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Have you ever talked to a stranger

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    #62
    jaxxx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    I talked to a strange looking crow today. Had a right good old chat with it. Bit of a silent type though, didn't say much, so I mostly did the old chatting. Does that count?


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    #63
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,467 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Guy Person wrote: »
    You don't know the fūcking half of it Deebles...

    Alas, neither does he ...
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



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    #64
    Enough is Enough!
    Site Banned Posts: 106 ✭✭Enough is Enough!


    I often talk to strangers in pubs. Does that count?


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    #65
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,131 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    On the train.

    They can offer up their whole life story, and then never meet again.

    Always found that interesting.


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    #66
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,131 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Enough is Enough! wrote: »
    I often talk to strangers in pubs. Does that count?

    I do too. And it's a sign of a good pub where you can do that.


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    #67
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Alas, neither does he ...

    Whether this is all a joke or real I don't know, but I am not interested in being in the middle of it.


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    #68
    jaxxx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Guy Person wrote: »
    Whether this is all a joke or real I don't know, but I am not interested in being in the middle of it.


    Which one's the joker and which one's the clown? :pac:


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    #69
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,131 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    I met friends via some forums (not Irish) and Skyped afterwards.

    I met a lovely lady from florida once by playing scrabble online (words with friends).

    The relationships tend not to last though, and that's OK too.


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    #70
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,561 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Probably best if everyone just gave them a break and didn’t keep “bothering”, and hounding, them for information that is, obviously, private.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #71
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Alas, neither does he ...


    I know enough. Maybe too much, as it turns out.


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    #72
    [Deleted User]
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Probably best if everyone just gave them a break and didn’t keep “bothering”, and hounding, them for information that is, obviously, private.

    Are you being sarcastic? The pair of them are airing their stained underwear right on the thread.


    :D


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    #73
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,561 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Are you being sarcastic? The pair of them are airing their stained underwear right on the thread.


    :D

    While you might “get off” on encouraging people to have a “go” at each other in public, I, personally, think it’s shameful “carry on”.

    I’d advise the two people involved to take it “offline” or use the PM function as they are achieving nothing on here, bar providing a sideshow for those with very little else to be doing.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #74
    jaxxx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Are you being sarcastic? The pair of them are airing their stained underwear right on the thread.


    :D


    Skidmarks? :rolleyes:


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    #75
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    What’s a bunny spoiler?


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    #76
    marieholmfan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    AMKC wrote: »
    via Skype, facetime etc?

    How did you get on and did they remain strangers or did it go further friendship/ relationship etc?

    Disclaimer,
    Just being a nosy fecker and no I am not thinking about or doing that at the moment and do not use any applications like that.

    I talk to people on the train if that counts.


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    #77
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Duane Dibbley wrote: »
    What’s a bunny spoiler?

    A crazy woman who reveals the endings to shows out of spite.


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    #78
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    WTAF??? :D:D:D:D


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    #79
    [Deleted User]
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    While you might “get off” on encouraging people to have a “go” at each other in public, I, personally, think it’s shameful “carry on”.

    I’d advise the two people involved to take it “offline” or use the PM function as they are achieving nothing on here, bar providing a sideshow for those with very little else to be doing.

    Emmet!! I reject such an accusation!! While it might in your eyes be shameful "carry on" I can see the love that's blossoming underneath the "airing".


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    #80
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,712 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    While you might “get off” on encouraging people to have a “go” at each other in public, I, personally, think it’s shameful “carry on”.

    I’d advise the two people involved to take it “offline” or use the PM function as they are achieving nothing on here, bar providing a sideshow for those with very little else to be doing.

    Ara w@nk.


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    #81
    Redneck Reject
    Closed Accounts Posts: 587 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject


    I always try to have a conversation with strangers on they bus. But am greeted with one word answers and the go back to staring at their phones.


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    #82
    Bigbagofcans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Redneck Reject wrote: »
    I always try to have a conversation with strangers on they bus. But am greeted with one word answers and the go back to staring at their phones.

    So you really are a reject then? :D


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    #83
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    Redneck Reject wrote: »
    I always try to have a conversation with strangers on they bus. But am greeted with one word answers and the go back to staring at their phones.

    I told two of them today in work that they were addicted to their phones but they didn't notice cause their necks don't rise up above phones. :rolleyes:


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    #84
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Morto


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    #85
    NeinNeinNein
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭NeinNeinNein


    I'm too shy to talk to strangers but sometimes wave or wink at them.


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    #86
    Ruraldweller56
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ruraldweller56


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Yes. I recently had the "pleasure" of meeting someone. We met on Boards actually. A gentle ribbing soon became a string of PMs. It moved on to phone calls, Skype and many, many Whatsapp conversations. After a couple of weeks we became quite close and would talk a lot.

    I managed to talk her into meeting me and we went for a coffee. I couldn't believe what I saw when we met. She was actually as beautiful as I thought she would be. Alas, her face belied the darkness in her soul. I cannot stress enough how bad a person this woman turned out to be. Horrific. I would just say for everyone to be careful and to make absolutely sure the online persona matches the reality.

    That sounds scary as ****


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    #87
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,673 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Don't Log Off, BBC Radio 4 programme presenter talks to strangers.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Don%27t%20Log%20Off&sa_f=search-product--suggest&suggid=urn%3Abbc%3Aprogrammes%3Ab01jxzy9


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    #88
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,754 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    While you might “get off” on encouraging people to have a “go” at each other in public, I, personally, think it’s shameful “carry on”.

    I’d advise the two people involved to take it “offline” or use the PM function as they are achieving nothing on here, bar providing a sideshow for those with very little else to be doing.

    Thank you, Emmet. You bring a modicum of decorum to this place. Advice has been heeded. As a pair, we may have become tangled up in blue.


    Apologies all, for the petulant, spoiled child who could not keep her much-sullied mouth in the closed position. I'm afraid her tendency to storm off and slam doors, in a sense, overwhelms any higher-level thinking that may be going on in her brain.
    And for myself, for bringing shame on this festival of personalities with my opening post. It was not intended to get out of hand in this way. Such unnecessary verbal diarrhoea. I am, to quote andekwarhola, "morto".
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Emmet!! I reject such an accusation!! While it might in your eyes be shameful "carry on" I can see the love that's blossoming underneath the "airing".

    I admire the optimism, Perse, I do. I'm afraid its misplaced in this instance though. There's a phrase, 'any port will do in a storm'. It would need to be the perfect storm in order for me to enter that particular port.
    Ruraldweller56 wrote: »
    That sounds scary as ****

    Not so much scary, R. More life-altering. The kind of thing that makes you think twice before stepping into the breach. I believe it was the poet, Bret Michaels who once said; *ahem*

    "Every rose has its thorn,
    Just like every night has its dawn,
    Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song,
    Every rose has its thorn"


    Such wise words.


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    #89
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,561 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    Thank you, Emmet. You bring a modicum of decorum to this place. Advice has been heeded. As a pair, we may have become tangled up in blue.

    Why didn’t you stop just here?!?!

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #90
    NeinNeinNein
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭NeinNeinNein


    I never knew that this is a dating website.


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    #91
    [Deleted User]
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    OP, I talk to strangers quite a bit. A few days ago on the bus an elderly man struck up a conversation with me. It began with the usual "terrible weather" and says I "It is Lorenzo is on the move". By the time it came to my stop we had had a grand little chat.

    Just a few minutes ago I went in the wrong door in Lidl (don't ask) a man followed and we both laughed at ourselves and sure then it was all in the aisles "oh we meet again".

    It's nice. I like connecting with other people and I think it's good for us. I not its older people who initiate conversation the most. In my experience A 20 or 30 something would never and in fact would probably be horrified at the thought.

    As for Skype conversations? Well I had one or two when I was online dating. It was odd and I don't recommend it.


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