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Yay! Home and dry!

Well, home and and dry yesterday, but the sandman could not be held at bay any longer.

Pictures and videos coming soon...INCLUDING:

Scotch and Grundislav vs Wii!
Trees!
Fun at the local!
Trees!
Annie in a post-office!
TREES!
Plus Pablo, CJ, DaveGilbert, Creed_Malay, SinSin, Fuzzpilz, Hajo, m0ds, Hotspot, Magintz, etc, etc, etc.

Thanks to AGA for sheltering me from the elements/reality/death, and to all the Britteneers for being so welcoming and downright funky.

A special thanks to Ruby and Bonnie for redefining the term "smelly", but making up for it by being teh cute.

Yay!

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TREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

EDIT: But everything pales in comparison to the glory that is teh Zooty!!! THANK YOU ZOOTY!!! YOU COMPLETE ME!11!

Looks like people may have some trouble coming back from Brittens:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6256204.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/world/europe/30britain.html?ex=1340856000&en=aa23e43bac1f321c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Doesn't something like this happen every year when Brittens is on? What are you guys doing over there? :P

Back from Brittens and it was great fun (too bad about the foot problem I may need to see a doc about it)
Some of the highlights were:

• Everyone bar Me, DaveG and Annie Climbing Mount Garth at Midnight Lol
  
• The Big Blue Cup of Barry Island
  
• Grundislavs Wii Bowling strike dance (you had to be there)
  
• Bonnie and Ruby (the dogs) getting into smelly mischief
  
• Ruby constantly walking around a table in the living room where the food was, Back into the hallway and then returning to walk around the table. (This was repeated at least 60 times We all laughed.
  

Thanks go to everyone for being so welcoming on my first Brittens,
And a another Thank you goes to AGA for letting us all stay at his cool house.
P.S The Joke book in the bathroom was a Gass.
Regarding the airport issue, I dont think it should be too much of a problem as its out bound and the guys who are going back all have their proper papers.

You are welcome limpingfish.


Oh, you didnt thank ME.


I am home safely after brittens, i didnt take any photos but i was in lots. It was great fun, i look forward to seeing the aftermath and seeing all of you people (except limpingfish) next year! :P

Oh, noes! How could I have forgotten teh Zooty?! :-[

LimpingFish stabs himself in the brain with a Q-Tip.

I know, I can sneakily edit my last post to include him! Fish, you genius!

¬¬

I am not yet home safely. Still at Stansted airport. I was stupid enough to miss my flight so I had to buy another ticket which cost me like 400 euros. I hate myself so much right now... Oh well. I'll be home tomorrow.

...

I hope. :P

Welcome home guys, I'm sorry I missed it this year too. More photos please!

i will post the link to mine when i'm home, that's monday evening/night.

Pablo made it back to Finland, in fact, he's sitting on my couch right now!

Yay.

Quote from: Pablo on Sun 01/07/2007 00:34:36
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Still at Stansted airport. I was stupid enough to miss my flight so I had to buy another ticket which cost me like 400 euros.
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Dude, you got ripped off!

Glad to hear you made it safe, Pablo. :)

I wonder how the Brittens people who decamped to London are getting on? Seems a bit mad there at the moment. :-\

Well I'm meeting up with the London-going crew tomorrow, and there's been no change of plans so I'm certain everything is fine.  All London-based transport is a-okay at the moment, and no terror alerts are going to stop me going into the city.  It's pointless changing your plans because of a vauge critical threat level, so I wouldn't give one moments thought to it.

Awww Pablo as if they charged you that much dude
Im sorry for the missed flight
I myself came home to bedlam it all started on the M6 which took me 6 hrs to travel up 10mph all the Way (sigh)
I then got home to My internet being completely demolished it wouldnt work in the least
(Apart from in Safe mode with networking )  Sorted it now though

Thanks again to AGA For Hosting A great BRITTENS

Here are my badly taken pictures. Try not to enjoy them too much:

http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/

Some of the captions are by me, most by Petteri. Because I'm lazy.

Yay! Photos!  :D

Boo! I look fat and scary :(

So was the raft seaworthy? Creed was so determined to build it.

It sailed, and people got on it, one at a time. Apparently no-one was brave enough to go any distance down the river on it though.

Yay Photos   . Dam I missed the Pub Armwrestling competition

Quote from: Petteri on Sun 01/07/2007 19:13:36
Pablo made it back to Finland, in fact, he's sitting on my couch right now!

Call the police. They will take him away.

Great pics, pab!  Remind me never to get my picture taken after getting smoke in my eyes. 

Seems like you had excellent time and I'm sorry I couldn't be THERE (internet magic isn't quite as good as actually being there!) Time to start saving every extra penny from now on, I'd be mad to spend another summer without attending any AGS meets!

Pablo is still asleep (he has slept for like 12 hours already) and I'm done with uploading his videos. Here they are:

"And this is London!" (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/thisislondon.avi)
No idea what's doing on (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/noideawhatsgoingon.avi)
Walking (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/walking.avi)
Stupid dog (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/stupiddog.avi)
Dogfight! (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/dogfight.avi)
DaveGilbert fails at deleting a file (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/deletingafile.avi)
Top secret material from Ben Jordan 6! (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/bj6sneakpeek.avi)
Flying the kite (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/kite.avi)
Video games cause violent behaviour (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/violentbehaviour.avi)
Grundislav chasing CJ (http://www.yadapops.com/photos/pablobrit2007/video/grundychasescj.avi)

(if some of those don't work properly, let me know and I'll upload again. I had to pause and resume the upload process a couple of times)

Hmmm, a "BJ" cursor... I wonder what action THAT does when you click on NPCs?

Back from Brittens! It was awesome :D Now I have to work to get out of debt, but I will write up my thoughts & post my pictures later. YAY for the RAFT! I wonder where it is...

Here is a short list of stuff what was left behind in my house:

various foodstuffs (including the untouched pineapple)
Zoot's iPod sleeve
CJ's miner's headlamp
Davy's sleeping bag (which apparently he no longer wants)
Davy's Nokia phone charger
various toiletries
everything scotch has ever owned

I found this bunch of people wandering around London. (http://dasjoe.de/~becky/Post-Brittens/)

Here (http://ags-meetings.americangirlscouts.org/?s=prevyears&y=2007&e=brittens&i=quotes) are this year's quotes.

I left behind a packet of Foxes Classic chocolate bars, three slices of Edam cheese, two crusty baps, and my dignity.

When can I expect them to be returned?

I ate it all. Your dignity, that is. You can have the rest back.

You left behind the Fox's!? DAMN! I wanted to eat some of those! :P

I am also back. Thanks to AGA for hosting, but no thanks to Ruby for pissing all over the place; t'was a good laugh as always.

Nice pics, Pablo and Becky! Mine are here:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/brittens2007/

And now, bed!

awesome pictures everyone, cant wait for the rest of them and grundys videos to turn up at some point!

http://dasjoe.de/fotos/brittens/index.php?a=Brittens%202007

I was at Brittens too! (http://dasjoe.de/fotos/brittens/?a=Brittens%202007&b=393)

Quote from: Petteri on Tue 03/07/2007 01:30:53
I was at Brittens too! (http://dasjoe.de/fotos/brittens/?a=Brittens%202007&b=393)

that looks rather... pornographic. :=

Fun pics people! :D

I just arrived home a couple of hours ago.

Thanks to CJ for letting me stay over for the first two nights. Thanks to AGA for seeing all the trouble of hosting Brittens. Thanks to Petteri for letting me stay over after Brittens.

Thanks to everyone else for being so awesome. :D

Awesmoe photos, Hajo.

I still look like a big hairy killer, though. :(

I have arrived home, safe and sound.  I took very few pictures, but a whole lot of video....so much I'm considering making a DVD!

I'll get some stuff up over the next few days, right now bed...and then back to work!

EDIT: Here are all 20 of my pictures!

http://www.grundislavgames.com/brittens07 (http://www.grundislavgames.com/brittens07)

I still have to watch all my video and edit it, so that'll be a few more days.

Glad you made it back safely Grundy! And everyone else... it was good to meet you again, and everyone new! I will put my pictures up soon. Luckily there aren't many lol so it might happen before Christmas :p

Yar!  Back.  After waking everybody up at 6am, I made my way to Gatwick, took off at 1pm, landed hours later at 4:45pm (EST), hopped on a bus, fought midtown traffic, rode the subway, and arrived home safely at 6:30 pm where I dutifully collapsed.  Battered, and bruised, but not broken!   Just woke up at 3am and now I'm going to have to deal with this crazy jetlag timezone shift. 

Anyway - I had a GREAT time at Brittens.  Special thanks must go to Berian for putting up with us for a full week, and to CJ for picking me up at the airport.  Too many great moments to mention, but the highlights for me were:

Woodhenge
Climbing Tony's mountain
The haunted walkie-talkies ("wheeeeee!")
Walking around the Barry's Island cliffs
Taking the pub quiz
Cleaning up cat poo (twice!)
Seeing Torchwood
Wandering around London

Pics at: http://www.davelgil.com/ags/brittens07

See you at Mittens!

Great photos Dave! I think I forgot to say thank you to Berian for hosting us, it goes without saying!!!

PS, Dave - http://www.davelgil.com/ags/brittens07/DSCF0276.html
Hahaha! Well, it would've been fun to see you play the fun loving boisterous girl they were apparently casting ;)

Lookie here what I found. (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Singstar-USB-Adaptor_W0QQitemZ130130812159QQihZ003QQcategoryZ11321QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Quote from: Pumaman on Wed 04/07/2007 22:00:56
Lookie here what I found. (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Singstar-USB-Adaptor_W0QQitemZ130130812159QQihZ003QQcategoryZ11321QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

I seriously think you should buy it.

I am home safely!
Brittens was fantastic as always, great fun was had, and many adventures came to pass.
Many thanks to Berian for hosting and putting up with us all for a week.

Random awesome things -
  *Seeing the Worlds Saddest Looking Dog
  *Climbing two mountains within 18 hours and sleeping up one of them.
  *Learning that Tony the Mountain King has a wife who is made of ice-cream.
  *Bubbles
  *Conquering the Taff on a home made raft
  *Introducing Grundislav to SuperTed and EggyBread
  *Going to the Tate gallery and seeing "The Fairy Fellers Masterstroke", a painting by Richard Dadd, the crazy victorian painter
  *Discovering that they had grenade launchers in the 17th century
  *Learning how to cast spells
  *Hyper-Snap-Sandwich-Game
  *Being sold my coach ticket home by the same guy who sold me my brittens ticket home two years back. (I recognized the shape of his skull)
 
More later. Tied and wounded and tender now. Hooray for everyone.

Quote from: Creed Malay on Wed 04/07/2007 22:53:32
More later. Tied and wounded and tender now.

Tied and wounded? Brittens must be a lot tougher these days.

I too have returned (last night, actually). It was quite, quite enjoyable. The hills were excellent, as was the rafting incident, even though the river defeated me.

Quote from: Andail on Thu 05/07/2007 09:05:09
Tied and wounded? Brittens must be a lot tougher these days.

It is. I was repeatedly kicked in the gonads. "It's a tradition!", apparently.

Although, I have my doubts...

So THATS why you attended for a whole 3 hours 32 minutes 1 second! ;)

Right, so I've been uploading my videos.  They can be found here (http://www.youtube.com/user/guavadeluxe).

All of them should be up in the next few days.

Looking Good Grundislav Keep em coming
;D

Today I shall have eggy bread for breakfast.

Awesome videos man, some fantastic memories there :D Satrical is my word of the day & humour of that style there is a-plenty in your vids :p I LOVE IT :D good job you bought a camera! & wrote a proper gayme! I'm looking forward to anymore you have, and I'll add my comments to youtube asap! These videos are great so make sure there are cameras rolling at MITTENS!!!!

So is it recommended for me to come next year? It sure looks like fun but I'm rather shy  :)

Well, I felt weird since I know none of you, but I went and peeked at a few of those videos and I've come to a conclusion...EGGY BREAD TASTES GREAT. I've just eaten my fourth peice!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY new videos! I love em! Rafting, celebs, guitar hero....good stuff Grundy!!!!

And now for your listening pleasure(?) it's the AGS Podquest: Brittens Edition (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=23279.msg287067#msg287067)!

Oh Dear.

So where's the caption contest photo? :P

(http://dasjoe.de/fotos/brittens/db/Brittens%202007/IMG_0656.jpg)

Caption away!

Carlsberg Dont Rent Best friends but if they did theyd probably be the best, best friends in the world..

Or

Zoot could'nt quite get the hang of the new dance Grundislav had choreographed for him

Grundislav enjoys Zooty's touch rather too much.

"Drink your beer, kid, and you'll grow up to be just like me!"

And your afro its so... its so ... curly ... how dya do that  :?

I didn't know that Carrot Top was in to adventure games. I wish i could have met him. Did he have a trunk full of props??  :)

Good one.

you have a long lost sister, Zooty... And she's getting frisky with my girlfriend!

(http://jessfink.com/mocca07/greenfeild.jpg)

Sorry Zooty, but I'm attracted to your sister.

Over me?

You can have her.

It's amazing, yufster had to start a thread AND pay 10 dollars to find her long lost sister.

I covet that frisky sister's hair.

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/blue_lagoon2.JPG)

Those of us who travelled on the National Express coach from Cardiff to London had the unique... pleasure of being treated to a non-stop four hour monologe from Dave the Coach Driver. Dave talked, for serious, non stop all the way there. Dave is not possesed of a particularily engaging voice - I'd describe it as something of a drone. Dave is either a chronic liar, completley insane, or some kind of super-hero. These are just a few highlights from The Legends Of Dave, reconstructed in a bar in London, from our collective memories of the ordeal.

So gather round, children, and hear the Saga of Dave!

*He knew a man who owned a rottweiler that bit everyone, so he bit its ear until it bled. The dog respected him after that.

*Using knots he had learned in the navy, he tied up an escapologist so securely that he was unable to escape. The curtain was dropped and the show was cancelled.

*The greatest compliment he ever received was when a black vicar crossed the road and called him "brother".

*"I always say, cry at a wedding, laugh at a funeral. A dead persons problems are over, and a newlyweds are just beginning!"

*He crashed his motor bike and shattered both of his legs. A West Indian man pulled him from the fiery debris and told him "You shall never walk again!". He reformed the bones in his legs through sheer willpower, and was walking without a stick inside a year.

*A black Labrador followed him around after he stole it while drunk. It was covered in acid burns, and he stole it from a security guard. He would hide in pub cellars to try and get away from the dog, but it would still find him. A police man saw him stealing the hound, but approved, and gave him his blessing.

*He grew up in Cardiff Bay. It was a multi-cultural area, and he mingled freely with all creeds and colours.

*He claims to be completely non prejudiced, despite his casual use of racist slurs.

*People at the pub would get his dog drunk. (Possibly the black Labrador, possibly some other dog. Probably not the rotty, though, that wasn't his) Once the dog was giver whiskey, and acted although it had had a stroke. The dog was taken to the vet, who informed him that the dog had a hangover.

*He has studied all the worlds' religions, and combined their best points, forming a religion of his own.


If anyone who was on the coach can remember any more of Daves tales, post them, please do.

Dave the Driver also gave these sage words of wisdom:

*"In life you've only got two friends: your mother and the pound in your pocket. Once your mother's gone, you've lost your best friend in the world.  After that, all you've got is the pound, and everyone's trying to take it away from you."

IIRC Dave's wife knew of the labrador's ability to find him and used it often.

The bus arrived about 45 minutes late; Dave apologized to the passengers, citing elevated security and whatnot after the botched bombings a few days earlier, and pointed out that at least we all got there in one piece, with our brains inside our heads.

Doh! Grundy! Enable embedding on those videos!!!  :)

Fuzzpilz, and didn't you arrive "with knowledge to boot!" as well?

Waheeyy!! Cheers dude :D

Now people on myspace can be led to beleive I have a life.

:p

what, you? nevar!

I know it's late but check out my whacky adventures here :

http://www.sanslife.com/images/photos/brittens_07/ (http://www.sanslife.com/images/photos/brittens_07/)

yay \o/

And the London escapades

http://www.sanslife.com/images/photos/london_july_07/ (http://www.sanslife.com/images/photos/london_july_07/)

Sound like it was a right laff.
I might try and make it next year if its OK with you guys.
Great pictures, and the Quotes had me in genuine stitches.

LOL (http://www.sanslife.com/images/photos/brittens_07/DSC03531.jpg)
And so the lonely adventurer embarked upon his quest to replace the sacred 7up can back from whence it came

Quote from: Grundislav on Fri 06/07/2007 20:44:48
(http://dasjoe.de/fotos/brittens/db/Brittens%202007/IMG_0656.jpg)

Caption away!

Oh, I see that the legend that "Brits don' t wash their teeth" is true...