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Happy After Hours Day Everybody!

freshpopcorn

I know it's being long awaited. There's being excitement, happiness, anger, rage, baking but the day is here. Enjoy it!!
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anewme

I haven't the foggiest idea of what this thread is supposed to be about, or why people are having meltdowns.

Am I missing something obvious.?

This is seriously mind boggling stuff.

Its not very interesting either as it does not make sense.

iLikeWaffles

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noble00

Ok this might be a really stupid question but I just can’t figure this out , was there an announcement or was it just a joke

Witchie

Cheers!

Mam of 4

brevity

I can't decide what I'm enjoying more, the confusion or the anger.

Boom_Bap

Witchie wrote: »

Cheers!

Cheers right back atcha

acai berry

Dole Scrounging Vegan Crossfitter wrote: »

freshpopcorn is not the hero that After Hours needs. He's the hero that After Hours deserves.

Is there a professional analyst here that might be able to decide, once and for all, what actually is being said there?

Pawwed Rig

brevity wrote: »

I can't decide what I'm enjoying more, the confusion or the anger.

Just sit back and enjoy both. It is an AfterHours Day tradition after all.

[Deleted User]

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Just sit back and enjoy both. It is an AfterHours Day tradition after all.

Can we have an After Hours Week next year?

Boom_Bap

Purple Mountain

So who's going to save the day and organise an actual AH meet up. .
You know where real people come out from behind their screens and actually talk and interact as humans.
I'm abstaining from organisation as my motto in life is that I'm not a leader but a very good vice captain so if any of you good commanders get something rolling I'll be there in the back seat co-piloting.

Mountainsandh

noble00 wrote: »

Ok this might be a really stupid question but I just can’t figure this out , was there an announcement or was it just a joke

anewme wrote: »

I haven't the foggiest idea of what this thread is supposed to be about, or why people are having meltdowns.

Am I missing something obvious.?

This is seriously mind boggling stuff.

Its not very interesting either as it does not make sense.

Right so.
There was supposed to be a big announcement, according to FreshPopcorn.
Everybody's hopes were up, and curiosity piqued.

FreshPopcorn's announcement was that today was Happy AH's day.

People got very angry and said that the announcement was just not good enough, especially coming from a Mod. It was a betrayal of sorts, and the thread was crap anyway.

You see, while all this was unfolding, a group of posters started seeing the irony in it, and making Mammies and Daddies' jokes*, and posting silly gifs, just for the fun of it, so that kept the thread going a long time, it even spilled into this/a second thread.

(*as in, not good jokes)

So the thread kept going and going, and the intelligent serious posters kept reading and getting angrier and angrier, and the silly-go-lucky posters kept posting gifs and mentioning cake, and the angry posters got very cross and denounced this as pathetic. There, you have it, pa.the.tic.

And unworthy of AH, which is a notion that frankly, I find hard to define.

HTH

edit : oh, and Happy After Hours Day !

Mountainsandh

Purple Mountain wrote: »

So who's going to save the day and organise an actual AH meet up. .
You know where real people come out from behind their screens and actually talk and interact as humans.
I'm abstaining from organisation as my motto in life is that I'm not a leader but a very good vice captain so if any of you good commanders get something rolling I'll be there in the back seat co-piloting.

Yes, yes, absolutely... great idea !

Yester

Lets take this party to the streets! It's After Hours Day motherfeckers. (starts throwing rhubarb and custard cake in peoples faces)

freshpopcorn

If I did end up organising a meet up. I'd end up like Joan Burton in Jobstown.

Uncharted

freshpopcorn wrote: »

If I did end up organising a meet up. I'd end up like Joan Burton in Jobstown.

I'm thinking more JFK in Dallas tbh....

dxhound2005

sexmag wrote: »

i think most people are pi$$ed because they actually like after hours and boards and can see the decline its going through and were more than happy to hear something new and exciting was coming to change things around here but then to have it shoved in their face as a joke, there are maybe 10 people here who like whats happend, 10 out of 1000s.

Like an old man pub the place will stay the same, the regulars will die and eventually boards will have to succumb to the fact it will die with them

I checked the other 863 forums, and there is no sense of anyone being annoyed. All very busy as well, so I don't see why you think the place is in decline.

indioblack

dxhound2005 wrote: »

I checked the other 863 forums, and there is no sense of anyone being annoyed. All very busy as well, so I don't see why you think the place is in decline.

There are serious issues here.
I don't know why I typed that.
I am about to eat chocolate and watch Star Trek.
I may be gone some time.

J Mysterio

The thing is you shouldnt fuçk around with 'official' announcements. It's like the Boy who Cried Wolf, people stop listening.

Almost starting to feel sorry for Freshpopcorn now though, the goofy simpleton.

What is annoying though, is the mods who continue to abuse confused or irritated users, they have a genuine grievance. Some people take things like this badly when they are very invested in it, and many people are on boards for hours a day. You can see a lot of people through the two threads were genuinely upset. Laugh them away or slag them if you want.

Guaranteed some of the mods will proceed to ban someone for something frivolous/ innocuous in a really thoughtless way soon though, despite they themselves trolling the users here. Excuse it as 'AH' or 'light hearted banter' if you want, but really, you should be more professional and show some more respect to the users.

There are also people of all ages here, we're not all in our 20's/ 30's. I know Graces7 for example is an auld lad living on some island. Not to speak for him - he might think this is great - but equally could have been dissapointed or confused with this after having a bad day yesterday.

Ultimately, this dopey shıte gives a unique site a really amateur feel and detracts from the authority of mods, c-mods, admins etc.

Frankly, I would apologise, close this thread, and try and forget it ever happened.

[Deleted User]

Yay, I finally found an appropriate AH Day anthem song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJCUIWrVPkw

Have a good olde cry there Freshpopcorn and a continued Happy AH Day to all

Arghus

Okay, in principle, I can see how announcing an "announcement" could be perceived as funny. Well sort of - it's a pretty gammy attempt at a knowing bit of meta humour really. It's lame and not all that genuinely funny.

And if you're on one side of the fence I'm sure there's LOLS to be had in watching people get wound up about a bit of "fun", but that's also a bit weak if you ask me.

If any regular user started a thread similar to this and proceeded to call those who didn't see the point of the whole LOLS whiny fcks the thread would be locked and the OP would probably be banned. But this all seems to be a relative free for all for the mods involved. What's going on, I thought you guys were supposed to be a little bit more grown up than this?

After Hours isn't as much fun or even as interesting as it used to be : wall to wall threads about divisive issues are zero craic to read through. But this attempt to reclaim this "fun" ethos of the place is just stupid at best and downright condescending and disrespectful towards the user base at worst. I'd rather the tinfoil hat brigade banging on about Feminazis than this painfully sad stuff.

And speaking of the tinfoil hat brigade: I would have previously said that the perception of" cliques" in AH and over zealous Mods all was solely the preserve of the tragic and maladjusted, but this thread and the one that preceded it stinks so badly of in-jokes and the in-crowd, that even though it's a "joke", I can't help but think it's a depressing reflection on the spirit of this place.

Enjoy your day.

dxhound2005

Arghus wrote: »

After Hours isn't as much fun or even as interesting as it used to be : wall to wall threads about divisive issues are zero craic to read through.

You can see variations of this old chestnut every year.

Arghus

dxhound2005 wrote: »

You can see variations of this old chestnut every year.

Yup. And it gets more and more true every passing year.

freshpopcorn

Just a note to J Mysterio I did say in the previous thread thst not everybody was going to like the announcement. They had plenty of notice not to excited.

Star Bingo

Arghus wrote: »

Okay, in principle, I can see how announcing an "announcement" could be perceived as funny. Well sort of -

Muahahaha

Just cracked open a beer to celebrate AH day. Same as every Friday so.

J Mysterio

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Just a note to J Mysterio I did say in the previous thread thst not everybody was going to like the announcement. They had plenty of notice not to excited.

Yeah, that just doesn't cut it i'm afraid.

Pa8301

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Just a note to J Mysterio I did say in the previous thread thst not everybody was going to like the announcement. They had plenty of notice not to excited.

You can't really pre-ordain people's reactions though. It's like prefacing saying something offensive by saying "this might be offensive so don't get offended" and then being surprised when people actually get offended.

WinnyThePoo

You tried to have a joke under the guise of an official announcement. Then mods started threatening people with bans for reporting you for trolling, which is exactly what you where at.

You then in turn started telling the user base they are whingers and they should leave the site.