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Nights out with people off the internet

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  • #32
    Dancor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Jay D wrote: »
    one complete false ponsey git

    You could have just told me to my face Jay!


  • #33
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If I ever moved over to Dublin, i'd be at one straight away.. Not so much incentive living in Galway tho.

    There's one on in Galway on friday night in Massimo's.


  • #34
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dancor wrote: »
    You could have just told me to my face Jay!

    I couldn't, I'm a 2 faced bastard like that. ;)


  • #35
    SugarHigh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭SugarHigh


    Executive Steve wrote: »
    Haven't been to one in 9 years!

    But internet people are fecking great, plus you know you're going to have common ground.
    Executive Steve: Hi I use the internet.
    Other guy: Holy **** me too.
    *Friendship occurs*


  • #36
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I've not been to a boards.ie night out, since I've not been on the site very long, but I'm keeping an eye out for the next one in Dublin.

    I don't get on very well with... people. It's not that I'm nasty or bitchy, I just don't find it easy to talk to people I don't know and, consequently, I make a tit of myself and everyone thinks I'm a weirdo.

    When I've been to meet ups for other boards it's been much easier; you already kind of feel like you know people, there are things that you know you can talk about because there are threads about them; so I don't have to try to think of topics of conversation and risk finding that I've initiated a conversation about wheelbarrows or hangars or something.


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  • #37
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Haven't been to one myself but the idea that you wouldn't get on with the majority of people in real life that you get on with online seems a little daft.


  • #38
    Executive Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    SugarHigh wrote: »
    Executive Steve: Hi I use the internet.
    Other guy: Holy **** me too.
    *Friendship occurs*



    You must bear in mind that back in the 90's most people got most of their information about the internet from reading about it in magazines and newspapers!

    Being someone who was "into the internet" was regarded in much the same way collectors of stamps are these days.


  • #39
    silvervixen84
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    They're nothing like this thankfully ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIloa5tTE8g


  • #40
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    I am of the school of thought that people online should stay there.


  • #41
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Contrary to popular belief it's pretty much always sound people at beers, simply because when people meet other people face to face they tend to be less keyboard warriors and more accommodating. I've met some "odd" people but 99% would be great craic.

    The Galway Ladies Beers have been huge successes afaik. I think the more specialised the meet is, the more the people have in common already and will get along better. Motors meets, Airsoft meets, etc, ...


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Could actually be heading there for a birthday on Friday night... I'll keep at eye out for a group of people dressed like this guy..
    http://www.forumspile.com/Internet-Don't_worry_Tron.jpg


  • #43
    reallyrose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭reallyrose


    The_B_Man wrote: »
    ya may get let in on all the "in-jokes"!

    That is the one thing, above all other that would discourage me from attending a boards meet. I've been on boards for years, but I still wouldn't feel comfortable attending a boardsmeet. (This is a new nick, I lost the password to my old account and then lost the password to the retrieve password email. Yes, I am smart) My post count is pitiful anyway, I'm not a huge poster of messages. I always fear the mocking. o.o

    I've been to other internet-board-thing meet ups and generally things go swimmingly. There is always the hilarity of someone turning out to be the opposite of expected gender, or who looks exactly not-like what you expected them to look like.

    In-jokes scare me though. :(


  • #44
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    reallyrose wrote: »
    In-jokes scare me though. :(

    Just laugh when everyone else does...

    ... worked for me


  • #45
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Just laugh when everyone else does...

    ... worked for me


    We were laughing at you that time. :cool:


  • #46
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    We were laughing at you that time. :cool:

    ...so... I was the "in joke"?

    :cool:


  • #47
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    I met my girlfriend at a boards beers.

    Pretty much everyone I've met through boards has been sound, especially the fighting game players.


  • #48
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    I don't get why people have this fear of "internet people." "Internet people" are just.. people. They're the same people you pass in the streets every day. It's like there's this automatic assumption that if you're "from the internet" you're weird/a stalker/a murderer/a rapist/a nerd/whatever the hell else. Erm.. you're using the internet, and (I'm assuming!) you're not any of these things, so.. wouldn't it be safe to assume everyone else is pretty much the same way?

    Of course you'll meet the odd weirdo off the internet.. same way you'd meet the odd weirdo in real life. The odds are relatively similar. Why worry? People are people regardless of the medium, there's no need for such a stigma around it.


  • #49
    Beruthiel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,361 ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    There are some great people on this site and not to be feared OP.
    There are friends who met through Boards beers (I've a few good one's who I've met through this site going back 6/7 years now)
    There are boyfriends/girlfriends who met at a Boards beers.
    There are Boards marriages.
    There are Boards babies.


  • #50
    Carlos_Ray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 685 ✭✭✭Carlos_Ray


    Thanks for giving me an insight into this area.

    Like a lot of people I was first introduced to Boards via a recommendation for Bargain alerts. I soon realised there were many more interesting and fun sections.

    I think its great that people have made genuine friends/partners through boards social events etc. You usually only hear the horror stories in the media, which is probably why there is still a stigma attached to it.

    I'm in my mid-twenties so perhaps I'm a bit too long in the tooth to fully appreciate new social trends such as this. When I was a teenager, internet chatrooms etc seemed to be full of weirdos and perverts. Indeed, this is still the case with a lot of internet networking sites. For the most part, Boards seems to be frequented by normal people so its seems pretty logical to cut out the middleman and meet some people in person.


  • #51
    plasmaguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,683 ✭✭✭plasmaguy


    Fortunately or unfortunately Carlos you will get the same mix of people online as you get offline.

    People get away with a lot more online than they would offline.

    It's far easier to insult someone online for example, as you don't risk getting a cut lip in return.

    I only come on here to pass the time, not really into the social meet-ups myself. I'm sure they are ok.


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  • #52
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    liah wrote: »
    I don't get why people have this fear of "internet people." "Internet people" are just.. people. They're the same people you pass in the streets every day. It's like there's this automatic assumption that if you're "from the internet" you're weird/a stalker/a murderer/a rapist/a nerd/whatever the hell else. Erm.. you're using the internet, and (I'm assuming!) you're not any of these things, so.. wouldn't it be safe to assume everyone else is pretty much the same way?

    Of course you'll meet the odd weirdo off the internet.. same way you'd meet the odd weirdo in real life. The odds are relatively similar. Why worry? People are people regardless of the medium, there's no need for such a stigma around it.

    The internet person is a person in your neighbourhood, in your neighbourhood, in your neighbour - hood.
    The internet person is a person in your neighbourhood, the people that you meet each day.


  • #53
    moonandstars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭moonandstars


    Many people going to the 1 friday night in massimos? and many girls?
    I like the thought of going but dont want to go alone ..


  • #54
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    moonandstars wrote: »
    Many people going to the 1 friday night in massimos? and many girls?
    I like the thought of going but dont want to go alone ..

    Thread on it here M&S. I hope to be there.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055884791


  • #55
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    They're just people like you! Regular people who are up for a laugh! As Liah said
    Liah wrote:
    They're the same people you pass in the streets every day.

    Often I pass people in the streets and think "I wonder if they're on boards, and if so, have I talked to them"


  • #56
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Beruthiel wrote: »
    There are some great people on this site and not to be feared OP.
    There are friends who met through Boards beers (I've a few good one's who I've met through this site going back 6/7 years now)
    There are boyfriends/girlfriends who met at a Boards beers.
    There are Boards marriages.
    There are Boards babies.

    Do any of them look like this.. :p ?


  • #57
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    didnt the girls forum have a meet up a while ago and mostly men showed up? I thought that was hilarious but no surprise! I dont really have the time to meet all my organic friends that often, nevermind internet people, but i would maybe go if i didnt know many folk here


  • #58
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Carlos_Ray wrote: »
    I'm in my mid-twenties so perhaps I'm a bit too long in the tooth to fully appreciate new social trends such as this.
    Lol.

    Yeah Grandad. Take a hike.


  • #59
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Ah Boards beers have been awesome anytime I've been at them!

    Sure my first time was Tar.Aldarion's first time too...it was so awesome:pac: Oh I've met alot of pretty damn cool people on this site at beers, and non-beers events too:)

    There were only two beers I can remember that something may have happened, one can never be spoken of, but the other one was just a result of early days beers being forum-wide beers, where different forums had people who didnt quite get along:p

    All in all, my life actually wouldn't quite be the same without Boards and the beers:) Embrace the internet people OP, we wont eat you (but if we were to, at least we'd be nice enough to ask first)


  • #60
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    My first beers was the ladies lounge. I have no idea why I went to be honest.....
    Single girls on Valentine's weekend

    *ahem*

    Nah. But seriously I was just fed up of heading out with my mates to the same places so wanted to try something different.

    Boards is a great social outlet believe it or not.

    Of course it's daunting for your first time but everyone's extremely welcoming.


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  • #61
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Deus Ex Machina wrote: »
    Last time I met up with people from the internet I was shot and raped.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/newreply.php?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=65945505
    x PyRo wrote: »
    Last time I met up with people from the internet I shot and raped someone.

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzing! :D


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