Day 4: Meet-up Day
The fourth day of the London meet was the actual day where everyone gets together. In the past, the meet was really this one day. However over time, its turned into a multi-day spectacle. Either way, the meet day is still the day where most of the people come out for. Particularly newcomers to this 'Im gonna go meet people from the internetz' thing. On with the show...
A new day starts, it was an unusually sunny day... the suns rays shinning over the dirty Thames.
NG Folks making their way over to the meeting point.
Luka and others riding the tube over to Waterloo
Off to the London Eye, the official meet point of NG London Meet
Harry made a wrong turn somewhere
Here is Coop83 recieving a can of baked beans from Tom himself, for being voted 2008's most underrated user
Tim Frommeyer and myself standing over the crowd of NG goers
featuring guest appearance by Domo
GROUP PICTURE TIME! I will do my best to tag everyone, but bare with me if I missed you!
Top Row (back): Lost-Chances, ChromeShark, JPI, Andersson, AlmightyHans, Kirk-Cocaine, Luis, NegativeONE, TommyLM
Middle Row: WassupAlphaPro, Gagsy, someone #2, TheHappySheep, Fat-barry, Super-Sense, MrAnarchy, Nogfish, The-Super-Flash-Bros(Tom), HappyHarry83, Liaaaam, The-Swain, Dry-Ice, TimFrommeyer, Coop83, TheThingy5, Eddsworld
Lower Row: TigerKitty, UnknownFury, Cally, CompanionCube, Morbid-giggle, The-EXP, jtm17, Kairyublack, Mogly, BananaBreadMuffin, Shalashaska-1, Dangan, Someone, Someone else (sorry).
Bottom Row: Scuzzfest, Ddsdhillon, Deckheadtottie, Bezman, TomFulp, Kaynslamdyke and The-Super-Flash-Bros(Dim)
You can see the full size version of this photo HERE
Top Row (back): Lost-Chances, ChromeShark, JPI, Andersson, AlmightyHans, Kirk-Cocaine, Luis, NegativeONE, TommyLM
Middle Row: WassupAlphaPro, Gagsy, someone #2, TheHappySheep, Fat-barry, Super-Sense, MrAnarchy, Nogfish, The-Super-Flash-Bros(Tom), HappyHarry83, Liaaaam, The-Swain, Dry-Ice, TimFrommeyer, Coop83, TheThingy5, Eddsworld
Lower Row: TigerKitty, UnknownFury, Cally, CompanionCube, Morbid-giggle, The-EXP, jtm17, Kairyublack, Mogly, BananaBreadMuffin, Shalashaska-1, Dangan, Someone, Someone else (sorry).
Bottom Row: Scuzzfest, Ddsdhillon, Deckheadtottie, Bezman, TomFulp, Kaynslamdyke and The-Super-Flash-Bros(Dim)
You can see the full size version of this photo HERE
Tom and all his brood again. FULL SIZE PHOTO HERE
Enough with the group photos, now we are inside Namco and its become a tradition to kick it off with bumper cars. English people call them Dodge'Ems for some reason
NegativeONE looks particularly pumped
The Super Flash Bros will fuck you up if you get in their way.
Heres an action shot of them.
Navigating through a Newgrounds traffic jam
Hans reaching out to his fans
The normally gentle The-EXP, turns savage when placed in a bumper car.
NegativeONE appears to be checking to see if his nipple is missing.
Im so lonely...
TheHappySheep and Mogly going out for a leisurely drive.
Back to road rage. Holy shit Fat-Barry looks like he's fearing for his life!
JPI and his beau, ChromeShark
...and its over.
Before heading downstairs, TimFrommeyer attempts to shock himself to death.
He doesnt appear to be getting very shocked.
Bezman was walking around taking pictures of peoples asses. He claimed it was for a game but maybe he just wanted ass photos
ANYWAYS, we all went downstairs and some people decided to bowl.
Dangan showin off his form
Poozy with his familiar mischevious look.
We pretty much took over all the lanes.
Meanwhile, me and Mike settled our differences on the DDR dancefloor. Mike is unstoppable, do not try and challenge him.
Wonchop is pretty good too
Fat-barry and CompanionCube also doing the DDR thing
Some other folks partaking in some air hockey.
After awhile, Bob arrived with some stickers and posters to give away
Hans had everyone sign one of the posters
Mike handing out some posters
The-Weebl gets caught by suprise
This is Luka
Lisa and her husband Chris arrive to Namco
Wonchop and his trademark goggles
One of the more well-known BBS regulars, Lost-chances
Lost-chances and BananaBreadMuffin showing off their own shooting skillz
That's quite an O-Face
2008 Tank Award Nominees The-Weebl and HappyHarry87
It was getting late and people were getting hungry so we started to make our way out of Namco, we would use this time to take our usual group picture with Big Ben in the background. In the past it was fairly non-eventful, this time with 60+ people it was a bit of a challenge
Heading out of Namco, and waiting for the rest of the gang to come out
And here they come now.
So our first attempt at a group photo was a fail because there was some tour guide guy that wouldnt move out of the way. He wouldnt let us move that sign either.
Poozy was getting pissed off and was about to beat him up so we decided we'd move to a new spot instead.
Our second attempt wasnt any better, we managed to move people over to a new spot, and just as we were ready, we had a beatboxing hobo come into the picture
He was pretty drunk.
We were able to distract the hobo briefly, and we finally managed to take a photo. FULL SIZE VERSION.
You can also find the caption of who's who courtesy of BananaBreadMuffin's submission HERE
You can also find the caption of who's who courtesy of BananaBreadMuffin's submission HERE
That drunk beatboxing hobo was still around even after taking the photo and someone slapped an NG sticker on his jacket which pissed him off.
He actually wanted to fight people, Dry-Ice stepped in to take him on. Being that Dry-Ice is such a big guy, we decided to just send the hobo on his way for his own safety.
Bezman taking a more diplomatic approach.
The holy Scuzzfest
Mogly recruited some new NG fans along the way. These guys are apparently royal guards according to Bob
After leaving the London Eye, we walked over to a place called the Walkabout for dinner
This is sziphix and Hans' hat, which makes a cameo appearance at every meet-up it seems.
Heading back to kareoke bar after dinner.
After Walkabout, everyone went back to the kareoke bar from the previous night. There was no kareoke set-up unfortunately but the place was big enough to hold our group so it was a no-brainer to go there.
Filing into the kareoke bar
The owner of the pub brought out a microphone so that we could sorta do kareoke. Bezman and Swain are Stayin' Alive
BananaBreadMuffin says: In a pub with perhaps three dozen buddies and you guys manage to end up surfing the web and looking depressed. Smooth.
Scuzzfest doing his impression of Bez
Hans enjoying the kareoke bar atmosphere
TimFrommeyer doing his impression of a hermit crab
This is me holding a beer and surveying the scene. FOR THE RECORD, people constantly buy me beers, it's not like I go out of my way to have a drink in every photo.
Nogfish representin the tough streets of Baltimore, Scuzzfest repin' the hard streets of England and ChromeShark lookin quite proper.
Shoes. oh and Luka
EviLDog needs a refill I think.
Someone trying to pet Burnzoid
Tom(SFB) arriving with his lady friend
Random shot of the pub scene.
We spotted another nerdling trying to deposit his points
The owner of the pub gave us a free bottle of champagne to celebrate the successful meet-up and also JPI's birthday, as well as my own.
For once I'm not holding a beer. Its champagne
Gathering people up for a speech...
BBM appears to be first in line for champagne.
I had some trouble opening the champagne...
So I got Poozy to open it
Not sure whats going on here.
I think Nogfish is using my nipple as a means of tunning into a radio station here
Shortly after the champagne and more mingling, the pub was closing up so we started to disband. Most people stuck around to hang out at the flat for a bit
Heading out and back to the flat
TheHappySheep wearing a fruit basket on his head, I think.
TheHappySheep wearing a fur hat with a NegativeONE attachment piece
Actually Bezman was going over a project he had been working on for a long time, to present to Tom
More of Tom playing with Bez's creation
...uhh yea.
Meanwhile, Kaynslamdyke and BBM rock out for the rest of us
Mike is pretty much good at any game he plays, Rockband is no exception
HappyHarry looking at something naughty
HappyHarry showing off in front of the big boss with his fancy tablet laptop.
And so Day 4 comes to an end much the way it started, with a view of the Thames. GOODNIGHT.
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