calling all newbies!!!

prozac · #1 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

I'd like to remind you that this:

http://www.fnk.ca/board/showthread.php?t=99445

is an open invitiation to anyone on fnk. It's a good opportunity to put some faces to the names and make yourself known. The thread is kind of long so you may want to skip to the last page. We're doing one tonight, and there's a bunch of people coming down. So show up and show your face.

mekim · #2 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

make that a little less surrey & i'll come for a drink one week.

#3 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

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Originally Posted by mekim

make that a little less surrey & i'll come for a drink one week.

By a little less Surrey, do you mean, not in Surrey?

hardstylin · #4 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

make it a little more surrey and ill come.

mojo · #5 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

if it being in surrey keeps the pretentious out then i saw you have the thing in surrey all the time.

Caps/\L0cK · #6 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

surrey = bleh

I only go down there when im in a car.. no sky training and bussing for me down there. Not a place a white man wants to be after 2 am if he stumbles acorss the wrong group of drunk people. Hell.. its not a place you want to be after 2 am no matter what you are.. period.. unless your in a large group.

Carrie · #7 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

I try to avoid going to surrey .

mekim · #8 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

surrey == way too far for me for a drink.

#9 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

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Originally Posted by mekim

surrey == way too far for me for a drink.

Anything east of Boundary is Surrey. Mike as far as I am concerned, you totally live in Whalley.

prozac · #10 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

lol it's as un-Surrey as Surrey gets. It is right at a skytrain station!

We have repeatedly asked complainers like you to suggest an alternative location and have had ZERO suggestions. Until one of you can come up with something better, suck it up and get on a train. :p

prozac · #11 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Caps/\L0cK

surrey = bleh

I only go down there when im in a car.. no sky training and bussing for me down there. Not a place a white man wants to be after 2 am if he stumbles acorss the wrong group of drunk people. Hell.. its not a place you want to be after 2 am no matter what you are.. period.. unless your in a large group.

what the hell?! we meet at a clean, well-run pub in a well-lit area in a nice new building about 150 meters from a skytrain station.

Carrie · #12 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

suggestions.. any downtown pub/lounge

morresey (sp)
doolins
library square
granville room
moxies
yaletown brewery
dix

#13 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

Quote:

Originally Posted by prozac

lol it's as un-Surrey as Surrey gets. It is right at a skytrain station!

We have repeatedly asked complainers like you to suggest an alternative location and have had ZERO suggestions. Until one of you can come up with something better, suck it up and get on a train. :p

The Frog and Firkin - Broadway and Cypress.

Carrie · #14 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

haven't been to the frog since grapes lived in that hood.

prozac · #15 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

I'd say no to library square (seating is not condusive to large groups) and moxie's (they'd want a reservation for a crew our size and we never know who's coming). I haven't been to any of the other places.

mekim · #16 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

it's two skytrains & a bus for me, thus the complaining. if i still lived in east van this would be way easier. do this one thursday somewhere downtown like steamworks or some shit & i'm in. hell, i'll go drink @ the cambie, it's been a while since i've been through those doors.

avana, i'm too close to an educational facility for you to be saying whalley. i know it's only sfu but it's something.

Carrie · #17 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

I wouldn't drink out of the taps at the cambie.

there is a watering hole almost everywhere.. there is no reason to drag people into surrey.

prozac · #18 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

I'll canvass the crew tonight. Some people come out from the burbs for this, so maybe a burnaby locale would be a good compromise?

edit: for mekim

and Carrie, no-one is dragging anybody. Ease up a little. It worked well in the summer so we kept it going. There a lot of reasons we chose that place, and any replacement will have to live up to those.

Carrie · #19 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

I've given up booze til easter, but if it's a wing night.. might consider coming out.

Just never to surrey.

#20 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

The Frog and Firkin has a back room that is private that accomodates large groups.

Mike - there is also an SFU in Surrey, ironically enough, right next to the pub that Prozac is talking about. No defense, sorry bud.

Carrie · #21 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

craving some beer and wings now.

nabs · #22 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

to the newbs, and people that want to come.

its usually a very lively crowd. lots of fun. very welcoming. good conversations all around. usually very chill but really really fun.

prozac · #23 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avana

The Frog and Firkin has a back room that is private that accomodates large groups.

how far from a train station? and would the room have to be booked? Sometimes there's 5 of us, sometimes there's 20.

mekim · #24 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

is there anywhere in burnaby to go for a couple rounds in a nice enough bar? i seriously haven't even been to a pub out here since i moved in october. i live in north burnaby though (notice: farther away from surrey than east van)

make it a wing night. i want to meet carrie so i can finally have the pleasure of saying hello to someone who's even more impossible about things than i am.

honestly, downtown is super easy for me due to the 135 bus route.

**sNyx** · #25 (**permalink**) Feb 22, 07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avana

By a little less Surrey, do you mean, not in Surrey?

I think he means New West or something.
ya know, the asshole of Surrey.