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I was thinking about this while in the bath this morning. Does it matter where you meet? Does it have any effect on you or others around you? Do you judge others on how and where they met?
What are your thoughts on people that have met say, in a pub? Or in a club? What about a blind date? Personal ads or the one I'm really getting at, through the Internet? I obviously have had a little personal experience regarding the last of these and have found it to be very strange in some ways. It's strange, because it hasn't been strange, if that makes any sense whatsoever.
It hasn't seemed strange to me regarding my lass, but yet I've still not been comfortable to tell everyone where we met. Why could this be?
I've told some people and it hasn't been a big thing to them and yet I think it would be to others. My parents for instance.
It just strikes me as odd.
We met online, (this very forum), talked for a year and a half on MSN and the phone and then met up. We just got on really well, as cheesy as it sounds, we just "clicked". We've been a couple for over 4 months and now and now she's just my lass. No longer is she a name on a forum, my contacts list and mobile. She's ma' woman, innit.
The way I see it is that is doesn't matter really how we or anyone else meets, it's how you get on and relate to each other and those around you that matters.
I've taken some stick for meeting her online, (even worse then that it has made me talk like a third division football manager now and then).
It has been called "sad" that we met online and are now dating. Why is it sad? I didn't come on this website looking for totty. I mean, the fact that the sexy beast that is Light comes on here keeps me coming back, but that isn't why I joined. If I'd joined a gym or something because I wanted to go to it and then I met someone there, would that not be the same thing? Is it simply because when we first met, we didn't really meet because we were an hour away from each other that causes people to look down their nose?
What if I'd signed up to a dating website, would that then actually be sad because I was looking for people online and the perception may be that I can't "get" a girl in "real" life?
I'm just wondering what all your thoughts are on this and if any of you have had any personal experience of any of it.
Now go, my pretties, and go on Light, you gorgeous creature.
I was thinking about this while in the bath this morning. Does it matter where you meet? Does it have any effect on you or others around you? Do you judge others on how and where they met?
What are your thoughts on people that have met say, in a pub? Or in a club? What about a blind date? Personal ads or the one I'm really getting at, through the Internet? I obviously have had a little personal experience regarding the last of these and have found it to be very strange in some ways. It's strange, because it hasn't been strange, if that makes any sense whatsoever.
It hasn't seemed strange to me regarding my lass, but yet I've still not been comfortable to tell everyone where we met. Why could this be?
I've told some people and it hasn't been a big thing to them and yet I think it would be to others. My parents for instance.
It just strikes me as odd.
We met online, (this very forum), talked for a year and a half on MSN and the phone and then met up. We just got on really well, as cheesy as it sounds, we just "clicked". We've been a couple for over 4 months and now and now she's just my lass. No longer is she a name on a forum, my contacts list and mobile. She's ma' woman, innit.
The way I see it is that is doesn't matter really how we or anyone else meets, it's how you get on and relate to each other and those around you that matters.
I've taken some stick for meeting her online, (even worse then that it has made me talk like a third division football manager now and then).
It has been called "sad" that we met online and are now dating. Why is it sad? I didn't come on this website looking for totty. I mean, the fact that the sexy beast that is Light comes on here keeps me coming back, but that isn't why I joined. If I'd joined a gym or something because I wanted to go to it and then I met someone there, would that not be the same thing? Is it simply because when we first met, we didn't really meet because we were an hour away from each other that causes people to look down their nose?
What if I'd signed up to a dating website, would that then actually be sad because I was looking for people online and the perception may be that I can't "get" a girl in "real" life?
I'm just wondering what all your thoughts are on this and if any of you have had any personal experience of any of it.
Now go, my pretties, and go on Light, you gorgeous creature.
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Whats wrong with meeting in a bar?
Don't feel bad. I take heat for marrying someone that I met in a bar seven years ago. ;)
Celestine wrote:
> For all of you that did meet online, I was just wondering what it was
> like to physically meet the other in person for the very first time?
> I mean, it must have been so unbelievably beautiful.
Taking out the romantic element to this i met someone from here a while ago as a friend, was slightly odd, despite talking to them on the phone minutes before and having spoken to them for months before i had to stand in front of them for an age before they registered it was me.
> For all of you that did meet online, I was just wondering what it was
> like to physically meet the other in person for the very first time?
> I mean, it must have been so unbelievably beautiful.
Taking out the romantic element to this i met someone from here a while ago as a friend, was slightly odd, despite talking to them on the phone minutes before and having spoken to them for months before i had to stand in front of them for an age before they registered it was me.
Lawrence wrote:
> When me and EB first met it was in a train station and I saw him
> driving down first. He looked angry and bored, but that's actually
> his driving concentration face.
It is my concentration face, which is why during sex it has been said, "are you sure you're enjoying this?"
> We spend a day together in a town which had nothing but coffee shops,
> so we went for a coffee and he stole my passport.
Um, that's not quite how it sounds...
> Later I told him
> that I didn't think he liked me in person but he said it was obvious
> because he was flirting with me by taking my passport (yeah-i laughed
> too)
She did laugh, actually. Anyway, my child-like flirtation was more obvious then "look at the pictures on my phone", thank-you-very-much. Now if there had been a naked picture of her on her phone I may have taken the hint, but seeing pictures of her old boyfriend, (who is now a good mate of hers), didn't really seem like a come-on to me...
> We didn't kiss or hold hands all day, but we did finally kiss at the
> end of the day, which was like a typical cheesy movie kiss which gave
> me butterflys and stuff.
It was an odd meeting given that we had little to nothing to do other then talk. The odd thing was that we were never short of things to talk about, because we'd talk about crap, (even these forums...she thought SHEEPY was pronounced SHEPPY...)
She spent much of the day staring at me. To start with I thought I had a booger hanging or something. Turned out she just thought I was stunning.
> When me and EB first met it was in a train station and I saw him
> driving down first. He looked angry and bored, but that's actually
> his driving concentration face.
It is my concentration face, which is why during sex it has been said, "are you sure you're enjoying this?"
> We spend a day together in a town which had nothing but coffee shops,
> so we went for a coffee and he stole my passport.
Um, that's not quite how it sounds...
> Later I told him
> that I didn't think he liked me in person but he said it was obvious
> because he was flirting with me by taking my passport (yeah-i laughed
> too)
She did laugh, actually. Anyway, my child-like flirtation was more obvious then "look at the pictures on my phone", thank-you-very-much. Now if there had been a naked picture of her on her phone I may have taken the hint, but seeing pictures of her old boyfriend, (who is now a good mate of hers), didn't really seem like a come-on to me...
> We didn't kiss or hold hands all day, but we did finally kiss at the
> end of the day, which was like a typical cheesy movie kiss which gave
> me butterflys and stuff.
It was an odd meeting given that we had little to nothing to do other then talk. The odd thing was that we were never short of things to talk about, because we'd talk about crap, (even these forums...she thought SHEEPY was pronounced SHEPPY...)
She spent much of the day staring at me. To start with I thought I had a booger hanging or something. Turned out she just thought I was stunning.
No nothing like that.
When me and EB first met it was in a train station and I saw him driving down first. He looked angry and bored, but that's actually his driving concentration face. When we first said hello there wa none of that cheesey movie type embrace because we was still so nervous with each other.
We spend a day together in a town which had nothing but coffee shops, so we went for a coffee and he stole my passport. Later I told him that I didn't think he liked me in person but he said it was obvious because he was flirting with me by taking my passport (yeah-i laughed too)
We didn't kiss or hold hands all day, but we did finally kiss at the end of the day, which was like a typical cheesy movie kiss which gave me butterflys and stuff.
So, all I'm saying that if you do meet someone from the net, don't expect to fall into his/her arms straight away or else you may be disappointed.
Oh, and Celestine, when you are next online i'll link you to a forum you might be interested in ;o)
When me and EB first met it was in a train station and I saw him driving down first. He looked angry and bored, but that's actually his driving concentration face. When we first said hello there wa none of that cheesey movie type embrace because we was still so nervous with each other.
We spend a day together in a town which had nothing but coffee shops, so we went for a coffee and he stole my passport. Later I told him that I didn't think he liked me in person but he said it was obvious because he was flirting with me by taking my passport (yeah-i laughed too)
We didn't kiss or hold hands all day, but we did finally kiss at the end of the day, which was like a typical cheesy movie kiss which gave me butterflys and stuff.
So, all I'm saying that if you do meet someone from the net, don't expect to fall into his/her arms straight away or else you may be disappointed.
Oh, and Celestine, when you are next online i'll link you to a forum you might be interested in ;o)
For all of you that did meet online, I was just wondering what it was like to physically meet the other in person for the very first time? I mean, it must have been so unbelievably beautiful.
I imagine I'd cry feeling so overwhelmed..and I'd keep telling myself to just be cool, just be cool.. I don't know. But, we both know that we'll probably stand there for a few seconds just staring at eachother, because of how surreal it would seem..and then, hug each other so tightly.
How was it for you? Was it Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy running through the daisy fields in slow motion for eachother open armed?? Heh.
I imagine I'd cry feeling so overwhelmed..and I'd keep telling myself to just be cool, just be cool.. I don't know. But, we both know that we'll probably stand there for a few seconds just staring at eachother, because of how surreal it would seem..and then, hug each other so tightly.
How was it for you? Was it Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy running through the daisy fields in slow motion for eachother open armed?? Heh.
phi11ip wrote:
> Stuff
Well don't boast. Simple. I talk about other things (I'm a huge movie and book nut) but will talk about computers and gaming if someone is interested. I can't just talk about computers.
I don't quite see where you're going with this, it's almost like you're embarrassed for yourself being on these forums / the net in general / having your site.
If all you want to do is boast about stuff, you're going to look a tool no matter what the subject.
"but until then I'm fine being normal." - classic. Come out of the geek closet mate, you'll be far happier for it.joke
> Stuff
Well don't boast. Simple. I talk about other things (I'm a huge movie and book nut) but will talk about computers and gaming if someone is interested. I can't just talk about computers.
I don't quite see where you're going with this, it's almost like you're embarrassed for yourself being on these forums / the net in general / having your site.
If all you want to do is boast about stuff, you're going to look a tool no matter what the subject.
"but until then I'm fine being normal." - classic. Come out of the geek closet mate, you'll be far happier for it.joke
Kevstar reminds me of Mr T in Rocky 3.
Only less cool. Obviously.
On another note, I figure as long as people on the net are perceived as probably liars (about their personal details) and possible psychos, there'll always be a bit of a stigma about meeting people on here.
But the reality seems to be that most people are more or less genuine.
So no problem (so long as everyone's safe).
Only less cool. Obviously.
On another note, I figure as long as people on the net are perceived as probably liars (about their personal details) and possible psychos, there'll always be a bit of a stigma about meeting people on here.
But the reality seems to be that most people are more or less genuine.
So no problem (so long as everyone's safe).
I'm a geek at home, and my close friends know it, take the pi*s sometimes (kick the crap out of them on ANY game, even if I've never played it), but don't really care.
But I am still a 'normal' guy. And if you met someone online? I know somebody online. We've met once before. She's sent me 200 text messages in a week.
:S
But I am still a 'normal' guy. And if you met someone online? I know somebody online. We've met once before. She's sent me 200 text messages in a week.
:S
Pandaemonium wrote:
> phi11ip wrote:
> It just seems geeky and not something you'd wanna boast about. I
> don't
> tell people I post on an Internet chat forum and hardly anyone knows
> that I've got a website. It's nothing big but it's still geeky and I
> don't want people to know about it as I feel that they'd think
> differently of me.
>
> Live by my rule. Ignore what other people think of you. Mrs
> Pandaemonium thinks I'm a huge geek (and technological and
> programming genius natch.)
>
> I am. Erm, I don't care. I call her a sloane because she loves
> horses and horseriding.
>
> Lemme tell you the biggest geeks of all. Football fans. The stats and
> fanatasism those people reel off scare me.
>
> On a slightly different note, I know of at least four people engaged
> to be married or married that met via email / web dating / chatrooms.
> They are are very happy. I think it's so successful as the meeting
> online bypasses the physical side and you get to really know someone
> (unless they're a fat forty year old liar.)
OK, maybe that came out wrong. I didn't mean it ~that~ way!
I meant it in the way that who actually wants to know abut this stuff? Am I meant to bring it up in conversation and boast about it?
Last year in halls this was clearly demonstrated. The guys that decided that they wanted to boast about computers and stuff were laughed at. People don't care about your technical knowledge. One incident I remember involved one guy holding 'some cable' and swinging it around, when asked what it was he just replied, "some cable." Upon hearing this, another guy replied, "That's ethernet full duplex cable etc etc," to which everyone just looked at him and thought, 'you idiot.'
Nobody is impressed about 'geeky' stuff. It's one of the most boring things you can talk about and I've got more fun stuff to talk about when I go out.
Maybe if I was to be propositioned about it I'd say that I talk to a few random people and have a site, but I've never needed to. There's no reason for me to boast about it either because, well, I've explained that.
If I'm asked I'll talk, but until then I'm fine being normal. I'll stick with the 99% of people that regard the spending ages on the Internet as being geeky and sad. Because it is.
> phi11ip wrote:
> It just seems geeky and not something you'd wanna boast about. I
> don't
> tell people I post on an Internet chat forum and hardly anyone knows
> that I've got a website. It's nothing big but it's still geeky and I
> don't want people to know about it as I feel that they'd think
> differently of me.
>
> Live by my rule. Ignore what other people think of you. Mrs
> Pandaemonium thinks I'm a huge geek (and technological and
> programming genius natch.)
>
> I am. Erm, I don't care. I call her a sloane because she loves
> horses and horseriding.
>
> Lemme tell you the biggest geeks of all. Football fans. The stats and
> fanatasism those people reel off scare me.
>
> On a slightly different note, I know of at least four people engaged
> to be married or married that met via email / web dating / chatrooms.
> They are are very happy. I think it's so successful as the meeting
> online bypasses the physical side and you get to really know someone
> (unless they're a fat forty year old liar.)
OK, maybe that came out wrong. I didn't mean it ~that~ way!
I meant it in the way that who actually wants to know abut this stuff? Am I meant to bring it up in conversation and boast about it?
Last year in halls this was clearly demonstrated. The guys that decided that they wanted to boast about computers and stuff were laughed at. People don't care about your technical knowledge. One incident I remember involved one guy holding 'some cable' and swinging it around, when asked what it was he just replied, "some cable." Upon hearing this, another guy replied, "That's ethernet full duplex cable etc etc," to which everyone just looked at him and thought, 'you idiot.'
Nobody is impressed about 'geeky' stuff. It's one of the most boring things you can talk about and I've got more fun stuff to talk about when I go out.
Maybe if I was to be propositioned about it I'd say that I talk to a few random people and have a site, but I've never needed to. There's no reason for me to boast about it either because, well, I've explained that.
If I'm asked I'll talk, but until then I'm fine being normal. I'll stick with the 99% of people that regard the spending ages on the Internet as being geeky and sad. Because it is.
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