it is, of course, up to Rothkoid to decide what he wants to do. But thanks for the suggestion, kooky.

:-)

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: Kit-Cat Club ]
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
10:02 / 15.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Kit-Cat Club:
The Barbejam, if that counts... it is, of course, up to Rothkoid to decide what he wants to do.


Fascist lap-dog
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
10:07 / 15.02.02
Lap cat.
 
 
Cherry Bomb
12:40 / 15.02.02
Damn you people! Can't you wait a few weeks? Ah, well - Rothster, you will have to have a pint or 5 for me.

Feb 24, eh? Good time for a birthday. I know about five people born between the 22nd and 25 alone. Pisces people are always insane. Been my experience that the women are slightly crazier, but the kind of craziness Pisces posess is the BEST KIND.

Example

Friend A: I hate Cher
Pisces Friend: I had a dream I had sex with Cher once. And Danny Devito was watching.

See?
 
 
Cherry Bomb
12:42 / 15.02.02
edited due to fucked up Czech internet connection that is making this entire board a bizarre mystery ghost world in which I can't virtually hear the sound of my own voice. Which as I'm sure you all can imagine I find immensely tragic.

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: Cherry Bomb ]
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:45 / 15.02.02
I don't think people necessarily repeat themselves any more when drunk than they do when sober, frankly.

Well, I'm leaning towards pub purely because people in this thread have already expressed a lack of funds - I'll be included in this, probably. Also, I know that there'll be people coming and going, and people will be arriving at varying times; something that a restaurant just isn't conducive to, really; most places are going to chuck us out if we sit there just ordering drinks or whatever, and not main-coursing it. I think the coming and going option that exists in a pub (as opposed to most cafes, or whatever) is pretty much the reason why most barbmeets are held in 'em, too.

Besides; we can always go to a restaurant later. I'm kinda leaning towards the PL or JC - purely because most people know where they are, and because they're the sort of places where food is usually a) available and b) good.

And for the boom-tish factor:

I don't think people necessarily repeat themselves any more when drunk than they do when sober, frankly.
 
 
Naked Flame
13:17 / 15.02.02
Mmm. Fooood. I like. Well, even if this one's at a pub, the next one had to be at a restaurant cos you've put the idea into my head now fooooood!
 
 
mondo a-go-go
21:10 / 17.02.02
quote:Originally posted by The Return Of Rothkoid:
Well, I'm leaning towards pub purely because people in this thread have already expressed a lack of funds - I'll be included in this, probably.


i'm also broke, and have never quite understood the theory that drinking in pubs -- espesh london pubs -- is any cheaper than eating a meal. it isn't.

quote:Also, I know that there'll be people coming and going, and people will be arriving at varying times; something that a restaurant just isn't conducive to, really; most places are going to chuck us out if we sit there just ordering drinks or whatever, and not main-coursing it.

fair point. i do think there are ways around that, though, but i'm not going to argue, it's your birthday. if i could be arsed, i'd organise something more foody, but i can't be arsed.

and i know this thread isn't the place to bring up such issues, but i really do think it would make a change to have a mass london barbemeet somewhere that didn't just involve a pub for a change.
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
21:27 / 17.02.02
re: cheapness - Not everyone goes to these things with the secondary objective of getting wrecked. I tend to, but then that's usually my secondary objective, at barbemeets, Xmas, work, the library... not everyone is in as advanced a state of deterioration as myself and the good 'rat.

re: the subject of this and the other thread concerning the birthday bash... I would have thought that turning up to wish Rothkoid a bappy hirthday would be sufficient reason to come. spooky and myself will be unable to afford to get totally wankered, as it happens, especially if we're buying the B-boy a couple, as is traditional. You're welcome to hang with us if everyone else starts to become too repetitive for you - of course, I can't promise we won't repeat ourselves, but it won't be through inebriation.

Finally - Pubs are easy. They're ready made for casual attendance, have room in abundance for people to sit and chat, and are usually easy to find for non-locals. They also have the advantage of staff to tify and clean up after you. Lots of reasons, really, English pub culture being what it is. But a different sort of meet can always be arranged for another time. Like going to see a play (done that), organising a jam session (done that)...
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
21:27 / 17.02.02
Can I just point out that food is for the weak?

(Otherwise edited in order to make of this thread a secluded spot within the garden, for contemplation of the beauties of nature).

[ 18-02-2002: Message edited by: The Haus of Deletia ]
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
21:32 / 17.02.02
Sleep is also for the weak. Just thought I'd point that out.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
21:42 / 17.02.02
quote:Originally posted by The Haus of Deletia:
Re: non-pub barbemeets, there has been at least one museum trip back when I was a tiny young barbething, and various gig, club and theatre trips.


yes. i know. i'm just saying i would like to see more of those. there have been a LOT of pub meets lately. i'm not saying there should be no pub meets, i'm just suggesting we do something else as well.

quote: it may not be so easy to find a restaurant serving both Thai and Indian cuisine.

yes. and that's why people organise and discuss so that they can all agree on what they'd like to eat.

quote: My personal uncertainty about restaurant meets is also that restaurant seating arrangements have comparatively little give, so the London Clique would position themselves around one and blank everyone else even more successfully than in an open-plan pub.

this doesn't happen with any of the other crowds i hang out with who manage to organise restaurant gatherings. and if you're that concerned about it, you could endeavour to sit with someone else instead of the same person that everyone else apparently wants to sit next to.

quote:None of which alters the fact that it's Rothky's bithday, and he'll cry "to the pub" if he wants to...

I KNOW
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
21:47 / 17.02.02
Maybe we're just a less sophisticated and organised breed than other bulletin boards...

What a very depressing thought.

Meanwhile, let's ALL START SHOUTING.
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
21:49 / 17.02.02
Please can we all stop this now? This thread should be a pleasaunce, not an argument pit. Thanks.

[ 18-02-2002: Message edited by: Kit-Cat Club ]
 
 
Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
21:51 / 17.02.02
Spoilsport.

Huggles!
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
12:01 / 18.02.02
Er, thank you.

Right, unless anyone has a blinding flash of inspiration about venues, we'll go for the JC (because I have just rung the PL and they have some kind of geekcon on this Saturday). Time - fourish, I imagine.

[Mildly disturbing aside - on my google travels I discovered that the JC has also served as a meeting-place for furries...]
 
  

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