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  • #52
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,025 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    JasonStatham wrote: »
    Was this guy real.i used to see the Abuse scrawled on the walls of the toilets and I always wondered if it was just a wind up.

    He was. Lived in Belgrove. Was actually quite a reserved, shy, lad. Shunned the “spotlight”.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #53
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Honestly can't recall... too long ago.


  • #54
    Man with broke phone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭Man with broke phone


    I cant even remember, I have moved house about 7 times since my first account. Never been banned, I just close them sometimes when Im on boards too much. But I always come back.
    I just ditch any friends I make with a new account too. Ghost them. Lone wolf. Weirdo.


  • #55
    khalessi
    Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Offered help in the Animal and Pets section around 2007


  • #56
    StackSteevens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 873 ✭✭✭StackSteevens


    I was starting to build a new house and wanted advice on stuff like insulation and heat pumps. Found lots here - there was a grumpy but knowledgeable poster called Heimlich or Heimblood or somesuch Germanic name who was my guru for quite a while.

    (I also got great advice from the man who is now the Green Party TD for Limerick - many thanks, Brian Leddin! )


  • #57
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,441 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    I heard about the After Hours forum and decided to sign up for the banter. Naturally, I started exploring the other forums over time.


  • #58
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,526 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    an unfortunate typo while looking for a geocities page.


  • #59
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    JasonStatham wrote: »
    Was this guy real.i used to see the Abuse scrawled on the walls of the toilets and I always wondered if it was just a wind up.

    I'm still none the wiser tbh, but he had achieved legendary status by the early 00s anyway, and already nobody at that time had any real clue what it was actually about. No idea when it actually started or why.


  • #60
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,667 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    After 2 years of lurking, I figured it was time


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  • #61
    ablelocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,806 ✭✭✭ablelocks


    p45 'fugee.

    needed answers to pc and mobile phone queries


  • #62
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,617 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Was posting regularly on a number of car forums and was linked here one day.

    Made an account and never left, always more to the site to discover.


  • #63
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,940 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Boredom after being widowed back in 2007 led me to the Airsoft and Limerick forums.

    That snowballed into the grumpy bollox I am these days ;)


  • #64
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,090 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    No idea how I ended up here but my first post with this account was 16 years ago in the Mac forum. I assume I was lurking for a while before I first posted.

    I also think I had another account before this one that I lost the password for in a hacking attack, and couldn’t change it because I no longer had the email address I had set the account up with. But I can’t remember what that account was called, so my real first post and the reason for me coming here are lost in the mists of time.


  • #65
    JasonStatham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    He was. Lived in Belgrove. Was actually quite a reserved, shy, lad. Shunned the “spotlight”.

    Definitely. Being writ across the UCD jacks is the very essence of the spotlight. Dear oh dear. I felt sorry for the poor bugger.


  • #66
    JasonStatham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭JasonStatham


    Davian Some Motorboat wrote: »
    I'm still none the wiser tbh, but he had achieved legendary status by the early 00s anyway, and already nobody at that time had any real clue what it was actually about. No idea when it actually started or why.

    At the timed, i figured it was some gay guy who got the cold shoulder from this Pat character, and was scrawling all sorts of abuse as vengeance haha. But none of my class mates knew anything about it when I asked around. I think I led a very sheltered life in the science block haha.


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  • #67
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    I joined in 2013.
    Must have been a quiet day:)


  • #68
    Eduard Khil
    Registered Users Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Eduard Khil


    I needed to start some rumours about a split personality of mine that had gone silent try urns out even my imaginary friends leave me but this one just needs coaxing out


  • #69
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Was reading a thread and noticed someone was wrong on a detail about something so joined to correct them.

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  • #70
    auspicious
    Registered Users Posts: 4,497 ✭✭✭auspicious


    I became vegan and wanted to find like minded peeps on an Irish forum. Being naive back then I wasn't prepared for the push back. Thanks to boards.ie I quickly learned.


  • #71
    minikin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭minikin


    Discovered the joys of meat late in life, came on here to find likeminded souls.
    (Second go at an account, after my first user name lost topicality)


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    P45.net closed, and this was the only option. What was p45.net? Ask your Great Grandparents :D


  • #73
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Forums were the hip and in thing back when I joined. We didn't have no fancy schmancy facebook and instragram.


  • #74
    blackbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,449 ✭✭✭blackbox


    Joined for something to do with cars. Can't remember exactly what. Had been reading it for a good while beforehand.

    I love the fact that it is topic based.

    I could never be bothered with Twitter or Facebook that are personality based.


  • #75
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,025 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    JasonStatham wrote: »
    Definitely. Being writ across the UCD jacks is the very essence of the spotlight. Dear oh dear. I felt sorry for the poor bugger.

    He just ignored it altogether.
    JasonStatham wrote: »
    At the timed, i figured it was some gay guy who got the cold shoulder from this Pat character, and was scrawling all sorts of abuse as vengeance haha. But none of my class mates knew anything about it when I asked around. I think I led a very sheltered life in the science block haha.

    I don’t think he was gay, but never thought to ask. No, it started after one of his roommates had a few lads over for cans and they started “attributing” little sayings to him.

    They weren’t abusive at all, just obscure, odd or funny. These started “appearing” on toilet walls, classroom, and lecture hall, desks. A, sort of, modern take on the ‘Kilroy was here’ graffiti.

    It wasn’t until some unfunny “clowns” started adding to it, and taking the humour out of it, that it went very stale and, really, became a nuisance.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #76
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Joined after jointly setting up a martial arts club that I was hoping to promote, ended up cross training with a couple of boardsies which was good craic. Was also getting into cycling and used boards to ask a bunch of cycling questions and join in a few social spins.


  • #77
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Your Face wrote: »
    I joined to give out about immigration and stayed for the traveller-bashing threads.

    :D

    That's a good one.

    Don't know if you're being facetious or half-serious. Makes no difference - still funny as f&*k :pac:


  • #78
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,229 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    I'm an advanced AI learning how to solve captchas

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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