Going out on your own...ever done it?

Yes, I fancied a beer and went to the local pub by myself. Did it a few times and got to know people so after that I was meeting friends at the pub. I think it's called life.
 
There's a difference between going to the pub and clubbing.

The answer is no. Friends provide banter on a night out and make the lift home a lot cheaper.

Unless your confidence is sky high and you look like Brad Pitt.......
 
Gustov said:
There's a difference between going to the pub and clubbing.

The answer is no. Friends provide banter on a night out and make the lift home a lot cheaper.

Unless your confidence is sky high and you look like Brad Pitt.......
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you dont need to look good to make friends or meet girls.
 
Often go out on my own when away on business (it beats another night in your hotel room...). Find people are pretty friendly usually if you're sat at the bar and willing to talk.
 
I take myself to the cinema quite regularly, but I dont think I could go "out" on my own.
 
Yeah, go for it - the goth/industrial/EBM scene tends to be very tolerant of, and friendly towards, 'loners' [for want of a better word!]. At least it was when I was doing the club thing a few years back.

As others have mentioned, as long as you don't just stand in one place all night conspicuously leching at the cavalcade of PVC, rubber, fishnet, UV hair extensions and stompy platforms, you should be fine :)
 
The fails at sociability on here (not just this thread) are annoying me im half tempted to invite some of these douches to mansfield on thursday and make them phisically come out and talk to a girl or 2 and dance in a club.
 
I've done it a few times while on holiday, I find that I've got to be in the right mood for it to be fun but as long as you're willing to put a bit of effort into chatting to random people then it can be a good night.

While I've never intentionally gone out alone in the UK there have been a fair few occasions where I've been left waiting for long periods of time for mates due to them doing something else before meeting me and my being unwilling to just sit in the house. Again just get to the bar and start chatting, if there is something going on at the time like a sporting event that can make an easy segue into a conversation.
 
I've tried a few times. After about half a pint I feel incredibly bored. I'm not exactly the chatty type, and can't go up to total stangers and start random conversations.

I have friends who go out alone often. They're more your borderline alcoholics, and they just go to drink. Speaking to everyone who will listen is just a bonus as far as they're concerned.
 
I went to a Nick Cave gig on my own if that counts?

Ended up with a guiness pint in each hand near the end. Was great fun, even on my own.
 
do it . what have you got to lose ?

high chance that you will meet people with similar interest to you. maybe even become friends

when im out with mates i always end up wandering and talking to randomers anyway. some of those random people have became good friends

no one will have a problem with it. its how normal people make friends anyway. you cant expect people to stick with only there school/work friends for the rest of their lives


anyway report back. weve had these threads before and the OP never comes back. need to rubbish the rumour that they where murdered/kidnapped
 
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When I go to T in the Park there's always a band or two I want to see that none of my friends do. I'll think nothing of disappearing for a few hours to go and see who I want to see and meeting up later. I don't think that's any different to going to a gig on your own. Although it does annoy me when people try to strike up a conversation. For some reason if I'm standing on my own watching a gig some drunken fool always seems to think it'd be a great idea to come up to me, make a brief attempt to say something related to the band and then tell me some banal story about something or other I've no interest in. Either that or the girl with the absolute least class in the entire festival decides to come and annoy me. Then again when I go to see a band I go to see a band I don't go to get distracted by mindless conversation from a drunken moron :)

On the other hand I've gone to plenty of gigs where I didn't like the band, because a friend wanted to go. Likewise even if I knew a friend didn't want to see a band I'd still ask them to go with me, just to avoid having other people bother me.
 
Clubs, no. I'd get bored. Pubs I've got nothing against - I used to pop down the SU on my own quite often. Gigs and festivals, etc. I'd be happy to go myself. When I think about it, it's only clubs I wouldn't go out on my own to because there's always the chance you don't bump into randomers or said randomers may not take to you lingering around. I quite like chatting to strangers when I'm in clubs but that also usually involves me returning to find the people I went with and carrying on the festivities.
 
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