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  • #32
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭storker


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I'm not gonna say that it's not funny. It's funny. It's actually gas I think. Why is it so funny though?!?

    I don't get it. :confused:


  • #33
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,675 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    But op aren't you part of the problem. Waltzing into threads throwing out one liner antagonistic posts and then expecting not to get a response.


    I mean the forum is a product of its posts


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    Ah it depends on the threads that you frequent. I usually don't even bother with abortion/feminism/dole threads because it's the same old fighting and arguments and crap. I just ignore them and post in the lovely threads, like TH, TA and "Where are you now?" where arseholes are generally not welcome and are given short shrift.

    I actually don't like those types of threads at all, they seem too chatty and sometimes I wonder if they are detrimental to new content generation on AH, it's not so bad at the moment but sometimes the main page is just covered in megathreads. But that's just my 2c


  • #35
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Tommy Ferguson wrote: »
    Have you someone keeping you’re account going 24/7 you’re thanking and posting everywhere.
    Over the last few years I've too much time on my hands T, so its either posting and thanking on Boards or I'd **** myself to death. Or at least to the local casualty department.

    Me. Earlier.

    newjackcity2.jpg

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #36
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    When I joined Boards I was strongly advised to stay out of After Hours, because it was just full of morons and idiots. The Cuckoo's Nest was where the intelligentsia went for their fun. They never needed a Thanks button either, when that came in. Not many of that old gang around these days, not with their original accounts anyway.

    A lot has changed in 11 years. And even then there were often threads saying that After Hours, and, indeed, Boards.ie had changed from even earlier times.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    When I joined Boards I was strongly advised to stay out of After Hours, because it was just full of morons and idiots. The Cuckoo's Nest was where the intelligentsia went for their fun. They never needed a Thanks button either, when that came in. Not many of that old gang around these days, not with their original accounts anyway.

    A lot has changed in 11 years. And even then there were often threads saying that After Hours, and, indeed, Boards.ie had changed from even earlier times.
    That attitude to AH still exists in many other forums here.


  • #38
    Odhinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,050 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Grayson wrote: »
    I remember when all this was fields


    ....fields littered with the free prams of asylum seekers and the discarded old sky satellite dishes of the unemployed.


  • #39
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    riffmongous wrote: »
    I actually don't like those types of threads at all, they seem too chatty and sometimes I wonder if they are detrimental to new content generation on AH, it's not so bad at the moment but sometimes the main page is just covered in megathreads. But that's just my 2c

    I'm not really sure how a thread can be too chatty, for me that's the purpose of boards, I'm not here to argue with everyone.


  • #40
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    I'm not really sure how a thread can be too chatty, for me that's the purpose of boards, I'm not here to argue with everyone.
    Speak for yourself woman! :D

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #41
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    I'm not really sure how a thread can be too chatty, for me that's the purpose of boards, I'm not here to argue with everyone.

    Oh yes you are


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  • #42
    LadyMacBeth_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭LadyMacBeth_


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Speak for yourself woman! :D
    Don Kiddick wrote: »
    Oh yes you are

    I see what ye are doing there :D


  • #43
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    I see what ye are doing there :D

    I don't have to mansplain it to you so?

    :D


  • #44
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    I'm not really sure how a thread can be too chatty, for me that's the purpose of boards, I'm not here to argue with everyone.

    It all happened around the time the other social forums kicked off. BGRH, The Ladies Lounge, C&H, etc. A few n00bs felt left out because they weren't "in" on some of the in-jokes, and so started a long campaign to shut down "cliques". Flirting was outlawed too. It never made a whole lot of sense to me. Memes (like the ones Wibbs highlighted above) were banned too.

    The things that added to a sense of community were cut because some new users didn't feel like they could be part of that community. Be careful what you wish for, I suppose.


  • #45
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    Sometimes Ive had a few glasses of veno when I post on here.. I try not to offend anyone...

    (btw. your ma is so fat that when she fell down the stairs I thought East Enders was starting)


  • #46
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    I'm not really sure how a thread can be too chatty, for me that's the purpose of boards, I'm not here to argue with everyone.

    Agree. Otherwise we'd never have met and wouldn't be boards besties :) :pac:


  • #47
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    One thing I miss is those old spam threads with titles like "Is this dress too sexy for my sister". Now we only get one spam thread a week about maximising your potential with the ladies or something.


  • #48
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    anna080 wrote: »
    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    I'm not really sure how a thread can be too chatty, for me that's the purpose of boards, I'm not here to argue with everyone.

    Agree. Otherwise we'd never have met and wouldn't be boards besties :) :pac:

    Bit more than that hmmm ???

    We've heard talk of dreams!!!!!


  • #49
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Possibly one of the biggest overreactions in the history of Boards. https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64942653
    G-Money wrote: »
    I'm 99.9% sure they had them in the tuck shop in our primary school up home when I was growing up. But I don't think anyone else has ever heard of them.

    Did I imagine it or is there some truth to my mutterings?
    Steel Pump wrote: »
    Chocolate covered mini fcukin pretzels u dumb cunt - or where u thinkin of the pringle shaped chocalte pricks? I dont thin there was no crips in them, just chocolate


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    Possibly one of the biggest overreactions in the history of Boards. https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64942653

    Trying to not burst out laughing here as the missus is asleep.


  • #51
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    circadian wrote: »
    Irish Guitarist wrote: »
    Possibly one of the biggest overreactions in the history of Boards. https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64942653

    Trying to not burst out laughing here as the missus is asleep.

    Pillow! It'll muffle most of it!!!


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  • #52
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    People have simply realised that the internet is full asinine prattle. AH is more challenging these days and that's not necessarily a bad thing, IMO.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    circadian wrote: »
    Trying to not burst out laughing here as the missus is asleep.

    That's the greatest thread I've ever read. Amazed I haven't seen this brought up before. Some of the replies are great.
    strobe wrote: »
    Sweet Jesus, now theres a man that's passionate about his sweeties.
    RichTea wrote: »
    Ha ha! There's always one who'll take it a step too far.
    kavsmdf wrote: »
    Hahahaha! How random!
    rich1874 wrote: »
    Everything you said is just wrong
    Steel Pump wrote: »
    THEY EXISTED, look em up if you don't believe me,


  • #54
    PeterParker957
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭PeterParker957


    Ive seen people argue the existence of Jesus less forcefully!!!!


  • #55
    JimmyMcGill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭JimmyMcGill


    You're on Boards too long O.( says he with his 10th account since 06!)


  • #56
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Genuinely laughed out loud at that pretzel reply!


  • #57
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Jemember that thread where you asked the following poster an interview style question? That was a good 'un.


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    LadyMacBeth_ wrote: »
    I'm not really sure how a thread can be too chatty, for me that's the purpose of boards, I'm not here to argue with everyone.

    Well you don't have to go so far as arguing with everyone, but I always thought of Boards as a discussion site, rather than chatting (even if the topic and discussion is bull****). The odd times I dip into those threads it's like reading a stream of facebook/twitter statuses and replies


  • #59
    Pero_Bueno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Pero_Bueno


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Over the last few years I've too much time on my hands T, so its either posting and thanking on Boards or I'd **** myself to death. Or at least to the local casualty department.

    Me. Earlier.

    newjackcity2.jpg

    :D another spot in St. Clabberts for you then !!


  • #60
    Pero_Bueno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Pero_Bueno


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I've been on boards for 13 years and in that time I've definitely noticed a shift in some forums, but AH in particular. What used to be lighthearted and jocular seems now to be populated by posts that are antagonistic, bitter and adversarial.

    Don't get me wrong, debate and arguement are healthy but there really does seem to be a rather nasty undertone to some of the posts. I long for the old days of After Hours where threads were jovial and not full of rather bitter rows over issues like abortion, virtue signalling, housing and that old chestnut, social welfare.

    I miss the old AH. :(

    Anyway , almost forgot .....



    You OK hun ?


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,690 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I miss the characters like Trent, Facekicker and Pighead.*







    *I actually don't give a fcuk about any of them, it's just always said on these threads.

    I actually do miss Pighead.
    His posts were hilarious. Like this one:https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=71435253

    For newer members in need of a laugh, I'd recommend a look at some of his posts.


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