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Why doesn't anyone at SFU talk to each other?

Mike Jones
edited June 2007 in General
Why can't we all just be freinnddsss. Everytime I'm walking around SFU or taking the bus or the skytrain, everyone has their backpacks on and just give each other blank stares. Like come on, does it hurt to smile, say hi or just ask what classes your taking? If you see me saying hi to you just say hi back there are NO ALTERIOR MOTIVES. I am not out to get you people I just wanna make some good friends while I'm here at this "university" peace out
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  • Morro
    edited June 2007
    I've committed your picture to memory. If I see you on the bus, I'll be sure to come over and hump your leg a bit. We know you'll appreciate it! :p

    Don't confuse neutrality with negativity. People just have their own thoughts, and they're caught up in thinking about what they need to be doing, etc. etc. When I'm on the bus, I'm usually completely unaware of the other people on it.

    Make friends in your tutorials! Tutorials are what make SFU such a social school, not randomly striking up conversations with people on the bus. ;)
  • Malakaiii
    edited June 2007
    I agree, it's hard to talk to people on the bus.

    It's also hard to be talked TO, because if you get in a conversation with this person, you are stuck talking to them (or feeling awkward because you've run out of things to talk about) for the 20 minutes until you get to Production Way. :wink:

    I'm all for talking to people at school! One guy held the door for me as he was going out, and I said "thanks" and he froze and said "huh... what?" and then just shook his head and walked away when I repeated myself. I guess it throws people off-guard because they are so wrapped up in other things?
  • illicit
    edited June 2007
    flossin', sippin' purple drank, who? mike jowwwneees. .

    anyways, i'm a guy

    so in the view of spectators

    i approach a girl - i am creep
    i approach a guy - i am homosexual
  • noname
    edited June 2007
    illicit;13612 said:
    flossin', sippin' purple drank, who? mike jowwwneees. .

    anyways, i'm a guy

    so in the view of spectators

    i approach a girl - i am creep
    i approach a guy - i am homosexual

    How does approaching a girl make you creepy? It's natural for guys to approach girls :).
  • imelting
    edited June 2007
    correction: the way he approaches girls is creepy
  • Insatiable
    edited June 2007
    It's not just at SFU, it's everywhere. Our society is so individualistic that people are supposed to mind their own business. I can't help but think that someone has ulterior motives when they strike a conversation with me. Maybe people are just busy with their studies. Maybe it's a stressful time of the semester. Or maybe the way you talk to people is weird or that you're too forthcoming about wanting new friends.
  • toast
    edited June 2007
    cause people are not expecting strangers saying hi to them all the sudden
  • baby e
    edited June 2007
    LOL at the people at SFU. There are some creepy people there. I was walking down the hall once and this guy came up to me and asked me where the pub was. I told him....I was very nice about it because i am a nice person. Then he proceeded to follow me down the hallway (it was in the opposite direction of the pub) and kept asking me if i wanted to get a drink at the pub. I said no and he kept following me right to my class. Then he said, "now i know where your class is, I can find you anytime i want" and he walked off while glaring at me. THAT is why I am not friendly to every single person that talks to me.

    Talk to people in your tutorials and lecture, not randoms in the hall or on the bus. If I'm walking down the hall and im intent on getting to my destination, why stop me and bother me? People dont take too kindly to it.
  • Bhambra
    edited June 2007
    today i said thanks and give this guy a winning ( yes winning!:teeth: ) smile when he held the door for me and he was totally .not .expecting .it. I can't believe our expectations for humankind are so low. We're impressed by the smallest gestures of kindess. o well, guess it makes it easier to come off as a good person... whoohoo!
  • imelting
    edited June 2007
    lol a winning smile

    i usually hold the door for anyone that follows me dont really think twice about it

    though about randomly meeting ppl, i meet a few ppl once at a bus stop atop sfu at like 10 at night when the buses come like once every 20-30 mins and we chatted then ended up grabbin some bbt lol, kinda funny when i think about it
  • NukeChem
    edited June 2007
    I've been talked to by the most random people at the bus stops, actually. :smile: It's a nice way to pass the time and it's interesting getting to know non-science majors this way. Because of my particular circumstances I never had to do arts courses at SFU when I came back (basically I had too many from way back in 1993/94 plus my Langara College transfer), so my exposure to students was limited to the chemistry and physics majors.

    It's a nice way to find out how other people see the world when their background isn't a science one. :smile:
  • gawdawaful
    edited June 2007
    baby e;13631 said:
    LOL at the people at SFU. There are some creepy people there. I was walking down the hall once and this guy came up to me and asked me where the pub was. I told him....I was very nice about it because i am a nice person. Then he proceeded to follow me down the hallway (it was in the opposite direction of the pub) and kept asking me if i wanted to get a drink at the pub. I said no and he kept following me right to my class. Then he said, "now i know where your class is, I can find you anytime i want" and he walked off while glaring at me. THAT is why I am not friendly to every single person that talks to me.

    Talk to people in your tutorials and lecture, not randoms in the hall or on the bus. If I'm walking down the hall and im intent on getting to my destination, why stop me and bother me? People dont take too kindly to it.
    That is pretty creepy lol. Hope it was one of them big lecture halls and not a small tutorial room (1 door only :cry: )
  • illicit
    edited June 2007
    imelting;13618 said:
    correction: the way he approaches girls is creepy

    well everyone has a different opinion on how a person approaches a person = creepy. and when theres allll those people, say at production way, theres bound to be one person to find it creepy.

    eg. what baby e was talking about for the pub etc.

    but don't take me wrong, when people initiate conversations, i'll gladly entertain and talk.

    but there was this one guy, when i used to have my psp and i just got it. i played it on the bus then he starts asking what game, and explaining all these game things to me about how this works and shit. that, is an exception, as i don't care how you want to play it, this is my psp, i'll play it in a retarded fashion if i wish to do so. back off, get your own psp
  • Smiles
    edited June 2007
    Generally, when you are looking in someone's direction & that someone looks up & meet your eyes, one of 2 things happen: You say hi OR you look away. When I was on the skytrain, I looked up and this guy was standing right in front of me staring at me, but it was a really creepy stare. So I keep staring back at him, waiting for him to do something, like say hi or looked away. We stared at eachother for a minute, then I asked "Do you have a f*cken problem? Stop staring at me!" He then looked away, shifted his eyes back & forth nerviously, and slowly backed away through the crowded skytrain. He was really creepy.

    For me, I will talk to someone if they talk to me, but as imelting said, it really depends on your approach.
  • 中国&#30
    edited June 2007
    There are some creepy girls at SFU too. For example, today I had my shirt off after running around the track. Later, I cooled down for a while near the field entrance. All of sudden, this girl was walking down the steps and saw me shirtless. When I walked into the fitness gym, she was sitting on the bench talking on the phone with a big smile. I was like "whoa there", time for me to go.
  • JohnnyBoy
    edited June 2007
    Whoa this is a pretty intersting topic...I always wondered what people are thinking inside their head.
  • imelting
    edited June 2007
    illicit;13663 said:

    but there was this one guy, when i used to have my psp and i just got it. i played it on the bus then he starts asking what game, and explaining all these game things to me about how this works and shit. that, is an exception, as i don't care how you want to play it, this is my psp, i'll play it in a retarded fashion if i wish to do so. back off, get your own psp
    this is like an exact scene from a psp commercial, but it was on a plane :x
  • illicit
    edited June 2007
    中国男人;13668 said:
    There are some creepy girls at SFU too. For example, today I had my shirt off after running around the track. Later, I cooled down for a while near the field entrance. All of sudden, this girl was walking down the steps and saw me shirtless. When I walked into the fitness gym, she was sitting on the bench talking on the phone with a big smile. I was like "whoa there", time for me to go.
    1) if that's you in your avatar, no surprise.
    2) was she good looking?
    3) all girls want is sex?
  • toast
    edited June 2007
    he said creepy girls.... i gues they are not good looking
  • 中国&#30
    edited June 2007
    1) Avatars can be touched up, I was kind of expecting it
    2) I would rate her 6/10 (7/10 would be pushing it)
    3) She probably wanted me to get her # and call her. "whoa there"

    An incident on the bus today has changed my perception that some good looking girls can be creepy. :smile:
  • toast
    edited June 2007
    中国男人;13714 said:
    1) Avatars can be touched up, I was kind of expecting it
    2) I would rate her 6/10 (7/10 would be pushing it)
    3) She probably wanted me to get her # and call her. "whoa there"

    An incident on the bus today has changed my perception that some good looking girls can be creepy. :smile:
    no make up on?
  • 中国&#30
    edited June 2007
    toast;13715 said:
    no make up on?
    Girls put on makeup when they go to the gym? What about all the sweat? No, she had no makeup.
  • Malakaiii
    edited June 2007
    I wish someone would invent man-makeup. :P
  • toast
    edited June 2007
    men usually don't wear make up; many of us don't even look at the mirror and go to school (except for shaving, which I don't have to[ i am a freak of nature ]}.... I am one of them
  • 中国&#30
    edited June 2007
    Malakaiii;13723 said:
    I wish someone would invent man-makeup. :P
    Why? Are you a man?
  • Malakaiii
    edited June 2007
    Not as far as I know.
  • siuying
    edited June 2007
    that's a pretty good idea malakaiii..
    man make-up.. i definitely like it.. =D
    i've seen some guys up on sfu that wear make up.. that lil bit of eye liner? i think some guys are able to pull it off and still look sexy at the same time..
  • 中国&#30
    edited June 2007
    You girls are weird *shakes head in disapproval". Siuying, I think you'll find football players sexy since they wear eyeliner on their faces.
  • siuying
    edited June 2007
    when i said some guys.. i wasn't referring to football players.. but then again.. who knows? maybe some could pull it off when they're not in their football attire.. =) oh.. and the stuff football players wear on their faces...it's called face paint

    and yes weird is my middle name..
  • El_Cambumbo
    edited June 2007
    You know what's awkward? When you sit on those bus seats in the middle and the end where the passengers are seated across from each other, so when you look straight ahead, you're in direct view of other people. and often times staring is unavoidable, because there's no where else to look. Sometimes they will look at me, and when I look at them, they'll immediately look elsewhere, and I'll do the same, and so on and so forth. They should put TVs on the buses, then it wouldn't be a problem.

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