People These Days Don't Want To Do Anything

Faithless

I know we're in a recession, but has anyone else noticed a hugely depressing vibe going on with people today?

When growing up, I was always a little older than my friends and I thought it was just because of immaturity but now that they're full grown adults, I don't see a difference.
I'm quite happy to pay a few quid to socialise, perhaps go on a trip or do some kind of activity but they never want to get involved in anything.

Instead of going out to meet new people, they'd rather sit at home with the same people they see everyday and have a few drinks. I just don't get it. I know some have a car to upkeep and try to save money but I am unemployed at the moment and they have been in their jobs for over 4 years (I lost mine 4 months ago).

People are just getting boring.

AnonoBoy

Maybe they just don't want to do anything with you. :cool:

Schism

Get new friends.

NEXT!

4zn76tysfajdxp

Have you thought about joining the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes?

Overheal

Spending attitudes have changed dramatically over the last 10 years thanks to uncertain futures. Lets say back during the Tiger years, you know things were getting better and things were going up up up so what was it to you to splash on a trip abroad or upgrade the car?

People have been slammed on their ass in the last year or so. Nobody will want to do anything until things start looking up.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Not everyone is interested in following the other sheep to the pub every friday and saturday night to get twisted drunk. Maybe your mates have grown up and actually have matured, maybe you are the odd one out? Thought about that?

blow69

Probably the New Year blues or something.

Get some new friends.

NothingMan

Maybe they don't find your tiddlywinks tournaments vey exciting. I however do. I am world tiddlywinks champion 1998 - 1999. Would you care for a game?

Fago!

I'm MAD hungry!

TheZohanS

Faithless wrote: »

Instead of going out to meet new people, they'd rather sit at home with the same people they see everyday and have a few drinks. I just don't get it. I know some have a car to upkeep and try to save money but I am unemployed at the moment and they have been in their jobs for over 4 years (I lost mine 4 months ago).

People are just getting boring.

It's probably because you post **** like this:

Faithless wrote: »

I'd find it hard to have close female friends. After all, I wouldn't want to hear about their day or how they look. Instead, they're just pieces of meat to me in all honesty. If that makes me a bad guy, then so be it. The world would be very strange if we were all the same.

What is interesting is that, even with a girlfriend, I find it hard to stay loyal. I mean, with such great talent out there it's hard to commit to one person. Perhaps, it is just different for everyone but I think it's your duty as a man to get the best experience while you're young. Why put all your eggs in one basket?

pablomakaveli

TheZohan wrote: »

It's probably because you post **** like this:

Ouch. Nice find.:)

Duiske

TheZohan wrote: »

It's probably because you post **** like this:

Game Over. Insert Coin.

bonerm

I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

kowloon

Faithless wrote: »

Instead of going out to meet new people, they'd rather sit at home with the same people they see everyday and have a few drinks.

Those 'same few people' you talk about would be what people call their close friends. You can meet hundreds of people out on the town but only a few will ever be close friends as opposed to the new spin facebook and myspace have put on the meaning of the word.

Fago!

bonerm wrote: »

I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

WTF are you shyting on about? on about?

TheZohan wrote: »

It's probably because you post **** like this:

Future post of the day!

Buford T Justice

Well, I would post a response and suggest something,


but I couldn't be bothered tbh. I'm too bored.

Faithless

Addison Worried Semifinalist wrote: »

Not everyone is interested in following the other sheep to the pub every friday and saturday night to get twisted drunk. Maybe your mates have grown up and actually have matured, maybe you are the odd one out? Thought about that?

I didn't say I wanted to get twisted every weekend, you didn't understand the OP.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Faithless wrote: »

I didn't say I wanted to get twisted every weekend, you didn't understand the OP.

Ok, I do understand it, but I also understand why some of my mates never go out. Whenever I go out I never ask them as I know what the answer is going to be. That's just the way things are... Get new mates to socialise with.

alias06

I kind of agree with you Faithless, it doesn't cost a lot of money to just meet up and hang out and I find it annoying how much work it takes to get friends even to agree to that nowadays. And I don't think its just me!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

alias06 wrote: »

I kind of agree with you Faithless, it doesn't cost a lot of money to just meet up and hang out and I find it annoying how much work it takes to get friends even to agree to that nowadays. And I don't think its just me!

It's definately you...

No offence but you are the type of people other people hate because of your constant nagging and trying to persuade other people to go out to make ye feel better (somehow). I can't stand having mates like ye. The constant "come on out, it won't be that expensive" bla bla bla, maybe I simply am not interested in going to some shíthole club so we can't talk because of the music.

I have this one friend (bítch is also a term used) who is constantly like this, she lives in thailand but when she is home she expects everyone to drop everything and spend 2-3 weeks drinking in some shítty clubs, because she has the interest and the money to do that, she thinks (somehow) that everybody has the same interest and money to do same. Yet, when you say now, she then makes it out that you are a bad mate and don't want to meet up. What's wrong with sitting in and having a few cans and watching the TV or a film? You people have to accept that not everybody continues down the wreckless path all their lives, some people actually grow up.

Same with going to the cinema or anywhere else, not everybody is going to be interested at that point in time. Get over it.

ejmaztec

Faithless Laughing Boy

No more problems for you Faithless.

Fago!

Fingers McGee wrote: »

Well, I would post a response and suggest something,


but I couldn't be bothered tbh. I'm too bored.

Why don't you do what your username is saying?

Faithless

Addison Worried Semifinalist wrote: »

It's definately you...

No offence but you are the type of people other people hate because of your constant nagging and trying to persuade other people to go out to make ye feel better (somehow). I can't stand having mates like ye. The constant "come on out, it won't be that expensive" bla bla bla, maybe I simply am not interested in going to some shíthole club so we can't talk because of the music.

I have this one friend (bítch is also a term used) who is constantly like this, she lives in thailand but when she is home she expects everyone to drop everything and spend 2-3 weeks drinking in some shítty clubs, because she has the interest and the money to do that, she thinks (somehow) that everybody has the same interest and money to do same. Yet, when you say now, she then makes it out that you are a bad mate and don't want to meet up. What's wrong with sitting in and having a few cans and watching the TV or a film? You people have to accept that not everybody continues down the wreckless path all their lives, some people actually grow up.

Same with going to the cinema or anywhere else, not everybody is going to be interested at that point in time. Get over it.

Actually, the majority would consider your attitude a little boring....staying in with a few cans and watching TV on the weekend, what are you... 60?!

It's nothing about going to clubs where music is blaring, how about a quiet drink or even an activity where alcohol isn't remotely involved? But no.
I know exactly how your friend feels. I travel a lot myself and I am excited to get home once in a while to see old friends to catch up. Problem is, while you're living your life to the absolute limit (insert sarcasm face here), other people want to enjoy the small time they actually have with the people they care enough about to spend their free time with.

It's not rocket science but I understand your point about people having less means to spend during these months. Perhaps it's not me or you but there actually are people out there more tight-arsed regarding money. Perhaps I have just outgrown my friends and my view of life is far more broad than the four boundaries of this small island.

stringbox

TheZohan wrote: »

It's probably because you post **** like this:

It's probably because you are a bad person and they're sick of you?
I have a friend who cheats on his girlfriend all the time, and I don't like going to clubs with him.

Or any place where he's gonna score, for that matter.

Faithless

stringbox wrote: »

It's probably because you are a bad person and they're sick of you?
I have a friend who cheats on his girlfriend all the time, and I don't like going to clubs with him.

Or any place where he's gonna score, for that matter.

U mad?

Ginger Nut

Please Please give us home birds a break.Its not that I cant afford to go out clubbing all the time - its just I like to spend quality time with my husband and friends without having to scream all the time to be heard

aaronjumper

Ginger Nut wrote: »

Please Please give us home birds a break.Its not that I cant afford to go out clubbing all the time - its just I like to spend quality time with my husband and friends without having to scream all the time to be heard

Because you only have to scream a small amount for your husband and friends to listen

ContyHooks

Faithless wrote: »

U mad?

Do you like football?

Do you like nachos?

Well, why don't you come over and watch the game, and we'll have nachos?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Faithless wrote: »

Actually, the majority would consider your attitude a little boring....staying in with a few cans and watching TV on the weekend, what are you... 60?!

Nowhere in my post did I state my situation.

Going out drinking every weekend, what age are you, 14?

It's nothing about going to clubs where music is blaring, how about a quiet drink or even an activity where alcohol isn't remotely involved? But no.
I know exactly how your friend feels. I travel a lot myself and I am excited to get home once in a while to see old friends to catch up. Problem is, while you're living your life to the absolute limit (insert sarcasm face here), other people want to enjoy the small time they actually have with the people they care enough about to spend their free time with.

It's ok to want to visit family and friends when you come home, but demanding people should meet you in a club to catch up is absurd and childish. Or demanding that they go out every night... same thing.

Maybe people are completely content with what they do? Since you need to do all these things it seems that you are not very happy with yourself or suroundings. No offence, but the problem lies with you, not your friends.

It's not rocket science but I understand your point about people having less means to spend during these months. Perhaps it's not me or you but there actually are people out there more tight-arsed regarding money. Perhaps I have just outgrown my friends and my view of life is far more broad than the four boundaries of this small island.

It seems it's the other way around, your friends have outgrown you.

Faithless

Addison Worried Semifinalist wrote: »

Going out drinking every weekend, what age are you, 14?

Nowhere in my post did I state that I was content with getting drunk every weekend.

Addison Worried Semifinalist wrote: »

It's ok to want to visit family and friends when you come home, but demanding people should meet you in a club to catch up is absurd and childish. Or demanding that they go out every night... same thing.

I'm not demanding by no means, all I was doing was highlighting the fact that people have become accustomed to this boring atmosphere and mentality. The mad Irish is right, we seem to have lost our touch altogether.

Addison Worried Semifinalist wrote: »

It seems it's the other way around, your friends have outgrown you.

So a desire to discover the world beyond our shores (surely one exists, would someone please think of the children), having ambitions and enjoying life is everything you find opposite to maturity?

Bonito

Is it the fact they wont go out or is the fact you don't want to go out alone?