# Need Activities
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-activities/13695
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 12, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-activities/13695 "2000-02-12T21:05:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@BigRoryG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRoryG)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-activities/13695/1 "2000-02-13T06:15:00Z")
As we have explored in the Nice Guys thread, i have a rather low self confidence.
All my friends who I can just hang out with are busy this weekend, and I wanna call up some of my less familiar acquiantances, but i would like to have an activity to suggest.
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### Author:  [@BigRoryG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigRoryG)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-activities/13695/2 "2000-02-13T06:16:00Z")
Oops.
Any thoughts?
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2000, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-activities/13695/3 "2000-02-12T21:05:00Z")
Need more info here – where do you live, what’s the weather like, what do you like to do?
But don’t take it personally if nobody bites on your suggestions. Especially if you’re calling “acquaintances”, and most especially if you’re calling at the last minute.
Lots of us folks who don’t leave the house regularly (except for work) need more advance notice – if someone asked me to go out and play pool tonight, I’d need to (1) do some laundry so I’d having something to wear, (2) get in the shower, which I normally skip on Saturday, and (3) either stint on my usual Saturday chores or plan on doubling up on Sunday.
But just to give you an easy, no pressure suggestion, I’d call more than one person and invite them over for pizza and movies.
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### Author:  [@tbea925](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tbea925)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-activities/13695/4 "2000-02-12T22:00:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by AuntiePam:
> **But just to give you an easy, no pressure suggestion, I’d call more than one person and invite them over for pizza and movies.**
## I would suggest Monty Python and the Holy Grail. There are still some MPATHG virgins out there.
This sig not Y2K compliant. Happy 1900.
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-activities/13695/5 "2000-02-12T22:17:00Z")
I don’t know that I’d **want** to spend time with anyone who hadn’t seen that movie. 🙂