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What do you miss about After Hours?

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  • #32
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Allah snackbar wrote: »
    What the fcuk was face kicker about , he asked if you'd like a kick in the face , if that's the golden era I'm away off out of here , come to think of it there's very few forums with the diversity of after hours .

    Forestry and farming forum , they just agree with one another and hound out anyone that doesn't agree with them or goes against farming

    Cycling forums , every one in a car is a cnut

    Soccer forums , Irish people fighting over English teams and referring to " their team " in the first person

    Lgbt forum , I'm a victim of discrimination in Ireland in 2017 , this must be what it was like for black people in Alabama in the 50s

    Religious and atheists forums , my non belief in the great sky fairy in the clouds is more important than your belief in the great sky fairy in the clouds , praise be unto Allah or whoever the fcuk you're into these days

    At least in after hours you can have a bit of banter and a bit of lateral thinking , it's not one big circle jerk of people agreeing with everything in the op and back slapping each other on their similarities

    I could post in a few other forums like farming or soccer but I think too much agreement is as bad as too much disagreement , in after hours people seem to get it right a lot of the time

    Have a **** and stay away from yourself


  • #33
    Son0vagun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Son0vagun


    recyclebin wrote: »
    The list of legendary boards threads hasn't been updated since early 2013 :(

    This is true, still the best thing I ever did.


  • #34
    DrumSteve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    I was there.

    It was okay,bit of a circle jerk though among the usuals.


  • #35
    Allah snackbar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 161 ✭✭Allah snackbar


    The Moldy Gowl wrote: »
    Have a **** and stay away from yourself

    Oxymoron ???


  • #36
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Thelomen Toblackai wrote: »
    It really highlights how bad this place is when a fella offering kicks in the face, an idiot talking about taking shíts along with "blast it with piss" and "yore ma" being posted in every single thread is considered the golden age of the forum....

    Bitter salty tears.


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  • #37
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    I find Boards.ie way more engaging and entertaining than anything I ever got from Facebook and the rest which I largely don't really use much anymore now that the novelty of them has fully worn off. Educational too I might add.


  • #38
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,471 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    The Rock & Metal forum isn't what it used to be when I joined under my original account in 2006. There were lots of great posters and interesting discussions back then.

    These days it's middle-aged bores discussing only two topics - Guns n' Roses and Metallica.


  • #39
    FizzleSticks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


    This post has been deleted.


  • #40
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    FizzleSticks wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    It's the old Mods and Rockers battle.. the Mods always win. It's Brighton all over again.


  • #41
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    After hours is still a good place to go on the internet imo. It use to be one of the few places you could go. So it attracted more people and or people posted a larger array of subject matter here.

    My oldest account that I can't find now is 2001.
    I think these days that there are more specialised sites that do a better job for particular activities. Say Facebook for the photography forums etc.

    I use to meet people from boards, I have friends from boards but I use to notice that a lot of men were on boards to get women, or at least to interact with them. I don't know if any of the relationships lasted.

    They'd do stupid things because it was different or you could post about it. Some of it was sad and desperate, a lot of them fought over women, some of the women craved the attention. I think boards offered both types something the real-world couldn't.
    Yet some of it was great, funny and genuine, it out weighed the other stuff. There are specialised sites just for dating now, so boards has lost out on the men showing off element.

    I completed a thesis on metaworlds and how they encroached on real life, this was years ago. I recruited some people for surveys for metaworlds here but essentially boards was one too, full of people acting out a different part of their personality online, trying to find themselves, to fit in.

    The world has moved on I think. People are also a little bit more afraid to be different in different ways, it's more about treating your dog like a child, in your face non religious posts by people who think it makes them sound intelligent when they joke about the faith of others, or cycling threads.
    Cycle to the dog creche on a Tuesday, the day you decided is your transgender day, laughing at Santy God as you try to find ignorant motorists to sort out and post about later.

    The soccer forum was always a train wreck to be fair.

    I think people prefer self promoting mediums more now and just being pighead doesn't cut it if only boards members know it.

    But it's still a great place to go as far as I'm concerned. I made good friends here and received great advice here too.


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  • #42
    Werido
    Site Banned Posts: 26 ✭Werido


    Back when it wasn't ground zero for the pc, sjw morality police and you could have a bit of craic without crybabies calling for the mods to SHUT IT DOWN.


  • #43
    mcsaddle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 19 ✭mcsaddle


    blast he she it with pi**


  • #44
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Werido wrote: »
    Back when it wasn't ground zero for the pc, sjw morality police and you could have a bit of craic without crybabies calling for the mods to SHUT IT DOWN.
    Back when you joined, in May 2017?

    Oh, to revisit the halcyon days of your first post.... When was it...? Earlier on, IIRC?


  • #45
    Werido
    Site Banned Posts: 26 ✭Werido


    hurr durr I never even heard of burds.ie until now...hurrr...


  • #46
    mcsaddle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 19 ✭mcsaddle


    endacl wrote: »
    Back when you joined, in May 2017?

    Oh, to revisit the halcyon days of your first post.... When was it...? Earlier on, IIRC?

    well said enda,

    why don't you tell him/her to fukk hemselves

    attack the may regs

    make bords great again


  • #47
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Werido wrote: »
    hurr durr I never even heard of burds.ie until now...hurrr...

    What was your last account called, just out of interest?


  • #48
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    mcsaddle wrote: »
    well said enda,

    why don't you tell him/her to fukk hemselves

    Coz I'm polite an' sh1t.


  • #49
    Werido
    Site Banned Posts: 26 ✭Werido


    It was called 'I ****ed yer ma'


  • #50
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Werido wrote: »
    It was called 'I ****ed yer ma'

    No, that wasn't it. C'mon now. You can do better!


  • #51
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    endacl wrote:
    What was your last account called, just out of interest?


    Bubbles!!!

    Remember that one old timers and reregs

    Don't even mention the name !!!


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  • #52
    Werido
    Site Banned Posts: 26 ✭Werido


    No it wasn't. But I did ride the hole of yer ma.


  • #53
    mcsaddle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 19 ✭mcsaddle


    endacl wrote: »
    Coz I'm polite an' sh1t.

    just rerport me to peregrine,

    i'll be banned in 2 seconds,

    you win again


  • #54
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    mcsaddle wrote: »
    just rerport me to peregrine,

    i'll be banned in 2 seconds,

    you win again

    What does 'rerport' mean?


  • #55
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    member-berries-member-the-internet-before-tumblr-ah-i-member.jpg


  • #56
    Werido
    Site Banned Posts: 26 ✭Werido


    Internet in general was way better before smartphones came out and normies discovered it.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A lot of the time when I see people expressing fondness for this particular forum and how it isn't fun anymore because of sjws/ mods etc,

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  • #58
    Werido
    Site Banned Posts: 26 ✭Werido


    In fairness I think it has got better. A lot of the more notorious snowflakes seem to have rage quit and the mods seemed to lighten up, a bit.


  • #59
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    One of the last great threads was Duggy747's So my housemate tried to kill me last night hence why its in the legendary threads thread, that was back in 2012 so take what you can from that. We were all mad for updates of that one. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=74611340

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #60
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    riffmongous wrote: »
    A lot of the time when I see people expressing fondness for this particular forum and how it isn't fun anymore because of sjws/ mods etc,

    347646.jpg?b64lines=IFRoZSBtYW4gbmV2ZXIgcG9zdGVkCiBhIG1lbWUgaW4gaGlzIGxpZmU=

    One think I don't care for is meme's. They don't tend to make me laugh out loud anymore and I think there is something a lot better in a witty remark than a copy and pasted meme. Not that I'm knocking you personally riffmonagous.


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  • #61
    nadleia
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 24 ✭nadleia


    i miss that drunken bog-hopper from donegal who always played he drunken tunes on a monday night


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