Quote: EllieJP @ September 3 2008, 3:36 PM BSTI promise to be kind to him.
I am in the bloody room.
Make you a deal. Do a Eva from Wall:E impression and drinks are on me all night.
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Deal. 
SWEET!
Quote: Aaron @ September 3 2008, 3:04 PM BSTEnquiries have been made, and as usual, Godot Taxis is stirring more shit than a Thames Water sewage treatment plant. The pub has been phoned, and "most pints under £3".
Believe it or not I wasn't stirring, I was guessing based on what I paid in the Gypsy Moth about a year ago. (£3.90). The Admiral Hardy is probably the most 'downmarket' pub in that area though which explains the price. I bet the Fruli and the Weissbier are £4.00+.
Quote: Aaron @ September 3 2008, 3:04 PM BSTEnquiries have been made, and as usual, Godot Taxis is stirring more shit than a Thames Water sewage treatment plant.
Aaron, that is a fine analogy. I can almost smell it from here.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 3 2008, 4:12 PM BST
Believe it or not I wasn't stirring, I was guessing based on what I paid in the Gypsy Moth about a year ago. (£3.90). The Admiral Hardy is probably the most 'downmarket' pub in that area though which explains the price. I bet the Fruli and the Weissbier are £4.00+.
Given that it's practically IN the Cutty Sark, the Moth is probably understandably (if not ridiculously) priced. The Hardy is of course prime student territory so I'd have expected it to be pretty cheap, even without the NUS deals that they apparently do.
(And it's owned by Inc, like 90% of the rest of Greenwich.)
Quote: Godot Taxis @ September 3 2008, 4:12 PM BST
Believe it or not I wasn't stirring, I was guessing based on what I paid in the Gypsy Moth about a year ago. (£3.90). The Admiral Hardy is probably the most 'downmarket' pub in that area though which explains the price. I bet the Fruli and the Weissbier are £4.00+.
Don't you worry Godot I believe you, your a good apple.
Thanks gav. My mother's welsh.
Quote: Winterlight @ September 2 2008, 11:07 PM BSTIf it's organised by CAMRA then you are quite mad. I went to the Peterborough one the other week: £5 to get in and then you HAVE to pay £3 for some stupid pint glass that you get your drinks served into.
It's free entry to the platform where the barrels are all stacked up.
If you want a glass as opposed to a plastic you do have to pay. But the beers are reasonably priced. You buy railway tickets and each one entitles you to a half of beer. I think they're £1.10 a ticket.
Quote: Paul W @ September 3 2008, 2:01 PM BSTFUCKING HELL!! £4 a pint!
I've paid £3.60 for a bottle of bud and I swore I'd never do it again.
But that's only half a pint - of pisswater at that!
Quote: Mark @ September 3 2008, 3:03 PM BSTJust to double-check I phoned the pub, and the barman who answered said "most pints are under £3. Sometimes we do deals too."
Like a jug of 4 pints for the price of 3 1/2 or something? That'll do me.
So is there anybody wants to meet up anywhere earlier?
What about stradling the zero meridian?
Quote: David Chapman @ September 3 2008, 9:36 PM BSTSo is there anybody wants to meet up anywhere earlier?
What about stradling the zero meridian?
There are a couple of us meeting earlier. If my list is right it's, provisionally: Me, Robyn, Aaron, zooo, Finck. There may be others...
No solid plan yet though.
Quote: Finck @ September 2 2008, 4:34 PM BSTAre there still red squirrels or have they all been eaten by the big bad brown squirrels?
Big bad GREY squirrels in the UK nowadays, very few reds left.
There's loads of reds around where I live. They originally came from a nature reserve, a few miles north from here, that's known as one of the last bastions of Red squirreldom in Britain (I think the other main one is somewhere in Scotland). Actually, the nature reserve was in the national news, a few years ago, when some papers claimed Colleen McLoughlin had thrown her engagement ring into the bushes, after that story about Rooney and the Prostitute.
I didn't know how they were called, I have seen them only in pictures.
We still have red squirrels here, though apparently the grey squirrel is on its way over the Alps. *imagines grey squirrel riding an elephant*
Why an elephant? Why not a moose, or a panda?
Well I would have thought a bear?