Should I ask Agnes out on a date?

bbiggs

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

HesCalledDyer

Spiritual_Chaos said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Why are you building up this narrative completely removed from reality?

People are texting in 2018.

We have "talked" regurarly on messanger since 2014... like with most other friends (male and female) I have. It is not something strange or not normal. This can not be a unique concept to all of you, flower-buying-grandpas. Or is the US so far behind in the broadband infrastructure that you still sit by your landline waiting for calls... and can't wrap your head around people chatting? :P 

I just meant in general, not specific to you and Agnes.

Spiritual_Chaos

HesCalledDyer said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Why are you building up this narrative completely removed from reality?

People are texting in 2018.

We have "talked" regurarly on messanger since 2014... like with most other friends (male and female) I have. It is not something strange or not normal. This can not be a unique concept to all of you, flower-buying-grandpas. Or is the US so far behind in the broadband infrastructure that you still sit by your landline waiting for calls... and can't wrap your head around people chatting? :P 

I just meant in general, not specific to you and Agnes.

Haha. Okey.

I think it would be more odd and stalkerish, if I took the tram to her place and asked her by the door. Than throwing it in a text message before or after I ask if she's seen the new costumes for KISS farewell tour. Haha.

But I'm a renessance man.

bbiggs

Do people ask for phone numbers these days? Or is that an antiquated practice? Do they just hit each other up on FB or IG and bypass the whole “I’m going to ask for her number” thing? 

HesCalledDyer

bbiggs said:

Do people ask for phone numbers these days? Or is that an antiquated practice? Do they just hit each other up on FB or IG and bypass the whole “I’m going to ask for her number” thing? 

Funny you ask that.  My one buddy (who also happens to be a die hard Cubs fan) got married last year. His wife has two sons, one started college this year, the other is a junior or senior in high school.  Last year when it was prom time, the younger one was trying to figure out plans with his girlfriend and Ed said to him "Why don't you just call her?"  His response: "I can't.  I don't have her number."

They talk exclusively on snapchat.

mcgruff10

Yes

HesCalledDyer said:

bbiggs said:

Do people ask for phone numbers these days? Or is that an antiquated practice? Do they just hit each other up on FB or IG and bypass the whole “I’m going to ask for her number” thing? 

Funny you ask that.  My one buddy (who also happens to be a die hard Cubs fan) got married last year. His wife has two sons, one started college this year, the other is a junior or senior in high school.  Last year when it was prom time, the younger one was trying to figure out plans with his girlfriend and Ed said to him "Why don't you just call her?"  His response: "I can't.  I don't have her number."

They talk exclusively on snapchat.

what the fuck?!  I still remember my childhood friends home phone numbers from 30 years ago.
Is snapchat the one where you keep up with your streaks?  If so my daughter is obsessed with that.

Spiritual_Chaos

mcgruff10 said:

Is snapchat the one where you keep up with your streaks?  

No, that's the PJ stat tracker.

SD48277

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

Spiritual_Chaos

SD48277 said:

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

No. So, not head over heels crazy about the idea --  haha. 

A polite no I guess will come, or nothing at all.

But whatever I guess. Boo! Now Im off work!

mcgruff10

Yes

Spiritual_Chaos said:

SD48277 said:

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

No. So, not head over heels crazy about the idea --  haha. 

A polite no I guess will come, or nothing at all.

But whatever I guess. Boo! Now Im off work!

At least you know. Now on to the next!

Spiritual_Chaos

mcgruff10 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

SD48277 said:

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

No. So, not head over heels crazy about the idea --  haha. 

A polite no I guess will come, or nothing at all.

But whatever I guess. Boo! Now Im off work!

At least you know. Now on to the next!

Still worth celebrating friday by stealing beer from the "CEO fridge" 

njnancy

Yes

..bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

This thread is only cementing my beliefs that I will never again be in the dating game. Potentially romantic relationships should be a bit more 'sacred' than a text - and I don't think that someone is a flower carrying grandpa because they believe in face to face communications. Mcgruff is younger than me and I'm a contemporary of the band - are they flower carrying grandpas? If so - that's what I would prefer. 

Are we going to start calling people old if they think that speaking to people or using their actual identifying information to communicate is a good thing? I'm not gonna start snapchatting people, I'd feel ridiculous doing so, and if that means I never have a date again, well I can buy myself flowers and my son will have children some day, in the future. Many years in the future. I guess if we could have phone sex back in the day, people could have snapchat sex nowadays. I remember sex, I think.    

If you ask for advice - please be nice to the people who are giving it to you. Especially the women, even if we are decrepit phone number, face to face flower  lovers.

njnancy

Yes

mcgruff10 said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

dankind said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

And here’s your damn pizza!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ufSQMXLO95w

“And here comes the pizza!”  

I watched that game live on TV with my dad and we were howling at the replay and play by play. We both had tears running down our cheeks with our sides hurting. It was freakin hilarious because they typically don’t do that so as not to encourage bad fan behavior. I guess it was too funny to pass up?

Wow I just saw that and it funny as hell!  I'm literally crying at work right now.  How long ago was this?

This was one of the funniest things I have watched in a long time - I was crying too. I may have snorted at some point. The play by play guys were awesome. 

mcgruff10

Yes

njnancy said:

..bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

This thread is only cementing my beliefs that I will never again be in the dating game. Potentially romantic relationships should be a bit more 'sacred' than a text - and I don't think that someone is a flower carrying grandpa because they believe in face to face communications. Mcgruff is younger than me and I'm a contemporary of the band - are they flower carrying grandpas? If so - that's what I would prefer. 

Are we going to start calling people old if they think that speaking to people or using their actual identifying information to communicate is a good thing? I'm not gonna start snapchatting people, I'd feel ridiculous doing so, and if that means I never have a date again, well I can buy myself flowers and my son will have children some day, in the future. Many years in the future. I guess if we could have phone sex back in the day, people could have snapchat sex nowadays. I remember sex, I think.    

If you ask for advice - please be nice to the people who are giving it to you. Especially the women, even if we are decrepit phone number, face to face flower  lovers.

In all seriousness, flowers go along way.  What woman doesn't love flowers? (i'm sure i am about to hear an earful lol)

njnancy

Yes

mcgruff10 said:

njnancy said:

..bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

This thread is only cementing my beliefs that I will never again be in the dating game. Potentially romantic relationships should be a bit more 'sacred' than a text - and I don't think that someone is a flower carrying grandpa because they believe in face to face communications. Mcgruff is younger than me and I'm a contemporary of the band - are they flower carrying grandpas? If so - that's what I would prefer. 

Are we going to start calling people old if they think that speaking to people or using their actual identifying information to communicate is a good thing? I'm not gonna start snapchatting people, I'd feel ridiculous doing so, and if that means I never have a date again, well I can buy myself flowers and my son will have children some day, in the future. Many years in the future. I guess if we could have phone sex back in the day, people could have snapchat sex nowadays. I remember sex, I think.    

If you ask for advice - please be nice to the people who are giving it to you. Especially the women, even if we are decrepit phone number, face to face flower  lovers.

In all seriousness, flowers go along way.  What woman doesn't love flowers? (i'm sure i am about to hear an earful lol)

I am a woman and I love flowers but I am responding to you responding to me so that must be my inability to understand how this interweb communication stuff works (even though I can write code). SC called himself a renaissance man, I don't think he really understands the meaning.    

njnancy

Yes

Spiritual_Chaos said:

mcgruff10 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

SD48277 said:

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

No. So, not head over heels crazy about the idea --  haha. 

A polite no I guess will come, or nothing at all.

But whatever I guess. Boo! Now Im off work!

At least you know. Now on to the next!

Still worth celebrating friday by stealing beer from the "CEO fridge" 

You're not drinking and sending Agnes some sort of meme/text thingy from your world wide web machine there, are you??

Spiritual_Chaos

njnancy said:

..bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

This thread is only cementing my beliefs that I will never again be in the dating game. Potentially romantic relationships should be a bit more 'sacred' than a text - and I don't think that someone is a flower carrying grandpa because they believe in face to face communications. Mcgruff is younger than me and I'm a contemporary of the band - are they flower carrying grandpas? If so - that's what I would prefer. 

Are we going to start calling people old if they think that speaking to people or using their actual identifying information to communicate is a good thing? I'm not gonna start snapchatting people, I'd feel ridiculous doing so, and if that means I never have a date again, well I can buy myself flowers and my son will have children some day, in the future. Many years in the future. I guess if we could have phone sex back in the day, people could have snapchat sex nowadays. I remember sex, I think.    

If you ask for advice - please be nice to the people who are giving it to you. Especially the women, even if we are decrepit phone number, face to face flower  lovers.

With your rules an app like Tinder would never work, because you communicate through the means of written text to eachother. before deciding to meat up.

And by your rules blinddating would never work, because the date is set up without this face to face communication that is vital.

There is not anything more sacred in going to someones front door and ask their father if one could take their daughter to the movies and be home by 11, compared to asking someone you know well by the means of a message on messanger if she would like to go on a date on halloween.

And I don't know if you missed this - but the date would still be face to face communication, just like it has been hanging out with her as a friend - we will not talk to eachother through World of Warcraft. 

And so, teens today don't sit and talk on the phone - instead they send eachother pictures and videos through out the day on snapchat. Which means they have more communications with eachother than you guys did in the 1900s with your telegrams. A picture says more than a thousand telegrams sent by t he place next to the saloon.  

There is nothing weird with talking to someone using text. And there is nothing wrong with asking out someone using text.

Spiritual_Chaos

njnancy said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

mcgruff10 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

SD48277 said:

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

No. So, not head over heels crazy about the idea --  haha. 

A polite no I guess will come, or nothing at all.

But whatever I guess. Boo! Now Im off work!

At least you know. Now on to the next!

Still worth celebrating friday by stealing beer from the "CEO fridge" 

You're not drinking and sending Agnes some sort of meme/text thingy from your world wide web machine there, are you??

Haha, Im doing my hardest not to..

"Hey.. you.. please respond... have you listened to creatures of the night? Do you agree it was a great comeback from the flop the elder. hello? please respond. Do you hate tommy thayer too?"

tbergs

njnancy said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

mcgruff10 said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

SD48277 said:

Back to the original topic: has she responded?

No. So, not head over heels crazy about the idea --  haha. 

A polite no I guess will come, or nothing at all.

But whatever I guess. Boo! Now Im off work!

At least you know. Now on to the next!

Still worth celebrating friday by stealing beer from the "CEO fridge" 

You're not drinking and sending Agnes some sort of meme/text thingy from your world wide web machine there, are you??

Hmm, looks like PJ on the left screen and a possible ransom note draft on the right...don't do it! That's not what Ed meant with the lyrics to All Or None.

njnancy

Yes

Spiritual_Chaos said:

njnancy said:

..bbiggs said:

HesCalledDyer said:

The dating game has become something that has surpassed my methods. Nowadays, you have to have facebook, instragram, snapchat, etc and hunt the person down on those platforms and send dumb messages back & forth for weeks, if not months before even considering hanging out in person.  I remember when that used to be called stalking.  Now it's the norm.  And face to face interaction or introducing yourself/asking out in person is considered "creepy."  Do things the old-fashioned way and you get laughed at to your face. What the fuck?

Thank God I’m out of the dating game. This sounds awful. 

This thread is only cementing my beliefs that I will never again be in the dating game. Potentially romantic relationships should be a bit more 'sacred' than a text - and I don't think that someone is a flower carrying grandpa because they believe in face to face communications. Mcgruff is younger than me and I'm a contemporary of the band - are they flower carrying grandpas? If so - that's what I would prefer. 

Are we going to start calling people old if they think that speaking to people or using their actual identifying information to communicate is a good thing? I'm not gonna start snapchatting people, I'd feel ridiculous doing so, and if that means I never have a date again, well I can buy myself flowers and my son will have children some day, in the future. Many years in the future. I guess if we could have phone sex back in the day, people could have snapchat sex nowadays. I remember sex, I think.    

If you ask for advice - please be nice to the people who are giving it to you. Especially the women, even if we are decrepit phone number, face to face flower  lovers.

With your rules an app like Tinder would never work, because you communicate through the means of written text to eachother. before deciding to meat up.

And by your rules blinddating would never work, because the date is set up without this face to face communication that is vital.

There is not anything more sacred in going to someones front door and ask their father if one could take their daughter to the movies and be home by 11, compared to asking someone you know well by the means of a message on messanger if she would like to go on a date on halloween.

And I don't know if you missed this - but the date would still be face to face communication, just like it has been hanging out with her as a friend - we will not talk to eachother through World of Warcraft. 

And so, teens today don't sit and talk on the phone - instead they send eachother pictures and videos through out the day on snapchat. Which means they have more communications with eachother than you guys did in the 1900s with your telegrams. A picture says more than a thousand telegrams sent by t he place next to the saloon.  

There is nothing weird with talking to someone using text. And there is nothing wrong with asking out someone using text.

Then you don't need us. I need to go sign up for meals by wheels and have my sciatica checked out now so have a good one.