Re: Friends Reunited

by embee Fri 28 Sep 2007, 01:38

I finished school 23 years ago ....and the majority of my mates are friends from school ....helps if you went to a good boarding school I suppose

...but then again my brother went to the same school (6 years earlier) and hasn't kept in touch with any classmates

by G.Wood Fri 28 Sep 2007, 01:45

embee wrote:I finished school 23 years ago ....and the majority of my mates are friends from school ....

Same here, I had a ball at my reunion (even managed to get slapped by the school hotty for reminding her of her page 3 appearance 27 times) but I guess if you throw enough 'stuff' down your throat you are going to have fun wherever you are.

by horace Fri 28 Sep 2007, 02:09

skully wrote:
JKLever wrote:
Demelza wrote:It isn't just people from school though now.
You can see lists of people from where you used to work and even from the road you used to live in.
And, like I said, you don't have to pay UNLESS you want to get in touch with THEM.

I don't even want to look incase someone I hated is now a Rich B'Stard with a multi-national business
Hehehe. They made us mingle at the last reunion I went too (rather than catch up with your best mates from school). I got so bored with the endless droning from cretins that I didn't like way back then. And bizarrely quite a few of them ended up as teachers in the old home town. I p!ssed em all off by telling them I couldn't imagine anything worse than teaching at my old high school.

...cripes...have never been to a school reunion ....got tracked down through the electoral roll several years ago and invited to one of those less than august santa

events...had to decline...aside from anything else many of those i went to school with a complete tories and always considered me as a subversive.

by G.Wood Fri 28 Sep 2007, 02:20

horace wrote:
skully wrote:
JKLever wrote:
Demelza wrote:It isn't just people from school though now.
You can see lists of people from where you used to work and even from the road you used to live in.
And, like I said, you don't have to pay UNLESS you want to get in touch with THEM.

I don't even want to look incase someone I hated is now a Rich B'Stard with a multi-national business
Hehehe. They made us mingle at the last reunion I went too (rather than catch up with your best mates from school). I got so bored with the endless droning from cretins that I didn't like way back then. And bizarrely quite a few of them ended up as teachers in the old home town. I p!ssed em all off by telling them I couldn't imagine anything worse than teaching at my old high school.

...cripes...have never been to a school reunion ....got tracked down through the electoral roll several years ago and invited to one of those less than august events...had to decline...aside from anything else many of those i went to school with a complete tories and always considered me as a subversive.

Wouldn't most of them have perished in the Great War or with the Spanish flu?

by embee Fri 28 Sep 2007, 03:18

"many of those i went to school with a complete tories and always considered me as a subversive."

so they were good judges of character ...

by horace Fri 28 Sep 2007, 03:22

G.Wood wrote:
horace wrote:
skully wrote:
JKLever wrote:
Demelza wrote:It isn't just people from school though now.
You can see lists of people from where you used to work and even from the road you used to live in.
And, like I said, you don't have to pay UNLESS you want to get in touch with THEM.

I don't even want to look incase someone I hated is now a Rich B'Stard with a multi-national business
Hehehe. They made us mingle at the last reunion I went too (rather than catch up with your best mates from school). I got so bored with the endless droning from cretins that I didn't like way back then. And bizarrely quite a few of them ended up as teachers in the old home town. I p!ssed em all off by telling them I couldn't imagine anything worse than teaching at my old high school.

...cripes...have never been to a school reunion ....got tracked down through the electoral roll several years ago and invited to one of those less than august events...had to decline...aside from anything else many of those i went to school with a complete tories and always considered me as a subversive.

Wouldn't most of them have perished in the Great War or with the Spanish flu?

rofl...many of course have gone to their eternal reward...survivors would have "crossed the Rubicon" and become designers of 'bottom of the harbour' tax schemes, car retailing moguls or Liberal politicians (or all three)

by Basil Fri 28 Sep 2007, 07:48

skully wrote:
JKLever wrote:Why would I want to get it touch with a bunch of w@nkers I went to school with?
Testify!! Went to two reunions, and they both generally degenerated into "how much do you earn" fests. Tedious and only served to dredge up long suppressed trauma!!!

I wouldn't p*ss on some the characters I went to school with even if they were on fire.

by Guest Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:30

The problem is, you get in touch with these people, talk about old times and then realise that you've got absolutely nothing else in common with them now.

by LeFromage Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:32

If I don't get in touch with them in the first place, I similarly have nothing in common with them.

So why not cut out the middle man and just not bother?

by Guest Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:39

Grumpy sod.
You obviously need more sleep.

by LeFromage Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:44

Humbug.

by The One Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:46

facebook is quality. i guess its a lot more useful when you are just out of college and have friends spread out around the world. you cant really 'meet' them even if you wanted to. you can also share lots of stuff like pics, vids, etc

and yeah, its a great reminder for birthdays

by Guest Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:48

I couldn't find my school on Facebook, not even the district.
It was right next door to Selhurst Park football ground.

by tac Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:52

Demelza wrote:I couldn't find my school on Facebook, not even the district.
It was right next door to Selhurst Park football ground.

I always pictured you as a convent girl . . .

by The One Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:52

well i'm not on my college network, but its all about a few degrees of separation. add a few friends and pretty soon you can get in touch with everyone you ever knew. if you wanted to of course

by Brass Monkey Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:52

Yeah, my bro does myspace, facebook etc. Don't see the point, I see plenty of old schoolmates when out and it's damn perfect. A drink or two and a laugh in passing, swap numbers, give it the "Yeah, deffo" when they say "Give us a call, we'll go and do something" then just leave it alone.

by Guest Fri 28 Sep 2007, 08:58

tac wrote:
Demelza wrote:I couldn't find my school on Facebook, not even the district.
It was right next door to Selhurst Park football ground.

I always pictured you as a convent girl . . .

Really???

It was an all girl school, approved by the Queen.

by embee Fri 28 Sep 2007, 09:15

Demelza wrote:
tac wrote:
Demelza wrote:I couldn't find my school on Facebook, not even the district.
It was right next door to Selhurst Park football ground.

I always pictured you as a convent girl . . .
Really???

It was an all girl school, approved by the Queen.

HMP Holloway?

by Guest Fri 28 Sep 2007, 10:14

Cheeky!
It was in those days where you respected your elders.
Do you remember that?

by embee Fri 28 Sep 2007, 11:54

you are within 5 years of my age ...

by Merlin Fri 28 Sep 2007, 12:18

embee wrote:you are within 5 years of my age ...

Jackonory's on in 15 minutes.

by iieee Fri 28 Sep 2007, 12:38

Last time I looked at Friends Reunited I couldn't actually remember very many of the people from my school that were on there. columbo

Mind you my school days weren't really worth remembering.

by lardbucket Fri 28 Sep 2007, 22:40

school daze?

by JKLever Fri 28 Sep 2007, 22:47

lardbucket wrote:school daze?

speccy game?

by lardbucket Fri 28 Sep 2007, 22:50

speccy game ... well, I'm hoping for one in a few hours.

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