Ushgarak and his slow journey into the social world...

i dont have a social life either. i got lucky with my gf, and i have a few friends, but we usually just hang out at my house and watch tv or play video games or whatever. my life basically consists of coming here, talking with my girl, or working. sometimes being with my chums. and ush, if you dont mind me asking, what was your illness you had? i joined after the fact so i have no way of knowing.

'twas M.E., though not many out your way have heard of it.

yeah. never heard of it. well im glad you're all better now buddy 🙂 *smacks ush's ass*.

I'm recovering, not actually better!

And OW...

oh. well im sure you'll be just fine buddy. sorry, didnt mean to do it so hard.

Glad you're going out more Ush, even if it has been fruitless up till now. Keep plugging away though, soon enough you'll pull a cracker!

I don't have many friends I would call "good friends", only about 4 really. I have lots of pub acquaintance's who I can join for a drink for the evening but who I wouldn't trust totally to back me up if a fight started or to get me home if I was steamin' drunk. I'm the kind of chap says, "hello", to lots of people when I'm out but there's only 4 lads who I can really rely on as friends and allies.

It would swell for an evening if you were nurse hunting...

What would swell? 😱

Oi! Watch it!

(You can't help watching it...)

NO!!! Now I have caught your foul double entendre disease!

I meant the amount of friends you had.

Oh! Nah I doubt it. It takes me a real long time to get to the point where I trust someone completely.

I can't help myself with the double entendre's, it comes from years of reading "Finbar Saunders" in Viz magazine. Warped my mind it has.

Well, actually, I meant your 'friends' would increase on a nurse hunt. They are very popular. We are keeping them more secret in future.

There used to be a lad I knew a college when I was 17 who was always asking me to come with him to this club, I forget the name of it, but basically he said it was full of single ladies and not too many blokes. It was something he didn't tell many people because he wanted to keep the female/male ratio just as it was.

I finally gave in to his requests and went with him. I have never spoke of it since, but in truth it was what I'd describe as a grab-a-granny night. 😱

there are such places in Hull as well

Grab a granny 😂

Ush my boy:

Keep plugging away at the social life (if you really do want one). I wasn't too outgoing until I got to high school, then I became the life of the party wherever I went. A social life is something you slowly get adapted to over time. You learn how to deal with it better and better each time you go out.

The best advice I can give you (even if you don't need it) is to always be yourself. The way you talk, it seems as if you don't have any problems drawing the ladies to you, you just have trouble saying the right thing to them. (I could be completely wrong here, too).

Being social isn't really about saying the right things at the right time, though. It's about being confident with yourself and everything you do.

I've told you this before Ush: You strike me as a very intelegent person (with an obvious passion for writing). Be yourself and follow what you want. Happiness will follow, I promise.

I think I'd have to finish reading my book for school before I read this novel. 🙄

My social life is so-so. I was a little demon from kindergarten to 4th grade, so I'm not the most liked person. 😄

my social life isnt good, i dont go to parties unless its just a get together of my own little group. but i got what every guy wants, a hot fun little girlfriend who i love and who i feel loves me. plus some great friends who always make me laugh. and of course all you folks 🙂

I need more time to fit my social life in around work.

"Follow your dreams...you can achieve your goals. Just look at me. Beefcake, beeeeefcaaaaaake!"

Must say, I don't really prioritise my social life. It just sort of happens around all the choir rehearsals I go to. Most of my friends now are in my choirs.

I know what you mean Corran, my hangovers are made much worse by having to work in a loud factory environment. Maybe I should look into quiting work and becoming a full time socialite......

I have a certain amount of room in my life to prioritise my social life. It is, after all, just a mix of writing, playing, coming here, and socialising. There is a lot of room there.

Thankyou all for your kind comments, anyway...

BEEFCAKE!