What's on? - Page 14

erithromycin · 28th August 2007, 10:42pm

Bottles are dangerous ground. Proper beers don't taste right out of them, by which I mean everything that isn't lager, really. Budweiser used to do a 500ml plastic bottle (unlike their standard glass 330), and I think you used to be able to get Stella Stubbies (250ml) that were in plastic. Hateful things, really, but you could carry four of them in a hand between your fingers.

Whatever happened to those shooters that had hook thingies on them so you could sit them on top of bottles or over the rim of glasses? The prospect of tesselating or interlocking pint glasses is a nice one. It'd be much easier to carry triangular pint glasses, I suspect, if their sides were textured to grip (little lines spaced such that they could interlock, or something). Inefficient in terms of volume, admittedly, but the golden triangle of pint carrying would allow you to transport four, rather than three pints.

You're right about coldness being a key component of lager though. It only tastes right when it's too cold to taste. As for the soft plastics, you're right that the danger is in them being pint to rim. I once saw some that extended about an inch above the line, which meant there was room for them to deform while being carried without spilling. I suspect they disappeared because they cost a fraction of a penny more than the ones that didn't. Beer through a straw just tastes wrong. I once met a guy called Sleazy Pete (he was called Pete, and he was sleazy) who drank Newcastle Brown Ale with ice cubes. It did affect the flavour, but not positively. Corona does well with lime, but if pressed it being a really hot day and pulling it from a cooler with ice in it will do. Though it helps to have lime to hand when barbecuing, as it makes chicken that you've grilled awesome.

erithromycin · 28th August 2007, 11:32pm

I've just figured out what it is about the QM's Freshers' Week page that annoyed me, which is that you've got to go back from each day to get to the next. It doesn't cost owt extra to have a link to the other days of the week on each day's page. Get that sorted, web monkeys.

Jon Ashley · 29th August 2007, 11:01pm

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Originally Posted by erithromycin

I've just figured out what it is about the QM's Freshers' Week page that annoyed me, which is that you've got to go back from each day to get to the next. It doesn't cost owt extra to have a link to the other days of the week on each day's page. Get that sorted, web monkeys.

I'm onto it now.

erithromycin · 30th August 2007, 1:17am

Now if only I could use my powers for good...

fuckin-yaldie · 30th August 2007, 9:29pm

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Originally Posted by djtoast

What I mean is, what specifically should the QM have done, in your view, in order to accomplish that?

I mean no offense by this, but everything you've said makes me think you don't understand the process involved. But I'm eager to hear any suggestions you have for what we might try doing, that we didn't.

I'm not sure given I have never been involved in the process of booking acts for a freshers week.

None taken and you're probably right, it still doesn't change my opinions on the subject (which I'm not going to repeat).

dil_em_ma · 30th August 2007, 11:00pm

I think half the problem here is that people keep saying "If i were a fresher, i would think this." But you're not a fresher and thus what you think about it doesn't have much relevance. As long as the people who actually are freshers are happy then that's all that matters.

Unfortunately there's not really any way of knowing what the freshers think until freshers' week itself. So those in charge have to do their best to organise the week to the best of their ability using past figures and building on experience and comments from previous weeks. Which i'm sure is exactly what the qm folk have done.

In the meantime though, there's really no point in complaining about the programme of events. What the current lot of freshers enjoy may be completely different from what you would enjoy. Equally there's bound to be huge variation in what the current lot of freshers enjoy, because obviously not every person is the same.

For example, at the start of my freshers week, i knew none of the acts and so went along with what my flatmates were doing for the first few nights. They loved those nights, i hated them. I then went along to a few club nights, saw the general atmosphere of the union and loved it. They eventually joined a union based on the bands they'd seen once and not the overall quality of the union. I joined a union because i liked the overall atmosphere and because at least one freshers helper had made the effort to talk to me whilst i was there. My flatmates and i all had different experiences and different levels of enjoyment because we all had our own likes and dislikes.

Ethel Small · 20th September 2007, 12:24am

Hay thought some of you nay sayers might want to know that freshers week's been awesome for the QM thus far. The freshers are amazing, well up for it

Despite being against big names, a hell of a lot of people prefer the atmosphere here, as we're selling the QM as apposed to a name.
Really happy, beating last years attendance by a long way I reckon. And it can only get better!
Big up the QM helpers as a lot of the success is down to them!
Woop

I've had really little sleep, I hope that made sense...

**djtoast** · 20th September 2007, 4:44am

i secretly did rather hope someone would take a photo of the crowd at GLC, with this thread in mind

liveross · 21st September 2007, 11:06am

I myself was at the QMU last night for the first time during the week, and had to admit, headphone disco was rather fun (and should be a regular addition to the weekly lineups guys..... please!).

I've been told that GUU have been at full capacity every night (extension, not just hive), meanwhile, I'd be happy to hear what the QMU figures have been.

Its been fun guys!

ally.h · 22nd September 2007, 4:50am

holy carp. this year has been fucking immense. cheesy was stunning. i am still glowing.

rock and fucking troll.

see you at rev.

al.

**djtoast** · 22nd September 2007, 5:05am

That was fun!

Well done everyone who made the week what it was: helpers, board members, or - most importantly - freshers!

Woop!

Stem · 22nd September 2007, 5:26am

I wish I was a fresher. Oh the innocence of youth.

the curiousity · 22nd September 2007, 12:36pm

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Originally Posted by djtoast

i secretly did rather hope someone would take a photo of the crowd at GLC, with this thread in mind

I was at GLC, recording it for Subcity, and the crowd was fairly respectable considering the HUGE beuw neuw it had been given by nearly all the people i'd mentioned it to.

I think the Silent Disco would have been more fun if there were more playlists on the go.

ally.h · 23rd September 2007, 4:52pm

i put my ipod in instead.

al.

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