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Meeting people in Dublin

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  • #32
    irlirishkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    Blondie81 wrote:
    No, they hate Dublin. We go out in Maynooth during the week but at weekends most of them go home and the ones that don't wouldn't step foot in town if I paid them.

    They're not going to the right places then in that case. I love going out in town. It does depend who you're with though of course, and I have the luxury of having a short stroll home..
    I went out with a girl once who went to Maynooth college, and she actually said the same thing, nobody wanted to go out in Dublin with her because they didn't like it.

    99% of my friends are married, and I've had a few saturdays when they've all been doing couply things, so I do feel your pain..

    K.


  • #33
    Blondie81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭Blondie81


    irlirishkev wrote:
    I went out with a girl once who went to Maynooth college, and she actually said the same thing, nobody wanted to go out in Dublin with her because they didn't like it.

    K.


    Yeah exactly, it's like they're allergic to the place. If only they'd just try it out once I'd say fair enough but they won't give it a chance.


  • #34
    irlirishkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    Have you tried tricking them into it? Say arrange to see a film in the Savoy, and then drag their asses off to the pub afterwards. Maybe do it on a Thursday night.. The best night to go out in town, in my opinion, though work usually dictates I stay in on a Thursday :rolleyes:

    K.


  • #35
    gobby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭gobby


    irlirishkev wrote:
    Have you tried tricking them into it? Say arrange to see a film in the Savoy, and then drag their asses off to the pub afterwards. Maybe do it on a Thursday night.. The best night to go out in town, in my opinion, though work usually dictates I stay in on a Thursday :rolleyes:

    K.
    Thats pretty much what I was trying to say earlier. Make an event. Drag your mates out!


  • #36
    Blondie81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭Blondie81


    gobby wrote:
    Thats pretty much what I was trying to say earlier. Make an event. Drag your mates out!

    They're stubborn fe.c.kers!

    I think I'll give up. You've missed out Dublin! :(;)


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  • #37
    irlirishkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    Blondie81 wrote:
    They're stubborn fe.c.kers!
    I think I'll give up. You've missed out Dublin! :(;)

    That defeatest attitude will get you nowhere lady! Be more assertive, take the bull by the horns, make it happen, seize the day.. etc etc..

    There's plenty o'drinking to be done in the city centre.. trust me, I've seen the booze, and the booze is good :cool:


  • #38
    Blondie81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭Blondie81


    irlirishkev wrote:
    That defeatest attitude will get you nowhere lady! Be more assertive, take the bull by the horns, make it happen, seize the day.. etc etc..

    There's plenty o'drinking to be done in the city centre.. trust me, I've seen the booze, and the booze is good :cool:

    Yes I know there is and I know it is!! Ahhhhh it's not fair!


  • #39
    irlirishkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    I've gone out on my own a few times. It's doable, but not as much fun as with friends obviously. Nice to sit at a bar sometimes and just reflect. Although, I find I tend to start texting like mad, and then the phone bill's sky high at the end of the month.. get's you out of the house though!


  • #40
    Maynooth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 368 ✭✭Maynooth


    Ah Kev.....in fairness.....going out on your own??


  • #41
    irlirishkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    It's not as bad as it sounds, though I don't make a habit of it. And If I were to do it, I'd go to a 'quiet' pub as opposed to somewhere that's going to be packed..


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  • #42
    ClareBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭ClareBear


    Mmmm not so sure how I'd feel about going out anywhere, let alone Dublin on my own. Maybe it's different for guys but I couldn't do it. I'd get all paranoid and think everyone was looking at the loner on her own.

    Speaking of going out in Dublin. Was in Dragaon (formally known as Sosume) Saturday night and reports are right, it is a gay bar now. Still fab but I miss Sosume :(


  • #43
    irlirishkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    ClareBear wrote:
    Mmmm not so sure how I'd feel about going out anywhere, let alone Dublin on my own. Maybe it's different for guys but I couldn't do it. I'd get all paranoid and think everyone was looking at the loner on her own.

    Speaking of going out in Dublin. Was in Dragaon (formally known as Sosume) Saturday night and reports are right, it is a gay bar now. Still fab but I miss Sosume :(

    That's how I feel about Viva. I used to love that bar. Then they closed it down. It's reopened now, and although it's pretty much the same bar with a different name, it just feels different :confused:


  • #44
    Nidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Nidge


    Wow blondie that is one thing i am dreading concerning going to college in maynooth. First of all i live in Dublin so i may have to move or risk using transport provided by the Government. But i mean that's what i was worried about, it ending up that all my friends are from maynooth and not arsed to go anywhere near dublin. I don't know if i want that, do you reckon you are alone in your situation or do other people in maynooth have the same problem, that said i presume if you knew of people with the same problem you'd automatically be going out with them.


  • #45
    case n basket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 403 ✭✭case n basket


    Viva closed? That's a shame, nice place.

    D2 is alright, but there are much better places to go in that area. You've got the Vaults (great during the summer, sit outside) and the Odeon nextdoor, and Stephen's Green is just down the road...

    God, thinking about all the various pubs and clubs in Dublin, it's so damn small!

    // EDIT - the above places may no longer be open. Are they? :)


  • #46
    Blondie81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 84 ✭✭Blondie81


    Nidge wrote:
    Wow blondie that is one thing i am dreading concerning going to college in maynooth. First of all i live in Dublin so i may have to move or risk using transport provided by the Government. But i mean that's what i was worried about, it ending up that all my friends are from maynooth and not arsed to go anywhere near dublin. I don't know if i want that, do you reckon you are alone in your situation or do other people in maynooth have the same problem, that said i presume if you knew of people with the same problem you'd automatically be going out with them.

    Yes, welcome to Maynooth were 90% of the students seem to be from Kerry/Mayo/Louth/Longford/Donegal and think if they'll go out in Dublin they'll catch some sort of disease.

    Maynooth students (in general) just don't do Dublin, I think they're scared of it. I don't understand it, I'm a culchie and I love the place.


  • #47
    Nidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Nidge


    Oh jebus, so you are saying there are not many people from dublin go to maynooth? I was hoping that there would be some sort of colony of dubbish people. I've never been a fan of moving outside dublin, i have no problem with people from outside dublin obviously but after my degree i would kind of hope to have my friends back in dublin.

    The sacrifices one must make...


  • #48
    Kernel
    Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    ClareBear wrote:
    Mmmm not so sure how I'd feel about going out anywhere, let alone Dublin on my own. Maybe it's different for guys but I couldn't do it. I'd get all paranoid and think everyone was looking at the loner on her own.

    Speaking of going out in Dublin. Was in Dragaon (formally known as Sosume) Saturday night and reports are right, it is a gay bar now. Still fab but I miss Sosume :(

    It's a gay bar now... hmm.. that explains a lot.. haha :D

    Regarding going out alone, I hate going into Dublin on my own, and I'm a bloke. It's not too bad waiting around for an hour or so for mates, but the only people who you can have a bit of banter with are foreigners usually, everyone else is just too busy to talk.


  • #49
    Berger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭Berger


    Maybe you're ugly and you smell terrible. Ever think of that? Huh?


  • #50
    aphex™
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭aphex™


    Well i live in dublin but i'd rather go to Maynooth for a night out. The chicks are fine, the competition is ugly, and there are _no_ skangers.


  • #51
    Kernel
    Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    Berger wrote:
    Maybe you're ugly and you smell terrible. Ever think of that? Huh?

    What, gay blokes like to shag smelly ugly blokes up the arse? Well, either way I'm gonna stay away from there... i'm not as ugly as you.. but I do smell... hmmm.


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  • #52
    Berger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭Berger


    I wasn't talking to you, assreamer.


  • #53
    ClareBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭ClareBear


    Nidge wrote:
    Oh jebus, so you are saying there are not many people from dublin go to maynooth? I was hoping that there would be some sort of colony of dubbish people. I've never been a fan of moving outside dublin, i have no problem with people from outside dublin obviously but after my degree i would kind of hope to have my friends back in dublin.

    The sacrifices one must make...


    Ah there's a few Dubs here too....just way more culchies.


  • #54
    blondie83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭blondie83


    Just got a load of PM's from some guy who's apparently a body builder called Mario asking me if I'm okay, and telling me that there's nothing wrong with not findng someone to go out with. Apparently he got me confused with blondie81 - damn near identical log-in names!


  • #55
    gobby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭gobby


    blondie83 wrote:
    Just got a load of PM's from some guy who's apparently a body builder called Mario asking me if I'm okay, and telling me that there's nothing wrong with not findng someone to go out with - damn near identical log-in names!
    Wow... He sounds really interesting. Maybe you should go out with him :D


  • #56
    irlirishkev
    Registered Users Posts: 2,502 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    blondie83 wrote:
    Just got a load of PM's from some guy who's apparently a body builder called Mario asking me if I'm okay, and telling me that there's nothing wrong with not findng someone to go out with - damn near identical log-in names!

    Well you're clearly in there then..
    Body builders eh?

    ;)


  • #57
    joolzz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭joolzz


    Blondie81 wrote: »
    Of course! ;)

    Ah it's just annoying you know....I love Dublin and can't exactly go out pubbing and clubbing on my own. Damn these students out here, typical culchies that hate everything Dublin. :rolleyes:


    Tut..Tut..easy knowing you haven't lived elsewhere! Dublin is a piddly little city one third of the size of Birmingham and the smallest capital in the EU. It's only big to people who have never lived anywher bigger. In comparision to cities like New York, Dublin IS the country. No wonder you have no one to hang out with. Open your mind a bit.


  • #58
    kittensoft1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭kittensoft1984


    Blondie81 wrote: »
    Not looking for lifelong friends (though if that happened it'd be great), but just people around my age (23) to go socialising with.....have the craic with etc...it's so hard to meet people in Dublin and it's a shame cause I love going out in the city when I rarely get the chance to. Anyone got any ideas? Would just love to go out on a Saturday night with a bunch of girls my own age and dance my feet off and have some fun. I'm in college outside the city and none of my friends here dare venture in to the big smoke so it's hard to find people to go out in town with.

    Hey there! Im moving back to Dublin next week and I am looking for some new friends! Pm and I'll give ya my number! :P


  • #59
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    kittensoft1984 wrote: »
    Hey there! Im moving back to Dublin next week and I am looking for some new friends! Pm and I'll give ya my number! :P

    It's a 3 year old thread I'm afraid.


  • #60
    blondie83
    Registered Users Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭blondie83


    joolzz wrote: »
    Tut..Tut..easy knowing you haven't lived elsewhere! Dublin is a piddly little city one third of the size of Birmingham and the smallest capital in the EU. It's only big to people who have never lived anywher bigger. In comparision to cities like New York, Dublin IS the country. No wonder you have no one to hang out with. Open your mind a bit.

    Actually I think Blondie81 comes from the country!


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  • #61
    Pepe LeFrits
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    Holy thread resurrection batman!

    I just noticed an old user in this thread who was me. Had totally forgotten about it.


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