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06-03-2008, 10:21 AM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | |  Do you ever play match maker for your friends and relatives ?
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Do you ever play match maker for your friends and relatives ? I do not but I was once set up in a match making situation , it was disastrous.
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06-03-2008, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Ugh. Once, many years ago, at the urging of my PITA then-girlfriend. Never again.
I was once set up as well... that went considerably better. |
06-03-2008, 10:24 AM
| | | For me playing match maker for anyone is a loosing proposition.  |
06-03-2008, 10:31 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Atlanta | | | no, but I was backed-up by my wife's family when we got into fights before we got married. She would be all pissed off at me, and they would all go in and tell her to get over it and call me back...
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06-03-2008, 11:50 AM
|  | On the TB leaderboard for low talent/gear ratios! | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: NJ | | | Unintentionally once. My wife and I paired up a friend of mine and a friend of hers in our wedding party and they ended up dating on and off again for about three years. They last dated about 15 years ago and to this day neither of them knows what really went wrong because neither feels like they actually broke up. Despite that, both married someone else long ago and have families of their own.
My wife and I have so far managed to avoid creating a situation where they'd both be present but have wondered what might happen if they ever crossed paths again. Would they hook up once last time? Would they leave their current marriages for each other? Would they have a huge fight and finally break up once and for all? Would they engage in some other bizarre, interesting, and potentially Jerry Springer-esqe scenario we haven't thought of yet?
I've been asked by some friends (both male and female) about setting them up with someone else I know, but so far I've avoided doing it intentionally. If it happens on its own OK, but I don't think I want to get into that business. There's too much potential for one or the other of the parties I set up to end up hating me over the horrible choice I made for them. Don't need that.
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06-03-2008, 11:51 AM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Other than playing wingman for buddies, I never get involved. It's better that way. Otherwise you inevitably end up being the middle man. |
06-03-2008, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | | Since I can't even make a match for myself, I have no business trying to make them for others.
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06-03-2008, 12:04 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | I'd rather yizz on an electric fence. Less painful.
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06-03-2008, 12:16 PM
| | Shake and Bake | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Waterford, MI | | | i've tried to be setup a few times by friends since i split up with my ex.
why is it always the 40 year old morbidly obese no life ones they like to set me up with?
haha...
always tell them .. let me see a picture first.
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06-03-2008, 01:40 PM
| | Still lovin' that cake... | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Ireland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Atoz Since I can't even make a match for myself, I have no business trying to make them for others. | +1 
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06-03-2008, 01:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: South Side Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Atoz Since I can't even make a match for myself, I have no business trying to make them for others. | +2
what gets me even more is family members and a friend of mine who has tried to set me up even after I said no. after that I become the biggest jackass possible. that will learn 'em |
06-03-2008, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | | Yeah, once, Heather Mills hasn't forgiven me since.
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06-03-2008, 02:04 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Yes!
My soundman is now my brother-in-law. My wife takes all the credit, but had it turned out to be a disaster, I'm sure it would have been my fault.
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06-03-2008, 02:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | On two occasions I've not been a matchmaker, but a facilitator to allow the two to meet. No pressure, just making sure the two met, and thought it was fate.
One couple is happily engaged right now, and the other has been involved for three wonderful months now.
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06-03-2008, 11:53 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | I've tried to hook up relatives before but some people think they're too good for incest.
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06-04-2008, 07:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Toronto, ON | | | absolutely not.
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06-04-2008, 08:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | Not in a million years |
06-05-2008, 12:55 AM
| | | | No. And I'm glad no one is doing this to me.
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06-05-2008, 12:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Port Saint Lucie, FL | | | Only if one wanted to lose two friends/relatives.
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06-06-2008, 07:19 PM
|  | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | Not intentionally, but I was the link between two female acquaintences and two fraternity brothers. Both marriages are past 20 years - so I did pretty well. Not wanting to screw up that record, I have retired from the matchmaking game.
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