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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭PinotNero


    Wheeliebin30. Wow what an angry poster :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,351 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    josip wrote: »
    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.

    The sign off at the end of his post - brilliant :D


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


    josip wrote: »
    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.

    That's the one. I think there was another closing gif of Kenny Powers giving everyone the finger and fireworks exploding in the background.

    It is doubly funny to think he died on a hill for Brendan Rodgers.


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


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

    Yeah just tried looking up starbelgrade's old posts but they are all gone sadly. He really had a remarkable sense of wit
    josip wrote: »
    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.

    Ah thanks josip, you've made my day.

    Au Revoir Le cocksuckers :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Galadriel


    Slideways wrote: »
    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.

    I met him at a few of the beers back in the day, crikey :eek:


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


    PinotNero wrote: »
    Wheeliebin30. Wow what an angry poster :eek:

    Any article on the Journal about social welfare etc has a guy posting using the exact same language Mr Wheeliebin used here, with his real name. It's so obvious it's him!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,817 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Did anyone ever meet Permabear in person?
    Or did he ever supposedly leave the USA?

    To thine own self be true



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Arghus wrote: »
    That's the one. I think there was another closing gif of Kenny Powers giving everyone the finger and fireworks exploding in the background.

    It is doubly funny to think he died on a hill for Brendan Rodgers.

    Not the best choice of hill to choose to die on but he died with a smile on his face and a Kenny Powers gif playing in the background.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭Bigbagofcans


    Since its changed to boardsies you would prefer to have never existed...wasn't that paedo journalist a frequent AH poster?

    Is that the sports journalist? How did people know it was him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,681 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    I found him fascinating more than I actually liked him. Way too preoccupied with turning everything into gender wars.
    I was a little similar though, tbh, I agreed with a lot of his views on third-wave feminism. He seemed very knowledgeable on history though and I enjoyed those aspects of his posts.
    On Whoopsa - I fear this might get me lynched because everyone seems to love her, but I wasn’t the biggest fan of hers. I found her to be frequently quite subtly passive-aggressive if someone disagreed with her. (and yes I’m aware of my sig)
    Whoops found herself the target of a lot of butthurt from users or trolls she'd banned and was repeatedly doxxed on other sites. I think it's not too surprising that she got a bit snarky towards the end of her time here. Met her a couple of times in the real world and she was lovely.

    I know from chatting with Danniemcq that the hassle involved with being a mod on AH was one of the main reasons he's no longer around here (though still active on Reddit). I'd imagine Whoops left for similar (and more extreme) reasons.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,621 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Mod note: On Permabear, folks, I think that subject is done now. He's not here to defend himself so that subject is finished now.

    Buford T. Justice


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


    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.

    I was convinced that he was either an employee of said EU or his livelihood depended on it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Is that the sports journalist? How did people know it was him?


    Yeah the sports guy. Not sure how it was known, maybe someone better versed in this could answer that one?


  • Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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

    I remember him being quite truculent in his posting style.

    Was there much riding?


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


    I remember him being quite truculent in his posting style.

    Was there much riding?

    Loads. One big dirty Aran Island orgy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭trout


    Some people think GDPR will help them tippex over anything they've ever posted online. "I have a right to be forgotten".

    That's simply not true.

    For one thing, GDPR Article 17 can do nothing about people remembering epic posts (as seen in this thread several times).

    Also ... there's no solution (as yet) for internet archives like the Wayback Machine that will hold copies of boards threads / pages

    Exhibit (a) == a boards.ie page from 2001 talking about cool sigs (random pick)

    https://web.archive.org/web/20010211163608/http://www.boards.ie:80/bulletin/Forum1/HTML/001466.html

    Exhibit (b) == a more recent boards.ie page talking about GDPR.

    I confess, I like this one for the subject matter ... there's a delicious irony in how this site archived posts from a person who was so determined to be forgotten.

    https://archive.fo/SF1GS


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


    You'd defintitely miss Padriaag and the adventures of Trent. Just the way that thread goes is beautiful. It was in the Creative Writing forum and after his first few installments the regular posters there were resisting the urge to call him an outright troll. Then the next few instalments of Trents adventures came along and it turned into an absolute barrel of laughs, even when I read it now Im still splitting myself laughing. Plus he gave us the word SKRKK
    SKRRK! SKRRK SKRRK! Somehwere in the distance Trent could hear it. SKRRK! SKRRK! SKRRK! Trent could well remember that noise from the time he was in the army. "I can well remember that noise from the time I was in the army" Trent thought.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    trout wrote: »
    Some people think GDPR will help them tippex over anything they've ever posted online. "I have a right to be forgotten".
    And you better request from Google, other search engines and archive.org as well! GDPR doesn't let you outrun the past.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭SirChenjin


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    Yeah just tried looking up starbelgrade's old posts but they are all gone sadly. He really had a remarkable sense of wit

    You can find them with advanced search.

    I wasn't around much on boards when he was here but saw the name mentioned so often in this thread, I looked up some of his posts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Galadriel


    I used to loved posts from the girl that was completely mental about Garth Brooks, I think at one stage her username was MrsGarthBrooks, she changed her name a few times though, I think she got site banned for fighting with her sister on different forums. It was very entertaining!


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


    Don't mention the war! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    josip wrote: »
    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.

    Ah lads. I remember that. So funny. Perfect gif

    It reminds me of Glens breakdown from the thick of it or something. Just so furious.


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


    There was a poster who used to post in the long running anti-Blind Boy Boat Club thread who I'm 90% certain was Blind Boy. Same arguments, similar turn of phrase, appeared out of nowhere, only posted in that thread, around the same time Blind Boy mentioned internet forums on one of his podcasts...


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


    trout wrote: »

    Boards should have listened to my old account there. I made sense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,703 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    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:

    Sounds like a bunch of creeps anyway.


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


    Total weirdos


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


    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:

    Sounds like a bunch of creeps anyway.
    bluewolf wrote: »
    Total weirdos


    Well, that's 3 members of the gang identified anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    I must admit I was one of the gullible fools who just kinda accepted Permabear's story. I didn't interrogate it much to be honest, did think aspects of it really quite strange, but strange things do happen. I even PM'd the guy with a financial question one time and he got back to me with lots of information which turned out to be quite helpful!

    There was a woman from Texas I think, living in Sligo or somewhere, her posts used to be good if I remember them right. Speedwell.

    The Backwards Man was a mixture of entertaining and eye-rollingly dull at times with his shtick. But I admit I did like having him around.

    I think I read earlier on the thread that TerrorFirmer is gone, he was very helpful to me this year by PM with the purchase of a computer, so shame he's gone. He knew his stuff.

    Then I know this is a bit of an awkward subject, but there a couple of posters on site that are quite elderly and I often find myself wondering, when they stop posting one of these days, as they will, ... well.. that's sad.

    Also, it's quite likely that even though I'm here over a decade with over a thousand posts, that if I were to disappear nobody would remember me, know I was gone, or that I was ever even here :o Maybe I should be more outrageous :P:)

    Also agree with earlier poster that ILoveYourVibes is aiming for the most-posts title :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    Carry wrote: »
    Anyway, some time ago I was wondering where LadyMacbeth has gone. I liked her sense of humour, but I remember she was very ill. Hope she is fine.

    I really have to stop talking about CF so much or stop changing my name so my loyal and adoring fans won't think I'm dead :D

    Thank you Carry, I hope you're well too :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Ariadne wrote: »
    I really have to stop talking about CF so much or stop changing my name so my loyal and adoring fans won't think I'm dead :D

    Thank you Carry, I hope you're well too :)

    All that worry, all the sleepless nights, all the things that went through my head I always wanted to say to you and couldn't anymore. Oh the regrets ...:mad:

    And you only changed your effin name? Ye devious b**ch! :D:D:D


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