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  • 19-02-2015 02:31AM
    #1
    Melisandre121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭


    Is it all very socially awkward?


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  • #2
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    It's like crossing The Who with Justin Beaver or whatever you call him


  • #3
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Lives outside the internet?

    Nah,


  • #4
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Its actually like meeting a few mates down the pub, well it was around 2007 at the fairly regular beer guts and receeding hairlines beers


  • #5
    deco nate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    No not at all, unless you freak out at seeing male boardies naked when you meet them for the first time.. ....


  • #6
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Once I put on some clothes and put down the axe I find people relax a little.


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  • #7
    deco nate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    It's like crossing The Who with Justin Beaver or whatever you call him

    Round these parts we call him gay... Small dick.... Twat.... Muppet


  • #8
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    I've found people don't look like you think, and you've been pronouncing their user names wrong this whole time.

    Other than that, they're great craic


  • #9
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Grand_Rajnah wrote: »
    I've found people don't look like you think, and you've been pronouncing their user names wrong this whole time.

    Other than that, they're great craic
    Yeah I thought Tom Dunne was the actual Tom Dunne


  • #10
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Yeah I thought Tom Dunne was the actual Tom Dunne

    And apparently zaph likes to be called zafe as in rhymes with safe. It was all very strange


  • #11
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Yeah I thought Tom Dunne was the actual Tom Dunne

    The odds are that Bono and Ryan Tubridy have accounts too. I would, with the crap they get...it' would pass a day away slagging yourself off.


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  • #12
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Grand_Rajnah wrote: »
    And apparently zaph likes to be called zafe as in rhymes with safe. It was all very strange
    Yeah I called him Zaff and he was none too impressed!


  • #13
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    Well I'm simply FloatingVoter. It rhymes with daisy. As you'd expect.


  • #14
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Once met someone I site banned...boy that was a silent few moments. :/


  • #15
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Yeah I called him Zaff and he was none too impressed!

    The respones I got was something along the lines of " every fecking time"


  • #16
    deco nate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    Ruu wrote: »
    Once met someone I site banned...boy that was a silent few moments. :/
    Yea that was awkward for both of us...... Oh ****!!


  • #17
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Yeah I called him Zaff and he was none too impressed!

    I still haven't forgiven you!


  • #18
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Zaph wrote: »
    I still haven't forgiven you!
    Ah I was buckled, Ive given up the black bush since. I had to after the beers in the long stone;)


  • #19
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I told a boardsie I was Zaph once, they looked at me like I had two heads.


  • #20
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,915 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    If somebody cracks a joke all the others just say "Thanks"


  • #21
    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,418 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Ah I was buckled, Ive given up the black bush since. I had to after the beers in the long stone;)

    Good times. :D


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  • #22
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    I have never had a conversation regarding boards to anybody in the real world.


  • #23
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    How awkward can it get when a bunch of super nerds meet up in a pub, most of them not old enough to drink?
    It's like a Nintendo/Linux convention with some Manga fans thrown in.


  • #24
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Do people use there online names or real names?


  • #25
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    biko wrote: »
    How awkward can it get when a bunch of super nerds meet up in a pub, most of them not old enough to drink?
    It's like a Nintendo/Linux convention with some Manga fans thrown in.

    I read that as a Nintendo/Lynx convention.
    Still apt I guess :D


  • #26
    incrisis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭incrisis


    I have met numerous people from forums/boards I am a member of and most of the time it has been good fun..... usually there is a lot of alcohol involved as well, which is always a good thing...

    Everyone in the real world calls me Incy, pronounced like the spider in the rhyme, it was a nickname I ended up with many years back as a shortened version of the username I use every where on the internet....


  • #27
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Do people use there online names or real names?

    I find Pat works better than Float in the real world. "Sir", "Boss", "Chief" are also good. I can also deal with ""dumb ****", "****", and "bollox".

    You'll have to pronounce the asterixes.


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