what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
well, you guys kinda went Communist Eraser on Tama2, and he was the second instigator, soooooo
I think you just love me, peej.
I DEMAND A SOCAL MEETUP.
Really, you guys are cool and I like you people. We should hang out.
Hey what happened to our plans.Originally Posted by NorthernChaosGod
Yeah and Vegas 2010... ummmm Disaster 2010. If anyone wants Eyes on Debauchery 2011 I'm down. Let's just go on or after the thirtieth of June.
Meetups in the UK are somewhat easier it's true, though not many like the usual location picked because Birmingham is so central to the uk's rail network it's a common choice to make otherwise you get some who have no travel at all to make and others who travel miles and miles and miles to get there spending a fortune. Birmingham makes sense and this is something important for all meetups, when most people are paying the same for their travel and journeying about the same time duration you're much more likely to get attendance from people because they're not alone in their 6 hour £150 train ride. However, Jack did not help us when he set the ridiculous rule about under 18's needing parental permission, he kinda alienated a lot of the newer UK members with that. I know Zeldy for one now pretty much won't go to one even though under his rules she wouldn't even need the permission. He set the rule because he's paranoid about people's parents claiming paedophillia about him which to be fair he wants to be a teacher you can kinda see his point. His career would be over on a rumour much less an allegation. However I have to point out, Jack is a very inactive member and has very little time in his busy student life to come see even his friends amongst us. His rule on parental permission is null and void without him enforcing it.
The rest of us are less bothered by the younger members, sure I prefer for people to be able to get in to a pub with us and drink if thats their choice but I'm not overly fussed about it we can change the plans to suit the needs of the many.
On saturday just gone it was basically, me, Paul and Loki (and phils other half) who met up in Brum, we would have liked more members to come but the original oldbie group who done the meetups are all off doing their own things now, Kaggas got preggers, Amratis is busy with boyfriend and such living down in cornwall, Zorander is a live in carer for an autistic child and so on and so on. Paul, Loki and myself barely counts as an eoff meetup, thats just a meet up of 3 friends who happen to live in different parts of the country, we're all pretty good friends offline and on and so even if I was in brum for any other reasons I could ask Paul if he wanted to get a train down to meet me, I could equally go manchester and bug Loki and they've both done the same to me in London.
I wouldn't mind a big meetup of UK members going ahead at some point either later this year (like late summer perhaps) or early next year because that'd be awesome this time involving as many UK members as we possibly could. However I know from personal bitter experience of not being able to get time off from work to go meet Rye or Hux during her time here that I can say this all I like but it's still going to need a lot more planning to get it to work.
As for the original topic are meetups a common occurence on the net? Well, no I don't believe they are. After all the stigmata of "meeting someone from the internet" has not gone away, it's died down for some reason with the increase in popularity of the dating site as a way to meet new partners however it has only gone down in relation to this. However when you say "actually I know this guy/girl from like a different site not a dating site" people still freak out. Funny how even when someone has given you their facebook profile it's still considered strange to meet them. Facebook is a lot more revealing than a dating site. Theres always been things like protests arranged online but thats not the same. About the closest thing to a meetup is players of online games I frequent who know each other irl meeting up and playing from the same network ect to co-ordinate a raid better.
Yay UK meetup!!
But, I don't know anyone.
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Next one, I'm there.
Thats kinda the point, when we first done the meetups we'd hung on EoFF for a couple of years but didn't really know these cool cats who were hanging out online and so we decided to make it real and do it irl. We had a few prior to the one I first went to mainly because I wasn't actually active on EoFF for those couple of years (read real life got mad and messy) When I went to my first, I knew of plenty of the members going, however I didn't know them that well with the exclusion of Baloki and Psychotic who have always been 2 of my best spamming partners in this forum (yeah crazy I know, they went and gave one of their biggest spammers admin rights xD) back in the early days.Yay UK meetup!!
But, I don't know anyone.
My first meetup was kinda seen as "the best meetup ever" we had like 20 of us show, mostly for the weekend but even for just one day counted we understood some people could not afford or would not like to share hotel rooms with freaks from the net. The second one I attended and helped to arrange though in reality Jack done all the actual organising, I just did drinking actually lasted a day extra since the hotel rooms cost like £10 more for the extra night we usually didn't use.
I'm sure there are some members who have been to a UK meetup and didn't know us at all who would definitely agree that they're pretty cool events I know Reload Psi came to the 3 day meetup and thought he was going to have a crap time because he "didn't know us" and yet he had a real laugh. Sure we're tight knit with our in jokes but we're always welcoming and an in joke can always be explained. Though for most of them you just have to have
been there to get the funny side of it but we're willing to include new people all the time.
Edit: Dennis you better bloody come, I got to teabag you irl.
streme Wheelie
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Hmmmmmmmmm
The only people I'd consider really meeting up with is the Scottish folk, Bawb, Shauna, Smitten. I turn 18 in 2 months, but it's just not possible for me to pack up and go to Edinburgh for a week, my parents would be so angry I think I'd come home to my clothes being in the street. It's different for a girl, my parents would be totally baffled by it and would not allow me to go as they're crazy-strict-psycho parents like that. So that isn't looking too likely for me, and a day trip would cost me a bomb and would mostly be travelling! One of my friends is applying for the University of Glasgow, if she gets accommodation there then I'd be able to visit her and visit Bob!
I find the fact that the same people meetup everytime really intimidating xD I really wouldn't like to go to an EoFF meetup, as there would be people I didn't know, and I'm crazy shy irl. I kinda keep myself to myself these days on eoff, i'm past be-friending everyone, i find it rather.. cheesy sometimes.
Just remember Zeldy, we don't bite unless you want us to xD
All kidding aside yeah I can see how some well established members meeting up regulary such as myself, psychotic and baloki can seem intimidating, however people need to realize, we're just like we are on the forums, except maybe a lot more vulgar (because real life doesn't get a swear filter duh) I know everyone has a "net personality" they keep however with us on here at least it's purely us no hidden bits or whatever.
I was always told a friend was a friend, so does it matter where you met them!?
I am going on a roadtrip this May and hopefully meet a few online friends, some offline ones who moved far and wide, and a branch of my family long estranged! It promises for a lot of interest and excitement!
Do it and lose it.
Maybe. I'm probably never going to visit California ever again and I have two cousins there (who visit me every year so there's even less incentive). Which is a damned shame because everybody from EoFF is so awesome there.
There's something else I noticed that was never brought up (well briefly by Rye) - the cost of these darn meetups. The Chicago meetup cost me a couple hundred dollars and the NYC trip was totally not worth it - I stayed for a combined 16-18 hours which was almost 1/2 the travel time - so 1/3 in NYC and 2/3 on the road. And it cost me a pretty penny because of the speeding ticket I got on the way back.
It totally changed my perception of meetups until nearly a year later when I visited Rubahs. Now it's allas long as I'm not driving ^_^
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