What shall your weekend bring?

[Lewis]

It might be general to the area actually. My Vietnamese housemate at university was like a mouse, but if they had a couple of people round it was like the Fall of Saigon.

[mugbull]

I love the exceptions to this rule. Guy in my freshman dorm at university was straight from China, one of the best math students in the entire country. He was a very peculiar fellow but extremely boisterous and had a loud presence wherever he went. He would also get blackout drunk weekly, his English would deteriorate, and he’d stumble around walking into random rooms and start conversations with everyone. Wonder what he’s up to now

[Pepe]

Americans are the loudest.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They're also the worst.

[Giggles]

This shit has put a dagger in my Saturday.

https://www.offtheball.com/sport/chelsea-add-several-key-players-squad-dublin-friendlies-880268

[Spikey M]

Why?

[niko_cee]

It'll be traffic.

[Giggles]

Richmond Park is about 5 minutes from a brewery/pub I was doing a tour of (Rascals), nearest watering hole to the ground. Even 50 away fans will have the place wrecked before they can finish off an oi oi oi. Got my money back this evening but the mate can't go for another month as he works weekends.

[Baz]

Take Spikey.

[Giggles]

Don't force me to be rude to Spikes.

[Spikey M]

I wouldn't want to be that close to Chelsea fans.

[Magic]

This shit has put a dagger in my Saturday.

https://www.offtheball.com/sport/chelsea-add-several-key-players-squad-dublin-friendlies-880268

Fucking hell. :D

Your such a drama queen.

[Giggles]

Fucking hell. :D

Your such a drama queen.

Yes. They're as good as gold really, whatever was I thinking?

[Magic]

It was more the dagger bit.

[Shindig]

I quite like York. The city walls being well preserved really give the place a proper look. York Minster is an impressive building. Didn't get up to much else but the Railway Museum was alright. I don't think I'm as keen on trains as I used to be but the scale and the look of old trains still gets to me. There was a proper novelty to train travel the older carriages manage to convey.

Also, York has an HMV. I thought they went bust? £20 spent on Run Come Save Me, Straight Outta Compton and Twilight Sad's new one.

[Giggles]

I promised myself I wasn't drinking again this weekend after the past week but the BiL has just been on the phone with a spare ticket to the hurling semi. 11 of them coming up on a bus :uhoh:

[Giggles]

I really just can't actually.

[phonics]

Which is the one that has goals AND points? And which matters more? I can never get my head round there being two scores.

[Giggles]

Which is the one that has goals AND points? And which matters more? I can never get my head round there being two scores.

If you could hit a ball over the crossbar with nobody to stop it or have to get it past a goalkeeper into a smaller area then it's fairly obvious the latter is 3 and the former 1.

It's on telly anyway cos I'm drank and smoked out, and I'm already going to the other semi final tomorrow.

[igor_balis]

Going Manchester for a techno night. I don't really know much about techno aside from the eminem line. Is it any good? Am I going to have a shit time?

[Giggles]

Going Manchester for a techno night. I don't really know much about techno aside from the eminem line. Is it any good? Am I going to have a shit time?

You'll need drugs, it's the only reason techno exists.

[mugbull]

Drugs help, for sure. Especially if it’s one of those club nights that drags on into the morning. I love me some sober techno sets too but I’m deep in the rabbit hole for that kind of music so for a newcomer, you might be a bit bored. Just try to listen to it rhythmically, as opposed to musically, if that makes any sense

[Spikey M]

Going Manchester for a techno night. I don't really know much about techno aside from the eminem line. Is it any good? Am I going to have a shit time?

It's basically a non-commercial version of the 'dance music' you hear on the radio, minus the vocals (mostly) and without the 'drop'.

Put even more basically - doof doof doof doof doof doof doof doof doof doof doof doof.

I refute what Giggles said as I've never taken any sort of gear and had many a quality night in my young, free and slim days, but yes, if you're not a fan, you may need some chemical assistance.

WARNING: When I went to the Warehouse Project in Manchester they had sniffer dogs. Bury it deep in your rectum.

[Giggles]

Thumb it in.

[igor_balis]

Thanks gents. Drugs are almost certainly going to be involved but my mate who's invited me is quite set on getting coke which, from experience, doesnt do much to make me enjoy the music more, just makes me wanna chain smoke fags and talk bollocks. Well, more so than when I'm sober.

It's not a proper WHP type event, think it's just in some sketchy pub. Any advice relating to putting things in my bum is welcomed tho.

[phonics]

Is Techno still going? Everything seems to be house variations these days.

[mugbull]

Is Techno still going? Everything seems to be house variations these days.

Yas kween

[Giggles]

They've just trotted Lowry and the jug out before throw-in. He probably still hasn't sobered at this stage.

[mo]

Cousin's getting married in just over a month, bride and groom's family all football mad so we had a family v family football match. Little uns got involved but still a competitive edge, was very enjoyable. Might even become an annual event.

[Shindig]

The one after the divorce will be spicy.

[Mike]

My friend has a ‘fun little throw around’ with a rugby ball at his wedding which resulted in an older family member on his brides side going to hospital in an ambulance with a broken leg. :D

[Offshore Toon]

Techno is pretty big at the moment (talking UK here, it's huge worldwide). The tech house wankers are migrating currently, so you've got the 'big room' techno now which is usually full of roidheads paying a fiver a go for a balloon and talking through sets.

I went to Corsica Studios last night and it was very good. It reminded me a bit of Berlin in that a lot of the crowd were just totally letting go, as it should be.

You've got to give the music your full attention and let it whip you onto a frenzy. Drugs or no drugs, techno gets your mind racing like no other genre but it does require some patience. I do have doubts about the sound system and crowd if it's in a pub, though. Got a link to the event?

[Spikey M]

Being in a shitty pub will mean it's either:

A) a chancer has hired it out and will probably DJ it theirself.

B) the landlord has a copy of 'the best of Ibiza 2009' in the CD player.

[mugbull]

Tech house > techno anyway

[-james-]

Techno played live (as opposed to deejayed) is easily the best form of electronic music.

[mugbull]

Techno played live (as opposed to deejayed) is easily the best form of electronic music.

What is “as opposed to deejayed” supposed to mean

[phonics]

You’re not spinning a vinyl you’re actually programming the beat on stage.

[-james-]

What is “as opposed to deejayed” supposed to mean


Drum machines n synthesizers. This sort of thing:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhLj24b9yGs


I'm determined to have a clue how to work a modular synth before I die, because they're pretty much the coolest things on the planet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I don't think I'll ever get techno/other forms of electronic music.

[mugbull]

Do people do that live? I know plenty who take the modular route when they’re producing but I’ve never been to a show where they’re doing that on stage in-person

[-james-]

It's quite common. Some will just use hardware to recreate/alter their own tracks on the fly but the best sets tend to be entirely improvised.

KiNK is probably the most well known but he's not really techno. Karenn, Giant Swan, Ancient Methods/Orphx, Surgeon, Tobias, Neil Landstrumm, Voices from the Lake are all absolutely worth seeing if you get the chance.

[phonics]

I went to a gig of I think DJ Fresh where he did something similar but with 7 turntables at once.

[mugbull]

That Ansome video you posted above was so fire

[-james-]

I've frothed at the mouth about them a fair bit on here lately, but this is the GOAT of the genre:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVsfzprO7zs

That last five odd minutes. :swing:

[Offshore Toon]

Techno played live (as opposed to deejayed) is easily the best form of electronic music.
Aye. There's something special to it that's difficult to put into words. I've decided I'm going to start going to techno nights by myself after last night, because I end up having more fun if I lose people. There's just no room for sacrifice once you're in that headspace.

[Giggles]

The lad with the backpack is seriously into it, take heed igor_balis.


https://youtu.be/TRVaU9X0rOs

[Spikey M]

He's in a k-hole as we speak. Stay strong Igor.

[Shindig]

Just think of the story he'll come back with.

[igor_balis]

No particularly zany anecdotes I'm afraid but I had lots of fun. I did have one and a half pills, but I thought the music was great. I'd venture to say techno>house for eccied up dancing , at least from my limited experiences.

Tbh the main thing I'm pleased about this weekend is my social anxiety around big groups of mates has abated massively. It was basically me, my mate and his big group of uni mates and they've all known each other for years with associated injokes etc. Usually I find it very uncomfortable to be inserted into them social situations but I actually made conversation and was generally a CHILL GUY whereas even two years ago I'd have just been mega nervous and awkward and spent most of the night hiding by my mate. This was while I was sober to clarify.

Just seen my mates flatmate looking terrified in the kitchen- she got to sleep at 7am after similar debauchery and is now about to go on a tinder date to a thai restaurant. Rather her than me.

[Mike]

It’s fantasy football draft night down the pub tonight. I won the regular fantasy football and the draft one last season, so the pressure is on!!

[SincereTheRebel]

Im sinking my teeth into my favourite neck for the next 24. :drool:

[Waffdon]

I’ll be on coke for the first time in a while today as heading to pub at the station in an hour or so before 12.15 train. Been out last two weekends drinking for first time in near enough 7 weeks and both times it didn’t end well. First time I was home after 3 hours and last week I somehow didn’t make the Napoli/Liverpool game and took the wrong train home.

Drugs is the answer. It always is

[mugbull]

Good man. I agree.

[igor_balis]

Going my dads to watch wba game tonight and edgbaston tomorrow. Pretty confident about both, though work Monday is gonna be nads.

[igor_balis]

I’ll be on coke for the first time in a while today as heading to pub at the station in an hour or so before 12.15 train. Been out last two weekends drinking for first time in near enough 7 weeks and both times it didn’t end well. First time I was home after 3 hours and last week I somehow didn’t make the Napoli/Liverpool game and took the wrong train home.

Drugs is the answer. It always is

The think I hate most about coke is that once you've done it on nights out too many times it makes it so hard to just go out and enjoy a night on the piss. I probably regret trying it the first time more than I do with the cigs.

[Waffdon]

Fucked it

[Baz]

Fucked itWhats happened?

[Waffdon]

Might need a payday loan to survive the month

[Baz]

Lump the remainder of your overdraft on Major Jumbo in the 15:10 at Chester.

[Waffdon]

Bruh, am never out my overdraft. I felt like I was onit for the first time yesterday. My face feels like it’s away to fall off

[Kikó]

The think I hate most about coke is that once you've done it on nights out too many times it makes it so hard to just go out and enjoy a night on the piss. I probably regret trying it the first time more than I do with the cigs.

Mad seeing the simplest of quick pints turning into everyone taking multiple toilet visits as they smash gear. What happened to the humble 8 pints and a kebab?

[Giggles]

It's gone to the dogs. Places should be regularly raided and anyone doing coke should be absolutely hammered by the law.

[Spikey M]

People aren't even quiet about it anymore. There's people I went to school with casually sharing Cocain Meme's on Facebook.

[mugbull]

It's gone to the dogs. Places should be regularly raided and anyone doing coke should be absolutely hammered by the law.

Good thing for all of us you’re not in any position to be implementing your bullshit opinions

[Giggles]

Good thing for all of us you’re not in any position to be implementing your bullshit opinions

Oh look.

:yawn:

[Waffdon]

bouncers, Nurses, police officers pub landlords. They’re all on it. It’ll only get more common (somehow)

[Giggles]

bouncers, Nurses, police officers pub landlords. They’re all on it. It’ll only get more common (somehow)

That's why the throat of it needs to be cut now. Properly festroy anyone using it and it will soon become a thing of the past before nurses, police, etc using it while they're working is even more commonplace. Proper checks and then two strikes should leave you with no job, no benefits, no nothing. Don't even bother locking people up to cost proper people money, just let them die in a hole.

[Shindig]

Good thing for all of us you’re not in any position to be implementing your bullshit opinions

Yeah, good job this class A substance isn't illegal in any fashion, right?

[mugbull]

It is and should be illegal but quips like “properly destroy anyone caught doing it” sound like they’re coming from a 14 year old with anger management issues who’s been embarrassed by his mates at school and is plotting revenge in his bedroom

[Giggles]

It is and should be illegal but quips like “properly destroy anyone caught doing it” sound like they’re coming from a 14 year old with anger management issues who’s been embarrassed by his mates at school and is plotting revenge in his bedroom

Being a contrary little twat sounds more like it.

You'll never stop something without real deterrents. Lip service has been proven not to work numerous times over by now.

[-james-]

Aye, and prohibition has always worked a dream.

[Kikó]

On the flip side, let it be and just let adults look after themselves.

[Magic]

I would want to see either coke free pubs or mandatory coke pubs. Being around or even seeing coked up cunts if you're sober or only out for a few is incredibly annoying.

[Baz]

I'm pretty sure that none of my mates do coke. :)

Oh and


Lump the remainder of your overdraft on Major Jumbo in the 15:10 at Chester.

:youpi:

[mugbull]

Baz you’ve always been very stridently “weed/coke/drugs are bad” despite being otherwise a happy go lucky kind of guy, what’s the reason?

[Giggles]

You can be a happy go lucky kind of guy without being a junkie.

[mugbull]

Junkie :D

You’re a moron

[Baz]

Baz you’ve always been very stridently “weed/coke/drugs are bad” despite being otherwise a happy go lucky kind of guy, what’s the reason?I guess the biggest contributing factor is growing up with the mindset that people who use drugs are either deadbeat losers, or macho pricks who wanna fight you if you stand too close, and I obviously don’t fall into either of those categories, and have zero desire to associate with anyone who does. Plus the fact they’re illegal makes me not want to ever try them. I guess the fact that that would also mean to get them you’d have to speak to one of the aforementioned people I’d rather avoid, although honestly that’s like 1% of the reason. I don’t need drugs to have a good time - either because I’m fine without anything, or because I can easily get out of my mind from drinking, although that’s never my intention when I have a drink.

Like I said, none of my friends do it so why would I? A few years ago a group of us went out drinking and someone brought along another friend he had. Said newbie went and did coke in the pub toilets so my mate who’d brought him had a word and the coke guy ended up going around everyone one-at-time apologising for his actions. :lol:

And a few years prior to that I had a really good mate from school (who once spoke to Wedge on the phone for ages) but all he was interested in was smoking weed, so I completely binned him off cos I got sick of stoner parties where everyone bar me and one other guy (who I’m still great friends with, and he clearly did the same as me in terms of ditching our old mate) where the only ones not sitting around smoking.

You are right though, I am quite strident when it comes to it, and it is out of character, but I do feel quite strongly about never touching them. The only other thing I have strong anti- opinions on is smoking in general, so that also probably contributes to the anti-weed stance.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/anceYjUmQJA/hqdefault.jpg

My wife calls me a hypocrite for being so pro-alcohol and, weirdly, pro-sunbathing, yet being so anti-smoking and anti-drugs, but it’s just how I feel. I actively enjoy the first two, whereas I have zero desire to ever try the latter two. :sorry:

Each to their own though. I’d go drinking with smackhead (if they were sound), so long as s/he didn’t feel the need to do drugs in my company.

[mugbull]

I enjoyed reading that :) to the heart it was

[Spikey M]

#TeamBaz

[Shindig]

Same here. I've got no drug takers around me so never felt a reason to experiment. The closest I got to it was a weed addict at school who was far gone at 15. You can't sell me on that and coke is legitimately toxic.

[Spikey M]

Only thing I've ever tried was weed twice at Uni. It's fucking shit. I just felt sick and tired, then hungry an hour later. Plus it smells like sweaty bollocks and can't taste much better.

[mugbull]

To me, having been in California for the past 8 years, (most) drugs are completely disassociated from the concept of deadbeat loser and there’s nearly no taboo surrounding them at all. They’re just fun. It always depends on who you surround yourself with; most people I know would be more offended to see their friend smoking cigarettes than smoking weed or taking mushrooms, which makes sense in a way, but I can imagine is weird to the outsider

In a society where only the shitheads use substances (lets say Pakistan), I probably would never either

[Giggles]

That's a win for #teambaz over #teamspastic.

[Giggles]

Junkie :D

You’re a moron

You're the one advocating drug abuse so you're hardly in a position to be throwing that around you fucktool.

[mugbull]

I’m not advocating abuse of anything you insane person. What the fuck is wrong with you?

[Giggles]

I’m not advocating abuse of anything you insane person. What the fuck is wrong with you?

Tell me something, does the little disbelief outrage "like what the actual fuck" routine ever work for you?

[mugbull]

What?

[bruhnaldo]

He said "sunbathing" like it was crack.

[Disco]

Alcohol is worse than other drugs, I reckon we should ban that.

[Waffdon]

I'm pretty sure that none of my mates do coke. :)

Oh and



:youpi:

https://i.imgur.com/c8lYBqF.png

[Giggles]

Alcohol is worse than other drugs, I reckon we should ban that.

If they did then we'd have to indeed stop and it should come under the same harsh enforcements that drugs should.

[Shindig]

Yeah, there'd be a case for it. Could save the NHS a lot of money. Every pub would be fucked unless they're wanker pubs immediately convert into coffee houses and vape dens.

[Giggles]

Soon nobody will be allowed do anything outside work except cycling and recycling and everyone will be wishing themselves dead anyway.

[Pepe]

As long as I can ride my bike I'll be fine.

[Baz]

Can I still sunbathe?

[Spikey M]

Got the Inlaws Ruby Anniversary party tonight.

It's in the arse end of nowhere, after the kids bedtime (they're coming), clashes with the first Match Of The Day of the season and I'm driving so I can't even drink.

:moop:

[Giggles]

That's cause for an unexpected dose of the shits.

[mo]

On a boat for a stag do in Bristol. Promises to be a tame one.

[SvN]

My wife's away at a hen do. She's 38 weeks pregnant, so this weekend feels like the last I'll ever have to myself. I've spent it so far getting pissed, eating shit food, playing games and watching football.

[igor_balis]

Worked this morning, am in monday-wednesday, then I'm off work (except for a random 4 hour shift on saturday 24th) until September :drool:.

As such I'm already on the beach, like a Tony Pulis player on 40 points in April. Had a few cans Thursday and last night, and plan to spend the majority of the next few days drinking lager. I may join phonics for a couple of drinks in Birmingham tonight, but I'm not sure I can be arsed. Sorry, mate.

[Disco]

Ridiculously busy week so I'm having a day of slobbing about today. Did some work emails and stuff this morning, then I've lounged about playing a bit of Minecraft, catching up on some bike racing and wrestling while eating toast in my pants. Few friends over later to help me clear the backlog of chicken wings out of the freezer then I might go and buy a bike tomorrow.

[ItalAussie]

I'm doing the City2Surf run this weekend. 14km around Sydney, including a pretty brutal hill in the middle.

I've been doing 10km a couple of times a week, and it won't be my first go at the distance, so I'm not that worried. I've been on a huge health kick for the last year, so it's kind of the culmination of that. I'm pretty excited.

[Spikey M]

Got the Inlaws Ruby Anniversary party tonight.

It's in the arse end of nowhere, after the kids bedtime (they're coming), clashes with the first Match Of The Day of the season and I'm driving so I can't even drink.

:moop:

Kids knackered so left the wife there to enjoy and got the kids home and put the pair of them to bed. Just in time for Match Of The Day and a couple of cans. :cool:

[Waffdon]

Coming for a pint, bro Magic x

[Spikey M]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39847000/jpg/_39847011_costume3_203.jpg

[Lewis]

Get your Batman outfit and climbing shoes on.

[Lewis]

Idiotmouse. :cool:

[Spikey M]

./

[Lewis]

\o

[Disco]

./

:D

[Spoonsky]

I’m in Newcastle. Just finished walking the Hadrian’s Wall Path with my family - 84 miles coast to coast. Lots of sheep and mud.

Central Newcastle is beautiful.

[Shindig]

Fucking hell. How long are you there for?

[Lewis]

That's well down the list of questions that post raises.

[Giggles]

Things make a whole lot more sense now.

[Shindig]

I was genuinely surprised. I don't see Newcastle as a holiday destination.

[Spoonsky]

It’s not at all, but we were ‘walking the wall’ and it’s at the end of the route. Started near Carlisle. This walking thing is something my parents got into last year. Any other questions Lewis ?

We’re just staying tonight and leaving tomorrow for Durham.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I quite liked Newcastle when I was there for two hours. Had a sense of being a distinctive place, which a lot of UK cities don't anymore.

[Shindig]

We’re just staying tonight and leaving tomorrow for Durham.

Durham's gone through a weird transition where all the buskers have left and been replaced by the homeless. Just a heads up.

[igor_balis]

Off to edinburgh for a week tomorrow, about 20 shows booked, buzzing lads.

[Giggles]

:drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

https://e1.365dm.com/19/08/768x432/skysports-tipperary-kilkenny_4747807.jpg

1162982460692414465

[-james-]

Off to edinburgh for a week tomorrow, about 20 shows booked, buzzing lads.

Please do my work for me and tell me what's good and not sold out. Going to try and do a day trip this week some time.

[igor_balis]

Please do my work for me and tell me what's good and not sold out. Going to try and do a day trip this week some time.

Go and see matt ewins for sure, he was excellent last year and its more of the same apparently.

[Lewis]

I always thought the Edinborough Festival was just for wanky comedians and theatre bollocks, but it seems to have everything a saddo could possibly want these days. Who would go all the way there to watch Iain Dale interview some tosser?

[Manc]

I'm off to Brighton in a few weeks. Any recommendations for eateries/bars/ experiences are welcome.

[igor_balis]

Please do my work for me and tell me what's good and not sold out. Going to try and do a day trip this week some time.

Okay so theres a few good things at the more primetime kinda slots, obviously , but Seymour mace is brilliant and is playing 1.30pm. Definitely worth going to see, he was great this year and last year. Michael legge is good as well and is midday so if you're around that early definitely see him.

Tom Ballards 9pm was really good, but if you're only down for a day I'd still go to matt ewins instead at the same time.

Kieran hodgson is rotating his shows of the last 3 or 4 years on alternate days at 630; lance and the 1978(?) one are brilliant but I'd reckon just going to whichever one is playing on your day would be worthwhile.

There's a lot of #BUZZ around zoe combs marr, who I'm seeing tomorrow, meant to be v good. 730 which didn't clash with anything else particularly good.

[Offshore Toon]

I'm off to Brighton in a few weeks. Any recommendations for eateries/bars/ experiences are welcome.
What sort of thing are you looking for?

[Mazuuurk]

He's looking for eateries, bars and experiences.

[Baz]

I’m currently sat in a cafe/playcenter while Mike is at my house putting up a veranda with my dad. :baz:

[Boydy]

I’m currently sat in a cafe/playcenter while Mike is at my house putting up a veranda with my dad. :baz:

This isn't the weekend.

[Mazuuurk]

Perhaps he was just pointing out that this weekend he will have a veranda at his house.

[igor_balis]

Please do my work for me and tell me what's good and not sold out. Going to try and do a day trip this week some time.

New matt ewins show is a bit shit, see tom Ballard instead

[Baz]

This isn't the weekend.im off work so it feels like it :huhu:

[bruhnaldo]

I mean it couldn't be less of the weekend tbh.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://beningtonlordship.co.uk/chilli-festival/

I might go on Monday.

[Mike]

I’m currently sat in a cafe/playcenter while Mike is at my house putting up a veranda with my dad. :baz:

Rained on us too..

[Lewis]

Me and the old man went to the Great Dorset Steam Fair, and I got to drive a steam roller around two laps of the main field. Highlight of the year. :cool:

[Pepe]

Hope that you wore a GoPro while doing so.

[Lewis]

Sorry I am not a nerd.

[Pepe]

Did you take the dog?

[Lewis]

He would have died in the heat walking from the car park to the entrance.

[Shindig]

A quick google for 'stupid dog umbrella' does confirm the inevitable.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://beningtonlordship.co.uk/chilli-festival/

I might go on Monday.

It was grand.

I tried Filipino food for the first time (Lumpia is insanely good), tested some hot sauces and bought some curry kits.

The hot sauces supply Hot Ones on YouTube and I tried 3. A Caribbean sweet and spicy sauce (which I bought), a Naga sauce and a Trinidad Scorpion one. The Naga lasted a lot longer than the Trinidad but the initial kick from the Scorpion was hefty and instantly attacked the throat despite only a small amount.

Also tried some chilli chocolate fudge which was delicious.

Would have stayed longer but it was just way too hot. Definetly going to go again.

[mugbull]

I went through a bottle of Last Dab in about 4 months. Was really really fun. Wish i had some more.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It wasn't one of there own ones, it was from this company:

https://www.justchillies.co.uk

[mugbull]

Yeah yeah but since you mentioned Hot Ones i thought i’d throw in my own mini anecdote

[igor_balis]

At a wedding in dorset, I can get a lift home with the parents of the groom at 4pm tomrorow after sleeping in a 4 man dorm or get a lift home tonight and be in bed at 1am ish. Is it wrong that I'm massively leaning towards the latter?

[Shindig]

Nope. 4pm tomorrow probably feels like a lifetime away.

[Offshore Toon]

We need way more information. The fact you're posting on here suggests you should go home, though. It must be a proper shit wedding.

[mugbull]

A lift tonight as in a taxi? You gonna be dropping big bucks on that? I’d just stay the night

[Offshore Toon]

A lift tonight as in a taxi? You gonna be dropping big bucks on that? I’d just stay the night
It's obviously not a taxi.

[Giggles]

At a wedding in dorset, I can get a lift home with the parents of the groom at 4pm tomrorow after sleeping in a 4 man dorm or get a lift home tonight and be in bed at 1am ish. Is it wrong that I'm massively leaning towards the latter?

How much is a zany story on the train?

[Disco]

Went to that London today, it is a generally awful place that should be avoided whenever possible.

[Offshore Toon]

The amount of petty crime is mad. I've been #mooching about quite a bit recently and seen far more than I'd ever expected before moving up. This isn't a friendly city for women, either. Nowhere near. There are far more opportunities here, but not all of them are positive.

[Spikey M]

The place is the worst city I have ever visited. I suspect it could only be topped by New York, Chicago and LA.

[Shindig]

New York's big enough for you to escape some of that bullshit. Although it could just be I never looked like having owt worth stealing.

[mugbull]

The place is the worst city I have ever visited. I suspect it could only be topped by New York, Chicago and LA.

Ah yes, the classic “big cities are bad, especially if they’re in the US”

[Spikey M]

Ah yes, the classic “big cities are bad, especially if they’re in the US”

It's more 'the bigger the city and the greater the inequality of wealth, the worse it is'. Giving every fucker a gun is a compounding factor.

[Kikó]

New York is one of the safest places I've been to. Never felt much danger (bar the one time I went to Harlem to go and play football on Randell island.)

Where in London were you?

[mugbull]

People in big US cities don't have many guns. It's the Lewis types in the suburbs you've got to watch out for

[Spikey M]

No guns in LA or Chicago. Alright m8.

[SincereTheRebel]

I have been in London since Friday and I don't like it also. It's too busy for me. Ive been spending so many coins lately on event travelling. I need to slow down.

[mugbull]

Well, ok, the gangs have guns, but they’re not gonna go after British tourists unless you walk through Skid Row at night

[Spikey M]

Well, ok, the gangs have guns, but they’re not gonna go after British tourists unless you walk through Skid Row at night

The question at hand is how shit cities are, not how shit a tourist destination they are. Although I suspect they would feature on that list too. London certainly does.

[mugbull]

The American cities all have insane inequalities, so yeah if that’s your singular metric then the set of US cities is strictly worse than the set of European cities.

Not to delegitimize that point btw, American society is disgusting for letting this fester the way it has

[Lewis]

I get into Central London a bit with work and you wonder what the appeal is. I used to think it would be great to live there with money, but that's probably a bit out of date now. National landmarks aside somewhere like Manchester or even Leeds could offer you everything London does as a metropolis, and I would far sooner live somewhere like Oxford or Norwich for Quality of Life.

[mugbull]

Some people just prefer different things. Enough people like the bustle to make it a desirable place. Where else are you gonna get the multiculturalism of London/New York? It’s beautiful

The more the city whores itself out to Russian oligarchs, though, the further it will fall

[Giggles]

Multiculturalism definitely isn't for everyone.

[Jimmy Floyd]

London is a bit of a farce these days; the infrastructure, good as it is, can't really cope with the sheer numbers of people. Ten years ago it was much nicer.

[mugbull]

Multiculturalism definitely isn't for everyone.



Well, it should be

[Giggles]

Well, it should be

No. You were actually correct when you said that some people just prefer different things, so don't go ruining it by contradicting yourself so badly.

[Josh]

I lived in a little Suffolk town of 60,000 people for 30 years before moving to New York.

It's definitely one of those places (and London is probably the same) where people would say 'I couldn't possibly live there' but then thoroughly enjoy it. There's literally something for everyone. And agreed that the multiculturalism is fantastic.

I don't think I would want to bring children up here though but that's mainly just wanting a garden and more space. Unless you're seriously wealthy, NY prices preclude that.

[Kikó]

London is a bit of a farce these days; the infrastructure, good as it is, can't really cope with the sheer numbers of people. Ten years ago it was much nicer.

Don't know about the 10 year stuff but I agree. It's been great the past week with the bank holiday/summer holiday combination as the sheer volume of people around has reduced.

I've been in Highbury/Angel since I've moved here and it is great though - loads of restaurants, bars, pubs, parks etc. I can imagine if you were in Soho, Camden, Oxford Street, Brixton, it can be overwhelming. But most areas aren't there.

[mugbull]

No. You were actually correct when you said that some people just prefer different things, so don't go ruining it by contradicting yourself so badly.

Preference is about, I don't know, the method of transportation you use to get to work or the amount of greenery in a 100 yard radius of your front door.

You can prefer not to mix with ethnic minorities, but society would be a lot better if people like you had been in diverse classrooms from a young age. You can also prefer not to pay taxes, but you should.

[Giggles]

Preference is about, I don't know, the method of transportation you use to get to work or the amount of greenery in a 100 yard radius of your front door.

You can prefer not to mix with ethnic minorities, but society would be a lot better if people like you had been in diverse classrooms from a young age. You can also prefer not to pay taxes, but you should.

No, you have to pay taxes, it's illegal not to. Mixing with other cultures isn't a similar requirement. Some people love to, some don't want to. Grand.

[Disco]

London is a bit of a farce these days; the infrastructure, good as it is, can't really cope with the sheer numbers of people. Ten years ago it was much nicer.

Bingo.

Traffic lights every ten yards, half of which serve no purpose whatsoever but to slow everyone down. Nobody can drive in a single lane (perhaps because they've learnt that one of them will soon be blocked by road works, a taxi or maybe just a load of pedestrians deathwishing into the road). I don't know if this is normal but we were plagued by Prius drivers who seem to have started driving that very day and presumably had to consult a manual on how to pull away each and every time. We got to the venue only to be told completely unironically that the car park was closed 'because there's an event on'. Barriers had been erected around the entrance to Stratford station meaning everyone walking past it had to go in one door and out of another one literally right next to it whether they wanted to go into the station or not (there was no discernable purpose to this particular piece of insanity). There was also a West Ham match kicking out and the 40000 or so fans were being directed by people with megaphones giving out useful information such as 'For Westfield shopping centre go that way'.

Just the last place you would want to go unless you absolutely had to.

[Kikó]

Stratford on a West Ham match day is a complete mess. Completely inadequate for events.

Prius drivers are all uber.

[Boydy]

Part of that sounds like your own fault for driving in London.

[Disco]

Get fucked, every other method of transport is more expensive, takes longer, and is less convenient. The place would be functional with about a third less people,

[Jimmy Floyd]

Don't know about the 10 year stuff but I agree. It's been great the past week with the bank holiday/summer holiday combination as the sheer volume of people around has reduced.

I've been in Highbury/Angel since I've moved here and it is great though - loads of restaurants, bars, pubs, parks etc. I can imagine if you were in Soho, Camden, Oxford Street, Brixton, it can be overwhelming. But most areas aren't there.

Ten years ago it was more or less the same, but with maybe 10% fewer people (most of them non-resident) around, or at least it feels that way.

[Lewis]

Plus one for the multiculturalism. I might move to Yemen, or the disputed bits of Nigeria.

[phonics]

Get fucked, every other method of transport is more expensive, takes longer, and is less convenient. The place would be functional with about a third less people,

Literally the opposite of correct.

What mad bastard thinks driving in London is a good idea?

[Kikó]

Bus, tube and overground are the only ways to travel around London.

[Lewis]

Them scooters would be ideal but unfortunately we live in a fascist state.

[phonics]

I’m going to go to a place that is so full of cars that they make you pay a fee just for entering it and then complain about the traffic.

[Kikó]

There are loads of scooters about still. Electric bikes are decent as well but they cost more than the bus so what's the point?

[Kikó]

And you'll probably die because of car wankers or pedestrians not paying attention.

[Spikey M]

There are loads of scooters about still. Electric bikes are decent as well but they cost more than the bus so what's the point?

Because using your bollocks as a space hopper is preferable to getting the bus

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I always car it in London.

[niko_cee]

Drove into London the other day, piece of piss.

London is a great place. You just can't come at if from outside. Without wanting to be too wanky about it, you sort of have to live there. I got seconded to Bristol for a bit and found going back at weekends did my head in. You have to have the mindset for it not to be a nightmare. Also you have to stay out of the West End, obviously. I tend to only go back now with kids, and into the West End, so its appeal has faded somewhat. Definitely wouldn't want to have a family there, without even thinking about how that might work financially.

[Offshore Toon]

In terms of excitement and adventure it's unrivalled.

I was driving through Crouch End/Muswell Hill today and realised I'd probably be more comfortable around there as it seems to be without an obscene amount of dodgy characters roaming around. Seen a few in particular that walk like they're in the army. I reckon they're spiceheads.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The key to getting the best from London is not to attempt to use any transport whatsoever, and just walk it.

[igor_balis]

Move to Norwich on the 7th, and am having a big leaving do on the 28th. Pretty pleased by the effort made by my mates; have 2 coming from Norwich, one from Lincoln, 2 from London, one from Cardiff, one from Sheffield, one from Edinburgh and a bunch of people from around here. The twenty or so of us having a pub crawl will be great fun, but on the downside will temporarily make me forget why I wanted to leave in the first place (it's shit). Any TThers around the midlands fancy joining the big night? Waffdon has already broken my heart by saying he can't come.

[Lewis]

Norwich is such a good place to live. Proper full of greebos as well so you should be alright.

[igor_balis]

Norwich is such a good place to live. Proper full of greebos as well so you should be alright.

Aye, I'm a big fan. Did you go UEA?

[Lewis]

I did. I'm off there with my friend next weekend as well for a mooch about. :cool:

[igor_balis]

Well the next time you're around (after the 7th of October), gimme a message and we can have a mini TTH meet :cool:

deffo got a sofa you can crash on if required

[Lewis]

On current averages it will be in 2023, so yeah why not.

[SincereTheRebel]

Move to Norwich on the 7th, and am having a big leaving do on the 28th. Pretty pleased by the effort made by my mates; have 2 coming from Norwich, one from Lincoln, 2 from London, one from Cardiff, one from Sheffield, one from Edinburgh and a bunch of people from around here. The twenty or so of us having a pub crawl will be great fun, but on the downside will temporarily make me forget why I wanted to leave in the first place (it's shit). Any TThers around the midlands fancy joining the big night? Waffdon has already broken my heart by saying he can't come.

Where is this do?

[Raoul Duke]

Norwich :cool:

[SincereTheRebel]

Norwich isnt anywhere near the midlands dickhead. There isnt a direct motorway to the west part of the island either. So the gathering, may as well be in Sierra Leone

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:D

[Ian]

I don't think he'll be having the leaving do in the place he's moving to, Sincere.

Or if he is he should be less pleased about the two friends who are coming from Norwich to attend.

[thommo]

Norwich isnt anywhere near the midlands dickhead. There isnt a direct motorway to the west part of the island either. So the gathering, may as well be in Sierra Leone

I reckon this impending STI is fucking with your brain also Sincere.

[igor_balis]

Where is this do?

Rugby

[SincereTheRebel]

I reckon this impending STI is fucking with your brain also Sincere.

I appreciate the concern but relax lad. Ill is fine.


Rugby

I may meet you there.

[Giggles]

I appreciate the concern but relax lad. Ill is fine.

Depends on how ill.

[SincereTheRebel]

Oi igor_balis Where is this event?

[Giggles]

Oi @igor_balis (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/member.php?u=10) Where is this event?

It's been on already. A great time was had by all.

[SincereTheRebel]

Oh well.

[Lewis]

I was surprised how little Norwich has changed in the five years since I lived there. Other than some funky new flats on the river it was how I left it. They haven't even re-purposed the old Blockbuster shop. I bet all the crusties and pinkos kill any development the scum.

[igor_balis]

Oi igor_balis Where is this event?
Rugby, 7 stars pub, 8pm. PM if you need more details.

[igor_balis]

Oi igor_balis Where is this event?

On Saturday, I mean

[mugbull]

Sincere this is as good a time as any to taste your first ten lagers

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

And another chance for a threesome.

[phonics]

I've been out with igor, won't be an issue.

[igor_balis]

Is that a dig

[phonics]

Unless you're trying to have a threesome with that weirdo who runs a charity shop.

<3

[Spikey M]

Inside bantz

[Boydy]

I was gonna go but then Igor neg-repped me.

[igor_balis]

liar

[mugbull]

Igor u better call me on facebook at some point during

[SincereTheRebel]

Rugby, 7 stars pub, 8pm. PM if you need more details.

I'll roll through. Im not staying for long though. Internet dating is scary. Make sure someone is holding a sign with my name on it as I arrive.

[SincereTheRebel]

Sincere this is as good a time as any to taste your first ten lagers

Not happening. I'll take the apple drink

[Baz]

I'll roll through. Im not staying for long though. Internet dating is scary. Make sure someone is holding a sign with my name on it as I arrive.Igor’s Snapchat story last night was him sat in a pub while two of his friends, one wearing a flat cap, played chess.

Hope you’ve not already booked your train!

[Giggles]

I'm just disappointed there was only one flat cap. I thought they all slept in them at this stage.

[SincereTheRebel]

I will be driving up so I can quickly retreat once im rejected by the first women I come across

[igor_balis]

SincereTheRebel is officially in rugby. Photos to follow.

[Lewis]

Make sure the flash works.

[Bam]

Make sure the flash works.

Bit naughty. :|

[Spikey M]

Nah, Igor just loves getting his cock out.

[Lewis]

It's practical advice.

[igor_balis]

Sincere and his new best mates:

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[Giggles]

Brown jumper looks like an astronomical dickhead.

[mugbull]

Sincere has a gorgeous smile :wub:

[Lewis]

Brown jumper looks like an astronomical dickhead.

Baldy looks the worst, with his soylent grin. Sincere just looks confused bless him.

[mugbull]

Yeah, that is the definition of a soyboy

[Spikey M]

There's not enough punches in the world for the bloke in the brown jumper, and that bird needs a word with her hairdresser.

Who's the homeless fella in the 2nd photo?

[SincereTheRebel]

I was there for 65 minutes. Had a decent conversation with a mad scientist about stem cell treatment. I usually get very nervous around large groups of white people and alcohol but it turned out Ok overall.

[Pepe]

There's not enough punches in the world for the bloke in the brown jumper, and that bird needs a word with her hairdresser.

Who's the homeless fella in the 2nd photo?

Sincere.

[Queenslander]

Paul Giamatti seems happy.

[Boydy]

Some of you lot get really angry over the most trivial shit.

[SincereTheRebel]

Sincere.

He is the mad scientist with an RO blood type. Canelo had mans flying in on planes from Scotland and coaches from Gravesend.

[Lewis]

You friends with your housemate yet you gnome?

[Giggles]

Some of you lot get really angry over the most trivial shit.

Who’s “really angry”? :D

[Lewis]

I am now.

[Spikey M]

Fuck you all.

[Boydy]

You friends with your housemate yet you gnome?
I have my own place now.

You moved out of your brother's house yet?

[Spikey M]

Typical Oxbridge. Looking down his nose at hard working people. His father mined for you, you cunt.

[Giggles]

I still want to know how lolling at some twats makes you really angry.