What boardsies would you bring back?

Arghus · 12-08-2019 10:19pm

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.

Raconteuse · 12-08-2019 10:21pm

Jermaine Bitter Saloon wrote: »

she worked as a psychiatrist I think and modded PI iirc.

Sam34? Yeah I really liked Chinafoot.

r93kaey5p2izun · 12-08-2019 10:31pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

Sam34? Yeah I really liked Chinafoot.

Yes that was her, I think. Very helpful.

LizT · 12-08-2019 10:32pm

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.

The Crazy Cat Lady · 12-08-2019 10:35pm

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

Wibbs · 12-08-2019 10:37pm

Super-Rush wrote: »

Shout out to Dr Bollocko,

Ah here, surely the Medical Testicle is still hereabouts?

Filmer Paradise · 12-08-2019 10:37pm

Tbh was another that stood out.

Seemed like an all round good guy.

Wibbs · 12-08-2019 10:38pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

Sam34? Yeah I really liked Chinafoot.

Same34 was sound as a bloody pound. One assumes she still is.

Earthhorse · 12-08-2019 10:39pm

Wibbs wrote: »

Same34 was sound as a bloody pound. One assumes she still is.

That was her alt account.

12-08-2019 10:40pm

Jermaine Bitter Saloon wrote: »

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.

Stoner · 12-08-2019 10:42pm

Vexorg.

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

circadian · 12-08-2019 10:42pm

Backwards man, where ye at?

12-08-2019 10:43pm

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.

whomitconcerns · 12-08-2019 10:44pm

Padraiggg

The adventures of Trent

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2055716814/1/#post62633983

sammyjo90 · 12-08-2019 10:44pm

LizT wrote: »

Must have a google alert set up for their name.

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

branie2 · 12-08-2019 10:47pm

twoshedsjackson

Noveight · 12-08-2019 10:48pm

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

Vague memory.

ArchXStanton · 12-08-2019 10:51pm

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

Faugheen · 12-08-2019 10:52pm

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

Earthhorse · 12-08-2019 10:52pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

À propos of nothing, remember Later12 ?

No?

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.

anewme · 12-08-2019 11:04pm

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.

Leg End Reject · 12-08-2019 11:08pm

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

12-08-2019 11:08pm

Earthhorse wrote: »

No?

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.

Arghus · 12-08-2019 11:10pm

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.

r93kaey5p2izun · 12-08-2019 11:10pm

Is WhiteWashMan still around?

The Princess Bride · 12-08-2019 11:13pm

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.

Arghus · 12-08-2019 11:18pm

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.

whiskeyman · 12-08-2019 11:22pm

Jermaine Bitter Saloon wrote: »

Is WhiteWashMan still around?

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

Earthhorse · 12-08-2019 11:24pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

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

I know.

12-08-2019 11:24pm

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.

Dunder Mifflin · 12-08-2019 11:30pm

richindub2

Arghus · 12-08-2019 11:31pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! 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.

Yamanoto · 12-08-2019 11:34pm

RMAOK wrote: »

Flutterinbantam

He's been back for some time

I always liked Millicent's contributions hereabouts

Danzy · 12-08-2019 11:36pm

ToddyDoody wrote: »

How come she was banned?

Less than pleasant talk about Jews and the holocaust.

JupiterKid · 12-08-2019 11:40pm

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

..miss them all and their posts.

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...

r93kaey5p2izun · 12-08-2019 11:41pm

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

Raconteuse · 12-08-2019 11:41pm

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

Arghus · 12-08-2019 11:45pm

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!

12-08-2019 11:47pm

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.

JupiterKid · 12-08-2019 11:49pm

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.

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

anewme · 12-08-2019 11:49pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

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!!!

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 12-08-2019 11:50pm

Danzy wrote: »

Less than pleasant talk about Jews and the holocaust.

That’s not what she said in prison.

anewme · 12-08-2019 11:54pm

Arghus wrote: »

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! 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.......

Filmer Paradise · 12-08-2019 11:54pm

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..

Tikki Wang Wang · 12-08-2019 11:56pm

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

Raconteuse · 12-08-2019 11:57pm

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.

13-08-2019 12:00am

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.

Arghus · 13-08-2019 12:01am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

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.

Ariadne · 13-08-2019 12:07am

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

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

Bring back Smash, he was a sound lad.

13-08-2019 12:09am

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.

What boardsies would you bring back?

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