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What's great about being single?

  • 29-09-2013 12:18PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭


    Ripped off from another forum but hell, let's do AH style...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Right arms twice as big as the left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Coming and going as I please! Sunday is my day o' motorbiking...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    after hours seems like a worthwhile past time...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Right arms twice as big as the left.

    That's discriminatory against southpaws


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭newbee22


    Not having to think about somebody else when making plans!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭Howard Juneau


    Not having to apologize when you shít the bed after a particularly heavy Arthur's Day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I can drink from roughly 3pm until the end of Match of the day on a Saturday and I can watch 12 hours of sport on a Sunday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Not having to wipe your browsing history.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭Burky126


    Having a personality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    wazky wrote: »
    Not having to wipe your browsing history.
    Not having to wipe your hole.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    I have sex with my friend Jane without my boyfriend getting all huffy about it. Drama queen.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 615 ✭✭✭jellyboy


    Farting in bed...

















    And enjoying the rating of said gas....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    So every single male can't stop thinking about their asses?

    I think I have some news for you, single lads...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Not having to apologise for things you didn't do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,734 ✭✭✭seenitall


    The feeling of unfettered possibilities, of course! Who knows what's behind the next corner? You're free to experience it, whatever (or whoever) it is.
    cantdecide wrote: »
    Sunday is my day o' motorbiking...

    Great thread, cd. Enjoy your, er, ride. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    Freedom


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,830 ✭✭✭✭nacho libre


    I can't see anything great about it. I'm reminded of the phrase from the film into the wild, happiness is only real when shared.
    i understand other think differently, but i suspect they mean as a temporary situation. i mean can anyone who is single for a long time, really think it's all that great- maybe if you're asexual, but if you have desires, i don't think it's possible.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    I can't see anything great about it. I'm reminded of the phrase from the film into the wild, happiness is only real when shared.
    i understand other think differently, but i suspect they mean as a temporary situation. i mean can anyone who is single for a long time, really think it's all that great- maybe if you're asexual, but if you have desires, i don't think it's possible.

    I've been single a long time and shared happiness with my friends and family. Some day I will want to settle down but I'm not ready to do that yet so I'm happy to remain single and do my own thing. I have desires, of course, but there's always one night stands and the occasional friend with benefit scenario. You've hit the nail on the head when you say it's for a temporary situation though. Obviously I wouldn't like to be still single when I'm 40.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,420 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    No regular sex kinda cancells out all the positive aspects of single life IMO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman


    I can sleep in the middle of my really big bed and the remote for the tv is all mine!! :)

    ...........and I don't have to make sandwiches for anyone except me. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I only have to pay for my meals when I'm out.
    Don't have to share my smokes
    Don't have anyone nagging me to stop smoking
    I can be an anti social prick all I like


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    I can sleep in the middle of my really big bed and the remote for the tv is all mine!! :)

    ...........and I don't have to make sandwiches for anyone except me. :D

    Urge to make obligatory sexist comment.... immense....


    Also, the total freedom from b*tching and general arguing is nice but I think Ill jump back in soon:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭Mr. teddywinkles


    What great bout being single n no kids. TIME TO URSELF!!!!!!!! :-D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭Sgt. Al Powell


    happiness is only real when shared

    This is a fallacy.

    I feel sorry for people that have always been in relationships and feel they need to experience everything with another, just to enjoy themselves. I know people that have jumped from one relationship to another from a young age and never experienced life on their own and to me that is sad. How can you truly know yourself or what you really feel about a myriad of things, if they have always been filtered through another.

    You can always spot couples like this, they need to rabbit away to each other non-stop. Whispering at every given opportunity, be it in theaters, cinemas, dinner parties etc. They just can't enjoy the moment for themselves, it has to be shared at regular intervals or they are lost. To me, that is not genuine experience of life at all, it's a diluted one.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    No regular sex kinda cancells out all the positive aspects of single life IMO.

    not that hard to find regular sex

    I have more Sex than some of my mates (some married, some long term relationships) and im single


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman




    total freedom from b*tching and general arguing is nice

    I hear you on that score. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    not that hard to find regular sex

    I have more Sex than some of my mates (some married, some long term relationships) and im single
    Not everyone's into casual sex though, and casual sex is nothing like sex with someone you're in love with.

    But yeh, there are definitely positives to being single, however I wouldn't want to be single forever either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭Systemic Risk


    This is a fallacy.

    I feel sorry for people that have always been in relationships and feel they need to experience everything with another, just to enjoy themselves. I know people that have jumped from one relationship to another from a young age and never experienced life on their own and to me that is sad. How can you truly know yourself or what you really feel about a myriad of things, if they have always been filtered through another.

    You can always spot couples like this, they need to rabbit away to each other non-stop. Whispering at every given opportunity, be it in theaters, cinemas, dinner parties etc. They just can't enjoy the moment for themselves, it has to be shared at regular intervals or they are lost. To me, that is not genuine experience of life at all, it's a diluted one.

    I agree about people who are always going straight from relationship to relationship. I have a friend like this and is never secure or happy on his own. He actually hates spending time on his own. After his last brief interlude between girlfriends we tried to convince him to spend some time single but it fell on deaf ears.

    im not single but i was for the majority of my twenties and love having alone time. I think you have to be happy by yourself before you can be happy with someone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    I think you can only really appreciate being single when you've HAD relationships. Those of us who are not fortunate enough to have ever had someone to call a partner might look at it differently. Sure, we might have the tv remote to ourselves, and the bed, and never have to compromise about holidays or weekend plans or nights out...EVER. Not once. So there's no novelty there. Personally I'd love to have a big disagreement with the 'other half' about where to spend Christmas this year. At least it's REAL. At least it's something that grown-ups do. Not almost-40 year olds like me who have never brought someone home to meet the parents (because there's never been anyone to bring home), or even cooked someone dinner (romantic or otherwise!) .

    If you're between relationships - fine, enjoy the freedom!! :) When you're permanently single, that sort of freedom becomes its own prison. Doing everything/going everywhere by yourself loses its shine after 40 years :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 293 ✭✭GorillaRising


    lahalane wrote: »
    Freedom

    I'm in a relationship and I've lots of freedom. It's important to have a life outside of a relationship.

    You're kidding yourself or have settled for someone in the past who isn't a good fit.
    cloud493 wrote: »
    I only have to pay for my meals when I'm out.
    Don't have to share my smokes
    Don't have anyone nagging me to stop smoking
    I can be an anti social prick all I like

    Relationship > smoking.
    What great bout being single n no kids. TIME TO URSELF!!!!!!!! :-D

    Lots of time to myself. Granted, some don't get it, but again, it's about finding the right person. Not all relationships = no time to yourself.
    This is a fallacy.

    I feel sorry for people that have always been in relationships and feel they need to experience everything with another, just to enjoy themselves. I know people that have jumped from one relationship to another from a young age and never experienced life on their own and to me that is sad. How can you truly know yourself or what you really feel about a myriad of things, if they have always been filtered through another.

    You can always spot couples like this, they need to rabbit away to each other non-stop. Whispering at every given opportunity, be it in theaters, cinemas, dinner parties etc. They just can't enjoy the moment for themselves, it has to be shared at regular intervals or they are lost. To me, that is not genuine experience of life at all, it's a diluted one.

    You're assuming because one is in a relationship they've been relationship hopping since they were teenagers.

    As I've expressed, it's important to have a life outside of a relationship.

    What's the harm in having a moment with your other half the cinema? To you it's merely whispering, to them it might be an in joke only they will understand, a moment shared between lovers, kindred spirits, whatever. Perhaps one they'll remember.

    On the surface it's nothing, but those small moments mean a lot to a lot of people. You can't have that on your own.

    Again, you're making assumptions they can't enjoy something without sharing it. The reason they're together is because they want to be. They've experienced things on their own and enjoy being together more. I see nothing wrong with that.

    What I do see is a tad bit of bitterness from some single people over a certain age.

    Having said that. I think being single for an extended period is something everyone should do/be. Learn about yourself, experience things, before just getting into a relationship and feeling tied down. Again, if it's the right person, they might want freedom too and that also can be enjoyed together.


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