What boardsies would you bring back?

13-08-2019 05:41PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

As for the OP’s question, I know there are absolutely loads of posters I’d love to see around here again. The sad thing is, I only remember them when I read old threads.

I totally forgot about lots of names til they cropped up here. Starbelgrade! Blast from the past

Dial Hard · 13-08-2019 05:41PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

This is therapeutic.

This. No doubt a mod will be along shortly with a cease & desist order, but it's nice to finally be able to openly call out his bullsh!t for what it was.

banie01 · 13-08-2019 05:47PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

The sad thing is, I only remember them when I read old threads.

Ditto, and as I was reading thru this thread other names popped up that I go, ahhh yeah!
They were a cool poster!

Then I find out that maybe they are still around here and then find that they may very well be another poster that I think is pretty cool

_Dara_ and anna080 being 2 such examples :P

Sardonicat · 13-08-2019 05:54PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

He said I talked about having cancer too much. Well, I do, it’s true. So I was really embarrassed.

No it's not true, OBD. And it wasn't true when you posted as -Dara-, either.

josip · 13-08-2019 06:03PM

Paddy147 for the DIY advice
FredSwanson for the pics
AndersonIsGod for the chaos

TuringBot47 · 13-08-2019 06:07PM

Jurgen The German wrote: »

The cohort that used to frequent The (original) Thunderdome were some of the funniest fookers boards had ever seen.

Captain Darling
Yekahs / yitzak rabin
Sergeant
Quality
Mad Chef
Bronte
Loopy
Creeping Death

There were others too i cannot remember. Iirc it was a post from yekahs that ultimately led to the dome getting torpedoed as an admin took a personal issue with it.

I'm laughing at the ones you forgot as much as the ones you remember :pac: :pac:

Arghus · 13-08-2019 06:08PM

josip wrote: »

Paddy147 for the DIY advice
FredSwanson for the pics
AndersonIsGod for the chaos

Another sad BS artist. Some of what he had to say was occasionally amusing, but it was such a pity that a lad who obviously knew a lot about football was more happy putting that knowledge to use winding people up than actually talking properly about the game.

Raconteuse · 13-08-2019 06:15PM

TuringBot47 wrote: »

I'm laughing at the ones you forgot as much as the ones you remember :pac: :pac:

Slidey, Degsy, Armin... I'm well able to hold my own usually but that place, scary. Hilarious too until it really felt like people were starting to mean it.

The Know Your Domers thread had me buckled.

Ifevera wiztherewas · 13-08-2019 06:27PM

e_e

13-08-2019 06:36PM

Raconteuse wrote: »

Slidey, Degsy, Armin... I'm well able to hold my own usually but that place, scary. Hilarious too until it really felt like people were starting to mean it.

The Know Your Domers thread had me buckled.

I don't think it ever got to the point where people were starting to mean it. But then I didn't see the drama that brought the place down, what exactly happened?

TuringBot47 · 13-08-2019 06:47PM

Raconteuse wrote: »

Slidey, Degsy, Armin...

Ah yeah, the B-listers.
I imagine you can still find them on Tinder.

Purple Mountain · 13-08-2019 06:48PM

ODB. I didn't realise who you were.
Great to hear from you, was afraid you were either unwell or that goon drove you away from here.
Although, I have to admit, I thought he was just a blowhole narcissist, not a Walter Mitty.
Just realised the strength of my trust in people.
Wonder is it possible if he and Aonghus are the same too.
Back on topic.
I miss that guy, Liam. The one who had no money but had plans to buy a house to let.
He always kept me entertained because I didn't know if he was just a guy with notions or an out and out fantasist.

Melanchthon · 13-08-2019 06:49PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Is Scofflaw gone?

I would have included him if I'd known. I no longer use the politics forum on a point of principle (the principle being I was banned once over a discussion about economic policy and took an enormous sulk).

I don't think Scofflaw was knowledgeable per se, in that he mentioned he had a background in IT as opposed to politics or economics, so he'd almost never critique a theory so long as the i's were dotted and the T's were crossed. Theory wasn't his thing; he had no time for pretense or boy-intellectuals, which is a good thing. It was his ability to read large volumes of policy and distill them down to their most crucial points that I found hugely enviable. He'd make a great journalist, if he isn't one.

I would wonder how his posts have aged, he was very pro-EU and in the Lisbon Referendums I remember him being pretty dismissive about concerns relating to it.
He may have been technically right about a lot of it but very wrong about the roots of the worries considering how much more vulnerable Ireland will be to negative QMV now the UK is leaving, EU armies being publicly talked about and the signing up to PESCO etc, lot of talk of pressure on Irish corporation tax rates.

Also didnt have some strange views on what was or wasnt state aid?

Basically he was as an ideological a poster as anyone is, with a better grasp of overly complicated texts.

This is it · 13-08-2019 06:49PM

Purple Mountain wrote: »

ODB. I didn't realise who you were.
Great to hear from you, was afraid you were either unwell or that goon drove you away from here.
Although, I have to admit, I thought he was just a blowhole narcissist, not a Walter Mitty.
Just realised the strength of my trust in people.
Wonder is it possible if he and Aonghus are the same too.
Back on topic.
I miss that guy, Liam. The one who had no money but had plans to buy a house to let.
He always kept me entertaining because I didn't know if he was just a guy with notions or an out and out fantasist.

Nope.

Tikki Wang Wang · 13-08-2019 06:50PM

Pa Dee

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 13-08-2019 06:53PM

bluewolf wrote: »

I totally forgot about lots of names til they cropped up here. Starbelgrade! Blast from the past

Awww, Starbelgrade. Yeah, see that’s what I mean.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 13-08-2019 06:53PM

Permabear and Aonghus are very different in style, even if much of the content is similar.

Arghus · 13-08-2019 07:03PM

Permabear had no sense of humour, something you could never accuse AVB of.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 13-08-2019 07:05PM

begbysback wrote: »

Well he posts a lot in the soccer forum so that would explain the name calling, and I’d agree completely inoffensive.

I think he was fed up of being wound up by a few opposing fans.

Mike65s closing post is a thing of beauty, though, a joy forever. Well worth looking up:pac:

josip · 13-08-2019 07:08PM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Mike65s closing post is a thing of beauty, though, a joy forever. Well worth looking up:pac:

GDPR has killed that

Peatys · 13-08-2019 07:13PM

Gem!

I'm not getting over excited, Exclamation point was in the name.

faceman · 13-08-2019 07:15PM

This thread started out like a funeral where people share happy memories of those departed but now everyone is pissed and the truth is coming out in the pub afterward!

Dial Hard · 13-08-2019 07:16PM

faceman wrote: »

This thread started out like a funeral where people share happy memories of those departed but now everyone is pissed and the truth is coming out in the pub afterward!

Indeed. We even have the "I'm warning you" granny in the form of whomever is snipping posts.

ETA, before whoever it is sends me an angry PM about questioning mod decisions in-thread: I have no problem with mod actions once they are clearly laid out with the reason for the action by the mod in question. I might not agree with the reasoning behind them, but I won't argue with them. I do have an issue with snipped/deleted posts that have no accompanying note.

Also, apologies if the edit/snip/mod note is there and I just can't see it on the touch site.

Poor Uncle Tom · 13-08-2019 07:19PM

Great for popcorn sales.....

13-08-2019 07:20PM

faceman wrote: »

This thread started out like a funeral where people share happy memories of those departed but now everyone is pissed and the truth is coming out in the pub afterward!

Boards' Jimmy Savile moment.

banie01 · 13-08-2019 07:21PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Boards' Jimmy Savile moment.

Was that not already in the sexual harassment thread tho?

Buford T. Justice XIX · 13-08-2019 07:37PM

Rubberlegs wrote: »

Hugo Stiglitz
tomwaterford
Winterlong
Menas
Missbubbles78, or something similar
Slasher McGurk
Mike Oxlong and all of his other incarnations

There are lots more I'm sure. Also, I'm not the brightest at spotting re regs.

Tom was one that I had forgotten. I was just after writing a PM to him and wasn't able to send it because he had just closed his account.

He always struck me as a sound guy.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 13-08-2019 07:48PM

I will admit that there have been no memorable posters that immediately popped into my mind. I do vaguely remember a poster called phasers who seemed to come across as a nice person. That's about it really.

Timberrrrrrrr · 13-08-2019 07:50PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I will admit that there have been no memorable posters that immediately popped into my mind. I do vaguely remember a poster called phasers who seemed to come across as a nice person. That's about it really.

Who are you?

13-08-2019 07:52PM

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Tom was one that I had forgotten. I was just after writing a PM to him and wasn't able to send it because he had just closed his account.

He always struck me as a sound guy.

Totally agree, seemed like a lovely fella.

Menas/Whiskeyman was the same person, loved his posts,Hugo was great also...there used to be great craic on the thread years ago, then a warning about no chatting and it would quieten for a day and then back to normal until the next warning.

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