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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2009 at 15:24
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Venue for a little day trip tomorrow - 16 of us going from our local pub:

Fat Cat Pub - Norwich (30+ beers on tap or gravity )

Last count, 26 hand pumps, 10 beers on gravity + a selection of Belgian ales.

+++note to self - switch alarm clock off when we get home +++


Lucky it's not the Fat Duck, Jim,
 
The way things are going for Heston Blumenthal, it looks like Fat Duck is going to become a piece of rhyming slang.
 
'Lloyds band is completely Fat Ducked, so we're nationalising it.' Gordon Brown
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I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 11:57
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Venue for a little day trip tomorrow - 16 of us going from our local pub:

Fat Cat Pub - Norwich (30+ beers on tap or gravity )

Last count, 26 hand pumps, 10 beers on gravity + a selection of Belgian ales.

+++note to self - switch alarm clock off when we get home +++


Lucky it's not the Fat Duck, Jim,

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 10:57
Venue for a little day trip tomorrow - 16 of us going from our local pub:

Fat Cat Pub - Norwich (30+ beers on tap or gravity )

Last count, 26 hand pumps, 10 beers on gravity + a selection of Belgian ales.

+++note to self - switch alarm clock off when we get home +++

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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 09:05
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Yeah, hilarious Stern Smile but they are not Goths, they's spooky kids.
 
Now, this is slightly more amusing:
 
"Victor Meldrew" and 4 Goths in a Morris Minor Estate drive around Whitby (from a recent BBC programme):
 
just after that clip, Mike (with the mohican hair sitting in the back), has to take over the driving from Richard Wilson so they can continue on to the Abbey.
 
 
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Lord Peter Whimsy?

Can I borrow your cloak, Lee?
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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 08:42
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Yeah, hilarious Stern Smile but they are not Goths, they's spooky kids.


No offense intended, Dean - merely whimsy


Don't you mean,nearly Whitby?

I'll get me cloak...

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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Yeah, hilarious Stern Smile but they are not Goths, they's spooky kids.


No offense intended, Dean - merely whimsy

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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 08:17
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Now I know there's the Stoker connection with Whitby, but "The Whitby Gothic Weekend" sounds about as plausible as "The Stevenage Rennaisance Fayre"
It's the worse-kept secret of the Gothic world - it is never advertised and the press are not invited. Attendance is limited to 1000 people due to the venue - tickets sell out within days of issue and accommodation is nigh on impossible to get since most Goths pre-book hotels, apartments and B&Bs a year in advance - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby_gothic_weekend 
 


Ah yes.  They had a memorial to Sophie Lancaster at the last event, I believe.  A worthy cause too.
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Yeah, hilarious Stern Smile but they are not Goths, they's spooky kids.
 
Now, this is slightly more amusing:
 
"Victor Meldrew" and 4 Goths in a Morris Minor Estate drive around Whitby (from a recent BBC programme):
 
just after that clip, Mike (with the mohican hair sitting in the back), has to take over the driving from Richard Wilson so they can continue on to the Abbey.
 
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 07:58
The look doesn't always work



Butthe kiddies always stand out in a crowd:


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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 07:50
^^^
Kentish Times headline

'Shocked townsfolk were taken aback when hordes of ghoulish looking Goths* decended upon the seaside town of Whitstable after a typo was made in the publication The Gothic Times.

One elderly person was heard to say, ' I thought my great-aunt, Maud had risen from the grave.I had to have a cup of strong 'tea' to calm my nerves.

Mr Grimondly-Fiendish, the editor of The Gothic Times apologised whole-heartedly.'

*A 'Youth'cult

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You made up Nigel from Tadhampton!
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 07:38
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

"Whitby Gothic Weekend is a lesson in British tolerance" (The Times Online)


Only in England:

Originally posted by Mr Middle-England Mr Middle-England wrote:

I stumbled on this April's event in Whitby by mistake - having planned a day out to visit the abbey and the town with my wife and two friends from Poland. To be frank it was bewildering


Originally posted by Abbadon, Lord Of The Lower Seventh Level Of Satan's Lingerie (aka Nigel from Tadhampton) Abbadon, Lord Of The Lower Seventh Level Of Satan's Lingerie (aka Nigel from Tadhampton) wrote:

The Goth community has gone to great lengths to dispel the view that they are "Satanic ghouls, corpse-botherers and insatiable transsexual deviants

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Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 07:32
Just had an audio meeting - apparently our bit of RBS has to save £2.5 billion over the next few years. So far the hand towels in the toilets have gone and the free flavoured water is going soon. Next step will the addition of a coin slot on the coffee machine. One of our guys was accosted by a member of the public outside the building the other day and asked what he was doing about the RBS share price.
Thanks again Sir Fred.
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Now I know there's the Stoker connection with Whitby, but "The Whitby Gothic Weekend" sounds about as plausible as "The Stevenage Rennaisance Fayre"
It's the worse-kept secret of the Gothic world - it is never advertised and the press are not invited. Attendance is limited to 1000 people due to the venue - tickets sell out within days of issue and accommodation is nigh on impossible to get since most Goths pre-book hotels, apartments and B&Bs a year in advance - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby_gothic_weekend 
 
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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 07:13
Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:


Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Being an admin, I just walk
But only Mike By-Tor can walk on water. Tongue


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Originally posted by Ricochet Ricochet wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Being an admin, I just walk
But only Mike By-Tor can walk on water. Tongue


Only 'cos his father taught him.

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Now I know there's the Stoker connection with Whitby, but "The Whitby Gothic Weekend" sounds about as plausible as "The Stevenage Rennaisance Fayre"

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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Being an admin, I just walk


But only Mike By-Tor can walk on water. Tongue
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2009 at 06:56
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

i saw the masked ones in Venice some years ago, they look amazing around St.Mark's Square with their costumes on, i even managed to get a few to pose for me ..Big smile


Reminds me in a way of the living statues around the Uffizi in Florence:



This isn't my photo, but I remember this one distinctly - I believe I have a photo of Vicky with him somewhere...

There is something about Italian cities such as Florence & Venice... quite breathtaking places.


I guess you're never been to RomeWink.... My hometown is probably the only thing I really miss now. In spite of all the problems it has, it is a place like no one else, and the only one in Italy where I'd want to live (and believe me, I tried the 'small is beautiful' thing... Never again!).
Debs and Alex went to Venice over half-term and came back with loads of photos like this. Debs said it was like being at the Gothic Weekend in Whitby LOL
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