Making friends in Dublin

friendsindublin

I'm a 24-year-old guy looking to make friends in Dublin. My hobbies include reading, music, films, anime and video games. Do you know any good places to make friends?

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058260793/making-friends-in-dublin

Join your local Library and read book in a book club Go to collage. Join a club be it a sports club or some other sort of club or just go to a pub

rolling boh

Your best chance is to get involved in something with a social side to a club where you have a common interest that is always a good start . Just going to pubs may just result in drinking buddies at best it can be difficult to break into an established group where the group have known each other for a while .You are young so that may be different but in general a shared interest is the best starting point .

standardg60

I'm going to ask the obvious question here, are you approaching this from a gay perspective or not OP?

Leg End Reject

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119534946#Comment_119534946

I don't think that's the obvious question at all, it's perfectly normal to want friends.

He could go online if he was looking for hookups.

standardg60

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Of course it's normal, i just thought the answer would help with any replies

Leg End Reject

There's probably a lot of Dublin groups on meetup.com.

friendsindublin

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No, I'm heterosexual.

wotzgoingon

Hang out outside the methadone clinics in Dublin, you are bound to meet some interesting characters.

Count Dracula

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It depends on what type of friendships you are interested in creating. I would certainly avoid being too systematic about where or how you will make them.

All my best friendships have been with people who I enjoy hanging out with. I am not overly concerned about their interests, I am more interested in enjoying my own interests, if they happen to share interests that is fine, but I have never wasted a thought on trying to establish interests based on what my friends are?

I sense that you may not be from Dublin? It can be challenging trying to build a life in a new city. In your 20's you will be faced with lingering teenage cliques and so on. But most importantly try not to try too hard. Just be friendly and enjoy yourself.

You will read by yourself, you can discuss your reading at a book club, or even better, down the pub.

If you want to share music with people just start dancing and singing, I would recommend the pub here also. Don't bother trying to form lasting friendships at dance classes. Blokes at these are usually on the pull and they will not be interested in anyone cramping their style.

I never bother going to the cinema with friends anymore, i am perfectly happy to attend on my own. However there is no problem bringing an old friend to the pictures and a meal. Don't try this out with a new work colleague however, he will either run a mile, report you to HR for harassment, or even worse, tell everyone else in the office that he thinks there is something odd about you, I know, it is a cruel and malignant world.

What is anime? Is it that Japanese stuff I sometimes watch on Pornhub? If it is I will meet you for a scoop and we can laugh hysterically at the obscene taboo innuendo those sick perverts in Japan dream up. It is the most entertaining shight on the web.

Video games? I get what is happening here but to be frank I am not into them myself.

Never trust anyone who you constantly hear bitching about other people, when you are not there they are most likely having a bitch about you.

By the way if you PM me looking to hangout I more than likely won't, sorry I think your query is slightly odd and whilst I am giving you some friendly advice I reckon you might potentially have issues and could well turn out to be clingy, why should I take the risk?

Now I might be completely wrong about you, so try not to take my honesty to heart or get too offended? I just reckon there is the slight possibility that you are completely sinister and derive pleasure from inventing passive aggressive idiotic questions to other keyboard fanatics, a lot of who I might add garner a warm satisfaction out of their interests and whilst that infuriates your chronic cynicism which manifests itself through the medium of an anonymous online discussion forum.... I have to ask myself why you bother?

friendsindublin

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I'm not a drinker unfortunately

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Do you like cats and stamps? Are you OK in small cramped conditions?

rolling boh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119535838#Comment_119535838

If you are a bit on the shy side the pub is most likely not the place to get to know people anyway as I posted earlier its difficult to break into established groups . I know it's always churned out but common interest gives you the best chance even if it's something voluntary. If it's shyness that is holding you back in general you will have to work on that . Are you mixing with people in general if you are working there might be something there to get you started . You have to put yourself in situations where you can talk to people to give yourself a chance .

Pissy Missy

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I'm going to ask the obvious question here, have you always been a dope?

Pissy Missy

Op, my brother is of a similar age and loves anime, he's made a bunch of friends off discord, I think it's an anime online forum where people chat. Seems to be very popular.

Grayson

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Check out meetup. You'll find plenty of stuff related to anime and stuff like that.

riclad

Most men under 50 play video games, anime is Japanese animation films or TV shows, usually scifi or based on Japanese comic books, manga, there used to be dublin Sci Club meetup,

Anime is not really anything to do with sex. Some anime feature 18 rated violence. Anime just means animation made in Japan. I don't know how anyone over 20 makes friends , when you move to a new city or town

maybe go to a pub karaoke night. Some community centers have events where people can meetup . Maybe do voluntary charity work. Maybe someone needs to invent a non dating app for making friends

completedit

I think you have to change your idea what it means to have friends. By 24 in Irish culture anyway it generally involves around bars pubs and maybe the cinema or sports match at regular or irregular intervals. You're not gonna get a casual hang out group. It just doesn't happen.

Patsy167

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Nonsense. Absolutely not true and completely misleading. Not everything in Ireland centres around pubs. He's 24 for god sake and your writing him off to a life of loneliness.

There's any number of opportunities available - volunteering, meetup.com, exercise classes, public speaking, evening hobby classes are all great options.

completedit

That's not what I think of when I think of friends, to me friends just hang out, shoot the breeze and do random **** together, going to exercise classes is not the same as having buddies.

radiotrickster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119567651#Comment_119567651

If I remember correctly, the dating app Bumble has a section for making friends