It is almost a lesbian bar. I guess you’d call it a bicurious bar. The top floor is a lesbian bar, but while it was being renovated (hah! still looks like a student union) we all decamped to the nicer ground floor, and slowly converted it. It’s nominally still a straight bar, but it carries the Pink Paper and G3 and so on.
The few straight people I ever see in there generally sit at their tables and drink their beer veeery slowly, asking each other why there are so few men and - no! - did that woman really just kiss that other woman, what kind of place is this? The uniform party we had there recently was especially amusing for ‘lost straight person’ spotting.
The catch is that only some beers are that cheap - Carling and the like, plus some alcopops are £1.50, and wine is usually £1.50 a glass, plus they have extra offers on weekdays.
I went on a date once where we drank Asti Santori in a car park. I’m a classy bird, me.
Ooh go on, do convert, I have the toaster oven and am working my way up to a smoothie maker with juicer attachment.
Up ‘ere in proper north [sub]unlike some places eg coughBrum cough cough[/sub] tha’ can get a mortgage for less than that!
…and it would still be a rip off too ‘n’ all. given the hot and cold running coal, outside and oop t’lane privies 'n’all.
'ot and cold running coal? Luxury! We 'ad it tough!
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paulberserker the answer is that we haven’t finally totally definitely decided everything yet, but we will. Have patience and faith, and nearer the time you will be thrilled at how meticulously well-organised it all is.
Maybe.
Anyway, a little chaos always adds to the fun, and it’s going to be great because it will be the first Dope Fest to feature Cleavage Beer ™ and Anguacookies ™ and mine pies ™ and a Gyraquiz ™. Social events do not come any better than this!
Aye, but tha’s in Yarkshyr, and quite frankly, I’d rather be in t’Midlands than in Yarkshyr.
We’re always well organised. Weren’t we at the BrumDope? Well, apart from my bad directions, and not being able to find the right bus, and the silly bus driver. And we had a monkey.
Can I come? I’m fully housebroken…seriousley if I have time off from my bizarre working hours i’d love to meet up with you lot. Sorry but I couldn’t read through 6 pages of info (I have a headache, and a lot of work) but I gather the date and location are not finalised. I wait with baited breath…
Of course you can. The more the merrier. The “plug” is 4 posts up.
The date itself is finalised - 29th November, and by the sounds of things we’ll be meeting somewhere in London around 1pm on that day. Nothing else is finalised, but that’s just because we’re waiting for ianzin to pull his finger out, and as the unofficial offical organiser, make a decision as to where we’re meeting and what we’re going to do.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Yeah, sure you’ve got the pictures from the Mini LonDope, but that’s the only evidence you have. There’s no such piccies from the BrumDope, or even the last LonDope (I don’t think)
I knew it - the whole Lesbian thing is just a giant pyramid scheme! [sub]just wait till i tell all my gay friends i know about their secret scheme…[/sub]
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*Originally posted by Angua *
**Aye, but tha’s in Yarkshyr, and quite frankly, I’d rather be in t’Midlands than in Yarkshyr.
what the hell kind of spelling/accent is that? ‘yarkshyr?’
no-one pronounces it like that
yORKsher would be correct. as im sure casdave would agree.
if anyone would like lessons in being a northern bastard at the dopefest, come see me. ill be happy to oblige.
Angua go easy on our Yorkshire brethren. They’re just a little sensitive and insecure on account of the War of the Roses, seeing as how they, um, cough lost cough. But they’re really very nice when you get to know them, and there’s no need to go bringing up the past like the War of the Roses. In fact, there’s scarcely any need to mention the War of the Roses at all. I think you and I, as Lancastrians, should just quietly resolve not to mention the War of the Roses in their presence, and certainly not in this or any other thread, and this way we’ll avoid the War of the Roses becoming any sort of fractious issue between good friends.
Besides, I don’t want to get on the wrong side of casdave. If there’s a quiz, and we have teams, I want to be on his. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has more facts in his head on more different subjects than that man.
Damnit!!! I’m working the night of the 29th…but seeing as its a Lesbian bar and all I may have to take the night off, I still have holidays to burn. I’m kidding, i’ll take the time off and it has nothing whatsoever to do with hot girl on girl action…nothing at all…whatsoever…where is it by the way? (apologies if i’ve missed the address, i’m feeling…unwell)
OK then. There will be no mention of the War of the Roses in this thread. Like you say, they can’t help having lost the War of the Roses. Best not to bring up the War of the Roses again really.
Besides, I wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of casdave either, he was really nice to me at the BrumDope and even said that I looked far too normal for a Doper.
WILLASS, we might not go to a lesbian/bicurious bar. We may well end up in the Silver Cross, as appears to be traditional.
the war of the roses means nothing to me. i just hate it when people try to do yorkshire accents, especially phonetically on a message board.
remember kids, coronation street is LANCASTRIAN. its in MANCHESTER. theres a BIG DIFFERENCE. hell, even casdave will talk with a slightly different accent to me, and hes only down the road from where i come from. we dont breed whippets. we dont wear flat caps. we are generally alcoholics though.
Well tradition sounds good…where is the Silver Cross then? For some reason i’m thinking Charing Cross but my memory of pubs is blurry to say the least…I just want to know how central we are talking.
What would Kicker say?