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Single Fortysomething man

  • 23-01-2009 9:11pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭


    Back in the nineties if you were over forty and wanted a night out that didn't involve Country and Irish music or ladies who appeared to be members of the Third Order of St. Mary the Perpetual Virgin Society, Sachs was the place to go. In those days I was a happy lad in a LTR with the girl I thought I was going to marry and everything was just dandy. Times and relationships moved on and the old gang all settled down and got married.

    Now, with the 2010s just around the corner and the chill wind of recession blowing around my single life I realise that watching the television on Friday nights won't make something happen. I can't dance, am reasonably presentable, not thick or dumb or sleazy but for the life of me I can't figure out where to go out on a weekend night on my own for a bit of craic without looking like a Dad at the Disco or needing to be able to discuss the price of Heifers in some God-forsaken place playing a bad imitation of Nashville music.


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  • #2
    St Bill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭St Bill


    Why don't you do something you're interested in rather than just go out looking for women?



    Edit : Just read what I wrote and I thought it sounded very short!
    What I mean is if you're doing something you're interested in, you won't end up in places that play crap imitation Nashville music!


  • #3
    Curvy Vixen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Curvy Vixen


    Not sure if you're looking for idea's as to how to find women other than clubs/pubs or recommendations for 'older' clubs.

    I'm sure you'll get all the usual suggestions for the former but if you're looking for an 'older' club then Bojangles, downstairs in Dicey Reilly's in Harcourt St tends to be an older crowd, especiallly around the singing man end :D


  • #4
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Thanks, (night)clubs and pubs are exactly what I'm looking for. Going to night school isn't what I want to do, God knows I did enough of that lark right into my late thirties, and probably the major reason why I'm single now.


  • #5
    bandraoi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 201 ✭✭bandraoi


    Why not just learn to dance?
    Salsa, Swing dancing etc, lots of people go by themselves, you spend the first hour in a class meeting all the members of the opposite sex as they rotate around and afterwards there's usually some social dancing.


  • #6
    who007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 711 ✭✭✭who007


    Maybe you're still single cos you do focus on pubs and clubs to meet women instead of a sports club/drama group/<whatever interest you already have> ?
    Been there and done that myself and all I met were women who were fond of going to the pub every weekend - can (and I stress CAN) be pretty limiting if you want to meet someone with more interests than theprice of a drink and who's out with who that night...
    I know that sounds like I am generalising and I don't mean to because I am only too aware that there are many women who particioate in a well rounded way in other activities who like a few drinks at the weekend, I am just recounting my own experience.


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  • #7
    m'lady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭m'lady


    I personally do not see how this is a P.I. When all the op is asking for is where he can meet women? as in what pubs/clubs. He is not looking for any other suggestions. I suggest he does a google search for pubs/clubs in his area.


  • #8
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    m'lady wrote: »
    I personally do not see how this is a P.I. When all the op is asking for is where he can meet women? as in what pubs/clubs. He is not looking for any other suggestions. I suggest he does a google search for pubs/clubs in his area.

    It's not the biggest PI in the world admittedly. Meatier problems are available elsewhere. The Google search doesn't throw up that level of exactness. I only wanted a human perspective on it, seeing as I live in a suburban town with the only nightlife being either for the teens and twenties or a god awful Friday night Country and Irish bash for sixty something country folk. I'm not sporty and my work doesn't permit me time in the evenings to indulge myself in drama groups and whatnot.

    Anyway, my question is somewhat answered a couple of posts earlier so thanks for your interest anyway.


  • #9
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    m'lady It is not your place to decide that is a PI or not. Please take the time to read the charter for this forum.

    dudara


  • #10
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    Bojangles on Harcourt Street seems to be the place to go for single people in their 40's


  • #11
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    If you are looking for pubs/clubs in your area OP it help if you could tell us where you are located.
    You can also look in regional forums, there is a lot of similar threads in most of them (where to meet friends/partners).
    Regions http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=77


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