So the other night was emma_treasure's birthday shenanigans which involved a rather vast horde of SGUK folk descending on unsuspecting Leeds with Hazzad, Mirishal, Sky, RhinosAreDinos, CreamyGoodness, ikaruga, NeCRoS, Secretary, Ortus, Mark_plus_Beer, _thunder_, DrewBeckett, mat8drb,AesirR & Causy amongst others in attendance.
After enduring the train ride from hell ( vomiting children, drunken 40 something hen night gang and some fat guy that was staring at me for the entire journey, maybe he could smell the cookies?) I met everyone at Bourbon which was actually an alright place where our sprawling posse took up half the place whilst the great unwashed filled up the other half and gawped slack jawed at footie on the TV in a general man has drink in pub fashion. Got told I was "in for it" by Mirishal before being leapt upon by Hazzad and being told I'm evil for renewing her SG account, I am clearly the only genuinely nice guy around apparently. Spent a while talking all things comics related with ikaruga who as I would find out later on really has perfected the art of the manly hug. emma_treasure started to get rather drunk due to the sheer amount of drinks being bought for her. Was impressed by Secretary's trailer trash bride at a shotgun wedding outfit, met CreamyGoodness who promptly went into a bit of a panic when Secretary went missing, "it's not going to reflect very well on me as a group leader" turns out she was outside somewhere with Mark_plus_Beer. Hazzad had to leave and go to work which sucked.
From there after a period of everyone getting a bit confused as to where we were actually going with mat8drb possibly living out some childhood fantasy of directing traffic by waving his hands frantically in the air and shouting "THIS WAY EVERYBODY! THIS WAY!"which was only emphasised by his shiny gold jacket, it was on to Carpe Diem. Which is a scuzzy subterranean sweatpit where a rather good band were playing much to surprise of myself and NeCRoS . Mirishal then nearly blinded me with my own camera, I'll let her off since I think she was possibly melting in the stifling humidity so we went outside for some much needed air. Back inside finally got a table and ended up talking with RhinosAreDinos about how shockingly dim human beings can be amongst other things . Rescued [MEMBER=DrewBeckett']s gear after we were told to move by the doormen much to his relief after he got in a panic after realising his stuff was gone. I don't think I've ever seen anyone so happy to have their stuff picked up by someone else.
Finished off the night in FAB Cafe which was possibly even more of a sweatpit. By this point several members of the group were somewhat intoxicated to put it politely. Me and DrewBeckett were in agreement that watching Secretary dancing was somewhat like looking at a magic eye picture too long, it can seriously put you in a sort of hypnogogic trance. Then disaster struck and a strap broke on Secretary's shoe and before long she'd disappeared into the night with Mirishal apparently somewhat partied out leaving her shoes behind which I dutifully rescued from the dancefloor. Not too long after the last of us departed. Not drinking I was in a distinctly better state than the rest of the gang, I finally convinced emma_treasure to take her shoes off since she could barely walk and carried them down to the taxi rank where I left the rest of the gang after being told I'm awesome several times by a profoundly drunken emma_treasure who by this point was definitely feeling the effects of all those free drinks and having lots of manly hugs off the guys.
Photo hijinks:
Like I mentioned before I went to see Predators Friday, I went with my brother which was as awkward as I thought it was going to be really. After coming out of the cinema there was just a vast awkward silence as we didn't really have anything to talk about, until we ended up in a pub since we had time to kill until the next bus he could get home and I was telling him about the whole SG thing, he's clearly completely unaware as he just thinks it's some website like Myspace. He was saying how it seems weird how I was wanting to go out for emma_treasure's birthday since I never really wanted to go out with him when I was younger, it made me feel kind of awkward since it was just that I didn't want to go out with him, is that weird?
As for the film:
For anyone who's been living under a rock, Predators is a long mooted continuation of the Predator franchise. An assorted group of strangers Royce (Adrian Brody), Edwin (Topher Grace), Isabelle (Alice Braga), Stans (Walton Goggins), Nikolai (Oleg Taktarov), Mombassa (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) Cuchillo (Danny Trejo) and Hanzo (Louis Ozawa Changchien) find themselves stranded in a dense forest, quickly they discover they're not alone.
I've got a week off shortly so what should I do?
