[Closed] I met mine in a pub. you?

Online mate. It's the new Red Lion.

(though we did first meet in The King's Arms)

Yup in the pub but then again I also met a few others than night.

I was well ahead of the curve for once, I met my wife online... in 1995!

Seems a slightly odd message to complain the young people are having less drunken sex and we should be terribly worried about it.

People are ****ing less because of the same reasons people are ****ing less in Japan, not the closure of pubs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men

It has a lot to do with young men earning less than young women and the stresses of living in a world without secure jobs.

Nightclub here, first date was in a bar, but the initial meet was a scummy nightclub. Real ale played no part in the initial courtship, rather sadly.

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Maki Fukasawa - is that Japanese for Jordon Peterson?

 

Met mine at in a club in Shorditch back in 93/4 onstage wiggling her arse to God is a DJ by Faithless.

I can instantly remember the time/day/image, it’s imprinted on my mind like a bright light.

Took us another year to get it together though, which was really nice. We sort of meandered and travelled that year to come back to the group of mates and caught up.

University polo club.

@GrahamS ?

Intensive care, fortunately both working and not punters.

Maki Fukasawa – is that Japanese for Jordon Peterson?

I have no idea about Maki but Jordan Peterson is a bellend.

It's an interesting phenomena though that deserves some attention from sociologists. A lot of comes down to women in Japan, feeling that if they get into a relationship and have children their careers will be compromised - I think that will increasingly become a factor here. So perhaps stronger maternity protection and better funding for childcare would help.

Drunk at Sherwood Center Parcs

Intensive care, fortunately both working and not punters.

"My name's Buck, and I'm here to..."

She phoned a place where I was working and got put through to the wrong extension.

Previously the same thing happened to Magnus Magnussen but all I got out of that was a credit in one of his books

Center Parcs

Crikey. Straight to it, eh?

Same rugby team - I was helping to coach the ladies. Apparently I might have crossed a boundary between coach and player!

The Bear Tavern, Aberystwyth, 1999.

But I used to go the supermarket to get my weekly shop & trudge round shoopshing centres to buy Xmas presents, too.

The times, they are a changin'

Dodgy nightclub, followed by the classic 'bloke getting on a table with guitar and singing' pub

budgens

[i]I was well ahead of the curve for once, I met my wife online… in 1995![/i]

I know a bloke who met his wife online in the early-mid 90s on a Bulletin Board. It's all there was back then.

He moved to America to marry her, still together I believe. It was quite mind-blowing at the time.

budgens

How very middle class!

University polo club.

Best answer. I wonder if there is a correlation between the general decline in polo shirt sales and availability of suitable posh totty? I mean, Harry has had to go very lowbrow.

Cue for the uni bus in my first year.

Took me to the third year to do anything about it.

20+ years later she still puts up with me :O)

(plenty of booze involved but no particular pub)

Randomly

At the gym, but we did used to go to the same pub.

@bikebuoy, wasn't God is a DJ released around 1997?  Hazy night was it? 🙂 🙂

I know a bloke who met his wife online in the early-mid 90s on a Bulletin Board. It’s all there was back then.

Wasn't much different for me: we got talking in a MUD ("Multi User Dungeon - a text-based online multiplayer adventure game) because she was a flatmate of a friend. Love blossomed through my eloquent and romantic prose.

Then we met, got drunk in a pub and had sex.

Met mine at in a club in Shorditch back in 93/4 onstage wiggling her arse to God is a DJ by Faithless.

I can instantly remember the time/day/image, it’s imprinted on my mind like a bright light.

God is a DJ was released in August '98.

Anyhoo, met my Mrs when she was working as a barmaid in the Cross Guns, Egerton, Bolton. Been married 30 years now.

On Kangaroo Island SA whilst working in an animal sanctuary. I pulled a coil of barbed wire through her hands when she was still holding it and her first words to me were a volley of Dutch swearing........not much has changed since!

we met, got drunk in a pub and had sex.

Or romance, as I believe it's known. And people make out like this stuff's complicated?

@bikebuoy, wasn’t God is a DJ released around 1997?  Hazy night was it? 🙂 🙂

I was just thinking that, maybe he's a time traveller!

God is a DJ was either 97 or 98 and I'm pretty sure Faithless didn't even appear until 95!

Center Parcs

Crikey. Straight to it, eh?

T’was before that became a thing 😂

T’was before that became a thing 😂

I think it's been a 'thing' since Old Testament times at least

In a gay bar, a gay bar

First one: I was her Windsurfing Instructor.

The upgrade: I was her Kitesurfing Instructor.

Both of them into watersports, what's the chances of that?

We met ,in fancy dress,at a new years party while on a skiing holiday in Andorra.

30yrs next year.

Holiday romances eh. 🙂

Met mine at in a club in Shorditch back in 93/4 onstage wiggling her arse to God is a DJ by Faithless.

I can instantly remember the time/day/image, it’s imprinted on my mind like a bright light.

God is a DJ was released in August ’98.

😀

<edit> - that is supposed to be a laughing face emoji... sodding forum software...

You take fancy dress outfits on holiday? That’s dedication.

We improvised 😉

night club. 1982

God is a DJ was released in August ’98.

Hmmm 🤔

I’ll have to ask her when we met, I’m sure Faithless was kicking out tunes at the time.

It was a bit hazy, but not that hazy.

Seeks like a verrrrrry long time ago anyway.

Time for an upgrade 👍🤷‍♂️😜

Met mine at a pub - set up by mutual friends though.

A lot of online dating often ends up with meeting up in a pub?  Not sure it can be blamed for the demise of pubs entirely.

I think the decline of the pub is probably more to do with other stuff as there are more alternatives now such as food and events.  Then it's easier to stay in with Netflix and internets.

It's possibly just redistribution.

Craft ale places always seem busy.  I just don't think traditional pubs have kept up.

On a mountain bike, on a bridleway in the Dales

Both of them into watersports, what’s the chances of that?

Do the math. 😉

We met at the old Platform One bar in Edinburgh. It's long gone, we're still around.

At the Dentists while having a wisdom tooth removed, <span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">she was the Nurse. Gotta love a </span>poppered<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;"> uniform!</span>

In a climbing hut near Capel Curig.

At the Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh for a performance of Anne Frank's Diary (with a joint friend) .

She lived next door in uni halls. Lots of pubs were shared in our group of friends, but also kitchens, living rooms and walks/runs/ bike rides in the countryside.

I tried to propose at one such pub, but she insisted in going face first down the tarmac before we got there 🙄

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.....

First met when she joined the University caving club with her long term boyfriend. 12 months later me and my other caving house mates moved into a bigger house with them as our rental agreement was over. And 3 months after that I moved into her bed 🙂 and the BF had the boot.

Halfway up a sea cliff as a Winter tempest blew in off the Atlantic.

Oh, hang on, wrong one...

..... through a haze of marijuana smoke in a cycle couriers' squat in North London. Circa early 1990s.

We met at my student house; she was a friend of one of my housemates.

First date was down the pub though, and a decent real-ale boozer at that.

We always joke it was an arranged marriage .... her father navigated for me when we were rallying .... then we started going out after a while - now some 35 years later .. married 30 years next year.

Always say I spent the night with my Father-In-Law before I spent it with my wife 🙂

In a cafe. From on line dating

Can I just say that I'm totally fine with not having seen binners dressed as a cocktail waitress

First one - outside a halls of residence at Sheffield Uni

Current one - online, then at All Bar One in Cheltenham

Cocktail waitress? Ha, in a smock behind the counter at Greggs more like...

On a group ride, then on a well known dating app, then for a few bike rides and climbing sessions to get to know her.

I think we've only met in a pub when we were going out for dinner once and she was a bit later than me. I don't think she even had a drink there - correction we met in a pub when we went away to the lakes for a weekend with lots of people, and we did both have a drink then.

Other past partners (>2 month duration only)...

My house (friend of a friend dinner party)

pub (through an online forum)

pub (well, student union, barely remembered meeting her)

pub (school age)

I kind of think it's quite a good environment to get to know new people - inhibitions are lowered, you're in a good mood (generally) and can have a bit of a chat and get to know someone rather than just seeing how they look/dance. I've always preferred a good night chatting in a pub than a loud dj or a club in general, too.

i downloaded mine off the internet.

Sharing a tent at Pukkelpop in 2007.

Well, technically my flat before we left but nobody remembers that beyond resolving never to buy Stowells wine ever again (one of the few things I've stuck to over the years).

Don't see so many workgroups in pubs anymore as people either work remotely or offices etc are much smaller.

In the members kitchen of Ambleside YHA over a bag of spinnach and a heated debate over social policy. She left her phone number in my bag of food that was in the collective fridge in said kitchen and the reason she knew it was my bag of food is because it was the only one that had spinnach in it.

Honestly that was the point I knew I would end up marrying her.

First one – outside a halls of residence at Sheffield Uni

Current one

You don't sound entirely optomistic there Simon!

Yep. Also met mine at a pub but perhaps not in the way the rest of you have...

geetee - Is she called Olive by any chance?

Don’t see so many workgroups in pubs anymore as people either work remotely or offices etc are much smaller.

Any pub near a railway station at knocking off time, especially on a Friday. The Prince of Wales in Didcot has every table booked from 4.00 on a Friday afternoon by techie types from Milton Park and Harwell heading home.

I don't have a partner, but I do have a CAMRA membership.  I'm happy I'm supporting pubs.

Bregante, that fur coat goes well with the dress - I can see why you'd snap her up

(hospital ward for us - Simpson 2 at the City, for any interested Notts locals.  I guess there'll be a blue plaque)

binners dressed as a cocktail waitress

#Strangest

A bank too? He has had some jobs.

Stealth edit there, Flashy.

Met mine whilst buying a car engine off a mate, his gobby little sister came out and took the piss out of us talking about cars.

We’ve been married 25 years!  She still takes the piss when I talk about cars😁

At a school mate's 18th birthday party  back in 1991/92 held in a local social club.

As I remember, his family got him a stripper too.  He wasn't pleased.

Ooh, Simpson 2, I had a testicle removed there last year.

Nothing to do with my wife, we met on a blind date at a Wishbone Ash concert on midsummer night in 1971. Neither of us wanted to go. She was along to help cool the ardour of her friend's boyfriend, my brother. He took me to divert the gooseberry

I've got something to put in you....

In a gay bar, a gay bar

My current partner i was introduced to me by a girl i really fancied and still get on great with her and is so loyal and that is great attribute she has. Im a wee bit like the bang on the ear by the Waterboys

We met, in fancy dress, at a new years party while on a skiing holiday in Andorra.

30yrs next year.

How do you know it's definitely her?

I’ll have to ask her when we met, I’m sure Faithless was kicking out tunes at the time.

She can’t remember either, but does recollect the God is a DJ stage wiggle 🕺🤣👍💃

She still takes the piss when I talk about cars

Just as merciless, then?