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London Meet, British Museum 21/11/2009

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HelenP said:
Me TOOOO!!!! I'm much less 'chatty' in real life, and am pretty hopeless with people I've never met before. I'm a good listener though, lol.

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Me too! But Im dreadful with names. And we have two each here, a real ID and an ailias! nightmare!:D
 
i quite like the virtualness of it all so am nervous aswell....maybe we should make badges of our avators or whatever they are called
 
Sugarbum said:
Me too! But Im dreadful with names. And we have two each here, a real ID and an ailias! nightmare!:D
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Haha, the idea of calling someone "Sugarbum" in a pub in London makes me smile!! :D

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am64 said:
.maybe we should make badges of our avators or whatever they are called
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I like that idea - some posters here I identify by their avatars anyway!! I daresay to some on here I'm "the pig in the evening dress" :D :D

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Just out of interest, how many of you have never met someone 'in real life' that you only know from the internet? I've been using the internet since 1991, but when met Sam and Tez when Sam moved to Southampton I realised that was my first time!

I was nervous, because you really don't know what people are going to be like as we do tend to hide our personas a bit on the web. But I found them to be just as I expected, except even nicer. When we had our second meet and ChrisP and katie came along I was nervous as well. I didn't know Chris very well because he hadn't been on the forum for long, but I found him to be a really lovely bloke - none of us stopped chatting for 5-6 hours and were all sorry when it had to come to an end!🙂

My only slight worry about the London meet is that there are so many of us we will not get a lot of time to get to know each other properly. I'm a very shy person (believe it or not!), but it's not like we are complete strangers - we have a lot in common and already know quite a bit about each others ups and downs! It will be a great day!🙂
 
Never met anyone of tinterwebben! But hey ho, It'll be a blast, also generally a quiet person unless had a few! But not nervous as I guess part of me knows part of you all already! Hmmm I wonder what persona I've put out there! Hope you're not all diappointed😉 Oh as for chatting non stop for 5-6 hours well I don't have much to say normally but I'll do my upmost:D
 
Right, could someone put me in the picture as far as timings go?

Are there people coming into Victoria? That's the only station in London I know but I could meet at an other station if there's no one coming into Victoria.

Tom
 
Tom Hreben said:
Right, could someone put me in the picture as far as timings go?

Are there people coming into Victoria? That's the only station in London I know but I could meet at an other station if there's no one coming into Victoria.

Tom
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Hi Tom, Corrine said she might be coming into Victoria or Waterloo, but not until about midday. Do you know what times your trains come into Victoria? If you can find that out it will give people some idea whether they can meet you there. A lot of people are aiming to arrive at the BM at 11:00 am.
 
Northerner said:
Hi Tom, Corrine said she might be coming into Victoria or Waterloo, but not until about midday. Do you know what times your trains come into Victoria? If you can find that out it will give people some idea whether they can meet you there. A lot of people are aiming to arrive at the BM at 11:00 am.
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Northerner,

I'd be looking to come into Victoria, arriving at either 10:09 or 10:12. I've got alot of choices for earlier trains aswell if people want to meet there earlier.

Tom
 
Tom,

Nikki and i have agreed that as we are going together we're quite happy to come up early if there are people arrivng early, specially if your on your own.

Not sure what stations etc we'll be arriving at (im a bit useless at public transport so im trusting Nikkis better judgement on that!) but im sure we can come at meet you. Wont leave you wandering round london on your own for an hour! 😛
 
Viki said:
Tom,

Nikki and i have agreed that as we are going together we're quite happy to come up early if there are people arrivng early, specially if your on your own.

Not sure what stations etc we'll be arriving at (im a bit useless at public transport so im trusting Nikkis better judgement on that!) but im sure we can come at meet you. Wont leave you wandering round london on your own for an hour! 😛
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That's great! Can you find out what Station you'll be arriving at and let me know? I could head to there if you want me to. It'd be good to chat for a little before metting everyone else.

Tom
 
Tom Hreben said:
Northerner,

I'd be looking to come into Victoria, arriving at either 10:09 or 10:12. I've got alot of choices for earlier trains aswell if people want to meet there earlier.

Tom
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Great Tom. There are still a few people to respond so let's see what they are doing🙂

p.s. just read properly - looks like you will be sorted! Shame you're not called Ricky - then we'd have Viki, Nikki and Ricky arriving together! 🙂
 
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I hope to come if the trains are running into St. Pancras! FCC have cancelled 48 trains on the Bedford to Brighton route today. The journey in was pretty grim this morning. As they failed to run a service into Kings Cross from Peterborough and Cambridge last Sunday this could be a possibility. The intention is then to get a tube to the nearest station to the BM that has a service! Although it is near Kings Cross my (slowly) recovering leg means it is a walk to far ? sorry Aymes. Happy to meet up with anybody arriving at StP/KingsX as lots of coffee shops at St. Pancras. Bit early for the champagne bar! Flexible about arrival time. My regime means lunching about 1:00 p.m. though.
 
falcon123 said:
I hope to come if the trains are running into St. Pancras! FCC have cancelled 48 trains on the Bedford to Brighton route today. The journey in was pretty grim this morning. As they failed to run a service into Kings Cross from Peterborough and Cambridge last Sunday this could be a possibility. The intention is then to get a tube to the nearest station to the BM that has a service! Although it is near Kings Cross my (slowly) recovering leg means it is a walk to far ? sorry Aymes. Happy to meet up with anybody arriving at StP/KingsX as lots of coffee shops at St. Pancras. Bit early for the champagne bar! Flexible about arrival time. My regime means lunching about 1:00 p.m. though.
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A few of us are bringing sandwiches falcon, in case there are any difficulties getting fed (also I need to save some cash!)
 
Northerner said:
Great Tom. There are still a few people to respond so let's see what they are doing🙂

p.s. just read properly - looks like you will be sorted! Shame you're not called Ricky - then we'd have Viki, Nikki and Ricky arriving together! 🙂
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Great, I'm definitely looking forward to it. Should be a good laugh.
 
Northerner said:
Just out of interest, how many of you have never met someone 'in real life' that you only know from the internet?
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Lol, I've met loads of people that I've 'met' on the internet, mostly (if not all) from various music forums. Some have remained good friends, others I still chat to just on the internet.

(Will catch up on the last few posts later, no time now, didn't mean to sound shallow, lol)

btw - seems there will be quite a few of us shy folk at the meet-up, let's hope there are plenty of more chatty ppl to fill in the awkward gaps, lol.:D

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Ok, so I'll have a look and see if me and Viki can meet up with Tom somewhere and then get to the BM for 11am to meet the rest of you, looking forward to it.

In answer to your question I met a couple of my best friends on the internet and my girlfriend.
 
Two of my friedns recently got married after meeting on the internet.

Personally ive only ever met weirdos on the net - present company excluded of course!!! :D
 
Viki said:
Two of my friedns recently got married after meeting on the internet.

Personally ive only ever met weirdos on the net - present company excluded of course!!! :D
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you haven't met us yet😛😉
 
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