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  • #362
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    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 entertained because I didn't know if he was just a guy with notions or an out and out fantasist.
    anewme wrote: »
    I did not cop that poster was a spoofer, I jusy he was just an insufferable sexist arsehole. I remember he rescued his wife from a gang or something.

    I was going to post here yesterday to ask did anyone remember the lovely poster who was very honest about cancer said to myself it might not be apropriate. So posting style makes perfect sense!

    I have to admit, Permabear had me fooled too mainly because he kept all the details of his tales very consistent and in his early days of posting on boards.ie seemed sane enough.


  • #363
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Leah was fantastic, and maybe made up as she was a computer nerds dream.

    Hot Canadian girl with daily photos who moved to Mullingar(!) To be with her boyfriend whom she had only met online gaming.

    Had anyone ever actualy met her?

    Sound:
    Outlaw Pete
    We'llallhavetea
    Starbelgrade
    SlasherMcGurk
    Alwaysadub
    Snowmonkey
    Windsock
    Dudess
    Strobe
    Millicent

    And the massively entertaining Biggins who continues to entertain in even greater muchso larger still

    And many more I forget


  • #364
    KathleenGrant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    TomSweeney wrote: »
    He posted often about their sex life in the sexuality forum, it was creepy to be honest.
    he was ~41/42 .. wife was 20, obviosuly has daddy issues - he posted this himself.


    I think a 41 year old and a 20 year old is creepier than a 22 and 17 year old for example - even though the law might not agree.

    What about 19 yr age gap?


  • #365
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    There was a forum member whose posts I used to stalk a bit because I was utterly fascinated by how much he loathed Irish women. He loathed us to the point of fixation. I know his username - can anyone guess it? :) He’s not active currently.


  • #366
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,949 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Re: Permabear, I didn't think he was a fantasist. I never interacted with him but saw red any time I read one of his posts during "the great recession". I would then trawl through his previous posts looking for inconsistencies and errors - the boasting fantasists almost always mess up in this respect - however I couldn't find any evidence of that for him. His story of how he made his millions (making Warren Buffet seem like an amateur) was implausible but consistent. Having said that, it always seemed very strange that someone who claimed such wealth had the inclination to spend so much time on boards.ie posting about teachers being overpaid (with them even managing to afford BMW cars!) all while moderating the Learning to Drive forum. I wonder does Warren Buffet moderate internet forums?

    IMO, community spirit on boards.ie was damaged by the recession and the type of posting that went on in the Irish Economy forum.

    One positive for me though is, I wouldn't have the wealth I have today were it not for all that nonsense - during that period I developed an extreme saving habit, a form of bunker mentality as evidenced by post 27 in this thread. It has served me well. Thanks PB and Co!


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  • #367
    Gordon Red Shortbread
    Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Gordon Red Shortbread


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    There was a forum member whose posts I used to stalk a bit because I was utterly fascinated by how much he loathed Irish women. He loathed us to the point of fixation. I know his username - can anyone guess it? :) He’s not active currently.

    there seem to be a few of those
    was it two words, t and c


  • #368
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,449 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Anyone seen Graces 7 recently?


  • #369
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Aaah, Dudess is still among us. I’m surprised how many times she’s been mentioned as a boardsie of the past! :eek: Very distinctive posting style that I recognise on each new account.

    She posts like a dude.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Leah was fantastic, and maybe made up as she was a computer nerds dream.

    Hot Canadian girl with daily photos who moved to Mullingar(!) To be with her boyfriend whom she had only met online gaming.

    Had anyone ever actualy met her?

    Don’t remember her having a boyfriend. Thought she was just traveling and ended up in Ireland.

    She posted on some Q and A forum and posters were fairly merciless with her. Got the impression she was real by the end of it.


  • #370
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    It really is such a shame all his posts are deleted. I would love to go back and read them now.

    He was a one man hysteria on GDPR at the time, he seems to have caused the ill advised post deletions that happened around then.


  • #371
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Have had a few accounts. It looks flaky for sure but some people read waaaay too much into it - coming to all sorts of conclusions about mental health and so on. It can really be just as simple as wanting to stay off Boards for a while or just feeling like a new account. Boring reasons.

    Indubitably.

    Aye, I don’t understand the overanalysing of account changes. I also post on reddit and that place showed me how little accounts matter. The content is the interesting part.


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  • #372
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,559 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Anyone seen Graces 7 recently?

    Posted earlier on the LTI thread, fairly active over there ;)


  • #373
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Deleted User wrote: »

    Sound:
    Outlaw Pete

    He is still here. He posts in current affairs a lot.


  • #374
    Sharp MZ700
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Sharp MZ700


    Is byte still on the go? Very knowledgeable guy.


  • #375
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    SeanyBiker was great craic on the Waterford forums years ago.


  • #376
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,556 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    lassykk wrote: »
    I was wondering if anyone would mention AndersonIsGod. Whilst the La Liga thread is unfortunately very quiet since he departed some of the shïte he came out with was unreal.

    Sad thing was he could be a great contributer as he knew a huge amount about soccer if he wasn't a WUM 99% of the time

    That's the thing. He could have been one of the best posters on that forum, he obviously followed the game pretty closely and was an articulate poster, but he just wanted to play games and get people's frustration going. I don't understand that mentality. He could run rings around people in a debate because if there's one forum people will always take the bait and lose the head it's soccer. It was sad how much he wasted his own and others time.

    I think the persona was becoming a bit too real for him by the end. The borderline insane persecution complex is clear here and the delusions of Grandeur -

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=99900782


  • #377
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    bluewolf wrote: »
    there seem to be a few of those
    was it two words, t and c

    One word with two syllables. :D


  • #378
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    There was a forum member whose posts I used to stalk a bit because I was utterly fascinated by how much he loathed Irish women. He loathed us to the point of fixation. I know his username - can anyone guess it? :) He’s not active currently.

    So he’s right; the assholes do get all the attention.


  • #379
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Is Mussolini / Wolfetone still around?

    Massive Shinner and would debate from one end of the day to the next, but was always well informed and respectful. I presences an instance when some of his greatest opponents jumped to his defence when getting a hard time, such was the quality of his posting style.

    There was a lot of talk of brummytom getting laid. Did he ever manage it?


  • #380
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Funnily enough, a friend of mine from Donegal once described his neighbour (This was in 2012 I think) and I was certain that it was Permabear.

    It turned out not to be him. Or maybe it was, minus some made up details? Who knows.


  • #381
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    One word with two syllables. :D
    I immediately thought of someone who specifically hated Irish women (not just women - that would be harder to narrow down ;)) and a two-syllable name. Hasn't posted publicly in about 18 months but profile does say last active only two days ago. Amirite? :)


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  • #382
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Anyone seen Graces 7 recently?

    You do know that she is actually

    Nell McCafferty


  • #383
    Panthro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,076 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    The lad with the half burned **** box


  • #384
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Panthro wrote: »
    The lad with the half burned **** box

    You really have to narrow that one down.


  • #385
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Panthro wrote: »
    The lad with the half burned **** box

    That was reddit.


  • #386
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I’d know him a mile off if he appeared again. Random statistics obnoxiously shoehorned into everyfcukingsentence, offensively polysyllabic writing style where concise sentences would do, and frequently italicised words in order to appear ultra high net intelligent.


  • #387
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Saibh
    Sauve
    Askmychocolate
    DJ spider ha ha
    Stupidusername
    stovelid
    Turd Ferguson
    Banshee bones
    Anonoboy.

    I'll stop now.


  • #388
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    (PS I know other disciplines do this, in less élite schools; but Princeton?)

    Preferred this before the autocorrect.

    He hardly had an undergraduate's understanding of most things he posted about. That was obvious but I guess not to everyone. He wasn't that intelligent but he was extremely articulate; which I suppose is how he took so many in and is also why people are still talking about him.


  • #389
    Cork Lass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,154 ✭✭✭Cork Lass


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    You do know that she is actually

    Nell McCafferty

    Assuming this is a joke ?


  • #390
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I wonder is he reading this. Haha hi PB

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  • #391
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Late to this thread but I remember going to my first ever Boards beers in 2009, in Ron Blacks (called 37 now I think). Degsy was probably the poster who stood out to me the most who was there cos he was so “prolific” on boards. He was seeing another Boardsie at the time, Pikachucheeks or something? Neither of them are around any more, but he was nearly double her age and I remember thinking Jesus if this is what Boards infamy gets you then fair fcks. Actually there was another similar couple at the time, W*** and Novella. Again he was close to double her age. Jesus the boards men really had it going on back then. Where are they all now eh.

    *think this one is still around


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