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Is Boards a little out of touch with real Ireland ?

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    #32
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #33
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭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.


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    #34
    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭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 <3


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    #35
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭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.


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    #36
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,504 ✭✭✭✭_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.


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    #37
    Yourself isit
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    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.


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    #38
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭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?


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    #39
    evolving_doors
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    I think he means 'is beards a little out of touch with the real ireland'


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    #40
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭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. :)


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    #41
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,515 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    #42
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


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


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    #43
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭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?


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    #44
    sbsquarepants
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    _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


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    #45
    Arcade_Tryer
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    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.


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    #46
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    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


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    #47
    red ears
    Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭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.


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    #48
    ThisRegard
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    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?


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    #49
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭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.


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    #50
    CramCycle
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    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.


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    #51
    Harry Palmr
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    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.


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    #52
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    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.

    They exist. If you're a university graduate from the past couple of years (especially if you're not in STEM) you're guaranteed to come across them.

    This SJW shìte is a very young persons thing. Average age being 20-25, and predominantly middle to upper class in background, if I was to guess. No working class. If you're any bit older than that, you're probably lucky enough to never come across any of them.


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    #53
    Widdershins
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    oneilla wrote: »
    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.

    Is there another Boards.ie somewhere?


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    #54
    Widdershins
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    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.

    Depends on how well you get on with your parents. If the parents are extreme in either direction then I can see how the offspring would react to that.


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    #55
    BeerFarts
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    oneilla wrote: »
    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.

    Exactly. From what I've seen of boards it's anything but left wing. I think it might have been in the past but it reads far more like the comments section on the journal or daily mail these days.


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    #56
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Post

    "I think equality of opportunity for men and women should be enforced under law"

    on one of the feminist threads and tell me how liberal boards.ie is


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    #57
    Fox Hound
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    #58
    King George VI
    Registered Users Posts: 4,346 ✭✭✭King George VI


    Ireland is composed of nearly 4.6 million people of different political opinions, backgrounds and thoughts on just about everything. You can't just say "this is what the country is". Some people lean left, some people right. Some are racist and some are tolerant and diverse. Some are black.... most people here are white though, but there are many Polish and nearly 4,872 South African people here. Some like pints of beer all the time, some like pineapples on a pizza (cunts). Some people voted for Enda Kenny because they genuinely think he's a good person, some people voted for the Mr Tayto because of the lol. A lot of people have controversial opinions on such things as immigration, Islam, feminism, pineapples on pizza...etc and a lot of people have the opposing views.

    The point is, there is no real Ireland. There are only 4.6 millions cunts with different ideas than I have, and I'm ok with it.


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    #59
    Bit cynical
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    CramCycle wrote: »
    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.
    I think Trinity generally calls its undergraduate degrees, with a few exceptions, BAs regardless of whether they are arts or science degrees.


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    #60
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,390 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    FixdePitchmark wrote: »
    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

    How do you account for all us 'old' people on the boards then and some of us acutely have friends in real life as well. I love how the op knows what all boards subscribers are like despite it being an almost anonymous internet chat site.


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    #61
    Winterlong
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    Boards represents a subset of the population that chose to post here.

    Given that the age spread of posters differs from the age spread of the population as a whole (for example) then I suppose it stands that boards and ireland would be different.
    We saw the differences a few years ago when we did the general election simulation and the boards results were very different to the actual results. More left leaning IIRC.

    But also - as said above - people are a lot quicker to hop on their high horse when behind a keyboard than in real life. Or perhaps people who post on boards just prefer a good argument more than others?


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