London Bar Recommends?
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- soda0
maybe you're right.
we need a proper one, with kezza and smellvetica and lost property and feet on vans etc...
determinedmoth
(May 22 06, 09:25)and... and... wads of cash out of black cabs.
What did you do with all that money? Buy a small island?
determinedmoth
(May 22 06, 09:26)...Memories... like the pages of a book....
- paraselene0
how much do you think there was?
guess within 50 pence and i'll let you visit the small island i bought (eel pie).
- determinedmoth0
and... and... wads of cash out of black cabs.
What did you do with all that money? Buy a small island?
- determinedmoth0
maybe you're right.
we need a proper one, with kezza and smellvetica and lost property and feet on vans etc...
- paraselene0
(i'm feeling angsty today. please pardon the outbursts. i don't think any of those things about either of you.)
+1 drink to nairn and soda each after payday
- paraselene0
Soda can organise it.
determinedmoth
(May 22 06, 09:18)ha! soda couldn't organise a handjob in a lube factory! all he does is sit around eating chocolate digestives and "feeling a bit low-energy".
these north-of-the-river dilletantes... itellyou!
- soda0
oh dear.
Time for a London Drinks to address the balance of success or something...Soda can organise it.
determinedmoth
(May 22 06, 09:18)I'll post tomorrow when I am feeling more energetic and conversational.
And have had some sleep.I've just eaten 12 chocolate digestives one after another.
- determinedmoth0
oh dear.
Time for a London Drinks to address the balance of success or something...Soda can organise it.
- paraselene0
All Bow in Awe and Fear Before Islington Man!!!
* Digs into lemon cous-cous salad, washed down with pomegranate juice and the blood of seven prepubescent graffiti artists before speeding off in his TT to Astanga class.
Nairn
(May 22 06, 09:06)
- soda0
Don't forget your success hat when you post, soda.
Chimp
(May 22 06, 07:55)I'm not that sure that hat turned out to be quite such a success in the end.
skt
(May 22 06, 07:58)it got everyone beer. that is the limit to it's power I'm afraid.
I am however looking for a new success hat for the summer with more power and greater range...
- Nairn0
heh heh, thank you all for your help, anyway - I'll certainly be going through the list of venues under more favourable circumstances (and maybe on a Thursday..).
I do get a kick out of disastrous evenings though - retrospectively, anyhow. They tend to be more interesting and revealing of the different character types. I'm always pretty self-conscious/aware when I'm in public - it was curious to see how 'un-' my old friend is.
The flip side is that despite all of this making me feel actually quite grown up (a rare sentiment), I can't help but feel that maybe I'm turning into a bit of an Islington Man.
* Digs into lemon cous-cous salad, washed down with pomegranate juice.
- rasko40
sound like a right bunch of cunts Nairn, sorry about your ordeal, should have left em to it.
- paraselene0
hell's teeth, nairn. your weekend sounds rubbish.
at least it was bad enough to be comical. somehow there is consolation to be had in that...
it's so difficult to have old friends visit from home. especially when home is another country and you haven't seen them for a long time. they can turn into twats and you get each other wrong and then it just dissolves into an awkward, mutually self-conscious vortex in which you anxiously wait for their plane to leave.
:l
haha. i see now that if there are any places in central london which would be suitable for these kind of people, i certainly don't know where they are!
- MrBixler0
The Crown And Sceptre on Gt Titchfield St has just been voted my new favourite pub.
It’s the perfect cure if you’re sick of the Shaston and the White Donkey.
- Nairn0
:) Aw, sweet - i'm glad you enjoyed it, that's a ray of sunshine for me in an otherwise comically disastrous weekend!
Friday was doomed as soon as half of the people who were supposed to turn up, didn't. A girl from home, who the remainder of the group have a mutual dislike of, did turn up - and being the prissy champagne-snaffling pretentious perenially-proto- lawyer she is, didn't like the places we were going to, nor would bother to walk to some of the outer options in her heels, dragging her airport trolley/make up wagon.
Then, the old friend we were meeting turned out to be exactly the same old friend we left at home many years ago - but, despite 'doing quite well for himself' seemed to think that we were all loaded and were Taking Him Out and kept going for Teh Most Expensive Cocktails. Despite having his g/f of 5 years with him, he spent all evening making really obscene jokes and just being a juvenile muppet, whilst she shied away, looked awkward all the time and proved incredibly difficult with to engage in any form of conversation.
Then we went for an awful meal - end'o'night remnants, at a Moroccan restaurant, where one of the group - an Italian who's lived in Jamaica for 7 years (who i assumed would be a bit worldly) was very rude to the African waitress, which kind of set the pace and airs of the meal.
After this I took everyone to Madame JoJo's, as i thought it'd be a gentle compromise for everyone, and took great pains to explain what kind of music it was etc. As Soon As we'd paid the entrance and walked down the stairs, I saw the two visitor's faces drop and we spent the next half hour in a chair-dancing/foot-tapping conversational void (it was a bit noisy) 'til it became painfully obvious we had to leave. He actually said to me (in a heavily accented Gibraltarian accent "Ey Jooin [ie. 'Ewen'] , man - I'd've preferred it if we'd got some E's and gone to listen to some Reggaeton".
Deep down, I wanted to die. And maybe take him with me.
So then I walked all the way home, in the rain - I could've got a taxi, but by this stage I was enjoying soaking up the catastrophe.
Now my suede trainers and headphones I was wearing are utterly ruined.
On Saturday, I went up to St. Albans for a friend's 30th, to one of those provincial out of town 'halls' which accomodate leisure facilities and cheesy dance nights, where upon we came across good ol' twatty bouncers who wouldn't let my friend in because of his trainers. At which point we turned-tail and came straight back on the last train to London.
(this is my longest post ever, i think - thanks for letting me get all that off my chest.)
- soda0
Don't forget your success hat when you post, soda.
Chimp
(May 22 06, 07:55)I'm not that sure that hat turned out to be quite such a success in the end.
skt
(May 22 06, 07:58)heathens!
- skt0
Don't forget your success hat when you post, soda.
Chimp
(May 22 06, 07:55)I'm not that sure that hat turned out to be quite such a success in the end.
- Chimp0
Don't forget your success hat when you post, soda.
- paraselene0
you don't have enough energy today to start a thread?
it might be time to consider euthanasia...
- soda0
good point.
I'll do it tomorrow when I have more energy..