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How has boardsie changed you ?

Thanx 4 The Fish · 2002-11-23 21:43:14

I would never usually walk up to somebody I have never met in the street and shake hands with them talking about faerie-prostitutes, especially with others about but yest I approached a guy I only know from a picture in yorema and proffered my hand, which he bemusedly shook. So what if any changes has boardsie made to you…

23-11-2002 9:43pm

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I would never usually walk up to somebody I have never met in the street and shake hands with them talking about faerie-prostitutes, especially with others about but yest I approached a guy I only know from a picture in yorema and proffered my hand, which he bemusedly shook.

So what if any changes has boardsie made to you ?

Possibly at christmas beer would be a more appropriate way to meet fellow boards members, I think I owe you a pint hoe, if only for the look on your face

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#2 23-11-2002 10:27pm

El Marco

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Well for one it opened my mind, as here you get a broad veiw on a matter instead of say a close group of freinds who would share similar veiws causing you to be a close minded fool.

And trolling someone in real life is harder to do than here.

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#3 24-11-2002 1:41am

helpmepls

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It changed my views on homosexaulity, im not as ignorant as i once was. I feel ashamed when i look back at my old way of thinking.

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#4 24-11-2002 2:31am

yankinlk

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discovered the internet isnt all that scary/unfriendly/only used by those loooking for donkey pr0n

anyone ever read someone's post on boards, then realize/suspect you know them in "real life" ?

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#5 24-11-2002 12:50pm

Karl Hungus

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I was once a man... Just like you...
I used to work in a chicken restuarant... Just like you...

But I don't work in a chicken restuarant.

DONT LOOK AT ME!!!

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#6 24-11-2002 12:58pm

azezil

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Originally posted by El Marco
Well for one it opened my mind, as here you get a broad veiw on a matter instead of say a close group of freinds who would share similar veiws causing you to be a close minded fool.

ditto ... and it made me more comfortable with who i am* 0_o

*A spammy whore!

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#7 24-11-2002 1:30pm

Gordon

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I think boards.ie is making my arse look big in this.

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#8 24-11-2002 1:30pm

GoneShootin

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improved typing skills

ability to spam AC/DC to the entire boards.ie population with the touch of a button [or two]

i know you guys love me !

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#9 24-11-2002 3:19pm

chernobyl

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It has'nt.

Its just a good community.

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#10 24-11-2002 3:51pm

Bard

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If it weren't for Boards.ie, I'd never have gotten arrested...

That's about it.

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#11 24-11-2002 7:30pm

yellum

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Well I met some good friends through Boards , I even got it on with one of them :P

Its not changed me but I get to converse with people who on occassion post some intelligent fragments

It also got me sex, so nice one Boards

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#12 24-11-2002 7:46pm

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lots of ways...

1. Reading & replying to threads helped my writing ability along, bringing me from a D3 to a B1 in my LC
2. I have learnt an thought allot in my time here
3. I cyber came out on the boards
4. lots of other stuff

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#13 24-11-2002 8:14pm

Repli

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Originally posted by chernobyl
It has'nt.

Its just a good community.

I agree.. i wouldn't let an internet forum change my life..
I kno it's powerful and has the ability to lobby companies and get them to reduce prices/provide better services/etc.. but changing your personal life ? I don't think so..

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#14 24-11-2002 9:14pm

El Marco

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Thats bs in all fairness, think of all the things you know know and how you feel about differant issues, now imagine them as you would if you had never visited the boards in your life. It mightn't have made you act differant but your perceptions of things must have changed.

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#15 24-11-2002 9:30pm

monument

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its used up a bit of my time

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#16 24-11-2002 10:18pm

Repli

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Originally posted by El Marco
Thats bs in all fairness, think of all the things you know know and how you feel about differant issues, now imagine them as you would if you had never visited the boards in your life.

Well the majority of my posts were on the counter-strike/games/for sale
board.. and i don't think talking about a game, is gonna change my life dramatically.. or in any way at all.. same applies for selling/buying things..

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#17 24-11-2002 10:22pm

BuffyBot

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Originally posted by El Marco
Thats bs in all fairness, think of all the things you know know and how you feel about differant issues, now imagine them as you would if you had never visited the boards in your life. It mightn't have made you act differant but your perceptions of things must have changed.

I don't think boards.ie, or anything I've read on it has changed my opinions. Enjoyable sure, but its not something that has "changed" me into anything other than what I was pre-boards

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#18 24-11-2002 11:37pm

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Quite frankly, if boards.ie hasn't changed your life drastically, you're using it wrong.

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#19 24-11-2002 11:43pm

Kali

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Its tripled my phone bill. Goddamnit.

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#20 24-11-2002 11:48pm

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It's made me a sad, bitter individual with an internet addiction ... oh it hasn't changed me then ... other than knowing what it's like to be groped by amp .... :eek:

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#21 24-11-2002 11:48pm

[CALIBUR]

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boards changed me by given me more friends (lot of enemy's) And also thick skin.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=14632

(HANDS ON FACE)
wtf was I thinking

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#22 24-11-2002 11:52pm

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Originally posted by AngelWhore
Quite frankly, if boards.ie hasn't changed your life drastically, you're using it wrong.

Quite frankly, if you can't change your life drastically on your own, you're doing something wrong.

It's just a web site. It's just a community. It just happens to be a very very good one.

Gerroverit

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#23 24-11-2002 11:59pm

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but has given people to come togeter and get drunk. But I'm not sad loser who stays in at the weekends

[edit]ahhh, the good old edit - Luc [/edit]

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#24 25-11-2002 12:01am

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Originally posted by #MEAT#
but has given people to come togeter and get dunk.

Yea...we all love getting dunk.

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#25 25-11-2002 12:21am

Karl Hungus

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Originally posted by Bard
Quite frankly, if you can't change your life drastically on your own, you're doing something wrong.

No, I think I'm doing it pretty well.
Hence not needing to change it drastically...

Wait...
I need to change things drastically now, where's the plastic surgeon?

btw, this is no joke, I want a nose job, I hate my nose.

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#26 25-11-2002 12:25am

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Originally posted by AngelWhore
No, I think I'm doing it pretty well.
Hence not needing to change it drastically...

... pff... you're the one who's bitching on IRC about needing a girlfriend ...

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