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SW London May 15th meet up - this is the thread you want

198 replies

fisil · 30/04/2004 10:12

The meetup will be on 15th May at zizzi

Table is booked in CountessDracula's name for 7:30 (however only those with wonderful partners or angel children will make it that early - so come for 8 or whenever!).

I will update the list I have at home when I get in from work (assuming internet connection is restored at home!) and let you know who I have for certain on the list.

Very very very excited.

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CountessDracula · 11/05/2004 13:35

PPH I was wondering the same thing - would you really enjoy it jmg? Might be a bit daunting, all those giggling girls....

serenequeen · 11/05/2004 13:38

er, me too, i'm afraid.

even though tho' i'm v. keen on notions of equality of parenting, including dads in "parents'" (i.e. not just "mums'" groups and activities - i just can't get my head round the idea of meeting a male stranger in an event organised over the internet.

sorry

serenequeen · 11/05/2004 13:38

sorry, rogue winkie

serenequeen · 11/05/2004 13:39

jmg1, really, really sorry about your situation btw feel a heel about this meet thing... but...

Galaxy · 11/05/2004 13:39

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CountessDracula · 11/05/2004 13:44

Oh no I wasnt saying he had ulterior motive just that it might be a bit scary meeting 20 girls when you are the only bloke!!

jmg1 · 11/05/2004 13:58

peahead don't flatter yourself, if you are referring to sex I could easily get that around here if that is what I wanted 'to get out of it'
I can understand some people wanting it to be a womens only night out which is why I asked, but it is a shame (for you) that you are so concerned that I have an alternate motive.
The load of strange women was just a wind up!!

I guess some people on here have a great sense of humour and some don't (just like real life) and some people will always take things the wrong way.

Thanks galaxy you are spot on.

Anyway I was just trying to meet some people and put faces to some of the people I have spoken to on here.

Forget about it and have a good night

CountessDracula · 11/05/2004 14:14
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Heathcliffscathy · 11/05/2004 14:16

CD you are eloquent in your use of icons

wobblyknicks · 11/05/2004 14:18

pph - it might be a problem if you were meeting him in a dark alley on your own some time after midnight but surely there's nothing to be uncomfortable about when it's a big general meet-up?

Maybe if men were made more welcome there'd be more of them on here and jmg wouldn't be the only bloke wanting to go to a meet-up - which would be a very good thing AFAIC.

If he's willing to meet up with a large group of strange women off the net - good for him and who cares what he wants out of it? There's a 99.9% chance that all he wants is a bit of a laugh like the rest of us - what does anything else matter?

Or is this turning into a breasts-only club?

Janh · 11/05/2004 14:22

pph, were you aware of jmg's circumstances?

fairyfly · 11/05/2004 14:37

Can i just point out that any one of us could be a psycho Male or Female, but we are in a public place, many people are going etc etc...

sykes · 11/05/2004 14:39

FF is going, with me, which should be more worrying.

serenequeen · 11/05/2004 14:40

don't think anyone accused jmg1 of being a psycho

wobblyknicks · 11/05/2004 14:45

sykes - I think jmg has FAR more to worry about than anyone else!!!

The rest of the world are supposed to accept us as we are - lactating, bf'ing in public, screaming at our kids in the middle of the road because we're mums and we're just trying to do the best we can. Are any of us really that narrow-minded that we can't accept a man who's just trying to do his best to be a parent - and shock horror wants to be around other parents doing the same thing?

oliveoil · 11/05/2004 15:16

Er, I know this isn't my meet up and its nothing to do with me, but I think you need to wind it in a bit wobbyknicks, don't think pph & co meant anything as drastic as you are making out by their posts. I wouldn't want to go to a dadsnet meet up for instance, I think of the meet ups as girls nights out so to speak so it would be like a man going on a hen night iyswim.

taramac · 11/05/2004 15:17

I don't know jmg1 at all other than I have read a few of his posts and I am really dissapointed that some women on here have an objection to him coming to a meet up. I live in Northern Ireland so I have no chance of coming but if I could I would have no problem about him attending. Men are allowed to have women friends aren't they or did we just skip back a few centuries?! I think it says more about the women who are wondering about his 'agenda' than it does about him. Think he is very brave to come along and try and connect with people!!

wobblyknicks · 11/05/2004 15:30

oliveoil - I can only speak for myself, which is what I did and if I was a man I'd find some of the posts on here extremely offensive which is why I made them out to be 'drastic'. I can't come to the meet-up myself because I'm too far away but if I could I would, and I'd have no problem seeing jmg there. I'd happily go to a dads meet-up if I spoken to the dads like jmg has spoken to people on here. What's more - if they told me I shouldn't be going - all of you lot would be absolutely furious!!!! But some of you think it doesn't work the other way round - how sexist can you get? I'm sorry if I'm spouting but I'm so disappointed, I thought we were better than that.

If I'm taking this too personally its because I know jmg is offended by some of the comments and put off going to the meet-up - and I don't blame him.

It's hardly like a hen night - would you go on a hen night with people you'd never met? Its parents meeting up to have a laugh, nothing more sinister!!!!

Jmg is a parent (and a blinking amazing one at that) and a hell of a laugh so why shouldn't he go?

CountessDracula · 11/05/2004 15:34

I think he should come. I personally would be terrified of going to a meet-up with 20 men but he is obviously a brave soul (as his circumstances show). jmg don't be upset.

You did ask for the opinion of the masses though! You are gettin git

CountessDracula · 11/05/2004 15:34

OH GOD NOW I'VE CALLED YOU A GIT I am hopeless and will bugger off now.

serenequeen · 11/05/2004 15:36

wk, please specify exactly which posts you think are "extremely offensive" to jmg1? i think you need to calm down, especially as you are not going to the meet up at all.

willow2 · 11/05/2004 15:38

My opinion is worth jack-xxxx really, as it is unlikely that I will be able to make Saturday after all. That said, if I was going I wouldn't mind if jmg1 wanted to come - although accept that it might cramp conversation a bit. There are somethings that girls just don't discuss if a bloke is within earshot, no matter what his circumstances! Also, if I am being completely honest, dh thinks I'm odd enough as it is, meeting up with a load of women I've only met through the internet. Not sure what he'd think if he knew another dad was going to be there - left out even more possibly?

Just thinking aloud really.

willow2 · 11/05/2004 15:38

some things even

wobblyknicks · 11/05/2004 15:40

sq - sorry if I'm not calm enough but I don't think the fact that I'm not going changes anything. I'm also not a breastfeeding mum but no-one objects when I support them. If I have to name posts, I didn't like pph's of 1.33 and yours of 1.38.