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and by tomorrow i really mean TODAY. friday. yup. good night

dahlin (dahlin), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

NPL: A big queue looks good on the dancefloor.

I thank you.

scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 29 April 2006 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Scotstvo! Hello! Are you going to Benicassim this year? I am giving it serious consideration (or was until I got made redundant - though I have a few interviews lined up so this might not be an issue), and the Neil-friendly line-up means this is the best chance I have of getting him there.

Bah, one of the few times NPL coincides with me getting paid, and I didn't go. They should bring back Little Leagues soon, and I might actually go to one of them.

Yesterday I walked past Stew outside Partick Station and I waved at him and said hello and he didn't see me.

Is anyone going to see Belle and Sebastian tomorrow?

ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I quite fancied NPL, and then my parents showed up. To make up for it we went to the Transport Museum, the Hill House and New Lanark and they bought all my dinners for me. New Lanark has a crazy ride! Is Alba drinking tomorrow?

Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Did you not get my text?

Alba (Alba), Sunday, 30 April 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link

What is the crazy ride at New Lanark?

Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

mr. owen's wild ride

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it's called the Millennium Experience. It's like a very slow gondola that doesn't go up or down, just round corners. And there are some bad waxworks of people in long frocks.

Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

ooh. I wonder if it is like the one at the Jorvic museum in York.

One of my very early memories of pure terror is of being taken to the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's, and feeling claustrophobic and panicked. I just looked at the website and it says it is only suitable for over 12s, but I must have been about 5, I'm not sure why I was let in.

Anyway, I am very distrustful of anything underground with waxworks, that calls itself an Experience. Especially anything with piped-through "historical smells". The Jorvic museum thing smelt of smoke and piss, on purpose, to create atmosphere. It was rancid.

Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

wine and piss...and death's desire

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 April 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

No Benicassim for me this year I'm afraid. I'm giving up the world of gainful employment and going to do a postgrad this coming term, rendering me virtually penniless and in no way able to go to Spain for dancing. Still though, I highly recommend it!

scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 1 May 2006 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link

At least four of us are collecting Panini. There was a vague plan to meet up tomorrow after work to do swopsies - who's up for it?

Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link


Is the new lanark thingie called The Annie McLeod Experience? I can vaguely remember that from a school history trip.

They should stick the falls of clyde back on to the cover of the phone book for Lanarkshire again.

JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

No, it's definitely a Millennium Experience. Mostly it's a hologram of this girl called Harmony from 200 years in the future wearing dodgy lycra and silver facepaint. Anne McLeod does crop up as a waxwork lying on her sickbed, and there is also an Annie McLeod Tour of the schoolhouse.

They had opened the barriers at the top of the Falls of Clyde so it was at maximum gush for the bank holiday, but I didn't notice any difference tbh.

Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

There was a vague plan to meet up tomorrow after work to do swopsies - who's up for it?

I have emailed Onimo about pre-match pints and this could and should be extended to swapsieing as well. It might encourage me to go and buy some bloody stickers - I have lost all enthusiasm for it due to lack of, erm, enthusiasm.

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't find anywhere selling the damn things. Ally C says Woolworths is the place so I'll go tomorrow.

Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Every shop I went into today just had SPL stickers.

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm getting the same thing :(

Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link

is it world cup stickers? they had some at the wee shop at st. john's hospital in livingston, yesterday

you should just do what your adult income allows which is order a crate of stickers and sit and open them all in one go and fill the book!

RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the Co-op is the best place for Panini FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft Deutschland 2006 stickers.

Sorry I couldn't make the swapsie meeting (did it happen?), I was ill.

Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yesterday I walked past Stew outside Partick Station and I waved at him and said hello and he didn't see me.

-- ailsa (ailsa.watso...), April 29th, 2006.

Oops, sorry! Was in flitting mode. Stress!

Stew (stew s), Friday, 5 May 2006 10:59 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, aldoFAP is looking more likely now. Almost definitely I will be up 22-25 May - can do any night Mon-Weds, could almost certainly do Sun 21st as well if needs be. GET YOUR BIDS IN NOW FOR PREFERRED EVENING/LOCTAION.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll be unemployed! I can go every night if you like! (I may be poor though, but not poor enough to not buy you beer in return for lots of DVDs)

ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 6 May 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm on 2-10 shifts the week beginning monday 22nd, so sunday night would be good. failing that, i can just meet you later somewhere. any day, i think.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 6 May 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I know ailsa said NOT SUNDAY elsewhere, but it really is sort of my preferred day. Failing that, Monday. I need an answer by lunchtime tomorrow at the latest, so FITE IT OUT please glasgow.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Sunday is OK, really. I might have a job (whoo!) now, so any evening is much of a muchness. My prediction that I wouldn't be too poor to buy you beer may have been a touch rash, however. Will you accept some good wishes and a pint of water instead?

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I would prefer Monday.

Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh for fuck's sake - FITE!

(In other words, is that "would prefer" or "must be", since Si can't do any other day practically?)

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Well I'm expected at a family thing on Sunday at 5pm and would therefore arrive in Glasgow quite late, if at all, and have to leave quite early as Sunday trains = shit (particularly this weekend as there's a shittier than shit replacement bus service).

Then again I saw you only yesterday so it's not a big deal if I miss out.

Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

OK. I will plan for Sunday, but it will be dependent on flights and hotel availability. As you said, we've just been to Camber.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to know too, like NOW, because if, as hoped, I am offered a job, I want to tell them what day I can start on, and hangovers may be a factor.

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Or I could exercise some restraint, seeing as how I am teh poor an' that.

Al or Gerry, can you let me know when a decision is made tomorrow please, so I can negotiate my future career accordingly?

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't tell before I check flights and hotels, lunchtime tomorrow is the best I can do. If this isn't OK we'll have to say Monday and Si will just have to turn up when he can.

(This is pretty much since the four of us are the only vocal ones and nobody else seems to be throwing numbers either way)

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I'm not that bothered either way. It's really "taking sides, Onimo vs Grimly", innit, for Monday vs Sunday?

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My actual real preference is for Sunday now, I think, because I can tell teh new work something, and then start on Tuesday and get myself a long lie on Monday. I shall be boozing with Onimo tomorrow, so I think I can survive not seeing him on Sunday. Also, if Grimly is going, we can form a two-person steering committee and nominate the Station Bar. Is reasonably early doors an option?

I realise you won't know until tomorrow lunchtime. I don't do ILX at work, so will need communication via email or text please...

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm. i'm going to blair drummond safari park with my nephew on sunday now, and i've no idea when i'll be back. certainly in time for some beers, though; i'll probably be able to get to a pub for half-eight. but if monday's better for everyone else, don't worry about it; i'll come along as soon as i get out of work.

see? i refuse to fite. i'm compromising instead. verily, i am the peacemaker. or something. the pissmaker, maybe. certainly after five pints of IPA in the station bar.

is anyone else up for this? is anyone else even reading this thread?

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm reading it!

RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

so am i!

jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

are you coming to the pub on sunday or monday?

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think so : (

RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm going to blair drummond safari park with my nephew on sunday now

You're just hoping to see a bear eat a monkey.

KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

you beat me to it.

jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Sunday yes monday no. Hopefully not the station bar though.

stet (stet), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck, you lot are rubbish. I vote SUNDAY. SUNDAY!!

ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

You're just hoping to see a bear eat a monkey.

we're going prepared, just in case of disappointment.

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grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Bollocks, I've now been told I have to come back down on Tuesday during the day, then back to Glasgow Tuesday night to work in the evening... this is all too rushed, I'm going to have to dip out of this altogether. Sorry glasgow. ailsa, you should get your dvds tonight off Gerry anyway. Can somebody who can use their phone at work text her and let her know? Ta.

I'll come up in the summer when I have some ACTUAL TIME.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Your employer is crap.

I'll text ailsa.

Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link

They certainly are.

Ta.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:53 (seventeen years ago) link

What's this about Sunday?

Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link

ailsa would like a pint with someone and I've let her down.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 10:02 (seventeen years ago) link


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