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  • #512
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,541 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    I admit, I mostly bought into Permabear's lies. Seemed completely batsh*t nonsense, but at the same time anytime I saw him questioned on how he made his money or his job in general, I hadn't a clue what he was talking about, but also didn't know nearly enough to challenge any of it so I assumed it must be true.

    Biggins though, now there was a man whose posts were straight-up bullsh*t of the highest order from the get-go. Like how he claimed a bunch of celebrities were at his wedding, when really he had his wedding near a sci-fi convention and then they went and got pictures taken at the convention. Or being a highly trained security operative. Or... pretty much anything he ever said.


  • #513
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    There's a few old school fellas and ladies I'd like to see back for a bit of banter.

    Starbelgade, had me bent in two laughing at times.

    Mikom, never a poster since has compared to his lighting fast dry wit comeback and one liner retorts, - golden poster.

    Whoops, met her in person at a few beers, sound as.

    Larianne (I think) used to have a thunder cat avatar, met her at a beers also, dead sound lady.

    Mickey Dolonez, man he used to love the ban hammer, was known to go on ban sprees, met him in person, nice lad.

    DannieMcQ -sound lad, shared a few pints with him in the past.

    Backwards man, had his moments of fun, but woe betide of you and his opinions differed.

    There's a few more will come to mind no doubt after I hit the submit button.


  • #514
    Slideways
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭Slideways


    Not sure if he has been mentioned but DJ Spider.

    Now there was an out and out headbanger. The thread he started in the dome after getting banned from the tattoo forum was epic.

    Started with the intention of flaming the mod who banned him it back fired and he got owned in a way I have never seen since.


  • #515
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    I remember when I first started looking at boards prob back in like 2004/2005 there was some youngfella called Sparky or something like that who was quite popular? Anyone remember?


  • #516
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Anyone remember when he was posting about his wedding plans and someone dared to ask him where the venue was and he lost the plot, and said he wouldn’t be informing anyone about the venue in case we showed up and robbed his ultra high net wealthy guests. No joke.
    I wouldn’t mind but it was him drip feeding all this info that no one even asked for.


    Ahh good times. Tis almost all out of my system now.

    This Perma lad sounds like a right loon.


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  • #517
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Raconteuse wrote: »

    I found WhiteWashMan appalling in the way he spoke to people. There's a Stockholm Syndrome about some old guard posters though. Ditto Scofflaw. How can people be ok with such sneeriness? And as for The Corinthian... best I say nothing other than WHAT a woman hater.
    I don't think Scofflaw was sneery, or was no worse than the standard level of sneeriness on political forums. That 'cordially, Scofflaw' sign-off was a bit unnecessary, mind you; and it gets a bit tiresome when somebody's default position is to defend any criticism of the European Union or its institutions, no matter how mild the criticism.


  • #518
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Backwards man, had his moments of fun, but woe betide of you and his opinions differed.
    Could not stand his posts. So contrarian for a reaction, so full of insults, acted like he was about 80, whatabouter extraordinaire. If an Islamist atrocity occurred he'd immediately deflect from it yet never shut up about republican paramilitarism - surely all terrorism deserves condemnation.

    People were fooled by his "Ah shur I'm just an eejit from the bog" schtick but eventually people saw through it.

    And his PMs were not the good kind.


  • #519
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,231 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    This Perma lad sounds like a right loon.

    He was just on the right side of normal to lead people to initially read his posts with interest.

    If you were a new member or only an intermittent user you'd think they were a decent provider but when you saw the narrative come together over an extended period of time, it started to unravel. That posters main downfall was the career they portrayed did not allay with the image gleaned from the frequency and content of their posts. Once you started to doubt it, you started to see holes everywhere. I was reading their posts for the last few months before they absconded just to see how well they were doing in terms of keeping it all together.

    I wonder how many other similar posters are there who manage to divulge just enough to keep the facade going. (AvB aside as I think that account was always intended to be a parody)


  • #520
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I liked Snowy. He was very obviously dyslexic and handled it very well when someone had a go at his spelling. He rarely got mad.


  • #521
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    What was the name of the female poster who had a dream that she has been touched as a kid then went on to convince herself that it must be true? She completely lost it a few years ago and decided that all men were evil.


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  • #522
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    What was the name of the female poster who had a dream that she has been touched as a kid then went on to convince herself that it must be true? She completely lost it a few years ago and decided that all men were evil.

    Midlandsmissus? Though I think she talked of being assaulted in real life.


  • #523
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,271 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    That 'cordially, Scofflaw' sign-off was a bit unnecessary, mind you.

    I don't remember Scofflaw but there was a poster a few years back who started every. single. reply with "I have read your post." Well, yeah, genius, that's kind of a given.

    It used to irk me beyond all reason.


  • #524
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Could not stand his posts. So contrarian for a reaction, so full of insults, acted like he was about 80, whatabouter extraordinaire. If an Islamist atrocity occurred he'd immediately deflect from it yet never shut up about republican paramilitarism - surely all terrorism deserves condemnation.

    People were fooled by his "Ah shur I'm just an eejit from the bog" schtick but eventually people saw through it.

    And his PMs were not the good kind.

    If only his dog would open a boards account, I'm sure it could tell some yarns :cool:


  • #525
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    People were fooled by his "Ah shur I'm just an eejit from the bog" schtick but eventually people saw through it.
    I don't believe the Backwards Man would have entertained any notion that he was an "eejit" or that there is any link to be made between being a culchie and being stupid. That's all on you.


  • #526
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,448 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    I don't remember Scofflaw but there was a poster a few years back who started every. single. reply with "I have read your post." Well, yeah, genius, that's kind of a given.

    It used to irk me beyond all reason.


    Scofflaw was iirc the poster who used to post in the following signature in every post


    Jovially
    -Scofflaw


  • #527
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    I remember heading out west with a gang from a private forum. Must be nearly 6 years ago now. One of them is still a mod here, and one other has posted in this thread, but I've no idea where the others have all gone! :eek:

    I rented a house for a weekend on Inis Oírr with a group of about 13/14 boardsies maybe 8/9 years ago. At least two of them turned up without having met anyone before. One of them was Wazdakka (sp?). He lost his sh*t on the first night and had a fight with everyone and left on the first boat the next morning. Good times :D


  • #528
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,003 ✭✭✭✭josip


    ELM327 wrote: »
    Scofflaw was iirc the poster who used to post in the following signature in every post


    Jovially
    -Scofflaw


    I love the 'Jovially' :D
    The only poster I ever put on ignore and just because his sign off annoyed me so much


  • #529
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Mickey Dolonez, man he used to love the ban hammer, was known to go on ban sprees, met him in person, nice lad.

    Not so much when you get to know him :p
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I liked Snowy. He was very obviously dyslexic and handled it very well when someone had a go at his spelling. He rarely got mad.

    Snowy's a great lad! He PM'd me after I started a thread about dogging years ago :pac: turns out we were from the same area and knew a lot of the same people. Became good friends for quite a while but have lost touch over the years. He invited me to his wedding a couple of years ago but I couldn't go. Must give him a shout :)


  • #530
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,559 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I'm sorry to be always talking about him on this thread, but I really did find PB psychologically fascinating once you'd pieced it together that it was all nonsense. I'm sure there's other posters on here who have concocted elements of their bio or persona out of thin air, but no-one has kept such a sustained and elaborate fantasy life going to the extent that he did.

    I still don't fully know whether he was a troll or a fantasist. Primarily, I think he probably was a Walter Mitty - the level of depth and detail the man went into detailing his fantasy life makes me think that this was someone who wanted to believe that this was his life. The tantrums he used to throw when someone attempted to lift the veil were indicative, to me, of how maintaining the facade was always priority number one.

    I don't know if he was even strictly speaking a troll. I don't know if his motivation was to just wind people up - I think it was actually something a bit more malevolent: I think he wanted to deceive people. I'm sure there were people here that took his opinions and alleged "expertise" at face value. After all, he always wrote so well and was usually calm, somewhat respectful and polite.


  • #531
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,448 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    josip wrote: »
    I love the 'Jovially' :D
    The only poster I ever put on ignore and just because his sign off annoyed me so much
    He'd always add something like "amusedly" or "bemused" or "calmly" etc .


    I thought it was funny, always pictured him as a wealthy man from the 1800's in a tuxedo and top hat using the internet.


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  • #532
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,783 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    That post was deleted by the soccer mods as they felt it was being brought up to often.

    It was a thing of beauty and deserved to be brought up often.

    Ah I cant believe they deleted Pilsbury Doughboys final post, I dont think a single post has ever made me laugh so much. It was the context of it too with the tension and constant arguments on the Liverpool thread while the team was playing awful. That and it was New Years Day and he wanted a fresh start. His final post just cut through all the crap and arguments and gave everyone a great laugh on the first day of the year. Does anyone have a screenshot of it? It defintely needs preservation
    TimeToShine wrote: »
    Starbelgrade was probably the wittiest person I’ve ever seen on this board. Absolutely razor sharp.

    Yeah starbelgrade had some sense of wit. Mickey Dolenz great craic too.

    Is there anyway to search through a posters posts ranked by 'Most thanked', there would be some absolute gems by starbelgrade in there.


  • #533
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Is there anyway to search through a posters posts ranked by 'Most thanked', there would be some absolute gems by starbelgrade in there.

    It's easily done on active accounts, not on closed accounts though.


  • #534
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    I learned how to succinct.

    By leaving out words? :D
    ibarelycare wrote: »
    One of them was Wazdakka (sp?). He lost his sh*t on the first night and had a fight with everyone and left on the first boat the next morning. Good times :D

    Ah Wazza, ha ha! Had forgotten about him. Met him at a few beers over the years and found him to be great craic.


  • #535
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,271 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Arghus wrote: »
    I still don't fully know whether he was a troll or a fantasist. Primarily, I think he probably was a Walter Mitty - the level of depth and detail the man went into detailing his fantasy life makes me think that this was someone who wanted to believe that this was his life. The tantrums he used to throw when someone attempted to lift the veil were indicative, to me, of how maintaining the facade was always priority number one.

    Oh I don't believe for a second that he was doing it to troll. I think he more or less believed his own rubbish. And he wanted it to be true. He so desperately needed everyone else to believe it in order to bolster his own belief. Which is why he got so nasty whenever anyone cast doubt on him - it threatened to upset his entire invented sense of self.


  • #536
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    I rented a house for a weekend on Inis Oírr with a group of about 13/14 boardsies maybe 8/9 years ago. At least two of them turned up without having met anyone before. One of them was Wazdakka (sp?). He lost his sh*t on the first night and had a fight with everyone and left on the first boat the next morning. Good times :D

    Aw, that sounds unreal. Inis Oírr is my happy place. :D Always funny when too many people turn up for one of those get-togethers. :pac:
    Arghus wrote: »
    I don't know if he was even strictly speaking a troll. I don't know if his motivation was to just wind people up - I think it was actually something a bit more malevolent: I think he wanted to deceive people. I'm sure there were people here that took his opinions and alleged "expertise" at face value. After all, he always wrote so well and was usually calm, somewhat respectful and polite.

    PB was an expert in knowing how to search for sources that made him sound like an actual expert. He tried it on in the Gaeilge forum towards the end, and it was abundantly obvious that he was trawling Google for keywords that suited his argument. Then he'd shift the goalposts and try to "win" by countering with a slightly different argument. I'd say he'd make a tremendous opponent in a game of chess.


  • #537
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,559 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Ah I cant believe they deleted Pilsbury Doughboys final post, I dont think a single post has ever made me laugh so much. It was the context of it too with the tension and constant arguments on the Liverpool thread while the team was playing awful. That and it was New Years Day and he wanted a fresh start. His final post just cut through all the crap and arguments and gave everyone a great laugh on the first day of the year. Does anyone have a screenshot of it? It defintely needs preservation

    Probably the greatest signing off in the history of Boards. I'm not even a Liverpool fan and was entirely ignorant of what led up to the post, but, even I had to thank it because it was such an epic meltdown, but carried off with such conviction and flair.


  • #538
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Gonna go against the grain and say I thought Scofflaw was a decent poster. The sig thing was a bit repetitive, yeah, but I actually felt it was a good way to make the tone more corial in politics, which was always such a heated place.

    There's a slim possibility PB is a shill as well, one of those who try to edge the Overton window ever further open.


  • #539
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    The most realistic thing about Permabear was that he went from being a libertarian militant atheist to a Trump defender whp flirted with religion.


  • #540
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,559 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    PB was an expert in knowing how to search for sources that made him sound like an actual expert. He tried it on in the Gaeilge forum towards the end, and it was abundantly obvious that he was trawling Google for keywords that suited his argument. Then he'd shift the goalposts and try to "win" by countering with a slightly different argument. I'd say he'd make a tremendous opponent in a game of chess.

    I'll give him credit for that. He was extremely resourceful and adept at trawling the internet quickly to find material to suit and raise his argument and it would probably help him get through most debates, but if you were able to see through his copy and paste, he'd shift the goalposts slightly - and if that didn't work he'd disappear or get mad.


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  • #541
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,003 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Arghus wrote: »
    Probably the greatest signing off in the history of Boards. I'm not even a Liverpool fan and was entirely ignorant of what led up to the post, but, even I had to thank it because it was such an epic meltdown, but carried off with such conviction and flair.

    For those who haven't seen it and can no longer due to GDPR.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=93648488&postcount=786

    Sincere thanks to Jesus Wept for quoting this at the time and preserving it for future generations.


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