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AH puns now banned.

  • 16-07-2010 08:52AM
    #1
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭


    After recent debates between AH users, mods, the Admins and those help folk over on FeedForward. Silly puns for the sake of thanks whoring are now banned.

    Any questions re this can be posted in the relevant Help Desk forum.

    Original funny puns may be tolerated.

    Posting a news story to only add a pun is not allowed.

    Remember, this is a discussion forum, not a pie eat competition.

    Thanks for your time.

    This has been the first of your weekly AH newsletters










    all the above is bulls!t


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Comments

  • #2
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'.


  • #3
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    I was looking through threads yesterday to see if i could find a pun that made me laugh

    no pun in ten did


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    What about punnets?


  • #5
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Is this being to be inforced with impunity?


  • #6
    Hasmunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 948 ✭✭✭Hasmunch


    This is punbelieveable


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  • #7
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Did we do something wrong and this is our punishment?


  • #8
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    What would be the punishment?


  • #9
    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Punderful.


  • #10
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    :pac::pac::pac:


  • #11
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    Disaster is opun us.


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  • #12
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭delta_bravo




  • #13
    Rylan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭Rylan


    Pun


  • #14
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    What exactly do you entendre to achieve by doing this? :(


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


    But seriously.

    Ever get bored of them?
    Same sh!te over and over.

    Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
    Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

    Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.


  • #16
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Rabies wrote: »
    Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

    I've just removed my thanks form the OP. It lacks the seriousness befitting a discussion forum. :p


  • #17
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    I was just reading the Otis elevator strike thread, there were a few puns in at the start but most posts are actually about striking and unionisation etc... So maybe we're maturing.

    It was really uplifting to see.


  • #18
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Rabies wrote: »
    But seriously.

    Ever get bored of them?
    Same sh!te over and over.

    Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
    Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

    Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

    Dislike the stupid puns; the ones that are normally accompanied by ":pac:".

    Thanks whoring; well can be partial to that myself from time to time so won't judge.

    Moan and groan threads; there are plenty of those here as it is and generally I come here for a laugh and for less serious threads. It's gloomy enough in the real world without saturating in here.


  • #19
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    Rabies wrote: »
    But seriously.
    Ok.
    Ever get bored of them?

    No.
    Same sh!te over and over.
    You mean in the scumbag threads, muslim threads, headshop threads, Jake la Motta threads, recession threads, the constantly repeating self-affirmation threads and so on.
    Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
    It's AH,ffs.
    Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.
    Skip to page two,that's where all the serious discussion takes place. Or go to one of the serious forums.
    Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

    We must be reading different threads. Plenty of moaning and groaning in my AH.

    :)


  • #20
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    Rabies wrote: »
    But seriously.

    Ever get bored of them?
    Same sh!te over and over.

    Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
    Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

    Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

    You have decribed AH of late , at least that's what it seems to me.


  • #21
    Wetbench4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Wetbench4


    What a punderful world!!!


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This is the biggest step forward AH has taken since my online life began..


  • #23
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    Deleted User wrote: »
    This is the biggest step forward AH has taken since my online life began..

    'All small step for AH, a giant loss for pun-kind.'


  • #24
    up for anything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭up for anything


    Pun my word, sure some are repetitive and unoriginal but the few gems that involve an involuntary guffaw give life to the '**** life in Ireland' threads that proliferate these days as somebody else said.
    (Ecclesiastes 1:9-14 NIV) What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. {10} Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. {11} There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow. {12} I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. {13} I devoted myself to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid on men! {14} I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

    And that was written a 1,000 odd years ago!


  • #25
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    The whole point about puns is that they have a certain lameness about them.

    The amount of threads that become overwhelmed with puns seem to be the ones that probably don;t have a discursive future, as it were. I think that if a topic takes hold here and people really want to discuss it, a few puns won;t knock it off tilt, certainly from my experience, anyway.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    This is the biggest step forward AH has taken since my online life began..

    You've been banned?


  • #26
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    this is punbelievable.


  • #27
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Puns are for Garry Bushell and The Sun readers.


  • #28
    Abrasax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 977 ✭✭✭Abrasax


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    Puns are for Garry Bushell and The Sun readers.

    Not forgetting the 'Bard of Avon' who had 3000+ in his canon.

    If it's good enough for Shaky, it's good enough for me.


  • #29
    Kiera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,130 ✭✭✭✭Kiera


    Rabies wrote: »
    But seriously.

    Ever get bored of them?
    Same sh!te over and over.

    Any chance of decent discussion is lost.
    Couldn't arsed reading past page one of most threads lately due to the thanks whoring that goes on.

    Anyone miss having a proper on thread moan n' groan and discussion.

    Yes. They are mostly shíte and the same people make them over and over.....:rolleyes:


  • #30
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,257 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Dislike the stupid puns; the ones that are normally accompanied by ":pac:".

    Thanks whoring; well can be partial to that myself from time to time so won't judge.

    Moan and groan threads; there are plenty of those here as it is and generally I come here for a laugh and for less serious threads. It's gloomy enough in the real world without saturating in here.

    Yeah same. We've all thanks whored in the past or present.
    Moan and groan threads are AH. But as you said, there is a good reason to come to AH and thats for a laugh. Lately regardless of the thread, the first page or so can be wrecked it puns.

    I must be the only one that reads the first post and leaves it at that if there are loads of puns following. Might skim the rest of the thread, but it usually consists of people trying to out do each other.

    My pun penis is punnier than yours. Ugggghhhh take it bitch!!


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Who cares about puns anyway..

    They're just an interlude between the start of the thread and the inevitable slanging match that gets the thread closed.


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