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Having been on a train to London Paddington for the last 4 hours
I'm now stuck in Reading (in an internet cafe). Anyone got suggestions as to things to do, sights to see here? My train home isn't going for another 6 hours or so, and it'll almost certainly be horribly delayed.
(MooCow_Byter, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:53, archived)
Toilets
wank
(I helped save b3ta! Goatworrier had your mum and she was shit, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:54, archived)
In Reading
that's the only entertainment they've got.
(I helped save b3ta! Zuowan, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:58, archived)
BTTaT

(I helped save b3ta! Giant bunny jumping out like a large happy tourettes rabbit, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:54, archived)
We dont want to scare him

(I helped save b3ta! Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:58, archived)
Him or me?

(I helped save b3ta! Benny Tied To A Tree As much use as Anne Frank's drumkit, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:59, archived)
Group Bennywanking.
Start a PHPBB board for it, give the craze a name, drop the name in a few crucial places so the papers get wind of it and cause a media sensation about teenagers meeting to wank themselves blind in public.
(I helped save b3ta! Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:58, archived)
get drunk
Time goes quickly then
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:54, archived)
This would get my vote
our gig in london tonight is off as well, if anyone was going to come.
(I helped save b3ta! comrade yannovski and then, of course, there was the schnapps monkey, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:56, archived)
...
www.readingtourism.org.uk/aboutreading/breaksriver.htm
(Aquai, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:54, archived)
Hello
You have to use <a href="http://whatever">proper html links</a> here, and you can't put them in headers.
Peace.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:56, archived)
I know...
.. i temporarily forgot
(Aquai, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:58, archived)
"Peace"?!
Are you from "da hood"?
(I helped save b3ta! Fenris temporary Lazarus, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:00, archived)
Find a pretty woman.
Convince her the world is ending.
Spend "your last few moments on this accursed rock" banging her from behind.
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. A-MOL is lurking around these parts again, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:55, archived)
Any particular method of global destruction
that works well?
(MooCow_Byter, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:02, archived)
If you were just going to London for the day,
I'd go home - you won't manage it, and I don't suppose it'll be much fun when you get there.

My train was an hour late this morning, and that was from Leicester to Loughborough.
They said it was due to an overhead cable failure, which probably saved me from being in a train with panicking people.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:56, archived)
I was going to Cambridge via London.
I was meant to arrive in Paddington, catch a tube to King's Cross and go from there to Cambridge. I don't think it'll be happening now.
(MooCow_Byter, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:58, archived)
No way.
Find an alternative route or a bus.
Or go home and eat biscuits.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:00, archived)
I was going to go down on Sat morning?
Do you reckon it's possible? I were going to Euston, then off to Charing Cross.
(I helped save b3ta! Shoosh up your lips Not state-funded, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:05, archived)
I dunno (I'm not there)
but I should imagine the trains won't be working properly for at least a few days.
(I helped save b3ta! Newington, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:18, archived)
get a camera
and do some B3ta journalism.
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:56, archived)
Start walking home :D

(I helped save b3ta! Dekazer, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:56, archived)
go and watch a film and get a bite to eat at the Oracle centre
matinee tickets are cheap IIRC. Good shopping there too :)
(dognutz, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:56, archived)
Speak in nothing but chatroom abreviations.
lol.
(I helped save b3ta! Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:57, archived)
I'm in Reading too
I don't leave work until 6 though so probably miss you...
(I helped save b3ta! Benny Tied To A Tree As much use as Anne Frank's drumkit, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:58, archived)
Shame.
My train is meant to be here shortly after 6, so I think you're right.
(MooCow_Byter, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:00, archived)
Well if the trains are delayed
I'm sure mine will be as well so beer is always an option.
(I helped save b3ta! Benny Tied To A Tree As much use as Anne Frank's drumkit, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:01, archived)
I'll be on B3ta again after 5, I expect.
So maybe we can arrange something.
(MooCow_Byter, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:05, archived)
The cinema should be cheap at this time (ask directions to Oracle Riverside)
or there are quite a few pubs & bars around.

Waterstones in the Oracle (or the better one on Broad Street) makes for a good waste of time/library.

That's it - Watch a film, get drunk and read books.
(I helped save b3ta! Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:58, archived)
Sounds like a plan.

(MooCow_Byter, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:01, archived)
Welcome to Reading
Please enjoy your stay (and don't feed the locals)
(I helped save b3ta! Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:08, archived)
There is fuck all to see or do in the centre
unless you really like Generic Shopping Malls (tm)

Edit: Unless there's snooker on at the Hexagon.
(I helped save b3ta! Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 11:59, archived)
there is a good pie shop in Reading...
Its on Castle Street I think
(I helped save b3ta! whizzbang, Thu 7 Jul 2005, 12:00, archived)