please empty your brain below

To think, DG, if your area of expertise was how large black birds obtain shelter at the Tower of London, you would be a Raven Haven Maven....
As least you haven't been bombarded by repeated messages from an otherwise lovely whisky brand putting on an event that was accompanied by the scariest photo of a party I have ever seen.
You can't beat a good afterwork - in Midtown or Northbank. I wonder how long it will before the invitations begin to imply the availability of free drugs and cheap hookers?
I would never encourage anyone to break the law but if you want to organise a mass invasion of that nightclub I'm game as I'm are thousands of other readers.
I love you too, Mr. Geezer, but I'm not marketing anything, I haven't been to any sort of a club in ages, and the very idea of "international VIPs" makes me want to spray them with powerful pesticides that will render them sterile. Or worse. So maybe we'd both be better off just leaving it as is: you post your posts, and I'll read them.
"Celebrity community"?!
Thanks for that - very enjoyable in a kind of awful way.
I'm not sure which is worst:
- the kind of world these people inhabit
- the utterly inept way they have approached you in terms of the shallow approach and the absolutely minimal research they have evidently carried out
- the utterly inept way they have approached you in terms of the dreadful writing styles (as you say, the French one can be slightly excused on that count)
- the fact that, even if their approaches were appealing to you, they seem (as you say) to want to buy you for a couple of drinks, or the opportunity to 'mingle' (ugh!)
I love your occasional posting of the jaw-droopingly awful and stunningly under-researched PR missives.
I am quite temped to join that elite force of unfashionable 50-somethings who like urban walks, trains and a beer in a quiet pub and to invade a brash, shallow and silly PR event or club
It says a great deal about their priorities, when they are most concerned about what shoes you should arrive in !
High heels as a requirement? I didn't think anything could still shock me.

And, Lily, 'impact' is not a bloody verb, let alone a transitive one.
Mavens? Jinsey Praise Him!
But you did start to fill the questionnaire out to find out if you are a maven?! You should have lied about your age and sued for age discrimination when they ushered you away from their celebratory beano. I think you should post the questionnaire up to find out how many other mavens there are out here and whether we've lost our mavenhood.
You tell 'em!

I like the way you tell 'em.

If you'd like to tell 'em at venue, then I'm sure I could arrange...
You continue to use naff so called words like "onboard" meaning "sign-up" I shall go orf you, DG. (Don't you dare mention "onboarding" the other variant of this that makes my skin crawl.)
DG, have you ever accepted any PR requests sent to you, or do all just get a sarcastic reply?
Hilarious. Thanks for showing me a London of which I know nothing.
Yes, PRs are generally the worst sort of empty-headed pondlife, but to be fair to your French pesterer, an 'afterwork' is actually a real thing in France – it's their word for any sort of 5.30-onwards gathering. Like 'weekend', 'parking' 'sandwich' and many more, they've nicked it and are now using it in a way that confuses and irritates native English speakers. Still, c'est la vie, eh?
I was up for gatecrashing until I saw it was tailored for rich Chinese and Russian guests.

Then I got scared.
Quoth the maven...

(I'm so sorry)
Oh these really are the cream of the crop aren't they!! Unbelievable!
It's a whole different world out there, and I for one am glad to have no part of it!


I agree - the nightclub sounds execrable. It really should not be tolerated in London. I would back any attempt to draw attention to their mindless excess.
If you have the time on your hands plus the narcicisstic desire to show that you are a maven by going through a long and tedious process to prove it, then just possibly you might not be a maven after all, you only think you are ...
> "'impact' is not a bloody verb, let alone a transitive one"

Language pedants are a constant source of amusement. I've yet to see one actually get something right on the internet. "Impact" is quite clearly listed as a transitive verb in Chambers.
deserves to be razed.
Why would a charity exclude everyone above 35? They should be grateful to anyone onboard and accept their help.
I can only conclude that these are coming via an exclusive, subscribers-only version of DG with posts on the perfect shoes for the man about town and cute videos on how to thread your own eyebrows.
I rather liked the French one, there was a certain innocent charm to it. Does that mean I have fallen for the PR spin?
Give the nightclub invite to a Maven Minion and get them to report back on how appalling it all is and whether or not there are free drugs and dames/fellas!
Well that made me chuckle. I definitely think you should have gone to the nightclub if only for the post about the day after. I'm sure it'd be brilliant.
"I can only conclude that these are coming via an exclusive, subscribers-only version of DG" comments God. That's an intriguing idea.
Ah well Simon, you can find anything you want in Chambers :-)
I just love these. Ken White over at popehat actually engages with some of the stuff he receives. With even more hilarious consequences
http://www.popehat.com/?s=pony
And there was me thinking it was a cross between a magpie and a raven.

Just like, as we all know, Budgens got its name from interbreeding budgies and pigeons.










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