ED Forum Drinks - anyone interested?

[Sue]

Many moons ago, ED  forum members used to meet up on a regular basis (I think monthly) in a different local.pub each time to get to know each other and to have a chat over a drink.

To help people like me who are rubbish at remembering names and faces, labels were provided!

A space was reserved in the pub each time.

If anyone would be interested in this (or else thinks it's a very bad idea!) , please either post on here or PM me.

The ED demographic has greatly changed, and many of those original forum members have moved out of the area, so possibly this may no longer work for various reasons.

My partner Nygel and I are happy to arrange the first one, but hopefully other people might step up to help after that, as we couldn't undertake to arrange them all on a regular basis, though we are  happy to take turns.

Edited Tuesday at 14:25 by Sue

[Spartacus]

It could well end up messy with different sides of various discussions getting a few pints in, before heated discussions, fisticuffs, news headlines and shame (or firm rival pub quiz teams 🤔) 

I would pay good money to come and watch 

[Sue]

Crikey, Spartacus, you have a dim view of forum members!

I remember the drinks as being quite decorous affairs, even on occasion - dare I say - boring.

I remember one time in what is now the Victoria Inn but then wasn't (was it the Wishing Well?)  Nygel and I deserted the room with the drinks to join the karaoke in the adjoining bar.

We did a terrible rendition of some song, I can't remember what, but the bad memories linger 😂

[BrandNewGuy]

Great idea! Let's do it, messy or not 😁

[Sephiroth]

1 hour ago, Sue said:

Crikey, Spartacus, you have a dim view of forum members!

I remember the drinks as being quite decorous affairs, even on occasion - dare I say - boring.

I remember one time in what is now the Victoria Inn but then wasn't (was it the Wishing Well?)  Nygel and I deserted the room with the drinks to join the karaoke in the adjoining bar.

We did a terrible rendition of some song, I can't remember what, but the bad memories linger 😂

I think on that night everyone at the drinks was doing the karaoke as well

The nights did vary from month to month - but more hits than misses I would say by far - and a chance to meet online "enemies" and find they were sound in the flesh

 

 

 

[Spartacus]

2 hours ago, Sue said:

Crikey, Spartacus, you have a dim view of forum 

Have you not visited the roads and transport section? 

There will be the biker gang with their home made weapon of choice, a bicycle chain, vs the car mob with their weapon, a SUV tyre iron (ironic as cars rarely have spare tyres these days) and the pedestrians and disabled with prams and wheelchairs as their weapons of chaos.

It would start out friendly enough until Malumbu tells everyone a bike can't go over 20 so why should they be regulated then it will turn nasty, Rockets will fly off on one, first_mate would get their mates together, a fist will fly and Ted would get fudged whilst Penguin68 would see red as its not quite black and white, Snowy would take a hit and go as pale as snow and DogKennelHillBilly would stop drinking moonshine and get into the frey.

Messy, very messy I can tell you now 

[Sue]

15 minutes ago, Spartacus said:

Have you not visited the roads and transport section? 

There will be the biker gang with their home made weapon of choice, a bicycle chain, vs the car mob with their weapon, a SUV tyre iron (ironic as cars rarely have spare tyres these days) and the pedestrians and disabled with prams and wheelchairs as their weapons of chaos.

It would start out friendly enough until Malumbu tells everyone a bike can't go over 20 so why should they be regulated then it will turn nasty, Rockets will fly off on one, first_mate would get their mates together, a fist will fly and Ted would get fudged whilst Penguin68 would see red as its not quite black and white, Snowy would take a hit and go as pale as snow and DogKennelHillBilly would stop drinking moonshine and get into the frey.

Messy, very messy I can tell you now 

Well, I hope you will come anyway! 🤣

2 hours ago, BrandNewGuy said:

Great idea! Let's do it, messy or not 😁

Ok, BNG, we will sort something out.

Please spread the word!

If anyone has suggestions for suitable pubs, please say. Things have changed so much!

I think the first one I went to was at The Uplands Tavern, which is now The Actress.

[Spartacus]

I might, if i can get a few hundred people to turn up wearing a spartacus badge 

[Sue]

5 minutes ago, Spartacus said:

I might, if i can get a few hundred people to turn up wearing a spartacus badge 

That would be very funny, but not quite in the spirit of the thing 🤣