Is there anyone there?

[Magpieorpigeon]

Hi,
My name is Charlene, I just joined today.
I'm 23 years old, I live in Ireland and I feel like I can't talk to anyone.
I'm in college studying Graphic Design but it's in my home town and the only thing people do here is go out and drink all the time. I don't have much interest in that anymore. I really want to do something different and meet people who I can relate to. I think I just want to talk to people right now though. I want to know how others are coping in the world. I feel so oblivious to so many things and I want to change that. That sounds a bit vague but I feel like I haven't lived. Anyways, I'd love to hear from anyone who wants to talk.
Thanks,
Charlene.

 

[VanillaCreme]

Welcome. I hope you like it here.

 

[Magpieorpigeon]

I picked my name because I looked out the window and saw a magpie near a pigeon in the garden.

 

[Minus]

Welcome to the forum Charlene.

 

[Steel]

Hey, and welcome.

And I would answer "magpie".

 

[Caroline]

cool name, can i call you Pigeon? ^o^

 

[Magpieorpigeon]

Thanks, yea I suppose you can. So what exactly do people do here?

 

[epic fale boy]

I mostly hate Frank Lampard...

 

[cheaptrickfan]

I mostly hate Frank Lampard...

LOL! How you suffer, epic fale boy.

Welcome, Magpieorpigeon.

 

[Magpieorpigeon]

Thanks

 

[epic fale boy]

LOL! How you suffer, epic fale boy.

It's called being an England football fan. And yes, it does mostly involve suffering.

(HEALTH WARNING: Sporting digression!)

It's a fundamental difference between American and European football: Ours is based on masochism, like cultural self-harm... it's why we get so entranced by low score games - unbearable tension, stomach dropping terror that goes on and on and on until we're sick, brief glimmers of hope, more fear, PAAAAIIIN! ... and of course ... Hating.

In American Football (which I love btw, not knocking it at all... even though you need a degree to understand all the different plays) it seems the games are settled more efficiently, more quickly - the winners win, the losers lose and everyone can move on to the next game with a half-decent sense of closure.

(/Sport)

Hey magpieorpigeon... hope you find what you're looking for here. (You're not a Newcastle fan are ya? )

 

[nerdygirl]

Hi there

 

[c2a8z]

Hello!

 

[Badjedidude]

In American Football (which I love btw, not knocking it at all... even though you need a degree to understand all the different plays) it seems the games are settled more efficiently, more quickly - the winners win, the losers lose and everyone can move on to the next game with a half-decent sense of closure.

American football is, unfortunately, rape of the American wallet. It's gotten to the point where it's blatant commercialism; selling a vicarious form of hope and belonging for the price of admission. I suppose there's nothing more "american" than selling a sport, but... *shrug* Personally I'd like to see more of love of sport for sport's sake, instead of watching people buy every Red Sox item that they can find because they're a fan and that's what fans are expected to do.

Maybe I'm being too cynical here, though. I do love US football, but it sometimes seems a little too commercialized for my tastes.

 

[epic fale boy]

Yeah, there's the problem with the European football too... and it's worst in England.

*wails!*

(But Red Sox... that'd be baseball, right?)

 

[Minus]

Shows how little i know. I didn't even know the Red Socks were football.

Magpieorpigeon again welcome.

 

[Asterli]

Hello Magpieorpigeon,

I hope you will feel welcome here. I just joined as well!

Personal opinion: I find Ireland a beautiful place. I only saw Dublin and Wicklow and I hope to return some day to explore the rest of the country as well.

 

[Lost Soul]

Hi,
My name is Charlene, I just joined today.
I'm 23 years old, I live in Ireland and I feel like I can't talk to anyone.
I'm in college studying Graphic Design but it's in my home town and the only thing people do here is go out and drink all the time. I don't have much interest in that anymore. I really want to do something different and meet people who I can relate to. I think I just want to talk to people right now though. I want to know how others are coping in the world. I feel so oblivious to so many things and I want to change that. That sounds a bit vague but I feel like I haven't lived. Anyways, I'd love to hear from anyone who wants to talk.
Thanks,
Charlene.

I feel the sae way about can't talk to anyone, I feel there is a block with some special forces to make sure it doesn't happen, and if I manage to talk to someone, something always happens to me. It sucks.

 

[SophiaGrace]

I'm going to call you Maggie!

Welcome ^_^