# International Londope II **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2002, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153 "2002-05-28T10:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![\_shaolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9de053/32.png) [@\_shaolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_shaolin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/181 "2002-07-29T14:06:32Z")
Ice cubes in beer? Deviant. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/182 "2002-07-29T14:09:30Z")
Ice cubes in beer? My word! 32 degrees in Amsterdam, today. Surely, London can’t be _worse_! ---
**Author:** ![\_shaolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9de053/32.png) [@\_shaolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_shaolin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/183 "2002-07-29T14:12:24Z")
Ice cubes in beer? Deviant. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/184 "2002-07-29T14:13:45Z")
Ah, but our delightful London smog makes it even more humid and grimy. And it makes my hangover feel even worse. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/185 "2002-07-29T14:16:30Z")
Works in Cider and White Wine too… Not sure about Guinness… ---
**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:** [July 29, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/186 "2002-07-29T14:20:16Z")
Cool… you can all come up to Barnet then, and we can go sit in the fields by the ponds and get pished in the fresh air! I got a tent somewhere, peoples can crash out in the woods if they miss the last train… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![\_shaolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9de053/32.png) [@\_shaolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_shaolin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/187 "2002-07-29T14:21:51Z")
Damn. I _swear_ I only pressed it once. I think the heat is doing strange things to my computer. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/188 "2002-07-29T14:25:57Z")
**Coldie** - nothing you need to bring (except maybe a dutch beer or two if you fancy). We’ve got all the pillows/sleeping bags we’ll need. _shaolin_ - you’re actually going to come instead of pussying out and staying home being “tired”? 😉 And where were you on Saturday night eh? EH? **Steve** - Like Tir said, we’ll meet at Paddington station and go on from there. **People travelling from outside London** - since we’re going to be actually using the tube/bus (to get from the BM to the pub etc), then if you haven’t bought your train ticket yet, it might be a good idea to ask for a zones 1-2 travelcard to be included. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/189 "2002-07-29T14:32:59Z")
If the weather stays this warm, I’d also humbly suggest [Primrose Hill](http://www.londonstills.com/pl0081.html) as a nice picnic location. It’s not very handy for west London, though. ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/190 "2002-07-29T14:51:27Z")
I’ll be there in the afternoon and up for anything, within reason. I would offer any homeless dopers (again, within reason) a sofabed for the night, but I’ll be going on somewhere else after the pub. Look forward to seeing you all! ---
**Author:** ![\_shaolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9de053/32.png) [@\_shaolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_shaolin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/191 "2002-07-29T14:54:08Z")
Yeah, Saturday, um, sorry about that. I was lead astray. Peer pressure is a terrible thing. I’ll make sure I have an early night on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/192 "2002-07-29T18:05:09Z")
Sure you will, **Shaolin** , sure you will. Tsk. 😉 I forgot to say earlier - **Loopus** - will you be joining us at 2pm in Paddington Station or 7.30pm at The Mitre? Looking forward to meeting you. Goats optional. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/193 "2002-07-29T19:30:13Z")
I suppose I’ll join you at Paddington. I’ve never been there before, though, so if you could enlighten me as to where this “Paddington Bear Stand” is and what it looks like, I would be grateful. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/194 "2002-07-29T19:51:19Z")
Don’t worry, it’s fairly obvious - on the station concourse, the main bit you get to when you get off the platform, there will be a stand selling Paddington Bear merchandise. You can’t miss it. To recognise us; look for a bunch of excessively tall men, a woman with fangs, and a 4ft10 woman trying to boss them all about 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/195 "2002-07-29T22:02:41Z")
… before falling down a flight of stairs, utterly sloshed. _ducks and runs_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/196 "2002-07-30T11:18:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Francesca \* > **… look for a bunch of excessively tall men…** Some of us are also excessively wide. (Should warn you, by the way - since the last one, I’ve had my annual haircut. My curiously deformed ears are now on public display…) ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/197 "2002-07-30T11:21:16Z")
Curiously deformed? Can you have a normal deformity? (Sorry). ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/198 "2002-07-30T18:14:32Z")
I am not excessively tall, in fact…maybe that’s why you never noticed me. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/199 "2002-07-30T18:51:05Z")
**Coldie** - I’m never going to live that down, am I? I’m going to be extra super specially careful not to fall over this weekend. Really. **Casdave** - I did notice you! I was scared of Melvin! **Twisty’s** not a giant either. But **Kferr** makes up for all the less tall men by virtue of being The Tallest Man In The Universe[sup]TM[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![\_shaolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9de053/32.png) [@\_shaolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_shaolin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153/200 "2002-07-31T11:34:21Z")
Right, tonight myself and Alex are going on a recon mission to The Mitre and quite possibly assorted other hostelries in the Paddington area. We shall report back tomorrow. Although possibly not that early tomorrow. If anyone wishes to join us, or wants us to look for anything specific, email me (address in my profile). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-londope-ii/111153.md?page=11)