Commuting Forum Christmas beerz - date poll

lost_in_thought
lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
edited November 2009 in Commuting chat
Look, look! I'm organising! And Ruby isn't even helping me!

It'll be at the Morpeth Arms, 58 Millbank, Westminster, London, SW1P 4RW.

Also, it'll be on a Friday. Yeah, I know I don't really have a full-time job, but I still don't care for hangovers in the office, and last year's event generated a hangover.

Once we've got a date sorted, we can go from there, food is probably a good idea etc.

If you can do several dates, then either a) don't respond to the poll or b) choose the date you'd most like.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    4th or the 11th for me

    18th is too close imo and I'm busy
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Clever Pun wrote:
    4th or the 11th for me

    18th is too close imo     and I'm busy

    Agreed, but thought I'd sling it in there anyway.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    4th or the 11th for me

    18th is too close imo     and I'm busy

    Agreed, but thought I'd sling it in there anyway.

    the last 2 weekends are out for me in Nov too... damn just realised how busy I already am.
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  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    As I feared/expected, can't make any of those.......:(
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  • londonlivvy
    londonlivvy Posts: 644
    Yay - thanks for organising, Liv.

    I can't do the 11th and would rather not the 4th as have all blacks vs barbarians on the 5th and am getting too old to go large on two consecutive days...
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    mumble, mumble.... dam Londoncentric.....mumble mumble.....
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    mumble, mumble.... dam Londoncentric.....mumble mumble.....

    Feel free to come down! I hear there are flying metal tubes these days that can take you between cities at great speed...
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  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    4th or 11th would be my preference too, went for the latter. November would just be wrong, and the 18th is more likely to other stuff.

    Good work LiT!
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    mumble, mumble.... dam Londoncentric.....mumble mumble.....

    Feel free to come down! I hear there are flying metal tubes these days that can take you between cities at great speed...

    Would they be driven by Jeremy Clarkson and James Martin?
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • Stuey01
    Stuey01 Posts: 1,273
    11th for me. Might be able to do 4th or 18th, bit early to know, work party not scheduled yet (if we have one...)
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    mumble, mumble.... dam Londoncentric.....mumble mumble.....

    why don't you arrange a Scottish one?

    hmmm?
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    mumble, mumble.... dam Londoncentric.....mumble mumble.....

    why don't you arrange a Scottish one?

    hmmm?

    Becuase I am anti social and I love a good moan!!
    Not really, but there are far more of you down there who SCR on a daily basis, just a few of us up here.
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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...4th or the 18th for me, the 11th is my son's birthday...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    :shock:

    Christmas FFS what happened to summer? :evil:
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    itboffin wrote:
    :shock:

    Christmas FFS what happened to summer? :evil:

    I think you ate it and had a couple of large g&t's to wash it down with... Hence hangover :D
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    Well I'm looking good for just about any Friday in December except the 18th (day b4 mine and BJUK No.2 b-day). Oddly the holidays for my colleagues are amazingly spartan at this point so I might be a bit of a late/sweaty arrival - no doubt this will change closer to the time :-)
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    itboffin wrote:
    :shock:

    Christmas FFS what happened to summer? :evil:

    We've had a pretty decent summer.

    I vote November. It's not like it needs to be near Xmas, and everyone will have loads of other things requiring their times as December draws on.

    Only one I can't do for sure at the moment is the 18th december. But November makes so much more sense. FACT.
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    itboffin wrote:
    :shock:

    Christmas FFS what happened to summer? :evil:

    You were pissed and we didn't want to wake you - bless
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  • Lbaguley
    Lbaguley Posts: 161
    Ooh, yeah, Christmas drinks - 11th is good for me at the mo (voted), as are the last two in in Nov...
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    Greg T wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    :shock:

    Christmas FFS what happened to summer? :evil:

    You were pissed and we didn't want to wake you - bless

    of course I was very very drunk!

    in other news my hangover is still very much alive and fighting hard :x
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Do we have solidification for the 11th?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    At least let the poll run until early November/a month before or until votes get into double digits....

    Closing the poll/setting a date won't make the event happen quicker....

    I've yet to vote.

    I'm not going. But considering I'll hopefully be commuting home that way I suppose it'll be rude not to...
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Heh, merely asking as other events are filling up friday's...
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Heh, merely asking as other events are filling up friday's...

    Oooooo aint we popular, I haven't been invited to one x-mas party, yet.... :cry:
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Heh, merely asking as other events are filling up friday's...

    Oooooo aint we popular, I haven't been invited to one x-mas party, yet.... :cry:

    you mean bar the Morpeth extravaganza... :roll:
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  • TommyEss
    TommyEss Posts: 1,855
    November's already choc-a-bloc for me - including a sailing trip (brrr) and a trip to Brussels, AND my birthday -

    So I'll vote for some time in December to fit in with everyone else - December 11th probably a happy medium between being close enough to feel Christmas-y without being so close that we're all "fuck Christmas, fuck everything!"
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Fri 11th best for me atm. Might be in Montreal on 4 Dec. Woo hoo!
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    11th is looking good, pencil it in but no confirmation as yet.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,072
    What's happening on the 11th :lol:

    FYI the trophy has been ordered people

    who will it be this year?
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Why can't we do November, people? The 11th is a fine date but so many other things are going to come up for people, esp. work dos or family commitments they can't get out of that I'd be surprised if half the regulars can't make it.

    And yes, this is not entirely unbiased as I can't make the 11th.
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