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Yes, normally Glasgow is well ahead of the game... I'm thinking of things like tuberculosis vaccinations and so on.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, does Glasgow know their underground system is on strike tomorrow? So no poncey west end pubs plz.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't mind sitting on my own in the pub, as long as sitting alone (with an English accent) doesn't result in violence against my person. However, since I don't know any boozers in Glasgow I am relying on you to name a place where I can pleasantly and safely sit and wait and maybe meet some of you all. Any chance?

I am sure I'll be ready for the pub by half four at the latest.

Keith I *must* have seen you since Bowlie! I haven't learned anything about ROCK since I last saw you, by the way, except what you and PJM have taught me.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

You realise that you've just set yourself up for a few lectures at the university of ROCK after a few pints?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't be arsed sending this to the UK general election thread, but I'm finding it particularly funny that the UKIP says it's not a problem that Joan Collins has stopped supporting them because they've got Rustie Lee standing as a candidate!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

(xpost)
As long as you don't mind auditing a MSc course at the Polytechnic of P!O!P!

I can't wait.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I wouldn't expect anything less!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't finish till 6 and have to go home briefly before I come out. Err.. go out.

You have my mobile number, Tim, so call me if no one else is around and you need pub advice.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

OK. Tim is putting the squeeze on.

The Drum And Monkey, St Vincent Street, handily across the street from my work.

OK?

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been putting the squeeze on, but not as effectively as Tim, obviously.

Last time I was in the Drum and Monkey with Ally C, they were playing Momus.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Won't all the city centre pubs be a bit unpleasantly packed on a Friday evening?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, so we may as well just choose any one and be done with it. Like Ailsa said, no tube to get west end and most folk will be in town anyway.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I was thinking of THE CARNAVON.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

THE CARNARVON, rather.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Carnarvon = pain in the arse for me to get to. Therefore I'm ruling it out for everyone else too, because I'm like that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, OK. Drum & Momus it is then.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I think Tim is more built for squeezing than Ailsa. I also think that he would appreciate the Carnarvon's style.

Are the buses & cabs on strike too?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

No, but they brought in immigrants to drive them. It's very dangerous.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there not somewhere in town that is like the Carnarvon, maybe? (I can only think of about six pubs in Glasgow city centre and they are all a bit rubbish). Can we please not go to that place with the inappropriately-named cocktails and poncy candles that we went to with the pinefox, please? That, and ease of me getting there from Central Station without having to spend any more money than is strictly necessary, would be my criteria. But it's not my choice, is it?

We could go somewhere rubbish that after-work-type people don't go, like Fat Boab's Alehouse, or Times Square, or that pub opposite where Tower Records used to be.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

The Carnarvon is in town! Even from Central Station, it's only 20 mins walk. Maybe I walk fast.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I think we should stick with the D&M. That way, if it's packed and we get into a fight, we can blame Cook.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Town = not over the motorway from Charing Cross. I hate walking. Oh, go to the sodding Carnarvon, I'll get the bus.

(xpost, or that)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

(N.B. *I* am an after-work-type person!)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, you know what I mean. Actually, given that it's been six years since I last worked in an office with more than four people in it, I have no idea what the drinks-after-work crowd is any more. I know I go to old men's pubs in Paisley after work as the bigger pubs are full of the kind of people I think I mean.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:07 (nineteen years ago) link

(girls who drink pitchers of brightly-coloured things that come with straws, and guys who end up with their ties tied round their heads - maybe they don't exist outside Renfrewshire anymore)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey - *I'm* a guy who ends up with his tie tied round my head!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

His head. Hang on, whose head?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

isn't the carnarvon no more? or perhaps i just dreamt that.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Can this be true?? I was only there... about six months ago.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Alba, you're a big ~~fat~~ thin liar.

I wouldn't be sad if the Carnarvon wasn't there anymore.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyway - let's settle on the D&M, yes?

Stirmonster - I heard you lost a toss for tomorrow! As I typed that, 'The Sky Was Pink' came onto a mix I was listening to...

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Me, on a typical Friday night:

http://index.hu/cikkepek/0501/kult/rambo.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I shall expect nothing less.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Googling "tie head" threw up this excellent example.

http://www.carlofamily.org/photoalbums/domcinweddingpics/picspages/images/eric_tie_head.jpg

I will attempt to be in the Drum & Monkey around teatime, though I don't know what anyone looks like.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

word about my tossing activities spreads fast alba! i am getting more sure that last time i passed the carnarvon it wasn't there any more. just not 100% sure yet.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Alba will have a tie tied round his head. Simple yet effective recognition tool! It can be like the upside-down-badge of ILX.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The woman behind is doing her best to look unimpressed.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a wedding photo? Dullest wedding reception EVER!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Where is the Carnarvon?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Unless you mean Wales...

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Dull? He has a tie around his head!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess, there's a guy in a shiny shirt too. It's F!U!N!. Whoo! (let's discount the fact that there doesn't appear to have been anyone anywhere near any of the other tables in the background so either no-one has been coming near tie dude all night, or else he's having that much fun before anyone else even gets there)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I will attempt to be in the Drum & Monkey around teatime, though I don't know what anyone looks like.

Me, some moments ago:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/tiehead.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha,

That'll help

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone going to the Plan B night at Sleazy's on Fri?
Christ! Red Well! The Magnificents!
Should be ace and it's only £4!

― Stew (stew s), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

As long as you turn up looking like that...

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

That's nothing like you, yet it is, somehow. That tie also bears an uncanny resemblance to the curtains in my primary school assembly hall.

Onimo, you posted on a photo thread. Therefore if you wear a Celtic shirt and surround yourself with small excited children, you will be recognisable!

I might not be there until after six now, due to having to go for a pint in Paisley with a work colleague.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

OK... It's the drum and monkey I see. I'll be over about 8 or so I guess. Nick, can you let me know by text if you're going somewhere else? Cheers.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

The Carnarvon is not the Carnarvon, it is now called Oscar Slaters.

OK, D&M it is. I will be there at 4.30-5pm.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Talking of Paisley, I'm listening to Gerry Rafferty's 'Night Owl'.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

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