After Hour-isms.

eternal

There exists an inevitability of words, phrases or retorts which crop up in every thread on this forum. Before it was 'yore ma', 'blast with piss' and so on. Now it's 'PM sent', 'FYP', various Father Ted and Simpsons references. Are we becoming a predictable site? Are we a derivative of sub genres and cultural motifs which arise non ending like. How much will this evolve eventually. If we went ten years into the future would we understand any of the allusions that posters would use? What other oft used phrase never runs out of steam?

Tony Beetroot

Full stop

Chucken

eternal wrote: »

There exists an inevitability of words, phrases or retorts which crop up in every thread on this site. Before it was 'yore ma', 'blast with piss' and so on. Now it's 'PM sent', 'FYP', various Father Ted and Simpsons references. Are we becoming a predictable site? Are we a derivative of sub genres and cultural motifs which arise non ending like. How much will this evolve eventually. If we went ten years into the future would we understand any of the allusions that posters would use? What other oft used phrase never runs out of steam?

Do you mean After Hours-isms?

eternal

Chucken wrote: »

Do you mean After Hours-isms?

Yes!! Sorry, you're right of course.

aaronjumper

Tree fiddy. Remember that one?

When someone starts a celebrity thread you'll usually have someone ask "Who?"
I did it once way back when, before I could internet good and got given out to by posters that thought I was trying to make a joke.

It doesn't seem to be as bad now but I don't think it will ever fully go away.

Charlie19

Three fifty.

/thread.

_Whimsical_

eternal wrote: »

Yes!! Sorry, you're right of course.

I'd like to see some research to back that assertion up...links please!

Chucken

Chucken wrote: »

Do you mean After Hours-isms?

eternal wrote: »

Yes!! Sorry, you're right of course.

Quoting for the tomorrow people!

eternals original op said Boardsisms

eternal

Chucken wrote: »

Quoting for the tomorrow people!

eternals original op said Boardsisms

Oi!! I fixed that, don't be mean

Filmer Paradise

Thinly veiled (insert whatever smartarse comment) thread/post.

That's a good one.

wil

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
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wil was ere

Chucken

eternal wrote: »

Oi!! I fixed that, don't be mean

I'm not! It's for the posters in 10 years time. Just saying

If you look back on the 1st 100 pages of After Hours, they make no sense
A fierce amount of banned posters and threads locked after 10 posts!! I'd say that was something to do with the gaming thing though??!

eternal

Chucken wrote: »

I'm not! It's for the posters in 10 years time. Just saying

If you look back on the 1st 100 pages of After Hours, they make no sense
A fierce amount of banned posters and threads locked after 10 posts!! I'd say that was something to do with the gaming thing though??!

Whenever I go through old threads I just see loads of posters I don't recognise or are banned. Very few seem to make it through without re registering or changing their user names. Tis a fickle world we live in.I wonder do people just peak and leave?

eternal

It looks like people back then couldn't really manage coherent posts? Very strange. Dire threads altogether.

Tony Beetroot

Maybe its just you?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Jeepers those early threads are...what the **** are they? I do like the poems about the transparent fried egg and the lesbian seagull though. Also I've already gotten someone complaining that the internet isn't what it used to be

aaronjumper

eternal wrote: »

It looks like people back then couldn't really manage coherent posts? Very strange. Dire threads altogether.

There are some pretty bad ones still. Now and again I'll see a thread pop up somewhere on the site but when I click on it, it's been deleted.
Not always shill threads either.
Just the mods quick on the trigger I think.

As for being predictable of course it is. Anything with a large number of people on it will be predictable.
That's what makes the unpredictable stuff that happens on them so entertaining.

Joeseph Balls

When there was an argument, people ending their post with...

FACT.

Just fcuk off. Not sure if that was just an After Hour-ism though..

Chucken

aaronjumper wrote: »

There are some pretty bad ones still. Now and again I'll see a thread pop up somewhere on the site but when I click on it, it's been deleted.
Not always shill threads either.
Just the mods quick on the trigger I think.

As for being predictable of course it is. Anything with a large number of people on it will be predictable.
That's what makes the unpredictable stuff that happens on them so entertaining.

I predict school holidays soon

wil

Did that torch ever get repaired?

eternal

1999? I can't believe the internet was even around back then. Now wonder they were all high posting stuff. Really bizarre threads.

Chucken

wil wrote: »

Did that torch ever get repaired?

That's still funny :pac:


WE WERE THERE!!!

folamh

"dribbler"

Ruu

FACT!

Uriel.

Haha lnternet

Irish Guitarist

This should be good.

Gets popcorn.

mikemac1

You're no feeky magee

Now that was a legendary thread

Taboola

Does anyone remember Crapfork?

haveringchick

Telpis

eternal

Coke and hookers.

3qsmavrod5twfe

Yore Ma! as a standard response.


IBTL


Atari Jaguar being an option in every poll.

eternal

TL;DR.

the groutch

Facekicker

nelly17

Floor Safe

Samaris

Can anyone tell me what FYP means? I googled it and didn't get anything sensible. It was coming up a lot in the ghost story thread.

5rtytry56

The Father Ted series mindset.

Duggy747

That one person, when there's a disaster, posts along the lines of:

In other news, thousands of African children died today / America bombed civilians / People would care more if those victims were white / There'd be more people talking about this if they weren't black

All that does is show your smugness and nearly every one of you never start a thread about the very things you complain about that never gets coverage.

Also, if you have a Top Gear thread in AH then someone, somewhere gets a sudden urge to post that Stewart Lee clip because they can't verbalise why they don't like it themselves.

Joeseph Balls

"Hmm, threads got potential"

Oh thank you wise judger of threads!

3qsmavrod5twfe

Samaris wrote: »

Can anyone tell me what FYP means? I googled it and didn't get anything sensible. It was coming up a lot in the ghost story thread.

Fixed Your Post
or
Fancied Yesteryears Pantaloons


Really depends on context

Samaris

Natalie Hollow Potato wrote: »

Fixed Your Post
or
Fancied Yesteryears Pantaloons


Really depends on context

I did wonder about that, but an awful lot of the people posting would JUST put "FYP" with no quote or "fixing".

Maybe it was Fancied Yesteryear's Pantaloons!

aaronjumper

Something something *get popcorn.*

s8n

atari jaguar

Ruu

Burn down the house/it with fire.

Vowel Movement

Lob it into me boss

catallus

Vowel Movement wrote: »

Lob it into me boss

Is it not "Lob it up into my belly, boss."?

Eutow

Duggy747 wrote: »

That one person, when there's a disaster, posts along the lines of:



All that does is show your smugness and nearly every one of you never start a thread about the very things you complain about that never gets coverage.

Also, if you have a Top Gear thread in AH then someone, somewhere gets a sudden urge to post that Stewart Lee clip because they can't verbalise why they don't like it themselves.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, eh, your opinion, man.

BBDBB

Ride me sideways was another one

eternal

Various incest jokes.

blatantrereg

"muppet"
magic the gathering parody cards
discussions about things that aren't quake?

eternal

Very good looking people being called ugly.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Thankfully the high horses started to die

Was getting a Creek in my neck looking up and a sore throat from shouting at them