So lads, when are we going to have a beers?

Avatar MIA · 03-02-2019 09:47AM

Vela wrote: »

Boards has a different vibe these days to 10 years ago. Even up to 5 or 6 years ago. Back in the day, there was a real sense of knowing other posters - like a wee community. So it was a fair bit of craic. These days with reregs (guilty) and older posters just leaving completely, you have a bunch of people hopping in and out rather than a collective of regular posters to keep a convo and a bit of banter going. Beers used to be a great way to meet some sound people you'd already got to know. It's different now. And I don't think there's a way to get that vibe back, it's just the way boards went. They opened it up more and thus more people joined which is grand, but it lost that community feel.

So, you're saying there's a chance?

Bigbagofcans · 04-02-2019 02:39PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Aongus Von Bismarck might turn up. Perusing the wine list looking for a bottle of something moderately acceptable.

Most boardsies are mere peasants to him so not sure if he'd fly over from Frankfurt for the occasion :P

I'll bring the cans.

gozunda · 04-02-2019 02:41PM

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

Most boardsies are mere peasants to him so not sure if he'd fly over from Frankfurt for the occasion :P

I'll bring the cans.

Dont forget the big old plastic bag either :pac:

Mint Sauce · 04-02-2019 02:54PM

Vela wrote: »

Boards has a different vibe these days to 10 years ago. Even up to 5 or 6 years ago. Back in the day, there was a real sense of knowing other posters - like a wee community. So it was a fair bit of craic. These days with reregs (guilty) and older posters just leaving completely, you have a bunch of people hopping in and out rather than a collective of regular posters to keep a convo and a bit of banter going. Beers used to be a great way to meet some sound people you'd already got to know. It's different now. And I don't think there's a way to get that vibe back, it's just the way boards went. They opened it up more and thus more people joined which is grand, but it lost that community feel.

I cant keep up now with some posters now, with some changing their names regulary, yes I know I have changed mine once, but that was only down to my first choice name becoming available again, after the great server crack/hack incident. Or, people being allowed to permanitly close their account and rereg a week later under a new name.

I might go to one if Outlaw Pete went and it was in Sligo. One of the orriginal best posters on the site, however, down to the above, am not sure if he is the orriginal, or someone else using his name after it became available again.

Have been to a few, one being a private forum meet up, and a regional one. Although both meets, half the talk was about boards.

BAM! uhavechlamydia · 04-02-2019 07:43PM

if there was one local enough, yeah maybe.... but travelling to Dublin or Sligo...not a hope ...and I'd say 90% of posters would feel the same, depending on their own locale

Zorya · 04-02-2019 07:57PM

BAM! uhavechlamydia wrote: »

if there was one local enough, yeah maybe.... but travelling to Dublin or Sligo...not a hope ...and I'd say 90% of posters would feel the same, depending on their own locale

Only if it's in your village then?

BeerWolf · 04-02-2019 08:08PM

You've had me already, for almost 14 years!

Ubbquittious · 04-02-2019 08:13PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Do you think? I dunno. I'd say part of it is the change in users. People who would have been up for beers in the past are no longer members so it just stopped being popular. Another reason I think is it needs to come from a mod. If one of the AH mods started a thread to organise a night out then that might work. A third reason is I'd say a fair few posters here attend beers from other forums and private ones.

I do wonder if one was organised now would the only attendees be tumbleweeds.

The cork beers used to be good way back in the day. Only went to the Dublin one once

kingtut · 04-02-2019 08:22PM

There is a core group of us on here that go once every 2 weeks (usually 10 to 12 of us).
Just kidding, I'm as lonely as you!

Feisar · 04-02-2019 08:28PM

I'd say it'd actually improve the vibe here if everyone met up and had a few lemonades.

Ubbquittious · 04-02-2019 08:29PM

kingtut wrote: »

There is a core group of us on here that go once every 2 weeks (usually 10 to 12 of us).
Just kidding, I'm as lonely as you!

How is the meetup group going for you?

Ariadne · 04-02-2019 08:31PM

Feisar wrote: »

I'd say it'd actually improve the vibe here if everyone met up and had a few lemonades tabs of ecstasy.

FYP

kingtut · 04-02-2019 08:36PM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

How is the meetup group going for you?

Flying

Just back from a weekend in Edinburgh and had a group of 14. Savage craic. Had our first pint at 6am in cork airport lol. A few of us heading to Oktoberfest in September

BAM! uhavechlamydia · 04-02-2019 08:40PM

Zorya wrote: »

Only if it's in your village then?

I'd go to Cork..or maybe Limerick... but anything more than that, nope..

Dakotabigone · 04-02-2019 08:54PM

Will the pub have WiFi?

Ariadne · 04-02-2019 09:02PM

Dakotabigone wrote: »

Will the pub have WiFi?

So we can communicate via boards and nobody actually speaks?

BAM! uhavechlamydia · 04-02-2019 09:15PM

Succubus_ wrote: »

So we can communicate via boards and nobody actually speaks?

And we all wear stickers with our names?

I'm going to need a fckin roll of stickers

Dakotabigone · 04-02-2019 09:21PM

Succubus_ wrote: »

So we can communicate via boards and nobody actually speaks?

Safer than drinking a dozen pints and insulting everyone.

Autosport · 04-02-2019 09:43PM

BAM! uhavechlamydia wrote: »

And we all wear stickers with our names?

I'm going to need a fckin roll of stickers

Mookie is that you

mzungu · 04-02-2019 09:43PM

Succubus_ wrote: »

So we can communicate via boards and nobody actually speaks?

What if the Wifi goes kaputt?

Ariadne · 04-02-2019 09:50PM

mzungu wrote: »

What if the Wifi goes kaputt?

Everyone leave single file in two minute intervals and avoid eye contact

How Soon Is Now · 05-02-2019 03:54PM

If someone organised it im sure a good few some what normal people would turn up....

The last one I was at the fat weird looking fella from Human Centipede two turned up!

So ya never know who might come....

Tuco88 · 05-02-2019 09:19PM

Do barrack st if you do. Tis handy to fire folk down the hill you don't like, with the old gravity you see.

Feck that Oliver plunkett st, with its flat even surface and trendy pub scene.

Hammer89 · 05-02-2019 09:39PM

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

If someone organised it im sure a good few some what normal people would turn up....

The last one I was at the fat weird looking fella from Human Centipede two turned up!

I'd rather chat to him than you based on the nastiness of that post.

BBFAN · 05-02-2019 10:42PM

Hammer89 wrote: »

I'd rather chat to him than you based on the nastiness of that post.

Sorry I'm lost. Don't know what Human Centipede is?

OldMrBrennan83 · 05-02-2019 10:47PM

BBFAN wrote: »

Sorry I'm lost. Don't know what Human Centipede is?

You don't want to.

Dakotabigone · 05-02-2019 10:59PM

Will there be cops at it?

Avatar MIA · 05-02-2019 11:21PM

Dakotabigone wrote: »

Will there be cops at it?

Only if it has been a REALLY REALLY good night.

Ariadne · 05-02-2019 11:36PM

Dakotabigone wrote: »

Will there be cops at it?

Only strippers dressed as cops.

Trigger Happy · 05-02-2019 11:38PM

Succubus_ wrote: »

Only strippers dressed as cops.

Better if its cops dressed as strippers.

So lads, when are we going to have a beers?

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