Is Boards a little out of touch with real Ireland ?

FixdePitchmark

So - sitting down switched on Rte One - and All Round to Mrs Brown's is on - It is desperate moronic idiocy.

Anyway -was watching and thinking this show is incredibly popular - people go out of their way to watch it.

So - is this liberal , left wing talking shop , actually a very small representation of real Ireland ?

Is there a chance that people are giving power to their alternative views that is not the realty of our real world

dd972

Surely you don't mean beards in the plural, unless your sister-in-law is acting as one in LGBT parlance?

The_Valeyard

OP assuming genders again.

FixdePitchmark

dd972 wrote: »

Surely you don't mean beards in the plural, unless your sister-in-law is acting as one in LGBT parlance?

Did think of that - but even if she did , if you said anything you would be a bigot.

FixdePitchmark

The_Valeyard wrote: »

OP assuming genders again.

Yes that sort of ****e.

I suppose Mrs Brown is not a Mrs and is neutral gender Brown.

The_Valeyard

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Yes that sort of ****e.

I suppose Mrs Brown is not a Mrs and is neutral gender Brown.

Oh great, now youre onto colours!

Arghus

Can't be sure. Haven't left the house since last year.

RDM_83 again

Boards is representative of A real Ireland, former TCD grads between 2000-2010, some NUI people from the same era and a bunch of people who work in IT or are professionals.
Generally its not at all though, good example is when the census comes out and people do the OMG most people in Ireland totally arent Catholics thing

The_Valeyard

Arghus wrote: »

Can't be sure. Haven't left the house since last year.

careful, those clouds are outside, just waiting for you......

Junkyard Tom

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

So - is this liberal , left wing talking shop , actually a very small representation of real Ireland ?

Liberal? Yeah, I'd say that's generally true. Left-wing? Hahahaaa!

FixdePitchmark

But - by definition, people who sit around writing on the internet

Are
a) connected to the internet.
b) most likely can write
c) under 45
d) lacking real world social connection

oneilla

How is anti-women/feminist (in broad terms), anti-worker, anti-anyone who isn't white and Irish, "f**k the Muslims", anti-social welfare recipients etc. considered "liberal" or left-wing ie. socialist. Do people even know what these words mean?

(That's a rhetorical question obviously)

The OP is nonsense. It's just cultural politics nonsense in place of actual political arguments. OP has a comment on cultural conventions in place of political positions.

DivingDuck

Any online forum is extremely self-selecting and rarely representative of anything but the tone/party line agreed by the loudest members from the height of its popularity.

riffmongous

Where the **** are the Pintman memes?

qir

Boards is outta touch with itself.

Thread in aviation that has terms of reference about what you can and can't say that changes daily, cluster fu*ck of almighty proportions. A feedback forum/site dev forum full of posts/great ideas that are completely ignored.

I don't know what sorta of people give up their free time for nothing in return to ruin a site, takes alot of time on the site to be asked to do Admin and then to agree to help trash the place the way the current bunch are is bewildering.

An ould virtual clap on the back goes along with some people.

The amount of posts that disappear about the place aswell - Boards.ie-->Mods.ie-->Censorship.ie

CrabRevolution

Whatever about "real" Ireland (whatever that is), it's certainly skewed towards older people. Threads about sex education or the Irish language tend to give away that many posters left school at the latest 20+ years ago.

iguot

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Whatever about "real" Ireland (whatever that is), it's certainly skewed towards older people. Threads about sex education or the Irish language tend to give away that many posters left school at the latest 20+ years ago.

A poll few years back put average age around about 30.

Mountainsandh

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Whatever about "real" Ireland (whatever that is), it's certainly skewed towards older people. Threads about sex education or the Irish language tend to give away that many posters left school at the latest 20+ years ago.

I know ! Isn't it great ? :P

Is "real life" just one thing then ?
Are we all to be racists now Father ?

_Whimsical_

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Whatever about "real" Ireland (whatever that is), it's certainly skewed towards older people. Threads about sex education or the Irish language tend to give away that many posters left school at the latest 20+ years ago.

What part of the sex ed threads suggest that?

Recently a snapchatter set up an online sex ed thing and has been inundated with comments from teens who didn't previously believe stds exist in Ireland , that you can get pregnant first time or other believes more at home in the 1950s.

I have a sneaking suspicion that talking about how poorly educated you were/are as regards sex is a traditional Irish passtime even for the teens of today. A cursory glance at Home and Away will tell you most of the things the teens in the above mentioned sex ed YouTube commenters were saying they didn't know.

Arghus

I would wonder what the median age is around here. I wouldn't have thought the userbase is especially old.

_Whimsical_

Arghus wrote: »

I would wonder what the median age is around here.

I would say early 30s would be average.

seamus

DivingDuck wrote: »

Any online forum is extremely self-selecting and rarely representative of anything but the tone/party line agreed by the loudest members from the height of its popularity.

That's actually the nail on head, though it can waver a bit on the way back down and swing in different directions as though loud members disappear and move on.

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Whatever about "real" Ireland (whatever that is), it's certainly skewed towards older people. Threads about sex education or the Irish language tend to give away that many posters left school at the latest 20+ years ago.

iguot wrote: »

A poll few years back put average age around about 30.

Yep. A poll back in the mid-2000s found the average age under 25 IIRC. The average age has then creeped up.

This is a reflection of a number of things;

1. Increased use of internet among older generations, for whom the simple , threaded bank-and-forth discussions style suit

2. Decreased popularity of this format among younger generations, whose online interactions now tend to be more direct and with known acquaintances along the lines of facebook rather than the broader "interacting with complete strangers" model that dominated the web until around 2010.

Realt Dearg Sec

Arghus wrote: »

I would wonder what the median age is around here. I wouldn't have thought the userbase is especially old.

My definition of young changes every year.

Arghus

Some post that...

oneilla

prkly wrote: »

It has been said that Generation Z, that is teenagers born since 2000, are set to be the most conservative generation since WWII. So of course they are repelled by Boards which shamelessly promotes a fiercely left-wing agenda. They prefer sites where free speech is catered for and they can say what they truly feel, like 4chan or Reddit. Look how internet culture (which is pretty much youth culture these days) got behind the Trump campaign and churned out memes on an industrial scale. The kids thought it was funny to troll the establishment and get mainstream news discussing a cartoon frog.

Anything your parents like is automatically uncool to teens. Your parents support gay marriage? You think sodomy is degenerate. Your parents promote multiculturalism? You become a nationalist and hang out with only the white kids at school. The pendulum swings with every generation.

"Boards.ie promotes a left-wing agenda".

"the youth of today are the most conservative since WW2 and thus prefer where websites allow free speech".

Logic of this post is all over the place. Hint: conservatives don't favour free speech~!

misstearheus

Jaysus lads...

Shenshen

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

I've a brother and sister in law - all - craft beer , beards, well-read and good arts degrees from a top universities.

They are basically the stereotypical left wing liberals , that you have to apologise to, if you offer any different point of view.

So - sitting down switched on Rte One - and All Round to Mrs Brown's is on - It is desperate moronic idiocy.

Anyway -was watching and thinking this show is incredibly popular - people go out of their way to watch it.

So - is this liberal , left wing talking shop , actually a very small representation of real Ireland ?

Is there a chance that people are giving power to their alternative views that is not the realty of our real world

So... you're saying your brother and sister-in-law are not real but imaginary?

King George VI

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

I've a brother and sister in law - all - craft beer , beards, well-read and good arts degrees from a top universities.

haha they're on the dole so

biko

OP - boards.ie, and dare I say After Hours, represents the "real" Ireland whereas your sample is skewed.

ThisRegard

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Recently a snapchatter set up an online sex ed thing and has been inundated with comments from teens who didn't previously believe stds exist in Ireland , that you can get pregnant first time or other believes more at home in the 1950s.

I despair for the yoof of Ireland today. A colleague was telling me they were working on site a few weeks ago and there was this young lad, in his 20s, thinking he was jack the lad meeting the women and whatever dating app he uses. He actually proudly said he didn't need to wear a condom as he 'knew' he was clean.

When the obvious was pointed out to him that he wasn't just meeting virgins and celibates the gears slowly started to turn. The gob****e fell to earth hard then with the mocking he received.

In this day and age there's simply no excuse for being that stupid.

Noddyholder

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Whatever about "real" Ireland (whatever that is), it's certainly skewed towards older people. Threads about sex education or the Irish language tend to give away that many posters left school at the latest 20+ years ago.

Don't know what age older people is for you , For me Boards is certainly not a represented of the reality of life, Actually I go to say imo most but not all boards are from South Dublin ish areas or similar & are around the 25/30 mark.

biko

ThisRegard wrote: »

I despair for the yoof of Ireland today. A colleague was telling me they were working on site a few weeks ago and there was this young lad, in his 20s, thinking he was jack the lad meeting the women and whatever dating app he uses. He actually proudly said he didn't need to wear a condom as he 'knew' he was clean.

When the obvious was pointed out to him that he wasn't just meeting virgins and celibates the gears slowly started to turn. The gob****e fell to earth hard then with the mocking he received.

In this day and age there's simply no excuse for being that stupid.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Chuchote

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

So - sitting down switched on Rte One - and All Round to Mrs Brown's is on - It is desperate moronic idiocy.

I like Mrs Brown - it's warm, it's silly in the panto tradition, it's basically decent. And I'm not a taxi driver type.

Parchment

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

What part of the sex ed threads suggest that?

Recently a snapchatter set up an online sex ed thing and has been inundated with comments from teens who didn't previously believe stds exist in Ireland , that you can get pregnant first time or other believes more at home in the 1950s.

I have a sneaking suspicion that talking about how poorly educated you were/are as regards sex is a traditional Irish passtime even for the teens of today. A cursory glance at Home and Away will tell you most of the things the teens in the above mentioned sex ed YouTube commenters were saying they didn't know.

James Kavanagh

andekwarhola

It's only an issue if you actually labour under the quaint notion that an internet forum is somehow the definitive Voice Of The People.

That said, I sometimes suspect that the comments section of YouTube probably is as close to the voice of the people as you can get and as such, I wonder if a draconian dictatorship might not be the way forward.

_Brian

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Boards is representative of A real Ireland, former TCD grads between 2000-2010, some NUI people from the same era and a bunch of people who work in IT or are professionals.
Generally its not at all though, good example is when the census comes out and people do the OMG most people in Ireland totally arent Catholics thing

I think the Farming & Forestty forum is something like the fourth busiest forum and wouldn't be represented in your summary above.

Yourself isit

Noddyholder wrote: »

Don't know what age older people is for you , For me Boards is certainly not a represented of the reality of life, Actually I go to say imo most but not all boards are from South Dublin ish areas or similar & are around the 25/30 mark.

No idea where that comes from. I think the age group is older.

pilly

I don't get it. What's your brother and sister-in-law got to do with Boards being out of touch?

If what you're trying to say that Boards is made of liberal lefties then you're clearly not reading what I do?

evolving_doors

I think he means 'is beards a little out of touch with the real ireland'

pilly

Gebgbegb wrote: »

I think he means 'is beards a little out of touch with the real ireland'

That would make more sense alright. Especially if the grammar was corrected.

Mr. CooL ICE

I'm annoyed that the deli worker this morning put the scrambled egg in to my breakfast roll last which meant that it kept falling out while eating it. Rather than work, I've spent the last hour wondering why somebody would do that and wondering if there could possibly have been a worse way to make a breakfast roll.

I think I'm more representative of real Ireland than your "family" scenario.

pilly

OP obviously started this thread with a few drinkies taken last night, then went asleep and isn't awake yet.

andekwarhola

ThisRegard wrote: »

I despair for the yoof of Ireland today. A colleague was telling me they were working on site a few weeks ago and there was this young lad, in his 20s, thinking he was jack the lad meeting the women and whatever dating app he uses. He actually proudly said he didn't need to wear a condom as he 'knew' he was clean.

When the obvious was pointed out to him that he wasn't just meeting virgins and celibates the gears slowly started to turn. The gob****e fell to earth hard then with the mocking he received.

In this day and age there's simply no excuse for being that stupid.

As opposed to the paragons of common sense and wisdom of which previous generations of youth were comprised?

sbsquarepants

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

What part of the sex ed threads suggest that?

Recently a snapchatter set up an online sex ed thing and has been inundated with comments from teens who didn't previously believe stds exist in Ireland , that you can get pregnant first time or other believes more at home in the 1950s.

.

I was always told I couldn't get pregnant once I done it standing up. Didn't seem to make sense so I googled it, and to my surprise it turns out to be true.

It's something to do with being a bloke though, so I wouldn't recommend it for everybody:D

Arcade_Tryer

prkly wrote: »

It has been said that Generation Z, that is teenagers born since 2000, are set to be the most conservative generation since WWII. So of course they are repelled by Boards which shamelessly promotes a fiercely left-wing agenda. They prefer sites where free speech is catered for and they can say what they truly feel, like 4chan or Reddit. Look how internet culture (which is pretty much youth culture these days) got behind the Trump campaign and churned out memes on an industrial scale. The kids thought it was funny to troll the establishment and get mainstream news discussing a cartoon frog.

Anything your parents like is automatically uncool to teens. Your parents support gay marriage? You think sodomy is degenerate. Your parents promote multiculturalism? You become a nationalist and hang out with only the white kids at school. The pendulum swings with every generation.

This is the worst post I've seen on any forum in a few years.

King George VI wrote: »

haha they're on the dole so

A first class arts degree in a desirable subject such as economics or mathematics from Trinity is probably the most distinguished undergrad qualification in Ireland.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I think boards has improved a lot over the past year or so. I personally would lean more towards the right viewpoint and TBH never felt overly comfortable expressing my viewpoint for fear of people jumping down my throat accusing me of trolling or being racist. What I've found with the "liberal left", they're not so tolerant when it comes to other people's opinions, shouting people down, being nasty and pushy. This is fairly well demonstrated when Trump was elected.

In person, I would mostly discuss things of a political nature with people more like me, similar enough opinions which I'm surprised about as if I was to go by boards, you'd think they're few and far between. There is of course the permanently offended SJWs in person too but they're easily enough avoided

red ears

I have never met a hardcore sjw type, i read plenty from them on boards but i never meet them in real life.

ThisRegard

andekwarhola wrote: »

As opposed to the paragons of common sense and wisdom of which previous generations of youth were comprised?

Whataboutery. There's simply no excuse these days, in previous generations birth control was banned ffs and don't do it was the height of sex education.

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

A first class arts degree in a desirable subject such as economics or mathematics

Since when has mathematics become part of the Arts faculty?

pilly

red ears wrote: »

I have never met a hardcore sjw type, i read plenty from them on boards but i never meet them in real life.

That's because they don't have the courage of their convictions to speak out in public, most being keyboard warriors.

CramCycle

ThisRegard wrote: »

Since when has mathematics become part of the Arts faculty?

It is not the arts faculty but it is an arts degree (ans in a B.A. rather than a B.Sc.).You mean a Arts degree, they mean anything with B.A. in the award. huge differences but well, sin e.

Harry Palmr

There is no real Ireland, there is no one Ireland just 4.3 million real mes and yous. Talk of the real (something or other) is merely an attempt to co-opt people into supporting something they don't actually believe in.