try glasgow more

West Beer sounds good to me. Madchen, if you are off on Friday and/or Monday, let me know and we can go and see Kylie's pants etc since I am not working at the moment.

Excellent. Will let you know when I'm sure I'll be off work - it's all a bit in flux at the moment.

not sure i'll do optimo -- i mean, i've got 9am starts now i'm a (part-time) FUCKING STUDENT again -- but sunday-afternoon beer would be excellent (west is a vg idea) and it'd be superb to meet you, ronan.

Come on, nobody expects you to go to a 9am lecture on a Monday (or Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday).

yes grimly, get into the college spirt! just don't let the crusty old dean catch you.

unfortunate typo...don't pay heed to it

heh ... ew ... crusty spurting ... where were we? o ye: how can i be KEEN MATURE STUDENT DUDE if i'm skiving lectures already, eh?

plus: the two i've had so far have been abso-fucking-lutely fascinating and i'm genuinely loath to miss 'em.

then again, optimo.

hmmmmm.

one to play by ear.

how can i be KEEN MATURE STUDENT DUDE if i'm skiving lectures already
ahem cof cof wot was I to do this am again? o dear.

Anyway, you're quite right. The thought of students going to Optimo is scandalous.

ahem cof cof wot was I to do this am again? o dear

DUDE.

tell me you've at least got yr hetherington key?

what's the script?

Yeah, I think it's time we at least started considering a plan.

i concur, heartily. i thought RJG's westbeer idea was a good one.

btw: are any of you lot skilled in photoshop and illustrator and looking for -- say -- a week's casual art-desk work at a newspaper?

or do you know anyone who etc etc etc?

I like to go to west say when

is that the place in glasgow green? will ronan find it okay?

I love west.

MAP

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1229/1457489369_b37733d74c_o.jpg

West is gut. I am in Mono.

i'll come for a bit, hopefully - i'm having some food earlier and then heading to macsorleys about 10 but might have time in between.

what time, then?

5?

bit early for me but i can be there ... some point after. will text you, N.

See you at five then. Ailsa, are Kylie's pants on or off?

Will be there at some point, depending on Kylie's pants.

me toooooo

Ronan will be around from about 7.

I'll be at West by 5.30.

i'll be there ... dunno. about 5.30, too. maybe slightly later.

Stet and I will be there by six.

We may or may not be there later since I fell asleep and I just woke up feeling a bit groggy and West is MILES away.

aw, howay. it's miles from me, too (okay, not as many miles, but still a few) but i am hoying there right now. come on ;)

sorry not to make this but so v. broke and I have work tomorrow

still hoping to come out for Kit's drink up on the 19th

who is kit?

kit = energy flash gordon

drink not on the 19th though, that's just grimly's predicted date for organisation! 20th at the Saracen Head seems to be a pencilled plan though. I'm plenty keen for additional or alternate FAPtimo on the 21st too.

that was a top night. thank you all. good to meet you, ronan: haste ye back, and stuff.

how was optimo?

Aye, good night everyone, cheers, next time I shall actually talk to Ronan rather shouting obscure bits of TV trivia down the table on request :-)

btw, grimly, yr Denise van Outen knobfest was called Something For The Weekend, I think, but didn't think you'd appreciate a text at 4 am telling you that...

That was the show where she had a quiz called Private Dicks, right? Where the girl had to pick her boyfriend out of a line of cocks disguised as detectives?

Yes! We were talking about it in the pub last night, specifically about people recognising their partners by their knobs. There was a thinly disguised air of scepticism around the rest of the table.

That's pretty much the only thing I remember about the show. Wasn't it hauled off the air mid-series for being, well, crap?

BE SCEPTICAL ABOUT THIS, REST OF THE TABLE:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ajs/tvsometh.gif

It was quality pub chat all the way, as far as I remember. Good to see you, Ronan. Grimly, we didn't go.

btw: Lou and Andy from Little Britain in Neighbours.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sv7CvsEKe2g

(if I can (a) find it and (b) work out how to do it, Neil's appearance will go up there one day)

Marvellous! Second in the set: Pet Shop Boys
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-JWScLDoLe8

Just got back late last night.

Great to see everyone again, Glasgow has a great bunch of ILXors!

I didn't realise that that was you Ailsa, and your husband, until I read this thread! When I came in it was a big table and I didn't know if I could say "hey are you on ILX" to you in case you were just a friend of everyone else and thought I was a mental case.

So sorry for the confusion on that. Good to meet Stet and Simon too. I had fun, maybe Optimo another time.

Hopefully I'll be back soon, I really like Glasgow, being able to go out and then get a 5 minute taxi home is amazing.

sorry ronan, it was my birthday and i had already made plans for earlier in the evening. i didn't get around to optimo or much else after dinner.

was it? a mightily happy belated birthday, jed_.

thanks!

well it was actually my birthday on saturday but i had my birthday dinner on sunday because my mum was in hospital for a minor thing until sunday afternoon.

Yeah - late-o birthday wishes, jed. Great to see you again Ronan. Come over for Optimo whenever you like. I had an idea for another Guardian tech feature too - will email you!

That'd be great, my full name as all one word @gmail.com is an address I use more often.

Right Glasgow, we have a mongrel and a farrell in attendance at Carter at the Barrowlands on Saturday. We need a plan for boozing. Please bear in mind that there is an Old Firm game on at lunchtime (at Ibrox), so Gallowgate boozers could be a touch iffy dependent on the result. I'm ruling the Saracen's Head out right now, also Mono because it sucks.