Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

So are you single? Argos style....

1…1314151719

Comments

  • #482
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Truthvader wrote: »
    Is it harrassment to be asked out?

    context
    /ˈkɒntɛkst/
    noun
    the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.
    "the proposals need to be considered in the context of new European directives"


  • #483
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,573 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Dan Simon wrote: »
    Only when the guy is ugly.


    So for you it would be then lol


  • #484
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,573 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    My friend said '' if you want to know what it's like for a girl, then join Grinder and add a cute pic'' I took her challenge for a social experiment if nothing else, and within 5 minutes of joining I was inundated with messages and dick pics.
    A real eye opener as to what girls deal with daily, especially online.


  • #485
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,573 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Dan Simon wrote: »
    Yes lad, you were only on Grinder as a social experiment...


    Good come back;)


  • #486
    Truthvader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    context
    /ˈkɒntɛkst/
    noun
    the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.
    "the proposals need to be considered in the context of new European directives"

    Right so ; only if you've been formally introduced - unless your a Solicitor


  • Advertisement
  • #487
    Stateofyou
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,431 ✭✭✭Stateofyou


    Greyfox wrote: »
    People don't get to decide if they think a law was broken or not, instead we examine what happened and then decide if a law was broken. Yes the guy breached data protection but in determining what happens next we also have to consider was there malicious intent and it looks like there wasn't any here.

    A law was broken first of all. Secondly, what one finds acceptable or offensive doesn't also have to be illegal or deliberately malicious. She's entitled to her own feelings about it which to her was a major violation (in addition to being illegal). We don't have to consider anything, that's the point. It didn't happen to us, it happened to her. And as I said she's entitled to her own feelings as anyone else is in the course of their own life. What we do have is a choice to support her and especially other women when toxic stuff happens. We have a choice to hold men accountable be it strangers, our friends or family. Telling women (and girls) it's some kind of price to pay just isn't on. We damn sure aren't rearing our daughter with old outdated and harmful teachings such as "when a boy picks on you or hits you or snaps your bra that means he likes you," or to take wolf whistles and slaps on the arse as compliments. Those days need to be finished.


  • #488
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    There's definitely a strong whiff of incel off this thread...

    Painting women to have a hive mind around their choice of men, just because some of you have obviously got the cold shoulder one too many times! :rolleyes:


  • #489
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BorneTobyWilde wrote: »
    My friend said '' if you want to know what it's like for a girl, then join Grinder and add a cute pic'' I took her challenge for a social experiment if nothing else, and within 5 minutes of joining I was inundated with messages and dick pics.
    A real eye opener as to what girls deal with daily, especially online.

    If you were on Grindr for real or if it was a woman on a similar site for real, the physical appearance of the message sender would be the only important part. They could say or send what they liked once they’re high up the scale, and be an offensive creep if they’re on the opposite end.


  • #490
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Greyfox wrote: »
    That guy crossed the line into dangerous stalkerland but the argos guy was only guilty of been an eejit. Yes there's a good reason why the woman overreacted but it was still an over reaction. Complaining to argos would of been the correct thing to do, going through social media was completely wrong.

    I don't see how she did anything wrong. Posting a complaint on a company's Facebook page is completely normal nowadays, more convenient than making a phone call or sending an email. It's not like she identified him.


  • #491
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Easier get the paw greased going straight for social media.


  • Advertisement
  • #492
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Easier get the paw greased going straight for social media.

    No, it's just a convenient way of making a complaint.


  • #493
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    If you were on Grindr for real or if it was a woman on a similar site for real, the physical appearance of the message sender would be the only important part. They could say or send what they liked once they’re high up the scale, and be an offensive creep if they’re on the opposite end.

    And... we have another one.

    I'm like a bloodhound. :D

    Stop blaming women for your own inadequacies!


  • #494
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »
    And... we have another one.

    I'm like a bloodhound. :D

    Stop blaming women for your own inadequacies!

    Going the insulting route is just an easy reply to dodge what’s obviously correct. You’re no bloodhound, just wrong and condescending. Bad combo that.


  • #495
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,103 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    GDPR is very strict. It doesn't matter if personal data was used without malicious intent, just that it was misused. You can't have employees keeping data and using it for whatever they see fit, malicious or not.

    Yes I know that, sometimes it gets in the way of helping customers but the rules have to be followed. I never said there was nothing wrong with what he did. What i have an issue with is this kind of thing been put on social media.


  • #496
    Gretas Gonna Get Ya!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,245 ✭✭✭Gretas Gonna Get Ya!


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Going the insulting route is just an easy reply to dodge what’s obviously correct. You’re no bloodhound, just wrong and condescending. Bad combo that.

    Nope, I reckon I'm bang on the money!


  • #497
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »
    Nope, I reckon I'm bang on the money!

    Bit excitable thrown into the mix too, great.

    You work away then anyway. Denial is a wonderful way of thinking you’re right all the time.


  • #498
    i_surge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭i_surge


    Once had a woman track me down by getting my number from my booking at a hostel, contacted the hostel with some vague details and they gave it to her.

    I was flattered when she got in touch.

    Different strokes for different folks.

    To be fair, she was hot and lovely, big factor in my reception of her creepy advances.


  • #499
    JasonStatham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    Definitely an abuse of work privileges, should be reprimanded, but not trawled all over social media....but these days you've got to be careful what you say or do.


  • #500
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Greyfox wrote: »
    Yes I know that, sometimes it gets in the way of helping customers but the rules have to be followed. I never said there was nothing wrong with what he did. What i have an issue with is this kind of thing been put on social media.

    But why? She cropped his details out and didn't publicly identify him in any way.


  • #501
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,573 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »
    And... we have another one.

    I'm like a bloodhound. :D

    Stop blaming women for your own inadequacies!


    Whats your view. He was he is saying true? or even partially true?


  • Advertisement
  • #502
    i_surge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭i_surge


    CalamariFritti wrote: »
    There are genuine creeps no doubt. But now creepy has simply become a very sad word. Mostly for people for whom it isn't enough to say 'no not interested' but who have to express outrage that someone so obviously below their standards dares to express interest.

    There is a lot of talk of the "victim" and then extrapolating that to violence and strength differences.

    Small bit of paranoia at play.

    The crime, a rush of blood to the head and an unsolicited text message.


  • #503
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    i_surge wrote: »
    There is a lot of talk of the "victim" and then extrapolating that to violence and strength differences.

    Small bit of paranoia at play.

    The crime, a rush of blood to the head and an unsolicited text message.

    It wasn't just an unsolicited text message. The question mark he sent a few hours later implied that he wasn't going to take no answer for the answer that it clearly was. It's understandable that someone might get a bit paranoid when (a) he acquired her number through his job and (b) seemed a bit persistent.


  • #504
    i_surge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭i_surge


    .anon. wrote: »
    It wasn't just an unsolicited text message. The question mark he sent a few hours later implied that he wasn't going to take no answer for the answer that it clearly was. It's understandable that someone might get a bit paranoid when (a) he acquired her number through his job and (b) seemed a bit persistent.

    Fair enough

    ? to no answer is a bit desperate alright but I still think there is a huge dose of exaggeration going on.


  • #505
    MsStote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭MsStote


    i_surge wrote: »
    Fair enough

    ? to no answer is a bit desperate alright but I still think there is a huge dose of exaggeration going on.

    Nah it is pushy and is demanding she answer. He STOLE data from the company he worked at for personal gain. What he did was well over the line. One meeting, he thinks she's hot and wants to **** her. I mean a small meeting like that he couldn't see if their interests matched or anything. He just saw she was hot.


  • #506
    i_surge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭i_surge


    MsStote wrote: »
    Nah it is pushy and is demanding she answer. He STOLE data from the company he worked at for personal gain. What he did was well over the line. One meeting, he thinks she's hot and wants to **** her. I mean a small meeting like that he couldn't see if their interests matched or anything. He just saw she was hot.

    People steal your data all the time. I get unsolicited emails, calls and marketing.

    I agree with you but I think some earlier posters went completely OTT with stories of escalating violence.

    Deal with what happened not what "might happen".


  • #507
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,266 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    Well if for example you used a mate in the guards to use that reg plate to get her name and used that to contact her, would that be romantic?

    That would be completely incomparable to the story being reported.


  • #508
    Errashareesh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Errashareesh


    .anon. wrote: »
    No, it's just a convenient way of making a complaint.
    Publicly it isn't - they're going to have to take it to private message anyway so why not send them a PM in the first place. Precious likes and comments is the answer.


  • #509
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That would be completely incomparable to the story being reported.

    Misuse of GDPR to gain information....... Not that different.


  • #510
    Errashareesh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Errashareesh


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    If you were on Grindr for real or if it was a woman on a similar site for real, the physical appearance of the message sender would be the only important part. They could say or send what they liked once they’re high up the scale, and be an offensive creep if they’re on the opposite end.
    Appearance of women changes men's perception of them too. Why is that always thrown at women? And it does look really resentful.


  • Advertisement
  • #511
    .anon.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭.anon.


    Errashareesh wrote: »
    Publicly it isn't - they're going to have to take it to private message anyway so why not send them a PM in the first place. Precious likes and comments is the answer.

    No, it's not just about likes and comments. I know from bitter experience that you're far more likely to get an immediate response from a company if your complaint is public.


Advertisement