a nation of haters?

old hippy wrote: »

Sometimes I read boards.ie and I wonder if some of us are tipping over into madness or a parody so extreme, we can't see it for what it is.

I'm having a hard time telling if your post is a parody.

We* hate ourselves. We hate foreigners. We hate ourselves for liking foreigners. We hate ourselves for hating foreigners. We hate ourselves for adopting foreign customs. We hate ourselves for not adopting foreign customs. We hate our desire to be part of the world. We hate our desire to be isolated. We hate the British. We hate those who hate the British. We hate the Americans. We love to hate the Americans. We hate those who love to hate the Americans. We hate accents. We hate D4 accents. We hate Northern accents. We hate culshie accents. We hate skanger accents. We hate bland accents. We hate those who hate the myriad of accents in our island. We hate those who left. We hate those who stayed. We hate the left. We hate the right. We hate nationalism. We hate those who hate nationalism. We hate unionism. We hate those who hate unionism. We hate the church. We hate the gays. We hate the church that hates the gays. We hate the haters who hate the church who hate gays.

It's like you took all the dull hyperbole and hollow similes of Alanis Morrisette's Ironic and that too preachy poster from Trainspotting and and decided to breed them into some kind of weaponised wall of text.

I've read better angsty teenage poetry than this, and I feel I may be doing a disservice to angst ridden teenage poets by comparing them to this.

For what its worth I don't hate this, its just poorly composed, utterly unconvincing, built on a string of staggeringly offensive and inaccurate assumptions and passed as truth without a shred of evidence supporting it with no shortage of evidence to the contrary.

And I don't hate you, but I do dislike you. You don't think before you post and posts composed with that mindset drown out ones that took longer to be put together, editted and divided into paragraphs.

That said I appreciate the giant red arrow you pointed at yourself, sometimes its hard to decide who needs to be added to the ignore list.

elefant wrote: »

Gotta nuke something

I nominate North Korea. Then we'll see which is best Korea.

I hate the hate word.

It's a pointless emotion.

Complete waste of time and I hate wasting time.

F*ck all that hateful sillyness, shur why would ya give an absolute flying sh*te anyway. I'm a feckin godless heathen, when we're dead we're done, let's enjoy this whole oul nonsense while we're here, peace and love a nd goddamn muthaf*ckin’ happiness all the f*king way :-)

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

I've found over the years and various accounts I've had, boards.ie is absolutely not any kind of barometer for wider Irish society. You only have to take a break from boards for a few weeks and come back, you'll be instantly struck by the amount of ill-will, negativity and passive aggression.

So polling boards.ie is just that, polling boards.ie. Don't expect to glean any more from it than that. There are often similar polls held on thejournal.ie as there are here but when compared to each other, the results vary hugely.

agreed.

its possible that what some of who people think are individuals,are all sockpuppet accounts of the same various individuals,the deviant art forum to use an example is full of one persons sockpuppeting-he isnt just using different accounts there he is pretending to be different people,the individual has ruined the whole place with their resentful, narcisistic and pyschopathic like nature.

Tbf to the OP sometimes on some threads the Irish(who mostly post on here)do come across as uber begrudgers and have a real dislike for their own country- is it a mindset I wonder? Or maybe the demographic of the age of people on here(I'd say most are in the late teens/early twenties)?

gugleguy wrote: »

have to say I'm utterly self loathing

You can get help for that:p

old hippy wrote: »

Sometimes I read boards.ie and I wonder if some of us are tipping over into madness or a parody so extreme, we can't see it for what it is.

We* hate ourselves. We hate foreigners. We hate ourselves for liking foreigners. We hate ourselves for hating foreigners. We hate ourselves for adopting foreign customs. We hate ourselves for not adopting foreign customs. We hate our desire to be part of the world. We hate our desire to be isolated. We hate the British. We hate those who hate the British. We hate the Americans. We love to hate the Americans. We hate those who love to hate the Americans. We hate accents. We hate D4 accents. We hate Northern accents. We hate culshie accents. We hate skanger accents. We hate bland accents. We hate those who hate the myriad of accents in our island. We hate those who left. We hate those who stayed. We hate the left. We hate the right. We hate nationalism. We hate those who hate nationalism. We hate unionism. We hate those who hate unionism. We hate the church. We hate the gays. We hate the church that hates the gays. We hate the haters who hate the church who hate gays.

(all of the above may be untrue or true. and by "we", I mean "some" and by "some" I mean a majority or a minority. depending on the day that's in it)

There's your problem. Boards.ie isn't any more representative of "the nation" than Joe Duffy is.
It's actually a phenomenon which is seen right across the internet, regardless of the topic. Those who take the time to find a forum and write something are more likely to be complaining about it - let's face it, you don't look for a transport forum just to come and say "Irish rail are the best!", you either come looking for information or you come to rant.

The same can be said about relationships. I remember going through a phase in which I tried to give friendly help on relationship forums and developed the sense that all long term relationships were doomed to turn into a pair of platonic flat mates who only barely tolerate eachother because they have no choice, then one day I had the beautiful epiphany of realizing that nobody comes to relationship help forums to post about how amazing their partner is, so obviously I was only going to hear the stories of relationships gone wrong if I kept hanging out there.

Chin up OP. Like 4chan, Boards.ie is presented purely for entertainment purposes. The stories posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood - only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

RayCon wrote: »

I hate.

It's not healthy.

I have been invited previously to consider that Evil as a concept does'nt exist....I wonder if that invitation extends to Hate as well.????

Perhaps they're connected