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Group fitness classes at some gyms have a stable cohort that you’ll bond with over time.

• badpun 7y ago
  We need a different word than "friends" for such bonds though... Someone who does not know your birthday is not a friend.
  • dominotw 7y ago
    acquaintance ?
  • village-idiot 7y ago
    Repeated interaction is a necessary first step to friendship, you cannot befriend someone you don’t see. My gym buddies are now my friends, and we see each other regularly outside of the gym context. Also, most of my friends don’t know when my birthday is, so that’s a bad metric imho. Birthdays are not universally important across the population.
    • sirsar 7y ago
      I read a metric on a different thread recently: good friends help you move.
  • mlevental 7y ago
    lol wut. I have friends now of several decades who I see regularly (make effort to visit cross country) none of whose birthdays I know or who know mine.
  • reificator 7y ago
    > Someone who does not know your birthday is not a friend. You and I have very different ideas of what is important in life and friendship.