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Chat => General Discussion => Topic started by: zpyder on August 20, 2009, 23:32:39 PM
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So the rents are going away for a week at the end of the month, what better excuse to have a small Southern tek meet.
Sat 29th Aug - Any time after mid-day.
Location - My place, Ferndown (On the outskirts of Bournemouth, if coming from London/Southampton/Portsmouth way its just after Ringwood) BH22 if you want a rough idea!
Food wise I can provide nibbles, home made lasagne (or if people are feeling brave, home made chinese seafood curry), or there are several VERY good takeaways in the area. Theres also a good local 2 mins walk down the road. Theres booze (one of the few perks of having alcoholic parents), and of course a 360.
I cant offer anything like the epicness of a Samcrasher as obviously its the rents house, but last time (quite a few years ago!) this wasnt a problem, even if a teddybear was sent to the heavens by rocket.
Please let me know your thoughts and if youre interested in coming, it would be good to meet up with some of you guys, I think theres a couple of regulars that either werent around back last time, or couldnt make it. Weather permitting can always try and dig out the patio heater etc too.
Maybes/attendings:
Binary Shadow
Pete
Zpyder (hah)
Clocked
Beanissocoollike
Address details to be PMd out to confirmed attendees later on in the week.
As to gameage if the evening steers in that direction (ill add the rest of party games later, cant remember what I have right now):
360: - 2 controllers so if anyone wants to bring 2 more for some 4-player goodness.
Guitar hero 3 (more controllers/other Guitar heros needed!)
I appear to have traded in Mashed, but that was a classic, might try to find it somewhere if I can find out if its 360 compatible.
Halo1-3
Call of duty
Wii (2 controllers again so more needed!):
Wii sports
Wii play
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Warioware smooth moves
Mario party 8
Ghost Squad
House of the dead
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Id be interested, can lend/bring a wii if you fancy it wasnt a bad evening last time
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I could maybe make it, either day.
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Ohhh, I forgot to mention the wii ><
Other things doable:
Ubercake (my record is a quindectuple chocholate cake I think...(I dunno what the correct term is for 14 forms/kinds of chocolate!))
Sushi
(http://www.zpyder.co.uk/forums/sushi.jpg)
Obviously depending on what is decided, time will be needed to prepare :|
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I want Ubercake pls. ty.
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If you make your own sushi I will fly in from new jersey.
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I want Ubercake pls. ty.
Its not something done lightly, believe me, its possible to have too much chocolate, one sliver of ubercake and you wont want to eat anything else for ages. Are you sure? Its been a few years since I did it so it could all go horribly wrong this time too...
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Youre talking to the guy who did this. (http://www.tekforum.co.uk/posts/list/9200.page)
Bring it.
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Somewhere on the net, are pics of the uber cake. I still maintain a burger needs to be in burger buns to count!
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Show me a burger bun worthy of mine time.
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(http://www.zpyder.co.uk/forums/ubercake.jpg)
From memory it had:
3x different chocolate sponge layers
3 different chocolate goulash layers
Chocolate flakes
Chocolate holly leaf mouldings
grated plain,dark,white chocolate
white chocolate drops
chocolate fingers
Chocolate fudge icing
The only burger buns worthy of any form of use are the buns you get from greasy spoon/burger vans. Ive yet to find a supermarket that sells buns of the same quality sadly.
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Ill be in Ireland over those days so count me out.
That does look like one ubercake tho :)
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Actually I might be in the uk 4 sept if I get a new job.
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If its a Saturday put me down as a definite :ptu: It all sounds good!
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Show me a burger bun worthy of mine time.
A stottie would be very worthy. Good ones are as big as a dinner plate.
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(http://www.zpyder.co.uk/forums/ubercake.jpg)
The cake is a lie! :drool:
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So thats 4 of us so far.
Tis looking to be sat 29th, sorry Sam.
I know that theres maybe a couple more southerners that are in the area that havent replied yet...
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(http://www.zpyder.co.uk/forums/ubercake.jpg)
From memory it had:
3x different chocolate sponge layers
3 different chocolate goulash layers
Chocolate flakes
Chocolate holly leaf mouldings
grated plain,dark,white chocolate
white chocolate drops
chocolate fingers
Chocolate fudge icing
The only burger buns worthy of any form of use are the buns you get from greasy spoon/burger vans. Ive yet to find a supermarket that sells buns of the same quality sadly.
I want to bury my face in your ubercake.
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Tbh ubercake is on the cards so long as everyone coming actually wants it. And Ill cheat I think this time and rather than mess about with making the cake sponge, I think Ill just buy some pre-made chocolate sponge if I can find some, will give more time to sort out all the icing/goulash etc and everything else, otherwise Id just spend all day messing about with a cake, when people will have a few bites and then feel sick from how rich it is.
When I last did it it was for a small party from dive club, 12 people all had a bit, maybe only using up a quarter, and no one then wanted to eat the chinese that theyd ordered. That was fine by me as I got to keep the leftovers.
Still waiting for Bacon and Dogbert at the least to say whether theyre coming or not. I remember dogberts pingpong ball shaped uberrockets which rocket teddy was attached to. Im sure theres a picture or two and a video from the Bonfire tek party somewhere :(
Theres always the ultra unsociable option of DVDs, if anyone can suggest a classic.
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(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k26/bobbins53/1145.jpg)
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I am unsure. Are you Portsmouth.
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Ive been updating the Original post with extra details every now and again. Its had my location for a little while now ;)
Im Ferndown, which is maybe an hours drive from Pompey. You could always hitch a lift with one of the others in your neck of the woods?
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Ive been updating the Original post with extra details every now and again. Its had my location for a little while now ;)
Im Ferndown, which is maybe an hours drive from Pompey. You could always hitch a lift with one of the others in your neck of the woods?
Im the furthest down :P
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Bah.
Train it and I can pick you up from Bournemouth Station :P
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Put my girlfriend down as well, beanissocoollike, shes interested in coming. She might be able to pinch an x-box controller - unconfirmed.
We both like cake :D
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Aye
I should say partners/spouses/mistresses welcome, so long as they can tolerate potential geekfestness in terms of people being unsociable and being huddled around a tv playing a console :D
I guess cake is on the menu then!
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Dont worry, if its guitar hero, Im there! (:
mmm, cake *drools*
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cake ? count me in ;)
:D
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Knighty, Im not sure the house is big enough for your presence?! Seriously considering coming? Thatd sort the entertainment out right there if you were :D
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Fish and Cake eugh!
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Knighty, Im not sure the house is big enough for your presence?! Seriously considering coming? Thatd sort the entertainment out right there if you were :D
well with an offer like that how can I not come.... Ill be there :-)
(as long as I get cake -) )
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Haha, awesome, Ill add you to the list. Im guessing youll be the person to travel the furthest! Guessing youll be wanting to crash the night too.
Just so I can get an idea of numbers, who is/isnt intending on crashing here on the Sat night?
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Myself and the good lady probably wont stay the night, but well see if she can stay out.
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i live too close to bother staying the nite so no need to make room for me
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Fish and Cake eugh!
Fishcake? Ill only be doing one or the other, and its looking to be cake. Will be perusing the net for various recipes and then shopping for the ingredients this weekend. Its not going to be a record breaker but Im thinking 10 forms of chocolate should be easily doable :D
Edit:
Goulash? WTF was I thinking...Ganache!
Heh, Knighty and me alone in the house once everyone else leaves...should I be worried? :P :D
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is next weekend the bank holiday weekend ?
if so Ive messed up... and triple booked myself...
promised to go with my sister and her kids to some centre parks type thing...
promised to go to a wedding
and now you too !
so looks like I can;t make it afterall....
have another one soon and Ill come to that one !
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Bah, ok!
I didnt realise it was a bank holiday weekend until a few hours ago, and the forums were down for me!
More cake for the rest of us I guess.
Or is the cake a lie?
(I still have absolutely no idea what the deal is with that!)
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if you dont make cake Charlotte will be a sad bean ): And will have to make some purple cupcakes for me and Nigel to eat on the way (:
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(I still have absolutely no idea what the deal is with that!)
OMG the cake was a lie ?
(ever played portal ? if not.... play it.... its free, and awesome!)
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Portal is free now?
Nah the cake isnt a lie, though Im slightly worried at what Ive gotten myself into, will have to wait and see what I come up with as I really dont want to have to make the cake sponges, but Ill have to if I cant find pre made ones. its no biggy though as I can do them on the Fri night after I finish work.
Really tempted to be evil and put one of the leftover Scotch bonnet chilli peppers into a section of cake :D
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Russian roulette cake lol :yarr:
Sam looked into Mashed, apparently it doesnt work on the 360 sadly
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Yeah, bit lame :(
However I have got on order:
Raving Rabbids TV party
Some Wii Fit snowboarding game
And Scene it for the xbox. Provided people havent played it loads before and know the questions it should be good as a lot here are film boffs methinks :D
So theres a few diff party/group things available, if people have other things they want to bring theyre more than welcome. Deffo could do with a 2nd guitar for guitar hero tbh!
Tis shaping up to be quite a promising evening, shame Knighty couldnt make it, and have yet to hear from the likes of Dogbert. People are welcome to turn up any time after midday methinks, though I might be still working on the cake :|
I think Sweenster came to the last one too. Memories heh. Really need to dig out the photo from that, am sure its somewhere in one of my folders on my site.
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I cant believe I triple booked myself....
a couple of years ago I forgot Id booked up a trip to India and also booked up for a rally across Europe thing... doh!
have another one..... and Ill come to that
the sad thing is.... because I work long hours during the week... Im always looking for interesting stuff to do on the weekends... and can never find anything !!!
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Tis a bit epic though, driving down for an evening! Mind you I guess I did the trip 3 times the other way ><
Depending on the success of the evening I guess something could be done later in the year or early next year. Itd be good to have a more central location so we could get lots of members together, being on the south coast is a bit limiting for many people!
Ill be unemployed again in December so will have lots of free time to maybe arrange something, though the rents will be at home. Am guessing no one here is up for a week in the lake district? I need a good walking buddy thats willing and able to do some of the high peaks :D
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cool should be able to turn up mid/late afternoon then i think, did you want to borrow the orange box for the 360 to play portal?
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Im sure I can get it on steam at some point. Am holding off getting/playing any more PC games till Win7 is out. My computer is struggling with Vista so things like Fallout 3 are being a pain. Will be upgrading the PC etc as well when I get round to doing it!
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Just bought over a kilo of chocolate for the cake, tis looking like ill be doing the sponge :D
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Awesome.
Well probably be leaving Portsmouth about noonishtime :ptu:
We may bring niceties of the food variety.
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Sadly my presence will only be felt in spirit, I canot offer my physical presence this weekend. :cry:
Family commitments mean Ill be at home with our baby 8-)
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Bah humbug.
Oh well, tis going to be a small get together then I feel! Nevermind, more cake for the rest of us and it makes it easier for some 4 player action, though yes, there will be 5 of us!
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Address details have been PMd to those who are uber enough to attend :D
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Looks like it should be a straight and easy run from Pompey.
We might be able to bring some additional x-box kit too if bean can convince her brother to let us borrow his guitar and controller.
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damnit! Just realised im double booked, i can pop over for a few hrs in the afternoon but will have to vanish for the evening :(
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And then there were 4...
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give us all a few of weeks notice next time and Im sure loads of people will come
the problem with bank holiday weekends is people often make plans early :(
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Aye. I think also a problem is location. Sam was ideally located for Samcrashers, It seems most people are Midlands/North, with just a small fraction down south.
It was a spur of the moment thing too, found out the rents were going away and figured Id propose the meet. Itll still be awesome to meet Pete and BeanisSoCoolLike, and itll be good to catch up with Nige in person after what, 6 years since the last Samcrasher I was at?
Next time the rents book holiday a few months in advance Ill let everyone know haha.
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It was short notice, but then look how much effort it always took from me and Sam canvassing to get people to the Samcrashers at times! :lol:
Im looking forward to meeting Pete and Binary Shadow too, its going to be good to catch up.
At least with fewer people you can relax a bit Chris 8-)
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Am I allowed to bow out of the uber cake making? Seems like a lot of effort for 4-5 people, especially considering I doubt whatever is left will get eaten? Or will it been deemed wussing out of the challenge?
Also, Rayman tv party and Shaun White snowboarding arrived today. I wont open Rayman as those games always seem to be easy to master and half the fun is the novelty of the new challenges, best experienced in a group. Did have a go on Shaun White, quite good fun, if a bit easy/hard at the same time
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Feel free to drop out of the cake making I say!
Ill be bringing my leftover 9kg box of mini eggs and possibly some other treats too.
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aww no cake ): Me and Nige were talking about making cake yesterday anyway (:
I feel all included and happy (:
oh yeah, need to ask my brother about xboxxxxxxxxxx stuff! Shall do that in a bit (:
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Ill see if I can rustle up some other bits and pieces. Just seems a waste to make a whole cake for so few, especially one with 100% uber as an ingredient. Can always do Cheese straws or something :D
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Spud will be there in spirit only ;)
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Can always do Cheese straws or something :D
And what happens when you get down to the last one? <_<
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Looks like i will be decending upon a mass gathering at my local this weekend, a lot of friends who have moved away are returning for a Bank holiday weekend night out.
Perhaps next time if i cannot come ill go and buy a web cam so we can do video link with pixellated cake
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So whats the plan for evening food?
You mentioned there was a couple of takeaways nearby, are they any good?
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Ive been undecided on the subject, was going to play it by ear, there will certainly be enough nibbles to feed a small ethiopian family for a year. However I am always up for a chinese.
And as to "Are they any good?" - One of them knew me by name and I had a "usual". Would call up and itd be a case of:
"Hi, is that Chris?" "Yeah" "The usual?" "yeah" "20 minutes" *click*
So yeah, pretty good :D Ive not actually used that one for a while though as a few others set up that are only slightly not as good, but still really good, but much cheaper with bigger portions :D
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omg, I could so go for chinese right now!
Nigel, we shall be eating la takeaway of nomminess! :D
I still want to make rice krispie cakes to bring... and I really do need to ask my brother when he gets home from work! (:
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Ok, Chinese it is, Ill not get quite such many nibbles :D
Crispycake should be good, I will do some cheese straws, whichll wind my dad up as he loves em and he wont be here :D
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We all know Zpyder is into his tiny animals, insects are a good source of protein so he may add those to the menu :wink:
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Bit late to order some of them though. Wish Id have thought about that sooner :D
If anyone wants a culinary dare though they are welcome to eat a whole Scotch Bonnet Chilli pepper whilst we film it.
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T minus < 24 hours now.
Awesomeness.
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If anyone wants a culinary dare though they are welcome to eat a whole Scotch Bonnet Chilli pepper whilst we film it.
Usually Im game for a dare, I think this would be one Id regret though.
We have made rice krispy cakes today, they are refridgerating nicely now :bounce:
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Also! We will have a second 360 guitar and controller with us :)
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Awesome, tbh I forsee GH, Scene It, and Rayman tv party being the Order of the day. Maybe a film of some description during the nomming.
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Well, back from Tescos. We now have representatives from maybe a bit over half the contestants from the confectionary wars, there is cake (albeit a pre-made one), doritos and dips, there will be cheese straws in a mo when I get round to making them, and as my father is a bit of an alcoholic, a crapload (seriously) of drink. The offer still stands for crashage here, if people want to drink and not drive. Originally I was going to kick people out in the morning, but that was before I realised it was a bank holiday. Now it doesnt matter :D
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We both had a really good time today, its a shame we had to leave so early, I still feel stuffed! It would have been nice to have had a chance to get some cake and whatnot down us, maybe a few more games and a film. Great spread you put on for sure though. Top party really; everyone else missed out. :D
Nice to finally meet Pete too :ptu:
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Nice to see some faces from here, kinda sleepy but it was chilled and chilled is always good :)
Chris pm me your paypal addy for the £8 food money.
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I had fun today, it was rather awesome (:
I am a tired bean now though <(-_-)>
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Yeah, thanks for coming guys. Quite a chilled evening, but I guess wed have been hard pressed to get more peeps at such short notice!
The soup was pretty good too btw :D
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(http://www.zpyder.co.uk/forums/ubercake.jpg)
From memory it had:
3x different chocolate sponge layers
3 different chocolate goulash layers
Chocolate flakes
Chocolate holly leaf mouldings
grated plain,dark,white chocolate
white chocolate drops
chocolate fingers
Chocolate fudge icing
The only burger buns worthy of any form of use are the buns you get from greasy spoon/burger vans. Ive yet to find a supermarket that sells buns of the same quality sadly.
that is like porn to me!!