Boardsies meeting boardsies

Kylta · 28-10-2020 11:06am #1

Im curious, has any boardsies met any other boardsies in real life?

And if so how did you get on?

And if you posted against each other did you feel awkward in regards to say meeting

banie01 · 28-10-2020 11:09am

Haven't shagged a boardsie yet

and probably never will now...
Unless my wife signs up!

But!
I have sold a coffee machine and a few other bits to fellow boards members as well as buying from some.

All fantastic people from the interactions I've had and would be happy to meet again!
For pints, Lols or perhaps even a shag! :P

rapul · 28-10-2020 11:14am

A/s/l?

Ubbquittious · 28-10-2020 11:16am

There was a great shagging scene in the boardsian world about 5 or 6 years ago but then a few creeps and weirdos tried to strong arm their way in and it all went underground

seamus · 28-10-2020 11:19am

There was a really decent social culture around the site up to about 8-10 years ago. Plenty of meets ups and general craic.

All just kind of fell apart as lots of the original membership moved onto other things/got older, and as mentioned above, a couple of creepy weirdos decided to use meetups as opportunities to stalk women.

28-10-2020 11:20am

Ubbquittious wrote: »

There was a great shagging scene in the boardsian world about 5 or 6 years ago but then a few creeps and weirdos tried to strong arm their way in and it all went underground

Xtrail14 · 28-10-2020 11:22am

Penis and posts size competitions is all they were.

Feisar · 28-10-2020 11:22am

seamus wrote: »

There was a really decent social culture around the site up to about 8-10 years ago. Plenty of meets ups and general craic.

All just kind of fell apart as lots of the original membership moved onto other things/got older, and as mentioned above, a couple of creepy weirdos decided to use meetups as opportunities to stalk women.

I was never at one but remember them going on alright.

biko · 28-10-2020 11:22am

When boards was smaller there used to be many beer meetings or sports activities.
I went to several and always had a good time.
There are still meetups in Motors etc

28-10-2020 11:23am

I know one, however we've been acquainted long before this boards malarkey. We tend to stay out of each other's way, he frequents his forums and I have mine. Pleasant chap who is a champion debater. Would I meet some of the reprobates here for a jar? Why not, spinmaster flash is top of the list. Always keen to unravel fictional character(s).

Kimbot · 28-10-2020 11:24am

Met plenty of people selling and buying before adverts came to be. One of the lads I bought a few bits off was a big liverpool fan and me and him ended up going to the Champ League semi final in liverpool in 2005 together

Sky King · 28-10-2020 11:33am

Yea I trolled some people in real life but got the sh it kicked out of me. It's a lot more difficult in real life.

JohnnyFlash · 28-10-2020 11:34am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I know one, however we've been acquainted long before this boards malarkey. We tend to stay out of each other's way, he frequents his forums and I have mine. Pleasant chap who is a champion debater. Would I meet some of the reprobates here for a jar? Why not, spinmaster flash is top of the list. Always keen to unravel fictional character(s).

Can’t say the desire to go for pints together is reciprocated, Bertie. Never had much time for morose and/or maudlin drunks.

jimgoose · 28-10-2020 11:39am

I have sexually penetrated each and every beards.ie member whether they realise it or not.

Kimbot · 28-10-2020 11:43am

jimgoose wrote: »

I have sexually penetrated each and every beards.ie member whether they realise it or not.

Oh I realise

:P

banie01 · 28-10-2020 11:44am

jimgoose wrote: »

I have sexually penetrated each and every beards.ie member whether they realise it or not.

That gives a hole

new meaning to "growing digital penetration!"

RTE could use a man of your talent Jim!

jimgoose · 28-10-2020 11:45am

banie01 wrote: »

That gives a hole new meaning to "growing digital penetration!"

RTE could use a man of your talent Jim!

In the immortal words of Joe Pesci, they fuck you with the cellphone!

RWCNT · 28-10-2020 11:45am

Whenever I get a slightly racist taxi driver I always wonder if they post in Current Affairs/IMHO

28-10-2020 11:54am

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Can’t say the desire to go for pints together is reciprocated, Bertie. Never had much time for morose and/or maudlin drunks.

In fairness, you and the androgynous Adrian Balboa don't deviate far from the same tired script. Nor does AVB for that matter. The hive mentality of one cometh.

Rothko · 28-10-2020 12:21pm

I've met up with a few before, always been good fun.

The Crazy Cat Lady · 28-10-2020 12:36pm

Ive met up with loads of boards people, they've all been good fun, although one ended badly, I was told to never contact them again (i suspect they were going through a tough time). I never did and to this day I wonder how they are

AllForIt · 28-10-2020 1:18pm

When Boardsies get together do you have to quote each other as your're chatting?

...and bring some printout's of gifs and hold them up at appropriate times.

Dravokivich · 28-10-2020 1:21pm

AllForIt wrote: »

When Boardsies get together do you have to quote each other as your're chatting?

...and bring some printout's of gifs and hold them up at appropriate times.

Not really, but I do recall a few people saying thanks, in response to other people joking about.

Chips Lovell · 28-10-2020 1:28pm

I've met well over a hundred at this stage, which I think happens when a forum you frequent is tied to a real world activity (cycling in this case). Some of them are lifelong friends at this stage.

A2LUE42 · 28-10-2020 1:37pm

We had a 5 a side soccer going for a while in Limerick for boardies. The first night we had an extra person there who had gone to the wrong pitch, so we had to go through the usernames to figure out who was who. To have people put their hands up and sheepishly say 'yeah, that's me' when each of the names was called out was quite funny.

AdrianBalboa · 28-10-2020 2:18pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

In fairness, you and the androgynous Adrian Balboa don't deviate far from the same tired script. Nor does AVB for that matter. The hive mentality of one cometh.

This poster continuously takes unprovoked potshots at me and constantly makes baseless accusations about me holding multiples accounts or lying about my gender without proof. Meanwhile whenever I say anything back some spotty geek will emerge from the shadows and scold me, the victim, for being too aggressive. This is a farce.

Bertie’s Horse, stick to nursing your alcohol problem and pretending to be a witty raconteur and leave me the **** alone. You weirdo.

Necro · 28-10-2020 2:24pm

Deleted User wrote: »

In fairness, you and the androgynous Adrian Balboa don't deviate far from the same tired script. Nor does AVB for that matter. The hive mentality of one cometh.

AdrianBalboa wrote: »

This poster continuously takes unprovoked potshots at me and constantly makes baseless accusations about me holding multiples accounts or lying about my gender without proof. Meanwhile whenever I say anything back some spotty geek will emerge from the shadows and scold me, the victim, for being too aggressive. This is a farce.

Bertie’s Horse, stick to nursing your alcohol problem and pretending to be a witty raconteur and leave me the **** alone. You weirdo.

Mod:

This ends. Now. Any potshots at each other by either of you in AH again and bans will follow.

sbsquarepants · 28-10-2020 2:29pm

The Crazy Cat Lady wrote: »

Ive met up with loads of boards people, they've all been good fun, although one ended badly, I was told to never contact them again (i suspect they were going through a tough time). I never did and to this day I wonder how they are

I'm fine, stop stalking me you crazy bitch!

Actually, no i have never knowingly met another boardsie.:D

28-10-2020 2:32pm

I have met loads of the mad feckers. Two of whom are now my very close friends. Boards has been very good to me

Graces7 · 28-10-2020 2:43pm

Way back in the snowmageddon of 2010 I was stranded up in the Bluestacks in Donegal for weeks, literally, three inches of ice on the road and my car would not have coped..

Not enough food or fuel...

So along comes a knight in shining 4 wheel drive! Stocked with food and gas and coal... Yep a Donegal boardsie!..

They were so good to me up there. A log - cutting party later on; that was Smashey I think . Hated leaving but the landlord came home from abroad and wanted his house back.

28-10-2020 2:44pm

Graces7 wrote: »

Way back in the snowmageddon of 2010 I was stranded up in the Bluestacks in Donegal for weeks, literally, three inches of ice on the road and my car would not have coped..

Not enough food or fuel...

So along comes a knight in shining 4 wheel drive! Stocked with food and gas and coal... Yep a Donegal boardsie!..

They were so good to me up there. A log - cutting party later on; that was Smashey I think . Hated leaving but the landlord came home from abroad and wanted his house back.

That's lovely. You must have been so grateful to them

Aongus Von Bismarck · 28-10-2020 6:44pm

I've only met one 'Boardsie' in real life. It was a former moderator of this forum who sent me a message looking for advice on what to do in Frankfurt. I very generously offered to become their guide for the day, and even brought them to a restaurant that was probably slightly outside their budget range considering the hotel they were staying in.

I have this image of Boards beers that would turn me right off ever attending one. Two types of men: dweebish looking sorts with patchy facial hair and enormous 'metalhead' sorts wearing combat trousers. Lots of Playstation wallets with a velcro fastener, t-shirts with slogans, and vaping pens the size of a small shoebox. The air heavy with cheap aftershave and odours from their damp runners. The conversations mostly about other people not in attendance, atheism, computer games, and lame references to coke and hookers. Lots of uncomfortable silence with the occasional guffaw or cynical scoff.

The Crazy Cat Lady · 28-10-2020 6:49pm

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I'm fine, stop stalking me you crazy bitch!

Actually, no i have never knowingly met another boardsie.:D

I never stalk anyone here

Alejandro68 · 28-10-2020 6:57pm

I would love to meet a few from here one day.

Eduard Khil · 28-10-2020 6:59pm

I've met a few I've killed a few there can be only one

Disregard the points above if you would like to meet...

chopperbyrne · 28-10-2020 7:20pm

Met my wife at a boards beers. Night of 1000 Corsets it was. Don't forget your can of Carnation Condensed Milk.

gogo · 28-10-2020 7:28pm

Used to be lots of boards beers back in the day, half my college was on it, it was how we communicated before unlimited mobile plans were the norm and we could text each other to arrange a night out..

Don’t know if I’d do it now, love the anonymity of it, always did, not that I have a particularly controversial opinion on anything but still..

Autosport · 28-10-2020 7:34pm

Yea I’ve met a few boardies and we all lived to tell the tale

knucklehead6 · 28-10-2020 7:37pm

Met up with a good few, dated one or two and inadvertently caused a marriage.

eviltwin · 28-10-2020 7:44pm

Met a few. Never went to a beers but wouldn’t be keen. Didn’t a previous poster have a negative experience with a creep at one and it was handled badly? That wouldn’t exactly encourage you to go.

28-10-2020 7:47pm

eviltwin wrote: »

Met a few. Never went to a beers but wouldn’t be keen. Didn’t a previous poster have a negative experience with a creep at one and it was handled badly? That wouldn’t exactly encourage you to go.

That could have happened at any gathering or occasion. I've been to a number of beers and meet ups. Every one of them was positive and some were very memorable

Dial Hard · 28-10-2020 7:49pm

Went out with one for the guts of two years, did the hand-fasting at another's wedding and have been to numerous beers over the years, including an AH one last year (I think? My sense of time has been fubared by this year).

The edgelord idiots tend not to go to the beers for obvious reasons. I've always had a great time at them. The creep incident people keep referring to is notorious at this stage but I'd like to think it would be dealt with differently now.

davycc · 28-10-2020 7:56pm

I am on on board's over 20 years so I have been to loads from soccer to to car meet-up to.. I went to a Xmas Beers once and had no stalker problem all good.

Rows Grower · 28-10-2020 8:17pm

I've met a few mostly through buying and selling stuff and stay in touch with some of them from time to time, there are a few local folks in and around the village that are members but it's like Fight Club rules when it comes to the locals.

HBC08 · 28-10-2020 8:25pm

I'm going to ask what everybody who doesn't know wants to know.....

What was the creep incident?!

Rows Grower · 28-10-2020 8:31pm

I don't know and don't care tbh.

humberklog · 28-10-2020 8:34pm

Know lots, met some at beers or through different forum meet ups and a lot through my work and now have a few good friends from here. Very nice and quite mixed bunch in real life I've always found

28-10-2020 8:50pm

HBC08 wrote: »

I'm going to ask what everybody who doesn't know wants to know.....

What was the creep incident?!

Allegedly a category mod took an upskirt photo of another boardsie. Or something like that. It's part of the 'dark history of Boards we aren't allowed talk about'.

Tell me how · 28-10-2020 9:03pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Allegedly a category mod took an upskirt photo of another boardsie. Or something like that. It's part of the 'dark history of Boards we aren't allowed talk about'.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 28-10-2020 9:09pm

Was it even upskirt? I thought he filmed her legs.

Arghus · 28-10-2020 9:10pm

If you rewind the clock about 10 years there was a vibrant enough culture of meet ups and beers: most people I met were quite normal. But the average age of everyone on the site is 10 years further along and there's less of a meet up and get smashed kind of outlook now, even before all this recent shyte.

Though I wasn't a regular poster in AH or the likes back then. Being around AH and CA has really brought home the high proportion of absolute weirdos on the site - but most of the likes of these wouldn't come within an asses roar of a meet up or actual social contact.

Boardsies meeting boardsies

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