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Why is Boards so different from the "Real World"

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  • #62
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    No Dudess, I wasn't.



    Oh, so that post was directed at me then? Thanks for clarifying that. I did not get a chance to "defend" myself from your nonsensical accusation as the thread was locked by the time I seen it.
    Holy sh1t, why do you do this to yourself? Do you get off on it? Ok, I will dissect what I said in order to explain to you: I would have speed-read this thread whether you had posted on it or not. But in addition, I was influenced in relation to your post (as well as speed-reading it, which, as I said, I also did with the other posts) by that thread you mentioned. And I don't care what you say, I do not for a split second believe you were not aiming that post at someone or some people specific. I'm sure anyone who reads it will agree it is extremely pointed. So no, not that nonsensical from where I'm standing.
    And hell yeah, that comment by me was aimed at you - I never said it wasn't. But it was aimed at others too.


  • #63
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    danh789 wrote: »
    More specifically Im referring to After Hours. The people I have come across here seem worlds apart from the people I come into contact with face to face. Has anyone else noticed this?

    A few examples. If you were to believe AHs not one person still respected the traditions of Good Friday. Yet in the "real world" most people I know will be staying off meat and drink today. And these are college students. Also the amount of begrudgry here at times is baffling. Yet people excuse this by saying its pub talk. Never once have I gone to the pub only to spend the night b!tching about Bono and Tubridy etc. I go to the pub to have fun. F**king hell if my mates did spend the night moaning about these people I think I'd shoot myself!

    Look at the Religion Census thread. A landslide victory for "No Religion" yet I'll be shocked if Catholism gets less then 70% in the actual Cencus. So how can there be such a difference?

    Has anyone noticed any other examples of this? Why do you think people behave differently on forums?

    I don't think I know anyone under 65 that will be avoiding meat today (apart from vegetarians) or not drinking (apart from those that normally wouldn't be drinking on a Friday). Are you from a very rural area?

    Most people I know, when the topic has come up (it rarely has) have identified as having no religion or "I think there is something out there" which is the same thing. The difference in the census vs real life was went over a few hundred times in the religion/census thread if you want to know why it exists. Plus the average age on here seems to be 18-30, that would obviously be far higher non-religious vs the whole population including over 60's and children who's Catholic parents put them down as Catholic.

    I don't think I have ever heard one of my friends or work colleagues mention Ryan Tubridy's name. I few of them would be U2 fans some wouldn't.

    I think the general majority views and opinions on here match up reasonably close to the 18-30 demographic in real life(TM) once you allow for trolls and that.


  • #64
    mossyc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭mossyc123


    RichieC wrote: »
    I don't think the opinions here are far removed from the real world, it's just a few conservative hold outs (presumably like the OP) wanting to marginalise the opinions hoping thats enough to stop the inevitable slide of their opinions to the margins.

    Inevitable slide me hole.

    The opinions of the marginalised young and angry anti-establishment posters are disproportionately represented here.

    According to them the Church/GAA/Political Parties are involved in some grand conspiracy to keep them down, despite the fact that they have the same personal freedoms as any other democracy they whinge and moan and cry oppression while sneering at the beliefs and traditions of others.

    Their opinions aren't the future, far too immature and intolerant to be taken seriously.

    Ps, Tubridy being a bit **** lately has taken hold as a topic of conversation in the real world too :)


  • #65
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Dudess wrote: »
    Holy sh1t, why do you do this to yourself?

    You are the one that came on to this thread and accused me of something that I did not do - so please, save the histrionics for someone else.
    Dudess wrote: »
    Do you get off on it?

    Says the user who speed reads posts and then feels that's enough to then post on a thread and accuse a user of taking "pot shots" at other members, you really should listen to yourself.
    Dudess wrote: »
    I do not for a split second believe you were not aiming that post at someone or some people specific.

    I know you don't, that's what so amazing about all of this. Not one aspect of either post in either thread was remotely directed at other users. Just because you "believe" that's to be the case with that post, does not then make it so. Just as you are wrong now, you were also wrong then too. A moderator of this forum 'thanked' that post back then - if the post was what you said it was, or anything close to it they would not have, or perhaps you think you can see things that others cannot.
    Dudess wrote: »
    And hell yeah, that comment by me was aimed at you..

    I never doubted it, which is why I knew you were directing those "pot shot" comments at me again on this thread (a leopard never changes it's spots) and all this based on "speed reading" the post too, laughable. I have to say I find it beautiful that someone that accuses others of taking "pot shots" at members without naming them - is the one who is guilty of that themselves, on both threads. Hope you can see the irony in that. I'll leave you with the last word, as I think your accusations (and my replies to them) have derailed this thread enough.

    Good thread by the way OP.


  • #66
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    mossyc123 wrote: »
    Inevitable slide me hole.

    Your sh*t opinion doesn't change a thing, your backwards ways are on the way out!


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  • #67
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    AH or any forum, chat group, social network, etc.. where the users are anonymous or partly anonymous would hold characteristics that are somewhat alien to the outside world. This is because in an anonymous environment the users are allowed to express themselves and their views without having to worry about any negative consequence on their position in real world society. This could lead one to assume that the views expressed here on boards.ie or other such anonymous forums, chat groups, social networks, etc.., are actually closer to an individual's true views rather than the views of people in the real world that are fabricated by one's adherence to the accepted norms of a collective society. In essence, it's like a stream of consciousness without a socially implanted filter.


  • #68
    mossyc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭mossyc123


    mossyc123 wrote: »

    Their opinions aren't the future, far too immature and intolerant to be taken seriously.
    RichieC wrote: »
    Your sh*t opinion doesn't change a thing, your backwards ways are on the way out!

    :)


  • #69
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    mossyc123 wrote: »
    Inevitable slide me hole.

    The opinions of the marginalised young and angry anti-establishment posters are disproportionately represented here.

    According to them the Church/GAA/Political Parties are involved in some grand conspiracy to keep them down, despite the fact that they have the same personal freedoms as any other democracy they whinge and moan and cry oppression while sneering at the beliefs and traditions of others.

    Their opinions aren't the future, far too immature and intolerant to be taken seriously.

    Ps, Tubridy being a bit **** lately has taken hold as a topic of conversation in the real world too :)
    I'm with RichieC on this. Most of the opinions on here arent far removed from that of people I know in real life.


  • #70
    mossyc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭mossyc123


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    I'm with RichieC on this. Most of the opinions on here arent far removed from that of people I know in real life.

    Im not denying that the posters hold these opinions in Real Life as well as on Boards.

    What im saying is that assuming that these ill-considered and one-eyed opinions are representative of where Irish society is going in the future is presumptuous to say the least.

    What I got from Richiec was basically "F*** your opinion, me and my mates are going to decide the future"

    That sort of attitude doesn't get you anywhere with people.


  • #71
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    mossyc123 wrote: »
    Im not denying that the posters hold these opinions in Real Life as well as on Boards.

    What im saying is that assuming that these ill-considered and one-eyed opinions are representative of where Irish society is going in the future is presumptuous to say the least.

    What I got from Richiec was basically "F*** your opinion, me and my mates are going to decide the future"

    That sort of attitude doesn't get you anywhere with people.
    In your opinion they're ill-considered. Maybe they are maybe they arent. But society evolves over time, nothing is static. The Ireland of today is very different to what it was 20 years ago and the Ireland of twenty years time will be very different to what it is today.


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  • #72
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    strobe wrote: »
    I don't think I know anyone under 65 that will be avoiding meat today (apart from vegetarians) or not drinking (apart from those that normally wouldn't be drinking on a Friday). Are you from a very rural area?

    Most people I know, when the topic has come up (it rarely has) have identified as having no religion or "I think there is something out there" which is the same thing.
    Same for me. Quite a few of my friends would be "I have a bit of a spiritual side" types, but I honestly don't know anyone in my age group who strictly adheres to Catholic traditions like abstaining from meat and alcohol on Good Friday.

    I'd also be inclined to guess the OP's from a very rural background. What he seems to think is microcosm of Ireland at large sounds more like a bubble to me.


  • #73
    Console
    Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭Console


    You should wipe your a*s with peoples opinions on here.

    Too many times do you get a person posting an opinion when:

    1, they dont know what they are talking about. Ie, havent experiened something or not in contact with people who have.
    2, posting an opinion that if they were in the same situation they would be the complete opposite.
    3, just down right foolish people.


  • #74
    Chnandler Bong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Chnandler Bong


    RichieC wrote: »
    I don't know anyone who's not eating meat today or has a stack of cans ready to go for tonight.
    Lmerick???


  • #75
    Buceph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭Buceph


    Dudess wrote: »
    I'm sure anyone who reads it will agree it is extremely pointed. So no, not that nonsensical from where I'm standing.
    And hell yeah, that comment by me was aimed at you - I never said it wasn't. But it was aimed at others too.

    Yourself and Pete are some of the few users in After Hours who I would know the name (not your real names, I'm not an e-stalker.) And the reason I know your posts is that when I read them, they're generally good enough to look at the name to see who posted. And you've made enough of them that your names have stuck in my head.

    With Pete's post not a bit of it made me think of you. He may very well have been thinking of you when he posted it, I don't know. But there's nothing in it that would identify you. And I agree with him, there are posters like that, they seem very like my aunt. I tend to find them annoying but I often agree with them. But I wouldn't have gone, "Good ol' Pete there, rippin' the piss out of Dudess."

    So maybe it's obvious to you, and maybe he did mean to insult you. But it's not really a public insult, I'd say you and the people who read and remember the previous thread (if what you say is true) would be the only one's to draw a connection. And that's not because of anything specifically stated, just because of history.


  • #76
    Brendan Flowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭Brendan Flowers


    strobe wrote: »
    I don't think I know anyone under 65 that will be avoiding meat today (apart from vegetarians) or not drinking (apart from those that normally wouldn't be drinking on a Friday).

    Lawyered


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