Where are they now? (Past Ferners)
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amateurs - when choosing where to live one important consideration should always be that it is the end of a railway line
I did wake up in a Parisian marshalling yard one night and got chased by security dogs as I tried to find my way out - but at least Paris was my destination.
Lots of great memories being dredged up here. I remember joining after Brendan Telfer gave the Fern a shout out on his RS show amongst a review of kiwi sports forums.
My first post was in appreciation of a Frank Bunce comment about England. @MvJ was witheringly contemptuous of my post
Didn't he indirectly start the whole Fitness Forum when he decided to post about a New Years resolution to lose weight and started diarising his efforts?I do remember a lot of the posters here seemed very young - students or on OE etc and now they're older than I was when I joined
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@jegga I could never fall asleep on a train, can barely sleep on long haul plane trips (do well if I get 2 hours on the 26 hour leg between London/Auckland)...I cant even fall asleep on the damn couch
Used to amuse me watching people sleep on the Underground though, how thier internal clock did it's job to wake them at the right stop.
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@taniwharugby said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@jegga I could never fall asleep on a train, can barely sleep on long haul plane trips (do well if I get 2 hours on the 26 hour leg between London/Auckland)...I cant even fall asleep on the damn couch
Used to amuse me watching people sleep on the Underground though, how thier internal clock did it's job to wake them at the right stop.
I think I'd rather have my teeth pulled than catch a tube again.
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@taniwharugby said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@jegga I could never fall asleep on a train, can barely sleep on long haul plane trips (do well if I get 2 hours on the 26 hour leg between London/Auckland)...I cant even fall asleep on the damn couch
Used to amuse me watching people sleep on the Underground though, how thier internal clock did it's job to wake them at the right stop.
I can only assume you don't drink...or enough!
The amount of times I found myself being woken up in Morden - South London was ridiculous. Nothing as comfy to sleep in as a warm underground train after 8 pints and a dodgy kebab.
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@Hooroo said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@jegga said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Smudge said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Bones said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Smudge said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
I recall meeting @dingo at a pre-Xmas Ferners do in 2008. He had an interesting choice of shirt, if I remember correctly.
What was the year we had Xmas drinks? I'll always remember the year we met in the loo...
That same year, I think? We met at Four Kings, possibly? Or maybe the Establishment. That was a lot of nights ago. I managed to fall asleep on the train out to Ava (Lower Hutt), and woke up 6 stops later at Pomare & alighted without my wallet. Not ideal...
I hate falling asleep on the train, I half drunkenly crashed out on the way home from a canes game and when we pulled into Paraparaumu the guard said “ wake up mate , we just pulled into Napier”.
fluffybunny .That's a good kip though mate!
I have done London Bridge out to Chislehurst and woke up at Seven Oaks and then fell back asleep all the way back to London Bridge on last train. Gutted
I have a similar story as I did the Central line end to end. Hopped on fell asleep, got to one end, hopped on train going other way and then fell asleep again.
I would have been screwed if it wasn't a line that terminated at both ends.
I think I was going from Bank to Oxford Circus too which IIRC is only a couple of stops.
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@Nepia said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Hooroo said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@jegga said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Smudge said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Bones said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Smudge said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
I recall meeting @dingo at a pre-Xmas Ferners do in 2008. He had an interesting choice of shirt, if I remember correctly.
What was the year we had Xmas drinks? I'll always remember the year we met in the loo...
That same year, I think? We met at Four Kings, possibly? Or maybe the Establishment. That was a lot of nights ago. I managed to fall asleep on the train out to Ava (Lower Hutt), and woke up 6 stops later at Pomare & alighted without my wallet. Not ideal...
I hate falling asleep on the train, I half drunkenly crashed out on the way home from a canes game and when we pulled into Paraparaumu the guard said “ wake up mate , we just pulled into Napier”.
fluffybunny .That's a good kip though mate!
I have done London Bridge out to Chislehurst and woke up at Seven Oaks and then fell back asleep all the way back to London Bridge on last train. Gutted
I have a similar story as I did the Central line end to end. Hopped on fell asleep, got to one end, hopped on train going other way and then fell asleep again.
I would have been screwed if it wasn't a line that terminated at both ends.
I think I was going from Bank to Oxford Circus too which IIRC is only a couple of stops.
Yeah - I woke up somewhere on tube, with no fucking idea where it even was once... caught a taxi home, realised halfway I had no wallet, gave them my phone as "collateral",
Nek morning, after I figured out I had some NZ bank cards to get cash, and paid for the guy to bring my phone back, discovered that feature in Google Maps of "where have I been".I live in Barbican. I'd been drinking a 10 minute walk south of my place. The evidence suggests I'd (for some reason) gotten on a bus to Brixton, then woken up, caught a tube... to Walthamstow? I think? And then the taxi back home.
And with a vague memory of jumping the barrier at either one or both ends of the tube journey... presumably having lost the wallet already.
Should have been a catalyst to take a good long hard look at myself, and my life. But judging from the last couple of weeks... I seem to have ignored it. -
@Rembrandt ha nope, just cant sleep on them...drink or no.
Maybe when I had a drink it was a fear of not waking for my stop? I've just never really been able to sleep anywhere other than a bed.
My first night in London was after a couple hours of broken sleep on the plane from NZ, shower and straight into Covent Garden for a long session of drinking with my mates...at about 11pm I had lost my mates (may have been a chicks fault) and still managed to get on the right train (Metroline) and get off at the right station!
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@raznomore said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@MN5 said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
Is old mate @raznomore still around?
I love his work.....particularly in the boxing threads.
Don't call it a comeback! I've been here for years.
Fuck you. You're an anteater.
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I decided to do less stuff on my devices and PC and more stuff in the "real world".
My son has become quite the little bballer so that takes a lot of my time. Im not on tinder or grindr like MN5 :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: my wife is still my wife....barely
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@Smudge said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Bones said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Smudge said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
I recall meeting @dingo at a pre-Xmas Ferners do in 2008. He had an interesting choice of shirt, if I remember correctly.
What was the year we had Xmas drinks? I'll always remember the year we met in the loo...
That same year, I think? We met at Four Kings, possibly? Or maybe the Establishment. That was a lot of nights ago. I managed to fall asleep on the train out to Ava (Lower Hutt), and woke up 6 stops later at Pomare & alighted without my wallet. Not ideal...
Oh yeah I was actually living in the UK then but was back in nz just before Xmas. Four Kings sounds about right, for some reason I think I have a vague recollection of electric avenue?
Anyway not as bad as my mate - went to the 7s at twickers, he lived in North London, got on a train and woke up in Brighton, after midnight.
@Nepia what lines don't terminate at the end of the line?
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@Bones said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
Anyway not as bad as my mate - went to the 7s at twickers, he lived in North London, got on a train and woke up in Brighton, after midnight.
Are you sure ... ? Does he often look at you funny, especially when in rugby shorts?
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@MajorRage said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Bones said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
Anyway not as bad as my mate - went to the 7s at twickers, he lived in North London, got on a train and woke up in Brighton, after midnight.
Are you sure ... ? Does he often look at you funny, especially when in rugby shorts?
Everyone does.
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@Bones said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Smudge said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Bones said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Smudge said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
I recall meeting @dingo at a pre-Xmas Ferners do in 2008. He had an interesting choice of shirt, if I remember correctly.
What was the year we had Xmas drinks? I'll always remember the year we met in the loo...
That same year, I think? We met at Four Kings, possibly? Or maybe the Establishment. That was a lot of nights ago. I managed to fall asleep on the train out to Ava (Lower Hutt), and woke up 6 stops later at Pomare & alighted without my wallet. Not ideal...
Oh yeah I was actually living in the UK then but was back in nz just before Xmas. Four Kings sounds about right, for some reason I think I have a vague recollection of electric avenue?
Anyway not as bad as my mate - went to the 7s at twickers, he lived in North London, got on a train and woke up in Brighton, after midnight.
@Nepia what lines don't terminate at the end of the line?
The Circle line?
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@Catogrande terminates at Tower Hill doesn't it?
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@Bones said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@Catogrande terminates at Tower Hill doesn't it?
It can do (and others from memory) but in reality there is no terminus. Funny story, a guy I knew went up to London for the first time for an interview and got on the circle line going the wrong way round and though "Oh well, it's the Circle Line, it will get me there". Which of course it did just two hours late for the interview.
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@raznomore said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
I decided to do less stuff on my devices and PC and more stuff in the "real world".
My son has become quite the little bballer so that takes a lot of my time. Im not on tinder or grindr like MN5 :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: my wife is still my wife....barely
geez have i got some stories for you guys.
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@MN5 said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@raznomore said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
I decided to do less stuff on my devices and PC and more stuff in the "real world".
My son has become quite the little bballer so that takes a lot of my time. Im not on tinder or grindr like MN5 :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: my wife is still my wife....barely
geez have i got some stories for you guys.
We keep touching on it...but surely we need a dedicated tinder story thread on the fern. The topic sometimes comes up on Blokes Advice and its just hilarious
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@MN5 said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@raznomore said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
I decided to do less stuff on my devices and PC and more stuff in the "real world".
My son has become quite the little bballer so that takes a lot of my time. Im not on tinder or grindr like MN5 :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: my wife is still my wife....barely
geez have i got some stories for you guys.
Fark, I was on it for only six months and could write a book. Bet you could make a Netflix series!
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@Rembrandt said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@MN5 said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
@raznomore said in Where are they now? (Past Ferners):
I decided to do less stuff on my devices and PC and more stuff in the "real world".
My son has become quite the little bballer so that takes a lot of my time. Im not on tinder or grindr like MN5 :face_with_stuck-out_tongue_winking_eye: my wife is still my wife....barely
geez have i got some stories for you guys.
We keep touching on it...but surely we need a dedicated tinder story thread on the fern. The topic sometimes comes up on Blokes Advice and its just hilarious
Feel free to start.
Those of us too scared to have a midlife crisis expect to be entertained...
