#25

Around the same time. In an office I used to work in, everyone had nerf guns and after 17:00 it was permitted to shoot each other so the place turned into a soft warzone. One scraped across someone’s eyeball and they had to go to hospital and had reduced vision for a couple of weeks. You’d think that’d have been enough to end things, but it wasn’t. Most people in the department ended up getting made redundant (I was a contractor, so straight out), and I just left my gun behind. So that was the last time I threw a nerf.

#26

Not sure a Nerf gun counts as throwing a Nerf tbh. But the story was very good

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#27

I thought you might say this, but sometimes you would just throw the bullets because it was quicker than reloading. Much like actual war I think.

#28

Grinders

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#30

Classic timing. I leave London and you rock up.

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#31

Not really a thing imo.
Pen pals

#32

Are friends electric?

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#33

please stop calling my house

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#34

People from Facebook, or people from the internet for dissers

#35

I’d consider a lot of people off here over the years to be my friends even though we may not have met IRL… that obviously includes you Theo

I think friendship is more a level of interaction and sharing of ideas/ideals/experiences than anything else. It used to be that you could only do those things by actually being in the same room at the same time…but DiS (and the digital world in general) is a room now and we’ve been on here together for about 15 years. If what you build in that time can’t be called a friendship then I don’t know what can

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#36

When your contract ended did you go into the ‘chiefs’ office and have to hand over your nerf gun and office pass/badge reluctantly?

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#37

We had about 4 Nerf guns in our office. They mysteriously all disappeared one day and we never got to the bottom of it. No one will own up to it.

#38

fry

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#39

Yeah, I’d all us friends. Def. I mention you to my wife, and she knows who you “are” and who your kid is.

Same for Bitt I’d say. Same for loads on here.

<3

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#40

With my immediate family I say ‘internet friends’ to differentiate from my irl friends… who I met on the internet. Mostly just as a simple way to explain how I suddenly knew more people and sometimes got cool things through the post.

Always awkward explaining to other people who won’t necessarily understand how hard it is for me to make irl friends, still ferls like some people won’t acknowledge it as an avenue to friendships.

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#42

@1101010 I’m very socially awkward and old, and would probably just keep it simple as friends and skirt around the subject, and say it was through “gigs”.

According the Facebook we’ve been “internet friends” since March 2009, although we must have originally have met before that at Tempertwig gigs, so early 2000’s.

Similarly with @anon5266188, Facebook “friends” since 2008, but again must have been earlier than that. But we went to number of gigs back in the day.

Both of you seem really good eggs, so I’d be quite happy just to call you friends. Even though you probably couldn’t remember me now if we met.

I can’t remember when I made a new friend in real life.

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#44

eFriends, like eMail

#46

Theo, I think we’re friends even though we’ve actually only met IRL a few times. Same with a handful of other DiSers.

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#47

Yes, but also we have non DiS mutual and stuff!

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