# Calling all London Dopers! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2000, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938 "2000-10-06T10:50:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/1 "2000-10-06T10:50:16Z")
Hiya. I’ll be in town this weekend. As it looks now, I’ll probably have a lot of time to myself, as my girlfriend will be working a lot during the days. So, who’s up for a pint or two on Saturday or Sunday afternoon? ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/2 "2000-10-06T11:14:34Z")
Don’t forget the pubs could be a little full saturday afternoon;) Got to be in Liverpool unfortunately, otherwise a fine idea, try me again in a few weeks. If she’s busy;) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/3 "2000-10-06T12:47:32Z")
Isn’t the match in the evening, Andy? ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/4 "2000-10-06T13:19:12Z")
Lock up your daughters !..run for the hills… I’m dropping you an e-mail ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/5 "2000-10-06T13:23:03Z")
You were one of the lads I was hoping to see here, L\_C 😃 I’ll fire up my webmail. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/6 "2000-10-06T14:26:54Z")
An evening kick off for the last match at wembley? The heresy of it! 3pm, on the dot. ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/7 "2000-10-06T14:36:31Z")
I can make sunday, but not saturday, but alas I’m not a lad, so you probably aren’t interested \ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/8 "2000-10-06T14:42:53Z")
I can get the train up from Farnborough. Any pubs without tellys will be empty. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/9 "2000-10-06T14:47:21Z")
Lasses are more then welcome too, fierra 😉 Actually, watching the footy together might be a cool idea as well eh? Ingurlund! ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/10 "2000-10-06T14:58:23Z")
Footy?! Hah! I spit on your footy! (Ooops! meant to spit on your football, I’ll bring the shoe polish…) ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/11 "2000-10-06T16:58:20Z")
Sorry, I can’t get away from School (roleplaying Saturday; Open Day Sunday). Enjoy London (our English is nearly as good as a Dutchman’s 🙂 ). Do you need any suggestions for restaurants? ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/12 "2000-10-07T00:02:56Z")
I want to come. I want to visit my best friend in London on Grange Road. Better if someone sent me a picture of their apt then I could merge my picture into it so it looks like I was there. Then I can email it to them & say I came by & where were ya? ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/13 "2000-10-07T16:15:54Z")
I’ve just got back from Chicago and may be able to make it on Sunday. Any plan yet? **kferr** , whereabouts in Farnborough do you live? I’m from that neck of the woods myself. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/14 "2000-10-08T12:27:24Z")
Hoo boy. As it turned out, my GF was able to take the day off yesterday, and we were able to spend some time together. That’s why you haven´t heard anything from yours truely yet, know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more! She just left for work, and I´m here abusing her computer. So, it´s almost half past 1, I haven´t had a bite to eat yet, and I need to be at LHR at about 7:30 tonight. Which means there´s bloddy little time left to meet up with some dopers. But I´ll keep eyeing this thread just in case someone comes up with a solution - FWIW, I´m near Notting Hill Gate now. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/15 "2000-10-08T20:51:17Z")
Sorry, **Coldy** , I was in London this weekend but never got to your post in time to find out you were there. However, since I was visiting the city with my mum, who’s in the UK for the only time this year, I don’t think I would have had much time. Also, I managed to pick up a stomach bug and I’ve been sick all weekend anyway. Sounds like you had A LOT more fun with your GF, anyway 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/16 "2000-10-08T21:36:27Z")
Coldy, your girlfriend was probably better company than most English folk would have been yesterday anyway 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/17 "2000-10-08T22:27:04Z")
**ruadh** , surely you’re not gloating over another heroic Irish, er, draw, are you? 😉 Anyway, let’s spell this one out. **Coldfire** spends “quality time” with GF _versus_ **Coldfire** spends time with drunken, flag-of-St George-waving fat blokes You can easily see that, unless **Coldy** has an unspeakable perversion, even if England had _won_, time with the GF was always going to be a better bet. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/18 "2000-10-08T23:53:58Z")
In-gur-lund! In-gur-lund! In-gur-lund! In-gur-lund! In-gur-lund! Uhm… you’re right, Duke. I’ll take sex with a pretty Dutch girl over drunk English bastards anyday! Which is not to say that the two can’t happen in the same weekend! But alas, I’m home now, in boring ol’ Amsterdam. Guess it’ll have to be another time! What a shame that Wembley didn’t get the proper Goodbye. And thanks, Paddies, for drawing against Portugal. Because one and one is less than three and zero, you know 😉 God bless the Heroic Dutch National Team, who snatched a hard-fought victory from the jaws of defeat against the Mighty Cyprus. An away match, even!! Michael Schumacher, congratulations on a world title well deserved. Forza Ferrari!! This weekend was a good one, for German sports fans eh? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/19 "2000-10-09T00:02:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*She just left for work, and I´m here abusing her computer. \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > **Uhm… you’re right, Duke. I’ll take sex with a pretty Dutch girl over drunk English bastards anyday! Which is not to say that the two can’t happen in the same weekend!** Coldfire . . . you didn’t REALLY mean what you said here, did you? 1. You had sex with the computer and are now abusing her PC . . . 2. You’d have sex with your girlfriend OVER (physically on top of or otherwise over) drunk English bastards . . . 3. What the hell kind of pub is that, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![fierra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58956e/32.png) [@fierra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fierra)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938/20 "2000-10-09T00:02:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > \*\*Anyway, let’s spell this one out. > > **Coldfire** spends “quality time” with GF _versus_ **Coldfire** spends time with drunken, flag-of-St George-waving fat blokes > \*\* Hey, I’m not fat & I’m not a bloke! You left something out of your equation! (& I don’t like football, so no flag waving here!) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-london-dopers/35938.md?page=2)