Love in UCD

singingstranger

meowCat wrote:

But it is a depressive thread now, is it not?!

Well, it is now...

Chinafoot

Lets agree to disagree......

On another note, can you please not triple post? The edit function is there for a reason

Pythia

meowCat wrote:

well......just got a pm from irlrobins. He is concerned about my mood tonight and is asking if I have been drinking.

The answer is. YES. It's called Laphroaig, 15 years. My fav.

So, apologies for annoying with bad mood. Me better off to bed now. But it is a depressive thread now, is it not?!

Ah drunken posting, nothing better!

hullaballoo

Pythia wrote:

Ah drunken posting, nothing better!

Is that some sort of euphemism?

tintinr35

Pythia wrote:

He got me drunk!

better than pregnant i suppose:eek:

The_Minister

I was happy in UCD until I read this. This is a thread desiegned solely to cause anyone with vodka in the house to start swigging and swigging it until they throw up their sorrows then collapse unconscious in them. UCD is a cold place with each grey, dull building merely an aquarium housing hundreds of cold fish, swimming in endless circles, occasionally allowing themselves to be caught for a short while before swimming on, occasionally poking their heads up to gulp some Hello Kitten fishfood thrown to them by their parents. It is a sterile place where love does not grow but festers, unnourished. Societies and socialising dwindle as a grim coldness grips the corridors. I cannot speak for all faculties, but the college of Arts & Humanities has lost its own humanity.

ferdi

i got felt up in the freshers ball, does that count?

Blush_01

I know people who got together in UCD and are thinking of getting married. I know couples who met in UCD and have been going out for nigh on 3 years now. I also think that there's far too much cynicism.

Unfortunately I have a thing for people who move to foreign countries. And I'm not talking about Leitrim.

Red Alert

my mammy and daddy met in UCD - true story!

TheVan

So did mine and got married in Belfield Church all those years ago!

Pythia

Red Alert wrote:

my mammy and daddy met in UCD - true story!

So did mine. They're both staff here.

elmyra

My mammy and daddy didn't go to UCD (and come to think of it, I don't know where or how they met, I'm shameful). I do know that my ex-English teacher met and married her husband here though, and that's not that long ago.

panda100

ferdi wrote:

i got felt up in the freshers ball, does that count?

not if it was boneless

beanyb

I've had a boyfriend since before I was in UCD, but he was in UCD for a while before he hit dropoutville.

But anyway I have friends that met in UCD...

1. They actually met in QBar and randomly scored each other before realising they were in the same course. Literallt every single class, even their history option. So what would have been just a random score blossomed into love during lectures!

2. Two other friends that are PERFECT for each other met in UCD too. The guy gave a lecture address to 1st year history at the start of the year to try and get them to join the soc he's involved with. Afterwards the girl went up saying she'd love to get involved (really she had ulterior motives... she liked him!) and she gave him her number. Love blossomed while planning a treasure hunt!

3. I dont actually know how they met... but I believe it was at the very start of 1st year. They're now both doing their finals and just broke up a couple of weeks ago. He's devastated...

Now... to stop procrastinating and head to college to get a seat!

panda100

Ive actually found love quite a few times in UCD.
in first year,I went out with my class rep,we broke up for the summer though and it didnt feel right again after that....so ive done med

Then I moved on to economics and finance.....we met in pegs(does anyone remember that??) and went out for a bout a year and a half.

then I moved on to arts....we went out for about 6 months

so all in all cept ag and vet Ive dont all the facultys:D With all of them I fancied them for ages first and we were just friends for a bit before love blossomed. UCD can actually be a very rosemantic place,the lake on a hot day,the little river beside belgrove at nightfall...who needs paris eh?

humbert

beanyb wrote:

Now... to stop procrastinating and head to college to get a seat!

Good luck, if you want to use your laptop that is!
Panda's forgetting the two best 'schools', engineering, for the looks, so I hear:o, and science for the down to earth personality and intellect:).

panda100

humbert wrote:

Good luck, if you want to use your laptop that is!
Panda's forgetting the two best 'schools', engineering, for the looks, so I hear:o, and science for the down to earth personality and intellect:).

oh yeah well ive got engineering covered at the mo;)

scop

@pretty monster, love is not a social construct, subjects that use phrases like social constructs are constructs. love is an emotion, how society portrays, abuses it does not invalidate it, just its representation, an entirely seperate matter

on my own experiences, ive had one fallen in love time in ucd, i met her in doyles not knowing we were in the same class no doubt (probably explains why we got on), went out, got dumped, went out again, got dumped. yeah, so not an overall positive experience.

tintinr35

panda100 wrote:

we met in pegs(does anyone remember that??)

oh ya it changed to club nassau or somthing but i think its closed now.....it was feckin tiny

rain on

scop wrote:

@pretty monster, love is not a social construct, subjects that use phrases like social constructs are constructs. love is an emotion, how society portrays, abuses it does not invalidate it, just its representation, an entirely seperate matter

on my own experiences, ive had one fallen in love time in ucd, i met her in doyles not knowing we were in the same class no doubt (probably explains why we got on), went out, got dumped, went out again, got dumped. yeah, so not an overall positive experience.

did you know that steve from the american class has scored three girls from our class? i only found this out the other day. that's a third of the class!

i met my last boyfriend in ucd and we went out for a year. i have also been known to chat people up in the library even though i always get shot down.


oh and i did have an 'eyes meeting across a tutorial room' experience in third year... the individual in question then joined one of my english seminars and threw the head in on me (well, i kinda threw the head in on him too) after class one day outside the classroom. i've never passed the J100 area without a bit of nostalgia since.

then we found out we were hopelessly sexually incompatible and that was the end of that.

boneless

Laphroaig... 15 year old... meowCat, you're a woman after me own heart.

I love that smokey and seaweedy aroma... in the interests of true non-romance have you ever tried the Taliskar? I got blotted on it not so long ago for 'anniversary' reasons...

humbert

I don't think I've really met one girl from ucd that I've fancied, I've fancied girls that have gone to ucd and met some really cool girls from trinity(Thank you Doyles). Really envy all these people who are constantly finding love(except serial monogamists):o

elmyra

humbert wrote:

I don't think I've really met one girl from ucd that I've fancied, I've fancied girls that have gone to ucd and met some really cool girls from trinity(Thank you Doyles). Really envy all these people who are constantly finding love(except serial monogamists):o

Come on...we both know that's not true...

humbert

Well obviously boards girls notwithstanding who are all great, especially elmyra*thinks back to award:)

ferdi

humbert wrote:

(except serial monogamists)

yeah, what with that?....how do some people (panda looking at you, sorry if i seem rude) find 'love' several times in one academic period in one university????
dont most people spend their whole lives looking for a glimmer of love, and if they are very very lucky, actually find it?
i honestly dont think i'll love more than one person ever...love is such a strong word, when i use it, it'll have to be the absolute real deal.

God, i'm such a naieve idealist. i'm setting myself up for a major fall.

arbeitsscheuer

Gone out with a few I met in UCD, no 'eyes meeting across a lecture/tutorial' moments as such though. As for "Love in UCD"... Well, first ya'd have to define what "Love" is... And that's where the convo gets too deep for me, I'm afraid.:o

But yeah, I think I did. Briefly. Very briefly. None of my relationships last longer than a month, dontcha know...

Twas a laugh tho, no regrets (well... not many).

Probably expected better from 3 years in this dump though.
Ah well. C'est la vie - merde.

ferdi wrote:

God, i'm such a naieve idealist. i'm setting myself up for a major fall.

Ah, you remind me of me, before the weight of the world crushed my spirit!
I salute you, oh romantic one

elmyra

@ Ferdi I imagine at the time you think it's love, but really this thread is more about relationships in ucd....you're right about the love thing, a bit too rare for people to be finding it so regularly and easily.

humbert

@ferdi.I think you've hit the nail on the head, different people define love differently. The difference between american sitcom love and shakespearean style love(excuse the cheese). Also, at the risk of becoming nauseatingly sentimental, the only time I've ever felt lonely without a girlfriend is after breaking up, I think that's the essence of the serial monogamist, filling the hole.

arbeitsscheuer

elmyra wrote:

but really this thread is more about relationships in ucd....

Oh is it? Oh right, that makes it much simpler to discuss...

Anyway, in that case, yes I've gone out with several girls from UCD (all gorgeous even if I do say so myself, and yes, I admit that I'm biased). Course, they were all mental in their own unique ways as well, naturlich, but that might've been partially what attracted me to em in the first place.

None really worked out well tho, 1 was a downright disaster, but ya know...

Helped pass the time in this godawful university...:D

ferdi

humbert wrote:

I think that's the essence of the serial monogamist, filling the hole.

:eek: