How’s about Nottingham? Being located in the midlands it should be convenient for both Northerners and Southerners to get to.
A Midlands Dope has that benefit, aye.
Can’t imagine why anyone would want to meet in my home town of Leeds, it being a dump.
Of course, before you came along to a LonDope (or one held in any other Brit locations) we’d probably like to know what, ahem, precisely is ‘infectious’ about you. If it’s your personality, like Tansu, that’s fine. If not, we’ll probably just play Francesca’s old trick on you and tell you we’re meeting at the Paddington Bear statue/shrine at Paddington station, while the actual meeting place is somewhere else on the station.
If there is a BritDope meeting outside of the capital, we still have to play Mornington Crescent, okay? It’s a rule. Don’t argue. It just is. Like tackling a pub quiz game machine en masse and losing really badly, despite our collective genius.
Personally, since I have led so sheltered and unfulfilled a life as to never have set foot in Ireland, I’m hoping Twist Of Fat will be organising an Emerald Dopefest some time soon.
Irish Dopefests are never “organised”. They just sort of happen.
It sounds like there are almost enough ex-pats out there to hold gatherings in the various countries.
Glad to see that there are a fair number of Brits who have been enticed over to the Nordics! I’ve been here a while now and whilst my Danish is still terrible (I am trying to improve, it’s just going a bit slowly), I absolutely adore the place! It will be very difficult to move on again if work takes me in another direction.
Oh, and for the record, originally from Kent but spent a number of years in the Midlands before coming over here.
I think we should all book a £20.00 each-way jobbie on Easy Jet (or similar) to somewhere unpronounceable for a weekend beano. More south it is, cheaper will be the accommodation. Actually, I met a bird from Lithuania (capital Vilnius) the other day – I thought she was talking about killing old people. Anyway, her manor sounds cheap (somewhere near Poland, I believe). Do the bring-your-own-sandwich airlines fly there ?
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I’d like to go to a midlands fest. One that I don’t start shouting at people in the street and tell them WE’RE MEETING IN THIS PUB IN FOUR HOURS OKAY? HELLO? I’M ON THE TRAIN.
I’m terribly British.
Portsmouth!!!
Train up to London not a problem, up for any -fest I can get to.
Sounds like there are a few folks interested in a Midlands-fest.
Birmingham is probably most convenient, if not the most charming place.
However, it does have nice bits - the canal, Jewellrey Quarter etc. Loads of bars along Broad Street, which is walkable from the train station.
Great for Balti and Chinese.
And, for chocolate lovers, there’s Cadbury World …
My local knowledge is rather rusty, plus the developers are very busy there, but I see Angua is based there, so might be prevailed upon to scout out locations?
I guess there wouldn’t be quite enough of us to hire the NEC?
Birmingham or Vilnius … there’s an interesting choice of destinations …
As long as we go somewhere that:
- Has pubs
- Has Millionaire/Fruit machines
- Has more pubs
Up north may be a bit of a stretch for me. Plus i’d have to borrow a flat cap of my dad.
I could cope with Birmingham though. I’ll even promise not to giggle at the accents.
Now if only i can persuade my wonderful governmental employers that its a business meeting, i can get them to pay my travel costs.
MUAHAHA
In the absence in Twist of Fate (actually, he probably didn’t reply because you called him Fat, which he isn’t. But moving on, anyway) - allow me to present the case for Dublin.
You can get cheap, no food flights from paractically any UK airport to here. And why would you want food anyway? You will only be in the air for half an hour.
You can buy a ball of Euro for your sterling pounds.
Dublin is full of things to do - Provided you like eating, drinking, talking and dancing, you will be set.
You get to meet the DubDopers and laydeeeeez, if you are very lucky, micilin and jjiimm might oblige you, as they did with me on our first meeting, by exposing Manwithaplan’s hairy chest for your perusal.
(We all were a bit hammered, though, it must be said; but ah, yes, I remember it well)
So there you have it, the case for Dublin: cheap flights, good exchange rate, prospect of good fun, good company and a weekend away in a place where the natives are friendly and speak the lingo.
And did I mention that it is Dublin?
Another DubDope would suit me down to the ground, because I’m a) lazy and b) skint.
I’m a Brit, and hale from ** Francesca’s ** neck of the woods.
I don’t do fests, though: far too scary!
Another brit checking in!
Wow, I’m quite surprised at the amount of ex-pats! Is our fair isle so repulsive?
Right, so we’ve got 15 southerners, 14 northerners, 15 expats and 10 unmentionables.
So, the question is, how many dopers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Or, to put it another way, where’s best for all of us?
Using brainfizz’s total of 54, and given that there are around 30,000 registered members, the % of Dopers who are Brits is:
0.18%.
Pathetic.
0.183%.
I’d suggest a MancDope, but I’m not entirely convinced of the sanity of the dopers from here…
Another Brit-Doper checking in. So that’ll be 0.1867%. Wonder what the proportion of posts is?