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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,638 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    There was a poster called e_e in the film forum who always struck me as a sound person: knowledgable, but without any pretensions. Then bang - closed account - it was a sickener to see a good poster just vanish like that.

    More recently Terror Firmer who used to post a bit here and in a few other forums I'd frequent, always wrote worthwhile stuff IMO, knew what he was talking about. He was here for donkeys years, but it looks like he closed the account a couple of days ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    she worked as a psychiatrist I think and modded PI iirc.
    Sam34? Yeah I really liked Chinafoot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Sam34? Yeah I really liked Chinafoot.

    Yes that was her, I think. Very helpful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Are people PMing/texting the ones others think are gone?
    How are ye popping up so quickly!?

    Must have a google alert set up for their name.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭The Crazy Cat Lady


    there's a few I'd bring back (can't remember names at the top of my head)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    Shout out to Dr Bollocko,
    Ah here, surely the Medical Testicle is still hereabouts?

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Tbh was another that stood out.

    Seemed like an all round good guy.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Sam34? Yeah I really liked Chinafoot.
    Same34 was sound as a bloody pound. One assumes she still is. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Same34 was sound as a bloody pound. One assumes she still is. :D

    That was her alt account.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Terry you were the very best.

    At a very difficult time in my life I got great advice in PI from Carsinian Thau and a poster whose name I can't remember, but she worked as a psychiatrist I think and modded PI iirc.

    I remember a few posters from the UCD forum around 15 years ago who were very enjoyable and helpful. Sebthebum (I think he changed his name to something like arbeit) and Chinafoot.

    Runfordahills was entertaining.
    I remember him, he knew about the UCD tunnels.

    There was also a medical student who posted regularly, can't remember her full name. Panda?

    Jane Horgan-Jones, now a city Councillor, used to post there, but it wouldn't be fair to say her name.

    Scraggs was another one. I don't know what she studied, but her personality screamed Ag Science. I think she was from Carlow. Might have been Kathryn Thomas.

    I wasn't even a UCD student, but I was doing the Leaving Cert and my first choice on the Irish CAO was at UCD, so I frequented the forum for a summer then stuck around.
    LizT wrote: »
    Must have a google alert set up for their name.
    It's all the re-regs eulogizing their former usernames.

    À propos of nothing, remember Later12 ? He was a very good poster. Definitely shouldn't have been banned from the Irish Economy forum that one time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    Vexorg.

    A machine on the reported posts.
    A great example of a fair admin.
    Pushed the ethos of boards as well as any.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭circadian


    Backwards man, where ye at?


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Ah here, surely the Medical Testicle is still hereabouts?
    I will break my self-enforced Don't Speak Ill of The Closed Accounts Rule this one time. And I didn't even break that for Permabear.

    His username preceded him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,379 ✭✭✭whomitconcerns




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,176 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    LizT wrote: »
    Must have a google alert set up for their name.

    How fcking sad is that! Thats bad even for an internet forum!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    twoshedsjackson


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Was MadsL a Yank who point blank denied they had a gun problem?

    Vague memory.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭ArchXStanton


    Mikom... He was a funny b*stard

    Shout out to Nick Nolte too, boards feminists were no match for him

    The Corinthian, a fairly intelligent man


  • Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    I miss Gordon and his trolling of the trolls in prison.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    À propos of nothing, remember Later12 ?

    No? :confused:
    Noveight wrote: »
    Was MadsL a Yank who point blank denied they had a gun problem?

    Vague memory.

    Dunno. But that username alaways reminds me of Majds from the old days.

    And from there kdjac.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Faugheen wrote: »
    I miss Gordon and his trolling of the trolls in prison.

    I had no idea what was a "prison" so I just googled it there. I fhought first it was a forum fir people in The Joy or Wheatfield.

    I had a quick nosey and for those interested there is a post from KikiLaRue2 about why she was banned.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,532 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Imagine a place for real prisoners? I wonder would they all protest their innocence? :pac:


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    No? :confused:
    Dude we've established that you weren't that attention seeker from some private forum, I'm just trying my hand at humour!
    Noveight wrote: »
    Was MadsL a Yank who point blank denied they had a gun problem?

    Yes! But strangely enough, a Labour Party supporter/ member. I'm still not certain how they reconciled that one.

    Fairly knowledgeable poster, in fairness, especially on local authority issues.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,638 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    anewme wrote: »
    I had no idea what was a "prison" so I just googled it there. I fhought first it was a forum fir people in The Joy or Wheatfield.

    I had a quick nosey and for those interested there is a post from KikiLaRue2 about why she was banned.

    There's gold in them there hills.

    I dunno when I first discovered the place, but many a laugh was had. Some of the longer threads from way back are absolutely epic. The level of pure spoofery on display is gobsmacking. I still have a look at every now and again, in the hope that a "debate" has caught fire, because when they do they are usually very entertaining.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    Is WhiteWashMan still around?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,608 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    beks101's posts were always well written, and made sense.
    I don't know if she ever came back after she closed her account.

    Sometimes it's ridiculously obvious when people rereg, short of actually saying, " hello it's me, blabla", they post in the same way, in the same thread...

    Some we miss, some are silly gooses.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,638 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I don't know how you people can seemingly recognise people posting under new names. There's maybe a handful of posters here whose style I'd recognise, but for everyone else I wouldn't have a clue if it was a re-reg.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Is WhiteWashMan still around?

    Him and Ruu.
    Old AH mods.
    Ruu had some post count!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    ...I'm just trying my hand at humour!

    I know.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Arghus wrote: »
    I don't know how you people can seemingly recognise people posting under new names. There's maybe a handful of posters here whose style I'd recognise, but for everyone else I wouldn't have a clue if it was a re-reg.
    You're not alone Arghus, most of us probably don't.

    If only 1% of us can recognise previous users from their writing style or from their opinions, then all it takes is a nudge for the rest of us to say "oh THAT'S who you are!". There are some people here whom I'd have sworn are new users, and yet when someone points out the obvious, it's immediately clear.

    Some people, of course, are retained in the memory for all the wrong reasons.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 342 ✭✭Dunder Mifflin


    richindub2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,638 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    You're not alone Arghus, most of us probably don't.

    If only 1% of us can recognise previous users from their writing style or from their opinions, then all it takes is a nudge for the rest of us to say "oh THAT'S who you are!". There are some people here whom I'd have sworn are new users, and yet when someone points out the obvious, it's immediately clear.

    Some people, of course, are retained in the memory for all the wrong reasons.

    I think the only time my spidey sense would start tingling was if someone started going on about their nubile young early twenties wife and their idyllic life of raising half a dozen young children together, while earning big bucks being a shithot financial genius down in a version of The American Deep South that'd be too corny for even the Grand Ole Oprey.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    RMAOK wrote: »
    Flutterinbantam

    He's been back for some time

    I always liked Millicent's contributions hereabouts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,125 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    How come she was banned?

    Less than pleasant talk about Jews and the holocaust.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Mikom
    RunToDaHills
    Lux23 (know her from another web forum)
    Whoopsadaisydoodles
    Dudess
    The King Of Moo
    Biggins

    ..miss them all and their posts. :o

    And then there are those boardsies who are sadly no more, either online or in real life, including

    Pygmalion
    Rosabeez

    ...and a couple of others. :(
    RIP

    Gone on to the great big boards forums in the sky...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    I always enjoyed reading the Paranormal forum back in the day, despite being a complete sceptic. 6th was an interesting contributor.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    I can spot a re reg a mile off. A number of posters being lamented are still here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,638 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    I can spot a re reg a mile off. A number of posters being lamented are still here.

    62 posts?

    It takes one to know one I guess!


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Arghus wrote: »
    Permabear - With his absolutely 100% totally real life.

    My favourite posters were some lads, during the last recession (with total sincerity, by the way) asking if this was a good time to be investing in gold/ coinage metal.

    The lad spent his time expressing some strange grudge against primary school teachers. Everything he knew about Finance, he'd learned from YouTube. It was a strange time.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Proud to say that I've never closed my account or re-regged or changed my user name since joining up nearly 15 years ago, despite being through hell and back for quite a few years with my mental health and alcohol dependency.

    Boards was, at times, a bit of a lifeline for me. :o


    With good ol’ JK, what you see is what you get! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Arghus wrote: »
    Permabear - With his absolutely 100% totally real life.

    My favourite posters were some lads, during the last recession (with total sincerity, by the way) asking if this was a good time to be investing in gold/ monetary metal.

    The lad spent his time expressing some strange grudge against primary school teachers. Everything he knew about Finance, he'd learned from YouTube. It was a strange time.

    The BMI poster had a strange grudge against Primary School teachers too!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Danzy wrote: »
    Less than pleasant talk about Jews and the holocaust.

    That’s not what she said in prison.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Arghus wrote: »
    You're not alone Arghus, most of us probably don't.

    If only 1% of us can recognise previous users from their writing style or from their opinions, then all it takes is a nudge for the rest of us to say "oh THAT'S who you are!". There are some people here whom I'd have sworn are new users, and yet when someone points out the obvious, it's immediately clear.

    Some people, of course, are retained in the memory for all the wrong reasons.

    I think the only time my spidey sense would start tingling was if someone started going on about their nubile young early twenties wife and their idyllic life of raising half a dozen young children together, while earning big bucks being a shithot financial genius down in a version of The American Deep South that'd be too corny for even the Grand Ole Oprey.

    Ashamed to say I didnt cop this at all.......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    I can spot a re reg a mile off. A number of posters being lamented are still here.

    It's not too hard in a lot of cases.

    Their views, posting style, how they style their writing, where there from etc..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 332 ✭✭Tikki Wang Wang


    Dav. It was hilarious watching him tie himself in knots while trying to justify the unjustifiable. Eventually he just rage quit - literally !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Have had a few accounts. It looks flaky for sure but some people read waaaay too much into it - coming to all sorts of conclusions about mental health and so on. It can really be just as simple as wanting to stay off Boards for a while or just feeling like a new account. Boring reasons.
    Arghus wrote: »
    62 posts?

    It takes one to know one I guess!
    Indubitably.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    anewme wrote: »
    The BMI poster had a strange grudge against Primary School teachers too!!!

    I don't recognise that guy, so can't comment there. I work in a bank (burn the witch) but I'm not involved in the business side of things and am certainly not rich, but it's plainly obvious when you're talking to someone who is talking horse-shît on the topic of finance or regulatory issues. I almost feel bad for ridiculing that person, but really now, he was fooling nobody.

    On a more positive note, WhiteWashMan has been mentioned already, and he banned me within a couple of days of my joining this site. He didn't suffer fools gladly and took no shït, and we could do with a few more of his kind around here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,638 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    My favourite posters were some lads, during the last recession (with total sincerity, by the way) asking if this was a good time to be investing in gold/ coinage metal.

    The lad spent his time expressing some strange grudge against primary school teachers. Everything he knew about Finance, he'd learned from YouTube. It was a strange time.

    The penny finally dropped for me with PB - though it had been miraculously just about defying gravity for an extened period before then - when he started banging on about the greatness of Finnegan's Wake in a thread one time. I don't have a problem with that really, but I just knew, knew, this guy was regurgitating stuff he'd read elsewhere and passing it off as his own opinion. Every cliche in the book, about that book - every hoary one liner used by a lecturer to a room of English undergrads - was used to prop up his argument. On the surface it was all very erudite and knowledgeable, but if you did actually know something about the book you were able to see through his spoofery and quick internet research.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Ariadne


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    I liked a lady called Medusa back in the day. I remember her writing one time that she had some sort of serious health problem, so I'm worried she might've died but I hope not.

    I'm alive baby, can't kill a bad thing :D

    Ah Hammer, we bonded over our inability to drive. Hope you're doing well kid.

    Bring back Smash, he was a sound lad.


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  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Arghus wrote: »
    The penny finally dropped for me with PB - though it had been miraculously just about defying gravity for an extened period before then - when he started banging on about the greatness of Finnegan's Wake in a thread one time. I don't have a problem with that really, but I just knew, knew, this guy was regurgitating stuff he'd read elsewhere and passing it off as his own opinion. Every cliche in the book, about that book - every hoary one liner used by a lecturer to a room of English undergrads - was used to prop up his argument. On the surface it was all very erudite and knowledgeable, but if you did actually know something about the book you were able to see through his spoofery and quick internet research.
    That's exactly right. If you ever engaged him on a technical point, whether that be alliteration and romantic poetry or minimum capital requirements in banks, you'd lose him. He was a man of zero detail (except on that weird anti-teacher crusade) which was always a giveaway.

    I didn't want the thread to go down this route, because I bet this Forum has had many more interesting posters than it has had chancers. Nevertheless, as chancers go, that Donegalfella is rich pickings.


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