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how do you picture the average poster?

  • 24-04-2015 11:51pm
    #1
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭


    how would you visualise a typical boards poster in terms of personality, lifestyle, etc. from your experience of the site?



    i don't get the prevalent stereotype on here that the average poster is a jay from inbetweeners type wannabe bull****ter who couldn't get a woman if they tried. id like to give a lot of you the benefit of the doubt and say you're more than that, but who knows...


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  • #2
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    A bit like this.


  • #3
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    how would you visualise a typical boards poster in terms of personality, lifestyle, etc. from your experience of the site?



    i don't get the prevalent stereotype on here that the average poster is a jay from inbetweeners type wannabe bull****ter who couldn't get a woman if they tried. id like to give a lot of you the benefit of the doubt and say you're more than that, but who knows...
    Do you work for a marketing company?


    Mostly male. Mostly sound?


  • #4
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,188 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Rumour has it there's a few women knocking around the site too.
    Female versions of Jay from the Inbetweeners, presumably.


  • #5
    Everythin coming up Milhouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Everythin coming up Milhouse


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M67E9mpwBpM


  • #6
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Based on all the other boards users I've met, varied as hell, there's no real average


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  • #7
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,879 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    how would you visualise a typical boards poster in terms of personality, lifestyle, etc. from your experience of the site?



    i don't get the prevalent stereotype on here that the average poster is a jay from inbetweeners type wannabe bull****ter who couldn't get a woman if they tried. id like to give a lot of you the benefit of the doubt and say you're more than that, but who knows...

    If you visualised a small white woman and a large black man what would be the average of that?


  • #8
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    A bit like this.

    was just going to post that, females prob a bit more hair on top


  • #9
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    how would you visualise a typical boards poster in terms of personality, lifestyle, etc. from your experience of the site?



    i don't get the prevalent stereotype on here that the average poster is a jay from inbetweeners type wannabe bull****ter who couldn't get a woman if they tried. id like to give a lot of you the benefit of the doubt and say you're more than that, but who knows...


    speak you english?


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    efb wrote: »
    was just going to post that, females prob a bit more hair on top

    Probably..?


  • #11
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Links234 wrote: »
    Based on all the other boards users I've met, varied as hell, there's no real average
    In reality this.


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  • #12
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    If you visualised a small white woman and a large black man what would be the average of that?

    Prince?


  • #13
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Normal enough 25-30 year male demographic. The Internet is for everyman these days.

    Fewer women.


  • #14
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    i can't say


  • #15
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    Normal enough 25-30 year male demographic. The Internet is for everyman these days.

    Fewer women.

    the internet, yes

    boards, not so much...


  • #16
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    atypical I assume the OP means, all ye hair splitters!


  • #17
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    i think the average boardsie wears orange ipstick and clean clothes


  • #18
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,450 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    They all have lovely bottoms.


  • #19
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    They all have lovely bottoms.



    and clear eyes


  • #20
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,450 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    johnny osbourne wrote: »
    and clear eyes


    Just the one for me thanks :pac:


  • #21
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    efb wrote: »
    the internet, yes

    boards, not so much...

    No my feeling is it's pretty normal, albeit male dominated.


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  • #22
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    LadyAthame wrote: »
    In reality this.

    Hang on, forgot we're on after hours...

    They're all robot hambeasts, and probably just all the same poster using a bajillion different aliases.


  • #23
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Worst thread ever.


  • #24
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    RayM wrote: »
    Worst thread ever.

    i thought i told you to go to bed hours ago


  • #25
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    If you visualised a small white woman and a large black man what would be the average of that?

    Michael jackson


  • #26
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    Michael jackson

    Michael Jsckson's Children's Hospital


  • #27
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    efb wrote: »
    Michael Jsckson's Children's Hospital

    *cries*


  • #28
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    Honestly? This is how I imagine a lot of boardies. Sorry if I offend anyone.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFzoeN7tC8

    http://www.thechestore.com/prodimages/shirts/1039a-large-Che-Guevara.jpg

    http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbrgmuBRaR1qa9bmvo1_500.png

    http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user12162/imageroot/2015/01/cathartas%20aura.jpg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOo7PfkaND4


  • #29
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    your second link is causing a warning on firefox


  • #30
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    There's always the assumption that they're/we're a bunch of Comic Book Guys/Gals, but any Boardsie I've met or whose picture I've seen (several) isn't at all - a lot of them right f'ucking lookers too. :)


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  • #31
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    a lot of them right f'ucking lookers too. :)

    Oh you :D


  • #32
    Slicemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭Slicemeister


    It's like a Sunday mass in here. Take a look around, this place is full of tomorrow's youth no one would admit to today. Ideal in a free open minded 2035 real world , now it's just a subject of ridicule for the majority. Boards.ie will actually have its own place in history. Just not today.

    Disclaimer: I may actually have emptied the Hennesseys.


  • #33
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    johnny osbourne wrote: »
    your second link is causing a warning on firefox

    Oh really? It's just a dude wearing a Che Guevara T-Shirt, no head. I imagine a lot of Boardsies wear Che Guevara T-Shirt's for some reason.


  • #34
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    Macavity. wrote: »
    Oh really? It's just a dude wearing a Che Guevara T-Shirt, no head. I imagine a lot of Boardsies wear Che Guevara T-Shirt's for some reason.


    claro que si

    eta sorry my ol' 'puter is paranoid and always sending warnings :pac:


  • #35
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,973 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Step 1: Go to Cool Vids & Pics & Links
    Step 2: Find latest "Know Your Nerds" thread
    Step 3: ?????
    Step 4: Profit


  • #36
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Macavity. wrote: »
    Oh really? It's just a dude wearing a Che Guevara T-Shirt, no head. I imagine a lot of Boardsies wear Che Guevara T-Shirt's for some reason.

    And are decapitated???


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  • #37
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Macavity. wrote: »
    Honestly? This is how I imagine a lot of boardies. Sorry if I offend anyone.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFzoeN7tC8

    http://www.thechestore.com/prodimages/shirts/1039a-large-Che-Guevara.jpg

    http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbrgmuBRaR1qa9bmvo1_500.png

    http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user12162/imageroot/2015/01/cathartas%20aura.jpg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOo7PfkaND4

    Prepare for being disillusioned and probably much nicer to everyone in future:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054892994&page=167

    A surprisingly ordinary, even attractive looking bunch!


  • #38
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Well I was cross eyed. Now I'm not.


  • #39
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,288 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    An File wrote: »
    Step 1: Go to Cool Vids & Pics & Links
    Step 2: Find latest "Know Your Nerds" thread
    Step 3: ?????
    Step 4: Profit

    Any luck finding underpants tonight, underpants are big business. :D


  • #40
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    Prepare for being disillusioned and probably much nicer to everyone in future:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054892994&page=167

    A surprisingly ordinary, even attractive looking bunch!

    I prefer to imagine them as I had originally, but thank you.


  • #41
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,971 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    Macavity. wrote: »
    I prefer to imagine them as I had originally, but thank you.

    I get that, it's nicer to imagine some opinions you come across here would not be held by "ordinary" people.


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  • #42
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    I get that, it's nicer to imagine some opinions you come across here would not be held by "ordinary" people.
    I doubt they are held by the people who profess to hold them in real life.


  • #43
    PLL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    Intelligent. Opinionated. Maybe a little introverted.


  • #44
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    _Whimsical_ wrote: »
    Prepare for being disillusioned and probably much nicer to everyone in future:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054892994&page=167

    A surprisingly ordinary, even attractive looking bunch!
    Yup yis are handsome!


  • #45
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    LadyAthame wrote: »
    I doubt they are held by the people who profess to hold them in real life.

    I would wager most of the big opinionated 'characters'' on here exist solely here and wouldn't say boo to their mother in real life


  • #46
    LadyAthame
    Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭LadyAthame


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    I would wager most of the big opinionated 'characters'' on here exist solely here and wouldn't say boo to their mother in real life

    It comes out differently in real life.


  • #47
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Smug and Sophisticated


  • #48
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,218 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    PLL wrote: »
    Intelligent. Opinionated. Maybe a little introverted.
    It would depend on the forum in my experience of various forum beers over the years. So some might be more stereotypically "geeky" than others. Even then there would be a broad enough mix. An After Hours beers, or the BGRH beers back in the day(about the best beers of all IMH) would have a very broad mix. My first beers was a mods one and I'll be honest I did walk into the pub expecting a gathering of Comic Book Guy's wearing "ironic" tee shirts, staring at their feet chugging inhalers, but was pleasantly surprised to find my prejudice dashed. There were even women present. :eek: :D Sure there was the odd stereotype in the mix, but all were sound people. And you would think as I did that the mod demographic would be stereotype central, but nope.
    Robsweezie wrote: »
    I would wager most of the big opinionated 'characters'' on here exist solely here and wouldn't say boo to their mother in real life
    Some, yea. I've met a couple. Most would be pretty much the same as they come across here. If anything more friendly face to face. TBH I'm arguably worse in real life(™), certainly a worse know it all. Boards has actually toned down my online persona. It used to tone it down more mind you. I was much "nicer" years ago. Middle age grumpiness :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #49
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    I picture a lot of neckbeard types with the khaki colored coat and german flag on the arm & the Palestine flag as their Facebook cover photo who support Paul Murphy, Clare Daly, Wallace and have an irrational hatred of the AGS.


  • #50
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    Hans Bricks wrote: »
    I picture a lot of neckbeard types with the khaki colored coat and german flag on the arm & the Palestine flag as their Facebook cover photo who support Paul Murphy, Clare Daly, Wallace and have an irrational hatred of the AGS.

    That's the Irish Water thread.


  • #51
    Geniass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 643 ✭✭✭Geniass


    Hans Bricks wrote: »
    I picture a lot of neckbeard types with the khaki colored coat and german flag on the arm & the Palestine flag as their Facebook cover photo who support Paul Murphy, Clare Daly, Wallace and have an irrational hatred of the AGS.

    Yeah - you need to frequent other forums.


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