Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
6 or 7. Only one of my current friends did I meet after HS.
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How many people you were friends with high school and prior are you still friends with?
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Ten_Fold
Member
Man this old thread got me thinking.
Remembering a friend from middle school/high school. We was really cool, probably around the last month of high school he basically ghosted me. Guess he wanted to hang with people who smoke weed and party I didn’t care for that. I wanted to grind sf4 at the time. Once I realized he hung out with people I had issues with we kinda went our separate ways. I made new friends from the fighting game community that I talk to all the time.
Now 2 years ago he hit me up asking to hangout an I was cool with it, but turns out it was a pyramid scam and he asked for my debit card. Safe to say I think that friendship was over.
After his friend committed suicide, he wanted to hangout but realized I’m engaged and isn’t interested in smoking and drinking and going to clubs. I just wanna chill, travel, and play games. Safe to say our interest isn’t the same, and overtime I realized we just found different interest.
I love my FGC friends I met doing what I love an been friends for about 10 years.
Honestly if you feel yall don’t have many interest outside of 1 thing and you guys are in opposite directions then just cut them off slowly and keep it going, I got a great fiancé and friends who I met all after high school.
Remembering a friend from middle school/high school. We was really cool, probably around the last month of high school he basically ghosted me. Guess he wanted to hang with people who smoke weed and party I didn’t care for that. I wanted to grind sf4 at the time. Once I realized he hung out with people I had issues with we kinda went our separate ways. I made new friends from the fighting game community that I talk to all the time.
Now 2 years ago he hit me up asking to hangout an I was cool with it, but turns out it was a pyramid scam and he asked for my debit card. Safe to say I think that friendship was over.
After his friend committed suicide, he wanted to hangout but realized I’m engaged and isn’t interested in smoking and drinking and going to clubs. I just wanna chill, travel, and play games. Safe to say our interest isn’t the same, and overtime I realized we just found different interest.
I love my FGC friends I met doing what I love an been friends for about 10 years.
Honestly if you feel yall don’t have many interest outside of 1 thing and you guys are in opposite directions then just cut them off slowly and keep it going, I got a great fiancé and friends who I met all after high school.
FreedomOfSpeech
Banned
Zero
Godzilla Emu
Banned
I'm still best mates with my kindergarten crew (and first year of primary school). I'm old now but I'll always look after my tribe.
Herr Edgy
Member
Had a circle of around 5 people back from high school. I'm on 'still an acquaintance from back then' terms with one of the guys (which means we have texted a bit for like two or three times over the last couple years), the others have intentionally started excluding me for the most vapid reasons, such as me being unable to say if I could make it to a birthday 3 hours away by train until one or two days prior, so they'd need to make more food on "last minute" or me talking too much with that one girl's (that complained) boyfriend (the acquaintance I still rarely chat with) at her birthday party.
Best friend of ~12 years, who was also in that group, ditched me over a round of D&D to go with his new friends, and being pissed at me for sleeping over at his crush's place (another girl from that group) that hasn't been interested in him for 4+ years at that point. Nevermind I never did anything with her because that was extremely far from being our dynamic, and just needed a place to sleep because I was only visiting.
So, essentially 0 remain.
Best friend of ~12 years, who was also in that group, ditched me over a round of D&D to go with his new friends, and being pissed at me for sleeping over at his crush's place (another girl from that group) that hasn't been interested in him for 4+ years at that point. Nevermind I never did anything with her because that was extremely far from being our dynamic, and just needed a place to sleep because I was only visiting.
So, essentially 0 remain.
Nester99
Member
I am still really good friends with my full circle of about 10 hs best pals. I am in my 40s
I moved back to the home town 10 years ago and am the main base of get togethers. I have a big party for us all very summer and every Christmas if I don t travel.
It’s crazy how it has evolved from video games and beer and weed, to including wives and now including children.
We talk almost weekly on a what’s app chat. And play some PS4 games from across the country.
Everyone when to university in 3 different geographic bubbles
It’s crazy that we are still all close and I am great full for it .
I moved back to the home town 10 years ago and am the main base of get togethers. I have a big party for us all very summer and every Christmas if I don t travel.
It’s crazy how it has evolved from video games and beer and weed, to including wives and now including children.
We talk almost weekly on a what’s app chat. And play some PS4 games from across the country.
Everyone when to university in 3 different geographic bubbles
It’s crazy that we are still all close and I am great full for it .
BlackOlivesMatter
Banned
Too many
DESTROYA
Member
It’s funny I ran into a dude I went to HS with a couple weeks back and we both recognized each other and said Hi, but thats it.
This is some one that was in most of the same classes I took for 4 years and while I wouldn’t say we were best friends but we would hangout and generally had the same interests and played on the same HS sports teams but man what a strange encounter , It’s like he didn’t know who I was and was very aloof and distant. I tried talking with they guy and asking have you seen any of the other dudes that we went to HS with and general small talk and everything was a one word answer or a nod.
This is some one that was in most of the same classes I took for 4 years and while I wouldn’t say we were best friends but we would hangout and generally had the same interests and played on the same HS sports teams but man what a strange encounter , It’s like he didn’t know who I was and was very aloof and distant. I tried talking with they guy and asking have you seen any of the other dudes that we went to HS with and general small talk and everything was a one word answer or a nod.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Like two maybe? They both live thousands of miles away though.
V1LÆM
Gold Member
I wouldnt say i was popular in high school but i got on with most people. Probably had about 10-15 people i could hang out with on any day. Of them i'd say 6 i'd have considered my good friends.
immediately after school most people disappeared. there were two guys i saw regularly for about a year and after that i only had 1 friend left from school. We were friends for about another 8 years. haven't seen or spoke to them in 3 years now.
all my friends now i've made since i left school.
immediately after school most people disappeared. there were two guys i saw regularly for about a year and after that i only had 1 friend left from school. We were friends for about another 8 years. haven't seen or spoke to them in 3 years now.
all my friends now i've made since i left school.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
The couple of friends I've had since High School are also ones I haven't seen in like 20 years now.
and 3 others
Banned
My two best friends from High School still are, my two best friends.
poodaddy
Member
Literally two guys. Kinda sad, but most of my friends from back in the day just aren't my people anymore, but I've got two friends from back in the day that I still talk to for like hours every other day like women at a sewing circle. I got them, a great friend up here, my wife, and my daughter. Feel like that's all I need.
I will say this community has been more accepting and kind to me than I could have ever imagined. There are folks here who I haven't met, but genuinely feel could be great friends, which I would have thought was really weird around ten years ago. So that's been cool.
I will say this community has been more accepting and kind to me than I could have ever imagined. There are folks here who I haven't met, but genuinely feel could be great friends, which I would have thought was really weird around ten years ago. So that's been cool.
DrJohnGalt
Banned
I'm still friends with a handful of people I knew in HS and before. But how often do we actually hang out (even in pre-oppression times)? Might see one of them every year or so. Most I'll just talk to occasionally online but I don't regularly hang out with any of them. I got out of school mid-90s; most of my friends grew up, started families, and a lot moved out of the state.
And I'll admit, I don't miss most of the fools I went to school with.
Honestly I don't even "hang out" with the people I consider my friends now. It's all just online, games mostly, but also social media. We do all meet up online every week, but it doesn't seem to be the same. Actually I still prefer it. No dealing with crowds, drunks, cops, idiots, traffic, all the stuff that used to be a problem when I'd go out with my friends.
And I'll admit, I don't miss most of the fools I went to school with.
Honestly I don't even "hang out" with the people I consider my friends now. It's all just online, games mostly, but also social media. We do all meet up online every week, but it doesn't seem to be the same. Actually I still prefer it. No dealing with crowds, drunks, cops, idiots, traffic, all the stuff that used to be a problem when I'd go out with my friends.
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Almost all of them. I'm a very likable rodent and my backrubs are out of this world.
Quasicat
Member
I met my two best friends in the 5th grade. They are brothers spaced a year apart yet still in the same grade. They moved 800 miles away while we were sophomores and we still visit each other every year or so and play online every Friday night if their work schedule allows. I had friends after they moved away, but none of them stuck around.
I would still hang out with one friend I met in high school, throughout college since he dropped out in his first year to sell vacuum cleaners. After a couple of years of on and off communication, he called me up and pitched me on a pyramid scheme he was balls deep into. After his 3rd pitch, with no other conversation happening, I told him that I was not interested and to call me next time he had something to talk about other than the business...that was 19 years ago and I have not heard from him since.
I would still hang out with one friend I met in high school, throughout college since he dropped out in his first year to sell vacuum cleaners. After a couple of years of on and off communication, he called me up and pitched me on a pyramid scheme he was balls deep into. After his 3rd pitch, with no other conversation happening, I told him that I was not interested and to call me next time he had something to talk about other than the business...that was 19 years ago and I have not heard from him since.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Best friend I met in 9th grade, I'm still "Facebook friends" with maybe 10 other people from back then, and we'll say hi or happy birthday but that's about it.
Reptars Revenge
Member
Prob 18 in two distinct groups. One group merged with my college friends so that helped.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Most of my friends are from high school. I can really only think of one current friend I made after high school.