Penpals

[BALKAN]

Hey Sick Dudes and Gnarly Chicks!!!!!! \m/

So I was sitting here, eating a Tim Tam, thinking about ways that I could be motivated to write more and to improve on my narrative skills and I thought it'd be a swell idea to find a penpal. We were forced into having penpals in Primary School through some probably extinct website and it was unfulfilling but I'm keen to get back into it.

I know a bunch of people overseas but considering I'm in constant contact with them on FB, I feel like asking them to exchange lengthy e-mails would just be redundant.

Anyone here have a penpal?

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Can't say I do

 

[woopedazz]

I have a kid I'm grooming at the moment, but it's a lot of work.

 

[The Passenger]

1 - get tinder
2 - improve narrative skills writing "DTF" to every chick
3 - ????
4 - profit

 

[mad_monkey_j]

We had penpals in high school while I was learning Japanese. I never bothered writing to her, not that I could. She's probably sitting there waiting for that letter to come, unless she commit seppuku.

What do you know, I remembered how to write one word!

 

[Freofalcon]

I like to think of Big Footy as a community of pen pals.

 

[TheHoneyBadger]

Had to write to some Japanese kid back in primary school. Couldn't for the life of me understand why the little bastard couldn't write back in English once in a while.

 

[Gough]

I have a couple of elderly aunts and uncles, who I regularly correspond with long hand, it's great, a hand written missive in the postbox beats the hell out of the usual crap that arrives in there.

 

[brahj]

I used to write some kid who lived in New York, in the first letter he sent a picture of himself and his sweet as Dune Buggy. I got jealous and didn't write back.

 

[Caesar]

Not sure I would have much interest in a penpal as such, but I correspond with a few friends who live in other cities or countries by handwritten post. Since I don't really use Facebook much, it's how we keep up with the news of what is happening with each other. I think it also helps maintain long-distance friendships if you make the effort to write to someone. Most of these people I may only see once every year or two, but writing shows you still want to invest time and care in the relationship.

I write one or two letters a month, spread over about half a dozen or so people so that is two or three letters to each person a year. Not a massively onerous task and most people are pretty chuffed to receive a handwritten letter. Very much recommend it if you want to avoid drifting apart from friends in other places.

 

[Plugger35]

I thought penpals died out with the internet.

Why bother writing and posting a letter to someone overseas when you can just send them an email instantly?

 

[BALKAN]

I have a couple of elderly aunts and uncles, who I regularly correspond with long hand, it's great, a hand written missive in the postbox beats the hell out of the usual crap that arrives in there.

Give me your home address.

I thought penpals died out with the internet.

Why bother writing and posting a letter to someone overseas when you can just send them an email instantly?

Most penpal correspondence is done online these days. Don't take the 'pen' part too literally.

Also some people find the idea of the ol' snail mail romantic. A pleasant change, at least, from bills and pizza coupons.

 

[iluvparis]

OP oviously just watched You've Got Mail.

 

[BotsMaster]

OP oviously just watched You've Got Mail.

Ha! This.

Own up BALKAN

 

[BALKAN]

I'm not sure if I've ever seen it actually.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I kind of do. You reminded me that I better write to her soon. I have a good friend that's working the Columbia Icefield. She's working the summer out there and just staying in a cabin that has no phone reception.

 

[SugarShane]

Even though we never see him now, i still text my mate who just had a baby. I'm going to count that.

 

[the_interloper]

My uncle got a mail order when i was about 8, I asked my Mum how they met and she said they were penpals, lol at that when I realised what had happened a few years later.

 

[little graham]

In primary we wrote to some kids in America. I trolled them big time about kangaroos hopping down our main street and such.


Next year i moved to somewhere they did.

 

[Xtreme]

Did the pen pal thing with overseas students back in primary school not only writing letters but sending video messages, was interesting but looking back very cringe worthy.

Most penpal correspondence is done online these days. Don't take the 'pen' part too literally.

Also some people find the idea of the ol' snail mail romantic. A pleasant change, at least, from bills and pizza coupons.

One of the best christmas presents i got last year was a card and letter from a friend that's on the opposite side of the world. You can have a lot of power with the written word. I've done a few letters over the last 2 years that have been mostly "typed" up but posted via snail mail, i'll go to the extra effort and write by hand but it's a huge effort for me to keep it neat and tidy being left handed.

I'm the kind of person that would e-mail a reply the size of a novel despite the reply itself only really needing 1-2 lines.

A few years ago i did a prison penpal exercise - i just wanted to get a perspective of some "bad" people in prison. It was a very interesting experience.

 

[BALKAN]

In primary we wrote to some kids in America. I trolled them big time about kangaroos hopping down our main street and such.


Next year i moved to somewhere they did.

I remember writing to kids in America too. They asked me if I ever saw 'Pole Hoggen' and I told them he was my next-door neighbour LOL BLOODY SEPPOZZZ~!

Did the pen pal thing with overseas students back in primary school not only writing letters but sending video messages, was interesting but looking back very cringe worthy.



One of the best christmas presents i got last year was a card and letter from a friend that's on the opposite side of the world. You can have a lot of power with the written word. I've done a few letters over the last 2 years that have been mostly "typed" up but posted via snail mail, i'll go to the extra effort and write by hand but it's a huge effort for me to keep it neat and tidy being left handed.

I'm the kind of person that would e-mail a reply the size of a novel despite the reply itself only really needing 1-2 lines.

A few years ago i did a prison penpal exercise - i just wanted to get a perspective of some "bad" people in prison. It was a very interesting experience.

What's this prison penpal exercise about?

 

[JUBJUB]

I like to think of Big Footy as a community of pen pals.

I always thought pen pals were people who wrote to prisoners.Then again being on Bigfooty is like being in prison - you live with people you don't like,need to watch your back and could get killed off at anytime if you piss off those wonderful people called Moderators

 

[Stratton_Gun]

My uncle got a mail order when i was about 8, I asked my Mum how they met and she said they were penpals, lol at that when I realised what had happened a few years later.

With a mail order bride, do you pay up front or is it like one of those coffee machines you have in your house where you pay for every time you use it?

 

[Xtreme]

I remember writing to kids in America too. They asked me if I ever saw 'Pole Hoggen' and I told them he was my next-door neighbour LOL BLOODY SEPPOZZZ~!

What's this prison penpal exercise about?

Well it was not an exercise in the true sense of the word, i just wrote to a few to get an idea of what some of them were like to try and get an insight about them (i wrote to one person after watching a true crime documentary about them). I'm person with a curious nature.

And yeah lots of people outside of Australia can be so silly (not just from a penpal point of view), most are surprised we're not over run by kangaroos. I know a few others that were shocked to learn that Australia wasn't all "outback" and that we have cities and regular suburbs.

 

[BALKAN]

Well it was not an exercise in the true sense of the word, i just wrote to a few to get an idea of what some of them were like to try and get an insight about them (i wrote to one person after watching a true crime documentary about them). I'm person with a curious nature.

This is interesting. Was this through a certain website or how did you go about it?