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Can I just put on the record that "do you have any particular feelings about Harpenden?" is the greatest conversational opening gambit I have ever heard in my life. The fact that a conversation actually ensued made me smile inside. I wuv the internet and its attendant mentalists.

top night, although i was gubbed by the time i left. it's like drinking petrol. enrique, jed, JtN, mrs JtN, jed's boyf: lovely to meet you all. next time i'll do it without cider. gah.

those of you who were doing fun things today: have fun.

I thought sat was a v nice night

Are there photographs of your comedy soaking, Madchen? I would have braved a storm for that, maybe.

I didn't take pictures of the comedy soaking, we were all too drookit for camera japes.

(Twice on the hand, once on the cheek to be precise)

I told a taxi driver to fuck off on the way home. That wasn't very nice of me, was it? Still, he was at it. Our original taxi hadn't turned up despite us phoning them about ten times. So we went up to Argyle Street and spoke to a cabbie stopped in the street.

"you OK to go to Renfrew?"
"how much does that usually cost?"
"usually about a tenner"
"OK, I'll do it for £15".
"fuck off, you're having a laugh"
(Neil fumes as he thinks we'll be blacklisted from all taxis forever)

We phoned a different private hire and got home for £8.50.

x-post.

in fairness, you can do that without being drunk.

no. we saw it as a perfectly natural thing to do. there was no active thought; no conscious decision. left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe in, breathe out, break into funfair and start it up.

that's that fucking organic cider for you. seriously. it's like absinthe (only without the hallucinations). here i am, mere moments before i fell from the fence onto my arse, hard.

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/funfair.jpg

enrique, i am glad you enjoyed yourself. i feel bad that by a couple of hours into the night i had melted my brain. i'm normally a little more coherent. i blame stet. for everything.

actually, no, i do nothing of the sort. forget i said that.

My new drink of choice for the summer is Brothers' (yes, them from Glastonbury) strawberry + pear cider. Mmmmm. Boozy fruit punch served by the half-litre. Mmmmmmm...

Stew, strangely, that's not the first time I've been recognised as a legend of Sinister. Did he realise there was a proper real actual legend of Sinister sitting across from me? (I can't remember if I pointed this out to him, but in my defence I'd been in the pub about five hours longer than Grimly)

Link to that one Madchen!

(I've just realised there's some sort of poetry in me claiming a moral victory in something clearly rigged by people off Sinister doing multiple voting shenanigans. I am Pete Waterman and I claim my five pounds)

o, right! i had a bottle of that too, on aldo's recommendation. it's lethal-ish, but doesn't come close to that westons stuff. [flicks Vs at stew.]

hmm: talking about crushes and who drinks the stronger cider. this thread has become fourth year at school.

Success - overall, probably Rangers. Both have progressed to the latter stages of European-wide competitions in recent years, they take year about of winning/throwing away the league title. Both were a bit shite in the Scottish Cup, though Celtic won the League and the League Cup this season just finished (the latter of is the least "important" domestic trophy).

Popular: depends where you are. Honestly. It's probably about 50/50 in Scotland, but Celtic have the wider world-wide following, or at least the most vocal.

Fun fact: when Celtic reached the UEFA Cup Final in Seville in 2003, it was estimated that 1% of ALL AIR TRAVEL ON THE DAY OF THE FINAL was Celtic fans. Given that not everyone flew, and that some people were there for a week, that's not a bad travelling support. Estimates at about 80,000 people (though there must have been more, judging by how many were in the stadium alone, not to mention the thousands watching in pubs, big screens etc) with not a single arrest (this is good for travelling football fans, believe me). I won't mention how when Rangers were in Spain last season, their charming travelling fans broke a window on the Villarreal team bus, because that would be churlish. Oops. Oh well.

Anyway, yes, go. It'll be good.

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Thanks to xyzzzz for getting us out - on his (unannounced!) birthday, even. Lovely to see everyone and yes, let's try and have another one in 2015. Maybe even at the Art School. Or Mono.

Thank you all so much for last night. I can recommend all visitors to try Glasgow more.

https://twitter.com/YokoOnoGlasgow?lang=en-gb

lol, accidentally stumbled upon Ashton Lane unawares just earlier. absolutely ghastly. thankfully the rest of Glasgow has been grand fun