Has anyone ever made friends with another Boards member?

#1 · 12-02-2016 10:39AM #1

I'm on Boards about 10 yrs. I've never knowingly met another Boardsie nor do I think I know anyone else who's a member. Anyone ever become a friend or acquaintance of another member?

12-02-2016 10:44AM

Yes.

Oranage2 · 12-02-2016 10:44AM

No, been on boards newly 6 years and no friends from it

Penny Tration · 12-02-2016 10:45AM

Yep, I've made a few good friends through boards

the evasion_kid · 12-02-2016 10:46AM

no,but theres certain posters that i know would hold the same train of thought on most things,then theres the other clique who you nearly know word for word what there post is going to be on a topic then run around giving each other cyber pats on the back...as if it will make the problem dissappear in the real world..

12-02-2016 10:47AM

I bought something off a guy from boards once. He looked exactly like I imagined someone from the internet would. He was a big, tall, bald guy with an awful goatee, long leather jacket down to his ankles and sunglasses like Neo from the matrix. He called me "dude" the whole time. We did not become friends.

12-02-2016 10:49AM

I have. Very good friends in fact. There are some posters that I'd really like to meet.

Kintarō Hattori · 12-02-2016 10:49AM

Get involved in one of the sub forums if you have a hobby. Meet-ups/trips are regularly planned and you can meet some great people.

DellyBelly · 12-02-2016 10:50AM

I know lad from Cork who was living in Dublin who made a good few through boards. Funnily enough I neverr saw them post again afterwards

12-02-2016 10:55AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I bought something off a guy from boards once. He looked exactly like I imagined someone from the internet would. He was a big, tall, bald guy with an awful goatee, long leather jacket down to his ankles and sunglasses like Neo from the matrix. He called me "dude" the whole time. We did not become friends.

He must have looked like your twin so!

Meanaspie · 12-02-2016 11:48AM

I know a friend of mine met his now wife through boards

biko · 12-02-2016 11:51AM

yes

andekwarhola · 12-02-2016 11:55AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I bought something off a guy from boards once. He looked exactly like I imagined someone from the internet would. He was a big, tall, bald guy with an awful goatee, long leather jacket down to his ankles and sunglasses like Neo from the matrix. He called me "dude" the whole time. We did not become friends.

Last time I fcuking sell you anything.

MilesMorales1 · 12-02-2016 11:57AM

I did, but they didn't stick round unfortunately. Such is life.

MRnotlob606 · 12-02-2016 11:58AM

I met my wife on Boards. She has a neckbeard, hates Sinn Fein, is a militant atheist and loves Game of Thrones.

goz83 · 12-02-2016 12:02PM

I have a friend who is on boards, but we were friends long before. I know a couple of boardsies, but I wouldn't be in a position to call them friends i'm afraid. Some are on the fto-ireland site and I met them through there. All good lads I would be happy to have as friends, whether they wear long leather coats, or sport crazy facial hair. I recently started hanging over at the shooting forum and met one of the mods from there. Really really helpful chap who has offered to show me some of the ropes of the sport.

OldGoat · 12-02-2016 12:04PM

Meanaspie wrote: »

I know a friend of mine met his now wife through boards

I too met somebodies wife through Boards.

Lucyfur · 12-02-2016 12:05PM

No way.

Crowd of freaks.

jimgoose · 12-02-2016 12:05PM

Yep. Normal.

sconhome · 12-02-2016 12:07PM

Yes.

I have made many good friends through boards. Shared interests lead to crossing paths and meeting in real life. I also have a ton of acquaintances made too but that's different.

david65 · 12-02-2016 12:09PM

yes

hardCopy · 12-02-2016 12:12PM

Before the UFC was a big thing in Ireland I went to a lock-in/private screening that was organised by a boardsie to show the fight in a pub in Dublin. I arrived at the door with two mates and had to tell the bouncer I was "from the internet". Everyone else I met seemed to know the organiser personally and I didn't meet anyone else who would admit to being a boardsie.

I joined a triathlon club for a couple of years based on the recommendation of a boardsie.

I have also recognised real life friends from their posts, several times. Sometimes I've dropped them a PM and other times I just moved on to another thread.

retro:electro · 12-02-2016 12:13PM

No and don't think I'd want to. Boards is my break away from my real life. Mixing the two would be weird

12-02-2016 12:31PM

Yea met one boardsie a few times - and he recently treated me to a trip to Dingle Other Voices which was a great weekend. Good friend. Shame he lives abroad.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 12-02-2016 12:34PM

Meeting people off the internet is only for neck beards.

Maximus Alexander · 12-02-2016 12:36PM

Nope. I prefer to pretend that most of the people on Boards are imaginary, like characters in a TV show. The alternative, that they might be walking around out there like regular people, is far too terrifying.

osarusan · 12-02-2016 12:37PM

A couple people in the Limerick forum would know me from Limerick FC-related stuff - they'd have known me before we knew who each other was on boards though.

12-02-2016 12:37PM

Yes

I have met several over the years, and a few from fora previous to boards...

Back in my day they were called Yahoo Groups and were email groups, in the days before forums...

My missus is one of my friends on here, she joined boards after watching me on it constantly...

whiskeyman · 12-02-2016 12:38PM

anna080 wrote: »

No and don't think I'd want to. Boards is my break away from my real life. Mixing the two would be weird

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Nope. I prefer to pretend that most of the people on Boards are imaginary, like characters in a TV show. The alternative, that they might be walking around out there like regular people, is far too terrifying.

I'm the same as this, although many of the folk on here seem sounder than my own friends!
It's a risk that I'm willing not to take...

drake70 · 12-02-2016 12:50PM

I haven't made friends on boards (I'm not much of a poster), but I have recognised a few people I know based on their usernames/interests.

Duggy747 · 12-02-2016 12:51PM

I once meet a Boards member who I recognised from Know Your Nerds, they're also a poster I've had good time for in threads in AH for years since we have the same humour and outlook.

They came into my shop and we ended up having good craíc just shíte talking, felt pretty weird that I knew who they were but couldn't really say anything without coming off like a psycho :pac:

Though I could've just said I was Wibbs or Seamus

Has anyone ever made friends with another Boards member?

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