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    #1292
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    Retard isn't really a polite word to use in debate.


    As a noun, no.



    The adjective form can be OK though, depending on context. Describing someone as retarded, not OK. Describing something's development or progress as retarded can be OK.


    Also, if you're writing in French, it's a perfectly OK word.


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    #1293
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Desiree Microscopic Slavery wrote: »
    The thread on Jk Rowling descending into posters calling black people ‘blacks’ and calling gay people a culture of death. Disgusting.


    Reporting is useless as mods just stalk the person who has reported to find any kind of infraction.


    I disagree on that.


    Oh, hang on. I've just seen the rest of your posts. I'll be leaving you to it.


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    #1294
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,526 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Along with, potentially, adding the “r-word” to the censored words list might I, also, suggest getting rid of the “multi-quote” function?

    I mean, let’s be honest, it only “encourages” the, insufferable, site bores.

    The tide is turning…



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    #1295
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Define irony?

    A poster who must surely to jaysis have the "quotation mark" button on his keyboard - worn down to a nub, wanting rid of the "multi quote" function.

    You couldn't "write" this sh1t. :D


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    #1296
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,526 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Define irony?

    A poster who must surely to jaysis have the "quotation mark" button on his keyboard - worn down to a nub, wanting rid of the "multi quote" function.

    You couldn't "write" this sh1t. :D

    Do you not know how the “function” works, M? Oh, that’s right, you prefer the, more deranged looking, “combination” posting.

    5 or 6 individual replies in a row over the course of a couple of minutes. Looking like someone, who thinks they are smart, playing a number of chess matches at once in the park and losing, badly, in every one.

    Never a good “look”, pal.

    The tide is turning…



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    #1297
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Do you not know how the “function” works, M? Oh, that’s right, you prefer the, more deranged looking, “combination” posting.

    5 or 6 individual replies in a row over the course of a couple of minutes. Looking like someone, who thinks they are smart, playing a number of chess matches at once in the park and losing, badly, in every one.

    Never a good “look”, pal.

    You're "reading too much" into my post, "pal".

    The irony of a poster, who for unknown reasons places inverted commas/quotation marks in the most random places in his posts (fcuk knows why) to be wanting shot of the multi quote function is, as I said "irony".

    That's the beginning and the end of it "E", came across as a bit "comical" bud, I actually thought you were "yanking a chain":D


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    #1298
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Could we get rid of quotation marks altogether?


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    #1299
    Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    EmmetSpiceland and McMurphy, give up the tit for tat there. No more discussion of the quotation marks though it would be great if everyone could use them correctly.

    Let's get back on topic please everyone.

    How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site



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    #1300
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    mcmoustache wrote: »
    A Describing something's development or progress as retarded can be OK.

    Also, if you're writing in French, it's a perfectly OK word.


    These use cases were exactly what I had in mind when I posted, obviously.


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    #1301
    markodaly
    Registered Users Posts: 13,948 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    I think I mentioned this before but what is the story with commenting on the weight of people who are in the public sphere?


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    #1302
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I think Trump is fair game....


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    #1303
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It just reflects society in that there is no actual fat acceptance or body appreciation. It was a facade.


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    #1304
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,622 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    The US election is a couple weeks out and we are seeing a rash of new accounts, several of which aren't in good faith, others of which claim to be re-regging. Can we have a minimum post count and account age to post in these threads?


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    #1305
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Overheal wrote: »
    The US election is a couple weeks out and we are seeing a rash of new accounts, several of which aren't in good faith, others of which claim to be re-regging. Can we have a minimum post count and account age to post in these threads?
    The US election is no more an important topic than any other in the Forum. We can't start having specific postcount rules for specific threads


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    #1306
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,622 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Yeah after I posted I realized how much bandwidth that would take and how impractical it would actually be.


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    #1307
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Overheal wrote: »
    Yeah after I posted I realized how much bandwidth that would take and how impractical it would actually be.

    I'm inclined to say the people who are there to wind up will disappear in 3 weeks or so which is a positive at least.


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    #1308
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm inclined to say the people who are there to wind up will disappear in 3 weeks or so which is a positive at least.

    They'll all be over in the Conspiracy Theories Forum - someone else's problem then


    :pac:


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    #1309
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Beasty wrote: »
    They'll all be over in the Conspiracy Theories Forum - someone else's problem then


    :pac:

    Cold! :D


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    #1310
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Beasty wrote:
    They'll all be over in the Conspiracy Theories Forum - someone else's problem then

    Deleted User wrote:
    Cold!

    If you miss them around, just say the word.


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    #1311
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,866 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Overheal wrote: »
    The US election is a couple weeks out and we are seeing a rash of new accounts, several of which aren't in good faith, others of which claim to be re-regging. Can we have a minimum post count and account age to post in these threads?

    Just ban Russian IPs, problem solved :P

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #1312
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    So let me get this straight ...

    In the DT threads you can call Trump a rapist, a moron, an idiot, a c*** (and of course, IMPOTUS) but users are banned from calling Joe Biden 'sleepy' ??

    Don't go changing, Boards.ie, don't go changing :P


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    #1313
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    So let me get this straight ...

    In the DT threads you can call Trump a rapist, a moron, an idiot, a c*** (and of course, IMPOTUS) but users are banned from calling Joe Biden 'sleepy' ??

    Don't go changing, Boards.ie, don't go changing :P

    Well the list for trump is actually accurate. I'd imagine if Biden came out with the grab them by the pus*y line the trump supporters would be having a attack of the vapors rather than saying that it was an example of consent.


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    #1314
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,400 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    So let me get this straight ...

    In the DT threads you can call Trump a rapist, a moron, an idiot, a c*** (and of course, IMPOTUS) but users are banned from calling Joe Biden 'sleepy' ??

    Don't go changing, Boards.ie, don't go changing :P

    Whats wrong with IMPOTUS? IMpeached POTUS. Nothing wrong with that.


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    #1315
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Don't be disingenuous, Timber.


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    #1316
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Don't be disingenuous, Timber.

    Might help if you didn't link to a site know for scamming people.


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    #1317
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,400 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Don't be disingenuous, Timber.

    Stop being so dramatic Pete

    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=impotus&amp=true

    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/475524-george-conways-new-nickname-for-trump-starts-trend-impotus%3famp

    https://www.slanglang.net/impotus/


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    #1318
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Whats wrong with IMPOTUS? IMpeached POTUS. Nothing wrong with that.

    It should be IPOTUS, or ImPOTUS, at a stretch, (maybe even iPotUS)...


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    #1319
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,400 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    It should be IPOTUS, or ImPOTUS, at a stretch, (maybe even iPotUS)...

    Talk to George Conway, he's the one that came up with #IMPOTUS.


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    #1320
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,161 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Talk to George Conway, he's the one that came up with #IMPOTUS.

    I don't think he posts on Boards


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    #1321
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,400 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    I don't think he posts on Boards

    Ah well, I guess I'll just continue to use the #IMPOTUS that he created as it seems to be the correct and most popular one out there.


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