To celebrate Qype’s first birthday, we thought we’d do something a little more interesting for the September Qype party. Instead of just plying you guys with free booze and food, we’re having a pub quiz! This means that you’ll get to show off just how clever you are, while getting drunk in a nice pub.

Sounds good doesn’t it?

Here’s the details:

What: Qype Quiz!
When: 11th September
What time: 7pm
Where: The Offside Bar, Old Street, London

Well there’s some more info on the Qype events pages, and you’ll have to sign up and make sure you’ve got yourself a team (maximum of six, more info on the rsvp page). But then you just have to go along, answer some questions and maybe even win some stuff. Or, come along, get all of the questions wrong and sulk in the corner. With free beer. See, that makes it all better, doesn’t it?

Places are limited, so RSVP quickly, and if you miss out on the quiz part, then join everyone around 10pm for drinks afterwards!

Flickr image from Krikit’s photostream.

Yesterday was the wonderfully named ‘2nd ever Qype meat-up’ and oooh it was a good’un.

So many people joined us at The Big Easy on the Kings Road that we needed two tables! (D’you think they thought we might have been trouble all sat together? Qypers? Surely not! So we got to split into the cool table (Siany, The Duck and AHunter were on that table) and the Riff Raff table included Timinator, Urbanite and our soon to be gone CaribQueen. :-(

Let the eating commence! Everything from steak to burgers to steak to oysters to steak was consumed. All washed down by frozen margs and Tiger beers. We were so full up and looked after we couldn’t move and there was no way we could eat dessert! (Siany was suffering from brain freeze as well.) There was a board next to us for the famous BBQ rib eating competition and the mind boggles when you see that some people have eaten 9 whole racks of the stuff. AHunter has said he might just enter the next one so we’ll keep you posted about his cholesterol level afterwards.

The meat-up is proving to be great fun (unless you’re vegetarian, sorry) and you can join the group here and tell us where we should go for the imaginatively titled 3rd ever Qype Meat-up.

There’s an interesting article over at Web2.0 gossip site Techcrunch UK about the clubber’s networking site Don’t Stay In.

TCUK calls the community ‘the biggest social networking site you’ve never heard of’ and it does seem that the clubbing fraternity have really embraced it and turned it something pretty useful.

If you read the post you’ll see Qype gets mentioned as a competitor to Don’t Stay In, and while that’s not entirely accurate (although you can check out our club reviews here), there’s some definite similarities, and it’s great to see another local/social community like this really finding its niche and helping out its users.

So do any Qype users also use Don’t Stay In? Is there one thing they do that makes them great? Could we learn anything from them? Let us know in the comments.