London PC meet! 7th April 2012!

metalliandy

London Polycounter's!
You are hereby summoned to attend one of the capitals dining establishments in the month of April for another London meet!

The date is the 7th of April, and will be at Wagamamas in Soho at 7:30pm

I will update this post and the thread title as new information is agreed

*Update*

Current list of people attending:-

almighty_gir
bbob
Chimp
EcstaticLemming
fearian
Fomori
Glitch100
imyj
JohnnySix
marks
mayaman
metalliandy
Naugat
paintforge
Poly-Jon
rolfness
Seirei
Shiv
Tom3D
Torch
Yozora
[HP]

22 confirmed. Looks like this will be the biggest meet yet

metalliandy

If anyone has a different date that they would prefer, then please speak up. I forgot that the 7th was a bank holiday weekend, so some people might be away etc.
If more people would prefer the 14th of April, then we can go with that instead

fearian

Time to get my polycount on IRL

rolfness

next week thursday would be good... xD

seth.

heheheh cool I will try and get down for it, would be nice to stalk some new peop.....MEET, I Meant Meet some new people....bloody keyboard....uhm....yeah....

danshewan

Wish I could make it back in time. I'd love to catch up with you guys after so long away...

I trust you'll be consuming an entire chicken as per the usual arrangement, Andy?

metalliandy

danshewan wrote: »

Wish I could make it back in time. I'd love to catch up with you guys after so long away...

I trust you'll be consuming an entire chicken as per the usual arrangement, Andy?

You know it! NOM NOM!

When are you back? It's would be cool to meet up later in the year if you have a date in mind.

Torch

Mmmmm chicken :O Count me in, be good to meet you guys

danshewan

metalliandy wrote: »

You know it! NOM NOM!

When are you back? It's would be cool to meet up later in the year if you have a date in mind.

No dates set in stone for the foreseeable future unfortunately, fella.

As and when you guys make it happen, take some pics for me!

[HP]

I'll be in London exactly on that weekend. (Above and Beyond concert, and I wanna get to know the city better too) so I can definitely be there.

Yozora

I'm staying in London now and can probably come too, but no meat for me! I joined the veggie clan last year.

Torch

Yozora wrote: »

I'm staying in London now and can probably come too, but no meat for me! I joined the veggie clan last year.

You have to have Meat on the London Meet, its the rules :poly124:

Xoliul

I'll be there!
edit: oh wait crap, I think I did promise my GF to go away for the weekend just then...

ladyknowles

Might make it to this I'd love to come!

Shiv

Count me in trains permitting!

almighty_gir

Xoliul wrote: »

I'll be there!
edit: oh wait crap, I think I did promise my GF to go away for the weekend just then...

bring her too?

Glitch100

I am a newbie, but would I still be able to attend?

fearian

definitely, but once you attend, you can never leave polycount.


tis the curse

Bart

Would love to come down to London to meet up, however that's the weekend I might be heading back home for easter for few days so will see how it goes. 14th of April would be alot better tho.

bbob

I should be able to scrape up the money required, haven't been to good ole' Londinium since last meat-up.

imyj

Should be free to come

almighty_gir

why does the title say the 6th btw?

fearian

That was the planned date when Andy made the thread!

metalliandy

almighty_gir wrote: »

why does the title say the 6th btw?

I made a mistake with the date because I thought the first Saturday in April was the 6th, where it was actually the 7th.

Chimp

Right, I'm there

Yozora

Chimp wrote: »

Right, I'm there

You're over a month early!

poopipe

I might pop along if that's alright - not sure if I'm home alone with the boy that week or the next but yeah, it'd be nice to put faces to comedy avatars

JohnnySix

wewt, I made a second trip back to the BBQ house after the last one to prepare for the next. Count me in.

Fomori

Might be able to make this! Will keep an eye on the thread to see what the plan is....

Neox

Hm on my birthday, guess i'm not gonna make it ^^

fearian

These are good numbers!

CALL YOUR LOVED ONES. BOOK YOUR TICKETS. SAVE THIS DATE.

[HP]

Maybe edit the post with a list of peeps?

metalliandy

Updated the first post with a list. 18 people so far (including 5 maybes), should be great
I hope we can find a restaurant big enough :P

Maph

Hmmmz, write me down for a maybe if I'm allowed to show my bearded face.
Also, I'm in Yozora's no meaties clan as well; but if there's beer I'm happy.

Would be cool to put some faces on avatars!

metalliandy

Maph wrote: »

Hmmmz, write me down for a maybe if I'm allowed to show my bearded face.
Also, I'm in Yozora's no meaties clan as well; but if there's beer I'm happy.

Would be cool to put some faces on avatars!

I'm pretty certain that your beard makes up for your vegetarianism. I'm sure Yozora can grow a meaty beard too, if he doesn't want to actually eat meat.

seth.

I need the beards of polycount callendar 2013 in my life

I will call the brother type this weekend and confirm that I have a place to crash and I'm set

Yozora

metalliandy wrote: »

I'm pretty certain that your beard makes up for your vegetarianism. I'm sure Yozora can grow a meaty beard too, if he doesn't want to actually eat meat.

Actually, nope. I am genetically incapable of growing any kind of meaty beard. The maximum amount of facial hair I can grow is just some tiny goatee about 1 inch across my chin.

Btw just to make me even more uncool, I am also in the non-alcohol clan.

Fomori

Wow, good numbers. Might be a good idea if we all had a bit of paper attached to our fronts in a name tag fashion with our Polycount names? Then maybe real names underneath to make it easy?

Call me out if this is a retarded idea.
I will bring my beard but it is not meaty.

Maph

So, this is just a dinner/drinks thing, right?
Eurostar tickets are le cheaper when traveling in the morning or evening. Would be cool to know what time this would go down then.

Beards and Beer!

ambershee

I'm a maybe. I may still be in Iceland or Ireland on that date.

almighty_gir

Maph wrote: »

So, this is just a dinner/drinks thing, right?
Eurostar tickets are le cheaper when traveling in the morning or evening. Would be cool to know what time this would go down then.

Beards and Beer!

some of us (like me) typically make a full day of it, heading to london for around 9:30/10:00 ish. then visiting the art museum, forbidden planet etc.

others just come for the food!

Maph

Cool, a whole day would be nice too. It's been a while since I've plundered forbidden planet.

I have a place to stay, so I'll probably be there. Just got to wait what the missus says if she wants to tag along to hang with her London friends.
Would you guys mind if I bring along an MPC character artist friend of mine to the drinks? It's ok, he has facial scruff!

McGreed

ambershee wrote: »

I'm a maybe. I may still be in Iceland or Ireland on that date.

I'm actually in the same boat, not quite sure where I will be in a couple of weeks, so don't really want to book a flight yet. But I want to go, will see when I can.

Naugat

I will most definitely be there. I'm e-mail following this post for updates

Any ideas on restaurant yet? Looks like we'll need a room eh

almighty_gir

if it's 18 people, bodeans is a no-go.

nando's is the most likely bet. and they do veggie food too if i remember rightly? wasn't tully one of those people?

metalliandy

Maph wrote: »

So, this is just a dinner/drinks thing, right?
Eurostar tickets are le cheaper when traveling in the morning or evening. Would be cool to know what time this would go down then.

Beards and Beer!

I usually arrive about 6-6:30pm-ish, though as gir said, some people like to make a day of it.

Maph wrote: »

Cool, a whole day would be nice too. It's been a while since I've plundered forbidden planet.

I have a place to stay, so I'll probably be there. Just got to wait what the missus says if she wants to tag along to hang with her London friends.
Would you guys mind if I bring along an MPC character artist friend of mine to the drinks? It's ok, he has facial scruff!

Yea, bring your friend along. More the merrier

almighty_gir wrote: »

if it's 18 people, bodeans is a no-go.

nando's is the most likely bet. and they do veggie food too if i remember rightly? wasn't tully one of those people?

Yea, Tully is a vegie, though she doesn't have a beard.
Nando's have a pretty good selection of vegetarian stuff...apparently their vegie burgers are pretty nice (according to my GF)

I think finding a restaurant for a possible 19-23 people might be a bit of a headache :P
I don't think all Nando's let you book in advance, do they? Apparently it's down to the managers discretion

ambershee

You'll need to head to a large pub rather than a restaurant, I think.

metalliandy

Pubs are great and all, but for this type of meet, I just think that are not an ideal location. They are too loud to be able to chat without shouting.
One of the meets we had previously ended up in a pub and it was really hard to hear what people were saying

rolfness

you guys should try belgo

big long tables with benches

meat and mussels and lots of it.. lots of belgian beer and schnapps .. for those of you that like your drink fancy.. cough cough..

theres a big one in covent garden which is nice and central

metalliandy

rolfness wrote: »

you guys should try belgo

big long tables with benches

meat and mussels and lots of it.. lots of belgian beer and schnapps .. for those of you that like your drink fancy.. cough cough..

theres a big one in covent garden which is nice and central

Damn it, rolfness. You need to cancel what ever other shit you have going on and get your ass to the meet. It's ideas like this that give me a boner.

Fomori

Must do pub after food tho. Beers, beards and Polycount peeps are a perfect match.