School

[Magic]

To boost activity I guess. Was just having a Facebook creep and I quite enjoyed seeing what people from School turned out like or what they were up to. Horrifying to see how many scumbags have kids though. I actually don't keep up with anyone from school, to be honest the longest I've had proper friends was probably primary school. Quite jealous tbh when I hear about groups of friends that have been socialising for years and years or best mates since nursery etc. I checked my Facebook and I only have 19 'friends' from school on there. I kind of dropped everything when I went to college. Then I dropped all that when I started work.

How are you guys for school chums? I know a lot of you travelled to different cities/countries so presumably in the same boat as me (except I haven't went anywhere, making it sadder :()

[Sam]

My friends back home I've known them since nursery, know a few people from round the world from when I went traveling but I'm basically into two friend groups these days, people I grew up with in Wolverhampton and everyone else in London.

[Pepe]

I have like three friends left.

[SvN]

I get together with my school friends every 3 months or so. We live around the country now so getting together isn't easy. The first of us is about to have a kid soon though, so no doubt that will put an end to things :(

[Lewis]

I've known my 'best friend' since I was four. We sort of read each other's minds when we're doing a bit of stick, and we just start cracking up, and people watching will go 'Why is that funny?', and we'll tell them why, and they'll go 'Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah... You are the best'.

[Giggles]

When I'm home around Christmas I sometimes bump into some of them and we'll get pints and all and then go on our way. The closest friends I had in school I never see though as they're from other towns.

[Magic]

I actually kind of bumped in to an ex-mate (we fell out during high school) the other week. I went to say 'alright?' but he just ignored me. Was proper childish and awkward. :harold:

EDIT: When I say 'I went' I didn't go over to talk to him we just literally almost bumped in to each other going in to/coming out of a side street.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I only regularly see one or two, and that is only because we still play cricket.

Of people in my year that I know about, one hanged himself at 20, one was on the Apprentice, one is a highly successful county cricketer, another is on ITV news or something, one had kids with two different women at the same time. We were always destined for greatness as a year group. I'm probably in the bottom quartile of earnings but you know what, I'll take it.

[Toby]

I didn't go to school with any of my closest friends. There are a couple I make an effort to speak to semi-regularly, and a load of others I would probably speak to if I met them but don't make any attempt to do so.

I speak to even fewer people from university. Oddly probably closer to more from my six months in Hong Kong than the the 42 in Glasgow, but I suppose those were friendships always built with an understanding we wouldn't be in the same place for very long.

[Magic]

I love this forum. :cool:

[Giggles]

I love this forum. :cool:

Only for you it'd be long consigned to the bin.

[leedsrevolution]

I've known my two best mates since high school. Picked up a few other great mates on the way. I like to keep a small circle of pals but I stay friends with em for years.

I probably come across a bit of a loner. Which I suppose is true but I have a genuine dislike for most people so it suits me this way.

[phonics]

I've moved around too much. I've got zero contact with anyone from my Primary School or anyone from the three middle schools I attended. Only friends left are from High school.

[Baz]

I'm still mates with my "best mate" from school. Mike's gonna be his best man in September, which is a bit bizarre when I really think about it. :cab:

Other than that I still see another mate from school now and then, but I'm more friends with his younger brother these days.

[Alex]

My "best" friends are all people I went to secondary school with, two of them I've known since we went to nursery together. There's seven of us including me. The four of us who still live locally get together all the time, although marriage and/or children (neither applying to myself, thankfully) have slowed things down to some extent.

Two of them are in London, so we all usually go down there a couple of times a year and build some sort of weekend around getting pissed. More often than not it involves some sort of sporting event. I'm fairly sure they're the only two people currently residing in London who actually care about Rugby League, so it was England vs New Zealand at the Olympic Stadium last time. It was shit. Couldn't even properly drink though the monotony, as it was about £6 for a plastic bottle of Carlsberg. Disgraceful scenes.

The other lad currently lives in Australia, and hopefully is coming home at some point in the near future.

[Lewis]

That shithouse match set league in London back about a thousand years.

[Lee]

No friends from school, none from college, none left from uni now either. My longest standing mate is my closest friend and we've known each other for about ten years. Met working at McDonald's. Well always be friends. We don't see each other more than two or three times a year but we don't really need to. I have six other proper friends, rather than acquaintances, fur of whom I socialise with regularly (and with whom I'm going to Amsterdam in May) and another couple who I see a couple of times a year. They've all been picked up through work. That'll do for me. I've no interest in anybody from the past. If I had I'd still be in touch with them.

[Alex]

That shithouse match set league in London back about a thousand years.

Aye, it was properly dire. It was like a fucking mausoleum inside the ground as well. Not the best day out by any stretch of the imagination.

[Spammer]

Group of about ten of us that are still in regular contact. Half of them from primary, the rest we met at secondary. None live nearby but were in touch loads and meet every coupkle of months. Only still in touch with a couple of people from uni but not bothered about any of the people I've lost contact with. Most people I hang out with regularly I've only known a year or so.

[simon]

Horrifying to see how many scumbags have kids though.

:eyemouth:

[simon]

Pretty much all of my closest mates are from school. I still live in the same area, so it's easy to stay in touch.