Slight minority taking over boards

biko · 2006-07-03 01:33:56

Now, according to this Dubs make up just about half of Boards population. Is this why they keep taking over any other forum with questions like "Late Night Bars in Town Thursday Nights?", "flashing in the sky", "Tied Shoes thrown over ESB wires", "Headset in Town: Where to Buy?". If most other people post their local…

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Now, according to this Dubs make up just about half of Boards population. Is this why they keep taking over any other forum with questions like "Late Night Bars in Town Thursday Nights?", "flashing in the sky", "Tied Shoes thrown over ESB wires", "Headset in Town: Where to Buy?". If most other people post their local questions in their local fora, why do Dubs feel free to post in AH or other main foras with questions like this? Other than "it gets more atention from there frends"? Just asking like...

Example http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054954075

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#2 03-07-2006 01:40AM

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they are simply smarter as AH will generate more replies :P

I dont see the harm.

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#3 03-07-2006 01:43AM

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Also bear in mind that the next biggest group is "Leinster but not in Dublin" and that a lot of people within that region would go for nights out in Dublin quite regularly. So that's pretty much most of boards.

If you really didn't like these threads, post in them and suggest places to go in Galway or London or whatever.

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#4 03-07-2006 01:51AM

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Taking over?.....your mistaken, we already rule! :cool:

Edit: just kidding by the way folks, incase i get abused!

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#5 03-07-2006 05:44AM

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Doodee wrote:

they are simply smarter as AH will generate more replies :P

I dont see the harm.

Well you get banned for intentionally doing that.

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#6 03-07-2006 05:50AM

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biko wrote:

Now, according to this Dubs make up just about half of Boards population.

Half the population does not a slight minority make.

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#7 03-07-2006 09:40AM

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Dub is the "big city." Los Angeles is ours, although 40 miles away. We don't always like LA's impact on OC. But they do, like big cities elsewhere. Inspite of this, I've found boards.ie to be a cyberplace that allows you to visit many things and places in Ireland while being overseas. This is a good thing. I sometimes ignore Dub only posts while I surf boards.ie, other times find them interesting. I have a choice. So does everyone.:cool:

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#8 03-07-2006 10:20AM

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Doodee wrote:

they are simply smarter as AH will generate more replies :P

I dont see the harm.

Actually, that's a very good point made my the OP.

They are not smarter Doodee. Several times us country folk post a similar type question in AH or whatever, because it'll get more views / replies, & the thread immediately gets moved by a mod to the relevant region section.

SO, though never having thought about it, I agree with the OP, & those type threads in general forums like AH, should be moved to regional sections.

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#9 03-07-2006 10:20AM

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Isn't a huge portion of the population actually in Dublin?
The broadband coverage covers more of Dublin?

It just makes simple sense.

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#10 03-07-2006 10:34AM

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Wheres the best place to grab lunch in Letterkenny?

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#11 03-07-2006 10:44AM

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FuzzyLogic wrote:

Wheres the best place to grab lunch in Letterkenney?

Letterkenney.

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#12 03-07-2006 10:50AM

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So which town is this OP talking about? I assume Galway but experience says Dublin http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054955430
No mentioning of location anywhere, not even in posters info.

Is it urgent? No.
Is it local? Yes.
Am I ranting? Yes.

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#13 03-07-2006 10:53AM

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biko wrote:

Now, according to this "Tied Shoes thrown over ESB wires",

is that the pair in crumlin village?

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#14 03-07-2006 10:53AM

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tis a bit annoyin when ppl say " wheres the best X in town". Dublin the only town in Ireland??? Not that difficult to type Dublin instead is it? It reminds me when I started college in Carlow ther was a guy in my class from Dublin, and he asked me if I was goin down to the village for a coffee. ah felt like smackin him one...village my hole! There is more than one town in Ireland, and even though most of people on here now what is meant by town in this context, it is a tad annoyin

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#15 03-07-2006 10:56AM

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biko wrote:

Now, according to this Dubs make up just about half of Boards population. Is this why they keep taking over any other forum with questions like "Late Night Bars in Town Thursday Nights?", "flashing in the sky", "Tied Shoes thrown over ESB wires", "Headset in Town: Where to Buy?". If most other people post their local questions in their local fora, why do Dubs feel free to post in AH or other main foras with questions like this? Other than "it gets more atention from there frends"? Just asking like...

Example http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054954075

youre not making much sense.

ps where abouts is the town hall in galway? need to go there next week.

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#16 03-07-2006 11:01AM

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I don't want all these nut jobs in the Dublin City forum.

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#17 03-07-2006 11:27AM

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Doodee wrote:

they are simply smarter as AH will generate more replies :P

I dont see the harm.

AH is a fupping joke. Full of sh1te bandied about by people who just fell off the digital banana boat and haven't a clue.

OMFG! TEH KITTENZ R TEH CUTESTEST!

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#18 03-07-2006 11:30AM

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Naked Lepper wrote:

youre not making much sense.

ps where abouts is the town hall in galway? need to go there next week.

Google
If you need directions when you're on the streets of Galway, try asking someone.

No-one buy's maps anymore no? What if the batteries in your PDA die?

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#19 03-07-2006 11:32AM

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The Dubs 'think' they control boards.

however it is another form of control

*dramatic music*

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#20 03-07-2006 11:39AM

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SyxPak wrote:

Google
If you need directions when you're on the streets of Galway, try asking someone.

No-one buy's maps anymore no? What if the batteries in your PDA die?

for the energy you spend typing that you could have told me.
galways meant to be a nice wee town tho , shud be too hard 2 find eh?

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#21 03-07-2006 11:54AM

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If there are Dublin specific threads here then report the thread and the mod will probably move it to the Dublin forum.

Sheesh you non-Dubs are moany aren't you?!

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#22 03-07-2006 11:56AM

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Gordon wrote:

If there are Dublin specific threads here then report the thread and the mod will probably move it to the Dublin forum.

Sheesh you non-Dubs are moany aren't you?!

alot of country people feel hard done by because dublin gets everything and if they want to do anything exciting they have to come here for it, they also seem to feel inferiour alot of the time, hence this deep set resentment for all things dublin, imho of course.

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#23 03-07-2006 11:59AM

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Naked Lepper wrote:

alot of country people feel hard done by because dublin gets everything and if they want to do anything exciting they have to come here for it, they also seem to feel inferiour alot of the time, hence this deep set resentment for all things dublin, imho of course.

Then move to Dublin.

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#24 03-07-2006 12:00PM

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from what ive seen on it, the limerick ppl seem to be everywere, evertytime some slags us of we come out of the shadows and start defending preety funny really

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#25 03-07-2006 12:03PM

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For us to be a minority wouldn't there need to be less of us than other people? In other words we aren't a minority but the majority.

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#26 03-07-2006 12:08PM

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If you dont like it just dont reply. I dont get why people complain when something's in the wrong place, just get over it and read on! Anyway Id say more than 'just about half' are actually living in Dublin. I said on that survery that I am from Ulster... which I am... but I havent lived - lived there for over 5 years now. Im turning into a Dub:eek: :eek: :eek:

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#27 03-07-2006 12:13PM

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The majority of people who use boards are from Leinster.
The majority of people in Leinster are in Dublin.

Total population: 3,917,203
Population of Leinster: 2,105,579

Of course you're going to see bias towards Dublin, There are more people from there on boards then the rest of the country!

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#28 03-07-2006 12:32PM

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I live right next to Blanchardstown. The nearest "town" is Blanchardstown Village. (nobody point out that its just a suburb of Dublin by now... rows and rows of houses may as well be vast fields when it comes to the facilities they provide to those who don't live in them). Yet when I say "town" I mean Dublin City Centre (because it's just a better place for most things tbh).

It's the same as if I say "the centre". I'm always talking about the big Blanchardstown Shopping Centre if I say that - despite there being at least three other shopping centres nearer to me (one of them only about 10 feet from my house).

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#29 03-07-2006 12:46PM

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People, is there a huge wall built around Dublin, so it makes it the only county in Ireland???

(Don't get me wrong i have no problem with Dublin or anything like that, but you sometimes feel in here that its the only county in AH)

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#30 03-07-2006 12:49PM

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Gordon wrote:

If there are Dublin specific threads here then report the thread and the mod will probably move it to the Dublin forum.

Sheesh you non-Dubs are moany aren't you?!

No, we are not. When is the last time you saw a "where in town" or "did you see that" thread in AH or other forum and it referred to Cork, Limerick, Belfast, ...? I don't recall other posters doing this, at leaqst not nearly as often.

I know a lot of posters just stick to AH and pretty much vent all their opinions and queries in here.

This is not an anti-Dub thread, there's plenty of them anyway.
It's a post-in-your-effing-regional-forum-Dubs thread. Everyone else is doing it, why can't you?

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#31 03-07-2006 01:23PM

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Look on it this way RTE news don't turn around and say "Now, in Dublin news" because news that occurs in dublin is generally in the main news. However they do have the regional reports or the redneck roundup for stuff that happens down in the sticks but isnt really that important. They really just include it because it makes the spudgobblers feel good seeing it on their telly

Same with AH really.

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