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Veggie meet up goes south?!

  • 28-07-2009 3:38pm
    #1
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Sapsorrow


    Right all you Dublin veggies me thinks ye've all had it far too cushty with these meet up things and think ye should get it together to come visit some of the rest of us! Any one up for organising a meet-up in Cork or Galway? Come on don't be sh*t b*st*rds, I know Dublins like the MOST amazing place ever and everywhere else is just the bogland but come on!!!!

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  • #2
    Slaphead07
    Registered Users Posts: 2,323 ✭✭✭Slaphead07


    khrystyna100 wrote: »
    me thinks ye've all had it far too cushty....
    ....don't be sh*t b*st*rds...
    I know Dublins like the MOST amazing place ever and everywhere else is just the bogland but come on!!!!

    Should this be moved to the Personal Issues forum?:rolleyes:


  • #3
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Sapsorrow


    Slaphead07 wrote: »
    Should this be moved to the Personal Issues forum?:rolleyes:

    Nope I've only got money issues and can't afford to come to money-land for meet-ups!


  • #4
    Thoushaltnot
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Thoushaltnot


    'Bout f***n time!
    There's about 6 million* Corkonians up here!

    *slight exaggeration, for effect


  • #5
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Sapsorrow


    PLus Cork has a deadly food scene for the size of it, we've got the english market (supposed to be one of the best covererd markets in europe), the quay-coop, cafe paradiso and the dharma deli so no lack of veggie yum yums!


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm game........I expect to be caroused after wards though.
    Does Cork have a coppers?


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  • #7
    raah!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    I think it's a grand idea. I will feel bad if I only go to a cork one though, so quicks get a dublin one going afterwards too :). A Galway one sounds good too. I have 105.48 exactly to my name though, and I don't intend to work for the rest of the summer either :)


  • #8
    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Moonbaby wrote: »
    Does Cork have a coppers?
    You mean an opposite to Coppers, whereby all the Dubs go to get drunk and hit with cheesy chat up lines by country folk?:P*

    *take me too:P

    Depends if i can afford it and whether its just a day thing or what?


  • #9
    taram
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    Only in Cork for another few weeks but would love to meet up!


  • #10
    DonnieScribbles
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    We must have one in Galway too! Because I'm new and intrigued... I'll be back there late in August, I can cook curry or noodle stir-fry for everyone! Vegan of course ;) I also make good vegan cookies and apple crumble... I know some Galway veggies, I can lure them in...


  • #11
    sweet-rasmus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭sweet-rasmus


    There are at least 5 people on this forum who live in cork at the moment, so I think you guys should deffo pick a date that suits you all. I spent weeks trying to fix a date for that picnic last weekend and in the end 6 people attended (enjoyed myself, thanks again :)). So as you can see, you don't need everyone to turn up, just so long as it suits those of you that are local most of all. Good luck in organising a date ;) It's tough!

    As for Galway, it is a great town, but does anyone in the forum live there? Money-wise it makes sense to meet where a good few of ous veggie boardsies live. Plus, vegan wise, Galway is tough. There is that one vegan shepard's pie in that place on lower abbeygate stree (where the staff don't necessarily know what a vegan diet is). There are some options at the market though... Can't remember the specifics about the govindas stand... but I am scared about butter in recipes in the place of oil.

    Edit: didn't notice your offer to be a cook for us all there DonnieScribbles! That changes everything ;)*woohooo vegan food*


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  • #12
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    I will go to one in cork or galway. I can easlily satay in numerous places in galway and I know a girl in kinsale, so maybe I could stay there or B&B or whatever. Would love one anyway. So yeah, I'll go if date suits. :)

    My sister is veggie and lives near cork too. Maybe she go dunno.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I will go to one in cork or galway. I can easlily satay in numerous places in galway and I know a girl in kinsale, so maybe I could stay there or B&B or whatever. Would love one anyway. So yeah, I'll go if date suits. :)

    My sister is veggie and lives near cork too. Maybe she go dunno.

    Hostel would be fun if we have a few going. :)


  • #14
    Arya Happy Voyage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭ Arya Happy Voyage


    A Cork one would be fantastic, a Galway one would be doable for me as well coz I'm up and down to that neck of the woods to see my parents. And I'm a vegan of leisure btw so if there is a Cork one I'll volunteer to go get people from the bus or whatever if they're afraid of getting lost :)


  • #15
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Moonbaby wrote: »
    Hostel would be fun if we have a few going. :)
    I looooove staying in hostels with friends, they are so much fun. Did it with my class in edinburgh, ohh the mischief. :D
    Also in a hotel in limerick and went paintballing drinking for the weekend, little trips like them are the best.
    There was a pool table and a giant connect four game in edinburgh hostel hehe. Cheap too.
    Would be great if a few came down.
    Arya Happy Voyage wrote: »
    A Cork one would be fantastic, a Galway one would be doable for me as well coz I'm up and down to that neck of the woods to see my parents. And I'm a vegan of leisure btw so if there is a Cork one I'll volunteer to go get people from the bus or whatever if they're afraid of getting lost :)
    Maybe I should say feck my old apartment in galway, hostel there sounds fun too haha.
    Veggie weekend trip somewhere would be fun, hard to do, or get interest, though maybe. :)


  • #16
    raah!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Arya Happy Voyage wrote: »
    I'm a vegan of leisure
    :D
    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Veggie weekend trip somewhere would be fun, hard to do, or get interest, though maybe. :)

    I would be well interested in it. A mountain trip perhaps, a camping trip of some nature. These days I'm having trouble in bonfire situations when people are cooking limpets and sausages and the like, and I'm able to do nothing but boil water. So a useful vegetarian learning experience it would be too. And after a few succesful regular meetups it will most likely gain popularity.


  • #17
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Would be cool, or even a less ambitious one to start with haha. Like a hostel for a weekend, with drinking, shopping and markets. :D
    Would love to go camping though. oooh fire


  • #18
    raah!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Ah yes, perhaps the Galway trip would be suitable for the hostel one. I knows a good hostel in Galway, called "the Galway city hostel", I also know some terrible ones. The top of the list is that horrible "sleepzone" franchise.


  • #19
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Oh sleepzone is the only one I have seen around. Going to teh market in galway would be great, I miss it. Would need to be there early, possibly friday night before to get mattar paneer though, sells out so fast.

    Anyway, lets see what this hostel/night trip is like first!
    *calls top bunk off moonbaby*


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    *calls top bunk off moonbaby*

    Oh please I'm not co-ordinated enough to get into the top bunk sober!

    I am loving this idea.....I haz car too. And I love Diamond Hill, and am totally unscruplous enough to drag hungover types up it :)


  • #21
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Sweet, default top bunk!

    I call a lift, collect me from sligo! and then you can drive me to the top of that hill, after some sort of veggie fry in town, nomnom. :p


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  • #22
    biZrb
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    Moonbaby wrote: »
    Oh please I'm not co-ordinated enough to get into the top bunk sober!

    I am loving this idea.....I haz car too. And I love Diamond Hill, and am totally unscruplous enough to drag hungover types up it :)

    Shotgun!


  • #23
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    biZrb wrote: »
    Shotgun!

    Double barreled shotgun!

    I may be making this one up, but I call bindies!


  • #24
    biZrb
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭biZrb


    I think you are making it up, what the hell are bindies?


  • #25
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    It's my made up term which binds my other made up terms as fact!


    I'll have to call bindies on the term bindies. :P


  • #26
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Sapsorrow


    Ok deadly loads of interest, heres an idea if yer interested, I live in the sticks bout 40 min drive (1/2 hr on the train) outside cork, we've a huge garden and field with the house so if ye'd like we could have a barbeque at my place and everyone can camp around the house in the garden or field if they liked (we've even got an outside toilet in the barn). The countryside around me is lovely and if we had a few cars we could transport everyone no bother.
    We could always have a day around the city and then head out to the house later on in the evening after doing the markets etc..
    Got 4 cats, a kitten and a sheepdog for free cuddles too!


  • #27
    Sapsorrow
    Registered Users Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭Sapsorrow


    Did I mention my 5 gallons of homebrewed apple and elderflower wine is gonna be ready this week too....


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
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    khrystyna100 wrote: »
    Ok deadly loads of interest, heres an idea if yer interested, I live in the sticks bout 40 min drive (1/2 hr on the train) outside cork, we've a huge garden and field with the house so if ye'd like we could have a barbeque at my place and everyone can camp around the house in the garden or field if they liked (we've even got an outside toilet in the barn). The countryside around me is lovely and if we had a few cars we could transport everyone no bother.
    We could always have a day around the city and then head out to the house later on in the evening after doing the markets etc..
    Got 4 cats, a kitten and a sheepdog for free cuddles too!

    You had me at kitten cuddles. :P


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
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    biZrb wrote: »
    Shotgun!
    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Double barreled shotgun!

    Just a small word of warning.
    The person who drives up front when I drive, gets to see the life threathening opportunities coming first. :P


  • #30
    Thoushaltnot
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Thoushaltnot


    raah! wrote: »
    :D



    I would be well interested in it. A mountain trip perhaps, a camping trip of some nature. These days I'm having trouble in bonfire situations when people are cooking limpets and sausages and the like, and I'm able to do nothing but boil water. So a useful vegetarian learning experience it would be too. And after a few succesful regular meetups it will most likely gain popularity.

    You should check out the MeetUp.com folks - organized by the Irish Vegetarian Society but you don't have to be a member, just a member on MeetUp .com (free). They just had a weekend away in the Mourne mountains last weekend.

    http://vegetarian.meetup.com/485/

    I've been to a few of the Dublin ones - nice folks, slightly greater spread of ages...and looks like a bit of a cross pollination already, guessing from the name of the newest member :)


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  • #31
    Thoushaltnot
    Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Thoushaltnot


    Moonbaby wrote: »
    You had me at kitten cuddles. :P

    ROFL


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