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no, when you fell i'd come slip-sliding over and drop a curling stone on your pods.

it'd be funny, honest.

as for being up for curling ... this rings a faint bell. i'd say "ah, but i was drunk" ... only i wasn't drinking that night. hmm.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Stet, I notice that Grimly Fiendish has an unhealthy fascination with causing you pain in a particularly sensitive area. I'm sure you'd already noticed.

Let's go curling in Paisley! Or between Glasgow and Paisley!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure you'd already noticed

wam! bash! zung! ooof! etc.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

*cups stones*

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

it's the two (amusingly mis-sized) stooges. glasgow should be delighted that it's getting all this top-quality entertainment for free.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

*cups stones*

Is that a curling term then?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

hello :)

cozen, no credit. yes to DFA. who else is coming?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, sorry. Keep meaning to find out who's going and get tickets. Should just get my own, I guess.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

me & ally, apparently

how much?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i think

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

yes that's right. 11 in advance & 12 at the door.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

yr welcome

in advance also allows you to join the faster moving queue i believe.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

try glasgow more.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"apparently"

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

I am going

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:11 (eighteen years ago) link

OK, at massive personal sacrifice I will bring my last 6 butteries. (although I think I have found a recipe and may try making some)

Curling at Paisley on Weds 28th sounds ace. There are still pubs in Paisley you don't automatically get bottled in, aren't there?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link

"still"?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm presuming AT SOME POINT IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND there were. I realise this logic may be flawed.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Can anyone tell me anything about a pub called The Tap at 1055-1061 Sauchiehall Street? Apparently they have a pub quiz there on a Tuesday, and a friend is wondering if it would be suitable for a work team outing.
ta!

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

It is a horrid studenty place.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link

(I mean, a place for students who are horrid)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link

not: "a place for students, who are horrid"

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

So a load of civil servants will stick out like a sore bum?

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I shouldn't think anyone will care. I just think it's a pretty tacky place.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

it used to be nice

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

We did the quiz there once and it was crap, remember?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i just opened 3 other threads and browsed ILM in another window in the time it took this one to open.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I just got DFA tix for me, Ally and Richard. I didn't get you one, David, coz I didn't know if you had one already or not. They're on sale at Art School bar (or Monorail if that's closer).

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

(the woman complained that the Squarepusher tickets were easier to rip)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Can anyone tell me anything about a pub called The Tap at 1055-1061 Sauchiehall Street?

it's where i took someone to tell them i didn't want to go out with them any more, which should tell you everything you need to know about it.

alex, you must know it. it's slap bang sod beside the university, one block north from the goat and firebird. almost at the end of university avenue, in fact. it's blue ~~and smells of piss~~.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

The Tap used to be lovely. We used to go there after work on fridays in 1996/7, and I had a ridiculous crush on one of the barmen. Used to have really good beer, and cask strength whiskies.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't have a ticket yet because I don't have money till friday : /

it better not sell out : /

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Doubt it will. It looked like she'd only sold about three so far from a fat book of tickets.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

We did the quiz there once and it was crap, remember?

Oh, Madders, you are the mistress of understatement. As I remember, the bloke who ran it looked like Reece Shearsmith and got a bit upset when we called our team "You look like Reece Shearsmith". Bonus points were awarded for some bloke being able to stretch his bawbag over a pint glass, and then to anyone willing to drink from said pint glass. The tie break was settled by a race around the block.

I have no idea if this makes it suitable for civil servants on the piss or not.

However, as a pub, it has cheap drinks and a pool table and big sofas. It used to be OK.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

we called our team "You look like Reece Shearsmith"

hhhahahhhAHAHAHHAHAHahH hoo, HOO!

Bonus points were awarded for some bloke being able to stretch his bawbag over a pint glass

i take it all back. the tap is obviously utterly grebt.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

That is the best team name evar
*waits to be proved wrong by floods of quiz-goin ILXors*

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, come to think of it, it might have been "I look like Reece Shearsmith" so that when he read our team name out it was like he was admitting to his Reece Shearsmith lookylikeyness. Anyway, the place is shit, and his poxy quiz was even shitter.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

the tap is under new management (again)! we went there on a saturday afternoon semi-recently and it was dead deserted. which made it great for our purposes. i approved. they took away the tvs tho! ally was there. tell them, ally
i am so going ice skating

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

cozen - it won't sell out.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

: )

the day gets better and better

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

THE RISK AGENCY

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

The Tap used to be lovely and then sunk to almost unimaginable depths of awfulness and now seems to have climbed back to a position of just kind of bad. And yeah, that quiz was the worst I have ever been to, I think. But it was like 4 years ago or something, it might be different now.

― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

i think i must have stumbled across it just as it hit the darkest depths.

anyway, look, this is important but i'm only going to mention it once 'cos this kind of thing might not be good ILE etiquette. but if you care about scotland's finest cinema and don't want it turned into a shit pub that's probably even worse than the tap then, umm, click there.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

this kind of thing might not be good ILE etiquette

All cinema saving spam should be accompanied by the atari penis face graphic. Apart from that, it's fine.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you get that from Ath0le, S1mon? Bad news. Amazing it would even be considered, what with the festival and all that. Like any more pubs are needed.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 17 November 2005 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Jesus, I grew up with Late Night Double Bills at the Cameo, closing it would be like blowing up part of my life.

The people involved need a good pistol whipping. Just for starters.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

erstwhile projectionist ath0le is doing his bit, keith, aye ... but big chris sent me the link first. after all, he lives above the fucking thing, so he's got a vested interest in it not turning into some shitey bar.

during the summer of 1994, i think i went to the cameo every single day. and it's where i saw trainspotting for the first time. and deliverance. and the big blue. and carlito's way. and when we were kings. i love that place; like aldo says, closing it would be like shutting the door on something monumental in my life.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you remember seeing Trees Lounge there while revising for our finals? I can remember coming out thirstier than I had ever been in my life, and with an unquenchable desire to end up a pathetic barfly. Hey it might still happen!

― alext (alext), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

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