Mr Davy goes to Manchester
May. 2nd, 2006 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sunday, 11am.
Me: Good lord, why on earth is my hotel bill this steep?
Receptionist: Well, sir...
Me: Oh, no, it's okay. I remember.
So it was that I spent another couple of days in a swanky hotel in Manchester. As I'm poverty striken* I can't afford to do this more than once every few months and I do like to get my money's worth.
On Friday,
neilhist,
vulgarcriminal,
tooth_fairy and I went to ARA, which was just as good as the locals had led to me believe: I danced like a thing possessed** and Tiffany was propositioned for hot botty-sex right now by a drunken toothless man, an offer to which she gave due consideration.
Saturday involved me wandering round the Manchester museum, gazing at the T-Rex skeleton and trying to blag my way onto the under-8's tour complete with sweets and games before luring an unsuspecting Jeni to my room with the classic chat-up line "Do you want to come back to my place and watch Doctor Who?"
After that it was off to the bar and
jillys with Neil, Jeni and a random hot chick. Jillys was as poor as is becoming traditional - a combination of Gary Numan playing that night and it being the first week back for students meant the the club was full of a) 19 year old students givin' it attitude and b) the aging rocker char-a-banc trip. Musically this was odd because it meant the playlist for the evening was a combination of Green Day and 'classic rock' complete with 15-minute guitar solos***, neither of which really gets me going. However, I did run (well, flail uncordinatedly) into
ginger_jamie on the dancefloor, which was odd as I haven't seen him in years. He seems to be turning into Fred Durst, which I'm not sure I approve of.
Finally, after managing to lever myself out of bed on Sunday before the late checkout tariff kicked in, I got myself on a train back to London. Upgrading to first class, I found I was sharing a carriage with both current Doctor Who David Tennant and newsreader Jon Snow (who spent most of the trip sitting directly behind me talking very loudly about his recent sailing trip). Texting my female friends to let them know I was surrounded by lush TV man-flesh I was surprised to discover how many of them fancy Jon Snow over the Doctor.
Oh, and I went to see Silent Hill but that deserves a review of it's own.
And tonight I'm off to see the Sisters of Mercy. It's like the 90's never happened in my little world.
*(c)Oxfam
**Would it be more appropriate to say 'Like David before the Lord'?
***I didn't know anyone still owned a copy of 'Rainbow rising'. Except me, obviously.
Me: Good lord, why on earth is my hotel bill this steep?
Receptionist: Well, sir...
Me: Oh, no, it's okay. I remember.
So it was that I spent another couple of days in a swanky hotel in Manchester. As I'm poverty striken* I can't afford to do this more than once every few months and I do like to get my money's worth.
On Friday,
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Saturday involved me wandering round the Manchester museum, gazing at the T-Rex skeleton and trying to blag my way onto the under-8's tour complete with sweets and games before luring an unsuspecting Jeni to my room with the classic chat-up line "Do you want to come back to my place and watch Doctor Who?"
After that it was off to the bar and
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Finally, after managing to lever myself out of bed on Sunday before the late checkout tariff kicked in, I got myself on a train back to London. Upgrading to first class, I found I was sharing a carriage with both current Doctor Who David Tennant and newsreader Jon Snow (who spent most of the trip sitting directly behind me talking very loudly about his recent sailing trip). Texting my female friends to let them know I was surrounded by lush TV man-flesh I was surprised to discover how many of them fancy Jon Snow over the Doctor.
Oh, and I went to see Silent Hill but that deserves a review of it's own.
And tonight I'm off to see the Sisters of Mercy. It's like the 90's never happened in my little world.
*(c)Oxfam
**Would it be more appropriate to say 'Like David before the Lord'?
***I didn't know anyone still owned a copy of 'Rainbow rising'. Except me, obviously.
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Date: 2006-05-02 09:29 am (UTC)No Barney impression, curse you
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Date: 2006-05-02 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 09:54 am (UTC)my mum thinks I'm a dirty stop out btw, I blame you :p
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Date: 2006-05-02 09:55 am (UTC)Fingers crossed it's better than the last (very, very quiet) one.
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:07 am (UTC)I'm sure it'll be good.
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Date: 2006-05-02 09:55 am (UTC)Didn't you take the opportunity to kill him so the Doctor can be recasty? Or at least maim him horribly in some way?
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Date: 2006-05-02 09:59 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-02 10:05 am (UTC)Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
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Date: 2006-05-02 12:51 pm (UTC)So long as the Doctor doesn't end up with an "H" bolted to his forehead, or his acting skills are worse than his IMDB listing suggests, I think he'll do fine.
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-02 01:14 pm (UTC)Of course, you saw that one over a year ago. The wound in time with the bacteria that are cleansing it / eating the Doctor.
Then again, compared to most American TV, it could be utter crap and we'd eat it up sheerly out of comparison.
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Date: 2006-05-03 05:11 pm (UTC)You evil, evil man!
You see this? *points to unidentifiable visceral mass on the floor*
That's my ego, that is!!!
;-P