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So how do YOU make friends?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Mystery_Meat, Apr 19, 2008.

  1. Norman Stansfield

    Norman Stansfield Active Member

    You two chatting online has NOTHING to do with that.
     
  2. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    OK. here's a helpful suggestion. Maybe.

    If you like sports and like watching sports, go to the local sports bar. There's bound to be someone there for the same reason as you.
     
  3. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Go buy some porn, you porn hound.



    And see, Ryan? You CAN make suggestions without pissing all over someone else's problems.
     
  4. Norman Stansfield

    Norman Stansfield Active Member

    I just got one! What are the chances?
     
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    I went to the bar a lot. Then we started golfing. And I had golf and drinking buddies. And I took up softball. And I had golf and drinking and softball buddies.
    I miss that
     
  6. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Glad I could help. I really wasn't trying to be an asshole, but that's impossible in certain situations, and that was one. If I go a few weeks without going to the gym and my wife calls me a fatass and tells me to hit the treadmill, she's not trying to be an asshole.

    Neither was I. It's obvious certain people are more adapt at making friends than others. I hope those that have problems find a solution.
     
  7. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    From someone who isn't a regular church-goer, I know many people agree with the church-for-meeting-people thing. It's a place where you can strike up conversations with people without their first thought being you're trying to pick them up. And it's one of the best places for social events, if you don't need an alcoholic beverage in your hand to be social.

    Of course, you can always stop in at your favorite message board and be a little ray of sunshine. Right, IJAG? ;D
     
  8. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Works for me, shottie. :D
     
  9. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    It's free on the Internet. Save some money, Norm.
     
  10. Cadet

    Cadet Guest

    Ryan, I'm going to disagree with you not because of your opinion but because of your age. When you are in college, there are a thousand ways to meet people. When you are one or two years out of college, there are about 500 ways to meet people.

    But as you get older, as you move across the country a few times and those college buddies start having families, it gets a lot harder to meet people, especially if you don't have kids. Kids bring built-in friendships with the other soccer moms or scouting dads.

    You go from working at the college paper, where everyone wanted to go party after putting the paper to bed, to a paper where most people bolt straight to their cars once the last page is in. That built-in friendship base doesn't exist.

    If you move to a small town to work at the Podunk Press, people already have their friendship circles and may not take kindly to outsiders. Plus you can hardly go grocery shopping without some deranged swimming parent cornering you in the cereal aisle, let alone have a social life.

    The suggestions offered here have been good ones. I'm one of the most outgoing, social people I know (comparable to Ragu's friend in my younger days), and I've still asked this question.
     
  11. shotglass

    shotglass Guest

    And you don't even have to shake your laptop back and forth to make them move.
     
  12. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    Right. But I still do anyway. It reminds me of the old times.
     
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