This will now be taking place on Saturday the 5th of June, due to the event being postponed until then due to heavy rain leaving the park waterlogged. See website notice.
Here are the meet up details for the day: Meet up at 1pm outside Brockwell Park Lido. See map for details - click here.
There will be two live stages with bands. 4 sound systems, Hip Hop, and Dance marquees, plus 100's of stalls and food vendors. Here is a link to the festival website: Click here.
[ 04.05.2004, 10:15: Message edited by: Harlequin ]
Posted by StevieX (Member # 91) on :
I imagine you'll be inundated.
Posted by Travelling Canadian (Member # 491) on :
Oh yeah. I'm booking my flight right now. Shall we all party at Steelquin's place after? The Urban75 people and Baggers are lining up for details.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
Incidentally, TC, where are you based? In Canada or are you, erm, traveling?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
My bad. Sorry Louche.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
God, Froopy, did you have to make that post sound like you were hanging your head like a roundly berated schoolboy? I feel like a right bastard now.
Posted by Bandy (Member # 12) on :
Well, you have got a reputation to live up to.
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: God, Froopy, did you have to make that post sound like you were hanging your head like a roundly berated schoolboy? I feel like a right bastard now.
See, I can't even apologize correctly. (Let alone spell it correctly.)
It's been that sort of week.
Posted by Travelling Canadian (Member # 491) on :
Ha ha ha! Sorry there froopy, didn't mean to get people going with my name!
My question masked part curiousity and part speculation that the North American population of this forum might have increased by one.
Posted by Grianagh (Member # 583) on :
quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: My question masked part curiousity and part speculation that the North American population of this forum might have increased by one.
Speaking of the TMO North American population increasing, M and I have been trying to decide if we should move to the UK or North America, or perhaps a few months in each to see what happens.
We get as far as ...hmmm which one?...then have another glass of wine. We are almost to the point of throwing a dart at a map. Indecisive? Us? Nahhhh. However, time is running out.
Think mart could adapt to American lifestyle?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by Grianagh: Think mart could adapt to American lifestyle?
Yesterday we bought a gazebo.
Posted by Grianagh (Member # 583) on :
Does that mean we are staying in Spain?
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
No.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
Yes.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
No.
Posted by Travelling Canadian (Member # 491) on :
quote:My question masked part curiousity and part speculation that the North American population of this forum might have increased by one.
Well, it has. I'm still part of the North American population, I just don't live there at the moment. What ever happened to Amy, anyway? She used to post a lot here.
Mart, Grianagh? Spain, hell, I'll go there! You can take my spot in Canada for a bit. Oops. I think we hijacked somebody's Mayaday thread...oh, well.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
So who is coming to the meet then?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Carstairs is a cert!
Posted by Gemini (Member # 428) on :
quote:Originally posted by Grianagh: M and I have been trying to decide if we should move to the UK or North America,
What happened to the Hawaii idea? Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
By the way after the May the 8th meet I will be quitting the TMO online community for good as my other online commitments mean that I don't have enough time left for TMO.
Posted by London (Member # 29) on :
Posted by Grianagh (Member # 583) on :
quote:Originally posted by Gemini: What happened to the Hawaii idea?
It's still there...thats where we would move to in North America....or back to San Fran. No where else appeals to either of us. However, I have made two trips to UK this month looking for jobs... so I dunno... and now ,of course, we have the gazebo Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: By the way after the May the 8th meet I will be quitting the TMO online community for good
That probably seems like a good idea right now, Harland. You'll settle in with the new one and on May the 9th, May the 10th and even right up to, say, the end of August things will feel fresh and special. You'll post every night, sometimes two or three times, but eventually the novelty will wear off, your post count will fall and you'll find a fortnight has passed without so much as a quick fumble on the keyboard. Soon you'll begin to wonder if TMO has firmed up in your absence. Has it changed its outfit or maybe reverted back to its flirtatious ways of old? Slowly you'll start to remember all the things which attracted you to TMO in the first place and, furthermore, since you've made a promise never to look back, these days its forbidden. Suddenly your old forum seems a much more exciting place to be. In your mind TMO isn't wearing any underwear. Different enough to excite you, familiar enough to dispense with introductions. You could, just once, call in, couldn't you? Would that be so wrong? Would they ever find out? Maybe TMO has a circle of new friends who laugh at its jokes and undress their fragile souls at its feet, layer by desperate layer - each day bringing them closer to giving in and letting the forum claim them completely. Today a touch, tomorrow a caress, here a testing toe dipped in a fantastic pool, there a gasp followed by a sigh as the waters slowly rise against an electrified calf, a quivering thigh and then the unstoppable flood of...Ah, but you mustn't think of it. You've quit...for good.
[ 27.03.2004, 03:59: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999:
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: By the way after the May the 8th meet I will be quitting the TMO online community for good
That probably seems like a good idea right now, Harland. You'll settle in with the new one and on May the 9th, May the 10th and even right up to, say, the end of August things will feel fresh and special. You'll post every night, sometimes two or three times, but eventually the novelty will wear off, your post count will fall and you'll find a fortnight has passed without so much as a quick fumble on the keyboard.
I am quitting all message boards for good, because I will be spending more time either in chatrooms or browsing the web for items of interest and just checking email. I have also got pissed off with message baords, thats the main reason I am quitting.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Fair point. Why go to the trouble of full penetrative board when you can satisfy yourself the easy way.
[ 27.03.2004, 10:03: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
Now we need a list of people who want to come to this May meet. This must be the best organised TMO meet ever not only is it taking place in the day time - the free festival lasts from 1pm to 8pm, but I have given everyone neary six weeks notice so they can make plans to get there. Add your name to the list:
Harlequin
Posted by StevieX (Member # 91) on :
Roll-up, roll-up... Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
this is really, honestly, breaking my heart.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
The really, honestly, breaking my heart list
discodamage
jonesy999
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Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Grianagh: We are almost to the point of throwing a dart at a map.
Terror Suspects Arrested
A couple have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack on Britain or the United States. The couple, one American and one British, had based themselves in Spain and were apparently trying to decide which country they should attack. A map with dart holes all over America and the UK was discovered at their hideaway, along with a large pile of empty wine bottles.
Posted by Grianagh (Member # 583) on :
I can see it now:
I am in the airport. As I travel light I only have my rucksack. I glide up to passport control..Mart ahead of me as I took my time at the coffee stand. I slide over my passport, best brightest whitest all american smile in place. The passport officals take one look at my passport stamped US, Denmark, Spain, US, Spain, US, UK, Spain, UK, Spain, UK, Switzerland, Spain, US, UK all within the past 4 months.
Alarms go off. Interogation begins. 'Is it true Grianagh that you were last seen in Madrid atocha two days before ....is it true that you were seen in London on March 14th-16th with a male of middle eastern appearance?! Is it true there are phone calls from your Brighton hotel room to New York, Chicago, San Francisco and....SPAIN???...what about this internet posting from ...Mr. Dang65...'
'Yes, it is true. But you see, it's a coincidence. Mart, explain...it's all coincidence......Mart?!'
Mart meanwhile is sipping cervacas with the tarted up seņoritas in the bar.
omg. thanks dang.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: Now we need a list of people who want to come to this May meet. This must be the best organised TMO meet ever not only is it taking place in the day time - the free festival lasts from 1pm to 8pm, but I have given everyone neary six weeks notice so they can make plans to get there. Add your name to the list:
quote:Originally posted by Gemini: What happened to the Hawaii idea?
quote:Originally posted by Grianagh: It's still there...thats where we would move to in North America
lol
Posted by Grianagh (Member # 583) on :
If your 'lol' is to highlight that HI isn't actually part of North America.... I am confused. Is it because you think I don't realize the actual location and want me to feel foolish or is it something else? It seems such a crap thing to point out. Please help me so I can make sure I post correctly from now on. Ta!
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
Here are some photos from last years legalise cannabis free frestival anyway to get people interested. The main stage. The fesitval crowd Posted by Gail (Member # 21) on :
Grianagh, I just thought it was funny that someone would refer to Hawaii as part of North America - it seemed a bit like referring to Tenerife as part of Iberia - I didn't think you wouldn't know where it was, far from it, and there was nothing personal about it.
I just thought it was funny. That's all.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
No-one in those festival photos looks like they want to be alive, let alone in a damp park with a load of hippies.
I think I'll be washing my hair. Unlike the hippies.
Posted by three (Member # 651) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: No-one in those festival photos looks like they want to be alive, let alone in a damp park with a load of hippies.
It's a Legalise Cannabis festival. They were probably too stoned to remember to look happy.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
Here is a picture of the crowds heading towards the festival through Brixton. Like I said a few days ago this free festival was really huge.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
By the way, just remember that unlike the evening meet on the same day, the festival meet will be much easier to get back home from as it finishes in the early evening. So anyone from outside London who can't make the evening meet at Digress because of trouble getting transport back home come to the festival meet instead.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
I would turn up and join the fun Harly, but unfortunately killing large numbers of hippy dopeheads with a heavy machinegun is illegal.
Posted by Robot Technician (Member # 679) on :
quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: I would turn up and join the fun Harly, but unfortunately killing large numbers of hippy dopeheads with a heavy machinegun is illegal.
Coming Soon: Samuelnorton moves to Texas.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
quote:Originally posted by Robot Technician: Coming Soon: Samuelnorton moves to Texas.
And gets lynched/shot/bumraped by rednecks for being an uppetty(?) ni....
[ 19.04.2004, 07:51: Message edited by: Boy Racer ]
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
With your spelling and (ab)use of apostrophes BR, you'd fit in rather well I think.
[ 19.04.2004, 07:34: Message edited by: Samuelnorton ]
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
He'd be on the right end of the gun though.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
Not if I got there first.
[ 19.04.2004, 08:31: Message edited by: Samuelnorton ]
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
If...
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
lol.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: I would turn up and join the fun Harly, but unfortunately killing large numbers of hippy dopeheads with a heavy machinegun is illegal.
Hippies were around from the late sixties until the mid seventies at the latest. They wore colourful clothes and had long clean unmatted hair. There are no or at least very few hippies around now. Todays' so called hippies are infact crusties, who only arrived on the scene in the mid to late eighites. With their unwashed matted dreadlocked hair and filthy clothes, they have virtually nothing in common with the true hippie movement at all which originated in North America.
The only thing in common is that they also squat and smoke dope. But apart from that they are completely different both in appearance and lifestyle.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: The only thing in common is that they also squat and smoke dope. But apart from that they are completely different both in appearance and lifestyle.
I can't see how this conflicts with my views, though.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: I can't see how this conflicts with my views, though. [/QB]
It does conflict strongly with your views because people like Richard Branson and many other modern day business people were among the original hippies such the inventors of Mountain Bikes and founders of IT companies like Sun Microsystems. I mean you wouldn't machine gun someone like Richard Branson would you? The original hippies really were a class apart from todays crusties. Most real hippies would find it a great insult to be grouped together with modern day crusties.
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: I mean you wouldn't machine gun someone like Richard Branson would you?
Posted by Octavia (Member # 398) on :
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: I mean you wouldn't machine gun someone like Richard Branson would you?
If you wanted this done you should have said something last week.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: people like Richard Branson and many other modern day business people were among the original hippies such the inventors of Mountain Bikes and founders of IT companies like Sun Microsystems.
Didn't Ben & Jerry end up loathing each other, sueing each other in massive corporate litigation, paying Gordon Ghekko style suited lawyers billions of dollars in an endless acrimonious legal death match until finally taking out hitman contracts on each other and dying as bitter old men?
I think they had some sort of uncool tiff anyway.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
The whole point I was making is that Samuelnorton was mistaking crusties for hippies. Crusties have their origins in the punk movement, while hippies left the youth scene long ago in the mid seventies.
The Crustie was created as a result of punk band Crass's decision to play the StoneHenge free festival in 1980. That first brought punks into the free festival scene. They went back year after year with many joining the traveler community who frequented these free festivals. Changed their style of dress and became crusties. The first time I saw them was at a punk concert in 1987 when they were still visibly part of the punk movement, but had changed dramatically in their style of dress.
Posted by ondine (Member # 625) on :
quote:Originally posted by Harlequin: Hippies were around from the late sixties until the mid seventies at the latest. They wore colourful clothes and had long clean unmatted hair. There are no or at least very few hippies around now.
Don't you believe it... some of us are actually still alive mate. Amazing, isn't it?
[ 27.04.2004, 04:27: Message edited by: ondine ]
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
quote:Originally posted by ondine:
Don't you believe it... some of us are actually still alive mate. [/QUOTE]Yes but they don't go around dressed up like hippies anymore, with flower patterned shirts, flared jeans, head bands and beads around their necks. Or at least very, very few do.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
S'right. They are all a bit minimalist now.
Posted by Travelling Canadian (Member # 491) on :
So? Did huge numbers of people show up for the May Mega Meet?
Posted by Samuelnorton (Member # 48) on :
That bloke looks as though he has just been released from Bergen-Belsen, but the girl has rather nice tits.
Posted by Harlequin (Member # 454) on :
quote:Originally posted by Travelling Canadian: So? Did huge numbers of people show up for the May Mega Meet?
It has been postponed until June due to bad weather which has left the park totally waterlogged. The other meet in May is still going ahead as schedualed.
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