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    #62
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,772 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Remember the seventies/eighties/nineties, everything was so amazing back then the world has gone to sh1te since.


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    #63
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Hell......

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #64
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    "Members of a 'certain' ethnic minority"

    FFS they lobbied tooth and nail to be recognised as such by the state, don't be terrified of using the word "travellers", it is what they argued for after all.


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    #65
    enda1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    A real boardsism is the use of the word "said" where everyone else would normally say that or this.
    Example: "When you went to said event" as if they're a cross-examining barrister.

    I find it a really weird way to try to make themselves look authoritative or clever.


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    #66
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    more an American import but ....checks notes

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #67
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Lurleen wrote: »
    Is shinner still constantly used to bully people who simply criticise the grotesque behaviour of the security forces towards nationalists back in the day?
    You mean chuckies ?


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    #68
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    You mean chuckies ?
    :pac:

    Im not having a dig at sinn fein and i don't think security forces having a go at irish people is ok ...

    BUT THIS ....:D


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    #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    "Members of a 'certain' ethnic minority"

    FFS they lobbied tooth and nail to be recognised as such by the state, don't be terrified of using the word "travellers", it is what they argued for after all.
    "Culture boss" is a recurring one.

    I'm a critic of the disproportionate problems too, and the denial of them, but that old quip doesn't bring anything to the table.


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    #70
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    "Lot of anger here"

    "Mostly men"


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    #71
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,908 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The cringe inducing ‘coke and hookers’.

    You might cringe afterwards, but while you're doing them you think you're a legend.


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    #72
    a fat guy
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    "Godwinned" any time Hitler is mentioned.

    I swear some folks on here are waiting in the wings just to sound clever. Like it doesn't happen literally every single time someone mentions the Nazi's on here.

    Also honorable mentions go to the eye roller emoji, even though it isn't a phrase.


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    #73
    antfin
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭antfin


    The mind boggles.


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    #74
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    "Touch a nerve" such a meaningless generic retort. Should go the same was as blast it with piss.

    "Strange hill to die on" another bullsh!t attempt to play down someone's opinion.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #75
    antfin
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭antfin


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    the "off load" would known as a pass in every other sport :pac:

    Whole rugby sport is a buzzword marketers dream

    It really depends on the offload ie it could have been a "lovely little offload". The thing with a lovely little offload is that it will "ask questions of the defence" but whether or not a team is "asking all the right questions" of the oppositions defence will determine who will score next. You need to "keep the scoreboard ticking over" especially when the "next score will be crucial" or if it's going to be one of those games where you feel "every score will count".


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    #76
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,391 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The cringe inducing ‘coke and hookers’.

    Cringe inducing is another one.

    Why would you cringe at something somebody else says on the internet?


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    #77
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    antfin wrote: »
    The mind boggles.

    "Wow", as if someone's opinion was so far out there.

    "so you are saying blah, blah, blah" (often quite removed from what the other poster said)

    "Wow"

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #78
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,491 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The cringe inducing ‘coke and hookers’.

    So you haven't been to the legendary boards.ie yacht parties?

    🙈🙉🙊



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    #79
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,193 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    What ever happened to the hamsters?

    Wake me up when it's all over.



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    #80
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Portman Toe wrote: »
    I can't think of any Boards specific cliches but I would like to tell anybody reading this to blast yourself with piss.

    To anyone that's sick of whatever cliché, just remember that yore ma and blast it with piss were near universal on threads and have now all but disappeared


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    #81
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    murpho999 wrote: »
    "Never heard of them".

    Always used by an poster who thinks they're edgy when a celebrity passes away or makes the news.

    Often used by this poster when I don't know the person in question and they're difficult to Google (or if I'm too lazy)


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    #82
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Feisar wrote: »
    "Wow", as if someone's opinion was so far out there.

    "so you are saying blah, blah, blah" (often quite removed from what the other poster said)

    "Wow"

    guaranteed gibberish alert if someone starts a sentence with So...

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #83
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,832 ✭✭✭s8n


    Your Ma
    Blast it with p155
    Atari Jaguar


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    #84
    a fat guy
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    McGaggs wrote: »
    To anyone that's sick of whatever cliché, just remember that yore ma and blast it with piss were near universal on threads and have now all but disappeared

    I thought they'd were eventually banned, no?


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    #85
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,656 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Derivatives of “Boards is left-leaning” / “Boards is right-leaning”, depending upon the individual posters own political perspective.

    The use of terms “Conservative” / “Progressive” to identify an opinion which isn’t at all based upon political beliefs, but simply begrudgery and spite.

    “Misogyny”, “Racism”, “Sexism”, etc, and the rest -

    “I just tell it like it is”, “some people can’t deal with reality”, “facts over feelings”.


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    #86
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    As others have highlighted...

    'simples' .... it gives me a complete irrational spike of anger
    'but you already knew that' ..... see above
    'neckbeard' ... stop it, just... jesus, just stop it.
    'mehole' ... what are you, six years old? ha f**king ha, it was lame the FIRST time
    'the powers that be' ...... urgh


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    #87
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    antfin wrote: »
    It really depends on the offload ie it could have been a "lovely little offload". The thing with a lovely little offload is that it will "ask questions of the defence" but whether or not a team is "asking all the right questions" of the oppositions defence will determine who will score next. You need to "keep the scoreboard ticking over" especially when the "next score will be crucial" or if it's going to be one of those games where you feel "every score will count".

    Jesus i hate the rugby crowd so much......id rather have arlene foster as president than have oirish rugby supporters anything to do with running the country


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    #88
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Silly to hate supporters of a sport.


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    #89
    Elmer Blooker
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    'whataboutery'


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    #90
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    "Since breastfeeding is OK in public due to being natural, I should be able to urinate/defecate/masturbate/have sex in public."

    It's amazing that that actually gets resorted to as an argument but it does!


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    #91
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Elmer Blooker wrote: »
    'whataboutery'
    It's a real thing though. E.g. on a thread about Bloody Sunday - what about what the IRA did? As if they can't open a separate thread, they have to be that tasteless.


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