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Cor blimey, guv! It's the MacRumors London Picnic!

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I wish i could meet some of the MR members in MA. But i doubt schedules would allow it.

But if you ever end up in Jordan Hospital just ask for me to draw your blood :p
 
jsw said:
I'm pretty good at Brit-speak. I think it means that Skunk is bringing spears, Applespider has access to freezer space (for the bodies?), dietcokevanilla has glamorous colors (pink? chartreuse?), and Blue Velvet is bringing an exotic new drug.

I'm now even more upset that I'm not coming.
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Close, but no cigar :)

Glam shades = glamorous sunglasses. Whether that means glam as in Hollywood, or glam as in 'glam rock' or 'Elton John', only time will tell.

But hopefully there'll be some of your shades too.

Oh, and some Chardonnay to go with the chartreuse :D
 
jsw said:
In truth, that and hay fever were the only ones I knew. :eek:

Pointy sticks?
Chilly bins?
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Chilly bin = eski = insulated plastic box that stores all the stuff you need to keep cool. As BV is a secret kiwi, shown by her use of the term "chilly bin" she should in fact be pronouncing it "chully bun" and "pointy sticks" should be "pointy stucks."
 
Chundles said:
As BV is a secret kiwi, shown by her use of the term "chilly bin" she should in fact be pronouncing it "chully bun" and "pointy sticks" should be "pointy stucks."
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She wouldn't be a secret Kiwi if she talked like that.
 
skunk said:
You have to join our secret society to learn the more arcane rituals.
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So where are you going to find the virgin's blood then? Are you importing it?
 
skunk said:
She wouldn't be a secret Kiwi if she talked like that.
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Hee hee.

I'd love to put one of these on here in Oz but I think it would be kinda hard for the six or seven MR members in the country, all separated by about a thousand miles and upwards to get together. Maybe we can do one over the airwaves, someone just needs to record a sausage sizzle, a backyard cricket match, have JJJ on the radio and make sure that a couple manage to have a blue and make up before the party finishes.
 
gekko513 said:
...I'm usually good with city, tube and bus maps, but I hear the tube system in London is notoriously hard to navigate.
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Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London.

:D


But seriously, I'll email you if you like with all the others. PM me an email address.
 
skunk said:
You have to join our secret society to learn the more arcane rituals.
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... the pointy sticks and chilly bins are put to good use during the initiation ceremony...
 
gekko513 said:
I'm usually good with city, tube and bus maps, but I hear the tube system in London is notoriously hard to navigate. I may have some questions when I've had the time to find some maps and info.

Is anyone keeping count on the expected number of participants?
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It'll be fine!

Find the line you need on the map, then just figure out if you want to head north, south, east or west... and you're done! The stations are signposted much better than they were a decade or so ago. Every platform will have a simple map showing where trains arriving there are going.

Get a one-day Travelcard, and you'll be able to roam the tube, train and bus systems freely. Last time I checked, they were about £6.

The usual city stuff about not having open-topped bags with valuables in, etc. applies.

Oh, and always, always, always stand on the right-hand side of the escalators. The left side is used for people in a rush who want to walk up the escalators. Stand there, and you'll have an angry queue of manic londoners shoving you aside :)

Sounds like there's going to be quite a few there. Looks like it'll be fun! Are there any plans for after 6pm? Retirement to a pub, perhaps?
 
Chundles said:
Chilly bin = eski = insulated plastic box that stores all the stuff you need to keep cool. As BV is a secret kiwi, shown by her use of the term "chilly bin" she should in fact be pronouncing it "chully bun" and "pointy sticks" should be "pointy stucks."
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I must admit I hadn't heard 'chilly bin' before, but got what it meant... but I do like that term. Much better than 'ice-box' or whatever :)

I got friendly (no, not like that...) with the barmaid at my local pub because I immediately identified her as a New Zealander. A few years ago I'd asked an aussie mate how to tell the difference between Aus and NZ accents... he gave me "fush and chups" ("fish and chips") as an example. The barmaid was astonished that I didn't just presume she was aussie (NZ'ers and Aussies apparently have a strong dislike for being mistaken for eachother).

Accents are funny things... I've had many, many Americans (and even a German guy) mistake my south-east London accent for Australian... which is odd.
 
gekko513 said:
For instance, I assume this Waitrose is a good place to get nibbly things, but I don't know where I can find it/one. I'm usually good with city, tube and bus maps, but I hear the tube system in London is notoriously hard to navigate. I may have some questions when I've had the time to find some maps and info.
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Waitrose is a terribly nice supermarket which has lots of good nibbly things, fruit, picnic stuff, great wine department and a fabulous rotisserie chicken counter which is v good at picnics. There is one in Marylebone High St which is pretty near the park hence why there seems to be a mini MR meetup there.

The Tubes arent' that hard to navigate but you don't want to be on them with lots and lots of stuff - hence why we are heading to nearby shop rather than our local ones.

The journeyplanner on tfl.gov.uk is pretty good. Just ignore people who tell you to get a Tube from Regents Park to Great Portland St...
 
maybe the next one could be at Land's End, so it's even further away from me. :(

maybe there should be one in August in Edinburgh, during the Festival :rolleyes:
 
Actually M&S has some very nice picniccy type of stuff too... e.g. houmous, falafel, little feta pastries, tortilla, etc and they sometimes do "buy 4 for 3" offers.


Dammit, I'm hungry now...
 
bigandy said:
maybe maybe there should be one in August in Edinburgh, during the Festival :rolleyes:
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Then organise one... Those organising this one are based in London - that's why it's beign held here and why it's called the London picnic as opposed to the UK meet-up. These social events all depend on one person actually starting the ball rolling.

There are probably enough Scottish members to make one possible although I must say I probably wouldn't fly up since the London -> Scotland airfares in August are silly.
 
Thanks a lot, Applespider. That makes the picture much clearer for me. Hm, I've written variations on what I just wrote as sarcasm so many times that I'm actually a bit unsure if it works as a non-sarcastic statement... but really, it was very helpful. :eek:

I'll copy it for the street names and I'll take a look at that journeyplanner.

And thanks to you, too, displaced. Maybe I'll try standing to the left just for the experience. :p
 
gekko513 said:
Thanks a lot, Applespider. That makes the picture much clearer for me. Hm, I've written variations on what I just wrote as sarcasm so many times that I'm actually a bit unsure if it works as a non-sarcastic statement... but really, it was very helpful. :eek:

I'll copy it for the street names and I'll take a look at that journeyplanner.

And thanks to you, too, displaced. Maybe I'll try standing to the left just for the experience. :p
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Hehe... good luck with the journey! Standing to the left is something you'll do only once. It's quite unpleasant for all involved.

The tube's notoriously uncomfortable in hot weather, so standing on the left could cause tempers to fray! There were a few rants and raves in the media a few summers ago about how the trains should be fitted with air-con. I don't think they realised that air-con doesn't magically make heat vanish. In the case of a tube train, the heat would be dumped into the tunnels, and thus onto the stations :eek:
 
Hey!

I live in London, I might come- just to see what internet people look like!

I'm more of a lurker round here, but you might recognise me from my utterly forgettable and confusing responses, my stupid London Tube map and my hilarious thread about trying to control Sellafield Nuclear Powerstation with a Mac Mini.

I think Waitrose is a bit classy for my, so I'll get some German nibblies from the Lidl in Hackney.
 
dietcokevanilla said:
Haha... maybe we could set a challenge for gekko and anyone else coming from overseas/out-of-town to get to the picnic by using our versions of the Tube map only :D
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Particularly my one, with the Circle lines conviniently reduced to 7 stations, and the non-existance of west-london!
 
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