Over here, Tir’s informed us that she’s leaving us to join her Twisty in Ireland, and has suggested a LonDope to bid her farewell in March. Now, some people, naming no names, have quite rightly, pointed out that March is a very long way away. So, why don’t we have a mini-DopeFest at the end of January - January 24th to be precise?
So, who’s up for it? And where? London? BrummieLand?
predictably, you can count the Paul in. the 24th being a wednesday i see. rather do London. I had enough of travelling for a while after doing a 1000 mile round trip at xmas/new year.
pub?
Oh, and as an incentive, I might be persuaded to bake…
Er, Paul, the 24th Jan’s a Saturday - I checked my diary. I can’t spare the time for a mid-week drinking trip down to London at the moment.
As for pubs, I will let someone with a better knowledge of London than myself sort that out.
And if anyone makes a comment about my knowledge of London geography, they’re done for.
bollocks I was looking at March on the wall calendar. duh!
anywhere in London apart from the Shaston arms in Soho is good for me. I got barred from there before xmas.
What did you do to manage that one then?
I’m guessing as its in Tir’s honour it should probably be someone that sells Guinness.
What’s the Tup in Camden like these days? I haven’t been there in a while, but it used to serve Guinness and Kronenberg Dark (mmmm)?
Is it? I thought it was just because we couldn’t all wait till March. That said, I’ll be at the March one as well.
Really? Well if not i’m nominating the Princess Louise in Holburn - one of Sam Smith’s finest.
pissed up arguing with a bunch of gay guys who wouldnt stop cashing in on our conversation. turns out they were best mates with the landlady, who told us in no certain terms to ‘not come back’. I wouldn’t mind, but me and the 2 mates I was with are probably 3 of the least homophobic peeps you could meet, but I can’t do with incessant joining in on conversations we were having and snidey comments and singing of musicals next to us. I opened my gob as we were leaving and the landlady was having none of it.
1st pub I been barred from since I was 18. and i’m 26 now. shithole anyway.
:rolleyes:
Embarrising isn’t it?
I got barred from Bar Columbia in Holburn about 3 months ago.
Why?
Because i threw a prawn at some patronising mouthy cnut on the table next to us. Who kept taking the piss out of us because we weren’t high flying city bankers like him and his mates.
Turns out that he was good friends with the Bar Manager. Arsehole.
Not that i mind - its a poncy, over-priced, sofa-filled, fruit-machineless, wannabe trendy bar anyway. But they did have Youngs Export on Tap.
I wasn’t embarrassed, I was angry.
I also noticed the Crown & 2 Chairmen on Dean street is well empty of a saturday afternoon. its £2 a pint on most stuff as well.Could be good to check that out, its walkable from Holborn if we go there.
sells Guinness as far as I remember too.
stands in corner smugly. I’ve never been barred from anywhere. 
So, we’re settled on the 24th then? So far, there’s me, Garius, paulbeserker, and Tir. Looks like its definitely going to be a mini one.
I can drink enough for everyone else. Where’s Ian anyway? I thought he’d be on for this.
berserker, its berserker
like as in Captain Paul Berserker, Captain
It would be a fecking brave Landlord who’d bar you. Christ - you’d scream the windows out.
I’m going down the Tup in Camden tonight - i’ll report back tomorrow if its viable. Its right next to the station, just down from the Land’s Wotsit.
I haven’t been to the C&2C in ages, but i’ll pop in there this week for Lunch (last time i checked they did food) and see what its like.
Failing that, paul - what was the name of that pub that you, me, wendellwagner and kferr went to?
Speaking of which, is the lanky yankee around at the moment? He’s normally up for these.
Hey, I do astrophysics, teach maths to undergrads, and speak Polish. You don’t expect me to be able to count and spell as well do you? 
I’m up for it. And for you NADS folks, we’re doing an afternoon session in Reading on the 17th.
that would be The Ship, just round the corner from C&2C on Wardour st. Gets well busy in there after about 3pm. I know, because i’m a REGULAR!! I don’t even have to ask for a pint anymore! I want to go where everybody knows my name de-de-de-dent-derr!
and i’m a graphic designer, which means i rarely use punctuation, but i can splle.
Great when that happens innit.
I’m still waiting for the day i’ve been to one pub long enough to have my own “special stool.”
Stranger Enters Pub. Sees empty stool. Sits in it.
Landlord: Sory mate! You can’t sit there - that’s garius’ stool!
Stranger: Shit! Sorry - didn’t realise anyone was sitting there.
Landlord: Well he’s not at the moment - but he might be in later.
Oh yeah, that reminds me, Paul - i wanna do a regular web comic about two blokes in a Pub. Want in? You get to be the creative/artisty one who draws it (i.e. do all the work)?
Oi! I’m not that loud. Honest. I’ve never been known to scream windows out. Annoy neighbours, wake up the cat, maybe. But windows, nah.
When I was an undergrad, we became regulars in a pub to such an extent that we merely had to enter the pub, and by the time we got to the bar, there was a round of drinks waiting for us.