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Do you ignore the bad news threads in AH?

  • 16-12-2009 06:30AM
    #1
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭


    I do, just like I ignore the papers, TV and news websites. I tend to only post in the non-hype threads that can at least generate a laugh of make you think. Meh, I used to believe the crap the spurt at us in the news, but not any more I reserve my seriousness for issues that actually affect me, such as... well, I dunno, gearboxes, GS300s and lambda sensors. Oh, and 787s. I like AH, but sometimes it's like swimming in a tank full of other people's fake plastic sh!t. No wait, I'm thinking of Personal Issues.

    Anyway what threads do you read in here?


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,904 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I stick to the short ones mostly.


  • #3
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭mawk


    I try to only read the ones with social values, informative warnings, wry political commentary and fantastic spelling.

    Later guys


  • #4
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Victor wrote: »
    I stick to the short ones mostly.

    Good man Vic, but try harder next time eh? ;)


  • #5
    old_aussie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    Confab wrote: »

    Anyway what threads do you read in here?


    The threads that have new posts


  • #6
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Confab wrote: »
    I do, just like I ignore the papers, TV and news websites. I tend to only post in the non-hype threads that can at least generate a laugh of make you think. Meh, I used to believe the crap the spurt at us in the news, but not any more I reserve my seriousness for issues that actually affect me, such as... well, I dunno, gearboxes, GS300s and lambda sensors. Oh, and 787s. I like AH, but sometimes it's like swimming in a tank full of other people's fake plastic sh!t. No wait, I'm thinking of Personal Issues.

    Anyway what threads do you read in here?

    I do ignore a lot of threads here, I've no interest in getting into any kind of a debate with anyone, and in AH of all places. Other forums will get a more serious reply from me, but in here is for killing some spare time for me - thats it.


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  • #7
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    I tend to avoid the ones that require any real intellectual thought. That is not what AH is for!


  • #8
    johnny_knoxvile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭johnny_knoxvile


    Victor wrote: »
    I stick to the short ones mostly.

    i date midgets too.


  • #9
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Confab wrote: »
    Anyway what threads do you read in here?

    I'm supposed to look through most of them... but I don't.
    If I log on and we have a big thread. Then I've lost the flow of the thread and respond to reported posts.
    If I'm there at the start (first two pages)and post, then its in my subbed list and I'll keep an eye on it.
    Apart from that, I flick through and skim read most of the others


  • #10
    piby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭piby


    I try to stay away from really long ones because I'm too lazy to read the whole thing!


  • #11
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Yeah generally I look at the lighter threads too. Im not one for moral outage so I cant give the 110% required in most of the threads regarding bankers, politicians, priests etc. I just think, meh, the world is a ****ed up shíthole - deal with it.


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  • #12
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    oh.... government, dole, single mothers, fireigners, begrudging typical irish threads... ignore those as much as possible if i can.



    bunch of moan old women!


  • #13
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Same here with the new threads, if i've missed the 1st couple of pages i'll tend to ignore it unless it looks really funny.

    I saw the feeky one as it was starting off but thought "this will die down pretty quick"...... Came back a day later and well you know how it went.


  • #14
    fillmore jive
    Closed Accounts Posts: 649 ✭✭✭fillmore jive


    I usually avoid the "this person doesn't deserve to live" threads.


  • #15
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    fillmore jive wrote: »
    I usually avoid the "this person doesn't deserve to live" threads.

    So you haven't been to an After Hours lynching yet??

    Shame..
    They're way more fun than the beers.


  • #16
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    There are no bad news threads in AH....they are all hilariously funny.


  • #17
    Clare Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    I don't read the bad news threads anymore. I don't want to know about the latest dog that's been set on fire or kid that's been abused. If I wanted to depress myself I'd watch the news or read the paper, both of which I stopped doing a long time ago.

    I read the funny ones or ones that I'm personally interested in and feel I can contribute to.

    So not that many :P


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