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How did your meet your current or most recent partner?

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  • #122
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,111 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    Something gingers will never have.
    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    Gotta give them some hope you know. Poor guys.

    Tell me about it. :o

    Although, personally, I’m told it’s more likely to be linked to my perceived arrogant nature (I don’t think cupping this with my inner shyness helps) and then there’s the good old “commitment issues”. I’m also told I analyse stuff too much.

    MikeHoncho wrote:
    So if Hollywood tells us anything you will meet your future partner when you return to secondary school as part of a journalism assignment

    Whatever about the secondary school part… the journalism assignment excuse might be workable.


  • #123
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    monument, don't mind that tar fucker. it is because of your arrogance. just like i'm single because i'm a complete jackass with no social skill. it has nothing to do with my gingerness.


  • #124
    tSubh Dearg
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    Well I met my current partner (fiancé now) at a boards beers :)

    That's why we're inviting all the admins to our wedding (well that and himself knows them all personally) :)

    Not to fear ginger people both myself and himself and red heads. There's hope for you yet!



    ooops too many smiley faces! what have I become??


  • #125
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    Well, that dude has got it going on, well done Trilla!

    I'd have to agree with that sentiment purely because I got matched with Mr. Vartan on the recent 'analyse your photo' thread

    Very lucky fella he is too to look like me :cool:


  • #126
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    That's it gingers, keep blaming your poor attempts at having personalities and not your soulless hair. ;)


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  • #127
    Azureus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭Azureus


    at a fireworks display thru mutual friends.. talk about cheesey!


  • #128
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,111 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    julep wrote:
    monument, don't mind that tar fucker. it is because of your arrogance. just like i'm single because i'm a complete jackass with no social skill. it has nothing to do with my gingerness.

    I don’t anything Tar says seriously.

    Tar.Aldarion wrote:
    That's it gingers, keep blaming your poor attempts at having personalities and not your soulless hair. ;)

    Oh, now you’re just confusing soulless with morally loose… this is from Wikipedia, so it must be true…
    Another belief is that redheads are highly-sexed; for example, Jonathan Swift satirizes redhead stereotypes in part four of Gulliver's Travels, "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms," when he writes that: "It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity."


  • #129
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    I met my gf on second life. :D


  • #130
    CathyMoran
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,458 ✭✭✭CathyMoran


    First met him over 10 years ago walking by in college, I thought that he was cute but did not see him again for a year, I was walking by one of the college societies and he asked me to join, I said no but I remembered him as I was attracted to him. I bumped into someone else that I had also started to like around the same time who was a friend and we went on a few dates but kept on bumping into my fiancee, when the other relationship ended we started dating a few weeks later...it is a lot more complicated than that but we are getting married in less than two weeks now.


  • #131
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    monument wrote:
    I don’t anything Tar says seriously.
    Youunderstand me better than anybody. :eek:



    Oh, now you’re just confusing soulless with morally loose… this is from Wikipedia, so it must be true…
    Blow on a pane of class, look no condensation, no soul. ;)


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  • #132
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I hope all your children are ginger.


  • #133
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Met my current squeeze in work. She's a manager.

    We had our first date last night, it went very well.

    And I'm seeing her again tomorrow (not in work.)


  • #134
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    julep wrote:
    I hope all your children are ginger.
    Mysterious accident kills all Aldarion children. :(


  • #135
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    DNA tests prove julep was the father of said aldarion/ lavigne children.


  • #136
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Ah, needless deaths and sex with Avril. 2007 looks a bright year.


  • #137
    Fracture
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭Fracture


    Met mine at work, she was in drinking and i was in the bar. She was very quiet and shy, so i didnt know how to say hello to her. So i chatted up her friend, and gave them a shot. She gave me her number as she left. 7 months or so later and its all good :D


  • #138
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,441 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    Interesting stuff. I see not many people are meeting partners through gyms/nightclasses - the route often suggested in the Personal Issues forum. I'm surprised the total strangers in pub/club rating is so high...I don't know many people who met their partner that way.


  • #139
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    and how about you?


  • #140
    Nalz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,061 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    allie_e17 wrote:
    Interesting stuff. I see not many people are meeting partners through gyms/nightclasses - the route often suggested in the Personal Issues forum. I'm surprised the total strangers in pub/club rating is so high...I don't know many people who met their partner that way.

    good point. My money would have been on school/college/work areas more so than social activities or random pub/clubs


  • #141
    Gautama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Gautama


    I'm very interested in the results of this poll of mine, thank you everybody that has voted.
    "Through mutual friends" is top of the list, with 1 in 4 meeting a partner that way.
    I have to admit that I'm disappointed but not surprised that "Work" has come in second place. Not 45% like the Germans, but still high. Unheard of a couple of decades ago but I guess that's the Celtic Tiger work culture. You spend one third of your life in work, and talk to and inter-relate with your workmates more than anyone else in your life, probably. Scary but that's the way it is. Fack, I've just realised that I've met two partners thru' work!
    Not surprised that "On public transport" and "While buying the paper in the local Spentra" faired so low. Both natural environments for inter-reacting with people... but very much a strangers environment.
    "College" is big-ish, but I think that's more a reflection on the type of person that uses this site, maybe?
    "Online / Personals Add / Agency / Speed Dating" is bound to be on a par with the latter. It's inevitable that Online Dating is amongst heavy net-users. It's a bit like that internet survey that had Gillian Anderson and Teri Hatcher the two most beautiful women in the world. One's a bit heavy for me, the other a bit light, but methinks it's the X Files/Superman angle, typically popular with net-types, that got them up there.
    I have to admit that I'm a little surprised that "As total strangers in a pub / club" came so high. I've never met a partner in a pub / club, none of my friends met their partner's that way either. It's traditionally known that you 'meet people' in pubs and clubs. This is true, but you meet people you already know. It's not really the place to approach a stranger because you fancy spending much of your life with them. In fact, an approach is usually for a score/shag for there and then! But I guess I'm wrong.
    I'm very surprised that "Nightcourse" is a duck-egg. I've done a few Nightcourses, there have been women there and lots of banter. I guess that it's more of an American thing... or a 40ies thing? Indicates common interest, that's for sure. And what's the lesson there... attraction is more important that interests.

    Hmmm... food for thought for this foodie.
    Yum.


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  • #142
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,441 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    Gautama wrote:
    I'm very surprised that "Nightcourse" is a duck-egg. I've done a few Nightcourses, there have been women there and lots of banter. I guess that it's more of an American thing... or a 40ies thing? Indicates common interest, that's for sure. And what's the lesson there... attraction is more important that interests.

    Hmmm... food for thought for this foodie.
    Yum.

    I've done nightcourses and to be honest, haven't found them any good for meeting people at all. The only time the people in my class ever got talking was at the very end of one course when we went to the pub.

    Most people I know met their partners through other friends. That's where I met my ex. It's very hard to get talking to someone in a pub, especially if there's loud music. There are also lots of people in pubs who get very wary if a complete stranger comes up and starts talking to them...


  • #143
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,016 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Well I met herself when I was 17 in the Gaeltacht. Turned out we only lived ten minutes down the road from each other and had mutual friends. 21 now and all's going super. At this age it's pretty easy to meet people in work but i can see how it gets harder the older you get.


  • #144
    InFront
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭InFront


    I met her at the post office. We still have the bubble-wrap.

    india102.jpg


  • #145
    cournioni
    Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 12,742 Mod ✭✭✭✭cournioni


    At a bar in a nightclub. I was like "god you're tall", she was like "god you're tall"... Then we hit it off from there. :D


  • #146
    Fantastic Kaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭Fantastic Kaz


    Got talking on a bus:)


  • #147
    angelicsaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭angelicsaz


    4 am on the 39N it was all very rosemantic
    'can i give u my number'
    'how bout I give you mine'


  • #148
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,227 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    InFront wrote:
    I met her at the post office. We still have the bubble-wrap.

    india102.jpg

    Haha. Nice link.


  • #149
    ando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,449 ✭✭✭ando


    met my women when i started a new job in May. she was 1 month into her 6 months work placement 3rd year in college. Within a week, we were going to lunch together... nearly 8 months going together now and loving it :)


  • #150
    Splinter
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Splinter


    met her through a mutual friend in Fibbers in town...i know its a dump but she is a stunner and couldnt believe my luck...so loaded in the dutch courage and danced with her. got chattign for a few days, went away together after 2 months camping, then she broke up with the boyfriend and i was in like a shot...told me she wasnt interested so i backed off and forgot bout her (while thinking bout gettin with her mate) then she stuck her gob to mine and the rest is history :) 7months now and going to andorra in jan :) nice thread OP :)


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  • #151
    Civilian_Target
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Civilian_Target


    rainbow kirby wrote:
    Online... I fail at real life.
    Haven't had a relationship in a year and a half now :(

    Time to start going to boards beers, it sounds like they're very successful meeting points!


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