Have you changed much since you first started posting here?

The boobs have dropped half an inch

Been here 2 years.

Haven't changed a bit.

I'm wasting my life.

When I first joined boards I thought I knew everything. . . . . . .

Yes. I have completely lost my libido

But I have still managed to retain some of my old degeneracies, though they may be inherent

My jocks, every day, swear ta god.

I was 20, I'm now 24 (going on 25). I've gone through an absolute fúck-load in those intervening years. Some good, some bad, some funny, some sad. But it's all been an experience, if nothing else.

The old adage rings true: older and wiser. Add to that, more cynical and a shade less optimistic, but more realistic.

I enjoy posting on boards. But it got me into trouble in the past. Ruined my friendship with a few people when they discovered the vitriol I'd posted in anger. That was an... "interesting" conversation (confrontation, moreso, maybe???), shall we say. Do I regret that? Yes. I do. Deeply. I was angry at the time. It's the reason, not the excuse. In my defence about that, none of what I wrote about events (not my personal feelings) was fabricated. Everything that I wrote about happening; it all did happen. And it made my blood boil at the time.

But I look back on some of those posts now, and I'm shocked. Some of them were utterly and absolutely vicious. Some of them were pure, uncalled-for, fulminating rage. I am a helluva lot less angry these days than I was even merely a year ago.

I still swear a lot; here and in real life. Part of my make-up at this stage. But the beauty of it is, I can turn it on and off like a tap, when I want to. I just refuse to as I find it somewhat theraputic. I'd have had a stroke by now if I couldn't swear!

In the past 5 years, I've been through college, 3 different living arrangements, 3 cars, been to America twice, been to England countless times, saw so many live bands, was victim of an armed robbery, changed jobs several times, experienced glory and pain in the sporting world, lost friends, gained new friends, became a godfather, won a lotto (not THE Lotto, regrettably), wrote (an unpublished) novel, wrote (an un-optioned) screenplay, lost my grandmother, ran my own poker game, met with triumph and disaster and treated both those imposters the same... and god knows what else. The one constant was my endless posting and arguing on here, on boards.ie.

And that's the way it is, at 02:28 on Saturday, March 2nd, 2013. Goodnight, good morning and good luck.

DrumSteve wrote: »

Ive been here a while and if there is one thing ive learned is that AH is completely meaningless. I dont generally make too many meaningfull posts, as there is no point.

Was that one?

I went years without getting an infraction, now it seems to be every second week, as soon as a ban from one forum is lifted, i get banned from another.. Shur I'm only tryin to have the craic

Yes, I seem to be posting in the Non Drinkers Group these days, how did that happen

Yes, hugely. I wasn't a Christian when I started posting here.