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Public Displays of Affection

  • 05-04-2011 5:44pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭


    Is it me or is it just gross to see people shifting the face of each other the whole time in public?? or worse, getting ''funky'' in public...

    I have two friends who are bascially wrapped around each other 24/7 since they started going out and it's kinda mank to see tounges flying everywhere at lunch time.

    I want to be able to eat without seeing this sorta stuff going on :rolleyes:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Jealous op? :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭IHeartChemistry


    No, I have a boyfriend to whom I adore very much :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Oh Christ ..

    Was at a play there recently (God Of Carnage) and this guy sitting right smack in front of us would not stop kissing his girlfriends head, totally and utter twats. Then she would gaze at him, suck the mouth of him and stare into his eyes. At one point there is a line like: "That's women for you.." and the guy kissed her head again and whispered to her: "Not you though babe" :rolleyes:

    BASTARDS!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    No, I have a boyfriend to whom I adore very much :p

    well then eat the face off each other proudly in public! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Does **** in a Tescos count as a 'Public Display of Affection'??
    If so, lock me up....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭Pwindedd


    don't mind the odd peck or bum squeeze - that's kinda sweet !

    However was mid-shopping excursion and decided to drop into department store cafe on top floor - sat next to the window and out on the deck was a couple literally eating each other from the inside out - the whole cafe could see them, kids and all. Not that it matters but they wern't even good looking ! Yuck I thought to myself. The kid at the next table was less restrained and blurted out to his mum and nanny -" Errr!! look at them snogging" - did make me chuckle but completely inappropriate behaviour for the location.

    PDA's = 3 second rule = if you can do it in 3 seconds it's ok but any longer is pushing it.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 8,490 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fluorescence


    A quick kiss is alright, but people who are getting stuck into each other constantly in public places need to be shot. Blast 'em with piss, I say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    At one point there is a line like: "That's women for you.." and the guy kissed her head again and whispered to her: "Not you though babe" :rolleyes:
    ...Puke ...
    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Does **** in a Tescos count as a 'Public Display of Affection'??
    If so, lock me up....
    As long as it's not over the ,buy one get one free , fillet of chicken offer ......they get snapped up quick


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    I have two friends who are bascially wrapped around each other 24/7 since they started going out and it's kinda mank to see tounges flying everywhere at lunch time.

    I want to be able to eat without seeing this sorta stuff going on

    I take it they're both butt ugly then


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 355 ✭✭Lavattack


    Hey OP.

    I think if people wanna have fun its there choice as to where to have it. Kissing is just a show of affection but take having sex in public, its illegal to the best of my knowledge but that doesn't stop people from doing it. It's all about the rush of doing something that you may get in trouble for. Personally I love having sex in public for a few reasons, I only had the chance to do it with one g/f but we took the biscuit completely. Also its honestly a fair rush. Knowing people are watching/looking is just exciting, well it was in our case anyway! I suggest having sex in public and see how the adrenaline feels then you won't mind people kissing in public I think.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    It makes me sad,jealous or sick usually,especially if it's stupid looking people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭IHeartChemistry


    My attitude is holding hands or arms around the waist fine :) Quick cute kisses fine :) But full on loving gazes and full on mauling each other is no :P

    When your talking to other people look at the person, don't gaze at each other while your talking to me :rolleyes: Save the corny couply lovey dovey stuff for the bedroom or yer own company like himself and myself do :D

    and no, I'm not going to try having sex in public...imagine the cold *shivers*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Affection is for private occasions, holding hands walking along is about as far as it should go!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Holding hands is fine but i cant stand people hanging out of me in public and dont dare start wearing the face off me in a pub/club. That's 100% no go!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Alter-Ego


    You just can't beat good ol' Irish sexual repression.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Oh Christ ..

    Was at a play....

    That was your first mistake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Nothing more repulsive than witnessing 2 ugly people tongue the face of eachother. Especially when your sort forced to watch it as they're stood/sitting in front of you.

    Was in a queue in tescos the other day & this scummer couple started tongue probing one another. The male scut was a red faced spotty little creature, the female had slicked back blonde hair & was considerably larger than her companion. Please don't do this in public, its stomach-churning & frightening. Can you not wait 5 minutes till you get back to one of your mams houses to paw at eachother.

    I felt like dropping my findus crispy pancakes on the floor & walking away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    Hate doing it myself, though I don't mind others doing it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    <----Gives IHeartChemistry a BIG kiss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 721 ✭✭✭Xivilai


    The big slobbery bastards should have their tongues pulled out with tweezers :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Savage Tyrant


    A small kiss or a hug is fine. Holding hands is perfectly acceptable too. But I really don't want to see anyone shoving their younger down their partners gullet. Especially anywhere people happen to be eating.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭Fremen


    Pwindedd wrote: »

    PDA's = 3 second rule = if you can do it in 3 seconds it's ok but any longer is pushing it.

    You wouldn't believe what I can do in three seconds...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 riskyOz


    Originally Posted by Pwindedd viewpost.gif

    PDA's = 3 second rule = if you can do it in 3 seconds it's ok but any longer is pushing it.

    +1 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Hate it when up the gym. You're there getting your jog on secretly looking at some hot chick for motivation all the while struggling to convince your dick that semi is as far as you want him to go. Then a fella comes over and kisses her. Totally ruins the fantasy i have going on in my head. PDA = No fúcking way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭crazym02


    public display of affection is a good thing, depending on who it is of course!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Short kisses and the like are grand but people half riding eachother is not on. You want to declare your love for eachother to the rest of the world but the rest of the world doesnt give a ****.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    When I'm single I hate it and curse them all to hell even if they're just holding hands.
    When I'm taken its cute once they aren't dry humping each other or wearing the face off each other in the middle of the day like


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    What about under the table action that nobody can see?

    Thats fine, right??


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I hate it, but it's because I'm jealous and I've no problem admitting that.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Is it me or is it just gross to see people shifting the face of each other the whole time in public?? or worse, getting ''funky'' in public...

    I have two friends who are bascially wrapped around each other 24/7 since they started going out and it's kinda mank to see tounges flying everywhere at lunch time.

    I want to be able to eat without seeing this sorta stuff going on :rolleyes:

    There can be no harm in it if its just cuddling. However when if turns to humping one another in the public swimming pool then that I find uncomfortable to be around...

    (The lifeguards did nothing by the way)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭Mrmoe


    There can be no harm in it if its just cuddling. However when if turns to humping one another in the public swimming pool then that I find uncomfortable to be around...

    (The lifeguards did nothing by the way)

    Don't worry the residual urine in the water will probably kill any sperm :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Ah it's nice to see two people who are crazy about each other being a little bit affectionate - in small, non-forced, non attention-seeking ways. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Dudess wrote: »
    Ah it's nice to see two people who are crazy about each other being a little bit affectionate - in small, non-forced, non attention-seeking ways. :)


    You're getting soft in yer auld age :pac:



    In the OP's case where you're out to lunch with others, it's not really appropriate. But otherwise I think theres no crime in being affectionate. I'm guilty of going beyond the three second rule and then some, but not while in others company.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭MonkeyBalls


    Ostenatatious public displays of affection are nauseating, especially when it's a guy doing all the groping, like a frog in amplexus. There's a jarring falseness and desperation underlying anything that one seems too eager to show off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    ...sorry, i thought this thread was about blackberries,


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Ostenatatious public displays of affection are nauseating, especially when it's a guy doing all the groping, like a frog in amplexus. There's a jarring falseness and desperation underlying anything that one seems too eager to show off.

    So a risky fiddle with the monkeyballs under the table is out of the question then?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Abi wrote: »
    You're getting soft in yer auld age :pac:
    It can be good fap material. Ah but Abz, tis so sweet... :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭Storminateacup


    I like when he holds my hand in public, or if we're walking at night and he puts his arm around my waist - makes me feel all safe <3

    Quick kiss on the head/forehead is okay but I wouldn't personally be tearing into him or having him tear into me in public.

    Less is more!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The kids of today, I don't know ... makes me long for the good old days, when "PDA" stood for "Personal Digital Assistant" ... :cool:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Nothing wrong with a bit of an auld dry hump in public....:pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I think public displays of affection are really sweet tbh. One thing that always makes me melt are older couples. Was out on Saturday night and there was a couple, probably in their 70's, up dancing and at the end of the dance, they had a cuddle and a kiss. It was adorable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    Never had it shoved in my face like some people here are on about , but in general I have no problem with it, I guess at most it can be very rude.

    I'd never agree with it being illegal or something, seeing it kinda reminds me how glad I am not to be in one of those fecked up backwards countries in the middle east that'll throw yea in jail for a few years for holding hands, never mind kissing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    dont have a problem with it, its not something i am conscious of tbh. i wouldnt think twice about showing affection in public either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,613 ✭✭✭Lord Nikon


    I felt like dropping my findus crispy pancakes on the floor & walking away.

    What Tescos did they have those Findus Chrispy Pancakes? I can't find them anywhere?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,613 ✭✭✭Lord Nikon


    I like when he holds my hand in public, or if we're walking at night and he puts his arm around my waist - makes me feel all safe <3

    Quick kiss on the head/forehead is okay but I wouldn't personally be tearing into him or having him tear into me in public.

    Less is more!!

    The fact that your into your third trimester, eh, eh, eh. I'll grab my coat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,613 ✭✭✭Lord Nikon


    Depends on your age, length of relationship, and other stuff. In the other hand though, if your a teenager, your not going to let the public stand in the way of a good pee-pee rub. And also, if your really ugly, and she is well hot and you know it and she doesn't, make the most of the situation and maul that chick. Best to be seen scoring a fit bird in public so everyone can see, than face sucking an ugly chick behind curtains.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,264 ✭✭✭Pretty_Pistol


    When I'm on a packed bus and a couple start slurping eachother right infront of me then I mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Topper Harley


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Oh Christ ..

    Was at a play there recently (God Of Carnage) and this guy sitting right smack in front of us would not stop kissing his girlfriends head, totally and utter twats. Then she would gaze at him, suck the mouth of him and stare into his eyes. At one point there is a line like: "That's women for you.." and the guy kissed her head again and whispered to her: "Not you though babe" :rolleyes:

    BASTARDS!!

    I can't stand that sort of sweet sh1t, I'm a fcuking diabetic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 490 ✭✭Chefburns


    If its just a quick kiss or a hug grand but playing a game of tonsil tennis fit for Wimbledon is what really annoys me!! I remember seeing a pair of teens in temple bar with the guy literally hanging off the girl with his head on her shoulder. Looked a bit like this pair.......

    http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/9C713CBE-CE90-417D-B23D-E8700612F79A/42-15310671.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    dont have a problem with it, its not something i am conscious of tbh. i wouldnt think twice about showing affection in public either.

    All of this.


    I'm not talking about an exhibitionist way, but I'm not afraid to show what I feel for someone in public. Couples are different, there is no set rule on this. Some are more comfortable keeping it at home, which is fine thats their thing. But I refuse to stifle what I feel to suit passing strangers. As I've said earlier, I wouldn't be overly pda if in a small group of friends etc., but it doesn't make sense to me why you would repress your feelings for someone if you don't know anyone passing by. I'm aware of others around, but blank out them out if I'm honest. I know if the kissing is heading a certain direction to move it along. As corny as it sounds, so long as it's not in front of company, nobody else really matters.


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