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What is the nerdiest and coolest thing you've seen on Boards?

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  • 29-12-2007 1:16pm
    #1
    faceman
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    Was talkin to a mate about this the other day, the way society has changed so much and its ok to say you like Star Wars, that you post on the internet and you like comic books (that get made into cool films) Therefore what was nerdy 15 years ago, is longer nerdy now.

    So it got us thinking, what is nerdiest thing you have seen on boards.ie? A particular forum or thread or post? Answers like "the whole of the "x" forum wont wash as per my first paragraph. To me, it has to be this thread:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054996000

    I like transformers but even this one made me go, whoa there ted!!!

    Then the flip side, what is the coolest thing? Obviously SSF etc is cool, but im more referring to a thread or post. What do you think? I always thought the "Boner Wednesday" thread in BGRH was pretty cool, although i dont know if it can count is being cool?


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    #2
    kaki
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    For me, nerdiest and coolest are interchangeable, so my joint nomination is

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055154306&highlight=time+travel


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    User45701
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    faceman wrote: »
    Was talkin to a mate about this the other day, the way society has changed so much and its ok to say you like Star Wars, that you post on the internet and you like comic books (that get made into cool films) Therefore what was nerdy 15 years ago, is longer nerdy now.

    ye, its funny how many people where wrong about that one, some peoples minds are so... i dont know what word to describe them, allot of people are very sheapish though but thats not a good word to describe this.

    The nerdiest and coolest thing for me was probably those old style groups that where an extension of outlook, where you used to have to download episodes in like 40 segments because all we had then if you where lucky was a 33k maybe 56k but with eircom it would

    it would never go that fast.

    EDIT: Actually a year or so ago i sa wa very funny picture of someone dressed up in a orginal cylon outfit, standing at the side of the road with a cardboard sign that read "Replaced by CGI please help"


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    Terry
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    I think the coolest and nerdiest thing I have seen here was when Anti and a couple of others built a working PC and encased it in cardboard.


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    User45701
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    actually i did see a pc with no case once, all the difference parts where attached to the underside of a desk so you could not even see the pc, i dont know much about tech but one would assume it would be prone to dust or hitting your kneww off your exposed motherbord or something


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    Sparky
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    Terry wrote: »
    I think the coolest and nerdiest thing I have seen here was when Anti and a couple of others built a working PC and encased it in cardboard.


    W0000t

    \o/

    All hail the amazing computer case (with added garda strobe)

    http://sparky-s.ie/host/files/6xgqu0cny6jmmvvh6g2k.jpg

    http://sparky-s.ie/host/files/67m3rvzfct4v5oz49ft2.jpg


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    longshanks
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    the nerdiest thing is people listing the spec of their computers in their signature. and there is nothing cool here if we're all honest about it.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Someone thread where they were talking about burning DVD's and someone suggested using a toaster.
    Then someone else posted a link to a toaster that had a DVD writer in it.


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    eroo
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    its ok to say you like Star Wars, that you post on the internet and you like comic books

    it is?:p

    Tbh,I haven't seen anything that would set my world on fire!So,someone post up something!:)


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    Jimbo
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    This sounds like a hoot:cool:


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    #11
    Creamy Goodness
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    thanks to boards i remember seeing one of these...

    http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/igrill.shtml

    what's great though is the description.

    Running late at work? Need to get dinner on the table? It is easy to warm up the iGrill from any internet connection. With a little advance planning, your meal can be ready when you get home!


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    AlmightyCushion
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    The nerdiest probably has to be that thread on the events forum where everyone started speaking in binary. It eventually moved on to hex and octal as well. Everyone was using an on-line translator apart from one person who was doing it themselves (or so she claimed). She thought we were all fluent in binary. 'Twas pretty funny.

    Here's the thread.

    Much thanks to feylya for starting the binary thing off.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54047862&postcount=135


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    Aisling(",)
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    The nerdiest probably has to be that thread on the events forum where everyone started speaking in binary. It eventually moved on to hex and octal as well. Everyone was using an on-line translator apart from one person who was doing it themselves (or so she claimed). She thought we were all fluent in binary. 'Twas pretty funny.

    Here's the thread.

    Much thanks to feylya for starting the binary thing off.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54047862&postcount=135

    whats binary?:confused:


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    feylya
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    The nerdiest probably has to be that thread on the events forum where everyone started speaking in binary. It eventually moved on to hex and octal as well. Everyone was using an on-line translator apart from one person who was doing it themselves (or so she claimed). She thought we were all fluent in binary. 'Twas pretty funny.

    Here's the thread.

    Much thanks to feylya for starting the binary thing off.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54047862&postcount=135

    It gets even better when you realise what time I posted it at :D


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    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    The ` [post Your Favourite Non-alphanumeric Character Here} thread in tCN.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    feylya wrote: »
    It gets even better when you realise what time I posted it at :D

    1am isn't that bad. It wasn't a Saturday night either.


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    feylya
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    1am isn't that bad. It wasn't a Saturday night either.

    I meant that time was in binary... 0100 :D


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    AlmightyCushion
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    feylya wrote: »
    I meant that time was in binary... 0100 :D

    I didn't even notice that. I wish I hadn't taken a mouthful of tea before reading that post. It ended up all over my laptop. Ah well, at least it will cover some of the semen stains.


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    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    The nerdiest probably has to be that thread on the events forum where everyone started speaking in binary. It eventually moved on to hex and octal as well. Everyone was using an on-line translator apart from one person who was doing it themselves (or so she claimed). She thought we were all fluent in binary. 'Twas pretty funny.

    Here's the thread.

    Much thanks to feylya for starting the binary thing off.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54047862&postcount=135

    01101100 01101111 01101100


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,558 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    Karl Hungus wrote: »
    01101100 01101111 01101100
    01101111 01101101 01100111 00100000 01110011 01100001 01100100


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    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Cremo wrote: »
    01101111 01101101 01100111 00100000 01110011 01100001 01100100

    01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101


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    #22
    Creamy Goodness
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    low blow man, low blow :p


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    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Cremo wrote: »
    low blow man, low blow :p

    00111010 01110010 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100101 01111001 01100101 01110011 00111010


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    #24
    Jesus Wept
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    01111001011011110111001001100101001000000110110101100001

    That's a low blow.


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    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    01111001011011110111001001100101001000000110110101100001

    That's a low blow.

    01100111 01110010 01101111 01100001 01101110


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    #26
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,558 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110011 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011
    01100001 01101001 01100100


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    Jesus Wept
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    Karl Hungus wrote: »
    01100111 01110010 01101111 01100001 01101110

    01010100011010000110000101110100001001110111001100100000011101110110100001100001011101000010000001110011011010000110010100100000011100110110000101101001011001000010111000001101000010100000110100001010001110100110010101101101011000100110000101110010011100100110000101110011011100110110110101100101011011100111010000001101000010100000110100001010010001010110010001101001011101000011101000100000010001100110111101101001011011000110010101100100001000000110001001111001001000000100001101110010011001010110110101101111


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    Karl Hungus
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    01101000 01101111 01110111 00100000 01101100 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01110011 00100000 01110101 01110000 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01100001 01101100 01110100 00100000 01100001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01110011 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01110111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00111111


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    #29
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    011011100110111101110100001000000110110001101111011011100110011100100000011001010110111001101111011101010110011101101000


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    #30
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
    11001100110000001100111111100111111110001111
    11001100110011111100111111100111111101110111
    11000000110000001100111111100111111101110111
    11001100110011111100111111100111111101110111
    11001100110000001100000011100000001110001111
    11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

    Can I play too :rolleyes:


    <Eyes are killing me now....Wasn't even worth it but I'm posting it because I did it :P>

    🤪



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    #31
    Karl Hungus
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    The-Rigger wrote: »
    011011100110111101110100001000000110110001101111011011100110011100100000011001010110111001101111011101010110011101101000

    01110101 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100001 01100011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100100 00100000 01100100 01100001 01101101 01101110 01101001 01110100 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110101 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110000 01100001 01100111 01100101 00100001


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