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Author:  myp [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:59 ]
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Kern wrote:
Ooo... this is today!
Not been to Nottingham since 2002. Quite excited.
Is the The Old Trip any good, or just a trap? I tend to always disbelieve any sign saying a pub is the a town's oldest.

It's fine in the summer and it's nice to sit outside. Service is bad because they have one tiny bar and a lot of customers all crowding round.

Disappointingly it's been moved from its original location.

2002 is when I moved here. :)
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:00 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Kern wrote:
Ooo... this is today!
Not been to Nottingham since 2002. Quite excited.
Is the The Old Trip any good, or just a trap? I tend to always disbelieve any sign saying a pub is the a town's oldest.

It's fine in the summer and it's nice to sit outside. Service is bad because they have one tiny bar and a lot of customers all crowding round.

Disappointingly it's been moved from its original location.

2002 is when I moved here. :)


The one over the canal is good.
Author:  myp [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:01 ]
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There's a few on the canal. My favourite is the Canalhouse.
Author:  MaliA [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:04 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
There's a few on the canal. My favourite is the Canalhouse.


Does it have boat in it and your cross bridge?
Author:  myp [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:05 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
There's a few on the canal. My favourite is the Canalhouse.


Does it have boat in it and your cross bridge?

That's the one. :) Doesn't always have a boat in. Depends on who's actually moored their narrow boats there.
Author:  GazChap [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:21 ]
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Kern wrote:
Is the The Old Trip any good, or just a trap? I tend to always disbelieve any sign saying a pub is the a town's oldest.

Is that the Jerusalem place or whatever it's called? We had a few there for my brother's stag do a few years ago and it was pretty good.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 13:37 ]
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Jerusalem is the music quiz bar.
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 13:42 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Jerusalem is the music quiz bar.

Where was it builded?
Author:  Grim... [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 13:43 ]
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In England's green and pleasant land.
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 13:54 ]
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Grim... wrote:
In England's green and pleasant land.

Natch!
Author:  Cras [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 13:55 ]
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Grim... wrote:
In England's green and pleasant land.


Under a Costa.
Author:  GazChap [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 13:59 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Jerusalem is the music quiz bar.

Aye, but - assuming I'm thinking of the right one - the Old Trip that Kern is referring to has the full name of Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem :)
Author:  Kern [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 13:59 ]
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GazChap wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Jerusalem is the music quiz bar.

Aye, but - assuming I'm thinking of the right one - the Old Trip that Kern is referring to has the full name of Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem :)


Yes. They lose two marks on the arbitrary scoring system for the 'Ye'.
Author:  myp [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 14:03 ]
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Kern wrote:
GazChap wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Jerusalem is the music quiz bar.

Aye, but - assuming I'm thinking of the right one - the Old Trip that Kern is referring to has the full name of Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem :)


Yes. They lose two marks on the arbitrary scoring system for the 'Ye'.

It's fine as long as you pronounce it correctly.
Author:  myp [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 22:21 ]
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Starting the weekend with some pass the controller Trackmania Turbo. Predictably, Gaz is crap.
Author:  myp [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 22:24 ]
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Hmmm, new forum won't let me rotate pics.
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 22:28 ]
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It's like mini-cottage! Have a top time.
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Mar 09, 2018 22:28 ]
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That's an excellent Slav squat Gaz is doing
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 3:05 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Hmmm, new forum won't let me rotate pics.

Mobile version doesn't. Main one does.
Author:  myp [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:04 ]
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Grim... wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Hmmm, new forum won't let me rotate pics.

Mobile version doesn't. Main one does.

Not for me it doesn't. It used to, but even after rotating they haven't changed.
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 18:05 ]
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They will be rotating, but I suspect they're being cached
Author:  myp [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 18:38 ]
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Grim... wrote:
They will be rotating, but I suspect they're being cached

It used to do that a long while ago but it's been fine for ages up until just now. :shrug:

Even when I ctrl+F5 it doesn't change.
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 18:48 ]
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They're not being cached by your browser.

I'll get to it.
Author:  myp [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 20:25 ]
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Thank you. :kiss:
Author:  Kern [ Sat Mar 10, 2018 22:38 ]
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Advertising!
Author:  myp [ Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:23 ]
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This was great fun! Thanks to everyone who attended.
Author:  Kern [ Sun Mar 11, 2018 15:23 ]
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Back home after an excellent weekend. Good to see everyone again.
Many thanks to Myp and Sal for organising and hosting it.

Some photos to follow once I've looked through them.
Author:  GazChap [ Sun Mar 11, 2018 16:02 ]
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Cheers for the hospitality guys, and good to see you all again too :)
Author:  Kern [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 18:33 ]
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Sadly most of my photos were blurry or too shaky (the joys of shooting indoors without flash) but here's some from the ok that came out ok.
Author:  myp [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 18:40 ]
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Nice! I've got some decent shots but I was waiting for rotation to be "fixed" :D
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 18:40 ]
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Stop taking GazChap away to play computer games and he might have time to do it.
Author:  myp [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 19:48 ]
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One of the best bits was when I walked into a room with GazChap in playing SWOS on an Amiga where the exhibit label said 'Superfrog'. I said, 'hmmm, this isn't Superfrog' and he said, 'no, I worked out it's using WHDLoad and quit out to the menu.' :facepalm:
Author:  Kern [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 19:59 ]
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I mean, of all the games created for the Amiga, they used 'Superfrog' to show off the system? Honestly. At least it wasn't the fish-finger game.

I did have a shot of Gaz doing some hardcore Workbench action but it was a bit out of focus, and featured Workbench.

As for other systems, I could probably have played 'Duck Hunt' all day. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy it. Reluctantly handed the zapper (and my high score) over to a kid who'd spent the last few minutes standing next to me in awe and I couldn't resist his request to have a go.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 20:21 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
One of the best bits was when I walked into a room with GazChap in playing SWOS on an Amiga where the exhibit label said 'Superfrog'. I said, 'hmmm, this isn't Superfrog' and he said, 'no, I worked out it's using WHDLoad and quit out to the menu.' :facepalm:


That's pretty badass (in a nerdy way, natch.)
Author:  Kern [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 21:53 ]
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What was the name of that T-shirt game we played at the house?
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 22:01 ]
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Was it terrible? If so, it could have been Tee K.O.
Author:  Kern [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 22:04 ]
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Yes, that's it. I loved it. Laughed my head off throughout.
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 23:29 ]
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I much prefer Fibbage or Drawful to Tee K.O.

Or You Don't Know Jack, obviously.
Author:  Cras [ Tue Mar 20, 2018 23:40 ]
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Drawful is glorious
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 7:43 ]
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Cras wrote:
Drawful is glorious

:this:
Author:  Jem [ Wed Mar 21, 2018 16:53 ]
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Kern wrote:
Yes, that's it. I loved it. Laughed my head off throughout.


:this: :DD
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Jun 28, 2018 15:45 ]
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-44643991

Moving to Sheffield
Author:  myp [ Thu Jun 28, 2018 18:46 ]
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Oh well, so much for an annual visit.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu Apr 09, 2020 17:05 ]
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Right, I've fired up Drawful 2 to explore it as an option for virtual Findus Family Game Night.

Surely everyone always guesses the right answer because the clues are so much more specific than the guesses most people will ever make? Or does the game not actually play out like that, when played for real?
Author:  myp [ Thu Apr 09, 2020 17:33 ]
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What the hell
Author:  myp [ Thu Apr 09, 2020 17:36 ]
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Oh right, I guess it’s relevant to this last page
Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu Apr 09, 2020 18:34 ]
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Ha, I didn't actually look at the thread title beyond searching for drawful and seeing the words board game.
Author:  Grim... [ Thu Apr 09, 2020 19:18 ]
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Findus Fop wrote:
Surely everyone always guesses the right answer because the clues are so much more specific than the guesses most people will ever make? Or does the game not actually play out like that, when played for real?

People start making more specific guesses ;)
Author:  Cras [ Thu Apr 09, 2020 19:40 ]
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The answers are complex enough that a non-specific answers would never work. I've definitely never known that be an issue.
Author:  Findus Fop [ Thu Apr 09, 2020 21:23 ]
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Cras wrote:
The answers are complex enough that a non-specific answers would never work. I've definitely never known that be an issue.


But if the answr is:

Mermaid with bad breath

And someone answers:

Hair dryer

You're always going to know, due to the taxonomy of the clues, that the former is the correct answer.
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