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I am surprised how often I see posts in the Meet ups sub-forum, that are from someone who has posted just a handful of times, or it's even their first post. Is it just me, or does that seem unlikely to get a favourable response?

I'm not averse to meet ups, but I have never participated in one arranged through BE (though Mrs P and I did meet someone we know through another forum), but I would look much more favourably on a post from someone who I "know" through, hundreds of posts, than someone whose first, or very early, post is: "Hey, I've just moved to Yourtown. Wanna meet up?".

:unsure:

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Dunno. It does seem a bit presumptuous at first glance but I suppose a cup of tea or a pint won't do anyone any harm.

I have met Brits out here but none of them were BE members, I just happened to meet them through random chance.

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I suppose early days are when you need someone.

Nicky didn't specifically ask for a meetup but we realized she lived close to me and met up.

I also met 'Soap Addict' through the site.

We do tell our kids not to do it :lol:

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I've met a couple people here in SC through the meet up section on BE. In Indiana I met some people through others who were on BE and they became really good friends.

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I don't know though, there are a fair few people on here I'd move to a new state to get away from ...

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This is a bit like the person in the 'Tele' thread complaining about people talking about tele.

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But:
:confused:

Which is exactly why I am unlikely to look favourably on a request from a single digit poster, and probably not even a double digit poster. :unsure:

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One of those statements was exaggerated for dramatic effect.

The absence of a smiley, etc ...

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Not through a Meetup thread, but have met up with a bunch of BE folks or helped others out in the area....

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Just one question.

Why people in their 20's don't join social groups?

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That was a funny night, LA places at their best:lol:

Why do you think I moved to No Cal (only joking Sally)

Other than Sally, I've met a handful of people from here. A couple who had only made a couple of posts, but were obviously struggling so I reached out and we met up, both became and stayed friends. Another had made hundreds of posts on here, we met a few times, then she went bat shit crazy and it was all rather strange.

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Now it makes sense :lightbulb: :lol:
Yes that was weird.

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Sally? :D

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Nah, she's always been bat shit crazy

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That would be 'tens of thousands' :lol:

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I've often wondered - how crazy is bat shit, exactly? In comparison, are other varieties of shit considered quite sane?

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Depends if it is from bats in the belfry or out of Hell.

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I strongly suspect that most of you are probably axe murderers anyway, so I'm glad not to have met you.

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In the context of 'meeting up' - I suppose I'm halfway there, since I have a bunch of BE mates on arsebook and I have emailed one or two members off-site because sometimes it's easier than PMs and that.

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My mate on BE wants to know if your mate on BE wants to meet up sometime?

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Yer askin?

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Am askin'

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I went to a Houston meet-up ages ago and have met 3 other BE'ers separately and someone from the city-data Houston forum.

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Sally, is that cat "tworking?". I'm not sure what tworking is, being too shy to ask my kids!

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Would it mean going outdoors?

There would have to be an incentive. Cakes or something.

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I know quite a number of expats, and not one is on BE.

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Now, I say I've never met a BE member but I do now have a vague recollection that I was going to a job interview last summer and the bloke on the security desk did turn out to be a poster in a thread I was in.

Not sure that counts though.

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Mrs N. says I shouldn't be allowed to speak to people.

Or be out in public really. :D

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It's Brits meeting up, it clearly involves alcohol, but may also include salt and vinegar crisps or pork scratchings

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I was rather holding out for tea and biscuits. Custard Creams, preferably.

:)

Hmmm... Thinking about Pork Scratchings now... One of the things on my "can't find it" list.

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I was picking my daughter up from school, and a woman came over to talk to my dog. I noticed she was English so we struck up a conversation and are now quite good friends. When she mentioned where her husband worked and she had moved from LA, I remembered her post on BE about the upcoming move, we'd done the same move so it had stuck with me. Small world

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Collect sweepings from under your cooker and fridge, they'll be the same as scratchings.

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To the Recipe Thread with you!...

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Do you have feral pigs living under your fridge? :confused:

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Seems to me that a meet up would be like having a fantasy come true, and there's no better way to ruin a good fanatasy thant that.

Regards, JEff

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Marriage ... ?

:whistle::scarper:

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Fantasy? Maybe of clocking someone.

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The webbed hands aren't that freaky...

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Often rabid, I hear! :rofl: