Saturday Night - Not The Gold Pass Party

[Skepticus]

I don't know if it has been thought of elsewhere, but on the Saturday night when the lords and ladies of high courts are having their gold pass dinner function (well la de dah :p), we jeans and tee shirt types, could find ourselves a place of alcoholic beverage vending nature to revel'n'rock. There will only be limited time to share the good times with so many other like minded folks, so we might as well mix it up while we can. If we find enough party goers there might be too many for a bar but enough to justify the hire a small hall or function room, and instead of paying bar prices we get bottle shop booze. Perhaps even a keg and a few bottles of scotch would be the way to go.

It's just an idea, but many conference attendees will probably be wanting to stick together on the Saturday night anyhow and my guess is that most would probably end up socializing in smaller groups anyhow. It doesn't need fancy catering, just somewhere that the non gold pass people can stick together. That and booze of course. What say ye matteys?

[Praxis]

A gold pass isn't necessary to attend the dinner! Anyone can attend that. A gold pass simply means priority seating for speaking events.

I have an all-weekend pass and I'm going to the dinner.

It's not an "us" and "them" thing you know ;)

[Chrys Stevenson]

I agree. There's nothing lah-di-dah about the dinner. I've bought a concession pass and I'm also going to the dinner. $100 is a lot of money, but for that I get to have a really nice three course dinner plus drinks with my friends, I get to meet and network with atheists from all over the world in a casual dinner setting, I get some first rate atheist entertainment, and I get to dress up a bit, which I rarely have the chance to do at home.

They're flogging off tickets to Britney Spears for upwards of 200 bucks, and that's hardly going to be a lah-di-dah event!

I know what I'd rather spend my money on.

[Skepticus]

A gold pass isn't necessary to attend the dinner! Anyone can attend that. A gold pass simply means priority seating for speaking events.

:eek: There goes my party... :confused: ...But, that means I can go to the bal.. er dinner after all. :p

It's not an "us" and "them" thing you know ;)

I don't mind what it is. As long as us can get in amongst them. :D

Seriously though, I thought there was one function or session, that the all weekender didn't cover. I'll go and read it again; properly this time.

Well I see this in the website "The Full Weekend Pass does not provide access to the Saturday Night Dinner."

[Skepticus]

I agree. There's nothing lah-di-dah about the dinner. I've bought a concession pass and I'm also going to the dinner. $100 is a lot of money, but for that I get to have a really nice three course dinner plus drinks with my friends, I get to meet and network with atheists from all over the world in a casual dinner setting, I get some first rate atheist entertainment, and I get to dress up a bit, which I rarely have the chance to do at home.

Ahhhh! Thanks Kristy, I think I get it now. The dinner separately Is $100 (I understood that much), but you don't get that with the weekend ticket, do you? You and I as concession holders paid $210 for the weekend ticket alone. We have to pay an extra $100 If we wish to come to the dinner. That is how I understood it already. I just didn't
expect the majority of full weekend ticket holders, were going to be buying the extra Saturday night ticket. I know It's still great value, but considering it is nearly half again as much for just one evening more and that my budget has been spread so thin, for the last month, I can read the newspaper through it, well the Saturday night just seems a we bit extravagance (not bad value - understand).

I know it would be fun to go out and have a nice meal with the best people in the world, but some of us never spring for anymore that a pub meal, especialy in the wake of the essential costs to do the . The availability of the other guests to talk to, well, that was what I was trying to offset, by suggesting the non-attendees stick together, so there would be an alternative. On the other hand, just looking at the program, with the comedian, the magician and Non-Stamp-Collector, I would miss only one very badly and thats NSC. It comes down to a hundred bucks for the more tangential less atheism related luxuries and light entertainment plus NSC. I would have preferred that actress woman (who appears have nothing in particular to do with atheism except that she happens to be an atheist), to have been grouped with the expendable light weight fluff. Non-StampColecter however Is a high impact and hard-line, atheist, who celebrity is precisely because his work is the quintessence of atheist polemics.

Having weighed it up though, I would still happily spend the extra if the odd $100 was neither here nor there. But value wise, I have to leave it out. I assumed that a fair number would because it is optional and more entertainment / luxury, than information / inspiration. I don't wish to discourage anybody what ever they do. If they cant go to the $100 event though, then it would still be good to stick together and entertain ourselves if they could at least find $15 - $20 wouldn't it? I mean better than doing nothing.

They're flogging off tickets to Britney Spears for upwards of 200 bucks, and that's hardly going to be a lah-di-dah event!
I hope you do realize I really was joking with the 'lah-di-dah' business. :p
No doubt the dinner event is hardly intended as what anybody would call high brow, but if we are going to crank up the juke box and dance on the tables a the pub over the road, we are going to tend make the other gathering look like the crème de la crème.

$200 doesn't seem to bad to go to go see/hear Brit. Mind you; I would expect it to be paid in advance, and she would have to spend the night with me as well. :D More Oh-la-la than lah-di-da.

So I don't mean to try competing with the Saturday night event, I just assumed that a fair number of people. like myself, were likey to opt out and if so it would be good if we did something together rather than nothing alone. Is there any way to tell from ticket sales, how many all weekender's, are not attending Saturday night Kristy?

[Skepticus]

And the penny finally drops as to why Praxis was telling me you don't need a gold pass. Because the regular ticket holder can still buy a separate Saturday night ticket, but then the name (which was just an example) fails to include the individual Saturday night tickets. Now I think I got it for sure. I think. :rolleyes:

[Chrys Stevenson]

And the penny finally drops as to why Praxis was telling me you don't need a gold pass. Because the regular ticket holder can still buy a separate Saturday night ticket, but then the name (which was just an example) fails to include the individual Saturday night tickets. Now I think I got it for sure. I think. :rolleyes:

Skepticus, as far as I know (and I can't check because the Gold Ticket info is no longer up on the website), none of the ticket options include the dinner. All convention pass holders - Gold or otherwise - have to purchase a dinner ticket if they want to go to the dinner.

It is an optional extra for all delegates.

Pro, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[LeeC]

Hi Kristy

$100 is a lot of money, but for that I get to have a really nice three course dinner plus drinks with my friends

All sounds good, but what happens when you don't have any friends?

Lee
PS
I've got a ticket anyway... I can always talk to myself.

[LeeC]

On the subject of tickets... anyone knows how and when we get our hands on them?

I've got a receipt to say I have spent a lot of money, but no actually ticket.

Will they be e-mailed or snail-mailed?

Anyone know?

Thanks

Lee

[Seamus]

They're flogging off tickets to Britney Spears for upwards of 200 bucks, and that's hardly going to be a lah-di-dah event!

Britney Spears, $200? I sincerely hope that includes a blow job.

-um,on second thought,perhaps not.You'd probably catch something really nasty.

I WOULD pay $200 to see a real artiste, such as our Kylie. Getting to stare at Kylie's bum is worth way more than $200,even if she has had some work done on it..:p

[two dogs]

On the subject of tickets... anyone knows how and when we get our hands on them?

I've got a receipt to say I have spent a lot of money, but no actually ticket.

Will they be e-mailed or snail-mailed?
...


I believe that the receipt is also the ticket, as it says:


Please PRINT THIS RECEIPT and bring it with you to the event entrance.

Julian

[LeeC]

I believe that the receipt is also the ticket, as it says:


Please PRINT THIS RECEIPT and bring it with you to the event entrance.



Oh, I am suppose to read my receipts now? :eek:

Thanks... I will take a look at what my e-mail says. I never looked passed the $ signs

Lee