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Should I chance it?

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  • #102
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,698 ✭✭✭Feisar


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Good old Feeky Magee.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055760092

    Those were the days, we were all rooting for him.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #103
    Irish_rat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Irish_rat


    Was probably one of the best thread ever on boards. Pure legend.


  • #104
    yabadabado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,555 ✭✭✭✭yabadabado


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Good old Feeky Magee.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055760092

    I wonder whatever happened to Donna from Neighbours ..


  • #105
    4Ad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Hi all, update...
    We are friends, thats all !!
    Bit of craic, bit of chat, nothing more, I think she (C) is just being friendly..
    Not that I have ever asked..
    I just get that feeling off her..Pretty though !!

    Please dont slag/slate me !!


  • #106
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    4Ad wrote: »
    Hi all, update...
    We are friends, thats all !!
    Bit of craic, bit of chat, nothing more, I think she (C) is just being friendly..
    Not that I have ever asked..
    I just get that feeling off her..Pretty though !!

    Please dont slag/slate me !!

    Had a quick scan of this thread, for the love of God ask her! Better to know than wonder.

    I've a feeling I said this to you in another thread, but faint heart never won fair lady. No point beating about the bush (no pun intended), let her know you'd like to get to know her.
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  • #107
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Ah I got an update and couldn't wait to see what had happened :D ah ask her OP. Nothing ventured... :)


  • #108
    Goodigal
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Goodigal


    Please ask her on a date! Give us hopeless romantics here something to ponder!! I was really hoping you had made further progress!!


  • #109
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,404 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Had a quick scan of this thread, for the love of God ask her! Better to know than wonder.

    I've a feeling I said this to you in another thread, but faint heart never won fair lady. No point beating about the bush (no pun intended), let her know you'd like to get to know her.


    People preach but would not want what they preach.


  • #110
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    She might just like you as a person though. There are men I get along with brilliant as friends and we have great craic, like at work, or just as general mates. And we can have quite important conversations about life and the universe and stuff going on for them.
    But it would be incredibly awkward if any of them asked me out because it completely changes the dynamic of the one human being to another human being really liking each other thing but not in a genital way.
    In short it brings SEX into it and once sex has been introduced it never really leaves the room again. Which can really put an awkward spin on a happy comradeship or even on a close enough friendship.

    Of course that really makes it difficult to know how to bring it up when it is right and fitting. But I reckon there are signals that one would not miss. Looks. Smiles. Extra close positioning. In other words, I think most women would make it reasonably obvious when they are in that hot kind of mood for ya and it would kind of flow that way.

    Maybe I have it arseways though.


  • #111
    4Ad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭4Ad


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    She might just like you as a person though. There are men I get along with brilliant as friends and we have great craic, like at work, or just as general mates. And we can have quite important conversations about life and the universe and stuff going on for them.
    But it would be incredibly awkward if any of them asked me out because it completely changes the dynamic of the one human being to another human being really liking each other thing but not in a genital way.
    In short it brings SEX into it and once sex has been introduced it never really leaves the room again. Which can really put an awkward spin on a happy comradeship or even on a close enough friendship.

    Of course that really makes it difficult to know how to bring it up when it is right and fitting. But I reckon there are signals that one would not miss. Looks. Smiles. Extra close positioning. In other words, I think most women would make it reasonably obvious when they are in that hot kind of mood for ya and it would kind of flow that way.

    Maybe I have it arseways though.

    I think you have it 100 correct.I think she is just being friendly..
    I wouldn't exacltly be Brad Pitt looking !!


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  • #112
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    4Ad wrote: »
    I think you have it 100 correct.I think she is just being friendly..
    I wouldn't exacltly be Brad Pitt looking !!

    Don't be putting yourself down!!
    I'm in my mid 40s & up until a few years ago I never even thought my boyfriends were good looking.
    What I mean by that is, I was attracted to men by getting to know them, and their personality won me over!!
    Tbh, I think that's fairly normal in Ireland, the women do tend to be better looking then the men!
    #shrug#


  • #113
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    bubblypop wrote: »
    Don't be putting yourself down!!
    I'm in my mid 40s & up until a few years ago I never even thought my boyfriends were good looking.
    What I mean by that is, I was attracted to men by getting to know them, and their personality won me over!!
    Tbh, I think that's fairly normal in Ireland, the women do tend to be better looking then the men!
    #shrug#

    I'm agreeing with the first part of your post. In person there's more to attraction than looks. Chemistry/pheromones play a big role in deciding if a man starts a throbbing in the nethers.

    I don't have a definite physical type, my exes have varied hugely in height, weight and facial features. They all had compatible personalities and sense of humour to me, and all were attractive to me. An objectively handsome man can appear as dull as ditchwater if that spark is missing.

    The second part I don't agree with, I think it's an even split. As women have the advantage of make-up, hair colour, more variety in clothing etc to enhance attractiveness, it's unfair to say that we are generally more attractive than our male counterparts.
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  • #114
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    4Ad wrote: »
    I think you have it 100 correct.I think she is just being friendly..
    I wouldn't exacltly be Brad Pitt looking !!

    It 's not looks that do it. Honestly :) Beautiful chaps can leave one cold while there are quare enough looking articles that inspire desperate longings.


  • #115
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    You are going to be single for the rest of your life with that attitude. Just ask her


  • #116
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Don't ask her out op, keep the friendship instead.
    Then you could tell her you are looking for a girlfriend and ask her to set you up with one of her single friends.
    When a woman recommends you to another woman as a potential boyfriend that is a big thumbs up for you, sort of a seal of approval.


  • #117
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    4Ad wrote: »
    I live in a small village where I do alot of running..I meet this girl out running alot!! She is damn cute about mid 40's,

    she'll like you alot for that alone ;)


  • #118
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,467 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    In my experience women are far more forward than men, if they fancy you, you will know, because they will ask you out, all they have to do is get your number, then they will usually text you.


  • #119
    Sharpyshoot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 452 ✭✭Sharpyshoot


    Make some move op, don’t go on with the horn bullying just keep it semi professional.


  • #120
    EddieN75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭EddieN75


    Did anything happen after!?

    The thread is nearly 8 months old since the op!

    Please say yes!


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  • #121
    Sharpyshoot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 452 ✭✭Sharpyshoot


    There might be a baby on the way.


  • #122
    YellowLead
    Registered Users Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    I kind of feel like if she fancied you, she would have made sure you know. Not directly but there would be flirting. Engage in some flirting yourself, and if she doesn’t bite then you know. If she does, she could still not want something further but you’ve more of a chance and it won’t seem weird that you asked.


  • #123
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Sharpyshoot wrote: »
    Make some move op, don’t go on with the horn bullying just keep it semi professional.

    :D

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-Aa4LWtsllvN_mrJ-VEq4m5k-L5faHHO10Q&usqp=CAU


  • #124
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    EddieN75 wrote: »
    Did anything happen after!?

    The thread is nearly 8 months old since the op!

    Please say yes!

    Unless OP makes a move (and he really really should) not a lot of anything is going to happen.


  • #125
    EddieN75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 467 ✭✭EddieN75


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Unless OP makes a move (and he really really should) not a lot of anything is going to happen.

    8 months flown by . The time between "there's that nice guy who always smiles" to " that creep has been staring at me for months" may have passed.

    You can do it!


  • #126
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,278 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    Unless OP makes a move (and he really really should) not a lot of anything is going to happen.

    I get what you're saying but sometimes it's so hard to step out of a comfort zone and make that leap.
    So I'd suggest changing tack, OP.
    You say you're friends. Start upping the banter to flirty.
    How will she know that you like her unless you start giving her the vibes that you do?
    You say you both like running? Did you ever suggest running together?
    Throw her a few compliments, keep eye contact etc.
    Is her birthday coming up or anything? To drop in a little gift?
    Think outside the box how you can get your intentions across!

    To thine own self be true



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  • #127
    YellowLead
    Registered Users Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    I get what you're saying but sometimes it's so hard to step out of a comfort zone and make that leap.
    So I'd suggest changing tack, OP.
    You say you're friends. Start upping the banter to flirty.
    How will she know that you like her unless you start giving her the vibes that you do?
    You say you both like running? Did you ever suggest running together?
    Throw her a few compliments, keep eye contact etc.
    Is her birthday coming up or anything? To drop in a little gift?
    Think outside the box how you can get your intentions across!

    I would echo ALL of this advice. Except the gift, I think the gift would be a bit much even if she did fancy him, if I were her I would think it weird. And if I didn’t fancy him I would deffo see it as creepy.

    But deffo up the flirting and gauge response!


  • #128
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,278 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    YellowLead wrote: »
    I would echo ALL of this advice. Except the gift, I think the gift would be a bit much even if she did fancy him, if I were her I would think it weird. And if I didn’t fancy him I would deffo see it as creepy.

    But deffo up the flirting and gauge response!

    OK, maybe not the gift..but something more subtle..like if you both like running, offer to download an app or something that you find helpful?
    Or say you saw something online that you think might be helpful to her running?
    Just something to show that you were thinking of her outside of when you chat to her.
    And stop being so hard on your physical appearance. If any of us were stunning looking, we wouldn't be on boards.ie We would be on Onlyfans :)

    To thine own self be true



  • #129
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    EddieN75 wrote: »
    Did anything happen after!?

    The thread is nearly 8 months old since the op!

    Please say yes!

    i'm fascinated by this thread too...

    ...any updates OP...did she say yes? did you have jiggy jiggy? or just go for a jog?

    please fill my pathetic vacuous existence with details :p


  • #130
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,278 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    fryup wrote: »
    i'm fascinated by this thread too...

    ...any updates OP...did she say yes? did you have jiggy jiggy? or just go for a jog?

    please fill my pathetic vacuous existence with details :p

    Maybe read the thread :D

    To thine own self be true



  • #131
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    Maybe read the thread :D

    yes i just did now (well just the OP's replies)

    wish i didn't :( he's even more pathetic than i am, at least i would have asked her out and if she rejected ..shout "Lesbian!" in her face and then run away


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  • #132
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    I get what you're saying but sometimes it's so hard to step out of a comfort zone and make that leap.
    So I'd suggest changing tack, OP.
    You say you're friends. Start upping the banter to flirty.
    How will she know that you like her unless you start giving her the vibes that you do?
    You say you both like running? Did you ever suggest running together?
    Throw her a few compliments, keep eye contact etc.
    Is her birthday coming up or anything? To drop in a little gift?
    Think outside the box how you can get your intentions across!

    Ah yeah, but it's gone on for 6 months now.

    If the OP is serious at all he should ask her for a coffee or whatever and then get her number. It's daunting stuff by times but if you don't ask you simply won't receive. It could well be a case he has left it too late now but the second best time is today or whenever you see her out for a run next.


  • #133
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,278 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    fryup wrote: »
    yes i just did now (well just the OP's replies)

    wish i didn't :( he's even more pathetic than i am, at least i would have asked her out and if she rejected ..shout "Lesbian!" in her face and then run away

    Do you wonder why you're single?!

    To thine own self be true



  • #134
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    Do you wonder why you're single?!

    aha! but that's where you're wrong my friend,

    only one thousand dollar, one-way ticket, and
    she's a great cook too


  • #135
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,278 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    fryup wrote: »
    aha! but that's where you're wrong my friend,

    only one thousand dollar, one-way ticket, and
    she's a great cook too

    I can think of better ways to spend 1k :D

    To thine own self be true



  • #136
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    fryup wrote: »
    yes i just did now (well just the OP's replies)

    wish i didn't :( he's even more pathetic than i am, at least i would have asked her out and if she rejected ..shout "Lesbian!" in her face and then run away
    Smooth fry, real smooth! :p
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  • #137
    Swaine
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭Swaine


    I started a thread on here many moons ago under a previous account asking for advice regarding asking a girl out (I was young and dumb at the time). I did and we dated for 4 years.

    Go for it, OP. Life is too short.


  • #138
    Boscoirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    Swaine wrote: »
    I started a thread on here many moons ago under a previous account asking for advice regarding asking a girl out (I was young and dumb at the time). I did and we dated for 4 years.

    Go for it, OP. Life is too short.
    Was it your teacher/tutor?


  • #139
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    Swaine wrote: »
    I started a thread on here many moons ago under a previous account asking for advice regarding asking a girl out (I was young and dumb at the time). I did and we dated for 4 years.

    Go for it, OP. Life is too short.

    That you Feeky?


  • #140
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    let me give you my tale of infatuation ...

    many moons ago there was this gorgeous eastern european girl who worked in a shoe shop...met her first when i purchased a pair of shoes there, would return every few days for any ol'reason pretending to browse, buy laces, buy shoe polish etc etc...just to play eye tennis with her - would she give me the "glad eyes"?? in hindsight this must have put her off "this guy's a creep"

    anyway i said to myself enough of this sillyness and approached her one day when the coast was clear i.e. no customers about...i could see the panic in her face as she blurted out "no sorry i have a boyfriend"

    but i reckon she was bluffing, it was just fact of me going in & out all the time that put her off..if i asked her day one i would have stood a better chance as well as saving a small fortune on footwear accessories :rolleyes:

    i think the chinese have a phrase for it "he who hesitates is lost"


  • #141
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    fryup wrote: »
    let me give you my tale of infatuation ...

    many moons ago there was this gorgeous eastern european girl who worked in a shoe shop...met her first when i purchased a pair of shoes there, would return every few days for any ol'reason pretending to browse, buy laces, buy shoe polish etc etc...just to play eye tennis with her - would she give me the "glad eyes"?? in hindsight this must have put her off "this guy's a creep"

    anyway i said to myself enough of this sillyness and approached her one day when the coast was clear i.e. no customers about...i could see the panic in her face as she blurted out "no sorry i have a boyfriend"

    but i reckon she was bluffing, it was just fact of me going in & out all the time that put her off..if i asked her day one i would have stood a better chance as well as saving a small fortune on footwear accessories :rolleyes:

    i think the chinese have a phrase for it "he who hesitates is lost"

    Lads might be underestimating the super power of women's eyes and senses. We can see people coming in to the shop/room/business regularly. We can see the interest. We can perceive the vibes. It is all perceptible.
    If they are reciprocated, you will know. Unless the lady is very introverted or on drugs or something.
    Which is the reason why I think that there is not much point in complicating or even ruining a casual comradeship by bringing your willy into the conversation - if she wanted you that way, you would truly know already.


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  • #142
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,807 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    cannotlogin wrote: »
    Anyone remember Brian & Ciara?

    This is worse!

    Nothing could be worse than that


  • #143
    frosty123
    Registered Users Posts: 565 ✭✭✭frosty123


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Lads might be underestimating the super power of women's eyes and senses. We can see people coming in to the shop/room/business regularly. We can see the interest. We can perceive the vibes. It is all perceptible.
    If they are reciprocated, you will know.

    Can you give us some clues, PLEASE

    BTW - Is it true that if a woman wears a hairband on her wrist.. she's giving out a signal that's she's on the look out for a fella?


  • #144
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    frosty123 wrote: »
    Can you give us some clues, PLEASE

    BTW - Is it true that if a woman wears a hairband on her wrist.. she's giving out a signal that's she's on the look out for a fella?

    Jaysus. Standing here in the vets consultation room waiting for him to come in and tend to my cat, and I've a hairband on my wrist. Perhaps it was subconsciously an intentional thing. Will update if he leaps over the table and flings the cat to one side :D


  • #145
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    That's the Claddagh ring you are thinking of.


  • #146
    Antares35
    Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    the purple tin wrote: »
    That's the Claddagh ring you are thinking of.

    Is it upside down if you're on the lookout? Or upside down if you're taken? I could never remember.


  • #147
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Is it upside down if you're on the lookout? Or upside down if you're taken? I could never remember.
    You spin it round. If the heart is on the inside then your heart is spoken for. If it faces out you are on the hunt.

    edit.. that is on the right hand. If you wear it on the left heart out- you're engaged. Heart in- married.


  • #148
    Curious_Case
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Curious_Case


    This never fails -

    Hiya, I'm hoping to meet someone to subsequently become locked in to a toxic relationship with, fueled by mutual animosity and passive aggression.
    The net is fairly wide so would you be offended if I sounded you out ?


  • #149
    Sharpyshoot
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 452 ✭✭Sharpyshoot


    Don’t mention the penis ^


  • #150
    Tails142
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Tails142


    hurikane wrote: »
    Cheers, wonder what feeky is at these days. He’d be a great man to advise on threads like this.

    Funniest part of that thread reading back is that Donna from Neighbours is Margot Robbie lol


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  • #151
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,407 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Lads might be underestimating the super power of women's eyes and senses. We can see people coming in to the shop/room/business regularly. We can see the interest. We can perceive the vibes. It is all perceptible.
    If they are reciprocated, you will know. Unless the lady is very introverted or on drugs or something.
    Which is the reason why I think that there is not much point in complicating or even ruining a casual comradeship by bringing your willy into the conversation - if she wanted you that way, you would truly know already.

    I don't think these signals you talk about are as obvious as you think otherwise there would be no nervousness or fear of rejection.
    Nor do I believe that women are that finely attuned or else there would never be surprise when they are asked.
    Does the OP really value this ones friendship so much that he can't risk it here? He barely knows the girl other than to say hello to or have a chat. Nothing here to risk other than pride.


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