How many friends have you got?

pragmatic1 · 25-07-2011 03:06AM

About four very close friends and seven fairly close.

cocoshovel · 25-07-2011 03:09AM

Seriously guys. I would like to take part in polls seriously from time to time but no matter how serious the thread is or no matter how strong my views are on the particular subject, I just can't help picking Atari Jaguar.

strobe · 25-07-2011 03:12AM

None.

Self imposed, I'm a prick. (apparently)

PseudoFamous · 25-07-2011 03:14AM

I have four real friends, and after that I just have people I know and can get on with, but I wouldn't run to in an emergency.

policarp · 25-07-2011 03:20AM

According to the poll the majority have between 0 and 5.
That to me is a sign of an urban lifestyle.

CorkMan · 25-07-2011 03:27AM

None ATM cos I haven't done a course in the past year. I mean I can talk to a couple of cousins and my Father and sister anytime, i'm far from "isolated". I am a bit on an introvert so I don't need a lot of friends to function. A book, a video game or a good music album entertains me much. It appears to be the norm for people to say "I had a greeeat weekend, I bungied off the eiffel tower, I had a big hangover every morning that lasted until 6PM and I woke up Monday morning hanging upside down in my next door neigbours shed with 10 empty bottles of vodka next to me. Here, I made a slideshow of all that happened and upped it as my facebook picture, check it out sometime." I think when you turn on the radio at 6AM on a Monday morning and "I'm Ready For The Weeeekend" (you know the song) is playing plays a part towards this school of thought.

The last time I did a course it was cool, went out for a couple of pints with people from the course and talked to 3 or 4 people from my class, but that was that after I finished the course. I had a group of friends from before but I don't want to see them, they are very negative people and are into the wrong type of things. (Drugs, robberies, fraud, etc)

Da Shins Kelly · 25-07-2011 03:34AM

I have about 10 friends who I would consider my best friends, then I have about 5 or 6 others that I would consider good friends. Everyone else I would call friendly acquaintances.

Laisurg · 25-07-2011 03:37AM

I'd say only 3 real friends that i could call on in times of trouble although one of them recently got an overweight bird who he seems to think is the dogs bollocks (she looks like one anyway) and that was the last me or any of my mates saw of him.

Abi · 25-07-2011 03:45AM

Four close male friends and two wimminz.

Storminateacup · 25-07-2011 03:47AM

I have a lot of "friends" but my problem is, I trust nobody. So whilst I have my party birgade, people I go out with, people I'd go to cinema with, people I'd go shopping with, people who consider me their best friend, tell me things about themselves.

I trust my boyfriend with everything, I'd trust him with my life. We were best friends for years before anything more happened, and he's proven to me that I can rely on him. No matter how dispicable I've been he's been the only one that was consistantly on my side.

I used to have another best friend who I loved and trusted just as much but -- that friendship proved you never really can trust a person no matter how tight you think you are.

I have about 20 "good friends", but just 1 that I'd confide in.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 25-07-2011 03:49AM

Storminateacup wrote: »

I trust nobody.

Storminateacup wrote: »

I trust my boyfriend with everything, I'd trust him with my life.

I see this ending well.

HungryFish · 25-07-2011 03:57AM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Dwindling social circle due to emmigration, marriage, kids, eventually being copped-on to by former friends, hitting on friends of the opposite sex and pÃ*ssing in your chips with them?

Never started a social circle 'cos you found boards and you're now forever alone, while imagining randomusername to be your friend?

So many choices for social outlets that you wish some of the above was happening to give you some free time from the endless whirl of parties, orgies and generally living life like a Bacardi ad?

How many people can you genuinely call a friend?

I can put my hand on my heart and say I have 4 friends. There's lots of people in my life who I text, email go drinking with but they're not all true friends

Jazzy · 25-07-2011 04:00AM

104

Storminateacup · 25-07-2011 04:05AM

Skyler Round Reactivation wrote: »

I see this ending well.

It won't end. He's been my best friend for years and so, don't think he's too put out that I am the way i am.

I'm not sure what you mean when you quoted me saying I trusted nobody and then saying I trusted him?
Is it like, cause I contradicted myself? If so .. Yeah, my bad, but it goes without saying obviously I trust him.

I don't trust anyone in my circle of friends though.

PARKHEAD67 · 25-07-2011 04:33AM

3-Me, my wife and my child.Everyone else is a suspicious stranger:D

Spread · 25-07-2011 04:58AM

Outside of family I have three that I trust completely. Don't need any more. For coffin-carrying duties ........ not needed, am getting cremated.:D

Jess16 · 25-07-2011 07:07AM

Abi wrote: »

Four close male friends and two wimminz.

Why did you feel the need to categorise them by gender as opposed to simply saying six friends? Just curious

mackg · 25-07-2011 08:25AM

One from when I was 4 (thats over 80% of my life:)), another 10 from the teens, 5 or so from college and another one or two from various jobs. Some I am closer to than others at any given time, it all depends on what combination of people are living where. I'm not a popular guy or anything just had the luck to run across of lot of very cool people down through the years.:)

Also as much of a bashing as FB gets here, I get to keep in contact with them all for practically free.

NothingMan · 25-07-2011 09:05AM

Spread wrote: »

Outside of family I have three that I trust completely. Don't need any more. For coffin-carrying duties ........ not needed, am getting cremated.:D

You're still put in a coffin, only difference is it's rented and re-used for the next chunk of meat going on the BBQ. :pac:

stupidusername · 25-07-2011 01:16PM

Spread wrote: »

Outside of family I have three that I trust completely. Don't need any more. For coffin-carrying duties ........ not needed, am getting cremated.:D

yeah you're still put in a coffin btw. not sure if you're cremated in it or not, but you still need one.

Kanoe · 25-07-2011 01:19PM

one real friend and about 25 people that I know well enough to consume alcohol /party with on a regular basis, would be a stretch to call them friends tho.

Lady von Purple · 25-07-2011 02:08PM

I picked 10+ but, thinking about it more, probably only 8 or maybe 9 that I'm in regular contact with, and would turn to with a problem.
Then a good few acquaintances, but I wouldn't talk to them as often or even go drinking with them much.

.....Well, that's somewhat depressing.

Edit: Depressing in that I have lost contact with a lot of people since finishing my course.
I am still very lucky in that my close friends are all pretty great.

Kevin Duffy · 25-07-2011 02:12PM

NothingMan wrote: »

You're still put in a coffin, only difference is it's rented and re-used for the next chunk of meat going on the BBQ. :pac:

stupidusername wrote: »

yeah you're still put in a coffin btw. not sure if you're cremated in it or not, but you still need one.

Well, this has taken a turn for the morbid and cheerless

NothingMan · 25-07-2011 02:22PM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Well, this has taken a turn for the morbid and cheerless

Lets put the fun back in funeral!

OldGoat · 25-07-2011 02:58PM

Question needs qualification. I mean, what do you really mean by "Good Friends"?

People I'll give money to without question? 100's, including every barman on the planet.
People I'll give the keys of my house to? 100's but that includes family who may not be friends.
People I'll let sleep with my wife? 100's but I'd have to gender-fy and be allowed to be there - or at least see the photos after.
People I'll talk too more then twice a day? oodles of them but few that I'd let sleep with my wife or serve me a pint.
People I'll lend my books, albums, CD's and MP3 files to? 3 but only if they leave a large cash deposit
People I play sports with? Hah! Have you met me?
People whos opinion I value. Now thats a tough one. I have friends whom I love dearly but they are very stupid (IMO)

So, taking all of the above and various other qualifying criteria, subtracting the first number I thought off and then rounding up I'd say the final figure is ...Lots.

G_R · 25-07-2011 03:15PM

I have four really good friends. These are people who, if they had some kind of problem, I would drop everything, get in the car and go straight to them. And I know they would do the same for me, and have done.

I actually just recently moved from Kildare to Dublin, and so I see them a lot less than I would like to, but once every two weeks, either I'll go down and stay with them or they (well 3 of them anyway) will come up and stay with me, and it's like I still live in Kildare. I think that's a pretty good sign of friendship. The other one I don't see as often, as one of us is always working, but we talk on the phone every couple of days, and phone calls have been been known to last for a hour or more. Usually its just her having a good rant about someone in work, or some other "friend" who has let her down, but we would still tell each other anything.

Then outside this circle, I have a load of friends/acquaintances from work/old work/school/college, none of these I would consider really close, but I would still go for a night out with them and have a great night, or meet up to go cinema etc etc

Abi · 25-07-2011 06:30PM

Jess16 wrote: »

Why did you feel the need to categorise them by gender as opposed to simply saying six friends? Just curious

I did have a longer post which would explain where I was going with it, but I decided I wasn't arsed after line two. Sometimes I don't finish my pos

kfallon · 25-07-2011 06:34PM

Prob about 5 or 6 friends in Dublin that I would confide in, about another 10 or so at home and elsewhere.

Tho I think they are all having problems with their phones cos I can never get thru to them, some coincidence

Princess Peach · 25-07-2011 06:43PM

Does my boyfriend count?

If so, 1

kfallon · 25-07-2011 06:46PM

Princess Peach wrote: »

Does my boyfriend count?

If so, 1

Awwww....send me a friend request, then you will have doubled your friends

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