If you would meet yourself in a pub

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Would you become friends?

― Sigmund, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes. probably would try to be friends with me if I was on the sober side. if drunk, i would try to fuck me, and i would definitely succeed.

― di, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Neither of us would meet anybody. We'd sit at opposite ends of the bar, both desperately appearing fascinated in our ice cubes. Then we'd both ostentatiously look at the clock, say too loudly "Well, I guess all those friends I was waiting for aren't showing up!" and walk out, to go home, get stoned, watch TV and wonder where our social lives went

― dave q, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yes. Indeed most of my friends are just me in dresses, or with beards and glasses.

― Pete, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd ask myself what a nice guy like me was doing in a dump like this, and leave. Twice.

― Momus, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

knowing what i was like drunk, i wouldn't even talk to me.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God. Presuming I actually spoke to myself at all, no way would we get on. Probably make some awful attempt at polite conversation whilst snidily trying to out-obscure myself. Leave thinking 'what a fucking dumb bitch. I hope she dies and rots mercilessly in hell'.

And then I'd probably fall over.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Friends? I'd say yes. I don't think I'd want to take myself home, though. Unless I was drunk. Which of course I would be.

― Sean, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is a horrible question.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a horrible feeling that I'd think I was a complete wanker and end up having a fight with myself.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd have an entertaining discussion consisting of "You like this?" "Oh I LOVE that!" "It is so great to meet someone with tastes like mine!" Then I'd argue with myself. It would be great.

― Maria, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The first time I met myself I would probably think I was OK but ignore myself and talk to my other friends. The second and third times would be friendlier but along the same lines. Gradually I would become acclimatised to my presence in my wider social group and actual friendship might develop, after which I would enjoy my company enormously.

― Tom, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a horrible feeling that I'd think I was the coolest person on Earth and end up buying myself drinks until I bazooka barfed against the back wall.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Judging by how people react to me, I probably wouldn't know what to make of myself. I've seen videotape of myself and I've thought, "What the hell?"

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd probably smack him/myself upside the head, get the attention of the girl he was mooning over for the past 30 minutes, and get them talking. Then I'd order myself another Amaretto Sour and sit at the bar, sighing wistfully at the budding love between my doppleganger and that gal, sipping from my fruity drink.

Sigh. Sip.

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would share some chips with myself.

― rainy, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd think it was the girl I saw at All Tomorrow's Parties who looked just like me.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is all based on the heady premise that I've ever been able to see or talk while in a Pub.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wouldn't even notice. Probably. Because often, in pubs and bars, I have 'forgotten' to wear my glasses.

― Kim, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a horrible feeling that I'd think I was the coolest person on Earth and end up buying myself drinks until I bazooka barfed against the back wall.

Why, naturally. Thanks for the drinks, by the way. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would probably exchange fake-numbers in a desperate, forced attempt to connect, only to discard it and hope I never call...

― jason, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i would think i was hallucanitng and go back to readign borges

― anthony, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me & Me would get on like a house on fire, and we'd spend the evening drinking cheap beer and laughing at our own jokes. So, pretty much the same as pub evening minus doppelganger, really.

― DG, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh GOD no. Well... actually, given my actual history, I'd probably be far more likely to adopt Me for a while, try to educate, enlighten and change Me, then when that didn't work, slowly give up and start to use Me as a focus for allmy self loathing and bitch and carp endlessly to my friends about what a selfish, arrogant, annoying cow Me has become.

― Kate the Saint, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think that the following is relevant to this thread. A college friend of mine who majored in Philosophy swore that he got the following question on an exam: Imagine that you've cloned yourself and that you had sex with your clone. Was having sex with your clone a homosexual act or was it masturbation?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

First I would freak out. Then I would refer to my Usborne Book of Ghosts to confirm my fear (seeing doppleganger = sign of impending death). Then I would rationalise it and go and talk to 'me'. Then we would investigate whether having sex with identical twins was a draw for women.

― Nick, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glaringly obvious one-word answers to exam essay questions, classic or dud.

Only on Planet Het Know-Nothing could these activities be mutually exclusive.

― mark s, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where is this 'Planet Het Know-Nothing'? Is there a rocket? (thinks: in the Planet of Het Know-Nothing, halfwits like me would be king)

― Nick, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"If you would meet yourself...". Is this some kind of new subjunctive? Does not compute.

However, I think I would exchange furtive glances with the other fella, and end up not talking to such a clearly uninteresting (and pedantic, and obsessed with grammar) old twot.

― Sam, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being the only person I know who ever turns up on time for things I would be very relieved to see me there as it would spare me from having to sit on my own in the pub trying to look occupied so dreary men don't start showing me the photos of their skiing holiday.

― Emma, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I might end up killing the other me. Annoying cunt!

― rezna, Thursday, 20 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i dont really get the question but this one time there was this girl and everyone was like oh she looks sooooo much like you and I was all like, whatever, and they wer like its true and so this one time we saw each other at the Galeria and she came up top me and all my friedns and she was like you are sooooo prwetty, and i was like thanks. and she didnt look likeame AT ALL!

― chasimoni, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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