# Brit Dope Winter 2003 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981 "2003-10-01T21:07:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/261 "2003-10-20T09:03:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gyrate \* > \*\*It’s a simple mistake to make. It’s 260g of flour to make the cookies, and 220g to get cold fusion. Easy to confuse the two. \*\* Damn! Damn! Damn! You know my secret! And now that its made public, the powers that be won’t let my cold fusion experiment work anymore. They’re going to change the universe settings with a turny-button thing. 😃 Yes, I’ve been listening to too much Eddie Izzard again. But then, I have tickets to his show in December. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/262 "2003-10-20T09:19:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angua \* > \*\*They’re going to change the universe settings with a turny-button thing. \*\* I expect they’ll also _reverse the polarity_. In _Star Drek_ at least, this seems to remedy so many situations, one has to wonder why they don’t just leave the polarity reversed all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/263 "2003-10-20T09:23:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ianzin \* > \*\*I expect they’ll also _reverse the polarity_. \*\* Nah. Reversing the polarity is a hack. It doesn’t solve anything. Its like the reset switch. They just haven’t found the turny button that alters the universe’s parameters, so they have to keep on resetting everything. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/264 "2003-10-20T09:50:34Z")
aside from biscuits, where are we actually going drinking? and meeting? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/265 "2003-10-20T10:20:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ianzin \* > But I may deputise my good pal **Garius** , or wait for him to volunteer. If you need a hand, **Angua** then i’m more than happy to help - trains from Stevenage go to Kings Cross so i’ve got to go to Euston to get on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/266 "2003-10-20T10:23:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*If you need a hand, **Angua** then i’m more than happy to help - trains from Stevenage go to Kings Cross so i’ve got to go to Euston to get on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line anyway. \*\* Well, if its not out of your way or anything. I may need a hand. I don’t know, it depends on how much I end up baking. Currently its looking like 4 or 5 different types of cookies, and mine pies. I am not, despite my Indian background, going to bring samosas, bhajjis, or anything like that, at all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/267 "2003-10-20T10:52:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > **If you need a hand, Angua then i’m more than happy to help** Sheesh, the lengths this guy will go to just to get his fiver back! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/268 "2003-10-20T10:54:16Z")
Hey, a fiver’s a fiver. Its two pints of beer at London prices. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/269 "2003-10-20T12:44:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angua \* > \*\*Hey, a fiver’s a fiver. Its two pints of beer at London prices. 😛 \*\* You’re too young to remember lass, but back in my day for a fiver you could get a round o’ drinks and still have enough left for a quickie down at molly’s house of ill repute. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/270 "2003-10-20T12:47:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*You’re too young to remember lass, but back in my day for a fiver you could get a round o’ drinks and still have enough left for a quickie down at molly’s house of ill repute. \*\* Bwahaha! However, up in the wilderness, a fiver’ll buy you about 4 pints of beer 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/271 "2003-10-20T13:23:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Angua \* > \*\*However, up in the wilderness, a fiver’ll buy you about 4 pints of beer 🙂 \*\* …and a cab round to **Angua** ’s. Ow! Stop hitting me, Angua! I didn’t mean it! Ow! Ow! ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/272 "2003-10-20T13:41:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gyrate \* > \*\*…and a cab round to **Angua** ’s. > > Ow! Stop hitting me, Angua! I didn’t mean it! Ow! Ow! \*\* _hits **Gyrate** some more_ And to think, you seemed like such a nice, pleasant chap at the DopeFest. Still, if you don’t want non-white chocolate chip cookies… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/273 "2003-10-20T13:47:29Z")
I’ll be good. _snorf_ ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/274 "2003-10-20T13:50:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gyrate \* > \*\*I’ll be good. > \*\* :dubious: Hmm… You’d better be. Or I’ll sulk, and then I shan’t bake at all. And it’ll all be your fault, and and and you’ll get everyone upset because there’ll be no cookies or mine pies, and and… …Sod it. I can’t do sulky little girl. I simply won’t let you have any cookies, which is worse 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/275 "2003-10-20T14:01:51Z")
At my regular bar in central London, you still can get a round in for a fiver 😃 (beer £1.25 a pint anyone?) ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/276 "2003-10-20T16:17:09Z")
hmmm my spidey sense is tingling… [sub]go on - tell us the catch.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/277 "2003-10-20T16:22:41Z")
Do you have to have an NUS card or something similar? ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/278 "2003-10-20T16:25:08Z")
You can get a pint of Skanky beer for 99p in a pub near me. Or you can get beer for free! ha ha! ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/279 "2003-10-20T16:32:58Z")
Pff. You can keep your hoity-toity “bars” and “pubs.” A can of Special Brew and a park bench - now _thats_ where its at. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981/280 "2003-10-20T16:42:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SciFiSam \* > \*\*At my regular bar in central London, you still can get a round in for a fiver 😃 (beer £1.25 a pint anyone?) \*\* Is it a lesbian bar? If so, with the prospect of cheap drink and being allowed to bring in cake to share around, you’ll be making converts. Poses a slight problem for garius and the boys though. 😃 By the way, I am extremely impressed at your feats of cake decoration aboard a train. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dope-winter-2003/204981.md?page=15)