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Did After Hours ever fit the category of 'Social & Fun'

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  • #32
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Hapax Legomenon wrote: »
    Is it appropriate for a mod to use that kind of language?

    Double boobies


  • #33
    Danny Donut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Danny Donut


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Place is crawling with fruitcakes, nut jobs, and loopers. Trying to shove their stupid politics into every discussion - left and right both as bad as each other. Get the feeling there’s a lot of angry dudes posting here. Some of them would want to take a chillpill, go outside, find a partner, take up a new hobby etc. Can’t be good for them.

    Yep. Sitting in their jocks with a big bowl of toritoes.


  • #34
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    It's sort of social. Demented and sad, but social.


  • #35
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The trick is to use it after hours. If you look at it before hours it's no fun.


  • #36
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Double boobies

    Is that four boobies I wonder. Bit pointless when you've only the two hands.

    Fcuk that. Take that back. Post reported. Muslims!!!


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  • #37
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Before they banned any hint of the piss taking which once defined AH culture, absolutely.


  • #38
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Donovan Powerful Lavender wrote: »
    Is that four boobies I wonder. Bit pointless when you've only the two hands.

    Fcuk that. Take that back. Post reported. Muslims!!!

    You have to improvise when presented with double boobies.


  • #39
    JMNolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭JMNolan


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Surely you could get an antibiotic for that.

    Perhaps, we should ask him


  • #40
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    Before they banned any hint of the piss taking which once defined AH culture, absolutely.

    Ha, you clearly didn't see the 'afraid to fly due to escalating world tensions' thread


  • #41
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    I don't think it's restricted to here, albeit the shrinkage in numbers accentuates it. A lot of the Internet is just a lot grimmer and polarized then it was even 6 or 7 years ago.

    Also, I'm haven't been a member of any for quite a while but I would assume a lot of more light hearted and interesting stuff on boards is discussed in private forums.


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  • #42
    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Some very poor moderation for a few years did not help things. Killed off some of a lot of the better posters imo.
    Moderation is much better now but we still need more characters.


  • #43
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    In fairness those 'What was your favourite chocolate bar in the eighties?' threads usually die on their arse after 3 pages, while the same old sh1te about immigrants, abortion and feminism go round in circles for a million pages.

    I noticed there hasn't been one of those classic threads like Duggy's housemate or the found safe in a good while, there was always political stuff but it seems to have increased over the last few years and it seems more angry and not as much fun.


  • #44
    p1akuw47h5r3it
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭p1akuw47h5r3it


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    I never went to AH in about 14 years of using boards.ie with various usernames, I though I was above it.

    I was above AH, it was not the place for any type of serious discussion.

    Then I found the thread with the hot women and found myself peeking into AH in general, then I found myself posting on threads about politics etc, the kind of stuff that used to be in Politics or the Politics cafe.

    Now it's almost my first port of call. I never post in Politics anymore.

    46, married, children.

    I never went into AH either. The layout of the politics section is horrendous. I don't know when or why it was changed but it was fine back when I started using boards in 08


  • #45
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,135 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    I have proposed a current affairs forum to take away a lot of the unfunny discussion. Give it a plus 1 if you think it's a good idea.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057860148


  • #46
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,417 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Say Your Number wrote: »

    I noticed there hasn't been one of those classic threads like Duggy's housemate or the found safe in a good while, there was always political stuff but it seems to have increased over the last few years and it seems more angry and not as much fun.

    I know what you mean. There hasn't been a new thread of a fairly light hearted kind of nature that's properly taken off in a long, long while: one you'd be dying to get back to after a few hours away, just to see what wit was on display.

    Now, it feels like it's all variations of the theme of either the feminists, the travellers, the Muslims, the dole scroungers, the immigrants or Conor Mcgregor are out to get us. Seemingly, they're all out to get us, the only place a person can be free to claim they're all out to get us is the Internet.

    Tim Berners-Lee, you have a lot to answer for.

    There was always an element of this, but it's wall to wall now. Most of these threads are simply no craic. They're angry and stupid; filled with mutliquote maestros reducing discussion down into an endless and very sad dunderheaded feedback loop.


  • #47
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,832 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    JMNolan wrote: »
    Threads back then (actual threads btw)
    • How the governement is stopping kids drinking
    • Get your mob name here
    • Is Gaz a dirt bag???
    • Top St. Paddys Day Parties!
    • story with the obsession with goths??
    • Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About

    Threads now
    • Is Islam right for Ireland?
    • The 8th Amendment Part 2
    • Is the new Feminist movement damaging male female relationships?
    • US considering Preemptive Strike against North Korea

    This place is fair grim these days

    IMO threads like the above should be moved to Politics or the Cafe. I havent read any of them but can only imagine they are full of the same angry people engaging in tit for tat debate using giant multi quote posts. After Hours would be better without these threads.


  • #48
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    I agree that After Hours shouldn't be a place for current affairs threads. If there is some story in the news, I might drop into its AH thread just to gauge public option on it but I find the threads quickly end up as a left vs right debate, or has some stupid misogynistic or racist remark in an attempt to make a joke.
    Red_Wake wrote: »
    People are too serious now. Any joke that's remotely off colour[sexual assault, rape, any variant of diddling kids] gets you banned immediately.

    Bunch of babies if you ask me.

    And this post pretty much sums up why I dislike AH more and more. I wouldn't like spending time with people who would joke about such topics, or see no problem with making those jokes, and the same is true with AH.

    Some of the long running threads in AH are great through (Trivial Things, I Bet You Didn't Know, Creepy or Unnerving Things)


  • #49
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Something that was said before that resonated with me is that it's the posters that create the content in AH (well any forum), if there is more fun threads needed, it's up to us to make them :)


  • #50
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    Arghus wrote: »
    Tim Berners-Lee, you have a lot to answer for.

    Wasn't him, was the Indians apparently....thousands of years ago...:confused:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43806078
    Mr Deb said that the battle of Kurukshetra in the Mahabharata proved the existence of not just the internet, but also satellite technology in ancient India.He said the fact that one of the characters in the epic, Sanjaya, had been able to give a blow-by-blow account of a battle that was taking place many miles away to his king Dhritarashtra proved India had access to both technologies.


  • #51
    JMNolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭JMNolan


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    I agree that After Hours shouldn't be a place for current affairs threads. If there is some story in the news, I might drop into its AH thread just to gauge public option on it but I find the threads quickly end up as a left vs right debate, or has some stupid misogynistic or racist remark in an attempt to make a joke.



    And this post pretty much sums up why I dislike AH more and more. I wouldn't like spending time with people who would joke about such topics, or see no problem with making those jokes, and the same is true with AH.

    Some of the long running threads in AH are great through (Trivial Things, I Bet You Didn't Know, Creepy or Unnerving Things)

    I'd say you need some sort of "safe space (TM)"


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  • #52
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,713 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Red_Wake View Post
    People are too serious now. Any joke that's remotely off colour[sexual assault, rape, any variant of diddling kids] gets you banned immediately.

    Bunch of babies if you ask me.

    And this post pretty much sums up why I dislike AH more and more. I wouldn't like spending time with people who would joke about such topics, or see no problem with making those jokes, and the same is true with AH.

    Some of the long running threads in AH are great through (Trivial Things, I Bet You Didn't Know, Creepy or Unnerving Things)

    Was the first poster serious? I thought it was irony/pisstake.


  • #53
    SimonTemplar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭SimonTemplar


    looksee wrote: »
    Was the first poster serious? I thought it was irony/pisstake.

    Oh yeah, possibly! My misunderstanding if that's the case.


  • #54
    pleas advice
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,488 ✭✭✭pleas advice


    JMNolan wrote: »
    I'd say you need some sort of "safe space (TM)"

    No no no, don't you get it? Its the rest of us who are snowflakes


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All the "serious" threads used to end up in the Politics or Humanities forums. But then the Politics forum became too regulated, and most people migrated to AH.


  • #56
    eamonnq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,014 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    Donovan Powerful Lavender wrote: »
    Is that four boobies I wonder. Bit pointless when you've only the two hands.

    Fcuk that. Take that back. Post reported. Muslims!!!

    Pointless boobies ??

    I'll have mine with the points still on them if you don't mind, and 2 for yerself !


  • #57
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,543 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    I've always found it great craic around here in the few weeks leading up to XMas:)


  • #58
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Get Lenny, Pighead and Flutterin.. back! :)

    Not your ornery onager



  • #59
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,264 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    I miss mikom's jokes the most.


  • #60
    vetinari
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭vetinari


    It seems to be infested by people talking in US political terms.
    Ireland has 2 center right parties that combined have been in power for the entire history of the state.
    Yet people even in this thread are throwing around the word liberal.

    Liberal is meant to refer to left leaning Democrats in the US.
    It's use on an Irish messaging board is pretty bizarre.
    Boards didn't have this level of US centric posts even 5 years ago.


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  • #61
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,215 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    vetinari wrote: »
    It seems to be infested by people talking in US political terms.
    Ireland has 2 center right parties that combined have been in power for the entire history of the state.
    Yet people even in this thread are throwing around the word liberal.

    Liberal is meant to refer to left leaning Democrats in the US.
    It's use on an Irish messaging board is pretty bizarre.
    Boards didn't have this level of US centric posts even 5 years ago.

    Trump ? :)


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