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  • #692
    optogirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,074 ✭✭✭optogirl


    banie01 wrote: »
    As long as I get to fork her 1st!

    I hate forking 2nd, usually a sticky creamy mess at that point :P


    Christ


  • #693
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,560 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    retro:electro wrote: »
    Anyone remember clairewithani? It all went a bit strange at the end..
    erica74 is another one I don’t see around much. I know she was going through a lot. Hope she’s okay.

    I thought clairewithani had re-regged?
    I do seem to remember reading that somewhere...


  • #694
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,560 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    optogirl wrote: »
    Christ

    I don't think he'd have liked over forked mash either?
    The Jewish affinity for the spud didn't kick off until quite a few years after the Ascension ;)


  • #695
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    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.

    I have to admit, I’m a bit disappointed.


  • #696
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    trout wrote: »
    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

    *chef’s kiss*


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  • #697
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Does anyone remember the girl who brought a pineapple to a beers in Messrs (now Sweetmans). Probably around 2009/2010.


  • #698
    Abel Ruiz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭Abel Ruiz


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    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)

    I agree with this post.
    Didnt she leave after she made accusations about some mod(still here) filming her legs at a boards beers?
    There was a lot of questions but she didnt want to answer or take it further.
    And then gone.


  • #699
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Ah lads, that Trent stuff is epic. Thanks again to whoever it was that posted the link. Just went thorugh all the Boards posts this morning and havent laughed so much in ages.
    UNLICENSED TRACHEOTOMY! Trent had put the pen through the throat of the bad guy without even realising it and was doing a crossword on the other side of his head and clicking the pen! OTOLARYNGOLOGIST! Shouted trent as he suddenly filled in 9 down which related to ear nose and throat doctors.


  • #700
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,644 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Degsy
    Mr Presentable
    Muise
    King of the Eyesores
    Dr Bollocko
    Loopy


    Mods, feel free to delete this post if it contravenes unofficial thread policy re: interminable references to Facekicker, Permabear or Trent.


  • #701
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,992 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    If makes you wonder where the bodies are buried tbh .... ;)


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  • #702
    The Master
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,324 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the girl who brought a pineapple to a beers in Messrs (now Sweetmans). Probably around 2009/2010.

    McChubbin


  • #703
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There was a witch who really really hated men called Thaedydal.


  • #704
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    The Master wrote: »
    McChubbin

    Thank you!


  • #705
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,560 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Anyone remember Dlofnep? At I think that was the spelling?
    Interesting thread about chelation from what he self diagnosed as heavy metal poisoning..

    Other than that, an awkward contrarian and argumentive Bollox.


  • #706
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    There was a witch who really really hated men called Thaedydal.
    Was she Beruthiel (sp?) They were similar. I never could understand why people seemed to like them. Very confrontational out of nowhere, which OK the likes of WWM could be like that too, but you knew there was an attempt at humour there. Those wans just seemed like quite nasty people. When people give out about the tone here today, it's worth remembering that boards was never all peace and love. In many ways people are a lot more civil lately.


  • #707
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the girl who brought a pineapple to a beers in Messrs (now Sweetmans). Probably around 2009/2010.

    Oh how quirky that is. Fcuk sake!
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Also agree with earlier poster that ILoveYourVibes is aiming for the most-posts title :P

    50 posts a day :eek:


  • #708
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Was she Beruthiel (sp?) They were similar. I never could understand why people seemed to like them. Very confrontational out of nowhere, which OK the likes of WWM could be like that too, but you knew there was an attempt at humour there. Those wans just seemed like quite nasty people.
    Two different people but great friends. At one time anyway.

    I was very much at odds with Thaed for a long time - she could be so hostile to women (how "sisterly"!) but she mellowed greatly after being taken to task. Met her briefly in real life too - she actually seemed lovely.

    The other one though...

    A huge number of that crowd were like that however. And yeah, bewildering sycophancy towards them.


  • #709
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dudess was always one of my favourites (which she knows!), as were Poundapunnet, Eve_dublin and a few more but I'm so bad at registering usernames that I can't think of their handles but I loved their posts.

    I am devastated to learn that I'm not special and The Backwards Man loves all the ladies! To be fair he has always been very polite and respectful and nothing untowards at all. :)

    A few others have stood out for the wrong reasons (Pumpkinsomething, Planespeeking in her various iterations, and a poster whose name escapes me but used to post mean spirited stuff in the TTTMYH thread - other peoples misfortune really made them happy). I don't know why TC gets any love, he may have been articulate but there were few posts of his that didn't drip with sneering condescension. He truly hated women.

    I am also underwhelmed by the football thingy, it's funny but I guess it's probably hilarious if you were following at the time and knew all the backstory.

    I am in an absolute HEAP reading the adventures of Trent, it's the best thing I've read in ages and comes straight from the AVB (before the handover) school of funny. :D

    Brilliant stuff!


  • #710
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Muise! She was hilarious and so insightful. I really loved her posts. :)


  • #711
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Eve Dublin is doing great in real life - would love if she came back. Like Whoops she was driven off though by people who seem very upset all the time.

    Dudess used to be way too argumentative and wound up and taking things too seriously politically... but I have it on excellent authority that she has mellowed greatly. ;)


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  • #712
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Was she Beruthiel (sp?) They were similar. I never could understand why people seemed to like them. Very confrontational out of nowhere, which OK the likes of WWM could be like that too, but you knew there was an attempt at humour there. Those wans just seemed like quite nasty people.
    Ahh I dunno M. Now I did not get on with Ber after a while and vice versa and we'd not be on one another's Xmas list, ever, she was alright overall. As a mod I found her bloody good at the basic housekeeping stuff in that role. Not so many are, but she was always on top of things and put a lot of effort into it. Thaed(sp) I found grand too. I modded PI with her for a good while(along with Ber actually). She was bloody good in that forum and her and Ber were major supporters of the forum when quite a few questioned its very existence. Major Right On feminist so we'd not be on agreeing terms regarding much of that :D but again she was grand. Both were among the few women on boards from early on, certainly in a more public way, so I know they got about equal static and respect there. There could be a mix of "oh a woman, wow" and "oh a woman, burn her" going on. I noticed that myself early on when some thought I was of the womanly persuasion, apparently just because I modded PI and wasn't the "pull yourself together" type. Among some of the men they were either looking for a mammy figure or out to get back at same. The former seemed to be a large part of the sycophancy Raconteuse notes. Freud all over the place. :D
    When people give out about the tone here today, it's worth remembering that boards was never all peace and love. In many ways people are a lot more civil lately.
    Oh that is most certainly true. Even on the mod stuff, for all the static it can get nowadays, it was far less consistent back then. The same comment could get you nuked from space by one and agreed with by another. Actually both the women above were pretty bloody consistent compared to many and Thaed was very much behind the drive for more consistency.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #713
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    There was another one from around that time, the Eve Dublin thing reminded me, Something Spain (can't remember what the something was), would start nearly every reply with 'Well I live in Spain and the way we do it here is........

    Another one, bit of a melt actually, stupidusername I think


  • #714
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I was doing a bit of digging and came across posts by poor Shpud. I'd like of he came back and all his demons were banished. Sadly he is no longer with us.


  • #715
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Eve Dublin is doing great in real life - would love if she came back. Like Whoops she was driven off though by people who seem very upset all the time.

    Dudess used to be way too argumentative and wound up and taking things too seriously politically... but I have it on excellent authority that she has mellowed greatly. ;)

    Lovely to hear! Not sure Dudess could be improved but I'll take your word for it. :D


  • #716
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I remember being at a beers and someone having it explained to them that Dudess was a woman. People couldn't understand how he hadn't realised it from the name.

    Apparently the way he was reading it was not like Dudess is to Dude as lioness is to lion, but Dudess is to Dude as lionsss is to lion :D

    I actually got a PM from TheBackwardsMan under a new account a while back, never got around to getting back to him. Don't tell me he sent those to all the girls as well!


  • #717
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Braden Fresh Pointer wrote: »

    I actually got a PM from TheBackwardsMan under a new account a while back, never got around to getting back to him. Don't tell me he sent those to all the girls as well!

    I feel so betrayed :P


  • #718
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    There was another one from around that time, the Eve Dublin thing reminded me, Something Spain (can't remember what the something was), would start nearly every reply with 'Well I live in Spain and the way we do it here is........

    Another one, bit of a melt actually, stupidusername I think
    She's no longer in Spain (not Ireland).

    Stupidusername was one of those "I only hang around with men because women are bitchy" folk - she had her demons though, felt sorry for her.

    Remember Storminateacup? Pretty sure a well known poster is her but with differences in backstory.


  • #719
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,029 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    She's no longer in Spain (not Ireland).

    Stupidusername was one of those "I only hang around with men because women are bitchy" folk - she had her demons though, felt sorry for her.

    Remember Storminateacup? Pretty sure a well known poster is her but with differences in backstory.

    Think she's in holland, is a friend of a friend.


  • #720
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,724 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Jaysus, lads, ye're not too shy about sharing other people's personal info in their absence. Steady on.
    Braden Fresh Pointer wrote: »
    Apparently the way he was reading it was not like Dudess is to Dude as lioness is to lion, but Dudess is to Dude as lionsss is to lion :D

    Dudess is the plural of dudes as ArmaniJeanss is the plural of armani jeans.

    metrovelvet is another poster from yore I quite liked. Didn't always agree with her but she had a unique take on things.


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  • #721
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Eve Dublin is doing great in real life - would love if she came back. Like Whoops she was driven off though by people who seem very upset all the time.

    Dudess used to be way too argumentative and wound up and taking things too seriously politically... but I have it on excellent authority that she has mellowed greatly. ;)

    Anyone ever tell you that you look like yer wan off Eastenders?


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