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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

Btw, that is my favourite picture of Dastoor ever.

― Ally C (Ally C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I was hoping that everyone would post a picture of themselves with a 'tie head', for Gerry's benefit.

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

(NB. not Gerry Rafferty's benefit)

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

I was hoping you did requests and you could do a black and white minstrel show thing

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

Good work team! Proper little Steering Committee! Look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Onimo, I'll be the disgusting, drooling drunk whose alcohol tolerance has crumbled under the wheels of a particularly large wagon. I'm deliberately not packing a tie.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Good work Tim! That'll make you easily recognizable in a pub on a Friday night.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I was hoping you did requests and you could do a black and white minstrel show thing

I might do that at the Gerry Rafferty benefit (in the back room of Oscar Slaters, Saturday).

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get this 'Gerry Rafferty Benefit' thing... Can you fill me in?

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

No, but here's a picture of Tim:

http://www.nodata.org/honey/sinister/people/TimPopkins.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha!

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

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