| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/17/2008 8:24:46 PM | Scrummy sober up theres 12 hours to go. I wonder what games our Linda and Liz cooked up mmmmmmmmmmmm
Hope this one goes as well as the one on the 28th March and i just wonder if we will be secretly videoed need to watch my backside   | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 2:17:56 AM | HI FISHES COUNT DOWN IS ON OF RUSSELL U WORRIED YOU HAVE THE MOST WELL KNOWN FISHY BOTTY OUT HEARD RAILWAYS GONNA ADOPT IT AS A SLOGAN TO USE TRAINS MORE ...THE BARE BOTTIED INSPECTOR LOL SOUNDS LIKE A PORN MOVIE... ....SO U FISHES SOON... AND SCRUMMY BE READY TO PARTY | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 3:51:59 AM | oooooh i'm sooooooooo excited! looking forward to meeting you all (and catching a glimpse of Russel's bum in the flesh!!! lol).
off to fire up the cement mixer now and make myself beautiful *cough*
see you in a few hours xx | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 4:07:38 AM | Hi Guys ive never been to a meet before and ive just moved back to BONNY SCOTLAND 
Will it be ok to just turn up??PLS as i dont know anybody and dont wanny be standing looking like a lemon
HAPPY DAYZ
Scotty,xx | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 4:11:48 AM | | no one needs to worry we are all friends together just come and join the pof party .. yeah kimbo ive got you as a prize lol youl have to wait and see you no me and liz are loonballs lol the prizes are great xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 4:48:55 AM | Hmmm....one hungover and lonely Scrummy coming on her own tonight...who's gonna look after her  please form an orderly queue thankyou
Susan, if there's any of that cement left I may need some....gotta make myself beautiful somehow and if it's cement I have to use....so be it!
Looks down at Jimmuck and says fisherwoman? Shark catchers is what we are on here hehe | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 4:49:19 AM | I'm planning to come along for a couple of hours .I've never been to a meet either but been on here a long time now and think its about time I got out and met some of you fisherwomen | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 5:21:56 AM | Well Linda ,I just hope I'm first prize and not the booby one!
To those coming alone, don't worry there are lots in the same boat as yourself ,the hosts will soon introduce you to everyone.
Scrummy...have u got that pvc suit on yet?? 
see you all about 5ish! woohooo  | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 5:29:41 AM | JIMMUCK AND IM JUSTME YOU SOON BE PART OF T HE MERRY BAND OF FISHES SO NO WORRIES... EXCEPT FOR WHAT QUEEN OF THE LOONBALLS HAS IN STORE OH SCRUMMY FEELING ROUGH ARE WE NEVER MIND U SOON BE FINE WHEN U HAD A FEW MORE
 
FISH CODE FOR LETS PARTY......... | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 5:48:55 AM | Bleeding hell Kimbo....nobody told me how difficult it was trying to get into this pvc suit....ran out of talc so using flour....
Sola, I may just have a wee drink or 3 while i'm relaxing in a nice hot bath this afternoon, hair of the dog and all that | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 3:03:02 PM | Well well. they advertise the Glasgow meets as "You're never alone at a Glasgow Meet". So if sitting by yourself for 4 hours, with the only person talking to you is a guy asking if you want a sticker, is not being alone, then they are right.....you are never alone. Don't worry about being shy they say, we are all friends together. Yeah, if you are part of the clique then you are welcome with open arms. I know I wasnt on the list due to not being 100% sure that I could make it, but if this is what meets are like then you are welcome to them.
All the best. | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 3:33:19 PM | Big G you do have to make an effort yourself too! Just been to the meet and anyone who was on their own wasn't on their own for long!
Oh and thankyou to Linda,Liz,sola and james bond hero had a great night.Jeff is fantastic and he even sang an Ozzy song just for me (O: The guest singer was entertaining (O; and the musical chairs game was so funny. | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 5:36:19 PM | Well Rock is alive.................thanks to Jeff.........great job....i thought for a second he looked like Robert palmer.......wizard on the guitar ....we look forward to Every Friday LIVE@5
Thanks to Linda and her co-hosts...........great job.
Most of all thanks to all the fish who turned up for this 2 hour meet???????its 1.30am and still some fish swimming around in Madness......................................
This meet was a rockin meet and was directed to the headbangers of pof....and you most certainly are!!!!!!!!!...lol {dont stop me now!!!}
Well done to the musical chair folk who have took this game to a new dimension!!
Ok folks loads of meets on the board with different themes and venues sign up to them and attend.....if you are on your own you will be made most welcome...Glasgow Fish =the most frienliest.........if for any reason you doubt that then it could possibly be yourselve thats not the friendliest?????
Remember people most people that go to the meets at some point went on their own and started chatting to those they met on-line here,and who have now formed good friendships.
Shyness is hard to overcome so pluck up the courage speak to people on-line andget yourselve involved....There is NO clique..................................... | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 8:15:55 PM | | big g ...im really sorry u felt like this. myself and others went round people who we thought were on there own and introduced ourselves then introduced them to others but hope it doesnt put u off attending any more meets... | |
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| Glasgow Live Music Meet - 18th April 2008 - Madness
Posted: 4/18/2008 8:20:19 PM |
Well well. they advertise the Glasgow meets as "You're never alone at a Glasgow Meet". So if sitting by yourself for 4 hours, with the only person talking to you is a guy asking if you want a sticker, is not being alone, then they are right.....you are never alone. Don't worry about being shy they say, we are all friends together. Yeah, if you are part of the clique then you are welcome with open arms. I know I wasnt on the list due to not being 100% sure that I could make it, but if this is what meets are like then you are welcome to them. All the best. HEY BIG G ........cmon big guy chin up.you got the fish all wrong seems you just slipped through the net tonight...............try it again only maybe tell people you are going and hook up....................gl | |
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| When is a Clique NOT a Clique?
Posted: 4/18/2008 8:37:45 PM | As one of the hosts, and I think I speak for all of us, we have a huge respect for everyone who has the courage to turn up to their first meet. We have all been there. For many, joining POF is the first tentative step back into the flow of dating, often after many years of being out of the whole messy game. Many of us never expected to be single again. It is very, very difficult - awkward, embarrassing, sometimes painful - for everyone but it is an effort we have to make because we all deserve to find someone to love.
It can seem like a clique. Just as in any social situation, big personalities tend to dominate and, if you don't realise that most of the "clique" have only met each other one or two times before, and a few tables of people who seem to be getting on like a house on fire, it is easy to feel excluded.
Big G, I'm Donny, the guy who asked you if you wanted a sticker. As I went about the room, I explained to people that, while it might feel a bit embarrassing, a bit child-like, to wear a sticker with your name on it, the main reason we suggest it is that it makes it possible for people to identify you as a fellow fish and not a regular Madness punter.
As I say, everyone, even those who seem so confident and at home in the "clique", is shy. Everyone. It takes guts even to walk up to someone wearing a sticker, someone who you know is actually there to meet new people ... but practically no-one has the insane confidence necessary to approach someone who is NOT wearing a badge.
You did not want to wear yours, and that's fair enough, but I left it with you anyway, just in case you changed your mind. I don't know if you did wear it at any point but I'm guessing you did not. I came back to you later and asked if I could introduce you to the folks at my table, but you declined.
One thing that might surprise you is that several members of the "clique" were, in fact, guys who I brought over in precisely that way. Yeah, they found it a bit awkward for the first minute but most people are astonished at how quickly they get pulled into the group - all it takes is to walk over, introduce yourself and, BANG, you're in. Most of the night, Wee Lassie was the only person at the table who I had actually met before, once.
Now, there was a certain point when I put that pile of stickers down and relaxed for a while before I went home. None of the hosts get paid a penny, we're just normal members who came along to a meet, realised that they provide a genuinely important service and decided to do what we could to help others step beyond shyness. Even so, there are limits to what we can do: we don't push, we merely encourage and, at the end of the day, we are also there to see our new friends and to flirt. I have been a member for a month, this was my third meet, I came to my first alone, didn't know a soul.
You were gracious enough to come over and say goodbye. I was sorry that no-one had talked to you, but not entirely surprised. I did suggest, though, that you should come to another meet - without realising it, you did get something from tonight: you turned up and, despite feeling uncomfortable, you stayed for several hours; that took balls. You got a good, prolonged look at the sort of people who attend these things. You will have noticed that quite a few other blokes came on their own. You will have noticed that some people spent a while sitting alone but then, suddenly, seemed to get into the flow of it - probably because someone else saw their badge and plucked up the courage to say hello. Very often, the first people you get to know are people of the same sex, you have a bit of a chat about the site and they become your pals, with whom you go on to meet a group of women. Women do exactly the same thing, that is how it works. If you come to another meet, you will know that and it will make all the difference.
Big G, from a quick look at your profile, it is clear that you are a witty, sporty and musical guy with a good profession. Many people there tonight would have enjoyed talking to you. I'm also pretty sure that most of the women would rather talk to you, a 6'3 Rugby player than me, a short Irish guy  but, for all they knew, you were just a Madness regular enjoying a few pints. We are grown men, not petulant teenagers sulking at the back of a disco because we're too scared to ask a girl to dance - we have to jump out of the trench and into the firing line.
It IS, absolutely true that "You're never alone at a Glasgow Meet" - you weren't alone, we were all there to meet you, you just had to take the first step. I tried my best, I really did. The biggest barriers are in our minds, I hope you give it another shot and, by the way, if you'd like to be a host at the next meet, you'd be very welcome ... the job comes with free entry to the clique! | |
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| When is a Clique NOT a Clique?
Posted: 4/19/2008 1:57:48 AM | Well said! Scrummy has just arrived home and is in a delicate state at the moment so will refrain from adding her own thoughts on this until she has had some sleep
P.s. Personally i'd rather have the short Irish guy  | |
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