Posters past and present who impinge on your thoughts.

Hamachi

This thread may have been done before, but it’s worth revisiting on a slow New Year’s Eve.

Are there any posters, past or present, who have left an impression on you, either fleeting or lasting? Perhaps you consider how their lives turned out or where they are today? Let’s not reference anybody directly by their user name to avoid personal confrontations. I’ll get the ball rolling..

This time about 10 years ago, I was living abroad. There was another poster on Boards who was an English teacher in Spain. I used to really enjoy reading her almost daily slice-of-life updates from Madrid. Even though I was leading a very different, more corporate life in a highly dissimilar culture, it was comforting to read the trials and tribulations of another Irish person grappling with a new language and forging relationships in a different society. Unfortunately, said poster disappeared entirely after several years. I sometimes wonder did she stay in Spain or ever return to Ireland. Either way, I hope everything worked out well for her.

A second poster crosses my mind in a less positive context. This person recently returned in a new guise and posts almost obsessively about one topic, spanning virtually the entire Christmas / holiday period. It saddens me a little that this poster clearly has few personal connections, in the familial, romantic, or platonic sense. My wish for this person in 2024 is to put down the phone / laptop and try building some offline relationships that may bring some meaning to their life.

Over to you fellow Boardsies. Who are your contemporaries on the site who give you pause for thought, either positively or negatively?

banie01

There have been a few, 2 that spring most to mind were 2 powerhouse women who played a big part in getting the bereavement sub-forum started back in late noughties. That particular sub was a huge help to me at my lowest and it's thanks to those 2 in particular IMO. They not only shared their own pain & loss, they helped many others through their own.

There are a couple of others that I often find myself nodding along when reading, perhaps more out of confirmation bias than any great insight 😉

z80CPU

Two male posters, one who is a mod not Beasty in case anyone's thinking. Haven't seen either of them in a while here.

That been said there are some very strong biases emerging on the boards site in general in 2023, and HOW DARE YOU EVEN SUGGEST A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE apart from this.

jackboy

Graces7 who lived on an island and made poetic contributions to weather threads.

Donald Trump

The poster of Raquel Welch wearing the leopard-skin bikini.

Cluedo Monopoly

I like Donald Trump

Hibernicis

De Vore / Tom Murphy who kicked boards off and who was in that way at least partially responsible for whatever good boards has done and the benefits that many people have derived from boards.

Gloomtastic!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121553825#Comment_121553825

Sorry, this place is a much better place without her poisonous posts. I bet you €10 she reported one of your posts for some dubious nonsense that went on in her head and over yours and ours. ‘Peace and God be with you’ my arse!

fullstop

I always wondered if Pighead looked like his avatar, or was a devilishly handsome stud. The latter most likely.

StevenToast

Buttersuki for their outstanding contributions on the various Radio Forums....also helped to bring down Tubridy for a finish...."delicious".....

Also took a disgusting level of abuse from the Noel Kelly apologists....

Thank you for your service Buttersuki....

FattyBolger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121553995#Comment_121553995

Sorry someone on Boards.ie helped bring down Ryan Tubridy? How did they manage that? I thought Ryan Tubridy was brought down by an audit in RTÉ.

Leg End Reject

I often wonder what the Walter Mitty types and trolls are like in real life.

I worry about the posters who can't seem to leave their own home without tripping over angry middle-aged men.

Plenty of good skins here too, they're definitely in the majority.

Leg End Reject

I heard Aongus was originally in the army, died on the loo - a flash in the pan if you like, and was reincarnated as a doctor. I bet he's still here.

BrianD3

During the Great Financial Crisis, I would regularly fume while reading posts on this site and from one poster in particular. A poster who used to boast about his millions and investments while constantly criticising public servants, especially teachers. I subsequently heard that this poster was probably a massive Walter Mitty but I never saw any proof of that.

The criticism was incessant although it wasn't just boards posters who were at this, it was in the media constantly too. My reaction to this was to double down on my already frugal lifestyle to both improve my finances and also to keep as much of my money as possible away from private sector businesses. I encouraged others in real life to do the same.

Hamachi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554062#Comment_121554062

I always enjoyed his posts too, particularly his supposed relationship with a German countess!

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554080#Comment_121554080

...singing his own praises. 😀

DBB

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554060#Comment_121554060

Lol, would you stop 😂😂😂

EmmetSpiceland

A Tyrant Named Miltiades, a genuinely sound poster run off the site when some Radio forum fanatics got too close to his personal life. A great loss to the site.

Honourable mentions to RogerHassenforder, Guy Person/Wayne Jarvis, Diamonds of Frost and, of course, my nemesis, Buile Beag.

Titzon Toast

Face Kicker. It was his solution to everything.

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121553825#Comment_121553825

Graces7 is/was grand, a bit idiosyncratic but sure variety is the spice of life. Last I saw of her, she was run off the Enoch Burke thread for some innocuous offering that offended the people there.

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554060#Comment_121554060

It's Christmas, go read the Christianity forum 😉

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554088#Comment_121554088

Probably living in the woods with the rest of the bears

Princess Calla

There was a regular poster that I always found sound. Loved his job and big into martial arts.

He rage quit.

So if he's lurking and is reading this...hello... happy new year 🎊

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554215#Comment_121554215

That could be 2 posters I'm thinking of, and both of them seriously sound skins and big losses to the site. 1 was approaching the end of his time in the Army IIRC, the other was also big into his MA and spent a bit of time as a mod on the Limerick forum.

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554264#Comment_121554264

Army dude 😎

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554352#Comment_121554352

Seriously sound skin and always an engaging poster IMO.

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554362#Comment_121554362

He always struck me as a person , if you got yourself into a jam, he'd be the first to help you out of it, if he could.

StevenToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554386#Comment_121554386

I'd say you were a fan of the Abominable Dr. Phibes aswell Mr. Dugnutt?

Deep Thought

Its not a specific poster I guess , but am in the watches forum.. @Wibbs is the mod and is really sound.

some threads go from selling a watch to then being a way of people sharing what they have gone through in their lives.. good and bad.

Nearly everyone is open to having the chats and supporting each other.

nice place to be

banie01

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121554535#Comment_121554535

+1 on this, as I often say, it really is the nicest corner of boards👍

The only problem with it tho, is that now I have 12 watches and no money 🤑

SynBin

I've been a keen reader of this site for a number of years now but rarely post, and usually only then to air my gripes about the very poor standard of English grammar and spelling I see here. My posts are so seldom that I even forgot my previous user credentials and had to register once again.

I always enjoy reading the many comments posted by one particular user, who's an ardent supporter of the vision of a united Ireland (we'll see if that comes to pass within the next 20 years) and the counter-arguments presented with an equal level of passion by a small number of enthusiastic posters. The fervent adherent of the concept uses the name of a troubled fictional character from literature (and from a film based on the book), while one of his main "adversaries" is obviously a Northern Irish unionist and yet another one would appear to be from the northwest of Dublin (judging by their user name).

I look forward to their ongoing debates in 2024, particularly as an election would seem to be inevitable and SF may or may not play a significant role in the next government.

I wrote that poor grammar is a bugbear of mine, so I'd like to point out to the fan of a united Ireland that "its" is the possessive form of it, not "it's" - e.g. the state and its laws (not it's laws). Oh, and the plural of party is parties, not party's. We can all learn from each other.

Happy New Year!

HildaOgdenx

Mod - We'll leave it at that.

Threads like this invariably end up with posters taking potshots at others, as is already happening. And discussing posters who are no longer on the site which is unfair.

Hilda