So, there is no Youssef Chanine film called "The Earth." Obviously, somebody has kidnapped Barry and using the meet-up to get peoples' kidneys.

I'm not saying don't go. I'm saying don't go unless you have two or zero kidneys.

Cognitive diissonance: I thought Barry's was more of a Dublin brand. (Cork, actually.)

1: This one, maybe? Which sounds really neat.

I think that's exactly the kind of mistake you would expect from a kidney thief who is not a native English speaker and/or a long-standing film buff.

"Barry's In London" is really ear-worming to me. Specifically:

Barry's in London with the vitamin D. Got a couple of couches, sleep on the love seat...

SOY UNNN PERDEDOR...

On Knifecrime Island, no one can tell that you're specifically a kidney thief.

Barry's in London and I, I live by the river.

re: London

I could be free on Wednesday 19th. If Barry/people fancy meeting up.

19th would be great.

I'm currently at the Oxford train station trying to get myself to Taunton. Oxford was lovely.

1 #23 on that list. The Earth, the Land. Half a dozen of one...

I'm saying don't go unless you have two or zero kidneys.

Or unless you yourself are a kidney thief and a) want to have a crack at any surplus victims or b) simply exchange professional tips in an informal atmosphere.

I could manage 19th, but late... post 9 pm.

Barry on the streets of London
Barry on the streets of Taunton too
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again?

11 I can do more than one meetup and there's a B&T meetup in the works

19th turns out to work for me. I wish it didn't. I had planned a couple of quiet days at home writing but I see I had already booked a lunch in London that day so here goes at least for the early part of the evening. I don't know where to suggest. Perhaps the Lamb/gin palace again;

Barry, do you have preferences?

14 no real preferences. I'll be spending the day in Kew at TNA but I should be able to get pretty much anywhere. OTOH getting back to my hotel near Euston Square might prove a challenge if I've had a few too many as I plan on doing.

Skinners Arms maybe? Shouldn't be too busy on a Wednesday.

Going to a bar named "Skinners Arms" on Knifecrime Island is definitely not for the faint of kidney.

16: where is it?

Judd Street, between King's Cross and Euston.

That's fine for me. Only a couple of tube stops from work.

Oh, right. Yes. Great for me

I should be able to get there from about 5.30. 6 at the latest. Also willing to show up later if that works better for Barry.

Damn I could normally have done an Oxford meet up but have temporarily decamped to Scotland. Hope y'all have fun.

I'm at Kew, I'll shoot for six and will try to update when I depart for the venue.

I messed up, and brought the car part way to work. I can still make it, just need to not booze it up.

I am working till 7pm, so I guess I'll be there around 7:30-ish.

*faint message as from a very distant star*

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Maybe that should have gone in the Kavanaugh thread.

I'm about to leave TNA and head back into central London so I could well be there around 5:30

That ETA might be a bit optimistic.

Did Thomas the Tank Engine mess up?

The straight-up unilaterally disbanded. How much more pessimistic do you get?

"They". Ugh.

I'll be in to kgx with ume at about seven and so Skinners maybe ten minutes later

Anyone there yet? I impend.

I'm here

I forgot the Mutombo sign

I'm at the door. Where you?

I'm at the door. Where you?

I'm at the door. Where you?

I'm at the door. Where you?

We're outside on one of the benches

We're outside on one of the benches

I had been envious, but at this rate the conversation will frankly be tiresome.

Barry and Rebarry walk into a pub. Barry leaves to go out to one of the benches. Who's left?

Just heading out of work now. So, there some time around 8 or a tad earlier.

Looks like about 9.30 for me. Sorry if that's too late... I'll check the thread before heading over to make sure there are still people there.

We need more seats. Any suggestions from the hive mind for getting the group of Japanese businessmen at the next table to move?‭

Sneeze on their drinks.

Better yet, pay a kid or passerby to do it.

Godzilla! Run for your lives!

52: It's a good thing there's an expert on Japanese culture here.

They finally went. A man has walked by with a sex doll on his shoulders, and a drunk old man has hung around telling bad jokes. And Ajay hasn't even got here yet.

A man has walked by with a sex doll on his shoulders, and a drunk old man has hung around telling bad jokes

Unfogged lurkers!

We're still here

Fresh salt will have to up its game

On my way

Down to me and ttaM but I'll wait.

Everybody followed the sex doll out

I've moved inside

The meet up has entered its second phase. Present; me and Barry.

I think Barry moved inside the sex doll, and ajay was already there.

Heteronormative.

And too dark to see.

Speaking of sex and meetings, the guy pushing the 3-D printed guns was just charged with paying an underage girl for sex. He hasn't returned to the U.S. from Taipei.

Get out now! The conversation about 19th century naval cartography is coming from inside the sex doll!

I think the Bellman had it right regarding naval cartography.

Great meetup(s) with a bit of B&T crossover, I'm now very hungover.

Thanks to everyone who came out, Nowrb and Ume, tierce, Alex, Ginger Yellow, ttaM, and Malcs and Metatone from B&T, and ajay.
And also sex doll guy a and joke guy.

I hope I'm not forgetting anyone, it was quite the crowd.

I don't think anyone boinked any married women, though I did turn up late and missed the first part.

fomo is a hell of a thing. I wonder if there is a market for sex dolls with rings on the appropriate fingers.

There are two young Russians dressed very similarly on sitting in front of me on this boat to London Bridge and I'm worried they're on their way to poison someone with Novichoks.

-on

I think you can assume they are.

In 75, above. The URL underneath the name is spam, too.

That's a sharp eye you've got.

Stupid spam, I'm in New York.

Some Londoner really wants to meet you, Barry.

What's the over-under that these bots are actually steganographic dead drops?

81 Well I'm in NY now so too bad.

I've heard that NYC is so big and bustling that it can stand in for Toronto in filming.

They didn't call it the new York for nothing.

"I'm shambling here!"

Heyyy! I'm a Canadian! From Missy-saw-gwah! I love a big piece a good old fashioned TO-ronna pizza!

This post title in the sidebar makes me hum, "Barry's in London with the Vitamin D. Got a couple of couches, sleep on the loveseat."

I'm so fucking predictable.

89 Not predictable, just consistent.

Do you need to hang your food so bears can't get it when in Toronto? Or just the rest of Canada?

89: My literal first thought on seeing this was comment 3.1. My second thought was comment 6.2.

I just figured out 83, because I'm a very stable genius.