Your dating life....

Walls · 06-03-2002 03:26PM #1

Right, enough politics etc and on to something more more interesting....

When was the last time you had a date? And do include some details, we have to keep the mods reading...;)

Dr. Loon · 06-03-2002 03:33PM

When was the last time anyone outside of the States called going out with someone "a date"

Ronan|Raven · 06-03-2002 03:38PM

/me watches the tumble weed go by....... my standards are to high

Enygma · 06-03-2002 04:18PM

I find it hard to let people 'in'....:)

smoke.me.a.kipper · 06-03-2002 04:21PM

non-existant.

Dr. Loon · 06-03-2002 04:34PM

Originally posted by Clain
Its a useful catch-all phrase, I think. Why, what do you call it?

I call it "rodding"

Figment · 06-03-2002 04:48PM

well...
well over a year ago i met a girl on a 'blind date' . anyway went out that night, meal, pub, etc. I didnt fancy her and told her but we got on brilliantly. So after a few* pints we decided we were going to be the best of friends... and still are to this day

*lots

Dr. Loon · 06-03-2002 04:52PM

Originally posted by Clain
Quite. :rolleyes:

Read my sig boy...
In all honesty, I've never asked a girl out on a "date"! What do you do exactly, say "Hey do you wanna go on a date?"
I'm being serious here, so don't get poxy with me... It's a situation that has never come about in my 23 years here.

Morpheus · 06-03-2002 04:55PM

umm,

does your definition of dating mean like going out with your girlfriend for a meal? or like when i was last single, some of the dates i went on?

last date of the latter was my first date with the girlfriend. Went to the cinema to see"The Others" nothing like getting a girl to hold onto you from fright, or bury her face in your shoulder screaming!!!

better still you grab her to frighten her, a great ice-breaker!!!

:rolleyes:

ah memories...

it was all so simple then.:D

Dr. Loon · 06-03-2002 04:58PM

Originally posted by Clain
No, won't get poxy. It is a word that I and friends would use. And your version wouldn't be common parlance.

Anybody else here use this word - "dating"
If I met someone in Dublin who said the word "dating" I'd think they were an americanised twat! Sorry, but I would. So would my friends... as "rodding" would be common parlance with us.

Can anyone clear this up?

Morpheus · 06-03-2002 05:03PM

rodding?
:rolleyes:
oh.... i guess us northsiders arent as eloquent as you city centre slickers. we just say im going "out with herself".

Good one for me was New Years Eve, we went Bananas, out at 7pm, i wasnt drinking, i was driving, it was cold in the car that night, drove her home at about 3:00am, she lives 4 miles from the club, got there at 4:30am.... it wasnt because of car problems either

I drive out to her house all the time, i often look to the side road where we decided to warm the car up a bit

still cant believe no1 else saw us :eek:

heh heh heh:p

Dr. Loon · 06-03-2002 05:09PM

Originally posted by Morphéus
rodding?
:rolleyes:
oh.... i guess us northsiders arent as eloquent as you city centre slickers. we just say im going "out with herself".

What makes you think I'm a city slicker. I'm from the North Side ye git... and I'm taking the píss, but tell me do you know anyone who says "dating" on the North Side? Highly doubtful.

Enygma · 06-03-2002 05:48PM

I must say I don't belong with these rogues, I attended Yardale and had a four-oh grade point average.

I'd call it rodding before I'd call it dating too.

WhiteWashMan · 06-03-2002 05:54PM

actually, i say dating.
not a regualr thing, but it is a good all encompassing word that generally means meeting up with one person and doing something special togther.
movie, meal, bowling, pints, whatever.

well, make that going on a date. dating intimates along term thing, in which case id say i was going out with someone.

Dr. Loon · 06-03-2002 05:58PM

Originally posted by WhiteWashMan
actually, i say dating.
not a regualr thing, but it is a good all encompassing word that generally means meeting up with one person and doing something special togther.
movie, meal, bowling, pints, whatever.

well, make that going on a date. dating intimates along term thing, in which case id say i was going out with someone.

Yeah, but then you live in Surry don't ye?

Figment · 06-03-2002 06:39PM

ive never heard 'rodding' before in all my 26 years.

daftbegger · 06-03-2002 06:43PM

I brought a lady out for a meal last week. Then we met with friends and went dancing in Zanzibar. I used to work with her (kinda) and we kissed a couple of drunken times last year, but nothing serious.
It was a really good night, we both made a good effort to make it special and I am sure it will happen again.

Lex_Diamonds · 06-03-2002 07:37PM

Well lets see now, it was a few months ago and things went arseways but it was still good.

It was an Indian restaurant that I use to have alot of time for, The Shalimar, but I hadn't banked on them changing their food from nice to manky, even the dessert was foul. So that was the first embarrasing thing, secondly when it was time to pay I realised that my wallet was empty!

So que me making several apologies and ducking out to get some money. Man that was embarrasing. However, things went well over the following weeks.

The Sweeper · 06-03-2002 07:55PM

Been on couple of dates, if that's what you'd call them - you see for me, dating usually involves going to the pub because I'm an easily entertained kinda gal ("lets get really sh1tfaced!!")... been playing pool, out for lunch/dinner, cinema...

's kinda cool

cournioni · 06-03-2002 09:23PM

Sheeit! thats a good question. The last time I was going with someone (properly) was last summer. Ever since then I've been with a few chicks. Thats it really. I have my eyes on one person in particular but she wont let her feelings be known until I make my move (that'll be the next time I'm out!). Fingers crossed!:)

Wish me luck people.

DeadBankClerk · 06-03-2002 10:16PM

were you dating these chicks?

Ph3n0m · 06-03-2002 10:54PM

hmmm nearly a year since I was last going with someone.......guess I am still going to the wrong type of places. You all know the kind, bad lighting, no air conditioning - thats right Bruxelles - just call me an old headbanger at heart

sickle · 06-03-2002 11:04PM

ahh i've meet many a desperate man in bruxelles..but none i would actually go out with,most of em are just drunken fools.

definitly the wrong place...

Ph3n0m · 06-03-2002 11:08PM

ah but therein lies the challenge, get them as soon as they are getting drunk, not while they are completely blathered.

I just sit with friends, while making direct eye contact with whomever I please - ok some girls get kinda freaked, but I can gaurantee to make them smile - you know, while walking towards, and tripping over someone else's feet - the image of cool that is me

sickle · 06-03-2002 11:11PM

you just described half the men in bruxelles.

(i hang out in there way too much,i smell like a pub permanently now)

Ph3n0m · 06-03-2002 11:56PM

maybe so, but when I fall, I fall with style, and I still manage to hold onto my drink/smoke/life

and there's a lovely smell in that place - where else can you find the combined odours of urine/beer and cigarettes?!?!?!

Tazz T · 07-03-2002 01:03AM

Now I know why I can never get off in Bruxelles.

Jeez, and I thought I looked cool.

Dustaz · 07-03-2002 01:55AM

just out of a relationship in the last few months, so i havent been on a "date" since then.
When was the last time i enjoyed the company of a lady tho? err, last night and maybe tonight with a bit of luck (Viva Gran Canaria

)

Morpheus · 07-03-2002 01:03PM

Dating????
:rolleyes: If you use this, You've spent a wasted
childhood wathcing too much Beverly hills 90210 and
Dawsons creek!

rodding

sounds like u race high powered cars on
quartermile strips of runway!!!

I (when single about 4 months ago) used to go to the Local,
have a few, then hit Skerries or Drogheda altho the latter
has more women, nice as long as they dont speak

(that accent, eugh!!!) and just chat em up at the bar, or dance with them, RnB usually the best way! If they dance with you, youre in, if not, move away quickly and act like you only made a move cos you were really really locked!

Id get a number, tell her id call her on sunday, but not call til Monday (it leaves them guessing, and they think you dont care, then when u do call, they go all ... oooh he does like me), then ask her out wednesday night to the cinema.

That was my way, and it worked quite a lot. Made it harder to go to Drogheda after a couple of months tho, i became well known as the "Serial Cinema dater!!!"

Im happily tied down now (but sometimes i miss the thrill of the chase

)

Shad0r · 07-03-2002 01:20PM

Dating, while it may not be used much is a word that everyone knows what it means when you say it so effectivly it does its job...well.

Incidentally if your going to see a movie with person you are bringing on the date, if you can get her to agree

go see a scary one*. Or even better bring her to funderland or summat like that.

The shared heightened emotion/tension involved, psychologicaly makes your chances of her being well into you after the "date" much higher.

* There is no accounting for what effect a really sh!te scary movie will have!

Doc · 07-03-2002 01:29PM

Never really gone on a date with someone I wasn’t already going out with and I don’t know if it qualifies as a date if your already going out.

Friends have always initially introduced me to my girlfriends when we meet in pubs of at parties and all my relationships have developed when after this initial introduction we meet accidentally on another night out somewhere else.

I've never asked a girl if she would "like to go out on a date" I think I'd feel like geek if I did. I have however organised to "accidentally" bump into a girl I know in a club/pub there is less pressure if noting is organised and no fear of her not turning up (guess I'm a bit cowardly now I think of it!).

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