Have you ever seen someone on boards.ie in public?

Bambi985

I was on the tube home from the airport just now and thinking about the hundreds of people that must have spotted me scrolling through boards on my phone over the years. Especially given the amount of time I spend on a jam-packed train every day with people inches away from my face.

Have you ever seen someone use boards while out and about? Did you try to catch a sneaky glimpse of their username or try to figure out which forum they were on?

Trigger Happy

There is a lad at work who is well known round these parts.
Saw his username on his pc once. But he does not know that I know. Shhhhh.

freshpopcorn

I remember I saw a teacher on Boards well over a decade ago. He was a bit of a P*ick!

LostYourNerve?

I'm guessing boards is mainly male?

Atoms for Peace

They don't exist in real life, sinnerbots, putinbots, Israeli shills etc.

ToddyDoody

I remember some funny photos a lecturer showed us in a college lecture appearing here, I was guessing this was him.

Barry Badrinath

Yep. Saw a guy on a LUAS posting away a few years ago.

Copped his username. I can confirm that he looks as much as a fcuktard as he comes across in his fcuktard posts.

He still posts here. State of him too.

Heroditas

Yep spotted a poster beside me at a Leinster match a few years ago. He was posting an update to a match thread.

MarkY91

Spotted a cyclist with boards.ie cycling clothing on a few years ago.

SeaFields

I have two friends from real life that post here albeit infrequently. A work colleague posts very frequently but doesn't know that I know who she is

Bambi985

Is your work colleague true to her real self in her posts?

SeaFields

Bambi985 wrote: »

Is your work colleague true to her real self in her posts?

Yes actually. She posts mainly in work and jobs and is very true to her real life persona. She would be a genuinely nice person and keeps that online it seems.

Jack Kanoff

Was in a bar a few years ago and was posting as I watched a rugby game..guy 6 feet to my right was posting about the same game .. didn't say a word to him.

Kintarō Hattori

Yes many times. Most of them via the Photography forum. A lovely bunch of folks.

uck51js9zml2yt

Met a few boards.ies over the years. Nice guys....they are still here so I've got to say that.
Even had a mod in my home..great guy:D

fatknacker

Barry Badrinath wrote: »

Yep. Saw a guy on a LUAS posting away a few years ago.

Copped his username. I can confirm that he looks as much as a fcuktard as he comes across in his fcuktard posts.

He still posts here. State of him too.

Hey. I gave you my seat and all :mad:

Obi_Wan_Kenobi

Is this some vague way of doxxing users ?

Seve OB

I know loads of boardsies

Met a good few through cycling forum but now meet once a month with a bunch of golf nuts. Why not join us at an outing and you to can meet some real life boardsies

I saw a man looking through Boards when I was sitting behind him on a Dublin bus once. It was ages ago and he was quite attractive. I remember wondering if he might be such and such. Apart from that I have a few close friends who I met thanks to this place and also met quite a few through different meet ups here.

Amalgam

I have sold mainly to boards users through adverts, so, they would know me, talking the back legs off a horse, when it comes to motherboards etc.

I used to share a well known underground internet cafe on O'Connell Street (Dublin), with one or two boardsies for years, back in the mid to late 90s, long before I joined boards.ie.

Hector Bellend

SeaFields wrote: »

I have two friends from real life that post here albeit infrequently. A work colleague posts very frequently but doesn't know that I know who she is

In the immortal words of Samuel L Jackson

"Does she look like a bitch?"

jim salter

Deleted User wrote: »

I saw a man looking through Boards when I was sitting behind him on a Dublin bus once. It was ages ago and he was quite attractive. I remember wondering if he might be such and such. Apart from that I have a few close friends who I met thanks to this place and also met quite a few through different meet ups here.

That was probably me

The Decline

I sit beside someone in work who is posting for the past while. Currently posting about a serious issue that involves the court. They have told me about it but know more from boards.

kfallon

jim salter wrote: »

That was probably me

It definitely wasn't me!

The Decline

It's weird knowing intimate private information about work people that you just about know but I copped on there other posts. Mentioned where there from and interests that I already know. Besides that I know lurkers.

Hotblack Desiato

This afternoon I was having a chat with the boss in his office and he wanted to show me something on his PC

Switching between windows there was a brief flash of a logged-in Boards User CP but I couldn't make out the username, I didn't have my glasses on!

limnam

Yore ma

castletownman

I must OP your new curtains look lovely from the bushes in the back yard

Fighting Tao

There’s a whole thread of encounters with over 5000 posts.

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2055327551/1

Necro

Not really met an actual boardsie tbh.

Did have a guy at work come up and ask was I Necrominus from boards though....

Most people I work with know I post here as I have the site open every day on the work PC and I have seen it on other PCs too.

But meh, wouldn't go out of my way to find out their username tbh.


Oh, and my mates recently discovered my username. One spent a long time trawling through my posts to bring up stuff to rip the piss out of me... not sure who's worse tbh.

Yeah buddy, I know you're still watching

ToddyDoody

MarkY91 wrote: »

Spotted a cyclist with boards.ie cycling clothing on a few years ago.

One majorly cool dude.

Birneybau

SeaFields wrote: »

Yes actually. She posts mainly in work and jobs and is very true to her real life persona. She would be a genuinely nice person and keeps that online it seems.

You're only fishing for compliments.

harry Bailey esq

Bambi985 wrote: »

Did you try to catch a sneaky glimpse of their username or try to figure out which forum they were on?

Nah good old fashion knicker sniffing still does the job for me
I know a few boards posters personally, League of Ireland fans mainly, and we'd all be from different clubs.

Just the one.. Our IT guy in work a decade ago used to post every problem he had on here.

Everyone knows my boards.ie and Reddit usernames and I've posted some really personal stuff over the years. I think people really overestimate how much other people care about their lives so try to keep it secret.

Conchurl

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I remember I saw a teacher on Boards well over a decade ago. He was a bit of a P*ick!

He must have been a mod 😇

freshpopcorn

Conchurl wrote: »

He must have been a mod ��

He could be I'd say.
He used try and be really cool by using words such as Chillax.

Not in person, but that Donald Trump fella's never off the telly.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Met FlutterinBantum outside the sh1tters of an Iarnrod Eireann train service from Cork to Dublin once.

Cnut shook my hand as he exited the stall and said' take care of that son."


Fcking bowl was stuffed with jax paper and had a coil of fresh brown midden on top. A firemans blanket.

RabbleRouser2k

Yes, but I don't want to reveal who, only that I figured it out based on details they gave. I saw them round the place,in my personal life.

I wouldn't approsch people in person tho. I'm a total introvert.

the_syco

Boards.ie drinkies, Boards.ie LANs, Boards.ie clans, Boards.ie charity events...

Yeah. Seen maybe 100 of them at one time or another.

Once blinded 20 or so people with a disposable camera at a Boards.ie beers a good while back :P

addicted to caffeine

yes, I recently discovered someone who I work with posts on boards (don't know their username), and once when I was doing my autism presentation I was getting my presentation up and ready (on someone else's laptop) and accidentally clicked on a tab which was the boards home page, I have been to 2 boards beers in the past

Mountainsandh

I would totally try to figure out who they are if I saw one, but I haven't.
I have met one or two boardsies for transactions or other, not very active posters.

I suspect some people at work are on boards but I couldn't be sure who they are. I do try to figure it out for fun and sheer innocent curiosity though
I suspect too that if someone at work knows that I post they would have me figured out, but I would hope not as I have posted some pretty personal stuff over the years.
Then again, if asked irl I'd be giving the same answers and opinions so I wouldn't be totally freaked out about it.

I like to keep boards as a personal little corner of my life, rather than have it an open topic with work colleagues or even friends.

Arghus

Yes, met a few over the years, mainly through boards beers - remember them?

Boom_Bap

Yeah I've met a few out and about. Some at beers, a few I recognised from their pictures they've posted, some friends who I know who their accounts are.
There are plenty of folk in my office that use it as well, I'm sure they would have seen me logged in when they've been standing behind me.
My boss also uses boards, we talk about the YLYL thread, and I've seen him scrolling through when he's slacking off
Seen one or 2 people in public looking at it, also overheard people chatting about boards as well.

Richard Hillman

Spotted Conor McGregor one time

uch

played football with a few, nice lads

branie2

No.

The_Kew_Tour

Know a few from couple of forums.

Reckon I have met few others too just from few posts.

AlphabetCards

Aye, my father posts here quite a bit and I picked up on it after a few posts in one of the other sub-forums. A childhood friend is a rather prolific poster on boards in general, and I'm certain of a few lads from secondary school due to usernames on other forums.

I recognised one young male boardsie a few years ago getting on a bus at Fairview. I remember at the time he was posting a lot about his lack of success with girls and life et cetera. By the state of him, it all made sense, he was in desperate need of a shower, shave, haircut and fashion advice!

Outlaw Pete

Seen Whoopsie in front of me in a queue M&S one day and so thought it would be funny if I accidentally on purpose bumped into her and said 'upsy-daisy' to her. So I did, but she didn't turn around, and so I did it again, only harder, but she stumbled forward and knocking the eggs out of a basket the woman in front of her was carrying. She then turned out and lost it on Whoopsie. Mayhem ensued, slapping, hair pulling etc and so I kinda thought the moment had passed at that stage and decided to pay for my stuff at another till.

Trigger Happy

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Seen Whoopsie in front of me in a queue M&S one day and so thought it would be funny if I accidentally on purpose bumped into her and said 'upsy-daisy' to her. So I did, but she didn't turn around, and so I did it again, only harder, but she stumbled forward and knocking the eggs out of a basket the woman in front of her was carrying. She then turned out and lost it on Whoopsie. Mayhem ensued, slapping, hair pulling etc and so I kinda thought the moment had passed at that stage and decided to pay for my stuff at another till.

Reminds me of the time I was behind Jack Kanoff in a queue in lidl....