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Hi.
As a newbie, I'd comment that meet-up dates would be most publicised on the 'meet-ups' thread here. At least regulars, and, therefore, the most likely to be interested, would pick up this info.

 

Roy Castle?

 

lol

If ya wanna be the best. A little better than the reeeest.

 

I am happy to organise things if everyone else wants

 

I don't care who organises anything as long as it's not me.

 

Well looks like you're making a start anyways by having the Meetups thread.

This will probably only be for the Londoners anyways.

 

well no one rarely does anyt other meetups because everyone is scattered so much. For example me, there no one where I live hense why I try to attend London meetups if enough time is given for me to get time off of work.

 

As JJF mentioned in one of the other meet up threads, he isnt interested in meeting people IRL.

Some others may feel like that too. They may feel its enough that we talk every day (or night, ie, the SW Theme Pubbers).

But there ARE some people who would be interested in meeting up so, I reiterate, if you wanna be the person to organise that, then go ahead.

But don't get all weird if hardly any people turn up...like Turr Phennir did. Some people just arent into it.

Don't take that as a negative though...cuz there are people who wanna meet up - they mostly tend to be in London.

 

I'm not afraid of meeting people in real life.

Everyone should be afraid of me.

 

I'm "afraid" that your new icon sucks nuts.

 

It's better than your wheelie bin.

 

The problem with this board is that there's two main groups.

Group A tend to use the board just for general chat during the day or evening and aren?t really interested in meetups except at the annual BBQ, and Group B tend to want to discuss SW more and are more interested in having meetings.

And of course, problems arise when you have these two groups trying to fit together, whether it's doing meetings or just chatting on the board here.

 

An astute recognition of the problem. Now what the two groups must realise is that the board isn't like a pub, where if one group gets the good seats the rest have to sit at the bar. Its as big as you want it to be, end there's room for everyone. As long as you just enjoy yourself and don't expect things from other people, there's no problem.

 

but I like sitting at the bar......

 

A nice judgement from OhJay there, sir.

 

...so it's easier for old men to buy you drinks OA?

 

Exactly CA.

And thats why I think there were problems in the past. Because it was frowned upon that the people in Group A didn't want to go to the meet ups.

 

tis true. Old men (well 1 guy) regularly buys me drinks. he a war veteran and I took some pics for him to send his daughter. And cause I didn't take any money from him he buys me drinks and tells me war stories whenever he's in there. And I'm too polite to tell him I'm not interested in his stories.

And if you ever meet him (pray that you don't) the 1st thing he will do is point at me and say "don't drink with him, it's his fault we don't celebrate St Georges day". And then he'll laugh for 5 minutes. Very amusing. Not.

 

And you drink with him?

*Uncle Albert* Jurrin tha war...

 

I DON'T drink with him. I'm with my mates. He occasionally comes in and joins us. he's a decent bloke actually. The St George thing, this year I was complaining that we don't celebrate it cause it's associated with hooligans. So some tw@ts in the pub thought I was being anti st georges and tried to start on me and the interveneing bar staff. But Ol dave saved the day and they apologised to him. So now he finds it funny to bring it up everytime I see him.

 

I like old people a lot. They get a bad press. And not all of them smell of wee.

 

F+Dave doesn't smell of wee. he's a funny bloke. But he does need a trachoctomy. So he has to talk right next to your ear otherwise you don't hear him.

Me and him tell each other racist jokes.

 

Hmm. S'right.
Theres a couple of old geezers in my local that play us the 'young 'uns' for money on the bar billiards. They regularly roll us over. Gits.

 

I understand that people may no want to turn up, I wont be able to make all the meetings because I live like 300 miles away from London so I wouldn't really get upset about it.

 

Interesting views. I agree that it would be better to publicise the information here than at a separate web site. I also agree that it won't appeal to several people here who would only be interested in chatting with others online rather than meeting in person. Its also not feasible for everyone here to meet regularly (especially as its almost always in London). But all we're trying to do is inform those who 'might' be interested in meeting fellow fans, drinkers, movie buffs etc. Its just a means of getting our message across to as many people as possible.

The episode 2 meetup was a huge success. We had around 50 people (the Thursday and Saturday combined) creating an amazing atmosphere both in cinema and the pubs. We had similar success for Lord of the Rings back in December and it would be nice to think we can do this sort of thing more often.

We have a cross-over thread at the Southern-England forum but its hard to say if we've had any success with that. Email is also widely used but obviously it limits the number of people being notified. I think the best option is to have our regular threads here with links from other places (such as the fans notification bit on the tf.n main page).