Here’s 7 reasons you should check out our first Consumerist meetup if you’re in New York next Wednesday night:
7. Free drinks until our $500 tab runs out, happy hour drink special all night (even during the tab).
6. Free tshirts sporting the brand-new Consumerist logo.
5. Cool videos shown by the Internets Celebrities crew.
4. Possible appearance by a famous person.
3. Special surprise gift bestowing!
2. Hang out with Meg and Ben and Consumerist gang.
1. Meet other Consumerist readers – put a face to a commenter name!
It all goes downnnn
Wed. 11/4/09 6-9pm
Botanica Bar
47 Houston St, NY NY 10012
Should be a good one, see you there!
More From Consumerist
-
Fed: Unemployment Wouldn't Be So High If People Weren't So Darn Uncertain About Economy
-
Cars Must Really Have Something Against This 7-Eleven Store
-
Home Depot Sells Defective Grill, Reacts Exactly Unlike Stereotypical Big Box Store
-
From The Shameless To The Egregious, We Grade The Product Placements In 12 Ad-Packed Movies
-
Which Online Retailers Offer 24/7 Phone Support?
Now its not all that much of a “surprise” if you basically shout into the mic that GitEmSteveDave is getting a lab coat at the meetup.
I think I know who that famous person is.
And at first glance, it looked like the arrow was pointing at the girl, as if saying “yeah, she’ll be there too”.
@MostlyHarmless: OMG.. I’m so potentially excited for SteveDave!!
/NotGoingtoAttackHim
@MostlyHarmless: @Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: I’m not getting my hopes up. I usually end up getting let down. Yesterday our farm had a horse race, and he would have one, but Sarah Jessica Parker beat him by her nose. But I will be there anyway with hat and green LED nametag on!
BTW, I don’t mind attacks. Ask my kittehs. My ankles apparently insulted their mother.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: Would have one what?
@thesadtomato: Won. Grrrr, sometimes I’m not to sharp before my Adderrall.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: Then you better have one.
@thesadtomato: Just took my 1 & 1/2.
@Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: Is it weird I have actually rolled on the ground crying “why, why, why me?”.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: Maybe.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: interwebs ate my comment, nom.
I’m loving the image of tiny Ms. Aroo thumping you in the kneecap with a lead pipe.
Peace, people, peace. We can make our own labcoats at home.
@subtlefrog: Lol.. I said before, I wouldn’t do that… My tactics are more nimble and ninja like. Small and quick, you know?
I think the draw is that it is an OFFICIAL Consumer Reports Lab coat. Would they sell us the official patches?
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: Well a kitteh attack is much different than an attack to the kneecap with a lead pipe like some other commenter suggested before.. lol.
The chance of being let down is why I said I was potentiallly excited for you, I’m holding some of it in reserve in case it doesn’t really happen.
I just hope you remember the little people, if it does happen.
Too bad I live too far away, it would be fun to go drinking for once and have someone else start the fight.
@Radi0logy: I am also sad.
@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Wonder if we paid shipping if they’d send us tshirts?
@Radi0logy: Wish I could go as well… But not quite able to make that 3-5 hours drive from Maryland to New York and another 3-5 hours back, not to mention I gotta work. How about a weekend in D.C.?
@Radi0logy: Me too. I’m way too far away.
I already requested to get let off of work early for this, so i will def be there. Can anyone recommend a good parking place nearby that is cheap?
@GitEmSteveDave_Right: 1 Wrong: ∞: I thought all you yankees used public transportation or cars.
@The Porkchop Express: uh, cabs that is, cabs.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks:
You may be able to find street parking depending on what time you show up… it just may take you a little bit of searching.
But, honestly, you really should try to take the train/bus there because 6 p.m. traffic is a pain.
@Trance1861: I’m working in Linden NJ now, so it’s easier than trying to find a train station with secure parking for the GitEmSteveDave-mobile.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha.
Oh wait. You were serious about cheap NYC parking?! You poor, poor dear boy…
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: Newark.
@H3ion: I said secure, not “somewhere to park my car where it will get broken into and everything is stolen, down to six gallons of water in my backkseat(yes it happened to me there)”.
@Trai_Dep: Cheap-ish. I think I paid $20 when I went to the Panel Discussion, and it was better than getting a ticket and also towed. but if I get there a little early, I’ll just find a spot and throw the “Official Clergy Business” placards in the windows.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: I can’t say whether they are cheap or good, since all this site does is list the garages and their rates & terms. Good luck.
[nyc.bestparking.com]
Interesting, but not worth the cost of a passport…
“No no, I’m ‘mad-og’, I’ve got a sta… I’ve had at least one good comme… no, I don’t know where ‘GitEmSteveDick’ is, stop asking.”
@madog: …and if you need some ‘splaining. That’s an example of how I would spend my night at the meetup if I could go. Then I’d get drunk, and people would start loving me (cause I’m a fun drunk), but then I would get too drunk, start getting upset because the trash can wouldn’t give me her number, and then everyone would just start feeling sorry for me.
Shame I can’t make it!
@madog: Don’t feel bad. She’s a stuck up snob.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: You know, Stephen David, if I weren’t a married man…………….. I would be a single man. But if I lived in NJ, I would be outside your window. Watching. Waiting.
@madog: There’s no need to watch outside his window..
http://www.gitemstevedave.com
@Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: Maybe he speaks of the bathroom window. Mr. SteveDave has said a million times before there will be no bathroom Jerseycam.
@rocketbear79: Actually, My bathroom window is partly frosted, with only an inch on the bottom of the lower half un-frosted(so I can see my driveway when sitting on the Colbert) as well as the top half. So it’s pretty much like active pixelation when viewed from outside.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: The pixelation adds to the mystery and allure of being a peeping Tom. I’m old school. Having a 24 hour toilet cam defeats the purpose.
@Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: Dont call my bluff out like that. That site both frightens and attracts me.
@madog: Glad to be of service!
I only live a few hours away, and if it were a weekend, I’d totally be in. Boo.
Have fun, though! 
@katstermonster: I’m with you on that. I’m a bus ride away in DC, so it’d be relatively easy on a weekend.
Which reminds me. DC meetup? Anyone?
@katstermonster: We can have our pitty party on Twitter together.
@Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: yesssss definitely. I’ll drink here, you drink there, it’ll be almost like we’re together. or….not.
@katstermonster: Actually now that I’m thinkin about it; a chat room would be more fun. I think I’ll set one up for all of us that can’t make it.
@Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: Please do, and maybe those of us in DC can meet at a bar with Wi-fi and be at a meetup of our own, and a chatroom!
@Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: How bout a skype conference call?
@MostlyHarmless: I’ve never used skype. Is it able to handle all of us at once? Does it have a chat as well?
@MostlyHarmless: We’ll all need to get new Skype accounts with our user names from Consumerist – think of how much trouble we had finding each other on Twitter…Granted only a few days, but we won’t have a few days!
@subtlefrog: or you could.. you know.. TELL each other what your new skype names are. In any case, people know my real name already if they looked around, so I do not particularly care
@Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: It has text chat, yes. And it handles 10ish people fairly easily. We’ll just act like elitists and let only the cool people in.
OR we could find a room on IRC. I have one registered in my name
@MostlyHarmless: I like the elitist thing, as long as a star isn’t the entry requirement. I guess I need to sign up for skype.
@MostlyHarmless: Good news, I THINK my skype name is the same. I’m not very creative. If you see a katstermonster anywhere on any website, it is very likely me.
I’ll be there with a camera so we can all remember the event (open bars tend to have a mind-erasing ability)…
@LetMeGetTheManager: I’m not sure I like the idea of people being able to see pictures of me on the internets…
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks:
You’ve, uh, POSTED pictures of you on the Internets.
@WraithSama: What?! Where?!
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: I’ve got some REALLY bad news for you, SteveDave. You’re gonna need to sit down for this. I’ll wait…I can see you…
Why does it have to be 21+?! I want a T-Shirt =(
@pervy_the_clown: you’ll soon learn that alcohol makes meeting strangers, as well as driving, a pleasent experience.
@pervy_the_clown: Underaged, pervy clowns.
Anyone ever tell you that you’re a dream date?
@Trai_Dep: Trai, are you on twitter? Some of us have been having a grand ol’ time, you should come play. Find me and you’ll find the rest.
@katstermonster: Twitter’s poisoned for me ever since I ran across this.
My humor’s an unpredictable thing that often goes over 140 characters. Then I’d feel performance anxiety since it’d be less funny or split into two tweets.
But do Facebook updates count?
Now if they came out with a Twitter version that only allowed Haiku or limericks, enforced with casual uncaring ferocity, I’d join that.
Sounds like fun! I wish I could go.
But, I’m in Philly, and the thought of going to up to NYC after the first 4 or 5 World Series games …
Then again, it might be a good way to recover.
@DirectMailFan: Yeah, if it goes 6 games, the 6th game starts at 7:57 (gotta love that earlier start time) we’ll be at the Meetup and I guess not watching the first hour. OTOH, it could just end up being a regular evening, sports-wise.
Oh no thank you, I’ll pass. I’m a bit introverted, anti-social, lazy & not in need of a T-shirt at the moment.
The site is sufficient interaction.
Have 1 for me though.
@WatchOutNow:
COrrection, my horrible tendency to start reading from the bottom up/or right to left, usually screws things up.
I just saw the free booze offer…and I DO need to get to the laundry mat, so I will take the T-Shirt.
See you then.
what happens when like 500 people show up (consumerist is much more popular than it may appear to be)
@Razor512: You haven’t been to many meetups have you? Meetups (although I hope this one is very lucky and well attended) generally turnout a fraction of the people who sign up to attend online…
Lo…lita house? Count me in!
Augh. I would so love to come, but I am in school on the opposite vertical end of the country. Phoo!
Will they remove the trash from in front, before we get there?
@danno5-0: Propbably not, no. There’s almost always trash in the streets of nyc.
if i could actually get there i’d go, but i gotta work… and then i’d have to drive a good 6 hours
will all attendees get gold stars?
@gStein_has joined the star bandwagon: If that is the case, I will be SO annoyed.
@Kimaroo – No Stars Upon Thars: I might have to book a flight if there was a star at stake.
@subtlefrog: Yes, and think of how annoyed we will be. We’ll have spent time in the airports and with airlines! Yuck.
@gStein_has joined the star bandwagon: You might get one on your attendance sheet, but not on the site.
You better disclose the tab dollar limit ahead of time or you may have a KFC-style riot on your hands. Free food is only trumped by free liquor (okay, maybe free sex does too).
@RandomHookup: Good call. It’s $500.
@Ben Popken: At New York prices, that’s one drink apiece for the first three people. Just mail me my drink.
@RandomHookup: Remember, Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
@GitEmSteveDave_ThatChickRockingKicks: Liquor in the front, poker in the back, and a Consumerist meetup in the middle.
When’s the Chicago Consumerist meetup?
Thank the gods it’s a dive bar.
If the Meet-Up was held inside Trump Tower, I’d have flown over there personally to perform my cat-juggling act live in front of The W just to tempt Consumerists away.
…And you know Cat Juggling is the one act that would draw this crowd away. (Well, free drinks is a close second).
Is Consumerist providing transport on the Chinese bus?
@H3ion: We could probably swing the $1.50 Megabus.
@Laura Northrup: But where would I park the bus?
@H3ion: The same place the other bus drivers do: wherever they feel like it.
@Laura Northrup: I see the Megabus every morning out in front of MSG/Penn Station. I always figured that was some sort of a scam. $1.50 to Boston? Yeah, right …
@Archangelo: I thought the Chinese buses (Boston/NYC/Philadelphia/DC) were like $10-$15 one way. Is business so bad that it’s actually $1.50??
What’s the over/under on how many guys Meg will need to have physically removed from the premises?
@RandomHookup: I will personally have a word with anyone who tries to be less than civil with Meg. She is an awesome person and and amazing co-editor, and should be treated as such.
Forget stars, how about just approving the commenter accounts of those who attend?
How about one in the LA area?
@anaisnun: We talked about it, but it seems like a bad night. I only got two responses from people, and neither could make that night. We’re looking at another night for an LA meetup. Stay tuned.
I’d go, but I’d have to wear full head-to-toe body armor so I wouldn’t get beat up!
It’s kinda far since I live in California, and I don’t think my employer would give me the time off
The metal grate adds a certain level of class.
I’d be willing to host the next Consumerist Meetup. I have…well, lots and lots of open space. Corn fields, Potato fields…umm, hay and oat fields?
Central Wisconsin meetup next time? Anyone?
I will be there for certain. Drinks on me. No, really: pour your drinks on me.
Hey … are my comments moderated here? That’s just doesn’t seem right for the East Village …
did someone say free tshirt?
i’ll be there
hate to be “that guy” but any chance you guys want to send a t-shirt to a poor college student at the University of Pittsburgh that can’t make it to New York next Wednesday no matter how badly he wants to (mid-terms)?
Maybe I’ll poke my head in!