[Closed] are you a friendly person?

whats it to you, eh?

I try to be friendly but I find social interaction awkward so I think it comes across differently.

i am a very friendly person........ 😀

I try to be friendly but everyone else in the world makes it so difficult.

whats it to you, eh?

Yes. Very intolerant of rude people though, so they tend to see me as unfriendly.

This won't end well!

Half n half me, probably come across as mildy grumpy.

Today at Asda i had the smiliestist checkout chick in the world, she commented and giggled at every item i had.

She cheered me up.

My wife always goes to her i later found out.

I am friendly but quite shy at first.. So many times seen people from other forums and not said hello until I have been aproached, because I just don't want to seem like a dick.

**** OFF! 😉

Depends what you mean by friendly, bankers, politicians, paedophiles, rapists, serial killers are all polite and friendly. If they weren't they wouldn't get much done.

Most people only pretend to be friendly, I would prefer genuine sincerity, to bullshit friendlyness

I'm calm and relaxed also easy going.

As long as you don't get too close or try and visit me, I'll stay that way!

As long as you don't get too close or try and visit me, I'll stay that way!

Smile! they said, after-all, life could be worse....
So I did...
... and it was

Seriously though - yep, friendly & approachable, that's me 🙂

I'm a million different people from one day to the next..

generally very smiley though verging towards saccharine..

don simon - Member

As long as you don't get too close or try and visit me, I'll stay that way!

I think you're quite safe on this one...

I should bloody well think so after all the effort I've put in!

I smile at people and they run away 🙁

I am friendly really honest

used to work in sales, so i can turn it on and off at will.

though most of the time i have it turned off

I find with a lot of people that when I look into thier eyes, I don't really like what I see, so I think get away from me you revolting creature, I also tend to think out loud a lot.

Has the OP been listening to REM?

There's always one smart arse that has to come and spoil it, isn't there?

...and you must be gutted that someone got in before you, I assume?

Anyway. No, not really.

I just asked a colleague if they think I'm a "friendly person"*.
They pissed themselves.

(*I couldn't even type it without sneering)

lol no REM here 🙂 just in a good mood!

...and you must be gutted that someone got in before you, I assume?

Actually - define friendly.

Friendly? yes 🙂

I genuinely like most people, and even if we're different that's usually leads to an interesting chat so is no bad thing.

Really enjoy meeting new people, and happy to have a laugh and general blether with anyone and everyone. Although, as I'm now learning, friendliness can be occassionally be misinterpreted 😯

I reckon I'm a friendly and approachable person.

I find being friendly seems to catch a lot of people off-guard or make them suspicious of why you're being nice.

Maybe they just think I'm after something. 😕

I try to be and i guess as i have visited Keasae and survived that must be proof enough I am 😉

i'm not defining it, this being STW my definition will be ripped to shreds. if there are readers who dont have their own impression and image of what a friendly person is like then i'd be surprised 🙂

Nope.

I am, but you'd never know. People who know me well would agree. People who don't would call me a ****

Very much so. I'm very tolerant too. Life's too short.

[i]I'm very tolerant too.[/i]

is that why the photographers union took out an injuction against you ?

No.

is that why the photographers union took out an injuction against you

Do you know, I nearly put "except for photographers", but was sure there were enough people who'd get the reference!

Even then, I know some very nice photographers, it's the annoying ones who can fork off!

Honestly?

Sort of, though I can be really standoffish when I meet people - I'm crap with small talk. And if I don't like someone, it's hard for me to hide it.

I'm on the margin tbh... It takes a little effort for me to be friendly, but usually I choose to do it and it's no great hardship. But often, I am not. This is probably a bit of a pain in the arse for people that know me tbh but, it's the best I can do really 😉

I'm the friendliest person to me I know 😛

I'm the most friendly person I know, MrsBouy can vouch for me too.

MWAXxxx

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I very shy so my social skills are the best and it takes me quite a while to relax around strangers. I am usually friendlier around people that I have something in common with.

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What sort of question's that? Are you looking to get baned? Do have any fraynds? What do think you're....

Oh. "Friendly".

I thought you said "Fredly"...

I'm superficially friendly. I'll smile at you, laugh with you and be sociable but I'm really doing it to lull you into a false sense of security so that I can line up a ride with you and bum-rape you when you're not expecting it. Just be careful when you're bending over fixing that puncture.

That's also why all the folk I ride with go tubeless.

Painfully shy IRL. I'd rather the ground opened up and swallowed me than talk to people. I think people who know me would say I'm friendly I hope so anyway!!

I rode for 50 miles with a flat when I met Druidh.

Yes, I am friendly but women might consider me dirty old man ... if I keep smiling at them.

Can't be too friendly in the hood

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I'm slightly autistic, not very good in social situations, I can't make eye contact when talking to some one and I can't do small talk. I can follow a lead but it tends to end pretty quickly if left up to me.

I try to over compensate sometimes I can come across as being a bit weird or too friendly. I can't help it. If I didn't I'd sit in the corner and not talk to anyone.

I like to think I'm a friendly person.

I really don't like meeting new people, and find social situations very awkward, so I almost certainly come across as a bit of an arse to start with.

I love helping people out though, and will offer to help fix friends bikes, help people off trains with baggage, give up my seat for people etc.

My ex probably doesn't think I'm friendly, but I'd like to think that most other people do.

i'd go as far as saying a friendly person will be good at making those who struggle in new social situations feel comfortable 🙂

Painfully shy IRL

I think we [i]all[/i] are when we're young.

That certainly described me, and I grew a somewhat arrogant shell to cover that up in my 20s. Now that I'm a lot older, have achieved a good few things, have kids etc, I've got the confidence that I don't necessarily need people to like me, nor to put up with them if I don't like them.

The arrogance has gone though, which has to be a good thing. People I've known for decades but only bump into every four or five years tell me that I'm a lot nicer/friendlier than I used to be.

Today at Asda i had the smiliestist checkout chick in the world, she commented and giggled at every item i had.

Up yours Rasta geek.As the Russians say,"Only the madman smiles all the time".

The british are a very friendly bunch, as the world has learnt from the past and our current behaviour.

It's the best way to get people to drop their guard, so we can give them one! innit ❓

Yes.
I've always been known as 'Smiler' at work and in cycling. Always the first to go back and bring the slow or new folk home. Happy to give people the benefit of the doubt (probably why I got taken for tens of thousands in my business)

Though if I meet a nasty person! of if someone thinks that they can take advantage of my nature they'll get a shock or more, as can be vouched for.

Hopefully most people find me freindly, some dont, some totally dislike me.

Who cares

I am 😀

Can't believe the misery guts on here. No wonder you stay on a forum but it has helped me understand that there are some misery guts that I stay away from.

Oldgit - totally agree, just because you're happy doesn't mean you are stupid, so be happy and stay assertive!

Druidh - If only I'd known a puncture was all it took... GT tomorrow?

I have a decently wide circle of friends who seem to have stayed with me for years, even decades in some cases. I assume that makes me friendly!

Used to be reasonably so but now very much lacking confidence in social situations so can be interpreted as 'weird'. Getting used to it. 🙁

Have good friends but I find social interaction beyond a few hours quite difficult and tiring. Chattiness is not in my genetic make-up so the best I can hope for is not-completely-unapproachable 🙂

(EDIT - also, I don't hug people. Society seems to view me with surprise and suspicion because I'm a female who doesn't hug others.. must not be friendly)

no

Friendly enough to anyone I decide to be friendly to. I can't say I have any desire to be liked that much by more than a few people on this earth.

When I'm in the mood for it ! Probably smiley 87% of the time actually.

I also like being a grumpy get, that also pleases me, being over 40 and attained the right of passgage to feel smug and comfortable with who I am and my place in the world. A good old moan is ace ! Invariably makes others laugh at me anyway, so everyones a winner!

think I'll just up my % to 95 !

My default mode is friendly and trusting, and I guess I smile more than the average person. I'd find it more hardwork to be an arse and a grump. That said, I'm not graced with the capacity for ongoing smalltalk or extended discussion of subjects that do not interest me, and generally prefer my own company.

It's nice to be nice, and that's nice.

However, I can't stand: rudeness, one sided conversations, falseness, women who think friendly is flirty and send out deflective signals, people who make you make the effort in a first impressions situation (friends of friends who take the aloof stance) and those just waiting for their turn to speak.

I hug freely, shake firmly and think eye contact is important. Sideyface air kisses feel all fake to me, but they're quite popular 😐

I think we get what we give socially. Do unto others etc.

not sure really, have to ask the fools that seem to like riding with me and the newbs I take out that keep coming back for more. I think aggressively cheerful sums me up.

Ish.

wot kind of question is this ? wot does it matter if we are friendly or not...no im so unfriendly cos people take the mickey outa my spelling now begger off before i turn into the incredible Hulk !!!!!!! 😉

Think I am,well try to be.Even said hello to that Tazzy fella the other week,even though he wasn't on a proper MTB...... 😉

*blows kiss at emac65 and his dinky wheels and gear dangler* 😀

LOL,You forgot suspension fore & aft though .....Tis only 63mm at the back though.... 🙂

🙂

Friendly if we have things in common but im not great at small talk or first time introductions

Getting better though - its part of my job

I'm slightly sandoffish until i get to know someone.
Then i'd do anything i possibly could to help them.
Not keen on falsely friendly people though.

? that would make you false abit then wouldnt it singlespeedstu = you say you are standoffish till you get to know someone.... why be like that ? 😉

Never saw him as standoffish ... Possibly because we were drunk riding singlespeeds in aviemore

I'm friendly, but often find it difficult around people I don't know, especially if there's no context. This comes across to others as grumpy and distant. I'm getting better with age and on reflection must have been awful when I was younger.

I'm also quite intolerant toward unthinking and irrational people.

that would make you false abit then wouldnt it singlespeedstu

No. It'd make me someone that doesn't get taken in by bullshiners. 😉

trail_rat - Member

Never saw him as standoffish

That's because you didn't come across as a BS merchant.
Well that and the fact that i'd already riden most of a 100K event with you. 😆