July 15, 2008

• *sighs* *seethes dejectedly yet again*
• y'all raise a pint for me, wouldja?
• I am likely to be in the UK at the time and if so will do my best to come if there's a meet-up.
• I'm up for it!! So, who's buying my ticket? *looks around, smiles brightly*
• *looks at empty wallet* Sowwy, GramMa. We'll do a shoutout!
• Love to if I can. On 16th I'll be off to France for two weeks, though.
• Stop by Lille, Plegmund, or meet me in Paris. I can introduce you to some odd Trappists.
• /me checks train tickets to France
• Oh damn, sorry. I thought I was in mofirc!
• I would love to do that sometime, roryk, but alas on this occasion I shall be flying straight to Perpignan.
• Oh well, I guess you're entitled to your Perpignan. Neddy, there are cheap deals on Eurostar sometimes, even in summer.
• A shout-out? For me?? YEA!!!!!
• I heard that hotel rooms in London cost $2 billion/night.
• But they put a mint on your pillow.
• Oh, well, that's all right then!
• /sneaks into StoryBored's house /puts poutine-flavoured mint on pillow /disappears into the night leaving no trace except lard stains
• I'll try and come to this. Then again, I say this every time, and always seem to fail, due to being useless
• awww... you did make it at least once, dng. I remember you just came from a job interview that time. *hugs*
• Yes, that was excellent. Also, that was four years ago, terrifyingly
• Did you get the job? OK, I'm sick and tired of not being able to go to cool meetups with fun Monkeys in awesome pubs around the world. But am I just sitting around and moping about it? No! Employing: A. Native Yankee ingenuity B. The cobbling together of stock images C. Judicious digital manipulation to more closely resemble the real thing I've created the Printable TUM Paper Doll, which can be downloaded, printed, taken to meetups, and bought tiny drinks.
• *wolf whistles* That we can do :D
• PIXPLZTHXBYE.
• But can the bodice be ripped?
• Well then, we expect to see her in your digital recordings. With drink.
• Pocket-sised, too. Quite handy.
• I'm in. When? Where?
• /puts poutine-flavoured mint on pillow *has sweet dreams*
• I'm in. When? Where? posted by the quidnunc kid at 08:48PM UTC on July 17, 2008 Good question. Suggestions, anyone? Tentatively, 14th or 15th, so Plegmund can join us? With luck, I can arrive in London five-ish on 14th.
• Maybe the 15th, so that you don't feel you have to rush and stress to get here, Neddy? Or will you be elbow-deep in packing then, Pleg? My default suggestion for place would be, as always, Garlic and Shots, where we went a couple of meetups ago. It is, admittedly, a little weird and, uh, not necessarily to everyone's taste - but! it does have the not-insignificant bonus of being a) very central, and b) virtually empty and quiet on weeknights even though it's very central. And it's got a garden with tables where smokers can freely smoke. Other thoughts?
• I am perfectly fine with coming straight from Victoria Station (^_^) What's important is that everyone else finds it convenient. I'm trying my best to travel light this time, although I will be bringing presents along!
• Too early to demand request plead for shoutouts?
• My default suggestion for place would be, as always, Garlic and Shots Well that was great last time but on the weekend I was bitten by a vampire. Or a bug, I forget which. Either way I'll be recoiling in terror from you all and frothing slightly.
• Oh, quiddy, you say that to prep us for all your meetups....
• There's a place near-ish to mothninja's place which looks quite good. It's called The Chepstow, at Chepstow Place, Westbourne Grove. The review is rather blah, but I think a subdued, quiet pub with non-nosy waiters sounds ideal for a meetup. Is it too out-of-the-way for our London monkeys?
• The Cheapstew is definitely too out-of-the-way for me...
• Fine with me (so long as I can get a late pass - is it 14th or 15th?). I might walk there across the parks from Horseguards if I've got enough energy.
• And I can definitely recommend a side trip to Lille to meet up with Roryk and his odd Trappists. That trip is worth it in and of itself. I forget how many of them I was introduced to, though.
• is it 14th or 15th? The $64,000 question. Which date is more convenient for you guys?
• Make it the 15th. That gives Pleg some more time to update his blog. I keed, I keed. Sorta.
• I update it regularly. Every year.
• We should start an Annual Bloggers Club, Pleggers. Also, anyone interested in joining me for a quick jaunt through this? I originally planned to spend about 3 days in London, go down to Plymouth and then back to London a day or two and on to Birmingham. The Plymouth part of the journey is now abandoned, as my friend will, coincidentally, be flying to my neck of the woods at the same time talk about timing grumblegrumblegrumble. So I'll be pretty free and footloose, and open to suggestions for any activities in, around or out of London until the 21st August.
• Either 14th or 15th is fine by me, so just email me where. I'm in Kiev the three days prior so MoFi may not get sufficient attention. quidnunc out. ps - love to see you again, Al (et al).
• Let's say 14th, and if there are any problems, we can delay it a day?
• OOOoooo Doctor Who exhibition! In! In! Pleggy, do you want to make a final decision on date for us? Is the 14th good? If the Chepstow is agreeable to everyone (it's actually very nice, whatever the review said) I can go and book us a table, outside if it's nice weather.
• *places Decider mantle on Plegmund's shoulders*
• By day, mild-mannered, pinstriped, charming civil servant. By night, he puts on his mantle and becomes... The Decider
• Argh! Can't I be the Equivocator? The 14th should be fine (either day would do for me). But there is tiny risk I might have to bale out if Mrs P is unwell at the time (she's on chemotherapy). I'd never dare show my face again if you chose 14th to suit me and then I didn't turn up...
• Oh, don't be daft, Mrs P obviously comes before meetup! *sends very best regards to Mrs P, hopes she's doing well* If we see you Pleggy that's wonderful, and if not, next time! So, 14th then?
• Oh dear, please do give my best to Mrs P too. No worries, we'll set it for the 14th, and should Mrs P be unwell, please don't feel guilty about not being able to come. *hugs*
• They wouldn't led a De-CIDER into an English pub! (Give Mrs. P a big hug for me, willya?)
• Yeah, I'm in.
• Screw you all. Shoutout PLZKTHX.
• Who was that boy that went *flash*?
• Let it please be known I asked for shoutouts first.
• Who was that boy that went *flash*? If anybody asks, you didn't see nothin'.
• *bump for sidebar* The Plan: Thursday 14th, The Chepstow Pub, 39 Chepstow Place, W2. Closest tubes Notting Hill Gate, Queensway or Bayswater. From about 5.30 onwards. Sound good to everyone? Who else is coming? Abiezer? Pallas? Other London monkeys - make yourselves known!
• Counting down. It's exactly 4 days to my flight. I want to see as many of you London monkeys as possible, or I'll pout and throw tantrums and hold my face till I turn blue and pass out. I mean it!
• hold my breath, I meant hold my breath!
• Rocket, Mrs. Rocket and I had a mini-meetup on James North last night, and we didn't do shoutouts, JUST TO SPITE YOU ALL. OK, we forgot. But still. The spite was there, however latent. Now be the bigger persons and give us shoutouts. KTHNX.
• Tsk. Tsk. This James North - big guy? Meanwhile... don't make Neddy hold her face, people!!!
• 3 more days to lift-off. Any Mofi/Mefi members interested in this meetup? I'm pretty interested, but I'd be outgunned, outclassed and outnumbered. Not sure why I sound like I'm going to war - they're only Mefites! hee, Pleggers, I don't know whether to LOL or be appalled,
• That blue face thing is GIVING ME THE HORN!!!111!
• Come join us, kit! Only a couple of hours on the train!
• That blue face thing is GIVING ME THE HORN!!!111! Kit's got a bad case of blue ball.
• You funny guy.
• ...or be appalled Oh dear. There... And now no-one can see what Kit is talking about, so he looks like a total weirdo moran, LOL! Or possibly they think the picture was actually NSFW... Begins to wish he hadn't started this...
• I can totally still see it.
• If you could just hit 'refresh'...
• Curses!
• Yes, as Cappy said, the Hamilton mini-meetup had no cameras and no shoutouts, but some of you were discussed at length. I think you know who you are.
• Oh dear, Plegmund, I didn't mean I was appalled at your crazy photoshop skills. Just that picture of me (as usual) is quite...bleargh. 2 more days! London monkeys, place your orders if you'd like anything from Singapore. Short of durians, I'll try to bring anything that will fit into my suitcase. Does anyone have any moral objections pieces of jade?
• Sorry, wee bit drunk right now. I meant moral objections to pieces of jade.
• Just bring yourself, Alnedra!
• I thought Plegger's picture was a take on the Green Lady: This one, and that took me ages to find.
• Yes, the resemblance did occur to me, which is why I made it a bit greenish.
• Green lady?
• Ha ha! That's what she looks like in real life!
• 24 hours to go. I've err...gone a wee bit overboard with the present buying. So there's plenty for everyone (^_^) It's mostly girly stuff though.... Packiing has hit a small snag but I'm looking forward to the flight tomorrow. Lots of zzzz time!
• London!? But I won't be there! Shoutout from blighty please!
• How's life on the Left Coast anyway, mute?
• Super thanks Herr Kaleun. Just over 2 months in, and settling nicely. Blog tells more.
• Glad you're doing ok there, muteboy, but bollocks that you're not in London now :(
• can i haz shoutout
• See you there, I hope.
• Yes, it would have had have possible definitely had to have been great to see Alnedra and all. Wah! And presents! gosh-flipping-darn-it!
• *begins the seething*
• IS NEDDY ALIVE AND OK - REPORT IN PLEASE.
• She'll be on the plane by now.
• Oh bollocks. I am in the UK (one sibling safely married off) but won't be able to get down to London tonight - I thought it was this weekend (foolishly) and was going to try to get there on my way back out to Beijing.
• Plegmund, mothninja, flashboy, quidnunc and I are currently in the Chepstow, having drinks. NEDDY ALIVE AND WELL STOP WAITING FOR OTHER LONDON MONKEYS STOP IF YOU WANT PRESENTS COME AND GET EM STOP STILL HAVE THREE JADE MONKEYS LEFT FULL STOP
• *seething enters red zone, klaxon sounds*
• We will bring you cutting updates of the meetup - right after we've had our dinner (^_^)
• You guys suck and stuff.
• mid-dinner comment. Mothninja was commenting about how weather in Italy is reported by grizzled old military blokes; Plegmund opined that it was probably a system that was carried over from Mussolini; Quidnunc proceeded to say "He made the rains come on time." We will be back after these scheduled ads.
• Breaking news: flashboy talked about a editor being sweet on him, but emphasizes it has "nothing to do with the sex". Riiiight. We believe you, flashboy.
• SHOUTOUTS!
• *escalates seething into full-on earsteaming*
• Monkeyfilter: STILL HAVE THREE JADE MONKEYS LEFT
• flashboy and quiddy now agreeing that they are gonna be the next Doctor Who. May the best Timelord win. Loser gets to be the Master.
• *acts all nonchalant because you're all a bunch of nerds anyway*
• I'M IN UR MEETUP POSTIN FRUM MAH PHONE
• also i'm totally not fucking the editor, for reals
• Breaking photos from the Chepstow!
• Shoutouts! Flashboy taking photo of shoutout in progress - from his phone!!! As Quidnunc said, paper is passe, body art is what's in!
• I've got you deep in the heart of me, too, quid!
• Shoutout to kitfisto and Bluehorse! The things I do for you, GramMa ;)
• New update: Flashboy henceforth wishes to be known as Sterling F. Wolfname. Or it could be Stirling....or it could be Sterleng....erm.
• We've cooperatively just made a work of art. cheongsam is actually a wine bottle coat.
• More beer. Her complexion, it is too pale.
• One more shoutout. Kudos to anyone who can guess (clue: there's more than one). Incidentally, quidnunc would like it on record that flashboy felt him up. And stuck his tongue in the vicinity of his face.
• Are those lips in the circle-slash below the bone?
• Um, HELLO?!
• If they are, it's really not so much a shoutout as it is an appropriate tattoo for flashboy to wear to prison.
• THAT DRINK WAS FUCKING DELICIOUS Srsly, live meetup coverage rocks. You guys make those putzes at CNN look like the putzes they are.
• We're trying for controversial issues. We've come up with so far: > Jews can't make cheese > Only athletes entirely made of teeth should be allowed to compete in the Olympics. > Tracicle should be frozen in carbonite for her crimes against ferrets and fairy woodland creatures around the world. And then set on fire. > And then leadership of Mofi should be transferred to Quidnunc. > And a sexy Amazon outfit for Hank Mabuse aka Chyren aka Nostrildamus. > Capt Renault should be sexually molested to death by squirrels. > Children are not our future. Don't teach them well and don't let them lead the way - they're too short. > Resource prices are reaching ever higher points in this economy. Therefore, we should send all the children to mines. > Children should fight until there remains only one superchild. > For environmental reasons, we should clone Prince Charles, so that we can transfer kangaroo anuses into cows. Or something like that. Can you tell we're drinking? On a more, ahem, conciliatory note: Gorgeous mothninja bares (almost) all for our beloved Monkeybashi!
• You just reposted the bone tattoo link twice.
• Next on the agenda, platitudes: * There is only one type of platypus we know of - we love them and we'd like more. So can scientists please come up with more kind of platypusses? * Air is great. It doesn't get enough good press, and it's about time that's changed. * We're all making increasing amounts of sense as the evening wears on, and we're convinced that all ye people are impressed at how cogent we are.
• I'm certainly impressed at how closely you're reading this thread. ;P
• Oh sod. Sorry, let me correct that. This is the other pic.
• And the other other pic. *wanders off to get another drink*
• More platitudes: * It's a rum old world. Yes it is. Entirely made of rum. * Football: Funny old game. * It takes all sorts to make a world, innit? * Plegmund is so nice, that he can't do controversy. Therefore, if he ever says something controversial, it must be true...! Awww... Plegmund had to go. Have a good trip, Pleggers!
• >Reese Witherspoon has a giant chin, which probably outmasses the planet, and is the exact size and shape of Japan. She needs to have it reduced. > Something about the French. > Something about A levels, blonde twins and breasts. > And I'm gonna have a butterscotch martini.
• >There are too many numbers. The government should ban any number over 4. The number system should go "1, 2, 4, brilliant." > All children henceforth should only be named after heavy metal bands and maybe soft rock. Or indie bands. > Butterscotch martini is awesome.
• Best thread ever. Cheers!
• Sorry, meant to add this to the comment above. *hic*
• > Mustaches and chimpanzees should be given equal human rights. But primarily mustaches. > Pandas should be allowed to die out. In fact, they should be forced to. > The remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show is both a good thing, and 10 years too late. > Margaret Thatcher should be executed and embalmed like Lenin and put on a world tour, accompanied by Cliff Richard singing "Living Doll". And animated by stick. Yaaaay! DangerIsMyMiddleName has arrived! Let the real fun begin!
• Ok, more or less wrapping up for the night. I'm finding it slightly harder to type. Will update if there's anything noteworthy. Neddy signing out.
• Hot spätzle this is a fine meetup!! I feel like I'm there. Say, anyone in NYC care to go for drinks and join in the fun?? *begs for body art shoutout*
• > Metafilter is better. To Monkeybashi: Don't ban me! > The word "controversy" has never been pronounced correctly.
• I hope someone is going to carry our dear Neddy out.
• We asked DiMMN to do body art shoutouts, but he did one better and showed us his real tattoos. > Ancient Biblical people should be ground into paste and made to unify the warring peoples of Vegi and Mar. Perhaps the Ammomites. Amonnites. You know who I mean. > Singapore is slightly dirty and should be thoroughly dusted. > It is no coincidence that Robert Mugabe is often confused with the Sugarbabes. So they should change their name to the Mugababes. Shoutout to MCT, courtesy of DiMMN. And also SMT!
• > Darts and snooker should be Olympic sports. And also mahjong. > Canine poker playing should be an Olympic sport too. > Olympic Big Brother: Get one person from every Olympics-recognised nation and put them in a big house for 3 weeks. Get everyone in the world to vote by mobile phone. Right, signing off for reals. Laptop battery is dying.
• You're teasing me!
• Neddy, just to show you how much I LOVES YOU, I hereby dedicate my comment #4000 to you. *faints in anticipation*
• I'm so totally near his nipple. It smells like success.
• I think I'm gonna faint, too! My body-art shoutout is so sexily awesome! (You're not ever gonna wash it off, right? Right??) I'm glad you guys had so much fun. Also, those salads looked tasty. The pictures were great. I give this thread a 10/10 for the sense of "being there" accorded to us non-traveling losermonkeys.
• looks like y'all had fun. *seethes with untethered fury at not being shouted out*
• Good work all. The controversies, listed above so expertly by Al, should - we hope - attract a whole new audience to wonkeyfilter, who will woship flashboy (new name: Sterling Wolfname) and me (new name: Glib Bondage) as their new gods. If you missed this meetup, suffer in endless shame and weep into your paltry pint of memory juice while you contemplate the forgotten and yet peerless controversies that mothninja and I dreamed up outside the pub over a cigarette, never to be committed to written form. They was good ... I think.
• Waaaaaaah. Further evidence may be found here. Of particular interest: middleclasstool tattoo out-shoutage and WINECOSY!!!
• Oh, yeah, and air is great. Sorry if that's too much CONTROVERSY for you.
• oh no wait that was platitudes shit
• Sterling Wolfname and Glib Bondage sound like a pair of opium-smoking fey upper-class Victorian detectives.
• Goddamn it, I always show up after all the cool people are gone. Sigh.
• No no no HBS - you is teh cool peoples!
• A world in which London and Singaporean Monkeys may thrive is a world worth preserving.
• I like Air. I WANT TO BE IN LONDON
• Some moving pictures . May be more later.
• Ah. That was lovely. Mothy and DIHMN are like our Posh and Becks. Although I'm not sure which one is which...
• Best wishes for Ned's head this morning.
• Ned's Head's dead, man.
• YouTube
• amusing that the next linked "related" video is Police Chase - Benny Hill, eh?
• What are they saying WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?!?
• That was like the most Web.20 meetup ever. Colonials - raise your game!
• *clicks madly to no avail on the link for my shoutout* Aaaaaaaaaaoooooooooeeiiii! *suddenly feels like I've been rickrolled*
• And yet, I dream of you every night...
• awww gee, I'm soooo sorry, SMT. Really. Too drunk to link, I was. Here's the right one! *hugs* Ned's Head was ok yesterday (^_^) thank goodness, I don't get jet lag and I don't get hangovers (unless I drink beer or wine, in which case I get the hangover about 20 minutes into drinking).
• sounds like one heck of a meetup. sad I couldn't delay my departure any more! Nerdy highlights for me: * Alnedra's laptop (I've got one in black) * Flashboy's QRCode tshirt - want! (empty if possible) (and with the code changed)
• > Mothy and DIHMN are like our Posh and Becks. !!! *cries*
• Thanks for the drunken shoutout, Neddy! * Flashboy's QRCode tshirt - want! (empty if possible) (and with the code changed) Seconded.
• I MEANT IT IN A NICE WAY!
• Well, I totally managed to miss this again. Sorry, Alnedra, and everyone else. I think I've been asleep or something for the past month