What happens when Boardsies start dying?

Xavi6

Yes I know it's a morbid thought and all that but it is going to happen one day.

The Boards.ie general populace would be considered quite young in the grand scheme of things due to the internet only really being readily accessible in the last 10 to 15 years. I'd say for the most part posters fall into the 20-40 year old bracket with some either side. So that means in roughly 2038-2048 the first lot of the group will naturally succumb to old age.

So what do we do? Will there be a day of mourning for each one? Boards could be ten or twenty times bigger by then so posters could be dropping like flies!

Anyway, just something to ponder over lunch this Friday.



P.S. I'm touching a lot of wood as I type this (I have another tab open with Slydice :cool:)

vodkadub

what are you on about..

chin_grin

What shirts? Thai Dye?

We become an hero and we either get put in to a box in the ground or in to a shiny urn.

thread to thread, post to post.

anniehoo

Xavi6 wrote: »

I'm touching a lot of wood as I type this

Ah god its too early in the mornin for that kinda carry on

AnonoBoy

Xavi6 wrote: »

I'm touching a lot of wood as I type this

Ugh. What a mental picture! :eek:

seamus

A number of people who use boards have already died.

To actually address your comment, you'll tend to see a natural recycling of members over the years. I imagine in 2040, the vast bulk of people around now probably won't be posting here (if here even exists) and they'll have been replaced by a younger generation.

To take a more grim thought, if the average age of boardsies is between 25 and 35, and the death rate for that age group is 1 per 1,000, then we will lose 188 people this year. To be more precise, of the 4,253 people online right now, we will lose at least 4 of them in the next 12 months.

Thanks for fucking up everyone's Friday, Xavi.

Pyr0

Well one or two Boardsies have past away in the last few years ! Usually you'd see a post in PI if it was a known and active member on boards.

Yeah Xavi6 - wrecking the buzz

brianthebard

fu.ck's sake. I say we ban xavi...no wait, take all his thanks away for this thread. Bastard.

Loopy

Its Friday ffs - no more talking of death... lets talk about sex or something:)

Pighead

looptheloop wrote: »

Its Friday ffs - no more talking of death... lets talk about sex or something:)

What about sex with dead people? Internet relationships are all about compromise.

Tigger

on another forum i post on when a member died their brother told us and many went to the funeral

brianthebard

looptheloop wrote: »

Its Friday ffs - no more talking of death... lets talk about sex or something:)

I could go for some sex now.

Roadend

looptheloop wrote: »

Its Friday ffs - no more talking of death... lets talk about sex or something:)

Let's talk about necrophillia, kill two birds with the one stone and all that

6th

Roadend wrote: »

Let's talk about necrophillia, kill two birds with the one stone and all that

3 posts above yours.

Roadend

I no read good

R0ot

Their children take over their trolling roles. :pac:

snyper JR, Winters JR think of the children!

Dinter

Xavi6 wrote: »

So what do we do? Will there be a day of mourning for each one? Boards could be ten or twenty times bigger by then so posters could be dropping like flies!

It'll be fine. We'll just get 6th to post on their behalf.

6th

Dinter wrote: »

It'll be fine. We'll just get 6th to post on their behalf.

I'll do my best. And when I die I will come back and possess one of the next generation.

stovelid

Xavi6 wrote: »

The Boards.ie general populace would be considered quite young in the grand scheme of things due to the internet only really being readily accessible in the last 10 to 15 years. I'd say for the most part posters fall into the 20-40 year old bracket with some either side. So that means in roughly 2038-2048 the first lot of the group will naturally succumb to old age.

To be honest, would anybody actually know? If somebody died suddenly, and their real-life and boards circles were not acquainted....

Agamemnon

seamus wrote: »

To be more precise, of the 4,253 people online right now, we will lose at least 4 of them in the next 12 months.

Well I'm not going to be one of them. Maybe if I kill four boardsies, the reaper's quota will be filled and he'll be satisfied.

/loads sniper rifle, consults List Of Enemies

6th

stovelid wrote: »

To be honest, would anybody actually know? If somebody died suddenly, and their real-life and boards circles were not acquainted....

Trust me when they are acquainted it can be a pain in the ass ... especially when tales of your demise are less than accurate!

brianthebard

6th wrote: »

I'll do my best. And when I die I will come back and possess one of the next generation.

Bizarrely, that is almost comforting. I must be sleep deprived or something.

Beruthiel

Xavi6
It's happened more than once already.

seamus wrote: »

To be more precise, of the 4,253 people online right now, we will lose at least 4 of them in the next 12 months.

That's a depressing thought!

Ass

If you are an active member on boards for the majority of your life, and you die of old age nobody will go to your funeral, because the odds are that you had no friends.

TomCo

In the public sector we call these weekdays.

mike65

Scenic911 died almost exactly a year back (cancer) so a thought for his family wouldn't go amiss this weekend.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57603554

Mike

Trev M

seamus wrote: »

A number of people who use boards have already died.

To actually address your comment, you'll tend to see a natural recycling of members over the years. I imagine in 2040, the vast bulk of people around now probably won't be posting here (if here even exists) and they'll have been replaced by a younger generation.

To take a more grim thought, if the average age of boardsies is between 25 and 35, and the death rate for that age group is 1 per 1,000, then we will lose 188 people this year. To be more precise, of the 4,253 people online right now, we will lose at least 4 of them in the next 12 months.

Thanks for fucking up everyone's Friday, Xavi.

I for one am startled by your statistics..... Im gonna go with teh asparagus salad for lunch today ..... thanks a million:rolleyes:

seamus

mike65 wrote: »

Scenic911 died almost exactly a year back (cancer) so a thought for his family wouldn't go amiss this weekend.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=57603554

Mike

It's really bizarre. For the past few years, someone always seem to start one of these threads as we approach the anniversary of someone's death.

mike65

Collective memory

Mike

Nichololas

They all post in the great big Feedback forum in the sky.

Nerin

Nerin never dies,only the users who play him.

There

this thread isn't as depressing anymore.

F*** YOU ALL! IM GONNA LIVE FOREVER!

WHO'S WITH ME!

Joeface

As Each board member dies , His/her strength and wit will divide up between the remaining members , and in the end there will be only one and he/she will be the most..........


Wait , thats highlander or Jet Li isnt it , damn mixing up reality and Film again.

Earthhorse

seamus wrote: »

To be more precise, of the 4,253 people online right now, we will lose at least 4 of them in the next 12 months.

Much as I love this place I think we should shut down; it's just not worth putting people's lives at risk.

Nerin

Joeface wrote: »

As Each board member dies , His/her strength and wit will divide up between the remaining members , and in the end there will be only one and he/she will be the most..........


Wait , thats highlander or Jet Li isnt it , damn mixing up reality and Film again.

Highlander was a documentary,and the events happened,in real life.

Xavi6

Beruthiel wrote: »

Xavi6
It's happened more than once already.

I know yeah. And there was an incident earlier today that got the thought in my head, hence the thread.

As well as scenic911, FranknFurter who was mod of Animal/Pet Issues has also sadly passed.

The_Minister

Tigger wrote: »

on another forum i post on when a member died their brother told us and many went to the funeral

You post on another forum??

Seriously though, we will and have lose/lost people. How many people just stop posting? Just one day vanish?
I haven't seen CuteSmileygirl in aaages, or a few other once prolific posters are now very, very silent. God knows how many are dead.

That being said, if a poster here is friends with another boardsie in real life, I think you'll find that they will let everyone know. I have at least three boardsies who will know that I am dead.

The_Minister

Deleted User wrote: »

There

this thread isn't as depressing anymore.

Thats a sad cat.

Deleted User wrote: »

F*** YOU ALL! IM GONNA LIVE FOREVER!

WHO'S WITH ME!

In an odd way you will. Probably some researcher in 100 years will use boards to look back at society today, and will read a post of yours.

It's up to you what that post says, and what aspect of you it conveys.

tech77

Earthhorse wrote: »

Much as I love this place I think we should shut down; it's just not worth putting people's lives at risk.

LMAO.
Brilliant.

Also, what's with all the fear and hatred of poor death.
Buncha life-loving pussies.

Turd Ferguson

When I go I expect a thread here in AH about how much of a cunt I was and how glad people are that I'm gone...anything less and I'll come back for vengance.

RATM

Heaven cant be that bloody great if they don't have the interweb up there:pac:

Paradise me arse:p

javaboy

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

When I go I expect a thread here in AH about how much of a cunt I was

Why wait?

The_Minister wrote:

In an odd way you will. Probably some researcher in 100 years will use boards to look back at society today, and will read a post of yours.

I hope they don't find the Thunderdome.

javaboy

RATM wrote: »

Heaven cant be that bloody great if they don't have the interweb up there:pac:

Paradise me arse:p

They do have the internet. They even have a heavenly discussion forum. I think it's called Cloud Boards.

Turd Ferguson

javaboy wrote: »

Why wait?

Yeah, why indeed.....*sigh*


/emo

Bob the Builder

RATM wrote: »

Heaven cant be that bloody great if they don't have the interweb up there:pac:

Paradise me arse:p

Heaven AKA China.

where propoganda and communism and people with big eyes "because they seen the light" come from.

Everyone knows that.

javaboy

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Yeah, why indeed.....*sigh*


/emo

Turd Ferguson
R.I.P.
2005-2008

"He got his name from SNL"

Turd Ferguson

*contemplates setting up a second account and never posting on this one again*

Crash

Seamus wrote:

It's really bizarre. For the past few years, someone always seem to start one of these threads as we approach the anniversary of someone's death.

Aye. Sure when I was banned from AH a couple of years back it was because of one of these threads, very irreverently phrased, just at a mates (who was a boardsie) anniversary.

Oh and i called some dickhead a dickhead. What a dickhead. think that was part of the reason too.

RATM

RATM wrote: »

Heaven cant be that bloody great if they don't have the interweb up there:pac:

Paradise me arse:p

dont worry - NASA have it sorted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7741184.stm

a few more years and those medium peoples will be out of business I bet a 20mb connection will beat the ould ouija board hands down
why bother with a dark room seance with candles when you can instant message

Black Swan

wake?