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After hours no longer a safe place for irreverent humour.

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  • #62
    Colser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,572 ✭✭✭Colser


    Winterlong wrote:
    Close the place down. Open a new sub forum with a clear purpose/identity of what it is and what it wants to be. And let people interact without fear of getting shut down for breaking some nonsensical rule like 'chatting'. We dont need another thunderdome but it's a bit like North Korea in here sometimes.

    Take the TTTAY thread as an example...I used to really enjoy it and genuinely laughed every day at some posts,sad as it sounds but I really looked forward to reading it every day but now I definitely think twice before posting and often delete before posting something in case it's ott..


  • #63
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    hannible the cannible wrote: »
    As long as people can get offended it won't change , a discussion forum should be just that , if you get offended by any thing in any way you should fůck right off

    Spot on. The charter should be amended. I propose the following :

    "If you take offence from anything posted by another poster in After Hours, you will receive a warning from the moderators, and take time out. If you consider yourself vulnerable to the tone of AH hours and that you might take offence, please do not follow this forum. Repeated taking of offence will result in permanent bans from this forum. This is to ensure discussion and debate are not stifled or shut down by offence takers, and that free speech and exchanges of views can take place."


  • #64
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Too many pseudo intellectual armchair psychologists and not enough comedians. Or is it the other way around? I don't even know anymore.

    Needs more people like Joe brolly :D:D


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Colser wrote: »
    Take the TTTAY thread as an example...I used to really enjoy it and genuinely laughed every day at some posts,sad as it sounds but I really looked forward to reading it every day but now I definitely think twice before posting and often delete before posting something in case it's ott..

    I couldn't agree with this more.


  • #66
    Fleawuss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    By that you mean the second coming of Ronald Regan. America's best and only choice. The saviour of the 1%. I for one believe in The Donald.

    RobbingBandit praises Trump and is thanked by The Highwayman. :eek:



    I am not making this up!

    Gotta love AH.


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  • #67
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Spot on. The charter should be amended. I propose the following :

    "If you take offence from anything posted by another poster in After Hours, you will receive a warning from the moderators, and take time out. If you consider yourself vulnerable to the tone of AH hours and that you might take offence, please do not follow this forum. Repeated taking of offence will result in permanent bans from this forum. This is to ensure discussion and debate are not stifled or shut down by offence takers, and that free speech and exchanges of views can take place."

    I dunno, I've seen another website that rhymes with goat that has a similar philosophy and it's not exactly a great place for debate or a barrel of laughs


  • #68
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Well it's hard to be humorous when one has to be so politically correct.

    For example there was some vacuous thread I commented on couple of months back where some guy asked 'why are women always textin'. Stupid question required a stupid answer so I said they're not textin , they're just trying to turn their phones on. I was expecting to get 100,000 thanks. Well, take the 1 off the front of that number and that's wot I got, and I think some people were genuinely upset.


  • #69
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    learn_more wrote: »
    For example there was some vacuous thread I commented on couple of months back where some guy asked 'why are women always textin'. Stupid question required a stupid answer so I said they're not textin , they're just trying to turn their phones on.

    Consider that a late thanks.


  • #70
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    Consider that a late thanks.

    99,999 to go.


  • #71
    JohanFr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭JohanFr


    Mister Vain wrote: »
    Too many pseudo intellectual armchair psychologists and not enough comedians. Or is it the other way around? I don't even know anymore.

    How does that make you feel about your ma.


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  • #72
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Don't use the site as much as I used too,its gone far too sterile for my liking,there is a certain clique on it who seem to be under the impression if they shout down others opinions\thoughts that it will somehow make it dissapear in the real world...how odd


  • #73
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,209 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Show us with the Report button where the bad poster touched you.
















    You are touched, right?

    Not your ornery onager



  • #74
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Edit: Wrong thread !


  • #75
    slapper999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭slapper999


    You can just go and fcuk right off.


  • #76
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm very fond of this place but it's a bit safe at times. I hate the whole right wing left wing thing. People have opinions and that's the end of it. Let them be free to air them. Don't want the country being turned in to the Middle East? Then it should be ok to say so. A Donald Trump supporter? Tell us about it. Horrible experiences with travellers? That's ok too. *Find the idea of special transgender toilets silly? I'm all ears.


    *they are silly. pick one and use it*

    Except these things are ok to say here. We have thread after thread of people moaning about immigration as a whole and specifically Muslims immigrating. Same with Trump. Where this echo chamber stuff is coming from is beyond me.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #77
    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Bring back Terry. Oh and allow pictures FFS. It's 2016, not 1996.

    For once I agree with Wibbs.

    I remember when all this was goatse. And Terry. Lots of Terry. In the nip.


  • #78
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    slapper999 wrote: »
    You can just go and fcuk right off.

    Horray... back to the old days now...

    Your mother just posted.. ya you... the person reading this now


  • #79
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    I blame millennials.


  • #80
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Silverfish wrote: »
    For once I agree with Wibbs.

    I remember when all this was goatse. And Terry. Lots of Terry. In the nip.

    What's a Terry?


  • #81
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What's a Terry?

    A mod from the days when mods were real mods and not the man bun lumbersexuals we have today.


    (jk!)


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  • #82
    Fluffy Cat 88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Fluffy Cat 88


    Winterlong wrote: »

    Know any good Daffodil jokes?

    No, but I know a rhyme;

    I wandered lonely as a cloud,
    That floats on high o'er plains and hills,
    When all at once, I saw a crowd,
    Get off my fukkin daffodils.

    :D


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Except these things are ok to say here. We have thread after thread of people moaning about immigration as a whole and specifically Muslims immigrating. Same with Trump. Where this echo chamber stuff is coming from is beyond me.

    Is it ok for me to say that I think gender neutral clothes and toys for children are completely over the top? Or that some parts of the feminist movement can cause men to become emasculated? That I don't want to live next door to a halting site and the idea of open borders worries me?


  • #84
    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What's a Terry?

    A Terry is a rare apparition that some say you can still see in front of the spire in the dead of night, and reflecting in the light of the full moon you can see his .... full moon.


  • #85
    Mark Tapley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Mark Tapley


    superfurry1 wrote: »
    After hours has turned into a PC newsflash advice thread for shame, i guess it was always going to happen. And this thread wont last very long.

    I blame the self serving right wing wãnker brigade.

    Edit - and wibbs the edgy fùcker.


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Silverfish wrote: »
    A Terry is a rare apparition that some say you can still see in front of the spire in the dead of night, and reflecting in the light of the full moon you can see his .... full moon.

    Oh is he one of the attention se, I mean one of the ones who stripped off for charity? Or something?


    :p


  • #87
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Is it ok for me to say that I think gender neutral clothes and toys for children are completely over the top? Or that some parts of the feminist movement can cause men to become emasculated? That I don't want to live next door to a halting site and the idea of open borders worries me?

    Of course! Why on earth wouldn't it be?

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #88
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ancapailldorcha wrote: »
    Of course! Why on earth wouldn't it be?

    I don't know *embarrassed face*


  • #89
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 42,639 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I don't know *embarrassed face*

    I've noticed a tendency among some people to classify any sort of dissent as an echo chamber for some reason. We seem to moving away form debate and more towards echo chambers and safe spaces in general so it makes sense that this way of thinking would pervade Boards.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #90
    Hammer89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,004 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    I wrote a post about travellers the other night and I later edited it to include the sentence, 'I've come across some nice travellers too', which is a complete lie because I haven't, but I hand-on-heart felt obliged to throw that in there incase I was accused of being racist against travellers and generalising.


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  • #91
    learn_more
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    Silverfish wrote: »
    For once I agree with Wibbs.

    Wibbs is on 35,885 posts. Don't think yis should ever meet in real life.


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