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Do old Boardsies Die

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  • #32
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    And Pygmalion. :(

    Was just about to post that. Paul was a lovely guy.


    I know a few other boardsies in real life who've died, none were well known posters.

    Some people just get fed up with the site.

    I was on another forum site since I was 11. It has a couple of million members. I ended up eventually being made an admin (mod first, obviously).

    Last year, I just got fed up with it all, stepped down as admin, and deleted my account.

    It had over 50k posts though. I really should get out more.


  • #33
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    They have gone to live on a farm ;)


  • #34
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Le petit braquet also passed away recently, after teaming up with people from the cycling forum to raise money for charity.


  • #35
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    They have gone to live on a farm ;)

    A farm in the mountains, with plenty of space to run about, that's where I am...


  • #36
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    Does anyone know what happened to Biggins?


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  • #37
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,848 ✭✭✭knucklehead6


    rainbowdrop wrote: »
    Does anyone know what happened to Biggins?


    banned


  • #38
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    rainbowdrop wrote: »
    Does anyone know what happened to Biggins?

    Ssssssshhhh

    > >

    < <


  • #39
    MrVestek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,296 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    And Pygmalion. :(

    Did we ever find out what happened there or is he still mia?


  • #40
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    rainbowdrop wrote: »
    Does anyone know what happened to Biggins?

    I could tell you the story. It involves secret meetings, foreign trips and high flying politicans.

    But actually I can't tell you so I'll just leave a few vague hints :rolleyes:


  • #41
    Molester Stallone II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Molester Stallone II


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    You're on my list.



    :p

    I'm on many lists :)


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  • #42
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    MrVestek wrote: »
    Did we ever find out what happened there or is he still mia?

    Sadly his remains were recovered from the Liffey a few weeks after he first went missing.


  • #43
    Shakespeare's Sister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,412 ✭✭✭Shakespeare's Sister


    Inanna wrote: »
    Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who never cared for Pighead. Really didn't get what was so funny.
    No, people are constantly complaining about him. I think he was a very sharp and witty poster (he's still a member of Boards but doesn't post to After Hours any more, which is where he did his "thing"). I can see how the third person thing would grate but I didn't take notice as his posts were so well written.


  • #44
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Few I miss like Magpie who doesn't seem to have been around for years.


  • #45
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,008 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    beks101 wrote: »
    Ah that's a bit depressing all the same.

    I've talked about this before, but I wouldn't think of boards as a 'phase' in my life, but sure how I feel down the line could well change I'm sure. I've posted here for years, on an off, sometimes more on, sometimes more off, and some of my most memorable life events or milestones to date went into some of my posts around here.

    I often think if I died (TOUCH WOOD), I'd like for my family/closest friends to discover my boards account because it really is a true reflection of my inner most feelings on some stuff that can be hard to talk about in real life, the anonymity has really afforded me a bit of freedom around here.

    Sad to think that it could be some sort of an unhealthy crutch for people whose lives are lacking, I can only speak for myself but it's enriched my life in some odd little ways for sure, as opposed to detracting from it.

    Oh it's definitely enriched my life too,very much so. I love how when something interesting happens and there's no one in my "real" life who cares enough to talk about it I can come on here and find the issue being enthusiastically thrashed out. I've learned lots on different forums...including that I'm a closet nerd who loves gadgets. No one in my real life really knows that about me. There's several interests I'd have no one to talk to about really if it wasn't for boards.

    I wouldn't say it's an unhealthy crutch. I'd be more inclined to think of it as something that fills the gap when life isn't going fantastically, it's there those Saturday nights when you might otherwise be home humming "all by myselffff" etc. I think most people who can give several hours a day to it would probably prefer be hanging out with great friends or going fun places or being loved up on the couch with the love of their lives though. When they disappear I tend to imagine that's what's happened to them...and in my experience of a few of them that's exactly what's happened. :)


  • #46
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    CaptainInsano wrote: »
    All Boardsies Go to Heaven.

    Boardsies Never Say Die!


  • #47
    Dolbert
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,154 ✭✭✭Dolbert


    Inanna wrote: »
    Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who never cared for Pighead. Really didn't get what was so funny.

    Pigman and Pighead are two separate posters.


  • #48
    Molester Stallone II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Molester Stallone II


    One of my posts disappeared into the ether, seems I am on someone else's list too today!
    :)


  • #49
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Dolbert wrote: »
    Pigman and Pighead are two separate posters.

    To be fair, the presence of pig in both is confusing if you are a few sambos short of a picnic.


  • #50
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Often wonder how would anyone realise if another regular boardsie died. I mean there's a lot of people who don't know other posters in real life, right? That's why the closed account thing is sort of good I think. If I just stopped posting for ever tomorrow it would look like I died or forgot my password (which could easily happen as I don't use the email address any more!). But closing your account sort of alleviates that issue.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    green_screen wrote: »
    Was just about to post that. Paul was a lovely guy.

    I only met him two or three times IRL but he was really nice and friendly. He'll always be one of the wittiest and most intelligent posters I ever interacted with on boards.


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  • #52
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,041 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    I'd say there have been plenty of deaths, here are a few that I know of:

    Franknfurter - prominent poster and mod of the Animals/Pets forum
    Welease - posted a lot in the Politics and Music forums, died of a brain tumour
    logic1 - very well known poster on boards.ie a few years ago
    Max_Damage - a good poster on the Motors forum and sadly took his own life.
    Laguna - I think he had cancer.


  • #53
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    I'd say there have been plenty of deaths, here are a few that I know of:

    Franknfurter - prominent poster and mod of the Animals/Pets forum
    Welease - posted a lot in the Politics and Music forums, died of a brain tumour
    logic1 - very well known poster on boards.ie a few years ago
    Max_Damage - a good poster on the Motors forum and sadly took his own life.
    Laguna - I think he had cancer.

    Fcuk. I didn't realise a few of those had passed away :(


  • #54
    Inanna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 30 ✭Inanna


    Dolbert wrote: »
    Pigman and Pighead are two separate posters.

    I'm aware of that but when Rucking responded that he's still around I assumed he assumed you meant Pighead because Pigman is banned (at least his original account is).


  • #55
    Stargate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Stargate


    Manach wrote: »
    ... old Boardsies just fade away...

    Man ... you are here a long time . You must be 110 by now :D


  • #56
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Inanna wrote: »
    Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who never cared for Pighead. Really didn't get what was so funny.

    Blasphemy of the highest order!


  • #57
    Duiske
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Duiske


    BrianD3 wrote: »
    I'd say there have been plenty of deaths, here are a few that I know of:

    Franknfurter - prominent poster and mod of the Animals/Pets forum
    Welease - posted a lot in the Politics and Music forums, died of a brain tumour
    logic1 - very well known poster on boards.ie a few years ago
    Max_Damage - a good poster on the Motors forum and sadly took his own life.
    Laguna - I think he had cancer.

    Was going to mention Laguna. Was fairly active on the Games forums. Passed away about 7yrs ago, aged 23.


  • #58
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Itzy wrote: »
    Blasphemy of the highest order!

    I want to echo this sentiment; Pighead was a King.


  • #59
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    While this is kind of sad - it's probably to be expected. Would it be morbid/inappropriate to have a Memorial Thread somewhere? Or maybe that's just too tacky?

    I mean, I guess it would be kind of awkward to run or whatever. But I know a lot of people, especially outside of After Hours really do spend a lot of time contributing/sharing/helping others.


  • #60
    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    UCDVet wrote: »
    While this is kind of sad - it's probably to be expected. Would it be morbid/inappropriate to have a Memorial Thread somewhere? Or maybe that's just too tacky?

    I mean, I guess it would be kind of awkward to run or whatever. But I know a lot of people, especially outside of After Hours really do spend a lot of time contributing/sharing/helping others.
    Book of Condolences?


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  • #61
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Inanna wrote: »
    Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who never cared for Pighead. Really didn't get what was so funny.
    Pighead had some genuinely brilliant posts. I think that when he did ones that weren't as good, everyone thanked it and wanked on about how brilliant it was. A victim of his own success! Posts on the soccer forum a lot and is a good poster there too.
    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I could tell you the story. It involves secret meetings, foreign trips and high flying politicans.

    But actually I can't tell you so I'll just leave a few vague hints :rolleyes:

    Has that post become one of the most famous posts on boards?


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