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I dont know, never watched it, probably the patrons did
part of the job Im never very good at, chasing up books overdue for OTHER people. I do send reminders but you win some, you lose some. I reckon as long as I keep track of my own and people are actively READING, Im ok.
 
I saw Scholastic are releasing a Friends picture book for 5 year olds, that have cartoony like drawings of Friends you can colour in. And Lego even has the Friends in their coffee shop.

I am going what five year old is going to relate to the Friends TV show?! I know Ben was born on it and Emma and triplets but it was never about THEIR friends.

is this for parents who used to watch friends, and now want to share it eith their kids or something. Or is the merch associated with this show gone way beyond coffee cups, cookbooks, episode guides and trivia games now?
 
An old friend invited me to a coffee shop yesterday. I asked her if she ever watched Friends and she said no.

The coffee shop did have couches and was even on the corner of the street but didnt have the Phoebe Buffay element. Also its part of a chain, so wherever you go the couches and decor in these coffee shops are the same.

Mcdonalds did try and go for the whole cafe culture by having some of their restuarants as mcCafes too, where they serve drinks in actual real cups and saucers, rather than ones you just chuck away. Still no Phoebe Buffay singing smelly cat live on her guitar though, the one I go to had some weird piped in trance music.
 
Going_Nowhere said:
I don't have any friends. There's an upside and downside to it.


Sometimes I think it would be nice to have them....especially in this dark period of life I'm in. And there are other times when I think having them might add to my depression.


But I guess I manage okay on my own. I personally don't view friends as being a necessity in life.
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Hi, Going Nowhere! I strongly encourage you to seek out and reap the harvest of christian friends. Especially going to church worship and groups. I made many wonderful, encouraging, helpful and fun friends at my church of all ages, male and female. Just go, open up and try.

Scripture says a lot about the importance of christians getting together. This undoubtedly creates real friendships. Here's one:
Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Here's a lot more: What Does the Bible Say About Gathering Together? (openbible.info)
 
Im going to start a friends group at the library. Im going to borrow their bean bags and couch and have an hours hang out quiet time reading then after that people can get to know each other. It will be every week.

My friend said she'll come.
I have to make up some flyers so people will know and advertise it.
 
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Im going to start a friends group at the library. Im going to borrow their bean bags and couch and have an hours hang out quiet time reading then after that people can get to know each other. It will be every week.

My friend said she'll come.
I have to make up some flyers so people will know and advertise it.
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Start with an hour of silent reading? You might be the first person to ever do that! That's really intriguing. You sit with folks reading to themselves in the library, except close together in an organized group. Some social science research suggests our bodies electrical rhythms begin to match those around us. Its a unique way to break the ice.
 
ok I watched a bit more Friends (bear with me)
I got up to the part where Ross marries or tries to marry Emily, then leaves Rachel going to his honeymoon destination. I am pretty sure you cant just swap tickets at the airport. Or can you do that?!

That has left me wondering if its possible to hang round airports and try to convince people to swap boarding passes and go somewhere else instead of where I am going.

Other than that, well yes, Ross said Rachel, it had to happen, but strange thing was, why was he marrying in the first place, and what happened to Ben?! What does Emily even do for a living. Do people do crazy things like that and just marry a foreigner and then go back to their own country and get their partner to leave everything behind.

I would have thought you married in the country you were intending to live in. Ok its a tv show it doesnt have to make any sense.
 
Emily and Ross get back together to try and work things out, but on one condition, that Ross stops seeing Rachel.

huh, I dont know if that comes up a lot when people marry they stop seeing their friends especially if they are ex-lovers I think if you value your marriage you would do it.

However, it is complicated by Ben his son from Ross previous relationship he just cant take him to London where emily is. She has to give up everything (her home, friends and family) to be with him in NY.

I do know so many who gave up EVERYTHING, friends, family and homeland to come to NZ and marry so its not a foreign concept, but the problem is when they come to nz they then start to realise its not as easy as they think it will be and start missing their life in their homeland.

I also know many that come with prospect of a new life and a fresh start only to find that nz isnt as welcoming or they get marooned here when their spouse decides to take off.
 
Im am going to start my silent reading next month...I put on FB for anyone to join and plus one of my friends says she will come with me...though she isnt much of a reader. I cant imagine what she will do if she doesnt read..sit and stare at everyone else? I hope not.
 
Chandler and Monica! Chandler and Monica!

Oh my eyes!

The backstory of Chandler is that when he was 12 his dad left him for their butler and become a drag queen, and his mother writes erotic novels.

He hates thanksgiving.

I dont know if that situations produces all the Chandlerisms, but when Ross and Rachel break up and its all awkward, he does a funny dance to distract everyone from their rotten feelings.

who even has a butler these days?!
 
Friends fans...what do you think of Janice (apparently a HUGE favourite with everyone, whenever she appeared the studio audience would go nuts, plus they had to keep it secret when she was going to appear)

do any of you know any real life Janices?

I reckon the writers based her characters on The Nanny played by Fran Drescher, which was also a favourite show of mine. Big hair, nasally voice, and flashy clothes.
 
ah Friends

now up to season 6, and Janice recently featured as an immediately recongnisable voice on Chandlers mixed tape (yes, a 90s thing...I have made a few) to Monica's chagrin

theres a fair amount of fat-shaming on this show, Monica USED to be fat. Then she lost weight and became...a skinny chef. Thats right.

Super skinny model Elle Macpherson was Joeys roomate and super blonde actress Reese Witherspoon was Rachels sister. Even Robin Williams got a spot on the show sitting in the cafe (totally stealing the scene with his adlib...which fell a bit flat for me actually)

Ross now has three divorces under his belt. He starts going out with his student (ew)
Phoebe nearly moves in with a cop, and her twin sister does porn. I never really got why all the characters were so enamoured with porn. Even the women were into it and just saw it as normal and they all talked about it and just thought it was funny, not exploitative or degrading. Is it a NYC thing or an american thing? Just an everyday thing for people??
 
well I did get to do my friends silent reading the other week
And my friend did read a book! we sat on the couches in the library and read for 45 minutes

but unfotuntaley now we are all in quarantine and cant do it till the library opens again...but even then we may have to sit two metres apart and wear masks lol
 
Ok now to season 7
Rachel turns 30, and then everyone reminisces about their 30th birthdays

I cant recall mine.
I do remember reaching 25 and wondering if I'd had my 'quarter-life crisis' early (no worries, had that at 16!)
But then I recall being genuinely afraid NOBODY would be alive in the 21st century because of all the pollution and wars.

I guess I wasnt even thinking of having plans back then since the world was going to blow up anyway. I suppose its different if you lived in NYC and your family came from Long Island (apparently a wealthy area) you would have totally different expectations.
 
some more friends observations

Obviously the show isnt christian, but if it was
Monica and Chandler wouldnt be together...or they wouldnt be sleeping together before they got married lol

Rachel wouldnt be working for Ralph Lauren. She might be working for a charity like Dress for Success or something.

Joey..would be a televangelist lol

Phoebe...she would be setting up a homeless soup kitchen and community garden on a rooftop in NYC. And she would be teaching sunday school to little ones with cute catchy Bible tunes on her guitar

Ross...would be a professor of divinity at the theological school.
 
Rachel gets pregnant, Ross thinks he has to marry her but Rachel doesnt want to marry him (they already married and divorced! )

Im like what. Rachel was the one who wanted to marry him when she was drunk and she wanted a child with him too (and was probably drunk at the time as well, they had wine) and Im thinking poor Ross he really gets hard done by this drunk gal.

?!
 
I found out that Matthew Perry (who plays Chandler) was addicted to heroin and alcohol for most of seasons 3-6 and he can barely remember it.

I am supposing with fast turn a round tv (filming every week for a 21 minute episode) and every actor having maybe at least 8 minutes screen time, but just having to say lines written by someone else, and being costumed by someone else and having their hair and makeup done, they didnt really have to do THAT much work.

ah the magic of tv. Monica (courntenay cox) didnt really have to cook on the show either. Cooking is a lot of work though in real life. On a film or tv set, they all have catering.
 
Wouldnt most chefs be exhausted when they got home and wouldnt really want to cook for all their friends as well? lol.

if it was set a decade later Monica would have gotten on Top Chef reality tv or Masterchef, beat out the competition and got herself a celeb cookbook deal and own tv cooking show. 'Monicas meals'
 
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