jayseven

As I said before-- like, other people can arrange other gatherings. I've just said it for ages now; Late summer I shall be offering the City of Sheffield - perhaps specifically the Botanical Gardens for some hilarities. doesn't prevent anyone else arranging anything. hell, there's still loads of summer left.

Stolord: Oldest facebook of me on t'net.. that I can tell, anyway. (omg deadcoder in the bg) to NOW; ... sorry but I had to post it again; the look on Chuck's face.. lolelrslol¬!

Still trying to upload my photos Sounds like you guys had more lols after me and bencoder left. I have to admit I was feeling drained and unsociable BUT we discovered that Regent's park station is totally the weirdest tube station. But in order to make up for my lack of pics, I will attempt to give y'all my final verdicts. McPhee! The ever-reliable nice-guy McPhee bought a london (should be renamed LOLdon... sorry) map to help guide us about; he took down details for complaints, and he went on an abosolutely EPIC journey to acquire more booze that took probably 2 hours. I still remember him saying "If I'm not back in 40, call the police(!)". I never saw Stefkov asleep. he was always up aftter me and awake when I got up. He always had something to say, and did not at any point seem intoxicated. Cool, straightfaced, fellow pyramidee. Chuck quieter in real life than onlien! Fell in love with my hat on the saturday, and it is he whom I secretly suspect is part of the Hole In Hat conspiracy. Letty's accent FINALLY sounded scottish to me now I'd heard it person-to-person. Only person to beat me at chess all weekend. *cough* then I beat her in four moves *cough*. Bard as sound and alcohol-addicted as I'd hoped and dreamed. Good tree climber. Unafraid of any bird. Likes gay things like backstreetboys and hercules. But we love him still! Mostly because he gave me a piece of KFC as I left :) Athriller's hair caught me first. I think he looked most like the anime-esque etching that Dave did. I <3 atif for talking to my friend Shams when he arrived. Athriller was our guide for most of the friday and saturday and it's thanks to you I got to see a whole range of london I'd not really seen before, and hadn't expected to. ReZ is precisely how I imagined him. I broke his 'undefeated' chess record. ReZ is a sure-fire hit with the ladies - first Letty declared her unrequited love, then some french-canadian chick couldn't stay away from him. Nice one! Bencoder winz. He can juggle 5 balls EASY, climb trees to death and drink drink drink. Plus I've known him since reception. Slight bias. Twozzok is mah smokin' buddy! I'm still saddened we didn't get to go to the tobacconists at all, but I'm glad you were a part of what I shall now call teh Giraffe Massive RoadKill not as twisted and perverted as his online persona- not as much. Bundled himself into the hostel room and slept like a hedgehog in the corner on teh floor. I do have to mention the two friends he brought with him on saturday - they were the geekiest, nerdiest looking guys I have ever seen. Srsly. Fish and Domjcq turned up when I was, in retrospect, rather pissed already. i didn't really get to have a good chat with either of these guys due too bladder/namco thingey. They were misplaced yet I was elsewhere! For shame. Shams4D turned up in hyde park just as everyone had stood up to go to namco. I had no idea what was going on but shams agreed to come join us on the farcical tube journey we endured Shams4d used to post on these forums about... shit, like 5 years ago! he's an old school buddy of ben's and I. Rummy was a late-show gem of a geezer. I hit off with him from the get-go. For what must've been around two hours we were sat in the green under teh shadow of teh millenium wheel, with everyone else in teh arcade did not stop nattering about one thing or another, often cursing the FEWLS for leaving hyde park so quickly. All in all; surreal, quirky, geeky, lol-tastic, knackering and sporadically rather stressful. I'm glad there was no itenerary, just a list of hopeful things to do. I do wish we had gotten round to an epic game of 1000 blank white cards, or frisbee even. Some sort of BISH thing could've been good, I think next time a list could be sent to everyone, who tehn has to try and find these things on their journey to the meet, or something. Honourable mentions; Jordan, Alfonso, sleeping homeless guy, french-californian lady, and dave. This is a rather long post, but MEH.

We were considering possibly having a yearly one, say the first week of july/august, with different locations some/each time. There's a sheffield meet (hopefully) at the end of august/early september this year, so consider THAT! (and OMG hai ben)

*I survived!* Notes; Fish/Dom - omgwtf! y'shoulda had some mobbi numbos! ReZ; No big group pic with me in general; weekend was awesome/epic/omgtastic. Utterly shattered today though. Only two hours sleep friday night and masses of alcohol consumed yesterday. Played/beat everyone at chess 'cept first game with Letty - but now she's scared of playing me *wins*. Some fuss occurred with our room - we returned after the meet to discover room EMPTY and stuff GONE, but it got rectified. Was just generally awesome to meet/chat with some of the dudes from here. Wish we'd stayed in the park longer, but it's a blessing we had the weather we did. Tired now... Expect more pics from the rest of us over the next few days - though I suppose nobody cares about them besides us :P

small note to the worthy; the south-west of that map that rez posted is not hyde park per sé- that's Kensington Gardens! So try and aim for Hyde park to the right of that exhibition road. We have bright hair and perhaps a sign (letty and chuck and bard are working on it) so keep an eye out. Oh, and grunchie; lame excuse. LAAAAAAAAME. p.s. we're having an awesome time of awesomeness with alcohol and EVERYTHING! yes.

Don't know why I haven't seen this post before now! Well the main thing I picked up on, Aimless, was your use of the word "principled"; that right there is your/our downfall. Society has spawned many a doomed fellow like us who adhere to the notion that there is in fact some sort of morality and rightousness to be found in everyone. That we have the ability to be conscious of right and wrong is often deemed to be the purest, most human trait that defines our species. The whole idea of vices and virtues, of honour and politeness is derived from an era where there was a reason to behave suchly -- the idea of some sort of reward for being a 'good' person at the end of it all. While during the first half of our 'modern' world these maxims held truer due to the overpowering philosophy of deism. But nowadays, everyone believes that they deserve something from life, and will gladly take anything 'free' feeling they are owed it for this reason or that; be it bad acne during adolescence, or finding a scratch on your car we all have 'reasonable' explanations for why we should feel entitled to some sort of benefit or other. Unfortunately, there is no heaven, no hell, no reward for being a saint besides your own satisfaction that you are, basically, doing what you wish others would do for you, if/when you ever needed them. Nobody is entitled to anything. But to be honest I'd rather be a decent person in myself and struggle through life than become some sort of corporate puppet, lost in the faux-maze of life that we're told exists. The thing about being a nice guy is precisely what you've said - it's not that people wouldn't do anything for you, it's asking them in the first place. I would reckon that ultimately your problem isn't being a nice guy, just a sort of fear of imposing upon their space/time. In a sense, you don't want to control others. You don't want to make their decisions for them, thus limiting their 'free will'. I was going to give you a most excellent analogy with Wolves and Shadows, but I have a train to catch!

Ok! T-minus... er... 3 and a bit hours 'til I meet some nutters. Going to pack my bag and make sure there's nothing I'm taking that I'd really, really miss - y'know, just in case Chuck's a pikey, or Stefkov is an illegal immigrant, or Bard is a terrorist, or McPhee is a paedo. Or something. I don't know.

Alrighty! One last mini-request -- If anyone has a sony ericsson k800i charger/one that is compatible, please bring it today/saturday, otherwise it could get messy. I'm getting a train to St. Pancras for 14:48 then walking round to the front of King's X, which shouldn't take 10 mins. Er... yeah. Don't really know what else to say! Oh yeah - I have no idea what half of you look like, so, er... lols :P

OK GREAT I HATE LIFE. Results are up. got two 38s. One's an exam, one's an assignment. May cost me up to £380 to redo them. May cost me several weeks of my 'holiday'. May just generally make me want to cry/die. I fail. I'm rubbish. Can't quit. Too poor. Getting poorer. Crap at everything. Ah. Fuck. No, it's not over. Just a dark pit of despair. Nothing good in my life. Can't give up. Be positive. I got a 68 in my brit poetry module. I just want to punch someone in teh face. Two marks here, two marks there. Fucking examiners costing me my monies. Monies I don't got. So now I'll have two modules at a 3 and a 2:2 if/when I pass the resits/whatever, which bursts that lil' dream of getting a first. The time I'll have to spend on revising is time I can't spend on preparation for next year. Then there's the money and the trip back to sheffield and the time off work (if/when that gets resolved...) and the telling to the parents - the guilt, the shame. Etc. Et frickin' c. Bah, it's all my fault. Needed to vent. Small problems really.

Would it be too easy to turn this into innuendo territory? ... So YEAH I'm still awake and not packed and stuff. Will probably pack more deodrants than changes-of-clothes. Wildo is now officially at the top of my Black List, for I am having to shell out £50 based on his unfinished promises :'( But I am pleased with the commitment to alcohol! Please don't forget to try and bring something amusing/entertaining in case of boredom. um... Yeah. As I said in the today Thread Thing; I have a few phone numbers and shizzle. I'm not taking my laptop, so I have no idea if I'll be online tomorrow. I'll try to check on the boards at some point, but otherwise i strongly suggest people coming should head for the south-west corner and start looking for Letty's hair. Oh and I apologise in advance for my general appearance. I hate it, so screw you.

Tom: Chin up with the move, it'll be awesome I bet! Right, so this time tomorrow I shall be sharing a room with four of you lot in the middle of london... Scared? Excited? Aye! Just hoping everyone doesn't look to me to be entertaining as I plan to just drink. Well, maybe try and explain 1000 blank white cards. Got a handful of phone-numbers from people which should mean a few people turn up, and I got a couple of my own mates coming up on teh saturday. So yeah! meet-up on saturday in hyde-park! Come on down! I really, really don't want it to rain

No need fer nudgage! I am here.... No clews though. But I have a 'thing' about LazyBoy. A 'gut feeling'. vote: lazyboy.

*cough* I thought you guys were 'done', or something.

Shit, I was hoping it would be good weather... shit shit Well if it rains I suggest we cry and cut ourselves. Wildo is still AWOL and I am scared.

alright so I take it that means Me, McPhee, Chuck, Bard are conf's, with Stefkov still ambling about? If I don't hear from wildo before.. i dunno, 5 or something, then i'll have to call the place and alter the number of bookings

read my fucking posts.

So that means Me, bard, mcphee are confirmed, Stefkov is confused and Chuck is complaining about prices? Wildo is still off in the wilderness somewhere. Saturday Meeting times Those of us arriving friday night will hopefully not be too hungover to get to the park for, say, 11am. Perhaps it would be a good idea to ask one of those six people for their mobile number to coordinate efficiently. Rummy: It's cool to arrive later than that. Arrive whenever. Unfortunatlely (or fortunately?) there is no specific time-table of events. I'm hoping to squeeze in 1000 Blank White Cards in at some various point, and I personally wish to check out this tobacco place with twozzok when he arrives. Then I just wanna sit around getting drunk, really. Er, yeah. This isn;t going to be hugely well organised :P Er, why isn't Wildo a member of the forums? did I miss something? Sorry! My mistake So you're coming, right? Me Stefkov Chuck (?) Bard McPhee Wildo .. yers? Yeah dude, you can turn up earlier. They have a luggage room. PM me your mobile and I'll be able to text you our group booking details. I forgot/didn't know that. AMENDED! Yeah there are. Not en-suite though...

i'm thinkin' south-west corner. If you're lucky, I'll make a big-stupid banner. Besides, just look for the girl with the red hair! If you ask nicely, I'll give you my number.

To: Flinky Re: That song... EDIT: Guilty Pleasure? ... King Prawn :X

Just thought I'd point out that the dude's spelt your name wrong on both articles :P - Well, capitalisation-wise, anyway. EDIT: Yeah, and Mark needs to brush up on his use of quotations RE: new paragraphs. EDIT AGAIN: ... Yeah and there's repeated material in there. Minor niggles, but it's a shame to spoil a nice idea for a series of features with rookie errors.

Well sounds good to me. The list of the 6 who wanted a place to stay are; jayseven The Bard McPhee Wildo Letty Chuck (who has PM'd me, but I am scared to give him my number :P) I trust you can whip Letty into shape - fancy dropping Wildo a line via the staff forums for me pwease? EDIT: I can cancel teh booking up to 48 hours before (i.e. 4pm wednesday), and probably alter the number of guests on thursday if I beg a bit, and let them keep the deposit or something.

"best company; Costcutters" lol. Don't know what you're complaining about. You said you'd do it, so you should've done it already! Six months to cover SIX pages isn't exactly a shortage of time.

it's MONDAY that means THREE KINDA DAYS LEFT so, like, y'know, help?

:| .. In other news, I'm back and participating!