xkcd

by **Jesse** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:50 pm UTC

I'm with Future-Shock Wrestling, although the funday was done back when I worked with GPW. And yeah, I probably saw you, we went around everywhere (Including getting involved in the cowboy show, hitting on the Xena-esque strongwoman, winning the penalty shoot-out and going down the inflatable slide).

by **Jesse** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:01 pm UTC

On a side note, nothing confirmed yet, but it look slike it'll be the first Sunday in February at the Morton Hall (Wherever the hell that is). It's our first show there, so attendance is likely to be low. Anyone in the vicinity should turn up, it'll be a great night.

by **DaShamus** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:41 pm UTC

If there is a UK meet at some point, i'd definitely like to attend. I'm currently in Newcastle but London is do-able as well.

S

by **Robin S** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:16 pm UTC

I've mentioned the possibility of a UK meetup to Randall:

<RobinS> xkcd: If there were a UK meetup and people were willing to pay for your flight and accomodation, would you be willing to consider coming along?
<xkcd> RobinS: Er, perhaps -- my schedule is kind of crammed these days, so I can't really commit to anything new at the moment.
<RobinS> xkcd: It probably wouldn't be for a while, but maybe once things get a bit more organized we'll see if we can schedule it for a time when you're free.

by **Moo** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:20 pm UTC

*hugs RobinS* very pro-active; thanks. Now we know. It's not a given, and if we really were going to do it we'd have to plan well, plan well in advance, and make it at a time that suited him.

by **Jesse** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:04 pm UTC

Okay, Future-Shock Wrestling details.

Sunday, 3rd February.

Venue - Morton Jubilee Hall, Union Road, Macclesfield, SK11 7BN

Just 5 minutes walk from Macclesfield Train Station, just off Buxton Roa

Doors open: 17.30

Show starts: 18:00

Tickets: £9 General Admission
£5 Under 14's/NUS
£25 Family Ticket (2 Adults and 3 Children)

Tickets are available on the door or can be reserved by calling 07845581487.

I will be at this show as the Ring Announcer/Master of Ceremonies. I encourage anyone in the immediate vicinity to attend for a good laugh and the chance to see me looking sexy. Also, someone should bring a [citation needed] banner for when Chris Egan gets on the microphone.

by **Cheese** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:01 pm UTC

Jesse wrote:I will be at this show as the Ring Announcer/Master of Ceremonies. I encourage anyone in the immediate vicinity to attend for a good laugh and the chance to see me looking sexy^{[citation needed]}. Also, someone should bring a [citation needed] banner for when Chris Egan gets on the microphone.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

by **MFHodge** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:34 pm UTC

Jesse wrote:I will be at this show as the Ring Announcer/Master of Ceremonies. I encourage anyone in the immediate vicinity to attend for a good laugh and the chance to see me looking sexy^[1]. Also, someone should bring a [citation needed] banner for when Chris Egan gets on the microphone.

[1] On Friday, January 18, 2008, John Hodge, a.k.a. "VTHodge", an expert in sexyosity, reviewed all available data, including photographic and anecdotal and found Jesse to be certifiably SEXY.

by **Flying Betty** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:43 am UTC

I am seriously considering going to the Discworld convention in Birmingham this summer. Anyone else thinking of this, or is around that area in general?

by **Moo** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:13 am UTC

@Flying Betty: OOOOoooh this warrants Googling... I may do, depending on lots of factors. Nice and vague for you, sorry

but I will look into it and let you know closer to the time.

by **sleepygamer** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:10 pm UTC

Two things:

a) XKCD UK meetup? WOO! Count me in. As long as I don't have to travel too far. I'm a Leeds guy, and a train down to London to meet a bunch of science, math and internet obsessed weird people (I am one too, so no offence... I hope), for a few hours or so, then training it back, I'm too poor, and far too lazy.

2) DISCWORLD MEETUP? WHERE!? ME WANT GO FOR GOOD COOL!

Gamma) Okay, three things. Summertime FTW. That way I can go out and not look like a small nuclear bomb is enclosed in my jacket. I get cold so easily...

Peace.

by **LE4dGOLEM** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:50 pm UTC

Discworld meet 08 Birmingham, 22-25^th august (item 5), with an entry fee of £50GBP, staying at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel. The dwcon.org site is currently up, offering more information.

Conversely, the proposed Birmingham xkcd UK meet is on the 8^th of August, staying at the travelodge, with no additional fees.

by **sleepygamer** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:34 pm UTC

Cheers LE4dGOLEM! I might try and get to the UK xkcd meetup!

EDIT: LOLZ i R FERGET TOW PUT WITCH MEATOOP!

by **Moo** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:13 am UTC

EDIT: I only skimmed Le4d's post and didn't notice those two things were on seperate weekends, I thought he was cleverly proposing we combine the Discon and xkcd meetup so people who live on the other side of the country shouldn't travel to Birmingham twice.

I propose this instead. I cannot justify traveling to Birmingham twice in one month, also my idea makes more sense. I would go if it were for both Discon and xkcd.

by **LE4dGOLEM** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 4:24 pm UTC

Moo wrote:After editing my above post I decided I should make a new one (sorry for double posting!) to bump this thread again so people could actually SEE my edits.

Edit, bump, delete bumper is good practice.
Would Discworld people likely be happy with a bunch of xkcdites crashing their con?

by **Robin S** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:04 pm UTC

Define "crashing". They'd just be turning up - the actual xkcd-related stuff would be afterward (or beforehand), right?

by **Flying Betty** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:33 am UTC

I don't see why these two things would be mutually exclusive. A bunch of silly nerds objecting to a bunch of silly nerds showing up? If I do decide to go to England, it will be for the Discworld convention. (No new car for me if I do though

*sniff*)

by **Moo** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:57 am UTC

It appears space at the con is getting very limited, and hotel room even more so. http://www.dwcon.org/

So what about we meet up on the Friday afternoon/evening (depending on what time people can get away from work), all go out for dinner or such, get to know each other; that way when people go to the con the next day they know people as well so someone like me who is traveling on my own won't be a Billy Nomates all weekend, as an added bonus. We don't have to go to the con as a group but people can discuss what events they were planning on attending and for those who want to, little groups of us can go together sometimes. I agree a mass xkcd take-over might be less appreciated.

We can have dinner together again and if people are willing to give up some convention time on the Sunday we can organise a morning or afternoon full of proper xkcd meetup stuff, in a park or the like.

by **Moo** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:00 am UTC

There's talk of a London mini-meetup, a picnic was suggested although it looks like finding a weekend date that suits everyone is hard, it might just be drinks.

Either way if you can and want to come to a London meetup some time soon, check the thread For those of you in London, UK; we're currently working on finding a date that suits most people.

by **Kaneda** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:32 am UTC

Hi all,
I've only just signed up on these here forums and had a skim through this thread.

I also come from Macclesfield, so that's at least 3 of us. I left for Nottingham Uni and never looked back

Discon sounds awesome but am I right in thinking I've missed the boat on that one?

I'd be up for a meetup in a park or something, preferably with some cool goings on involving science or games in some way.

by **ishikiri** » Tue May 20, 2008 7:55 pm UTC

Leeds meet-up anyone? Fabs cafe perhaps? Or sitting round in the coffee shop in travelling mans cellar?

by **sleepygamer** » Tue May 20, 2008 9:26 pm UTC

ishikiri wrote:Leeds meet-up anyone? Fabs cafe perhaps? Or sitting round in the coffee shop in travelling mans cellar?

Sounds good to me. I'm not much of a cafe man, myself, being the rebellious, metalhead, sociopathic teenager that I am.

And I don't drink coffee, despite my love of caffeine. Or tea.

by **keozen** » Fri May 23, 2008 11:21 am UTC

Count me in on the Leeds meet up too

I'm a Bradford Lad myself so not too far.

T-Man basement cafe sounds a good idea, what does everyone else think?

by **Jesse** » Fri May 23, 2008 2:33 pm UTC

What I think is that all you Leeds lads should get your arses up to the CoS protests with sleepygamer.

:D

by **Aramis** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:39 pm UTC

I agree with Jesse. Trains aren't expensive. Get to Manchester on June 14th.

by **ishikiri** » Sat May 24, 2008 3:57 pm UTC

keozen wrote:Count me in on the Leeds meet up too I'm a Bradford Lad myself so not too far.

T-Man basement cafe sounds a good idea, what does everyone else think?

So that'd be 3 of us then! Good start.

Fabs isn't really a cafe, its more of a bar - with a full size Han-Solo-frozen-in-carbonite-Replica!

What part of shithole are you from then Keo if you don't mind me asking? I'm near Bingley.

by **sleepygamer** » Tue May 27, 2008 12:19 am UTC

We need to set a date for this shiznit.

I'm free on Wednesdays (most of them) and Saturdays.

Oh, and if anyone is interested, my course's final ensemble performance is on the 10th of June. I think it's the 10th... Hell... I'm not even sure I can invite friends! XD

I'll ask.

if you can come, we could hang out in Leeds afterwards.

by **Jackpot** » Tue May 27, 2008 1:34 pm UTC

Hi, I'm in middlesbrough, bored and wishing to travel somewhere in the north england.

I'll join you guys for the leeds meetup.

I'd love to do something for my birthday (13th june) *hint for date*

by **sleepygamer** » Thu May 29, 2008 5:44 pm UTC

Jackpot wrote:Hi, I'm in middlesbrough, bored and wishing to travel somewhere in the north england.

I'll join you guys for the leeds meetup.

I'd love to do something for my birthday (13th june) *hint for date*

Hah, I'm off on a college trip to Alton Towers on the 13th. You can meet us there, but you'll have to pay your own way. XD

by **ishikiri** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:14 pm UTC

sleepygamer wrote:We need to set a date for this shiznit.

I'm free on Wednesdays (most of them) and Saturdays.

Oh, and if anyone is interested, my course's final ensemble performance is on the 10th of June. I think it's the 10th... Hell... I'm not even sure I can invite friends! XD

I'll ask. if you can come, we could hang out in Leeds afterwards.

I don't get paid till next monday and I have a single tenner to last me till then :shock:

Saturdays are best for me when I don't have to worry about getting up for work (6:30) train home or getting the last train home. Actually one of my work friends goes to fabs all the time so I could wrangle to crash at his again on a saturday.

Oh good luck with your ensemble's performance. I used to do guitar ensemble way back when.

Are you 18 sleepalicious?

by **sleepygamer** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:31 pm UTC

ishikiri wrote:
sleepygamer wrote:We need to set a date for this shiznit.

I'm free on Wednesdays (most of them) and Saturdays.

Oh, and if anyone is interested, my course's final ensemble performance is on the 10th of June. I think it's the 10th... Hell... I'm not even sure I can invite friends! XD

I'll ask. if you can come, we could hang out in Leeds afterwards.

I don't get paid till next monday and I have a single tenner to last me till then

Saturdays are best for me when I don't have to worry about getting up for work (6:30) train home or getting the last train home. Actually one of my work friends goes to fabs all the time so I could wrangle to crash at his again on a saturday.

Oh good luck with your ensemble's performance. I used to do guitar ensemble way back when.

Are you 18 sleepalicious?

No. Why? Planning on taking me to some hardcore drinking clubs, where everyone gets given a keg of whiskey, and all they play is texas blues in the background, and everyone looks depressed?

'Cuz if so, I can TOTALLY get a fake ID.

by **ishikiri** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:46 am UTC

If I knew of place like that, do you really think I'd be on the internet?

by **wolfendale** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:14 pm UTC

I was thinking about going to the Lakes this summer with some mates (all XKCDers) where we could geohash the coords around there for a couple of days and hang out etcetera. I haven't got a date or anything yet but I'm waiting for an extra person to pass their driving test so that more of us can go. If any other people wanted to go it'd be cool, a geohashing camping trip

P.S. We're in the Newcastle / Sunderland area, tell me if you think it's a good idea!

P.P.S. If anyone in the Newcastle / Sunderland area wants to have a smaller meet tell me! And we can all go to the pub.

by **Jesse** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:56 pm UTC

I live near the Lakes. Dress warm and waterproofed. All it ever does up there is piss with rain.

by **wolfendale** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:40 pm UTC

Indeed, I don't know whether I'd be more tempted tocamp or to get a hostel. Hostels are safe from winds, but not velociraptors. We'd be screwed no matter what I guess.

by **Jesse** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:04 am UTC

DON'T. EVER. SLEEP.

by **steelmole** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:17 pm UTC

wolfendale wrote:I was thinking about going to the Lakes this summer with some mates (all XKCDers) where we could geohash the coords around there for a couple of days and hang out etcetera. I haven't got a date or anything yet but I'm waiting for an extra person to pass their driving test so that more of us can go. If any other people wanted to go it'd be cool, a geohashing camping trip

P.S. We're in the Newcastle / Sunderland area, tell me if you think it's a good idea!

P.P.S. If anyone in the Newcastle / Sunderland area wants to have a smaller meet tell me! And we can all go to the pub.

Hey, that sounds pretty fun. When are you guys planning on doing it? I could probably hitch my way up there with this endless summer in front of me.

by **wolfendale** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:11 pm UTC

Hey, sorry it took a while to reply. Well, my friend is taking his driving test as we speak, hopefully he'll pass and we can sort something out in the next couple of weeks. Other than that I'm not really sure Ineed to double check on numbers etc. email me / msn me and we can chat about it

michaelwolfendale@hotmail.com

by **Moo** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:16 pm UTC

London meetup this Friday (11 July) - more info in the thread ([UK] London - Home of Literature, Time, & the Black Death)

by **ian** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:53 pm UTC

Oh, a meet up would be fun! If only I knew some of you better. Alas.

edit: and to answer you question, why yes nottingham would be a great place to have a meet up. We have the oldest pub in all ye land yer know?

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