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Nights out with people off the internet

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  • #62
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I'd actually love to go to a Boards night, but the feckin things are only on in Dublin!!


  • #63
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I'd actually love to go to a Boards night, but the feckin things are only on in Dublin!!


    Where do you live? Why don't you try and organise one near where you are? The majority of people on the beers threads tend to vote for Dublin so that's why it usually is there. I'm sure if you opened a thread saying "Anyone up for AH beers in _____" that people would be up for it.


  • #64
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    stovelid wrote: »
    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.


    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.

    Both posts say it all really .People are just people and assumtions should never be made just on the basis of somebody posts were everybody is more or less on an even level . Putting a face to a username must also be fun , intresting and takes the poster mystery away for people .
    Haven't being to any boards nights out , living in England makes it akward and sorta rules that out best of times but would defo pop along to one if It's happening when over in Dublin .


  • #65
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Where do you live? Why don't you try and organise one near where you are? The majority of people on the beers threads tend to vote for Dublin so that's why it usually is there. I'm sure if you opened a thread saying "Anyone up for AH beers in Sligo" that people would be up for it.

    Cue, wind howling noises. ;)


  • #66
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Dey turk mah pineappppleee!


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  • #67
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Cue, wind howling noises. ;)

    Oh dear! Sorry for your troubles :)


  • #68
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    McChubbin wrote: »
    Degsy turk mah pineappppleee!

    FYP.

    He ate it for breakfast apparently :pac:


  • #69
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    recylingbin wrote: »
    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.

    The people that you meet when you're walking down the street each day. :pac:


  • #70
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
    Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

    Wouldn't you like to get away?

    Sometimes you want to go

    Where everybody knows your user name,
    and they're always glad you came.
    You wanna be where you can see,
    our troubles are all the same
    You wanna be where everybody knows
    Your user name.


  • #71
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Deus Ex Machina wrote: »
    Last time I met up with people from the internet I was shot and raped.
    x PyRo wrote: »
    Last time I met up with people from the internet I shot and raped someone.

    This is why I love after hours.


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  • #72
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    FYP.

    He ate it for breakfast apparently :pac:

    If only he'd ate me for- NEVERMIND.


  • #73
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Don't worry about it OP.
    We're all normal people who enjoy a good night out like regular world people.
    Nice recap of the last AH beers actually here


  • #74
    nkay1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,950 ✭✭✭nkay1985


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I'd actually love to go to a Boards night, but the feckin things are only on in Dublin!!
    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Where do you live? Why don't you try and organise one near where you are? The majority of people on the beers threads tend to vote for Dublin so that's why it usually is there. I'm sure if you opened a thread saying "Anyone up for AH beers in _____" that people would be up for it.

    Yep, myself and another lad have organised two Waterford Beers after there hadn't been one for a long time. First one had 6-7 people which ended with 4 of us on the absolute tear for the night. Second one was pretty much the same actually.

    Come to think of it, it's nearly time for another one...


  • #75
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    At this point, I think probably not a day goes by when I don't get a text/ meet up with/ get drunk with someone I first met on boards.

    You kinda get out what you put in.


  • #76
    Will
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    Been to a few. Awkward for the first few minutes as you introduce yourself and people ask you your boards name, then real name. Generally a lot of sound people are there, some nób ends, but you just ignore them.

    No one has come up to me (yet) giving out to me saying I banned them.


  • #77
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    FYP.

    He ate it for breakfast apparently :pac:


    Guilty as charged..velly nice it was too!:)


  • #78
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    The worst thing about meeting internet people in real life is saying your username out loud and hearing how stupid it sounds.


  • #79
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    Will wrote: »
    No one has come up to me (yet) giving out to me saying I banned them.

    Ban me ban me... and I will!!!
    (just kidding :P)
    How sad is it if someone actually goes just to say "you banned me!"
    :rolleyes:

    I'd actually be curious about going to one ...though as a newcomer to boards, it'd be awhile yet before I give it a go.


  • #80
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    ScumLord wrote: »
    The worst thing about meeting internet people in real life is saying your username out loud and hearing how stupid it sounds.


    Or in my case,my real name


  • #81
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    looking_around wrote: »
    Ban me ban me... and I will!!!
    (just kidding :P)
    How sad is it if someone actually goes just to say "you banned me!"
    :rolleyes:

    I'd actually be curious about going to one ...though as a newcomer to boards, it'd be awhile yet before I give it a go.


    Just go for it! I wish I'd started going to them earlier. There were a few people at the last beers who were quite new or who had very low post counts, and they had just as good a time as everyone else :)


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  • #82
    macaronicheese
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭macaronicheese


    I have visions of attending one of these events to be greeted by the sound of fingers clicking on a key board ,in a room full of antisocial pale people ,
    With the only sound breaking the finger clicking being people violently vomiting onto the screen of their laptop.


  • #83
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    macaronicheese wrote: »
    I have visions of attending one of these events to be greeted by the sound of fingers clicking on a key board ,in a room full of antisocial pale people ,
    With the only sound breaking the finger clicking being people violently vomiting onto the screen of their laptop.

    You need to get out more!

    Hey you could go to a beers!


  • #84
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    Haha having read some of these posts I'm picturing some guy standing in a crowd making a joke and then turning his face and opening his mouth really wide like :pac: and then a big chorus of "thanks". I know it doesn't actually work like that but anyway.


  • #85
    Will
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    Just go for it! I wish I'd started going to them earlier. There were a few people at the last beers who were quite new or who had very low post counts, and they had just as good a time as everyone else :)

    Post count has lil or nothing to do with meeting people off boards. There's been some nerdy comvos at ones I attended but post count never ever came into it. If someone ever mentions post count tell em to fùck right off :D


  • #86
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Will wrote: »
    Post count has lil or nothing to do with meeting people off boards. There's been some nerdy comvos at ones I attended but post count never ever came into it. If someone ever mentions post count tell em to fùck right off :D

    I meant people shouldn't be afraid to come if they've low post counts just because they think that they mightn't be "known" by other posters. They won't be shunned or scorned :D


  • #87
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    ibarelycare wrote: »
    I meant people shouldn't be afraid to come if they've low post counts just because they think that they mightn't be "known" by other posters. They won't be shunned or scorned :D
    We all learned not to wave e-penises after the tales of when mike65 turned up.He crushed everyone :(


  • #88
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Will wrote: »
    some nób ends, but you just ignore them.
    :(
    Will wrote: »
    No one has come up to me (yet) giving out to me saying I banned them.
    imo, they have
    ScumLord wrote: »
    The worst thing about meeting internet people in real life is saying your username out loud and hearing how stupid it sounds.

    Not for me :)

    **************

    OP, I met my gf at a Boards Beers, we live together now.

    I also set up a football team here, starting off as a kick about in the Phoenix Park three four (:eek:) years ago, we now play in a league and have won medals. So I meet people off Boards every week.

    I've made loads of mates on Boards, and am travelling to the middle east after Xmas to meet two of them who live over there.


  • #89
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    ScumLord wrote: »
    The worst thing about meeting internet people in real life is saying your username out loud and hearing how stupid it sounds.

    I have been walking down a busy street only to hear someone shout "Doom" at the top of their lungs at me in front of people.


    *Cringe*


  • #90
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    I was gonna do that once Doom...I really should have :pac:


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  • #91
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Ah I may pop along to one next year when Im back in Collage in Dublin... meet new people and all that stuff..... At the least its an excuse to meet new people and have a few drinks... Revenge for getting banned the other day would also be cool. You reckon Sharpshooter likes laxative in his drinks? :D


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