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Off Topic Discussion Thread

Bounty Hunter · 2014-06-19 23:58:13

so after the last thread hit 10,000 posts a new thread was needed and here it is so have it it lads:

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#2162 06-09-2015 01:35AM

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2010. Looking through my old posts and seeing my horrible grammar makes me cringe.

Edit: Oh Christ, I actually used the rolleyes emoticon in my early posts. The shame.

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#2163 06-09-2015 02:21AM

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Girl from Tomorrow, Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left, Spellbinder, loads of shows from Oz!

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#2164 06-09-2015 09:49AM

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Mine says August 2009 but I'm certain I didn't start regularly posting here until well into 2010. A Nexus boardsie Came across boards through Adverts, where I got a free VCR for watching my wrestling tapes! (RIP manually-recorded wrestling tapes!)

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#2165 06-09-2015 09:53AM

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End of January 2006 I joined in college as boards was used as a information spreader before Facebook was organising events for a sport I took up in my first year

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#2166 06-09-2015 10:17AM

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August 06.

But my first post wasn't till May 08, when I came on here asking about the American Wrestling Rampage show

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#2167 06-09-2015 10:20AM

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September 2006. Nearly nine years! My girlfriend at the time made me do it. :P

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#2168 06-09-2015 10:28AM

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March/April 2012. Was looking for details if Daniel Bryan was doing the signing in as myths after Mania 28 and I've been sucked in since

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#2169 06-09-2015 11:40AM

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It was around that time that I began posting on this forum as well, but I took a few breaks since.

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#2170 06-09-2015 12:14PM

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2010 for me , although it definitely feels I'm on boards longer , Imagine my 1st post was figuring out how to use my 1st android phone...oh the shame

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#2171 06-09-2015 01:47PM

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Jan 2008. Joined for the wrestling forums

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#2172 06-09-2015 02:08PM

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I joined so that I could post about shows I had coming up and contact people in the music scene.

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#2173 06-09-2015 02:14PM

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I joined to contact people in Archery it was 3 years before I posted in any other forum

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#2174 06-09-2015 02:18PM

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Joined in 2011. I first discovered it by wondering to myself if it was possible to see Wales from Ireland on a clear day and under the right circumstances. It led me to this crazy kip! Here's the thread that started the journey.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055597309

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#2175 06-09-2015 02:25PM

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Joined in nineteen dickity two by which I mean 2001, f*ck! 14 years ago

my first posts were in the Sports (General) & Games (general) forums cos back then I don't think there were too many specific forums.

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#2176 06-09-2015 03:19PM

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Just had a look there and my first post was made in the Alternative & Indie forum in a thread called "Best Neil Young Album", which makes sense for me considering what I was doing.

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#2177 06-09-2015 04:32PM

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November 2004. Posting on and off (about 30 posts) until March 2012 and now I'm nearing 9.5k with most being this forum. Hmmm.

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#2178 06-09-2015 05:38PM

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Bounty Hunter wrote: »

Joined in nineteen dickity two by which I mean 2001, f*ck! 14 years ago. my first posts were in the Sports (General) & Games (general) forums cos back then I don't think there were too many specific forums.

Wow, Attitude Era boardsie! We need a history lesson about PW boards, like didn't we used to be in the TV forum? Eras of PW boards?

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#2179 06-09-2015 05:58PM

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I started my first Boards account in 2008, had over 7,000 posts with it too, but decided I wanted a fresh start and so I closed that one and set up this one instead

I've only started watching WWE again in the last year though; I already have more posts in this forum with this account than I did my previous one

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#2180 06-09-2015 06:31PM

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So you were posting mainly in other forums with your old account, would any of us have known your old username? I would like to have a different name sometimes, but that is what I have been using for years, dating back to the old Microsoft Network Classic Rock Chat.

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#2181 06-09-2015 07:33PM

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Stereomaniac wrote: »

So you were posting mainly in other forums with your old account, would any of us have known your old username?

Honestly, outside of maybe five forums, I blended in to the background with everyone else, I can't say I made a huge impact in most of them, so for the most part I'd doubt it. But in some forums if I were to say my old name some people might go 'oh yeah, I remember that guy'

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#2182 06-09-2015 08:02PM

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Not that I'm trying to make you feel weird or anything, but how did you arrive at a point where you needed a new username? I had to get a new Facebook at one stage as I got locked.

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#2183 06-09-2015 08:36PM

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I changed my user name a while back, I just got kinda tired of the old one really.

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#2184 06-09-2015 09:00PM

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Stereomaniac wrote: »

Not that I'm trying to make you feel weird or anything, but how did you arrive at a point where you needed a new username? I had to get a new Facebook at one stage as I got locked.

No problem at all

It wasn't an argument or anything, I actually closed my account with the intention of leaving Boards for good, to stop wasting so much time here. Didn't last long though, I signed up again a few weeks later

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#2185 06-09-2015 09:16PM

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Ah okay, I was curious. Well I've always been able to stop using the site and just come back to it later. I actually probably signed up because I needed to waste time when I lived in Dublin because I didn't really know many people. It was hard to join any conversations though.

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#2186 07-09-2015 07:38AM

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Lads, anyone able to fill me in with what happened with Rovert being banned and that post from Dav? Feeling very out of the loop.

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#2187 07-09-2015 07:51AM

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If you want to look at his Twitter or look at the older posts on here on this thread, it's there.

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#2188 07-09-2015 08:06AM

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Stereomaniac wrote: »

If you want to look at his Twitter or look at the older posts on here on this thread, it's there.

Seems this has been tidied up and I can't get back far enough on his Twitter.....man, he posts some amount.

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#2189 07-09-2015 08:33AM

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If you want to discuss it, private message someone about it. Mods don't want it discussed here.

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#2190 07-09-2015 09:27AM

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Stereomaniac wrote: »

Just had a look there and my first post was made in the Alternative & Indie forum in a thread called "Best Neil Young Album", which makes sense for me considering what I was doing.

What do you mean?

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When I signed up first i didn't post for a year or so. I think i really starting posting around 2004. It was when the WWE had the Tour Of Defiance - their first visit to Ireland in a decade. I was quite the mark at the time rather than the cynical jackass I have become now.

The mod at the time was Hanza, who would go on to become wrestler Red Vinny. Seemed a decent guy. The forum was very quiet back then. Like the WM thread might get 30 posts as opposed to the 1000+ we get nowadays.

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#2191 07-09-2015 09:35AM

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Well back then my main outlet was music, so I was constantly just talking about, reading about, playing and listening to music. I was and still am quite obsessive about finding new things to listen to and going back and listening to old stuff as well. I didn't even remember posting in that Neil Young thread but it makes sense because I was listening to him a lot and he's definitely become one of my favourite artists. I went to see him play 3 times already.

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