Is Boards a little out of touch with real Ireland ?

FixdePitchmark · 13-04-2017 1:09am #1

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 · 13-04-2017 1:15am

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

The_Valeyard · 13-04-2017 1:16am

OP assuming genders again.

FixdePitchmark · 13-04-2017 1:17am

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 · 13-04-2017 1:18am

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 · 13-04-2017 1:19am

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 · 13-04-2017 1:26am

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

RDM_83 again · 13-04-2017 1:26am

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 · 13-04-2017 1:27am

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 · 13-04-2017 1:29am

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 · 13-04-2017 1:30am

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 · 13-04-2017 2:18am

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 · 13-04-2017 2:22am

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 · 13-04-2017 2:25am

Where the **** are the Pintman memes?

qir · 13-04-2017 2:53am

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 · 13-04-2017 3:05am

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 · 13-04-2017 3:16am

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 · 13-04-2017 3:20am

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_ · 13-04-2017 3:21am

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 · 13-04-2017 3:22am

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

_Whimsical_ · 13-04-2017 3:23am

Arghus wrote: »

I would wonder what the median age is around here.

I would say early 30s would be average.

seamus · 13-04-2017 4:57am

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 · 13-04-2017 4:58am

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 · 13-04-2017 6:35am

Some post that...

oneilla · 13-04-2017 7:42am

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 · 13-04-2017 7:53am

Jaysus lads...

Shenshen · 13-04-2017 8:33am

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 · 13-04-2017 8:50am

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 · 13-04-2017 8:53am

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

ThisRegard · 13-04-2017 9:12am

_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 · 13-04-2017 9:13am

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.

Is Boards a little out of touch with real Ireland ?

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