tiddy rooseveltSep 29, 2023
The fedi isn't like email. The fedi is like if you accidentally triple booked a bdsm convention, a FSF convention, and a communist workers AGM all in the same german arena
Show threadTim PantonSep 29, 2023

@babe Back in the late 80s I went to a small Xwindows conference in Boston. The conference hotel was also hosting a Dental conference.

The sharply dressed East Coast Dental professionals looked askance at the hairy sandal wearing MIT dropout crowd.

Getting in a lift was a source of continuing amusement to me.

Show threadSiobhán Greaney (Shivers)Sep 29, 2023
@steely_glint @babe
Airport hotel in Birmingham used on occasion for the Discworld Convention also hosted large weddings for the Birmingham Indian and Pakistani community, and sometimes other businessey conferences at same time. My memory is a little hazy but I *think* I saw an Avon saleswoman get in a lift with gentlemen in suits, ladies in saris, and someone in costume as a 7ft skeleton in black robes with glowing blue eyes.
Show threadkianryan ☑️🐙🏳️‍🌈Mar 28, 2024

@shivers

@steely_glint @babe

That definitely happened.
Peak DwCon.

Show threadBrian Nisbet

@kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe Not only did it happen, but the hotel later asked me to ask said skeleton to not wear the full costume in the non-convention areas as apparently some of the guests were disturbed by him!

See also scantily clad barbarians drinking from drinking horns across from wedding guests.

Mar 28, 2024 at 10:00amWeb
Show threadkianryan ☑️🐙🏳️‍🌈Mar 28, 2024

@natural20

@shivers @steely_glint @babe

Can't possibly understand why eight foot *looming* skeletons with glowing eyes in communal spaces would possibly be perceived as a problem.

I'm still amazed that somehow every hotel didn't end up with blue body paint on every surface.

Show threadBrian NisbetMar 28, 2024
@kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe Well, in the case of the Brum Metropole, it was because we were very cheeky told if the relevant people didn't take extreme care the hotel would forbid body paint and go further if necessary.
Show threadMike KnellFeb 15, 2025
@natural20 @kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe There would be spankings?
Show threadMarco VillaltaMar 28, 2024
@natural20 @kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe Didn't somebody also raise a complaint about Butcher at some point?
Show threadBrian NisbetMar 28, 2024
@villtin @kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe Not that I was ever aware of, either in Ops or as Chair. However I do remember our wonderful liaison at the hotel telling me how she'd gently escorted him to the lift in the early hours of the morning after he'd feel asleep in the bar.
Show threadThomas =:-)Mar 28, 2024
@villtin @natural20 @kianryan @shivers @steely_glint @babe I can’t imagine why anybody’d do that