International Gamers With Jobs Day Lodnon 2102 Edition*

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*Not affiliated with the London 2012 Olympic Games. Please don't sue us again.

Place: This year the nomination is to hold the UK IGWJD meetup at the
Pembury Tavern in the Olympic borough of Hackney. It's a large family-and-gamer friendly pub with good beers and sensational burgers.

Date: Saturday October 27th

Time: 12pm - 11pm

Accommodation: I live across the road and can offer sofa/floor space for 2 people if they want to play late and catch a morning train. Be advised there will be a 12 month old baby in the next room so it's not going to an afterparty option.

AirBnB also has a number of people renting rooms &/or sofa space nearby, due to proximity to Olympic venues. Prices are usually around £20-40 a night.

Games: I'll update this with requests and offers, but check my BGG profile in my sig for a list of games I have at my house. The pub also has Illuminati, Catan, and Carcasonne.

Dudley and I also have a date with Junta we should keep.

More info as it's available.

Where is this 'Lodnon' you speak of?

Wish I could come, but I no longer live in Ireland, so London is not just a skip and a hop away.

Rallick wrote:

Where is this 'Lodnon' you speak of? ;-)

London 2012 is a protected brand of the games of the 30th Olympiad. See my footnote.

In!

If all goes according to plan I will be living 30 mins away by this date and may also be able to provide crash space

I would love to come.... unfortunately there's a couple of thousand kilometres and several European countries in the way.

Hope everyone has a great time!

I'm in.
I made an official (non-affiliated with the protected brand of London 2012 Olympic Games) logo:

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It should be emphasised that the above image features the 'IGWJD Hexagons', not the 'Olympic rings'.

I'm going to have to work extra hard to interpret that logo as Bart and Lisa having sex

That's an Auric Award* winning effort, that.

*Not to be confused with a Gold Medal. Which is an officially protected term of the officially protected brand of the Olympic Games.

I shall attempt to make it down from the Frozen North. I might even rent some ferrets, and wear a flat cap so i can be recognised

As discussed, I'm planning on making my way up to the Smoke too, so count me in for numbers.

Dave, keep your ferrets out of your trousers, please.

davet010 wrote:

I shall attempt to make it down from the Frozen North. I might even rent some ferrets, and wear a flat cap so i can be recognised :)

We're quite pressed up against Dalston here so you'd just be mistaken for a hipster twat.

Am I being really dumb, or is the date missing? Is that some of the "more info?" I don't know if I can make it or not until a date is set.

Sorry, it was spun off from the IGWJD thread so the date was the same.

Maq wrote:
davet010 wrote:

I shall attempt to make it down from the Frozen North. I might even rent some ferrets, and wear a flat cap so i can be recognised :)

We're quite pressed up against Dalston here so you'd just be mistaken for a hipster twat.

Not when I walk in wearing a Man City top, sh*t-stopper jeans and a Northern 'tache, then loudly demand "bittoh, but not that soft Southern sh*te with no 'ead".

Don't think anyone will be confusing me with a 'hipster', somehow.

Maq wrote:

Sorry, it was spun off from the IGWJD thread so the date was the same.

So, yes, I was being really dumb!

I'm disappearing to the States for three weeks, but consider me committed for planning until I return to say otherwise.

I'm also up for running or playing some tabletop RPGs if anyone wants to. I ran a Dark Heresy game at the last HaakCon that was short but sweet/fun as a taster for Dudley who had never played one before.

Will your respective significant others be there as well? My fiancee is not a gamer, and has never visited these forums.

Oh dear god, Hackney. Is it still as bad as it was before, or is it generally better now? I live in the Norf of Larndarn, but bit antsy about travelling through that area in the evening.

I'm in!

dejanzie wrote:

Will your respective significant others be there as well? My fiancee is not a gamer, and has never visited these forums.

Sorry, late reply. My wife may pop by for a bit but will not be attending the whole day.

I am new to GWJ but an old nemesis and failed cow tank to Maq and may well pop along. Hi all.

Just over a week left. I haven't anything more spectacular planned than bringing down some boardgames and maybe a laptop so we can join a hangout with other IGWJD events.

Does anyone have any other specific requirements? Game recommendations?

That sounds awesome.

No game recommendation/requests, since my boardgaming experience is rather limited. But if you need any help getting things to the pub Maq I live close by.

Maq wrote:

Just over a week left. I haven't anything more spectacular planned than bringing down some boardgames and maybe a laptop so we can join a hangout with other IGWJD events.

Does anyone have any other specific requirements? Game recommendations?

Shall I bring any games with me? We've got a pretty sizable list of stuff, but don't know what anyone has in mind. Some of it is pretty hefty to lug around, but I don't think anyone will be asking me to bring Tide of Iron.

Has anyone contacted Dudley? He'd probably be up for a game or two, but might have to sneak away from the kids and wife.

Dudley's sadly unavailable so we may not make our appointment to play Junta.

Destrin's got God's own collection of games and I have a modest collection that will be readily available (see BGG sig link for details) so I suspect we'll be well sorted. If anyone has anything in particular in mind they really want to play I'd recommend they either bring it or pester Destrin to bring it.

I won't be able to make it sadly. Have fun you guys.

I'll be bringing everything 'pub appropriate' I can squeeze in a bag, which includes things like Resistance, Shadow Hunters, Formula D etc. My BGG list is likewise in my sig so please give me a shout if you want anything specific!

Laptop for joining in on conference calls is a good shout, even if we'll be drinking early in the morning compared to all the US types :p

Happy Goodjer Day, peeps. We'll be down from midday. I'll be the balding bloke with the scruffy facial hair - possibly wrangling a 1 year old boy:

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Happy IGWJD!
We had a houseguest last night, so I'll be jumping on the train about 1:30 with them, and should be there for about 3:00-ish.
Will be getting the train back tonight, so can't stay TOO late, but should be plenty of time for Goodjering!

That was fun, we should do this more often

Although someone remind me not to start on the 6.7% cider at midday next time.

Ah yes. "Glyndwr's Revenge". Let's swerve that next time.