Children of teh Atom

Luddite Snob · pretty cool Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 26

Wasn't it the woodman who had the big chopper?

districtline · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:53 am Post subject:

hiccup · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject:

This definitely still happening? Who's going then?

wraeth · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:59 am Post subject:

Yep, still on. I'm going

Moggy · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:54 am Post subject:

As long as i DO make it up on the 1st (would be silly not to since my ticket expires then), i've got to make it to a couple of other drinks too, so i'll try, unless i can get everyone else to go to the cobden arms as well to save me much missioning about, in which case it's easy!

wraeth · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:56 am Post subject:

Good plan Moggy

hiccup · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject:

I shall be there. As shall Barney Be. Allegedly.

Moggy · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject:

Oh shit, AND i've probably got to go to streatham briefly some point before hand too!

wraeth · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:07 am Post subject:

Hurray for hiccup and Barney Bee

Moggy ... this takes priority

Isambard · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:

It's today!

hiccup · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

Yaaaaarrrrr.

See you's all laterz

wraeth · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject:

Yes! Today!!!!!

hiccup · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject:

Barney Bee sends his apologies, but he has to go and...um... get his ears syringed, so can't make it.

Oo's going then?

Isambard
Derian
Red Jezza
Me
MATB peoples?
Maybe Moggy
Maybe The Doc

Isambard · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

I'm gonna do a facial now and then I'm kind of leaving in the vagueish direction of the pubizzle!

bristle-krs · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject:

hiccup · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject:

Right, am leaving now. There'd best be some other fucker there when I get there.

bristle-krs · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:28 am Post subject:

so is everyone pissed then?

and if not why not???

bristle-krs · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:29 am Post subject:

and what did you do to william?!

Ralph Macchio · trainee ninja Joined: 25 Aug 2006 Posts: 252

From the man himself:

Cobden Arms Camden tonight. First time I've had to leave any pub in over 20 yrs!
Would anyone who was present with me and several other (in themselves and blameless) Urbanites who were also present, care to explain exactly why I was chucked out of the Cobden Arms in Camden High Street tonight, well before closing time?

And not (principally or initially) by the staff either?

An ex-Urbanite, now "elsewhere", was one of those present -- someone who I was perfectly happy to start/have a chat with. A chat which I naively imagined was harmless banter. He lost his rag with me tonight with exceptional suddenness and in a thoroughly paranoid, utterly psycho, implicitly violent, and deeply incomprehensible manner tonight.

Verbally violent and strongly menacing shit, honestly

I haven't been caused to be chucked out of a pub (or had to leave it) in more than 20 years before tonight.

I can't even express how much I fail to understand, other than that I seem??? to have misread where that person was coming from. One moment, a chat about London postcodes, and one or two other vaguely harmless/semi political things. Then, next, very soon after, a near-psychotic, menacing, and more than anything else a frightening attack -- verbal only, so far as it went, but it was a good job for my own safety that I left.

Seriously.

Especially when the guy's LibCom sidekick 'intervened' (not that this is LibCom's fault in general -- I have nothing against them. Just really hope it wasn't the thororoughly sound kropotkin, I'm sure it wasn't. Never met this mainly silent sidekick before in my life. Nor the principal offender, either, it seems!).

I had to leave. The barman only got involved because 'voices were raised' -- admittedly very much including mine .. but mine was out of real fear and pure bewilderment. By the time the barman got inbvolved, I was very anxious to leave anyway!!

I tried to negotiate with the backup LibCom guy outside the pub, the guy who followed me out to pressurise me, with quiet voiced silent menace into not coming back in ... . Not nice ...

But, other Urbanites, if you choose for your own social pleasure to hang out with total psychos, then yes, you can please yerselves ... and genuinely ... but I hope you're asking yourslves a few SERIOUS questions about your 'friends'. I believe that you must be, because you're decent people with integrity.

The 2 blokes you stayed in the pub with after I'd gone, aren't.

Threats of violence, and implicit violence, are totally unacceptable in any supposedly civilised company.

Explanatory PMs welcomed.

(By the way tonight I had 4 pints altogether, all after a substantial meal. The last one not finished when the 'row' broke out -- as I said, very suddenly.. 3 of the pints were only GK IPA (in the Cobden), and earlier, 1 of Youngs Ordinary in the Spreadeagle. Real Ale drinkers on feeble session bitters never start fights. Fact.).

districtline · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:06 am Post subject:

what happened

who was it? tell us!!

sparky lightbourne · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:16 am Post subject:

it seems william is exagerrating a row with a mild mannered accountant of our aquaintance

wraeth · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:20 am Post subject:

Heh

Pity there was a row tho

districtline · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:23 am Post subject:

what was oisleep doing

wraeth · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

Well it must have been after oxpecker rang me from t'pub, they all sounded fairly happy then

districtline · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:35 am Post subject:

oxpecker always seems quite happy

not a good start to his tour tho

The Doctor · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:47 am Post subject:

& more

Wasn't there so shouldn't really comment but there's no excuse for getting aggro IMO.

wraeth · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

We don't know the whole story Doc

<waits impatiently for Jezza, the silent menace or the psycho to post>

districtline · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject:

maybe we better not invite those mean matb people to our tcte meet-ups

the button · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject:

wraeth · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:16 pm Post subject:

the button · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject:

Look at him. The man's clearly a headcase.

wraeth · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject:

Sorted out yer avatar and tag-line

the button · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:38 pm Post subject:

Oi. That's the psycho.

This is me....

wraeth · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject:

Oh all right then.

The psycho doesn't post on here

districtline · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject:

fucking hell he is scary

chegrimandi · red belt Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 67

wraeth · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I'm struggling re oisleep. Haven't met the scary button though

bristle-krs · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject:

so, essentially, this is probably all huff and puff? i'm disappointed, i was expecting true tabloid "internet anger BOILED OVER into REAL LIFE RAGE" type shenanigans, i've been given "pub drinkers raise voices".

where did all the real bulletin board hardmen go, eh? where's the threats to burn the house down? the extended periods of sociopathic stalking? youngsters, etc.

bristle-krs · Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject:

anyway, hope a fun time was had by all