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WHY did you join boards?

  • 28-05-2015 11:17pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭


    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?


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  • #2
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


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


  • #3
    whatismyname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭whatismyname


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


  • #4
    mighty magpie
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭mighty magpie


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


  • #5
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,187 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    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.


  • #6
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    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 :)


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  • #7
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    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


  • #8
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    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 :)


  • #9
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    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!


  • #10
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    whatismyname wrote: »
    Because I'd closed my other account and needed a new one.
    Yeah I've had a few at this stage.


  • #11
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    No one else would have me :(


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  • #12
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    I always liked doing woodwork.


  • #13
    Misty Chaos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Misty Chaos


    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.


  • #14
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,430 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Charlie19 wrote: »
    I always liked doing woodwork.

    Plank


  • #15
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


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


  • #16
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    Armchair Andy wrote: »
    I heard it was the home of S&M enthusiasts.

    Nah wrong site.


  • #17
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


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


  • #18
    Charlie19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,794 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    PARlance wrote: »
    Plank

    Tool.


  • #19
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    wil wrote: »
    Broads, meh, turned out to be a complete disappointment.
    You don't love us anymore???:(


  • #20
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    I had a fetish for farm animals.


  • #21
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    silverfeather wrote: »
    Nah wrong site.

    Aaaah fvcksake!


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #23
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    Armchair Andy wrote: »
    Aaaah fvcksake!
    Fetlife...although they were hacked recently


  • #24
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


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


  • #25
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    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


  • #26
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    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!


  • #27
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Was googling something about dwarfism in cattle and found a thread on it :o so made an account to ask more people if they had seen it. Boring reason!


  • #28
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Kovu wrote: »
    Was googling something about dwarfism in cattle and found a thread on it :o
    Winner of thread.


  • #29
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    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.


  • #30
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    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.


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  • #31
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


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

    Boring I know ...:)

    (Yawns)


  • #32
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    silverfeather wrote: »
    You don't love us anymore???:(
    Ah now:p
    www.broads.ie
    www.broads.com


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My first account was to talk about the leaving cert.. Just over ten years ago.


  • #34
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    Winner of thread.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77390216&postcount=1


    Littleeee teeeney weeeeeney calves?


  • #35
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    wil wrote: »
    Ah now:p
    www.broads.ie
    www.broads.com
    Not found...always the way! ;)


  • #36
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Chucken wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77390216&postcount=1


    Littleeee teeeney weeeeeney calves?

    I like how that was very polite as opposed to "HELP NEEDED CALF PROBLEM ANYONE KNOW WHAT TO DO THX ??????????"


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  • #37
    deco nate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    Heard about Airsoft, joined to ask about the sport.
    Tis was great fun met a fewgreat people from it.
    Spent a small fortune on bits and bobs.

    It was a great way to get fit with out realising it. Meet ups to go up and take the nordys on:) good times.!
    Loved the fireworks grenades!
    Then the boom ended :(
    Lost my job, haven't been out to play since, still have all my gear. I don't want to part with it.


  • #38
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    Brutal Deluxe wrote: »
    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.
    And now...you're a mod ..no saving you now!


  • #39
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Just wanted to be another raindrop in the shower of bastards that boards users are.


  • #40
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    silverfeather wrote: »
    And now...you're a mod ..no saving you now!

    TBH every Boardsie has two dreams when signing up: to be a mod or to be the master of the world.
    Personally, I'm glad I got the better deal.

    But I only ever signed up to ask a question regarding eircom and getting a console connected to the internet. I don't even remember my name then.


  • #41
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    My ex was on here and she introduced me to it, i only joined to look at funny pictures in ylyl :o

    It's gotten way out of control now


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  • #42
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Chucken wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77390216&postcount=1


    Littleeee teeeney weeeeeney calves?

    Small......far away.....

    Nope. Just small. :D


  • #43
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,241 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Signed up to join in on a topic about a DCU summer camp. Ten years later (almost) and still here.

    It's amazing how much time I've been able to kill here since, mind you wouldnt have it any other way.


  • #44
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    i thought most people joined because someone else was wrong?? :confused:


  • #45
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    ballsymchugh wrote: »
    i thought most people joined because someone else was wrong?? :confused:

    No, of course not. Stop being so wrong. :pac:


  • #46
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    I love a good row...


  • #47
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Brutal Deluxe wrote: »
    TBH every Boardsie has two dreams when signing up: to be a mod or to be the master of the world.
    Personally, I'm glad I got the better deal.

    But I only ever signed up to ask a question regarding eircom and getting a console connected to the internet. I don't even remember my name then.

    I remembered you when you came back but I forget your username now :(


  • #48
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    I love rowing too.


  • #49
    Tombi!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,689 ✭✭✭Tombi!


    Chucken wrote: »
    I remembered you when you came back but I forget your username now :(

    If you do you're some psychic.
    I think I registered the first name some time around 2007 and made a grand total of 3 posts. All in one thread.

    So if you can tell me who I am I'd be impressed.


  • #50
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Brutal Deluxe wrote: »
    If you do you're some psychic.
    I think I registered the first name some time around 2007 and made a grand total of 3 posts. All in one thread.

    So if you can tell me who I am I'd be impressed.

    Oh. It wasn't you then :(











    Or maybe your 3 posts left a huge impression on me?


  • #51
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Brutal Deluxe wrote: »
    If you do you're some psychic.
    I think I registered the first name some time around 2007 and made a grand total of 3 posts. All in one thread.

    So if you can tell me who I am I'd be impressed.
    Eurosaver Brutal?


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