Do you know any other boardsies IRL?

c_man

I'm wondering how many of y'all know other boardsies in the real world ( :eek: ). If so, do you know them from Beers or what?

I don't know any of ye, yet it's kinda weird that I spend so much time here yet could walk right past any of you guys in the street.

The Backwards Man

I don't know any either Ronan.

SafeSurfer

c_man wrote: »

I'm wondering how many of y'all know other boardsies in the real world ( :eek: ). If so, do you know them from Beers or what?

I don't know any of ye, yet it's kinda weird that I spend so much time here yet could walk right past any of you guys in the street.

No

herisson

Yeah i know a few.

Stheno

:Yeah, a few

toastedpickles

I know a few, go to college with one or two, one lives up the road from me, we are the silent community that only we know we're a part of :cool:

Shakespeare's Sister

Yeh, but only through Boards - I can't think of any boardsies I knew before finding out they were on Boards. Well one or two, but they wouldn't be regular posters - they just have a Boards account.
I've met Boardsies in real life at beers or else I haven't met them but know their real-life identity through Facebook, email, WhatsApp. Quite a lot of them actually.
Not in contact any more with most of the ones I know in either capacity.

smash

I know a good few from beers n stuff

c_man

toastedpickles wrote: »

I know a few, go to college with one or two, one lives up the road from me, we are the silent community that only we know we're a part of :cool:

The Special Criminal Court was brought in for that kinda craic man.

kowloon

I've met a few, a few people also know my username from nosing while I was logged in.

antodeco

Feck no! Why would I want to know nerdy virgins?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

antodeco wrote: »

Feck no! Why would I want to know nerdy virgins?

Yeah... virgins... pffff....

smash

antodeco wrote: »

Feck no! Why would I want to know nerdy virgins?

Cos you'd have a lot in common...

antodeco

I also think they all have cooties.

Lucifer MorningStar

antodeco wrote: »

Feck no! Why would I want to know nerdy virgins?

Do you not like young women who haven't had sex yet ?

toastedpickles

c_man wrote: »

The Special Criminal Court was brought in for that kinda craic man.

Oh crap! I know nothing!!

antodeco

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

Do you not like young women who haven't had sex yet ?

The problem is that they don't like me :-(

The Backwards Man

I love when some eejit down the pub tries to explain boards.ie to me like someone explaining quantum physics to a bull calf, and I just sit there with a stupid vacant look on my face, all the while trying to figure their username.

antodeco

Ha, I just copped IRL means In Real life. Thought it was short for Ireland. Was very confused!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

antodeco wrote: »

Ha, I just copped IRL means In Real life. Thought it was short for Ireland. Was very confused!

Inland Revenue Listening.

Banjo String

Only the one i shared a cell with in the joy.

'she' had a big schlong.

Sunnyisland

I met one, lovely it was.

raze_them_all_

Yeah know a **** ton of ye, did the no pants dance with a few too, but virtually everyone on boards knows another member irl

Tar.Aldarion

Yeah a few hundred.

Links234

Yup! Met my significant other through boards and all

miss no stars

I've met a few

Does knowing my bf's username count as really knowing a boardsie very well? :P

Tail Docker

Banjo String wrote: »

Only the one i shared a cell with in the joy.

'she' had a big schlong.

Ahhh right. Mr Snooty pants is it. Grrraaannnnddddd. :pac:

Its Only Ray Parlour

I know of one because he has his Skype account attached to his Boards account and his personal name is his Skype name. I've never talked to the guy, he hangs around a bunch of nerds.

takamichinoku

I only know one active poster here but because Ireland's Ireland, I honestly expect to find out I know at least a few more and have mutual friends with damn near everyone. The ones from Longford are probably somehow related to me too, cos Longford's Longford.

rainbow kirby

I've met plenty, and am engaged to one

c_man

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I've met plenty, and am engaged to one

I expect to be invited to the wedding thread.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I've met plenty, and am engaged to one

Y'WHA....?????? :eek: News to me....

Novella

I know quite a few. Haven't been to a beers in a pretty long time but still have some great friends from this site.

banquo

No.

Zaph

Know quite a few and married to a Boardsie.

Ihatecuddles

I know a few dozen. About 15 came to my wedding and one was a bridesmaid

The first time I met 2 boardsies, they came to stay with me for the weekend.

That could have ended in murder! but it didn't and now they're really good friends.

I've met many boardsies.
Some of them I met only once or twice, others are people I became friends/acquaintances with; most of these I'm not longer in contact with (some by choice, others by circumstance) but I still have a few boardsies on my FB friends list.
Even went out with a boardsie for a while (they fall into the "no longer in contact with by choice" category! :pac: )
I might meet more in the future, though I'd feel very awkward meeting (or re-meeting) people who knew me under a previous pseudonym.

Some of my best friends are boardsies. Just home from boozing with one (minus the booze for me ). Going to see two more tomorrow and another Saturday. Then next weekend going to electric picnic with five of the fcukers

I was at EP a few years back, met a guy who was buddies with a friend of a friend, hanging around with them and I kind of tripped over (turned out my leg was broken but that's a different story), and the guy says "whoopsadaisydoodles" my heart stopped for a second. Turned out he was a boardsie who started using my username in real life :pac:

He's one of my bessies now!

El Weirdo

I know at least 3 boardsies in real life. Only 1 of them really posts regularly though.

I also made a Facebook friend through Boards if that counts. I only add people that I'd be happy to sit and have a pint with though, so I hope she realises what an exclusive club I let her join. :pac:

policarp

c_man wrote: »

I'm wondering how many of y'all know other boardsies in the real world ( :eek: ). If so, do you know them from Beers or what?

I don't know any of ye, yet it's kinda weird that I spend so much time here yet could walk right past any of you guys in the street.

Why do you want to know?
I'm here on my laptop and I love the banter.
But to meet someone I would be shy.
Love beer though. . .

_Whimsical_

I know a few who don't know that I know they're on boards at all...which keeps it interesting. It can be a surprising portal into other peoples unedited thoughts on different issues.

No doubt someone has identified me too though,that's a less fun thought.

AlanS181824

I know 1 person who I'm in school with.

But there's others I've never met but would still consider friends.

Shakespeare's Sister

I closed my account because two guys at work (both boardsies) spotted who I was logged in as. :pac:
One of them still posts and would be relatively well known on AH - although hasn't posted in a while. The other rarely posts and wouldn't be known.

After I closed my account, someone said on one of those "People who have closed their accounts" threads that he didn't know me/I didn't know him but he spotted me around the place as he lives nearby and knows people I know (recognised me from the one time I put a photo up). Freaked the fuq out of me. :eek:
Never worked out who he is. He has closed his account since too.

House of Blaze

I don't know anyone IRL.

AlanS181824

Magaggie wrote: »

I closed my account because two guys at work (both boardsies) spotted who I was logged in as. :pac:
One of them still posts and would be relatively well known on AH - although hasn't posted in a while. The other rarely posts and wouldn't be known.

After I closed my account, someone said on one of those "People who have closed their accounts" threads that he didn't know me/I didn't know him but he spotted me around the place as he lives nearby and knows people I know (recognised me from the one time I put a photo up). Freaked the fuq out of me. :eek:
Never worked out who he is. He has closed his account since too.

I know the feeling...

I once got a PM with the heading I KNOW WHO YOU ARE,

Seriously is the scariest moment ever :pac:

Omackeral

House of Blaze wrote: »

I don't know anyone IRL.

As in anyone in real life? Like anyone. Regardless of Boards?!

WilyCoyote

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I've met plenty, and am engaged to one

Are you a perv? Or do you just pretend to be a Mod to pull?

Dozen Wicked Words

No, but I don't know any irl people irl. /antisocial

And that's the end of that chapter.

Insect Overlord

We used to have a Social Group to organise astro/indoor soccer for Limerick Boardsies. Had one or two small Beers nights in town too. Most of the other mods/Cmods/Admins I've met at bigger nights out are legends too.

I got to know loads of posters off one of the forums I used to mod, but that group has moved on since.

I make no effort at all to hide my real name though. Anonymity never appealed to me.

WilyCoyote

Blank verse?

Insect Overlord

WilyCoyote wrote: »

Blank verse?

Most of the time!