British Expats - Re: Meetups

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Nutek

Sep 25th 2013 8:43 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by N1cky (Post 10918046)

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

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.

N1cky

Sep 25th 2013 8:44 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 10918028)

Would it mean going outdoors?

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 10918035)

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.

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

N1cky

Sep 25th 2013 8:44 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 10918055)

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.

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

Nutek

Sep 25th 2013 8:47 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by N1cky (Post 10918059)

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

To the Recipe Thread with you!...

Pulaski

Sep 25th 2013 9:02 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by N1cky (Post 10918059)

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

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

jeffreyhy

Sep 25th 2013 9:34 am

Re: Meetups

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

SultanOfSwing

Sep 25th 2013 9:38 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by jeffreyhy (Post 10918117)

... and there's no better way to ruin a good fanatasy than that.

Marriage ... ?

:whistle::scarper:

Sally Redux

Sep 25th 2013 9:46 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by jeffreyhy (Post 10918117)

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

Fantasy? Maybe of clocking someone.

Bob	Sep 25th 2013 10:06 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by Nutek (Post 10918040)

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

Or be out in public really. :D

The webbed hands aren't that freaky...

Pulaski

Sep 25th 2013 10:30 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 10917895)

I've often wondered - how crazy is bat shit, exactly? ....

Often rabid, I hear! :rofl:

Hotscot

Sep 25th 2013 10:41 am

Re: Meetups

It's why I still have my accent unchanged after 14 years. No friends and I don't like talking to people.

scrubbedexpat097

Sep 25th 2013 2:56 pm

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by ChocolateBabz (Post 10917981)

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.

One of those would be me:):thumbsup: we had a fun lunch together!

I'm going to be meeting an ex expat from this site soon when she visits Houston. Food and drink will probably be involved

Speedwell

Sep 25th 2013 11:49 pm

Re: Meetups

I don't see what the harm is for a new poster to be posting to the meetup thread. How else are they supposed to get to know other people? That's like saying you need a residency requirement before you can join the local church (not that I would darken the doors of one; just saying).

Also. Houston? Really? It'll be a cold day in Hell before I try to arrange a meetup again. Sorry. Your turn.

Pulaski

Sep 26th 2013 12:09 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by Speedwell (Post 10918916)

I don't see what the harm is for a new poster to be posting to the meetup thread. How else are they supposed to get to know other people? ....

You known kinda missed my point, that if your first post is "Hey there! Wanna meet up in Podunk?" nobody here has any idea who you are and therefore (perhaps?) less likely to respond than if you hung out for at least a couple of weeks, make a few posts, get to know some people, before suggesting a meetup. Compare it to internet dating, where you post a profile, reach out to a few people, exchange some messages, get to know them as far as you can, .... then suggest meeting for coffee or a cocktail. No?

Speedwell

Sep 26th 2013 12:29 am

Re: Meetups

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Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 10918941)

Well, no, not really; we really discourage people from posting in most of the other threads unless they know something (especially in the immigration ones); I think people are just putting out a flag, "Hey we are expats and we live here and might want to make connections sometime". Maybe the meetup type groups I've been to are different, but they're more "get to know" and less "the clique" than what you seem to be describing. I could be wrong and people might see the meetup groups here as established clubs that you need to be "sponsored" to join, but that honestly was not my initial impression.

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