How did you end up joining boards?

beertons

What happened? Apart from the obvious, what was the reason behind it?

Me? I wanted to break up with a girlfriend. I signed up, spent alot less time with her and thinking about her. Broke up anyway, and stayed here.

Who's next?

Leprachaun

I was looking for somewhere to steal members from for TeenIreland. After I shut it down I guess I just ended up here. :pac:

AnonoBoy

beertons wrote: »

What happened? Apart from the obvious, what was the reason behind it?

Me? I wanted to break up with a girlfriend. I signed up, spent alot less time with her and thinking about her. Broke up anyway, and stayed here.

Who's next?

That makes no sense. You joined boards to break up with a girlfriend? Why? How did that help? Was she a member and you sent her a private message to say "Oi! Sling yer hook luv!"?

I joined Boards to read a recurring 'How did you end up joining Boards' thread. And guess what? Here it is again!

Gummy Panda

I signed up to complain about broadband, then found AH and stayed so i could complain about everything else

Professey Chin

I spent months lurking in AH as a guest.
Then realised hey I can contribute good stuff, in the end I only half suceeded

IvySlayer

With a gun held to my face.

Professey Chin

IvySlayer wrote: »

With a gun held to my face.

The howd you see the keyboard?

Mr Benevolent

Was something to do with Airsoft. I then realised that Airsoft is the equivalent of paying to have stones thrown at you.

My main haunts are Motors, Aviation, AH and PI (for the hilariousness).

truecrippler

Conscription.

Sephiroth_dude

I was looking for a discussion on a game and I came across the game section and realised it was an irish forum and joined up

Conor108

They gave me two options - Stay in prison or join Boards....

Mr. Frost

Think I was board (hardy-har-har) and just signed up and replied to a few threads for something to do while I'd a lot of time off!

Spear

I signed up to help co-ordinate Al Qaeda communications through PM's. Check the join date.

Turd Ferguson

I joined initially to try and get a band together and then just forgot about it for a few years. Then I got a job where I was infront of a computer all day and my need to f*ck with people led me right back here.

Biggins

Spear wrote: »

I signed up to help co-ordinate Al Qaeda communications through PM's. Check the join date.

Wot! You too? :eek:

Now, where's me boran... sorry, I mean Koran!

smileysurfer

Joined to pass the time at work!! PI does the trick!!

stovelid

I was offered a retainer from the admins to pose as a community member.

Our name is legion.

BlackWizard

I signed up to ask how to get my downloaded game that I got off napster working.

It wasn't a game

Abi

Was painfully bored. And probably under an influence or two. I log back in for the same reasons, generally.

Saruman

Before broadband, when we were limited to Dial up I heard of a one way satellite service called Europe Online. Boards.ie had a lot to say on the matter so I joined and never looked back.

Oh for those interested, Europe online was a service where you put a DVB card in your PC. You would then go online and you could put download links on your account on their site and schedule it. The downloads would be pushed down at a very fast rate at the scheduled time.

There was a sort of underground system that used it too. You used the 3rd party software to make your requests and anyone else interested in that sort of download would have it pushed down too. I could pick movies and games and when I came home I might have 20gigs or more of stuff to filter through. I used to get a lot of porn but I always got movies and games that way, I would have movies I would have never thought to download myself.
Great system but broadband made it obsolete.

They are still around but the service is different than what I used to have.

Overheal

My Landlady was a bitch and throttling our internet so I couldnt use Skype to call the US (or play games. mostly the games) so I got on Legal Discussion to discuss the bit in my apartment's advertising about "Unlimited Broadband".

donmeister

I was here for a good while mostly on the Leaving forum to see whats coming up in the mocks etc etc but then realised there was so much more! :rolleyes:

Toots

I joined up to post something in the Tattoos & Piercings forum, then I ended up staying

liah

A online gaming friend told me about it just before I moved to Ireland, said if I had any questions I should come here. Ended up sticking around.

biko

Came for the porn, stayed for the abuse

Aodan83

Someone showed me a thread one day. Bored a few days later and thought I'd give it a look. Decided to join up coz I wanted to post something. Then left it for ages. Then I had like 2 months free and spent a lot of it on the internet, which lead back here.

V9

I believe someone pointed me this way on one of the IGN servers for TFC back in the day.

banshee_bones

A google search has lead me here on more than one occasion. So i checked it out, was a long time lurker and then just signed up. Love AH, TCN & TLL! :pac:

sam34

i googled my home town and found a thread from boards on it

Boom_Bap

i was a lurker for a long time, then i found out about boards and kurked there for a while too, a mate in work lead me to it.
was reading the hip hop threads and signed up to stick my oar in on some nonsence or other that people where talking about.

Abi

banshee_bones wrote: »

A google search has lead me here on more than one occasion. So i checked it out

It gets annoying after a while.

Search: ways to commit suicide?
<boards.ie = 50 results PI / AH / TCN / GAMBLING>

Search: No job. Needz teh moneh fast!

<boards.ie= 1000 results. Mainly AH /GAMBLING. Oh and TCN>

banshee_bones

Abigayle wrote: »

It gets annoying after a while.

Search: ways to commit suicide?
<boards.ie = 50 results PI / AH / TCN / GAMBLING>

Search: No job. Needz teh moneh fast!

<boards.ie= 1000 results. Mainly AH /GAMBLING. Oh and TCN>

ha ha yeah it does doesnt it! :pac:

Ginny

Through another forum...

Creamy Goodness

think CuLT got me to sign up, we played CS and he mentioned it.

bitemybanger

I searched Google for sad gits and the first thing to pop up was after hours:pac::pac:;)

Mushy

Leprachaun wrote: »

I was looking for somewhere to steal members from for TeenIreland. After I shut it down I guess I just ended up here. :pac:

So its your fault I'm here?:D

When I originally signed up, I barely posted, until the name re-appeared in the papers about the site-wide topic of gigs(main interest at the time). So came on more often then, and found Leaving Cert, and so on and so forth.

Dord

Someone kept linking me to funny threads on boards, and then I finally said I might as well join.

MIN2511

Jamieh made me sign up... said twas a cool way to pass time in work and he was telling the truth!

bitter lemon

Guy im my work told me about it. Read it every now and then but not much. One of hundreds of vBulletin site I browse occasionally.

Riddle101

My sister introduced me to it and I gradually drifted into it

DenMan

I was looking at Heavy Metal festivals coming up. I got Irish results back and came in here and read the thread. Got me hooked and signed up after reading it. Bloody hell!!! Can't believe that was in June. Only seems like a few months ago.

Blush_01

An ex-housemate showed me a thread in creative writing, I took a peek around, found UCD and stayed there for about a year and a half before looking any further.

admiralofthefleet

my brother recommended it

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Pedobear offered me some sweets to come in.

joes girls

was told about it in work there was alot of stuff on it about the company i work for.......now im addicted......loves it ....my second home.....:):D:)

IRISH RAIL

long time plan of the Mossad where I posed as a typical irish railway worker while secretly planning the undermining identification and tracking of anti semites/hamas lovers etc. dirty work but has to be done.

giggsy664

The coke iTunes thread in Bargain Alerts.

Thank you Ricky91t

_blank_

I signed up to troll a college friend.

That lasted all of five minutes, and now I'm stuck here.

K-9

joes girls wrote: »

was told about it in work there was alot of stuff on it about the company i work for.......now im addicted......loves it ....my second home.....:):D:)

I know who you work for. I'm the tall short, dark albino, handsome Mr. Burns fella in the car park. Boards and stalking FTW.

I'm paid by the EU to post on Politics, the European Union and Conspiracy theory forum.

Also helped when I Googled BBC codes for Sky and found Boards.

Blazer

I signed up for the comp+tech to help people out with pc problems.
Then found the livercnts in the soccer forum and decided it was way more fun to wind them up

Git101

Found boards after a google search for the Dublin Marathon. Got some brilliant advice on the marathon/triathlon forum. Have been hooked on boards ever since.