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"What's boards.ie?"

  • 31-01-2017 5:21pm
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    so assuming all of you are good-for-nothing procrastinators like me who are whiling away valuable office time logging onto AH to tell people what trivially annoys them / read up about what strangers are eating today...

    How do you field the question from a curious colleague who has been looking over your shoulder and asks "what's boards.ie"?

    the best i could come up with is "it's kinda like Ireland's reddit" which seemed to satisfy him and he's gone back to his own desk i'm assuming to log on and await my next post (hi Phil:D)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    You could also tell them that you're not supposed to be on the site during work hours.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Mr. FoggPatches


    It's an allegory for the age old struggle between the establishment and the proletariat.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    It's not broads.ie


  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bambi985 wrote: »
    "it's kinda like Ireland's reddit"


    What's reddit?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,361 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    OP your not Bamber Gascoigne the University Challenge quiz master by any chance.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Dating site


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    whats an elbow in the throat?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    On the 31st of January in the year of our lord 2017, boards.ie became self aware and decided it could be what ever it wanted to be.....

    <menacing terminator music plays>


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,782 ✭✭✭CFlat


    Boards.ie is like a counseling session without the 60 quid at the end and listening to the constant, I know, I know, I know like Sybil from Faulty Towers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭sjb25


    Donald trump fan club :) :eek:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,999 ✭✭✭Wossack


    What's reddit?

    its like everyone elses boards.ie


  • Registered Users Posts: 879 ✭✭✭risteard7


    Political correctness.ie


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,339 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    -"It's, like, an Irish message board. Pretty big, it used to be really busy a few years ago, but it's a good bit quieter now. I used to mainly use it for the Film Forum and local stuff, but those parts of it are practically dead these days. Soccer and After Hours - kind of like the anything goes part of the site, well, except that not a lot actually goes, but it's a lot looser and less strict than the rest of it - sometimes are still pretty lively. There can be some good discussions on it sometimes. Though I read a lot of stuff on After Hours that's just depressing."

    - "So it's like Reddit?"

    - "Yeah."


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    "A miserable pile of secrets!"


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,782 ✭✭✭CFlat


    "A miserable pile of secrets!"

    If you capitalise that sf you could sell it to J K Rowling as the title for her next book.


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