Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Does Boards represent Ireland?

  • 27-06-2020 09:57PM
    #1
    Lyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭Lyan


    Do you think this site gives an accurate representation of common Irish opinions and attitudes or is the place full of deviants?


«13

Comments

  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    What do you think OP?


  • #3
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Hard to say ....my Ireland no..but we all have our bubbles.

    It probably represents the real ireland.


  • #4
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 57,077 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Hard to say ....my Ireland no..but we all have our bubbles.

    It probably represents the real ireland.

    Nope. You have to be politically correct and only say what they want you to say.
    No rocking boats or anything like that.


  • #5
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,914 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    People who give out about the dole and social housing are well represented.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    If there was a best website competition, I'd imagine boards would be representing Ireland..


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    SchrodingersCat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭SchrodingersCat


    Nope. "Current Affairs" has got far more hateful lately and does not represent how the public voted in the last election.


  • #8
    LuasSimon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭LuasSimon


    Full of PC types these days


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    SchrodingersCat wrote: »
    Nope. "Current Affairs" has got far more hateful lately and does not represent how the public voted in the last election.

    Current Affairs was always like that, from when it was called the Politics Cafe. Really nasty place. It annoys me that it even shows up in my post history, probably because of threads being sent there from these hallowed halls. What a pit of vitriol it is.


  • #10
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,644 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    SchrodingersCat wrote: »
    does not represent how the public voted in the last election.

    yeah i see a lot of anti FF/FG (and green especially) posts there...


  • #11
    sugarman20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 378 ✭✭sugarman20


    I seriously hope not!

    SUBSCRIBE HERE TO KEEP BOARDS ONLINE

    Linky



  • Advertisement
  • #12
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Current Affairs was always like that, from when it was called the Politics Cafe. Really nasty place. It annoys me that it even shows up in my post history, probably because of threads being sent there from these hallowed halls. What a pit of vitriol it is.


    It's fine, as long as you visit the place doing so for your own amusement, and for the lols.



    The tragedy is that some people seem to take it seriously. :eek:


  • #13
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,140 ✭✭✭✭PsychoPete


    So your telling me people outside of boards aren't on 100k a year,house paid off,new car and sitting on a 200k pension?


  • #14
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,644 ✭✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Lyan wrote: »
    Do you think this site gives an accurate representation of common Irish opinions and attitudes or is the place full of deviants?

    yes


  • #15
    GoatBoy74
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 140 ✭✭GoatBoy74


    Lyan wrote: »
    Do you think this site gives an accurate representation of common Irish opinions and attitudes or is the place full of deviants?

    The latter


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    So your telling me people outside of boards aren't on 100k a year,house paid off,new car and sitting on a 200k pension?
    Come home Permabear, all is forgiven.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Come home Permabear, all is forgiven.

    Yeah.....nah.

    Some delicate flowers in here. If you don't like it, you needn't participate.


  • #18
    Silentcorner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,631 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    SchrodingersCat wrote: »
    Nope. "Current Affairs" has got far more hateful lately and does not represent how the public voted in the last election.

    Nah it's just Irish people...we've moved from FF people hating Fg people...we love a good argument!!!


  • #19
    Granadino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Granadino


    No. Most people I know aren't on boards. Most of the posts on boards are not reflective of real society.


  • #20
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,972 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Current Affairs was always like that, from when it was called the Politics Cafe. Really nasty place. It annoys me that it even shows up in my post history, probably because of threads being sent there from these hallowed halls. What a pit of vitriol it is.

    And that’s just the mods.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Some delicate flowers in here. If you don't like it, you needn't participate.

    I don't think any of us are too delicate Bertie, it's just a question of screening content that we don't want polluting our heads, a bit like blocking Donald Trump on Twitter, or those incestuous Greystone lads, The Happy Pear.

    On the whole, Boards is a good and uplifting place which I'd say is fairly representative of the people of Ireland.

    EDIT
    Some mod has edited (removed) a link I made to a very good boards.ie thread,as it was against the charter.


  • Advertisement
  • #22
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Lyan wrote: »
    Do you think this site gives an accurate representation of common Irish opinions and attitudes or is the place full of deviants?

    Deviants and welcome to the club.
    Boards should represent ireland in the Eurovision song contest. After all he had a rag with its hand up its arse before representing us, boards would do well.
    Again welcome to the club deviant


  • #23
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,987 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    So your telling me people outside of boards aren't on 100k a year,house paid off,new car and sitting on a 200k pension?

    Speak for yourself, I make multiples of those figures.

    To thine own self be true



  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,852 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lyan wrote: »
    Do you think this site gives an accurate representation of common Irish opinions and attitudes or is the place full of deviants?

    If it does then someone needs to pepper the country with nuclear weapons.


  • #25
    Necro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 58,690 ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Mod:

    Folks do NOT link to threads in other more sensitive forums such as Personal Issues, this is explicitly against Boards rules


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,246 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nah....i doubt it anyway

    Captures an over representation of a small cohort of population.....boring middle aged types,who it has dawned upon have wasted their lives on pointless office work,but are in too deep with mortgages etc to get out now.......and are strikingly bitter at anyone who deosnt conform or sees world differently



    **this isnt all posters or aimed at anyone in particular ,just that be bang i get off lot of posts.


  • #27
    Mr Meanor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭Mr Meanor


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    So your telling me people outside of boards aren't on 100k a year,house paid off,new car and sitting on a 200k pension?
    Only for members to the private part of the site.
    25k earnings, 3 kids, a dog and a mortgage will limit you to After hours.


  • #28
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,417 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    It's a bit angrier and more argumentative than Ireland as a whole.

    I don't know how people can say it's too PC, Current Affairs is rammed full with half-baked reactionary bile.


  • #29
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    No, very limited number of people represented


  • #30
    GoatBoy74
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 140 ✭✭GoatBoy74


    Mr Meanor wrote: »
    Only for members to the private part of the site.
    25k earnings, 3 kids, a dog and a mortgage will limit you to After hours.

    + some sort of state benefit.


  • Advertisement
  • #31
    Rodney Bathgate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,440 ✭✭✭Rodney Bathgate


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I don't think any of us are too delicate Bertie, it's just a question of screening content that we don't want polluting our heads, a bit like blocking Donald Trump on Twitter, or those incestuous Greystone lads, The Happy Pear.

    On the whole, Boards is a good and uplifting place which I'd say is fairly representative of the people of Ireland.

    EDIT
    Some mod has edited (removed) a link I made to a very good boards.ie thread, for reasons that are beyond me.

    You had the moral high ground there until you insult the Happy Pear lads with ‘incestuous’.


Advertisement
Advertisement