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Have you ever stalked anyone?

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  • #32
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    Collie D wrote:
    That's some seriously committed perving. I usually just wear shades. I assume the van doesn't have the company logo.


    They're all unmarked but a trained eye would pick them out from knowing most of the drivers there.


  • #33
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    No I've never stalked anyone but when I was a teenager my friend and I had crushes on these Spanish students and we just happened to walk by the house they stayed at a few times.

    I was only listening to Blondie the other week and the lyrics in her song One Way or Another are really stalkerish and also Hanging on the Telephone and Call Me :pac:


  • #34
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    One year when I was in college I joined in a game called Assassin. You were given the name and picture of someone else who had signed up and you had to try to 'kill' them by putting a sticker on them; they'd then be eliminated from the game so you'd get their target as your next target, and whoever got the most 'kills' won the game. I think it went on for a week.

    I managed to take two people out by looking them up on social media, finding their course timetables etc and hanging around where I knew they were likely to be. It's amazing what you can find out about people online (The third person was much more elusive though).


  • #35
    HughWotMVIII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,673 ✭✭✭HughWotMVIII


    I'm one of those people who has long term unrequited crushes until I meet a real, live guy, with whom I normally stay for a short while because real people have feet of clay, before moving on to my next perfect, unrequited love. So yes, I've stalked a couple of people in my time.

    The first was very first crush. I was 11. He was my mom's best friend's son. I don't remember how but I managed to get invited to his house every Sunday for lunch. He finally kissed me when I was 17. My very first kiss. It was disgusting.


  • #36
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    All of this seems like effort



    However ive a clatter of sisters who are very adapt at it....to the extent i do be wary adding anyone on facebook-for their privacy sakes


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  • #37
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Not since I was in school but did the whole look up their home address in the phone book and 'just happen' to be walking down her street about twice a day (the Smiths in the Walkman was optional).


  • #38
    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    I was crazy about a guy in university. He was beyond cool - so i did "active research" into who his friends were, where he drank, where he lived etc. Found out what course he was on and might have got a copy of his timetable from a mutual friend who was on the course. I was trying to engineer a meeting.

    I managed to "bump into" him a few times but always bottled it and never got the courage to speak to him.


  • #39
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Never. I'd be mortified to even like someone who had no interest in me, let alone turn up outside their house or workplace. I would die of shame. I usually won't even admit to myself that I like someone until they've confirmed that they like me! nothing more embarassing than feeling like I've overstepped the mark, in any situation. Luckily I have one of those faces that looks like I don't give a flying *****


  • #40
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    i've facebook stalk a girl i might fancy...just to see if she's in a relationship..so as to save me the bother of asking her out

    is that alright ?


  • #41
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,647 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    No I've never stalked anyone but when I was a teenager my friend and I had crushes on these Spanish students and we just happened to walk by the house they stayed at a few times.

    I was only listening to Blondie the other week and the lyrics in her song One Way or Another are really stalkerish and also Hanging on the Telephone and Call Me :pac:

    Pure 80s cheese ahead but the lyrics are the Stalker's anthem! :p

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUmFD8_0q9U


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  • #42
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Pure 80s cheese ahead but the lyrics are the Stalker's anthem! :p

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUmFD8_0q9U

    :/ :pac:

    I think I'd rather be stalked by Blondie :)


  • #43
    myshirt
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    Lorelli! wrote: »
    :/ :pac:

    I think I'd rather be stalked by Blondie :)

    +1

    Couldn't bear the thought of a ginger.


  • #44
    myshirt
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    The modern classic for Stalking is by a group called 'Your Favorite Martian' and the song is called 'Text me Back'.

    Really encapsulates what modern stalking is.


  • #45
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Yeah. Met one girl at our school breakup. Pal of mine brought her along.

    Never met her before, but felt an instant connection.

    In the time that followed I thought about her all the time & longed for the time that we would meet again.

    I found out her address & used to cycle by her house regularly just to see if she was around. This went on for about 6 months.

    Years later I found out that I'd been cycling past the wrong house. She lived in another area altogether!

    Gave up on stalking after that. I was crap at it really.


  • #46
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    :D



  • #47
    leggo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    In real life...no. I'm much too neurotic and self-aware to be able to get away with it.

    On social media...lil bit...

    Okay a lot.


  • #48
    anewme
    Registered Users Posts: 11,853 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Filmer Paradise wrote: »
    I found out her address & used to cycle by her house regularly just to see if she was around. This went on for about 6 months.

    Years later I found out that I'd been cycling past the wrong house. She lived in another area altogether!
    This made me laugh. At least it made you fitter though.


  • #49
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users Posts: 1,339 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    anewme wrote: »
    This made me laugh. At least it made you fitter though.

    Ah, I was only 17 at the time.

    Still, looking back I made 'The Inbetweeners' seem the epitome of cool.


  • #50
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    I had a serious crush on a girl I used to work with.

    I never did anything stalkerish but I did chase her relentlessly for months.


  • #51
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    I had a serious crush on a girl I used to work with.

    I never did anything stalkerish but I did chase her relentlessly for months.

    So Hector...did you ever get to show her your...err...


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  • #52
    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,086 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Not really stalking but I saw someone I knew a few weeks ago through a couple of trees. I didn't say heels to the person because I thought I might come across as a stalker as I couldn't have clearly seen the person through the trees.


  • #53
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    There was a poster on here who was banned last year.
    She used to put her pictures up on various threads. Got the shock of my life one day when I saw her picture in my facebook suggested friends list - despite us having no friends in common.
    I guess she went to a lot of trouble to find out my real identity but not enough to cover her tracks.
    It's very creepy though. And sad.


  • #54
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    Winterlong wrote: »
    There was a poster on here who was banned last year.
    She used to put her pictures up on various threads. Got the shock of my life one day when I saw her picture in my facebook suggested friends list - despite us having no friends in common.
    I guess she went to a lot of trouble to find out my real identity but not enough to cover her tracks.
    It's very creepy though. And sad.

    She's still around


  • #55
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Winterlong wrote: »
    There was a poster on here who was banned last year.
    She used to put her pictures up on various threads..

    Pics or gtfo


  • #56
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Got the shock of my life one day when I saw her picture in my facebook suggested friends list - despite us having no friends in common.
    I guess she went to a lot of trouble to find out my real identity but not enough to cover her tracks.

    How does this work? Did she openly request to be your friend?


  • #57
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Marianna Long Burglar wrote: »
    How does this work? Did she openly request to be your friend?

    No. When on facebook on the pc she popped up in my suggested friends list. I believe that anyone who pops up there who has no friends in common with you has been viewing your profile.
    Stalking!


  • #58
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    Winterlong wrote: »
    No. When on facebook on the pc she popped up in my suggested friends list. I believe that anyone who pops up there who has no friends in common with you has been viewing your profile.
    Stalking!

    Or if you view her profile too don't forget


  • #59
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Winterlong wrote: »
    There was a poster on here who was banned last year.
    She used to put her pictures up on various threads. Got the shock of my life one day when I saw her picture in my facebook suggested friends list - despite us having no friends in common.
    I guess she went to a lot of trouble to find out my real identity but not enough to cover her tracks.
    It's very creepy though. And sad.
    Same thing happened me. Just blocked it!


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    This must rank as one of the creepiest stalkiest songs out there.

    "If you ever think of me, I'll be thinking of you":eek::eek:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6c5ntJ6Kw0


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