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Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: Nick on July 01, 2009, 05:31:13 AM
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Train to Euston.
Meeting in Holborn
Bit of time to kill afterwards
What should I do for entertainment?
rubschin:
I feel a poll coming on happy088
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A knocking shop for sure! happy088
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I had enough of knockers when that Unigate woman was here AND we have a night out with the CBFT on Friday (Welsh Male Voice Choir in a tent - i can hardly wait noooo:)
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A bookshop then... ::)
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Prolly. I can't even look a pint of milk in the eye at the moment noooo:
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When I am sad and weary
When I think all hope has gone
When I walk along High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on
lol: lol: lol:
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I had forgotten that one! razz:
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One of my favourite books and one that I constantly return to is "Poems on the Underground"
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Which reminds me, I must post pastis' book to him when i get there. I shall have to tie a knot in something to remind me
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If you are going by train you may have to "Tie a knot in it" anyway. The bogs are always engaged or out of order.
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I never use train bogs noooo:
So many accidents just waiting to happen noooo:
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It's going to be a scorcher ...walk down to Covent Garden , find a well positioned seat, a good book and a bit of a feast and watch the world go by. Which will include many many women in nearly next to nothing.
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What time do you usually pass through, like?
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The train will be nationalised by the time you get there prolly... noooo:
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What time do you usually pass through, like?
rubschin:
Nick is in clode proximity eeek: - should we be worried down here scared2:
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What time do you usually pass through, like?
rubschin:
Nick is in clode proximity eeek: - should we be worried down here scared2:
He isn't in clode proximity yet - he hasn't left yet... noooo:
He has toi shave the boy first! lol:
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What time do you usually pass through, like?
rubschin:
Nick is in clode proximity eeek: - should we be worried down here scared2:
Just look out for where the lightening is striking.
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What time do you usually pass through, like?
rubschin:
Nick is in clode proximity eeek: - should we be worried down here scared2:
Just look out for where the lightening is striking.
that'll be on his shiny bald head then! happy001
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Mobile comms have been established ... 8) Our protagonist appears to be sitting in a stationary train outside Euston waiting... and waiting.... and waiting... something to do with a breakdown allegedly
shutup:
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What time is his meeting whistle:
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You'd laugh if it wasn't so bloody tragic noooo:
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What time is his meeting whistle:
It was supposed to start 9 minutes ago
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How much sweat can 1 man produce lol:
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Mobile comms have been established ... 8) Our protagonist appears to be sitting in a stationary train outside Euston waiting... and waiting.... and waiting... something to do with a breakdown allegedly
shutup:
I said so! whistle:
It has been nationalised like... point:
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Hope he is following the guidelines and took plenty of water with him.
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Won't be stuck for long http://twitter.com/nationalrailenq aren't reporting anything.
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Give him chance for his hair to grow back tho whistle:
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http://twitter.com/#search?q=euston
hang on though!
Drama on the train home, lots of staff searching around the carriage for something, what could it be? Euston station, a crime hotspot!
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Train now reversing back towards Willesden Junction eeek:
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Train now reversing back towards Willesden Junction eeek:
Fanfeckingtastic lol:
He may as well go home now then eh noooo:
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Sounds like he is. ;)
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Give him chance for his hair to grow back tho whistle:
I better get in with this before he does ... whistle:
Pastis: So, is it just you in the meeting, Nick?
Nick: If it was just me in the meeting it wouldn't be a bloody meeting and I wouldn't be on the bloody train to London!
Pastis: What I meant was....
Nick: happy001 happy001
Pastis: happy001 happy001
Nick: What a bloody stoopid question... but it made me laugh happy001
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lol: lol: lol:
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That's our Nick ~ He laughs in the face of adversity.
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Good old Nick! lol: lol: lol:
Lets all smite him... whistle:
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I went to smite you for that remark:
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noooo:
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point:
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I went to smite you for that remark:
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noooo:
It's a fix Uncle M - some people have smiting immunity whistle:
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I'm not playing then. noooo:
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There does appear to be a problem on certain threads... rubschin:
I've reported it like...
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Talking to yourself again eh?
Uncle is right
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It's gubbed
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Well, it is half gubbed - there are a few threads that don't werk... noooo:
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Meanwhile what news on our very own time traveller?
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Still waiting:
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Meanwhile what news on our very own time traveller?
See the poll... whistle:
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And wot with it being the Boy's birthday an' all, not a good day noooo:
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Any clue where he is now? lol:
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No communications... I might send a text whistle:
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Any clue where he is now? lol:
Either prone in a gutter in Willesden or still in his meeting would be my guess.
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He seems to be taking some liquid refreshment somewhere ... cryptic as usual lol:
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Prolly wearing sunglasses to hide his lack of eyebrows and a scarf to hide the wrecked beard.
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What time do you usually pass through, like?
rubschin:
Nick is in clode proximity eeek: - should we be worried down here scared2:
Nick and Boris in the same city? Calamatous critical mass beckons eeek:
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What a fiasco!! The train back was delayed ('becuase of earlier problems on the line') and the air con overloaded and condensation poured from the train roof into the carriages. It rained INSIDE all the way back evil:
By the time I got to my meeting they had all adjourned to the pub and ..........oh, why do I bother. evil:
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happy100
Did you feel cooler for not having faciial hair lol:
More importantly - did you have a successful meeting - even if it was in the pub ?
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Pointless noooo: trip
London is such a menagerie, I wa sin a pub near Euston later and could not figure out if it was a barman or bar wench. Male, I think, gay, deffo, camp, certainly, but how can a gay man have boobs, a cleavage and a bra? whacky115
And I walked out and bumped straight into a 6'6" unconvincing transvestite. There ought to be fashion advice for transvestites. That mini skirt and high heels were NOT convincing noooo:
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You did go to the knocking shop after all didn't you whistle:
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Not knowingly
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Did you at least manage to get back without any problems and enjoy some of The Boy's birthday with him ?
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As I said, it rained inside the train all the way back. Cream crackered today noooo:
And looking like a gigantic baby doesn't help matters evil:
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A friend's coming over to see me today i.e. making a trip to London. He's just let me know he can't face the tube in this heat so he's driving in. rubschin:
I'd better get the ice packs ready whistle:
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Nick does appear to attract Transvestites... rubschin:
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A friend's coming over to see me today i.e. making a trip to London. He's just let me know he can't face the tube in this heat so he's driving in. rubschin:
I'd better get the ice packs ready whistle:
G&Ts all round happy088
And I still haven't posted that book! Banghead
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Nick does appear to attract Transvestites... rubschin:
evil:
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Nick does appear to attract Transvestites... rubschin:
evil:
But you do tho.... point:
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And what is this thing with pianos littering the London streets? I passed three people playing them (badly)
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Must be a North London thing; we have mattresses and bedding littering the streets dahn Sahf
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http://www.streetpianos.com/london2009/
Touring internationally since 2008, ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ is an artwork by artist Luke Jerram (Read about).
Presented for Sing London and the City of London Festival, 30 street pianos have been installed on streets, in public squares and parks, train stations, and markets. Like a creative blank canvas, the pianos are there for any member of the public to play and engage with. The pianos will be in place until July 13th, after which time they’ll be donated to local schools and community groups.
I thought everyone knew about this ~ it was on "Today" some weeks ago.
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Shrugs:
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I pass the one at Devonshire Square to and from from work. There's often someone plinking away.
I think it's a great idea.
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I approve of the idea, not of the numpties who play badly evil:
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I am tone deaf. rubschin:
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So it was you!
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I approve of the idea, not of the numpties who play badly evil:
And from that do we deduce that you would not like to see elderly Jews playing Chess in the streets of Prague because they are not "Grand Masters"?
Come on Nick ~ lighten up. If the only person to derive pleasure is the bad pianist it is still a good thing ~ you can always walk on by.
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The first one I saw had most of Soho Square clutching their heads in pain evil:
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walk on by.
Earworm evil:
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I arrive at New Street 16.00 Wednesday.
My meeting is not till 10.00 the next morning (leaving a safety margin this time).
What can possibly go wrong?
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Trains obviously, but also flooding, storms and rioting ... possibly
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I have already had to warn my clients evil:
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About the 'rebel' bandana you mean?
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Not long to go...........
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it'll end in tears. noooo:
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What can possibly go wrong?
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The rain in Birmingham falls mainly in the train?
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That was last week evil:
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And you think that it couldn't possibly happen again?
Prolly end up in an open topped carriage knowing you.
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Right, off I go scared2:
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Have a nice time. GOS has been rehearsing the band all night so your arrival at New Street should be quite an event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gb4xnU3i00
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When's Nick due back?
Sorry, that was a stooopid question ... noooo:
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Tomorrow night I think. His meeting is tomorrow morning but he has gone down early like ~ to avoid being late like. whistle:
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Ahh, yes. I was forgetting the lateness issue, like 8)
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rubschin: I sometimes wonder what the hell I am doing on here.
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Nick reports "nothing eventful so far"
Quiet before the storm probably rubschin:
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I return. No incidents.
It seems all wrong, somehow noooo:
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Maybe God has decided to be nice to you today
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No. See Boy thread noooo:
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Well it was good for all of five minutes.
Anywhoo by the time the Social Worker has worked her/his way through all the various files and agencies she/he will have given up as most of them outrank her/him. Just let her/him write a nice report and she/he will go away and send copies to everyone else on your list. Meanwhile more pressing matters will arrive in the office and she/he will forget all about you and move onto something easier.