Normal People, is it realistic?

DanielODonnell

I've never touched a woman in my life, I would say my situation is extremely rare, maybe 1 in 500 men are kiss less, hug less, virgins like me. I've never been hugged by a woman, I think being touch starved has a bad effect on mental health. In some countries they have a 'Cuddle buddy' service, like escorting only for hugging. I wouldn't stoop to such low levels though.

AngryHippie

DanielODonnell wrote: »

I've never touched a woman in my life, I would say my situation is extremely rare, maybe 1 in 500 men are kiss less, hug less, virgins like me. I've never been hugged by a woman, I think being touch starved has a bad effect on mental health. In some countries they have a 'Cuddle buddy' service, like escorting only for hugging. I wouldn't stoop to such low levels though.

Are you Asexual, or do you still have fantasies and desires?

Oxytocin is good ****, fair enough if your not into it or whatever, but Man, Woman or Beast, everyone needs an ould cuddle once in a while. Get into it.

Sardonicat

AngryHippie wrote: »

Are you Asexual, or do you still have fantasies and desires?

Oxytocin is good ****, fair enough if your not into it or whatever, but Man, Woman or Beast, everyone needs an ould cuddle once in a while. Get into it.

Agree! Platonic cuddles are lovely.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

zerosugarbuzz wrote: »

He’s not driving a Lamborghini, it’s a banger worth probably a couple of hundred euro if that. No big deal at all for a smart guy like him, his mothers black economy job probably keeps it on the road.

Yes, people didn’t even drive bangers. Even a banger costs money to run. And buy.

Deleted User wrote: »

If you live in the wesht of Ireland. You need a car. Public transport is non existent.

No. Seriously. I grew up in a very rural west of Ireland area. Pretty much nobody had a car at that age. Other people seem to have grown up in places where for some reason lots of LCs did have cars but this thread is about how much of it rings true and for me personally, it doesn’t.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

mariaalice wrote: »

Plus if he was super brainy he got an exhibition scholarship to Trinity.

https://www.tcd.ie/study/assets/PDF/Entrance%20Exhibition%20Pamphlet%20Award%20TCD-web.pdf

One of my daughter's friends got one of those.

I don’t think they are very lucrative.

Beechwoodspark

Also do ppl realise the cost of tax and insurance for a 20 year old novice driver?

Lemsiper

Having attended secondary school in Castlebar during the 00s, I can indeed confirm that many students owned their own cars.

Some came from wealthy families.

Some worked since they were 13/14.

Some sold drugs.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Lemsiper wrote: »

Having attended secondary school in Castlebar during the 00s, I can indeed confirm that many students owned their own cars.

Some came from wealthy families.

Some worked since they were 13/14.

Some sold drugs.

I could picture more kids in the county town having cars alright. Bigger population for starters. Probably bigger proportion of wealthy families.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

MoonUnit75 wrote: »

I don't know if the 'no platforming' thing was mainstream like it is now though, Connell is in his first couple of days in Trinity and he's repeating stuff I've only really seen since about 2016/2017 over here.

Something like this happened in NUIG in 2009. David Irving was invited and there was a campaign to de-platform him.

Later, in 2011, the Student Union introduced a "no platform" policy that meant it would not extend invites to members of certain far-right or Islamist groups.

murpho999

MoonUnit75 wrote: »

Well it's a soap opera with more sex, mood music and all of the light hearted stuff taken out. If you explained the storyline to someone who never saw it there's nothing really in there that you wouldn't expect in Home and Away or Neighbours. I guess the glacial pacing makes the impact on the main characters more real. But they are all stereotypes and no one really develops in any meaningful way.

I guess it ticks a lot of nostalgia boxes and

the lack of any conclusion

means it lingers on afterwards. Everyone can relate to

'the one who got away'

.

I'm sorry but this show is not a soap opera at all, it's a not a multi storied show that you'd see in Fair City or Eastenders.

It's a drama and just because it centres around a relationship does not make it a soap.

MoonUnit75

murpho999 wrote: »

I'm sorry but this show is not a soap opera at all, it's a not a multi storied show that you'd see in Fair City or Eastenders.

It's a drama and just because it centres around a relationship does not make it a soap.

It is a soap opera. It is an episodic storyline. There is no plot or resolution and the characters barely develop, have an epiphany or achieve anything that wasn't entirely expected at the start. It's a short soap opera, a fly-on-the-wall series relating to the everyday events in the lives of everyday people. Having trendy music and lingering the camera on their epidermis for long periods doesn't make it much more than that.

Edit: from Wikipedia "The main characteristics that define soap operas are "an emphasis on family life, personal relationships, sexual dramas, emotional and moral conflicts; some coverage of topical issues; set in familiar domestic interiors with only occasional excursions into new locations". Fitting in with these characteristics, most soap operas follow the lives of a group of characters who live or work in a particular place, or focus on a large extended family. The storylines follow the day-to-day activities and personal relationships of these characters. "Soap narratives, like those of film melodramas, are marked by what Steve Neale has described as 'chance happenings, coincidences, missed meetings, sudden conversions, last-minute rescues and revelations, deus ex machina endings.'" These elements may be found across the gamut of soap operas, from EastEnders to Dallas."