Gettign your freinds hooked up

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Is it totally pointless to try to hook yoru friends up with other friends romantically?

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:19 (twenty years ago)

It's dangerous is what it is.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:22 (twenty years ago)

helping a friend get laid is never a bad thing, am i right folks?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:22 (twenty years ago)

From the few experiences I've had nothing serious has come out of it, but then again, nothing awful either.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:23 (twenty years ago)

whenever i've tried it, it didn't work. although friends have gotten together as a result of me being a not-deliberately-matchmaking deus ex machina.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, if a friend of mine says she might someone else I know, and asks me to help meet him, why should I say no? Unless, of course, I happen to know the said person wouldn't be good for her.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

"she might fancy"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

what if the one is like "Oh - hes not good looking" after you have already got them \both into the itdea of an oline romance

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I know nothing about online romance. In the cases I mentioned they'd already met.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:34 (twenty years ago)

I had a friends that desperately needed to get laid. It was really sad. So I hooked him up with J£nny "two scoops" (so named for an incident in which she was willfully violated with an ice cream scoop). basically the slutiest girl i could find that had standards low enough for this guy. Fast forward a month and he is now, much to my dismay, actually dating her. Fast forward 5 years - the engagement is off - she's taken everything and he is in way over his head with child support payments while she is dating an old friend of theirs. I have to sleep everynight knowing the horrible chain of events I set off! This is what happens people!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:35 (twenty years ago)

I guess its better to let nature take it's course. Like with teh MANDRILL

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:40 (twenty years ago)

TO HELL WITH MADRILLS!

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:07 (twenty years ago)

I used to be very good at this. A couple of the couples in question even got married!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, if anyone would like to hook me up with anybody, I'm sure I could put up with it ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 11:25 (twenty years ago)

i have been known to do this, bujt by and large it ends in disaster, bitterness and recrimination.

i do have two friends who i think belong together though - they just don't agree with me right now!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Well, it generally helps if there is at least some mutual interest there to start with.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

or not, as in another case i dare not mention.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:08 (twenty years ago)

What are you talking about? Do you have GOSSIP?!?!? Tell! Tell! Anyone I know?

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

yes charlie what are you talking about plz.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

(Unless he's talking about one of us!)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

whatever! spill!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I need better friends.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

I was hooked up by mutual friends, and now we're married! So it can work.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

He might be talking about both of you, Kate and Emma!

I would be flattered if anyone told some other that they thought I was great and this other person would like me. Unsurprisingly, it has never happened.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)

The only one of Charlie's friends that I ever fancied, he reacted in total horror to the very thought. (Charlie, that is - I know not what the friend might have thought.)

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

hi friends! help me hook up kthx

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

it's classic obv

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

In fact, usually, when I try to get my friends to hook me up with their friends, their reaction is usually "Eeuurgh, you don't want to go out with *him* do you?"

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

a single friend of mine has been hinting around that he wants a girlfriend lately. i think i should try and find him one. problem is -- i know almost no one single, except for me.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

maybe that's what he's hinting.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

That's probably exactly what he's hinting at! x-post

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

One of my friends retrospectively claimed credit for getting me and Matt together, but it's not true. Ah, alcohol: the greatest matchmaker there is.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

no way, man, he wouldn't fancy me in a million years!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

c and v only met cos of me and they got married in october! er, i didn't matchmake them though.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

no way, man, he wouldn't fancy me in a million years!
-- POOP BITCH (mandeewrigh...), January 10th, 2006 1:48 PM. (Mandee) (later) (link)

well yeah because you'd be a skeleton by then

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

I've met most of the girls I've ever dated or fancied through friends, but never with the specific intent of hooking us up.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha, my god, Ken!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

But maybe he'd fancy you in seventy years, when he's demented and his brain is all mush.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit, that sounded crueler than what I meant. Obviously you're perfectly fanciable to non-demented people too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Reminds me of the time a friend of mine had just shaven her head bald, and she said, "No one will fancy me now...", and I tried to cheer her up, and ended up saying, "Don't worry, a lot of militant dykes would probably fancy you!". Or the other time another friend said, "No guy will ever want to have sex with me again!", and again I tried to be cheerful and said, "You're wrong, there's probably bunches of pensioners who would.".

The bottom line: I'm not good with compliments.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

But clearly your friend has no taste.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

one of my "friends" recently defined a friend as someone who tries to engineer opportunities for you to kiss attractive men. this means i have no friends. how sad.

it also means i'm not a friend to anyone, though!

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:57 (twenty years ago)

shaved heads are sexy - yet another round fleshy area is revealed

― Latham Green (mike), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I think girls with bald heads and mohawks are hot too. (As I may have mentioned, lately I've specialized in cutting mohawks to girls.) I probably should've said that instead of the dyke thing.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Though I guess it wasn't that bad since I ended up dating her anyway. And these days I'm her personal hairdresser.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I have hardly any friends, which is why hoping my friends are going to set me up is probably going to lead to me being single forevermore.

(but there are lots of other reasons too)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

The only one of Charlie's friends that I ever fancied, he reacted in total horror to the very thought. (Charlie, that is - I know not what the friend might have thought.)

oh crikey, nononono, honestly, that would have been the single worst thing in history. you would've been able to see the mushroom cloud over london from different continents. honestly. terrible call.

and there's no point in me spilling about my two friends who are made for each other, cos nobody here knows either of them! much.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

...but... but... that's why I *fancied* him! Because it would have been such an utter disaster, tragically romantic, etc. etc. Bah.

Anyway, if it's not one of us, then we don't care.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:54 (twenty years ago)

...I suddenly just realised what terrible taste I have in men. :-(

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm of two minds...on one hand YOOHOO halloo the fort, my friends -- I'M SINGLE. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. On the other hand, I never like anyone who's suggested to me, apparently I have to trip over them myself (and the more damage I can inflict in the process, the better, judging by past results).

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

...but... but... that's why I *fancied* him! Because it would have been such an utter disaster, tragically romantic, etc. etc. Bah.

I felt bad enough about the above-alluded-to hook-up I did with you and Hoxton Constellation, while personally being thousands of miles away in Australia. There's no way I could knowingly allow that sort of thing to happen again!

That, and he would have killed you with knives and crack.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Crack? OK, I didn't hear about the crack bit. Knives, fine, but crack, nuh-uh, even I have a limit, and that limit is definitely crack.

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

glad to hear it! warning though: TCFTS...ITS are back, and gigging at a sticky-floored venue near you.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I'd love to hook up some of my friends with each other, but at the moment I have only two male friends close enough to me for me to consider such a thing, and one of them is already spoken for. I actually once thought of introducing the two lesbian friends I have to each other, knowing that they had kinda similar tastes, but both of them are now dating someone too. So my options as a matchmaker are sadly limited.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

I need my friends to do this for me

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I'm fine with Hilton Betelgeuse now, we can laugh about it and all.

I still want to know about Posh@dam and the crack, though!

― Ah! The Feinbos! (kate), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

wait, so where does the urge of being the matchmaker come from? I thought normally it's when you have friends who are single and right for each other and you feel they should be together. But in your case this doesn't seem to be the case and you just want to match up your mates for the sake of it just so that you can be a match maker?!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

like using your friends to earn some kind of scout-trophy

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

"and this is the badge for setting the fires of love burning... and this is for archery when I fired my cupid's arrow... This one? Oh it's for knot tying..."

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

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