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22-03-2009 5:32pm

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xOxSinéadxOx

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Why is it not funny anymore?

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#2 22-03-2009 5:34pm
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your **** if you don't like it go somewhere else. i think its grand

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#3 22-03-2009 5:35pm
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Not sure. I'm guessing it's something recession related.

Could also have to do with your sense of humor. Personally, since the "yore ma" posts started disappearing, i've thought AH has been better than ever.

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#4 22-03-2009 5:38pm
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Cos there's mods.

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#5 22-03-2009 5:39pm
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<insert lame joke here in attempt to get as many thanks as possible>

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#6 22-03-2009 5:39pm
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Deleted User wrote: »

Not sure. I'm guessing it's something recession related.

Could also have to do with your sense of humor. Personally, since the "yore ma" posts started disappearing, i've thought AH has been better than ever.

Are you not allowed to say t"Yore MA" here anymore?

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#7 22-03-2009 5:40pm
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xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

Why did you not start a thread about something that is funny instead of moaning

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#8 22-03-2009 5:40pm
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Cos since this whole recession started, any thread started here has one mandatory recession/anti-fianna fail-joke post where the poster thinks they are being funny and creative but they aren't..they're just beating a dead horse

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#9 22-03-2009 5:45pm
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*Simpsons quote goes here*

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#10 22-03-2009 5:51pm
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I blame the advent of professional blogging. It's taken all the best online yappers away and destroyed the once amateur spirit of mindlessly posting sh1te on the net for the world to read.

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#11 22-03-2009 5:54pm
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We need to mindlessly post more internet memes

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#12 22-03-2009 5:55pm
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Either you've become desynthesized or you are losing your sense of humour!

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#13 22-03-2009 6:05pm
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Wagon wrote: »

Cos there's mods.

But there are also rockers.

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#14 22-03-2009 6:07pm
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Karl Hungus wrote: »

But there are also rockers.

That caused me look at the Quadrophenia poster on my wall affectionately Thanks Karl Hungus!

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#15 22-03-2009 6:07pm
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Get pissed, it's always funny then.:D

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#16 22-03-2009 6:13pm
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galwayrush wrote: »

Get pissed, it's always funny then.:D

It helps when you see the words with double vision :P

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#17 22-03-2009 6:14pm
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Saibh wrote: »

It helps when you see the words with double vision :P

Ohh, love that, and when you have to edit your post 5 times to get the basic spellings right, fantastic.:cool:

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#18 22-03-2009 6:16pm
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Too many thanks-whores tbh

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#19 22-03-2009 6:18pm
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jester77 wrote: »

Either you've become desynthesized or you are losing your sense of humour!

He's become less combined?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/synthesize

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#20 22-03-2009 6:20pm
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xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

AH is the sum of it's users, including you. If it's shit, you need to take more responsibility and start being more funny.

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#21 22-03-2009 6:26pm
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I heard from a friend that all the mods on all forums were told to clean the place up, cos the owners don't want to upset the companies buying advert space.

Don't belive that for a second meself.

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#22 22-03-2009 6:33pm
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Buzz Killington wrote: »

I heard from a friend that all the mods on all forums were told to clean the place up, cos the owners don't want to upset the companies buying advert space.

Don't belive that for a second meself.

If Carlsberg did Boards, they would probably be the best boards in the world, but they wouldn't be advertising Heineken.

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#23 22-03-2009 6:43pm
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Buzz Killington wrote: »

I heard from a friend that all the mods on all forums were told to clean the place up, cos the owners don't want to upset the companies buying advert space.

Don't belive that for a second meself.

Why, is Max Clifford advertising here?:rolleyes:

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#24 22-03-2009 6:45pm
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xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

Why is it not funny anymore?

Because you're a woman and you've no sense of humour.

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#25 22-03-2009 6:45pm
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galwayrush wrote: »

Why, is Max Clifford advertising here?:rolleyes:

I believe he has a vacancy...

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#26 22-03-2009 6:58pm
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We need more Toilet Threads, ever since these were curtailed, the auld good humour and bonhomie usually prevalent around AH went due West.

Too many politically correct whankers took umbrage and the buttoned down brigade won the day.

Nothin' beats a good auld "bad toilet experience" to get the chuckles going, let's face it we all have had one of those.

Not that I'm complaining though, I have permission for a TT every two months, but regret cannot broadcast my very bad experience in Tuffloo at the bottom of Dawson St. today.

The auld spontaneity is gone, it's all PC now, mores the pity.

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#27 22-03-2009 7:03pm
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FlutterinBantam wrote: »

We need more Toilet Threads, ever since these were curtailed, the auld good humour and bonhomie usually prevalent around AH went due West.

Too many politically correct whankers took umbrage and the buttoned down brigade won the day.

Nothin' beats a good auld "bad toilet experience" to get the chuckles going, let's face it we all have had one of those.

Not that I'm complaining though, I have permission for a TT every two months, but regret cannot broadcast my very bad experience in Tuffloo at the bottom of Dawson St. today.

The auld spontaneity is gone, it's all PC now, mores the pity.

They were crap.

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#28 22-03-2009 7:04pm
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Fago_25 wrote: »

Are you not allowed to say t"Yore MA" here anymore?

Dunno if they're banned or anything, but they don't appear as much, so that's a good thing.

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#29 22-03-2009 7:04pm
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FlutterinBantam wrote: »

The auld spontaneity is gone, it's all PC now, mores the pity.

The **** it is! Give me three minutes....

Done. Probably by locked insite five minutes, but hey - I tried!

Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.

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#30 22-03-2009 7:07pm
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After Hours Is ****?

I think it's more of a 4.5 stars out of 5.

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#31 22-03-2009 7:10pm
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Good point OP, I couldn't agree more, AH has definitely gone to the dogs.

For a while I thought this was down to it being too heavily moderated. Take today's Jade Goody debacle for instance. The thing was a f*cking mess and a mod had to step in to sort it all out with bans, infractions and deleting of posts. All very school teacher type punishments but they are the only tools of the trade here on boards.

However at the same time, take a look at the same topic on B3ta (http://www.b3ta.com/links/293855 NSFW: Language). This is a site often compared to 4chan for its sick and twisted humour and is run by non other than Rob Manuel, the founder of Sickipedia. Sure a lot of people took swipes at Goody but there's enough cop on amongst the users to show some respect for the dead. I've been a member there for 3 years and in my opinion it is a much friendlier place to post than AH (this even being a place where two members can verbally abuse eachother without retribution). Even now, I'm wondering will this post get deleted but such is the schoolboy/teacher relationship which exists between normal users and mods.

But if it isn't moderators spoiling the party then what is it? Would it be daft to suggest a stricter policy is being applied from the top down. Well that could be a stretch and maybe one for the tinfoil hat brigade of the conspiracy theories forum.

Well ok if that takes the mods and owners out of the equation, what's left? Please don't say the recession. F*ck the recession. Yes times are tougher now but none of us are starving on the street because of it. So you might have to wait another 6 months until you get a new laptop, boo hoo I say.

So Boardsies I put it to you, yes you, you are the reason why AH is a mere shadow of it's former self! There is a massive community of people in this forum but nothing good comes of it, nothing! Any serious discussion is swiftly moved to it's correct forum, far away from the sharp edged dunce caps of the AH dumbies. Let's face it, this is the butthole of Boards, a collective of foggy notioned know-it-alls and half-arsed wanna be's, lolling and trolling with one hand on the mouse, the other scratching their arse.

But I say no more! If this forum is going to pick up again it needs some fresh content. We've all been guilty of the crap threads, no pun intended. But AH cannot carry on in this way with such gutter postings. It's repetitive and boring, repetetive and boring, repetetive and ...

Well I'm going to do my bit. No more recession threads. No more toilet threads. No more Polish are racists threads. Just no more dumb crap that I'd otherwise read in yesterdays freshly greased tabloids.

Rant over. Delete me, lock me, mock me... whatever. But I'll be back with, I hope, some threads to make this a better place in future because without good content this place is, like me... finished.

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