Pffft. I used to like Shoreditch before it became cool.

[Ashberto]

:metahipster:

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Rich]

the road last night with some of my mates that work for a hedge fund in Bishopsgate. Went to a bar called The Drift in Heron Tower. Was a good laugh in there. Their Marlborough Sauvignon is to die for.

[Classic Jorge]

It was basically an east london Mos Eisley cantina

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

It was worse than a ****house then. See also Dalston which I believe is cool.

Actually Dalston was worse than a ****house then.

[Ashberto]

I used to love the slightly decayed 19th century feel of the area when I first worked there 20 years ago. Shoreditch High Street had nothing but stripper pubs. Those and a couple of pubs on Rivington Street were the only places to drink. Then suddenly Curtain Road became full of trendy bars and the popularity exploded.

It's simple economics really. It was close to the City, but cheap because it was run-down, so lots of businesses took advantage and moved there, which created a new market. Then it became a 'brand'.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

At least you knew where you are when it was exclusively crackheads.

[Ashberto]

One man's dump is another man's sense of history. I tend to see places for the buildings rather than the people. Buildings affect me more, especially older ones.

I'm not averse to new buildings in the same way that I'm not averse to bars. I just find older ones and pubs more interesting.

[Pat Vegas]

R.I.P East London Line.

[Pat Vegas]

Dalston that's open until tomorrow morning.

I refuse to go there.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

not somewhere you'd describe as "cool".

Rich probably talks about the "vibe" too.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

But back in my day if a person suggested he knew a place in Dalston at the end of the night then no f**ker in my posse was attending.

[Berni]

I worry that r is not eliminating enough risk factors from his life. He needs an actuary to tell him what to do.

[Pat Vegas]

[HomerJ]

So as to avoid any chance of an STD obv...

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Pat Vegas]

new to London or been here for a few years that Brixton is 'nice'

Like f**k it is. Places change but they are still essentially ****.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You see them sat outside, all facial hair and checked shirts buttoned up the neck, smoking their hooka pipes. Not a Turk among them.

It is a mystery of modern day Dublin life that nobody has stopped to murder each and every last one of them.

[Classic Jorge]

Maybe he should mitigate all risk factors in his life and go f**k himself at the same time.

[Pat Vegas]

I feel like telling them this image is rather old.

Is there not somewhere else they would like to go.

[Berni]

As it generally means I'm going to be standing up and not having much fun.

Hotel bars are different, of course. They're great.

[Pat Vegas]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Pat Vegas]

bar.

[Berni]

arseholes.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

:hehe:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/starbuck_full.png

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

a medically-inadvisable hour. Neither, of course, is there a journey to get between you meeting someone and going to bed with them.

[Brentwood]

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http://remixyourhealth.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/busy-bar-475x350.jpg

[Pat Vegas]

I might use them openly on a plane.

I saw some f**ker on the tube mixing tracks on his mac (covered in obligatory stickers) He had massive headphones on and he is sort of moving about to the music :-(

[Berni]

than they people they're with. Such people are, by their nature, awful company and to be avoided.

[Brentwood]

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[Rich]

[Berni]

Are those lesbians, b?

[Classic Jorge]

This is my favourite bar in Leeds, underground so there's non natural light, a proper selection of brandies and cognacs and best of all, rammed with Chesterfields.

http://www.pub-explorer.com/wyorks/photos/newconservatoryleeds3.jpg

[Pat Vegas]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

[Pat Vegas]

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

She'll be on the wine next.

[Pat Vegas]

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

Still, it was good for running away

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

First thing I would ban if I owned a pub.

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

Saturday night these days. The idea is just dreadful. :-(

Which is why I'm having to throw a chunk of cash at my girlfriend's birthday to ensure that her stated desire to 'go clubbing' on Saturday week gets buried under Michelin-starred food and and nice hotels and such.

Better any amount of money than some godawful sweaty 'club'.

[Pat Vegas]

but can't actually make out what they are saying.

Plus there is always a bunch of blokes in suits with bellowing laughter.

[Berni]

I would bar them for life. Or gas them. One of those.

[Ashberto]

PM me for details :thumbup:

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

[Pat Vegas]

Women, because they actually enjoy to dance.
The Gays, because they actually enjoy to dance. plus pulling is rather easy.
Blokes who are pussy magnets.

For me there is nothing enjoyable about a club especially in my current circumstances. Plus they are usually too late in the day. Friday night I am knackered. It's the worst time of the week to go out imo. Monday would be better.

Though if I have to go out I much prefer to go on friday so I can go right afterwork. Not keen on going out on Saturday as then I feel I have to plan my whole weekend around the thing.

Going for dinner etc is fine.

[Brentwood]

and the bouncer has decided he is happy for you to come in (if he can scan your driving licence, because someone was stabbed there last week), and you pay for the lady in the cloakroom to take your jacket, and you slip the raffle ticket in your wallet, praying that you don't lose it, as that means you'll never see your jacket again, and you walk across the sticky floor to the bar area, which is 5 deep and dominated by Per Mertesaker sized uni students, and you wait for the hipster barman to finish pouring 5 mojitos, before somebody who has just arrived gets served before you, and you finally shout your order to him over the ****e being played over the speakers, you'll hand him 12 quid for two drinks, walk back towards your girlfriend, before which somebody will barge into you and cause you to spill half the drinks over your arms. Then at the end of the night, you'll queue up for your jacket, queue up for a cab, argue with someone wjho is trying to jump in front of you in the cab queue

What's not to enjoy? (or maybe I lived in Essex too long)

[Berni]

If I changed arrangements, she'd see it as a downgrade. But at least she's stopped talking about going to a club.

[Rich]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

:-)

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

['Neg]

Hardly ever anyway.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I would ban Americans.

[Jake]

The buildings are still f**king lovely even if the people walking past them aren't. Most of the terraced houses off Brick Lane are early 17th century and with the cobbled streets there's still a real sense of history.

New plans will largely **** on the area in the next 10 years, more so than the surface gentrification has done. I think there are 3 active plans to build blocks of flats where Shoreditch tube once was, one across the park where Spitalfields farm is and another in the vicinity. It's these developments that'll really hinder the feel of the area, rather than the tourists/hipsters.

imo

[Jake]

You tart.