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a boards.ie singles mingle 28th November

  • 03-11-2008 03:45PM
    #1
    snorlax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,382 ✭✭✭


    here´s an idea..instead of speed dating how about hosting singles boards beers in a decent pub? I will add a poll to the events forum to get an idea of numbers interested.

    the worst that could happen is you could make a few friends..and i would say its a good idea to be friends/ get to know someone before dating them first?

    the only condition for attending these gatherings is that you have to be single and willing to have a bit of craic!

    Would the 28th/ 29th suit people? If the events successful we could try a more organised speed dating/ themed gathering..
    __________________

    Suggestions for venues welcome, please see the events forum if your interested, cheers.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055411452


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  • #2
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    I'm pretty sure T.P. Smiths would be cool wth having an other boards event.


  • #3
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Given the amount of threads in various fora about how to meet someone/where are all the good men/women, I would say this is a good plan and as you say worse case scenario is you meet a new bunch of people. IMHO do a hidden poll or PM thingy and do it by invite so you get a good proportion of men women(or men/men women/women if that others thang). My 2 cents.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #4
    snorlax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,382 ✭✭✭snorlax


    right I modified my posts to make it a singles beers..sure if its a success there´s no reason why we can´t get more adventerous/ organised..

    a casual beers for singles..and the worst that could happen is we could make some new friends and have a bit of craic!

    how do you get more PR for an event like this?


  • #5
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,368 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    snorlax wrote: »
    how do you get more PR for an event like this?

    Ask the Admins/SMods to post a site announcement. Request some banner ads to be made. Get some sigs done up and made available to everyone for use.


  • #6
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Bah i liked the idea of speed dating.

    "oh, ive dated like 68 girls this week! :D:pac:"


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  • #7
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Pick a date, pm Kharn about contacting T.P. Smiths or getting another venue,
    once you have those details sorted I will be happy to flaunt/pimp the event in my sig.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Hhhmm maybe making it a speed date type of thing might be a good idea.
    A higher mingle ratio, and as the failed Miyagi said you'd have an even mix.

    If I was going to be interested in such a thing. I'd like to keep my boards identity out of it too.


  • #9
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,369 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    I'd chicken out of turning up.


  • #10
    PurplePrincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭PurplePrincess


    Can we make a wish list of male boardsies we'd like to attend:D


  • #11
    TeletextPear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭TeletextPear


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Bah i liked the idea of speed dating.

    "oh, ive dated like 68 girls this week! :D:pac:"

    sluh :p


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  • #12
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    PurplePrincess wrote: »
    Can we make a wish list of male boardsies we'd like to attend:D

    Like, oh my Gawd, stop objectifying us and stuff! :eek:


  • #13
    Iago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,639 ✭✭✭Iago


    PurplePrincess wrote: »
    Can we make a wish list of male boardsies we'd like to attend:D

    you can, but most of us good ones are off the market ;)


  • #14
    PurplePrincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭PurplePrincess


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Like, oh my Gawd, stop objectifying us and stuff! :eek:

    Ah you love it
    Iago wrote: »
    you can, but most of us good ones are off the market ;)

    Our loss!!!


  • #15
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    PurplePrincess wrote: »
    Ah you love it

    Ssshh!


  • #16
    Clare Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    TeletextPear wrote: »
    sluh :p

    LOL!

    Great idea, hope it works out for ye, always people on here mentioning things like this so I'm sure there'll be great interest in it.


  • #17
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    Sorry to be a kill-joy, but would it not be full of men?


  • #18
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    PurplePrincess wrote: »
    Can we make a wish list of male boardsies we'd like to attend:D

    Sounds like a short list...


  • #19
    LightningBolt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,639 ✭✭✭LightningBolt


    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    Sorry to be a kill-joy, but would it not be full of men?

    I'm guessing that would likely happen, best thing to do would be to have a set ratio ie. 50/50. Means that the place wouldn't be a sausage fest which in all fairness is very likely to happen given it's the internet (or am I stereotyping too much?)


  • #20
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    I doubt it. I'm guessing that ladies lounge is full of blokes, and not one of us is here in an ironic capacity.


  • #21
    Nuravictus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 394 ✭✭Nuravictus


    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    I doubt it. I'm guessing that ladies lounge is full of blokes, and not one of us is here in an ironic capacity.

    Its really "The Transgender Lounge". So yea its full of men.


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  • #22
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    Sorry to be a kill-joy, but would it not be full of men?

    There were as many women as men at the hollow'een beers.


  • #23
    kingtut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭kingtut


    PurplePrincess wrote: »
    Can we make a wish list of male boardsies we'd like to attend:D

    looks down through list and can't find his name.....:mad:


  • #24
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,351 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    There were as many women as men at the hollow'een beers.

    Yeah, but how many were single?


  • #25
    traffic_cone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭traffic_cone


    This is not a dating website!


  • #26
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    traffic_cone wrote: »
    This is not a dating website!
    and your point is?:confused:

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #27
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    That is something which has been said time and again and a few time even by me in certain threads usually to innaproptiate comments in threads. It still stands.

    IF people want to have a singles mingle then why not, there is a big difference between that and every thread decending into how you doin.


  • #28
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    traffic_cone wrote: »
    This is not a dating website!

    You felt so strongly about the issue that you registered a new account just to say it?


  • #29
    traffic_cone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭traffic_cone


    Galvasean wrote: »
    You felt so strongly about the issue that you registered a new account just to say it?

    I did not register a new account. I signed up in June. That was my first post as I only ever use boards to read the threads. I felt passionate enough about this dating thing to comment on it.

    If you want to hook up with someone use a dating website, as this is not one of them! I have seen people being warned / banned in the past for suggesting this kind of thing.


  • #30
    Reku
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    traffic_cone wrote: »
    This is not a dating website!

    But it is a social website, inspite of the likes of me somehow ending up here:confused::p, a mingle doesn't necessarily have to be about dating, but if dates do result then who are we to complain about other people potentially finding happiness together?


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  • #31
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    farohar wrote: »
    who are we to complain about other people potentially finding happiness together?

    Bitter :mad:


  • #32
    Reku
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Bitter :mad:
    Well, as the Pope himself once said:
    "Mmmm... lemony...":D


  • #33
    nomorebadtown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭nomorebadtown


    why oh why did these ideas never fly why i was single??
    Iago wrote:
    most of us good ones are off the market ;)

    there's plenty of tappable poon on here :pac: anyway i'd be interested to see what fair and workable solutions are brought forward to stop this being the worst sausage fest in history....will it be by invitation? cause otherwise there might be a wave of horny nerds rushing into TP Smiths and how can ye stop them? i dont have the exact boy:girl ratios from the regular boards meet ups but from what i've seen its pretty bad and as this has a 'singles' tagline i can see it being far worse. i think yee should go for a 2:1 boy:girl ratio, its the best you can hope for...but then again it'll might end up all the lads milling around the 3 hottest girls and all the girls milling around the 3 hottest boys.....and then you have the potential stalker issues....i dunno, i am prone to focusing on the negatives....anyway, i think its a brilliant idea in theory.


  • #34
    Zirconia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 386 ✭✭Zirconia
    Boycott Israeli Goods & Services


    traffic_cone wrote: »
    If you want to hook up with someone use a dating website, as this is not one of them! I have seen people being warned / banned in the past for suggesting this kind of thing.

    Wow, i didn't realise you could make yourself a moderator on your first post!

    There's no online dating going on here; nobody is trying to pull on this thread. They're trying to arrange a social event off-site, which I believe is something completely different.


  • #35
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    nomorebadtown wrote: »
    there's plenty of tappable poon on here :pac: anyway i'd be interested to see what fair and workable solutions are brought forward to stop this being the worst sausage fest in history....will it be by invitation? cause otherwise there might be a wave of horny nerds rushing into TP Smiths and how can ye stop them? i dont have the exact boy:girl ratios from the regular boards meet ups but from what i've seen its pretty bad and as this has a 'singles' tagline i can see it being far worse. i think yee should go for a 2:1 boy:girl ratio, its the best you can hope for...but then again it'll might end up all the lads milling around the 3 hottest girls and all the girls milling around the 3 hottest boys.....and then you have the potential stalker issues....i dunno, i am prone to focusing on the negatives....anyway, i think its a brilliant idea in theory.

    You'd never know. Maybe the vast majority of people will go there to have a bit of fun without the ultimate goal being to get rogered at any cost.
    I also heared there were more girls than guys at the Haloween beers.


  • #36
    nomorebadtown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭nomorebadtown


    oh well thats promising:)

    although halloween and dressing up will mean that female posters were over represented at the resent boards...

    i'm not saying that a good rogering will be everyone's ultimate goal but lets be frank, there are an awful lot of lonely men on the internet, far outnumbering the lonely women - that is scientific fact*. Don't get me wrong i think this is a deadly idea but i just think it'll take a bit of planning.



    *may not be scientific fact.


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  • #37
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Don't worry, we have ways of dealing with pervy weirdos.


  • #38
    nomorebadtown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭nomorebadtown


    i know you do but unfortunately human beings are not equipped with ban buttons, your mod powers are rendered useless in dark secluded corners of bars and nightclubs :p


  • #39
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Well I'll tell you now if you are going to refer to the female posters on this site as
    nomorebadtown wrote: »
    Tappable poon

    You should not bother going, I am sure that the poster who happen to be single and female have more self respect then to what to date someone who will refer to them as fúckable vaginas.

    If you are so concerned about it being a sausagefest and not being charming enough to get yer hole then I suggest you try escorts.ie


  • #40
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    traffic_cone wrote: »
    I did not register a new account. I signed up in June. That was my first post as I only ever use boards to read the threads. I felt passionate enough about this dating thing to comment on it.

    If you want to hook up with someone use a dating website, as this is not one of them! I have seen people being warned / banned in the past for suggesting this kind of thing.

    i met my OH through boards, as did a very large number of people here but i am agree it is not a dating site and i dont think there should be a singles only night.

    why not just go to a regular boards night out ? i mean it not as though they never happen. from what i can see there are meets ups every week


  • #41
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    nomorebadtown wrote: »
    i know you do but unfortunately human beings are not equipped with ban buttons, your mod powers are rendered useless in dark secluded corners of bars and nightclubs :p

    If there is someone behaving in an objectionable manner they will be asked to stop, if they don't then the staff of the venue will be informed.


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  • #42
    Loopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,220 ✭✭✭✭Loopy


    Zirconia wrote: »
    nobody is trying to pull on this thread.

    speak for yourself :cool:


  • #43
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,306 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    traffic_cone wrote: »
    I did not register a new account. I signed up in June. That was my first post as I only ever use boards to read the threads. I felt passionate enough about this dating thing to comment on it.
    Why do you take umbrage if people want to organise a casual meetup for singles? Makes no sense.
    If you want to hook up with someone use a dating website, as this is not one of them! I have seen people being warned / banned in the past for suggesting this kind of thing.
    As Zirconia points out you're not a mod, you're a three post lurker with some weird axe to grind. That's fine, but I would love to see your logic. Are you trying to set up a dating site? Have you some moral issue against it? Does it upset you that people may meet in an online community and may happen to get together? As I say your objections make no sense. As far as warnings and bannings, the only time I've seen that(indeed warned them myself) was to cut down on random in thread noise and muppetry.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The thing about boy girl ratios.
    I have friends who would like the idea of a singles event.
    I'm sure all of us do.


  • #45
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    nomorebadtown wrote: »
    there's plenty of tappable poon on here :pac:

    Was this meant to be witty? Clever? Ironic?

    It certainly isn't welcome, give it a rest.


  • #46
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    nomorebadtown wrote: »
    i know you do but unfortunately human beings are not equipped with ban buttons, your mod powers are rendered useless in dark secluded corners of bars and nightclubs :p

    If you are that worried about security of Boards.ie memebers then i'm sure i can sort out a few fully certed and insured Door Staff to keep an eye on things for boards.ie and liase with bar staff and venue security.;)


  • #47
    nomorebadtown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 634 ✭✭✭nomorebadtown


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    Well I'll tell you now if you are going to refer to the female posters on this site as


    You should not bother going, I am sure that the poster who happen to be single and female have more self respect then to what to date someone who will refer to them as fúckable vaginas.

    If you are so concerned about it being a sausagefest and not being charming enough to get yer hole then I suggest you try escorts.ie

    eh...
    my tappable poon comment was accompanied by a :pac: which as you know means that i was taking the piss. chill. and i wont be going becuase i'm not single. the reason i'm interested is that i have been using this site for a very long time in various forms and the suggestion of this type of singles event was always frowned upon in years gone by. no g'em, not trying to be witty, clever or ironic...just being lighthearted, which isnt against the charter, yet. i will now give it a rest.


  • #48
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,848 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    boards isn't a gambling website, but people meet to play poker
    boards isn't a sports website, but people meet to cycle and play football
    boards isn't a dating website, but if people want to meet up, what's the problem?

    If I was an owner of boards I wouldn't like my customers being told what my site was and was not.


  • #49
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    nomorebadtown wrote: »
    the reason i'm interested is that i have been using this site for a very long time in various forms and the suggestion of this type of singles event was always frowned upon in years gone by.
    I'll admit that at first I wasn't crazy about the idea - if nothing else it just sounded very exclusionary for the non-single folk! But the board is changing, and we do now have social orientated fora (tLL, BGRH, Nocturnals) so I suppose it's inevitable that there'll be a call for these kinds of events to be held.

    Having said that, I think I'll agree with pfb - there's single and non-single folk at regular boards meet-ups, and the site seems to be doing fairly ok at producing boards couples :pac:
    nomorebadtown wrote:
    just being lighthearted, which isnt against the charter, yet.
    You're right, it isn't, but the comment was still inappropriate given the forum you posted it in. We're all well able for a bit of a laugh but those kinds of comments really don't have any place. No harm done.


  • #50
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    nomorebadtown wrote: »
    ...just being lighthearted, which isnt against the charter, yet.
    I thought it was. :eek:


  • #51
    Dragan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    It might be a better idea to simply do a "traffic light" system for a Boards Beers, rather than having it definitely a singles night.

    That way everyone can go, you can make a public marker as to your attitude towards being approached and you'll get better numbers and so on.


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