Who were you when you joined?

Swampy

Long time lurker. I joined here about 18 years ago while in a computer room in DIT Aungier Street if I recall. Enjoyed student life. Cut to now I’ve been around the block work and education wise. Married with kids. Still feel 21 at heart. Pretty much stayed in Dublin most of my life with little or no regrets. How has your journey been?

Ladygoodman1

Shirley valentine. Still am thats how it has went for me. Without the sex in greece.

completedit

Leaving Cert. Friendless pretty much. Loved wrestling and the soccer forum. Even bought some wrestling stuff off some guy outside Trinity(looked like a drug deal by appearances)
Actually engaged a good bit with people on Boards, even went to a football match amongst the Boards soccer members.
I don't connect too much with that person but base personality wise, I am pretty much the same.

I was me ten years ago. Still am by strange coincidence.

I honestly have no recollection of setting up this account. In 2013 I would have been heading into last year of college. Must have been a **** summer if I signed up here.

I posted for a while and went about 6 years without. Started posting again about a year ago.

ILoveYourVibes

I was you.

Potential-Monke

Pretty sure I signed up just to post in the gaming forum. Can't quite recall. But, I was 24, so was working for O2 and GameStop at the time, with a bit of waiting inbetween. Was shortly before I became a Garda. Full of life, great outlook.

Roll on 13 years and I hate humanity, I hate work, I hate hierarchy, I pretty much hate everything but I'm loving life compared to 5 years ago. Not so great outlook anymore, and I've given up trying to be part of the machine that is society and all the expectations that go with it. Being a Garda for 9 years really opened my eyes to how low people can go, or just how little people actually care about each other or their fellow man.

And I still stick by that. People will be all nice to your face and discuss every small detail of your life to their gossiping friends. They'd put you under a bus if it benefited them, and I also including those who actually come across as genuinely nice and caring. They'd give their life for something they believe deserves it, but not just for anyone.

Thought we'd have proper self driving by now, and maybe even space (read: orbit) travel. It's all coming, just taking longer than I expected.

o1s1n

Was just after starting 6th year in school.

9/11 terrorist attack had happened the month before so we were all a bit anxious as to what was about to unfold on a global scale. Weird time to be leaving school.

Scuid Mhór

I am a lot more mature now and much more settled personality-wise. Looking back on my posts when I was in my mid-teens, I don't even recognise myself. I suppose it would be much more worrying if I felt I hadn't changed at all. I do appreciate the 2008 registration date though.

ILoveYourVibes

I've only joined last year ..ive been ten other people since then.....

touts

I was me.

ILoveYourVibes

touts wrote: »

I was me.

How long have you been you?

Mr. CooL ICE

Some nerd trying to find somewhere online to play quake

ILoveYourVibes

I was MATT DAMON!

touts

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

How long have you been you?

I started being me when I got tired being the other fella.

This is it

Over 10 years now, I was unemployed but heading back to college as a mature student. Simpler times then but 10 years later and again, I'm heading back to college as a mature student. Happily employed though thankfully

touts

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I was MATT DAMON!

How's the pub crawl going in Clonmel?

Church on Tuesday

Myself, just 3 years younger.

ILoveYourVibes

touts wrote: »

How's the pub crawl going in Clonmel?

AH LADS ITS THE BOLLOCKS! :pac:

An Ri rua

I was original me, before I murdered my best friend and took his wife and his identity. They'd just returned from Australia. He left when he was a kid. She was soooo hot.
She's 15 years older now, so in fairness she tires quicker. But she's still hot. And she makes great tiramisu. Which is nice.
His relations can be so annoying. Can we visit? No!!

An Ri rua

An Ri rua wrote: »

I was original me, before I murdered my best friend and took his wife and his identity. They'd just returned from Australia. He left when he was a kid. She was soooo hot.
She's 15 years older now, so in fairness she tires quicker. But she's still hot. And she makes great tiramisu. Which is nice.
His relations can be so annoying. Can we visit? No!!

Did that occur before you came to in the alley, a faded Tesco bag of empty Dutchies as your pillow? The elaborate dream sequence in Dallas has competition. In actual fact it doesn't, a humdrum scenario borne of a limited imagination doesn't remotely compare.

An Ri rua

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Did that occur before you came to in the alley, a faded Tesco bag of empty Dutchies as your pillow? The elaborate dream sequence in Dallas has competition. In actual fact it doesn't, a humdrum scenario borne of a limited imagination doesn't remotely compare.

Don't be too hard on yourself, your imagination goes beyond limited occasionally. Your posts bear it out.

ILoveYourVibes

An Ri rua wrote: »

Don't be too hard on yourself, your imagination goes beyond limited occasionally. Your posts bear it out.

Subtle shade.

gozunda

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I've only joined last year ..ive been ten other people since then.....

You'll always be you to me - vibes ...

gozunda

Was fighting a pangalatic battle for survival in the outmost reaches of the omega galaxy. Took on the forces of evil and prevailed. Went through fire to come out transformed into stronger metal. Now don’t give two figs / have the tee-shirt & life's too short philosophy not to call out the bs where it rears it's ugly head ...

PoisonIvyBelle

Man, you're going back 15 years now. I was busting my ass off between work and college, but loving Dublin and getting to know people (boards was a really good place for that, back then). Nowadays I'm self employed, all going well, still in Dublin (lived abroad a bit but always end up back here ). Don't use boards as much (re-regged for the odd post), there was a significant drop in craic a few years ago and the old vibe just never returned IMO.

ILoveYourVibes

gozunda wrote: »

You'll always be you to me - vibes ...

You will always be Matt Damon to me!

Goodshape

I forgot the password for my od account so I created this one.

19 years later and I'm not even sure what the old username was anymore.

Funny how things change, yet stay the same.

gozunda

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

You will always be Matt Damon to me!

I don't know who Matt Damon is

ILoveYourVibes

gozunda wrote: »

I don't know who Matt Damon is

Its more of a state of physical energy. Like a vortex from which there is no escape.

gozunda

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Its more of a state of physical energy. Like a vortex from which there is no escape.

True ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U8d2ilbWpM

Roleplaying nerd. I think i joined for the DAOC (Dark Age of Camelot) forum posts originally, although it could have been something else. Used to work in an internet cafe and boards was commonly used by the other employees. Handy to dispel boredom. Unfortunately, I found the old Humanities and Politics forums and got hooked on arguing.

Errashareesh

I was the most annoying far left gimp you could imagine - at the time (2005). Still not as bad as the current crop, but nevertheless a head wreck. Delighted if any discussions from a conservative point of view got shut down.

About 2015/16 I started to question the ideology I clung to. I always knew deep down there were serious inconsistencies and hypocrisies, but only then did I start to examine them.

I haven't become a big mad fascist (which is what some believe could be the only possible outcome) - I'm just not automatically supporting the extremely liberal point of view at all costs.

Necro

Back from Australia, unemployed and newly married. Like completedit I joined mainly to follow the wrestling forum and take part in the draft each year.

Rarely posted at all until I found Forum Games... and well... the rest is history.

Two kids in the interim so they keep me rather busy

ILoveYourVibes

Errashareesh wrote: »

I was the most annoying far left gimp you could imagine - at the time (2005). Still not as bad as the current crop, but nevertheless a head wreck. Delighted if any discussions from a conservative point of view got shut down.

About 2015/16 I started to question the ideology I clung to. I always knew deep down there were serious inconsistencies and hypocrisies, but only then did I start to examine them.

I haven't become a big mad fascist (which is what some believe could be the only possible outcome) - I'm just not automatically supporting the extremely liberal point of view at all costs.

OK but WHO were you?

Onshuh

I was a monk when I joined. I'm a Rabbi now.

Think I joined at the end of a process of self improvement that brought me from the worst place in my life to a very good place.

I had also gotten into a strange relationship a couple years before and it was settling down and we were trying for a child - and are now 3 kids into a planned 4.

So I think when I first joined it was the first time in my life I might have something to offer on here. Not sure if I ever did - but I felt I could at the time.

I still feel I have something to offer in my life now 11 years later. But probably not on here. Mostly in the offline real world. My presence here is pretty useless now I feel

Trekker09

Joined when I lived in PNG and missed home. It was surreal reading about issues back home and the normality of it was like a comfort blanket.

Really just lurked and browsed but like the Cycling and music forums.