Just to give you time to clear your diaries, the TGIO party will be on Monday 3rd December.
And before everyone starts up with 'why can't it be the weekend?', it's because it's a lot harder (and more expensive) to book weekend venues.
I did enjoy our TGIO meet at the Atlas a couple of years back because they did good food and also catered for non-drinkers, plus parking on the seafront and walking up is an option.
Suggestions for venues here please (with transport links such as bus numbers if they're not close to the station).
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Nov 20, 2007 - 13 43
Erm, for the record, there is absolutely no way I can do that Monday.
Last year we did manage to get a weekend booking, but it would be difficult (last year I visited about twenty places in order to find one that satisfied needs. It was a bit noisy, but I felt it worked.
I actually think Sunday would be easiest all round, apart from for the school nights problem.
I wish we could still do polls.
Anyway, if that's when we have to do it (which may well be the case) then I won't be there.
50,045 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2007 - 03 31
Can't do mondays, too awkward what with work and all. :(
How about the sunday afternoon to evening? That way the younger lot could come too and us work/school night lot could head off early before the trains disappear. :)
57,058 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2007 - 04 18
How about the sunday afternoon to evening? That way the younger lot could come too and us work/school night lot could head off early before the trains disappear. :)
Seconded.
The NaNoers are revolting!
(but we knew that already)
50,026 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2007 - 08 10
Indeed - Monday's bad for me too... Well at least for getting down to Brighton...
50,197 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2007 - 08 20
Monday, on the other hand, would've been perfect for me.
50,054 / 50,000
Nov 21, 2007 - 12 28
I'll have to vote sunday too I'm afraid on the same grounds of work on monday etc etc.
Might be able to drag myself down there anyway though (any excuse...)
42,615 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 14 33
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHH!
61,091 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 14 52
If it's any help -- I can make any time between Friday 30th and Tuesday 4th (inclusive).
So you've only got 90 other "Brighton - Home Region" people to please. :-)
(Except half of them dropped out on October 31st, and aren't reading the forum anyway. So it's unlikely that more than about forty people will be sticking pins into voodoo dolls[*] because you scheduled the TGIO on a day they can't get here.)
Chro.
[*] Did you know that sticking pins into a voodoo doll is a myth? It's not a voodoo thing at all: it comes from European witchcraft traditions. AFAIK. OTOH, being turned into a zombie slave is a voudoun thing.
30,000 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 14 59
And, also, a fairly potent concept in general African belief systems. To the point that, in an era of globalization and the spread of neoliberal capitalism, this supposedly "irrational" belief, has flourished, invoked as a metaphor for the dehumanizing effects of manual, low paid labour manipulated by unseen forces.
*cough*
If it helps, I too am free pretty much every day between the Friday and the Tuesday.
42,615 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 15 06
It's all right, I'm feeling better now.
It was just that I thought we had this conversation at the Sanctuary a few weeks back and everyone concluded that Monday was probably the day to go for.
Anyway.
If it is to be the weekend, then you'll all have to ask Alabaster (very nicely) to pound the streets and find us a venue. He will want lots of beer in recompense. Or perhaps lots of tea.
In which case you'll have got a bargain.
*sigh*
Would you like me to stick my head in a bucket of water? I've got one right here.
(First one to come up with where that quote is from, and who said it - and to who - wins a prize!)
61,091 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 15 15
*sigh*
Would you like me to stick my head in a bucket of water? I've got one right here.
(First one to come up with where that quote is from, and who said it - and to who - wins a prize!)
Is your brain the size of a planet?
C.
42,615 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 15 17
Are you so hip you can't see over your pelvis?
50,197 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2007 - 18 04
Share and enjoy
Share and enjoy
Journey through life with a plastic boy
Or girl by your side
50,000 / 50,000
Nov 27, 2007 - 08 05
Damn, I hadn't realized the date might've been changed. I've already rearranged my meeting so that I'm coming down on Monday.
Oh well, I'll keep an eye on this thread in case it ends up happening Monday anyway.
61,904 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2007 - 14 58
So what's happening?