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Girls are "friendlier" during a recession...

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    #122
    road_2_damascus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭road_2_damascus


    consultech wrote: »
    So I get a shout from one of the lads on Saturday afternoon inviting me out for a "large" one with about 6 of them on Saturday night. They're apparently heading to a certain relatively upmarket club, donning the designer suits, as is their way (Know them from college, they're all 24-28, work in very solid jobs considering, or live on dod's money, but that's beside the point). Haven't been out with this set of lads in about a year so what the heck, my finest goes on too and out we pop.

    So... we get to club X and from the get go the lot of us/them are attracting attention from various groups of (hot) girls. This goes on all night, it wasn't even a challenge (in single man's terms). Long story short we were each asked by several different girls on several different occasions throughout the night to buy various girls drinks, their friends drinks, etc... Moreso the other lads, as I'm not single and wasn't mixing it up as much as them. One of the lads was even invited back to a girl's house (who he'd only been talkin to for 5 minutes!), but he had to pay for the taxi (~€50)!?!

    I honestly felt like I was back in that Phuket gogo bar at times, I haven't seen anything like this in Dublin before.

    So... Have single (hot) girls in Ireland dropped their standards in the name of a free ride (so to speak)? - Or has the recession moved the ethics goalposts for one-night gold-diggery by an alarmingly noticeable amount?

    Lads? Any similar experiences?

    I started to take this post seriously until I saw that you guys got taken for a ride by a bunch of slappers


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    #123
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I make it a rule never to buy women drinks. Rarely have in the past. I wouldnt buy a complete stranger of a bloke drinks either so I dont see the point in doing so with a complete stranger of a woman. It feels too much like a bribe to me. "Here, I dont know you, but I want to get into your knickers. Here's a drink to keep you around while I do my funky thang. Well you did accept a drink from me so...". Ehhh no. If Im getting on with someone and am heading to the bar, I'll include her in the request for drinks, but that's about it. Actually watching some men do it of a night out looks kinda desperate to me.

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    #124
    NickNolte
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    Guys who buy women drinks are suckers at best, pathetic losers at worst. Women who go to pubs or clubs expecting men to pay for their drinks are gold diggers at best, whores at worst. Always funny to see it though. The pathetic, helpless, naive nature of people on a Saturday night out will never cease to be a source of amusement for me.


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    #125
    dollybird09
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭dollybird09


    consultech wrote: »
    I personally don't make a habit of wearing a suit out, and I wasn't on Saturday. I however don't see a problem with it, seen as we had been to dinner etc too.

    Mmmmmmmmmm guys in suits...

    If you put identical twins in a club and one was in a suit and the other was in jeans and a shirt, I'd be more likely to go for the one in the suit - for the simple reason that guys in suits are hot!!! :P


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    #126
    MIN2511
    Registered Users Posts: 5,398 ✭✭✭MIN2511


    Ah jeez, yis are taking this way OTT... I don't have a problem buying drinks for guys and i am a girl... It's only a drink... the person doesn't have to chat with you...


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    #127
    vinylbomb
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    dollybird09 wrote: »
    Mmmmmmmmmm guys in suits...

    If you put identical twins in a club and one was in a suit and the other was in jeans and a shirt, I'd be more likely to go for the one in the suit - for the simple reason that guys in suits are hot!!! :P

    This chap will wear a suit AND buy you booze, hows that for a Brucey Bonus!


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    #128
    dollybird09
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭dollybird09


    vinylbomb wrote: »
    This chap will wear a suit AND buy you booze, hows that for a Brucey Bonus!

    Oooh sounds like a winner! Though I can buy my own drink...

    I find it odd if a guy doesn't offer to buy me a drink and we've been chatting for a while..... it would just seem rude if he was to go to the bar and just buy a drink for himself so I guess in that case I would expect him to at least offer me a drink... though I would be more than happy to buy the next one..

    So Consultech... throw on the suit later and you can buy me a drink!!! :cool:


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    #129
    scorpioishere
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭scorpioishere


    Hot, haven't met anyone yet...:pac:
    May be for your taste they are hot.


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    #130
    Wagon
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    NickNolte wrote: »
    Guys who buy women drinks are suckers at best, pathetic losers at worst. Women who go to pubs or clubs expecting men to pay for their drinks are gold diggers at best, whores at worst. Always funny to see it though. The pathetic, helpless, naive nature of people on a Saturday night out will never cease to be a source of amusement for me.

    I gotta admit, I love watching some sleazy bastard in a suit getting robbed. It's very funny. But there's also the actual nice lads who are just naive to these wenches and although few and far between, it's never a nice thing to see them get robbed. So because there'a few innocent victims i think the women who do this are a lot worse than the lads in this scenario.


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    #131
    vinylbomb
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    dollybird09 wrote: »
    I find it odd if a guy doesn't offer to buy me a drink and we've been chatting for a while..... it would just seem rude if he was to go to the bar and just buy a drink for himself so I guess in that case I would expect him to at least offer me a drink... though I would be more than happy to buy the next one..
    :

    And of course I would offer to buy a girl a drink if we were chatting away an getting on well. Most guys on here (or at least certainly me) are railing against girls who just fart around all night, basically taking dudes for a ride by teasing drink out of them.
    Then again, to those that let it happen, well, you gets owned bwoy!


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    #132
    dollybird09
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    vinylbomb wrote: »
    And of course I would offer to buy a girl a drink if we were chatting away an getting on well. Most guys on here (or at least certainly me) are railing against girls who just fart around all night, basically taking dudes for a ride by teasing drink out of them.
    Then again, to those that let it happen, well, you gets owned bwoy!

    Yeah I'd never go from guy to guy trying to get free drinks..... Though I know lots of women who do - bad form really, though I do kinda blame the guys for being saps!


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    #133
    _blank_
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    Girls like this are tarts.

    I notice none of them have been posting in this thread.

    Fellas who fall for it though. Utter numpties.


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    #134
    AnonoBoy
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    Any time I've had the misfortune to end up in a club populated by drink freeloaders I have the good fortune to be unique enough* looking to rarely get bothered by them.

    *ugly enough

    On the off chance that one of them does approach me the exchange usually goes along the following lines:

    Her: Hi.
    Me: Hi.
    Her: Would you like to buy me a drink?
    Me: Would you like to buy me a drink?
    Her: Eh.... No
    Me: But how are you gonna sleep with me if you don't get me drunk?
    Her (disgusted): I don't want to sleep with you.
    Me: Then why are you offering to buy me drinks?
    Her (confused): I'm not offering to buy you a drink.
    Me: You probably should - I'm a bit slutty when I'm drunk.
    Her: Ugh. *walks off*
    Me: Ok bye now, thanks for playing!


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    #135
    vinylbomb
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    Love it!!!
    My approach tends to be:

    Soliciting female : Hi. Want to buy me a drink?

    Me: Faaaaarrrrrrrrrkkkk oooooffffffff.

    Although I'll be mixing it up a bit now that I see what can happen when a bit of creativity gets chucked in the mix!


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    #136
    lukasbasic
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    Is it possible that an irish girl is hot? I've heard that those species do not exist


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    #137
    Cheeky_gal
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    Lads who buy girls drinks are idiots and girls who ask for them to buy them a drink are bitches.

    I feel sorry for neither party.

    Buncha puffffs ......


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    #138
    _blank_
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    lukasbasic wrote: »
    Is it possible that an irish girl is hot? I've heard that those species do not exist

    My girlfriend is Irish, and is the hottest girl I've ever seen.

    Also, I reckon cheeky_gal is hot.


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    #139
    Cheeky_gal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Cheeky_gal


    Des wrote: »
    Also, I reckon cheeky_gal is hot.

    Link to bebo? Haha, eh no...

    Buy me a drink? ;)


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    #140
    _blank_
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    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Link to bebo? Haha, eh no...

    Bebo makes you stupid

    Cheeky_gal wrote: »
    Buy me a drink? ;)


    Anytime ;)


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    #141
    vinylbomb
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    Buy you a drink? And you're still on Bebo? Surely that makes you underage?!?
    ;)


    2 cans of Scrumpy, coming right up!


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    #142
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users Posts: 5,781 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    I dont understand someone asking someone to buy them something if they've just met the other. Girl housemates I had used to always go out for free nights and just string lads along. Fair play but the men themselves are eejits. Also, who wears suits to a nightclub?


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    #143
    consultech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    Lot of suit bashin in this thread!? Like I said, I don;t get the suits in clubs thing myself, but each to his own. As an aside though; You'd almost swear the staple posters/readers of this thread were your bog standard Irish begrudgers. But Irish people aren't begrudgers, so that doesn't make any sense. :rolleyes:

    In all seriousness though, a lot of folk seem to think they have myself and my "mates" (first time seeing them in over a year) pegged. Very intuitive of you all, as I have given very little info into what they're like as people. I've spoken more on the actions of the Celtic tiger spoiled doddy's brigade freeloaders in Krystle, not many (some have) people have run with appropriate abuse for those types though... :confused:


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    #144
    vinylbomb
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    consultech wrote: »
    You'd almost swear the staple posters/readers of this thread were your bog standard Irish begrudgers. But Irish people aren't begrudgers, so that doesn't make any sense. :rolleyes:

    I don't think there is too many people begrudging the fact the you were asked to buy a chick drinks dude. Lets be honest.
    consultech wrote: »

    Very intuitive of you all, as I have given very little info into what they're like as people.

    In Krystle. Wearing a suit. Flaming the clientelle in a thread. Sniping sarcastic comments in reponse to criticism.

    Nuff said.


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    #145
    consultech
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    vinylbomb wrote: »
    I don't think there is too many people begrudging the fact the you were asked to buy a chick drinks dude. Lets be honest.
    consultech wrote: »
    You'd almost swear the staple posters/readers of this thread were your bog standard Irish begrudgers. But Irish people aren't begrudgers, so that doesn't make any sense. :rolleyes:
    thread wrote:
    *Oodles of presumptuous conjecture-based comments*

    Pretty self-evident in fairness.

    What's the real reason for it then? I'm stumped.
    vinylbomb wrote: »
    In Krystle. Wearing a suit.

    I look forward to your feedback on the thread after you've actually read it.
    vinylbomb wrote: »
    Flaming the clientelle in a thread. Sniping sarcastic comments in reponse to criticism.

    I'm not taking criticism directed at me to heart, I don't see how anyone could criticise without making the massive assumptions of me that've been made thus far.


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    #146
    vinylbomb
    Registered Users Posts: 605 ✭✭✭vinylbomb


    I can see how all of this thread could have been construed differently


    However you did yourself no favors with comments like the one below, you just came accross as a typical southsider wideboy.
    consultech wrote: »
    I'm not posh by any stretch in fairness, and tbh the lads aren't that posh with the exception of one of em. They just put on a huge front with the gladrags and the hoochies seemed to lap it up, that's all I'm sayin. I've just never seen it with such uniform response b4 (outside of Bangkok/Amsterdam).


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    #147
    consultech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    vinylbomb wrote: »
    I can see how all of this thread could have been construed differently


    However you did yourself no favors with comments like the one below, you just came accross as a typical southsider wideboy.

    Fair shout - but I was being heaped with smartassery well before that. A lot of the comments seem to say more about peoples' preconceptions than myself or my "mates" if I'm being frank.


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    #148
    AnonoBoy
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    consultech wrote: »
    Fair shout - but I was being heaped with smartassery well before that. A lot of the comments seem to say more about peoples' preconceptions than myself or my "mates" if I'm being frank.

    Well Frank I have to say you kinda should have expected it, this being AH and RugbyFanatic not being around anymore.

    He would have bigged you up no doubt.


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    #149
    consultech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,956 ✭✭✭consultech


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Well Frank I have to say you kinda should have expected it

    :D I knew that was comin!


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    #150
    Darragh29
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    Full suits in a club == gang of losers...


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    #151
    Darragh29
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,097 ✭✭✭Darragh29


    consultech wrote: »
    Lot of suit bashin in this thread!? Like I said, I don;t get the suits in clubs thing myself, but each to his own. As an aside though; You'd almost swear the staple posters/readers of this thread were your bog standard Irish begrudgers. But Irish people aren't begrudgers, so that doesn't make any sense. :rolleyes:

    In all seriousness though, a lot of folk seem to think they have myself and my "mates" (first time seeing them in over a year) pegged. Very intuitive of you all, as I have given very little info into what they're like as people. I've spoken more on the actions of the Celtic tiger spoiled doddy's brigade freeloaders in Krystle, not many (some have) people have run with appropriate abuse for those types though... :confused:

    The fact that you'd even go to Krystle is enough of a statement.


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