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Has Boards changed your life in a significant way??

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  • 15-02-2008 6:10pm
    #1
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    We're looking for stories (either posted here or PM'ed) of people who have had the course of their lives altered in some way by Boards... either in a small or a big way.

    I will be on Newstalk on Monday at 11am along with a bunch of other people shooting the breeze about Boards 10th anniversary and how it has changed things.

    So, has Boards made a difference in your life?

    DeV.
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    #2
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    Probably less productive in work and college but I'm not sure that's what you are after :)

    🤪



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    tonc76
    Registered Users Posts: 1,336 ✭✭✭tonc76


    Productivity in work is no more as a result :eek::eek:


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    #4
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Rather hoping for the "I met my husband/partner" or "I changed my job/emigrated/learned guitar" or something like that :)

    DeV.


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    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    I have no stories but I'll double my contribution to the Santa Strike Force next Christmas if you talk about a LOLcat on national radio.

    Go on ... you know you want to!


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    #6
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Without boards, I would never have any reason to look up the answers to other people's questions.

    The amount of random tidbits I've managed to pick up on a wide range of topics is quite scary sometimes. The most notable being information on motoring, law and employment. Stuff that I probably wouldn't have a clue about had I not been on boards.


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    #7
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Drift wrote: »
    I have no stories but I'll double my contribution to the Santa Strike Force next Christmas if you talk about a LOLcat on national radio.

    Go on ... you know you want to!

    Do it!


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    #8
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Boards keeps me in touch with life back in Ireland when I am abroad. There were a lot of PI posts regarding online relationships as well that I used to give advice on as I went through the whole online dating (not through boards) and came out happy so I would hope it helped at least one person.


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    #9
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    If I get a chance I will :)

    DeV.


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    #10
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Well, Boards got me the job I'm in now. Dunno if that counts.


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    #11
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    I'm a broken man from the abuse I get in the Thunderdome.

    My self esteem is at an all time low , and sometimes I think of ending it all.

    This ,in my opinion ,is all due to Boards.ie


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    #12
    Sparky
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Boards has got me a good few jobs working in some Moderators houses.

    (must steal secrets)


    Oh yeah. I live with two other boardsies.

    Wouldnt be that way if there was no boards.ie


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    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,106 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    feylya wrote: »
    Well, Boards got me the job I'm in now. Dunno if that counts.
    Lap dancing is something that DeV may find difficult to discuss on air :D


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    #14
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Been thinking about this.

    There's no one way in which boards.ie has significantly changed my life, as such. What I've found is that boards.ie has become a significant part of my life, for various reasons.

    I've made quite a few friends here that I meet in real life as often as I can. I'm talking about good friends, the kind that bend over backwards to do you a favour, or are just there when you need someone to vent at. (When I'm talking to non-boards.ies, I refer to these as my "imaginary friends" - like last Halloween, I told people I was going to Dublin to go drinking with my imaginary friends :))

    I look for answers to questions here, and I try to answer other people's questions. I check in several times a day. It's a source for news, for gossip, for opinion and analysis, for entertainment and infighting, for love and hate.

    It's a microcosm of life on so many levels. And I love it.


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    #15
    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,466 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Boards is probably a large part of the reason I'm studying in UL at the minute. Both in choosing the course and for the different little helpful things during my LC on the LC board.

    Then again, Boards is probably a large part of the reason I only go to half my lectures in Uni :p

    Edit: Is it Brenda Powers show or Sean Moncrieffs?


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    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,466 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Its the likes of this thread that makes Boards the first site I check whenever I'm on the interweb; http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055226389&highlight=Nice

    There are hundreds more like it, but that thread just summed up boards for me; someone taking the time to give such a detailed answer. :)


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    #17
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 13,995 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Lets see, I was unhappy with the life I had and the people I considered friends.

    I met a group of people on boards who had a good interest in the same things as me(CSS mainly), I started to meet up with them. During this I stumbled across the tech forum's. 2 years later I'm a second level support technician in a Prestigious company, currently looking for a junior third level role and living with some people I had met through/because of boards.ie. That and I learned the value of LOL cat pictures.


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    #18
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    I've aged horribly since I started modding soccer. Does that count?


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    #19
    Amz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    PSI: Las Vegas wrote: »
    I've aged horribly since I started modding soccer. Does that count?
    That's just because you're old PSI.


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    #20
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Amz wrote: »
    That's just because you're old PSI.
    What are you basing that on? :p


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    #21
    Amz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    Your age.


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    #22
    azezil
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    It turned me gay! ;)

    If one does recall when a certain young and devilishly handsome Azezil did sign up to boards he maintained he was straight for about 2 years, all the while (and for years before) debating his sexuality but to afraid to consider he might love the cock, it was through chatting to people on this website that I was finally able to find my true self and became this sexual man loving beast you see before you today ;)

    So, without boards I fear I might still be a closeted gay, too afraid to venture out for that first kiss on faithful night back in 2003 :)


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    #23
    Amz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    I'll never forget it either az ...


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    #24
    azezil
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    It was good of you to wear a strap on that night my love :')


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    #25
    Jack B. Badd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭Jack B. Badd


    Gah, I read the thread title and went "that's crap, it's only a website ffs!" and then realised I kinda met my boyfriend here (and subsequently have moved to a different country - with him, not to get away from him) :o I mean, Cork is a small place and we had mutual friends so we probably would have met anyway but I think boards probably faciliated the whole thing.
    So yeah, while boards didn't exactly change my life it has probably contributed to me being where I am now in some way :)

    ...also it introduced me to lolcats, which is far more important than any of the ****e above :D


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    #26
    Amz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,330 ✭✭✭✭Amz


    azezil wrote: »
    It was good of you to wear a strap on that night my love :')
    *sigh*

    God bless bargain alerts ...


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    #27
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    A wife, a kid and the mortgage soon followed. ;)


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    #28
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    Met some really cool people (and Az).


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    #29
    azezil
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    I was the most special of all right!!?

    ...


    Right!?


    ...

    :(


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    #30
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Nesf... you met your wife through boards?

    DeV.


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    #31
    azezil
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭azezil


    Heyyy!
    My stories much more interesting!


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