WHY did you join boards?

29-05-2015 12:17AM #1

Do you remember? Personally, haven't a clue. I even forgot I had an account until the hacking incident when I got an email informing me of it, which was when I found out I'd even set up a boards account. Then, I just sort of fell into using boards. Sometimes I use it loads, sometimes just read, but I've been on here pretty much daily since.

Anyone have a really interesting reason they joined up?

kfallon · 29-05-2015 12:18AM

Think I googled something, led me to After Hours. I had a look round, liked what I saw and decided to join!

whatismyname · 29-05-2015 12:18AM

Because I'd closed my other account and needed a new one.

mighty magpie · 29-05-2015 12:19AM

Used to do a lot of reading on IrishPokerBoards when I played during university which lead me to old threads on here!

jimgoose · 29-05-2015 12:20AM

I like talking sh1te on t'Internet. I've been doing it for 25 years. This seems to be the way the current young Hep-Cats do it.

silverfeather · 29-05-2015 12:21AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you remember? Personally, haven't a clue. I even forgot I had an account until the hacking incident when I got an email informing me of it, which was when I found out I'd even set up a boards account. Then, I just sort of fell into using boards. Sometimes I use it loads, sometimes just read, but I've been on here pretty much daily since.

Anyone have a really interesting reason they joined up?

Originally in my very first account AHEM....I heard about it from a friend who was a mod at the time. She told me about it. She just said you need to get on boards.ie. I knew a couple of people on it already. And them I started a cult (Boardsie cutters)in the cuckoos lounge for a bit.

That was a long long time ago and I have been mental every since

retro:electro · 29-05-2015 12:23AM

Needed to know something about a job I had at the time and I'm still here two years later talking shyte.

Wish I'd thought of a better username tho, wasn't planning on hanging around

PandaPoo · 29-05-2015 12:24AM

I saw a thread on another site saying that after hours was a dive. So I joined here and left that site.

About 5 accounts later, here I am

kfallon · 29-05-2015 12:24AM

anna080 wrote: »

Needed to know something about a job I had at the time and I'm still here two years later talking shyte

You are in good company, we all talk shíte!

silverfeather · 29-05-2015 12:25AM

whatismyname wrote: »

Because I'd closed my other account and needed a new one.

Yeah I've had a few at this stage.

Wang King · 29-05-2015 12:26AM

No one else would have me

Charlie19 · 29-05-2015 12:26AM

I always liked doing woodwork.

Misty Chaos · 29-05-2015 12:28AM

Had a problem with a laptop at the time and wanted to ask somewhere about it, I registered this very account to do so after finding the forum through google.

Lay dormant after that until about 2009 when I became a regular on the site. The username? That only came to my head when I set up the account as I felt my other username I'd used elsewhere for years was tainted and I needed a fresh one.

PARlance · 29-05-2015 12:31AM

Charlie19 wrote: »

I always liked doing woodwork.

Plank

Armchair Andy · 29-05-2015 12:32AM

I heard it was the home of S&M enthusiasts.

silverfeather · 29-05-2015 12:34AM

Armchair Andy wrote: »

I heard it was the home of S&M enthusiasts.

Nah wrong site.

wil · 29-05-2015 12:35AM

Broads, meh, turned out to be a complete disappointment.

Charlie19 · 29-05-2015 12:35AM

PARlance wrote: »

Plank

Tool.

silverfeather · 29-05-2015 12:35AM

wil wrote: »

Broads, meh, turned out to be a complete disappointment.

You don't love us anymore???:(

MRnotlob606 · 29-05-2015 12:36AM

I had a fetish for farm animals.

Armchair Andy · 29-05-2015 12:36AM

silverfeather wrote: »

Nah wrong site.

Aaaah fvcksake!

29-05-2015 12:37AM

I actually don't think this username is the same one I joined up with originally, but I can't even remember. I doubt it, since I know I joined up before the big hack, and this username is a relatively knew incarnation of myself across the interwebs. I'd say I had a different one before.

I actually think I have another account somewhere on boards with no idea what the username or email address are.

silverfeather · 29-05-2015 12:37AM

Armchair Andy wrote: »

Aaaah fvcksake!

Fetlife...although they were hacked recently

osarusan · 29-05-2015 12:39AM

To promote Limerick FC, the super blues, pride of the midwest.

jimbobaloobob · 29-05-2015 12:40AM

anna080 wrote: »

Needed to know something about a job I had at the time and I'm still here two years later talking shyte

did it answer the question to your liking??

I joined because i wanted to find out about the whole boards world.

Then im hit and miss at logging onto the www

Chucken · 29-05-2015 12:40AM

silverfeather wrote: »

Originally in my very first account AHEM....I heard about it from a friend who was a mod at the time. She told me about it. She just said you need to get on boards.ie. I knew a couple of people on it already. And them I started a cult (Boardsie cutters)in the cuckoos lounge for a bit. That was a long long time ago and I have been mental every since

Nest. The Cuckoos NEST

I fell into Boards via Adverts. Then the hack happened and I didnt come back for a while. Then I went away again. Then I came back again.

That's it now. Never leaving again....evvverrrrr!

Kovu · 29-05-2015 12:41AM

Was googling something about dwarfism in cattle and found a thread on it

so made an account to ask more people if they had seen it. Boring reason!

Cold War Kid · 29-05-2015 12:41AM

Kovu wrote: »

Was googling something about dwarfism in cattle and found a thread on it

Winner of thread.

Mint Aero · 29-05-2015 12:41AM

I remember being very shy about making new threads in AH. As though there was so much expectation, really putting my work and thoughts in front of a large audience for dissection was daunting.

However, I've grown to be one of the most influential posters on AH and voted best poster 2 years in a row.

Follow your dreams, someday you could be just like me.

Tombi! · 29-05-2015 12:42AM

I joined twice.
Once to ask a question which I did get an answer to.
Stuck around on that account around 8-9 years ago for a few months.
Left. Rejoined on this account a few months after browsing After Hours mostly.

SpaceTime · 29-05-2015 12:42AM

I think it was some techie question I needed to answer and then I just joined up.

Boring I know ...:)

(Yawns)

WHY did you join boards?

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