EgoFF: Edinbugger Meat Up (picture heavy)
EgoFF: The Edinbugger Meat-Up 2008
Edinburgh meetups aren't like most meetups - they don't last just a day or two. Ranging between one and two weeks, roughly four to six people can be there at any time and you really get to know each other. Sometimes a little too well... but anyway! Previous visitors include Squally Leonharty, MsTiffie (aka Lenna), Shauna, Brian The Pink Shark (aka Squinn), Chaos, smittenkitten (duh) and of course Dan (aka DK) was a regular inhabitant of my flat during previous Augusts. However! In 2007 nobody came, so I made certain that people would be here in 2008. And they were! This year's victims were Jess, Psychotic and Levian who joined smittenkitten and yours truly in my new flat, freshly revamped and cleaned to perfection (until a bit before the first of them arrived, and it only got worse from then on). Anyway, I know you don't give a crap about this crap so onto the point.
7th August, 2008: Jess arrives at Edinbugger Airport
We met Jess at the airport a fair while after she arrived, because my incredible sofa ate my wallet. She had told us she'd be shy for a day or so while she got to know us, but I assure you we made her more uncomfortable than she could have ever dreamed of from the moment we finally found her at the taxi stand. The awkwardness wore off quickly, though, and soon enough we were talking about all sorts of evil things we intended on doing to Psy once he arrived.
She settled into the place quickly enough and the girls got ready to go clubbing, looking at all corners of the internet for prospective places to get well and truly hammered. Which they did. Here's what Danielle and Jess look like when drunk. Well, at least, here are the pictures they'll let you see of what they look like when drunk. There were about ten to fifteen of them but after they cut all the ones where they "looked fat" in or "had spots" in or "looked TOO drunk" in or whatever, I got three with the stamp of approval.
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Apparently at one point there was nobody on the dancefloor and they went anyway, like any true pair of drunk girls in a club would. Also, I swear they could be sisters. There were times where I sat behind them in the bus and it was freaky because they looked identical...
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Mmmmmmm. Yummy.
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Obligatory mirrored flash photo from club bathroom.
Hot. ^____^ I watched Apocalypse Now while they were out and was nearly asleep by the time they got back at 2am in the morning, but they made up for it in their own ways. Jess and Danielle had intended on bunking together in the other room so they could be drunk and giggly and gossip or something, but I insisted that Danielle sleep in the same bed as me. So, as a compromise, Jess slept with us. Yes, guys, this is how you do it. :aimsun:
8th August, 2008: Psy arrives at Edinbugger Airport
We met Psy at the airport in the city at the bus stop outside the door of our flat in the stairwell at the door when he came in the door about 20 minutes after he came in the door. xD We were tired! We didn't wanna get out of bed! So after he spent a while chatting to random people on Danielle's IM list Danielle finally gave in and headed out to stop that Psychotic guy. That night, we got drunk. I mean, they got drunk before I did. The girls, that is (Psy doesn't drink much, as it turns out). I was confused, I had a fair amount of drink and didn't feel a thing. I was perfectly sober-acting and everything, so the girls encouraged me to down more whisky from the bottle. I gave in eventually and had some...
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My camera is awesome - when you drink, it takes photos as if it was drunk, too!
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...Satan?
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*non-stop repetitive kissing noises*
...and some more. Eventually they decided to hide the bottle but made the terrible mistake of TELLING me that they had done so. At this point I got Psy beneath me (oh shut up) and growled "WHERE'S THE DRINK?" and he told me. I was a true drunk! :smash: Oh, it felt wonderful. Until I felt sick. And was. Urk. I said I'd never drink again and despite having gone along later on with the suggestion of everyone getting drunk on the last night, I couldn't bring myself to do it as, even a week later, I felt sick when smelling the alcomohol. Whoof. Of course, I wasn't the only drunk one. See these two?
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Danielle loves to seduce people when drunk. Clearly, it works.
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...Nice.
Well, the one on the left of the pictures for some reason told me to hit Psy (I don't even remember why) so I did. Many times! Right in the arm. It didn't feel like I was doing much damage at the time but we found out later that I have diseased hands or something. That, and I'm a brutal artist.
9th August, 2008: Recovery Day
My very first hangover. I... urgh. Next!
10th August, 2008: Lev arrives at Glasgow Prestwick airport, and then (eventually) at Edinburgh Waverley train station
I believe the text message went something along the lines of "The pretty lady told me to get on the train so who am I to disobey her? Waverley, yes?" I think he left a line of broken hearts from Glasgow to Edinburgh and many girls were visibly flustered as they got off the train. Eventually we saw why. I groped his butt and then Psy and I directed him over to where the girls were seated, guarding him carefully in case they threw themselves upon him and broke his back. Yes, people. He Is That Hot.
I can't be arsed remembering the timeline for the rest of it so here are a bunch of pictures taken while Jess and Danielle got drunk each night, tried to get us all drunk, we went to random pubs, restaurants, comedy shows, bars, hiked up mountains, went for walks in the rain, played Halo 3 and some Wii games, blasted loud music that Psy didn't like, frolicked down the streets, groped each other, slept with each other, danced, experienced hangovers, got phoned by Baloki (from Denny's, apparently!), watched movies, ate food (and mayonnaise, oh god, the mayonnaise... x_x), had 'iSketch wars', scarred Zeldy and Rye for life, got lost in the city, went to local bars during the late hours to appease the girl's desperate need for alcomohol, lectured Jess on smoking, abused Psy, stroked Lev, ran away from wasps and bees, woke up in awkward positions, carried each other around the flat/city and other such random things that you do when you spend more than enough time to REALLY get to know each other. Pictures, go!
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Drunk once again, camera could barely pull his eyes from the nearby hotties.
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Jess downs another pint
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The chewing gum that some poor Norwegian chap sat on, extending it halfway across the bar when he went to get another drink - eventually it was me who went and told him about his new 'tail'. Lev: "I'm never coming to Edinburgh again!"
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I think I was sulking, I forget why. Sober, btw. Oddly no pics of drunk BoB this time around.
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Oh, yeah, Lev! There he is! Getting a nice British welcome to the country. And LOVING IT. Lev: "Is nice!"
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Lev and I, rockin' out on Princes Street. Yes, that is exactly what we were doing. :shifty:
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Remember how I said that I hit Psy a few times? It was Jess' fault. Anyway, here's my artwork. It's actually kind of pretty. Like the kind of space photos you see in books and stuff.
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Danielle and Psy, making their usual faces.
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I don't know why but I just love this picture. It's perfect.
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Having taught Lev the definition of 'flacid' recently, we decided to give him some "see fig 1." kind of science-book pictures... only live!
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fig. 2
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This is what Jess looks like when she's pissed off.
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This is what Psy looks like when he's pissed off.
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This is what Lev looks like when he's pissed off.
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This is perfect for one of those "create a caption" kind of things, so you guys can all come up with comments for this one! No matter what I come up with, it doesn't seem good enough.
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Danielle: "Oh, Daniel. xD Get your hands off! ^______^"
Daniel: Wheeeeee!
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Danielle, ten minutes later: *sigh*
Daniel, ten minutes later: Wheeeeee!
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Jess spent many many hours drunk showing us through the photos on her Facebook, and the photos on her friend's facebooks, and... well, this is probably what Psy thinks of it all when she goes on Facebook now on.
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A few days later, still no change. Whoops.
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Danielle liked taking pictures of Psy while he cleaned up stuff. The amount of alcohol abuse my carpet suffered from during that week was insane.
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Lev trying out a Scotch pie, I believe. Psy continues his game and Jess smiles for the camera (without showing teeth).
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Dennis the Menace of Beano fame checks out Eyes on Final Fantasy.
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Jess sent many MANY text messages while over here. Note: Teeth.
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We point out that we got her to smile with teeth in a picture, she immediately hides them for the next one.
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EgoFF, the manufactured pop band coming to a music store near YOU.
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You know what we're all lookin' at.
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A less squishy photo of the five of us.
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Jess hiding her teeth again. We'll get her, I tells ya.
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This is around the point that you can sort of see the realisation on her face that we're not going to stop this anytime soon.
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I get the feeling this will end up edited to include a big fat 'WTF' on it somewhere and posted all over the internet.
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Me lookin' grinny.
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Me... uh. Running out of ideas for captions. Watch them go short as I lose patience for this thing. Do you have any idea how much time I've spent getting these photos from Lev and Jess, sorting through them to ensure they're all "postable" according to the girls and then typing the whole thing up? Aaaages. So yeah.
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That's hot.
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GRR.
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NOOGIE NOOGIE NOOGIE! Ah, true love.
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Danielle was hungry, we were out of decent food. I was... nostrilly.
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Danielle turns the camera on Lev.
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But he's ready for her!
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Ahahahhahahahahahahaha I don't even know what photo this was. Whatever it was, it was HILARIOUS. And probably not deemed postable by one or both of the girls. D'oh!
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Then we all got back to playing our favourite game: Get a photo of Jess while she's smilling and showing her teeth. Yes, with three different cameras. SHE HAD TO BREAK.
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But alas, those lips were sealed. Bahaha, we got some of them nashers in them cams anyway.
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I don't even KNOW.
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Psy never really got out of the Gang Wars.
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I think we were looking at my extensive collection of Jennifer Ellison pictures. Over 500, in case you're wondering. We LIKE Jennifer Ellison, we do.
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High five!
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And later, we began our lovely trek around Holyrood Park / Arthur's Seat.
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It's pretty.
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More pretty pics.
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The water had overflowed - you might see the brown kind of line beneath the water where the lake should end. Danielle started taking pics of swans around now.
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Lev started taking pics of us taking pics of swans.
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The swans soon began to take over, and refused to let the pigeons get in on their act. Smurf off, pidgey! *bite*
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Danielle / Lev's pics of swans.
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We were going to go up the normal direct-to-the-peak route but it was barred by a puddle surrounded by gorse bushes. After considering carrying over Jess and her impractical footwear, we opted to just go around the peak instead of straight up it. But! We still got to see the lake up the top which I love. [img]http://home.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/heart.gif[/img]
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Ain't it a pretty one? And that's the Firth of Forth and Fife off in the distance.
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We rested by the lake. Lev sat as far away from that queer guy at the other end of the seat as was possible.
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Whee.
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Hmm.
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Pineapples.
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Danielle told us to put our hands in the air! So Lev points, Psy gives the thumbs up, I put my hands in the air and Jess goes "eh".
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Another shot from the mountain.
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And then the midgeys attacked! :( They were quite keen on the girls, which is easily explained as they're attracted to things that are hot. In the end, I handed Danielle her Kermit hoodie and Jess had to make do with my jacket. Lev, naturally, laughed and took photos.
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The ruins near the original lake, from the other side!
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Seriously, the other day there were two swans sitting on the road near my work and they had a little makeshift diversion around them and everything.
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As I said, I couldn't drink on the last night, despite trying to get to the point I could stomach the smell. Instead, I played the balancing game.
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This isn't even all of the drink we went through that week. But it gives you an idea.
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See!? We're okay. ^_____________________________________^
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Jess continues to hide from the camera to the very end.
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But we got her back(side).
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???
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:)
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:)
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Jess' flight was delayed by 20 minutes. My reaction was to laguht at her immensely about how we had captured her for even longer. They just played air hockey after we got a text from Psy saying he got through security in 3 minutes, though.
And to finish off, the pictures we took of Jess hiding from the camera.
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And that's all I got energy for. United are playing Pompy, screw you all!
TOPIC: Ask us questions to do with what we 'found out' about each other while there. Or something. I dunno. We probably can't tell you the half of it anyways. >=]
