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    #362
    givyjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Memorandum11 wrote: »
    As I explained, the average 23 year old woman is more attractive than the average 33 year old woman. Google it and do some investigation if you don't agree. Early twenties is the peak attractiveness age group for women.

    Just for clarity.. under which previous alias did you explain this? ;)


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    #363
    Pyr0
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    Raelynn Pitiful Minion wrote: »
    In my view, the best relationships are those where both people have the freedom to do things alone, if they want, and do other things together. Too many couples fall into the trap of feeling that they have to do everything together, and thus friends and interests get sacrificed for the sake of the relationship.

    I agree. I've been in relationships where to do anything alone was seen as a wasted opportunity for us to do something together and I hated it. I've thankfully learned from it and don't intend to fall into the same traps again!


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    #364
    Mister Vain
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    Reminds me of what comedian Bill Burr said about women always wanting to do something. "Ohh there's an empty day in the calender. Lets fill it up with sh1t." :D


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    #365
    Dial Hard
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    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Reminds me of what comedian Bill Burr said about women always wanting to do something. "Ohh there's an empty day in the calender. Lets fill it up with sh1t." :D

    Or as Tim Allen said in one of his stand-up routines, "Women fill time, men kill time."


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    #366
    [Deleted User]
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    BTW my last question wasn't meant as having to ask for permission to do something. Consulting with a partner on a decision is something anyone is going to do but it still means it's an extra thing to think about when an opportunity comes along. I could up sticks and move away next week without feeling like I had to check with anyone right now. Not that I'm going to. :pac:

    I have to say that as someone never in a proper relationship the moaning from people in them irks me quite a bit. :pac: Usually my response is "why don't you ask/say that to them?" which is met with "You just don't get it". Sounds healthy. :P

    I couldn't put up with someone who constantly has to be doing stuff, more specifically who thinks "we" have to be doing stuff. I have stuff to do 2 nights a week after work, I've to walk the dog, I've to see my mates. Every second weekend is taken up with something to do with the car or cleaning the house or giving someone a lift to the airport or whatever. I like having "me" time and I'm fine with giving the same to others.

    God I'm so lonely. :pac:


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    #367
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    Pyr0 wrote: »
    I agree. I've been in relationships where to do anything alone was seen as a wasted opportunity for us to do something together and I hated it. I've thankfully learned from it and don't intend to fall into the same traps again!

    Never got that, we do a lot together but if I got home this evening and he wasn't there I'd be luxuriating in the free solitude for at least a couple of hours before I started wondering where he is.

    I don't think it's good for the individuals to b e joined at the hip but it's not good for the relationship either, probably. You have to have time to miss each other like.

    I mean are you even IN A long term relationship if you haven't woken up, watched the rising sun on their dearly familiar sleeping face and thought "I think it might be the day. Today I might actually murder the prick :):)"

    Separate hobbies do mitigate against such moments. He's spent the last week taking 3 VCRs apart up in the attic, I have no idea why. I might do a bit of the Camino this summer, that wouldn't be his thing and I wouldn't drag him. He went off to Uganda for a few weeks last summer, first week or so was great and then I was pining away altogether for the last few days it.


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    #368
    vonlars
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    I'm 22 next week and was thinking I was really pushing on so this thread has made me feel a lot better :pac:

    I think it's easier to be single these days. Just out of a two year relationship and I'm so much happier out of it. While he was lovely and gave me space and time and everything, part of me thinks I'm just too independent to ever want to commit myself to something like that ever again.


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    #369
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    vonlars wrote: »
    I'm 22 next week and was thinking I was really pushing on.
    Yaysus! Born in 1997. :o

    I've CDs that are older than you!


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    #370
    Autecher
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    vonlars wrote: »
    I'm 22 next week and was thinking I was really pushing on
    This may be the most offensive sentence I have ever read on this site.


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    #371
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Autecher wrote: »
    This may be the most offensive sentence I have ever read on this site.
    I felt sort of that way at 22 also though. I think a lot of people do. You think your youth is over because you're no longer 18. It doesn't make sense looking back, but at the time you feel freaked about entering adulthood.

    I don't get why a person would think it's getting late to meet a partner at that age though.


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    #372
    B0jangles
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    Tucker Hot Bell wrote: »
    I felt sort of that way at 22 also though. I think a lot of people do. You think your youth is over because you're no longer 18. It doesn't make sense looking back, but at the time you feel freaked about entering adulthood.

    I don't get why a person would think it's getting late to meet a partner at that age though.


    Also it's around the age when time starts really speeding up - primary school seems to last for a couple of decades, secondary feels like about half as long as primary, and college flies past in about a week.


    It's unnerving :p


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    #373
    Deebles McBeebles
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    Tucker Hot Bell wrote: »
    Yaysus! Born in 1997. :o

    I've CDs that are older than you!

    1997 albums: OK Computer, The Fat of the Land, In it For The Money, The Colour and the Shape, Pop, Album of The Year....oh I feel my hips creaking.

    Good for you, young 'un!


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    vonlars
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    B0jangles wrote: »
    Also it's around the age when time starts really speeding up - primary school seems to last for a couple of decades, secondary feels like about half as long as primary, and college flies past in about a week.


    It's unnerving :p

    This exactly! Typing it out though makes me realise I probably do have a few years left :pac:


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    #375
    sbsquarepants
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    vonlars wrote: »
    I'm 22 next week and was thinking I was really pushing on so this thread has made me feel a lot better :pac:

    .

    I was 22, eh 22 years ago;)


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    #376
    chrissb8
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    I think alot of people feel pressure to go and do everything with their partners and that they have to keep up with the relationship. Sometimes you have to do work on yourself in a relationship particularly when you're young and getting established. If that means more time away from your partner and they can't understand that then just break up with them. They're not supporting you or seeing the long view just the short termism neediness and want of seeing you which is just pure selfish in my eyes. As they're not really thinking of you and what's best for you they just want to latch onto you for emotional support but relationships are about supporting each in more ways than that.

    If you have someone who wants to support you and is patient and understands that a relationship is a rollercoaster and what keeps the whole thing on track is an unsaid deep laying love and respect. Even through the times where you may only see each other once every 2 weeks because of educational or work committments. Well then you are on to something special. Relationships should be about growing together.

    I know the above is nothing about being single but I find alot of people are single as a result of the first point so thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.


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    #377
    BBFAN
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    One thing that strikes me now I'm single is the people who are shocked to the core when you say you're going on holidays on your own.

    You just know that these are people who just can't manage to do anything alone. I've even had one friend tell me she couldn't DREAM of having lunch on her own.

    That to me is quite sad. It says to me that this person does not like themselves very much if they can't spend an hour in their own company.

    In fairness they're usually the ones from large families who never spent 5 minutes alone in their lives.


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    #378
    fin12
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    One thing that strikes me now I'm single is the people who are shocked to the core when you say you're going on holidays on your own.

    You just know that these are people who just can't manage to do anything alone. I've even had one friend tell me she couldn't DREAM of having lunch on her own.

    That to me is quite sad. It says to me that this person does not like themselves very much if they can't spend an hour in their own company.

    In fairness they're usually the ones from large families who never spent 5 minutes alone in their lives.

    It’s the same with cinema, I’m always like what does it matter, it’s not like I can have a conversation in there. To be honest it’s nearly better going by ur self no debates about what movie to see.


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    #379
    This is it
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    I'd have no issue going for food, to the cinema, or other bits and pieces myself. I'm not so sure about a holiday, maybe short city breaks


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    #380
    Mister Vain
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    One thing that strikes me now I'm single is the people who are shocked to the core when you say you're going on holidays on your own.
    Ohh I can relate to that alright. Most people I work with actually can't fathom the idea that I travel alone. Some think I'm messing and keep asking me who I'm going with. I often just lie and say I'm going with a friend to avoid any awkwardness. I once put up a photo on facebook of me with a girl I randomly met in Budapest and they were all convinced she was my girlfriend. Well at least it allayed their suspicions of me being gay anyway. :pac:


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    #381
    TomasMacR
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    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Ohh I can relate to that alright. Most people I work with actually can't fathom the idea that I travel alone. Some think I'm messing and keep asking me who I'm going with. I often just lie and say I'm going with a friend to avoid any awkwardness. I once put up a photo on facebook of me with a girl I randomly met in Budapest and they were all convinced she was my girlfriend. Well at least it allayed their suspicions of me being gay anyway. :pac:

    So people assumed you must be in a relationship with her, hardly a judgement on you being solo traveller?

    We all meet strangers randomly, on our travels anywhere, not even as tourists...getting a picture taken with them after a short space of time and then posting it on social media is a bit odd unless there is an intimate tie so people will wonder.

    Did you ride her? And after take a little snap together, if so, it's not that weird. It's a bit like a souvenir or something if that's what you want. If not, its a bit weird, "look here's just me and this other person I just met and know f*ck all about, may not meet again but I want you all to look at this".


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    #382
    givyjoe
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    TomasMacR wrote: »
    So people assumed you must be in a relationship with her, hardly a judgement on you being solo traveller?

    We all meet strangers randomly, on our travels anywhere, not even as tourists...getting a picture taken with them after a short space of time and then posting it on social media is a bit odd unless there is an intimate tie so people will wonder.

    Did you ride her? And after take a little snap together, if so, it's not that weird. It's a bit like a souvenir or something if that's what you want. If not, its a bit weird, "look here's just me and this other person I just met and know f*ck all about, may not meet again but I want you all to look at this".

    This post is a bit weird to be honest.


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    Tell me how
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    TomasMacR wrote: »
    So people assumed you must be in a relationship with her, hardly a judgement on you being solo traveller?

    We all meet strangers randomly, on our travels anywhere, not even as tourists...getting a picture taken with them after a short space of time and then posting it on social media is a bit odd unless there is an intimate tie so people will wonder.

    Did you ride her? And after take a little snap together, if so, it's not that weird. It's a bit like a souvenir or something if that's what you want. If not, its a bit weird, "look here's just me and this other person I just met and know f*ck all about, may not meet again but I want you all to look at this".

    Christ you are reading wayyyyyyy too much in to this.


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    Tell me how
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    One thing that strikes me now I'm single is the people who are shocked to the core when you say you're going on holidays on your own.

    You just know that these are people who just can't manage to do anything alone. I've even had one friend tell me she couldn't DREAM of having lunch on her own.

    That to me is quite sad. It says to me that this person does not like themselves very much if they can't spend an hour in their own company.

    In fairness they're usually the ones from large families who never spent 5 minutes alone in their lives.

    I have travelled a lot on my own. City breaks, week in the sun, longer periods away.
    Friends and family found it curious at the start but no one ever questioned it. On some occasions, some friends have invited me to holiday with them but I would sooner be on my own than be a third wheel.

    Similarly in socialising at home, I go to a lot of plays, comedy shows, concerts and would go to most on my own. Mostly because very few friends are in to plays and also, what is becoming most the case, they are less available to go out because of family commitments.

    Still, travelling on your own does have it;s downside. Eating alone in places like Lanzarote and so on where most everyone else is obviously with a partner or family or group can get a bit demoralising.


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    #385
    ToddyDoody
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    Remember the slutty cheese, easisingles?


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    Gimme A Pound
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    TomasMacR wrote: »
    Did you ride her? And after take a little snap together, if so, it's not that weird. It's a bit like a souvenir or something if that's what you want.
    Blimey. :pac:

    But yeah I wouldn't go on holidays alone, nor out for dinner alone (unless I had to if staying at a hotel for work). I totally appreciate people do holiday alone and enjoy it but it wouldn't be for me. I prefer going to the cinema with someone, even though I know it's actually not sociable! But we would usually get food first and go for a drink after. Although I have gone to the cinema alone the odd time. There aren't always others interested in seeing a particular film you want to see. But I wouldn't go to a concert or play alone.

    A bite to eat while shopping though, or even lunch alone - no biggie. Used to have a pint alone the odd time in my local before too, which was very pleasant.

    Having preferences not to be alone in certain situations doesn't mean being needy or unhappy in oneself. That's only the case for people who cannot fathom doing absolutely anything alone, and who balk at the idea of others being a lone wolf.


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    #387
    Vela
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    One thing that strikes me now I'm single is the people who are shocked to the core when you say you're going on holidays on your own.

    You just know that these are people who just can't manage to do anything alone. I've even had one friend tell me she couldn't DREAM of having lunch on her own.

    That to me is quite sad. It says to me that this person does not like themselves very much if they can't spend an hour in their own company.

    In fairness they're usually the ones from large families who never spent 5 minutes alone in their lives.

    This is something I just do not understand at all. I often spend more time alone than around other people because I like it that way. I love to travel alone and usually do so. If I'm in a relationship I still like to do things alone. And as for the cinema, what absolute numpty decided it was unusual to go to watch a movie on your own.

    Man... People.:confused:


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    TomasMacR
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    Tell me how wrote: »
    I have travelled a lot on my own. City breaks, week in the sun, longer periods away.
    Friends and family found it curious at the start but no one ever questioned it. On some occasions, some friends have invited me to holiday with them but I would sooner be on my own than be a third wheel.

    Similarly in socialising at home, I go to a lot of plays, comedy shows, concerts and would go to most on my own. Mostly because very few friends are in to plays and also, what is becoming most the case, they are less available to go out because of family commitments.

    Still, travelling on your own does have it;s downside. Eating alone in places like Lanzarote and so on where most everyone else is obviously with a partner or family or group can get a bit demoralising.

    no, totally agree. travel, eating, drinking, cinema etc. alone is thoroughly enjoyable and a lot of people judge it as being odd. point missed and that's not what I'm saying at all...im saying meeting someone on your travels momentarily, taking a picture with them and posting it on social media to show your "friends" who don't seem to know whether you are gay or straight is odd. unless of course he rode her and it was some kind of childish trophy memento to show his "friends" :)


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    fin12
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    This is it wrote: »
    I'd have no issue going for food, to the cinema, or other bits and pieces myself. I'm not so sure about a holiday, maybe short city breaks

    I’d never travel solo cause I know I wouldn’t enjoy it, I suffer from anxiety so would not cope well trying to figure out how to get around a foreign country but what I do do is go on holidays with groups but I’d have never meet them before till I meet them on the day. Really enjoy that meeting new people on the trip and not worry about the travel between places while on holiday.


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    lainey_d_123
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    One thing that strikes me now I'm single is the people who are shocked to the core when you say you're going on holidays on your own.

    You just know that these are people who just can't manage to do anything alone. I've even had one friend tell me she couldn't DREAM of having lunch on her own.

    That to me is quite sad. It says to me that this person does not like themselves very much if they can't spend an hour in their own company.

    In fairness they're usually the ones from large families who never spent 5 minutes alone in their lives.

    I know! I work with this really smug, annoying guy who announced that he'd never been single for more than a few days of his adult life, as if that was a good thing. I was baffled. What's good about being so codependent that you can't be alone? I purposely take at least 6 months out of dating after the end of any major relationship to get myself together and work on myself a bit so I'm not dragging baggage into the next one. And also just to have some me time.

    I mean, imagine not being able to have lunch on your own? That's verging on pathetic.


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    kowloon
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    BBFAN wrote: »
    You just know that these are people who just can't manage to do anything alone. I've even had one friend tell me she couldn't DREAM of having lunch on her own.

    I can't pay attention to anything around other people. The idea that a couple can both sit silently reading their own books in the same room is alien to me. If I shared a house with someone I'd need a room or shed to get away from them when I wanted.
    I don't dislike people, but I don't need to be around them the entire time and need my space. I'd hate to be in a relationship where every waking moment had to be filled with fun activities to do together.


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