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    #32
    m@cc@
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Once the mutual trust starts getting eaten away, it's a downhill journey into the chasm of despair.:(


    Link or GTFO.


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    #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    And in other news;

    I got a new chainsaw! :D


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    #34
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    You can tell it's turning into a news site when someone comes up with a blatantly true off the wall story, and some people actually have the gall to ask for a link to prove it:mad:

    Once the mutual trust starts getting eaten away, it's a downhill journey into the chasm of despair.:(

    Its certainly a sad day for humanity when you can't trust a random stranger off the internet to be telling the truth.


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    #35
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,048 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    Link or GTFO.
    :(
    Deleted User wrote: »

    I got a new chainsaw! :D

    Can I borrow it please, I've got an urgent job to do in Melbourne?


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    #36
    m@cc@
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    :(



    Can I borrow it please, I've got an urgent job to do in Melbourne?


    I'm actually made of diamond so your puny chainsaw is useless against me. Don't ask me to link you, it's on the interweb somewhere.


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    #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ejmaztec wrote: »



    Can I borrow it please, I've got an urgent job to do in Melbourne?

    It's great! I've cut 26 chains already. :pac:


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    #38
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,164 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Doyler92 wrote: »
    But now informative threads seem to be appearing quite a bit more.

    Jeez, we can't be having that. :mad:


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    #39
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,027 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    Doyler92 wrote: »
    But now informative threads seem to be appearing quite a bit more.

    Very sorry OP, what would you rather we have threads on?
    If you don't tell us we'll never know.


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    #40
    Doyler92
    Registered Users Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭Doyler92


    BrokenHeels_Ox wrote: »
    gewan doyler, voicing ur opinions and whatnot!
    Well someone has to do it.


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    #41
    BrokenHeels_Ox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭BrokenHeels_Ox


    Doyler92 wrote: »
    Well someone has to do it.

    ;)


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    #42
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    More people want serious-lite, I guess.

    It's less intimidating to road-test your thoughts on the universe amongst a captive audience of the "lowest common denominator" than in the grown-up forums where you might have to back it up what you say.


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    #43
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    What exactly is the 'topic' of AH anyway? I've always seen it as a random list of threads that don't really fit anywhere else or wouldn't be tolerated in other forums.
    m@cc@ wrote: »
    'All things non-work related.'

    So, the OP's concerns are null and void since the news is non-work related. Well, unless the majority of us work for the news media. :D


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    #44
    Elenxor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭Elenxor


    I am at work!!!!!!


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    #45
    keltoms05
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭keltoms05


    According to a poll recently taken by rte, 90% per cent of boards users think after hours is turning into a news section:D:D


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    #46
    BOHtox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


    Doyler92 wrote: »
    After Hours becoming somewhat a news forum nowadays?

    Many of the posters here won't know me but I'm quite a lurker alright.

    It's just now anytime I come to AH for my daily laugh I get hit with threads such as "Chile gets hit by 8.8 earthquake" and "Tommy's Blanchardstown closes down"

    If I wanted to know these I'd be going to the forums they suit, not here!

    It's only become a recent thing in my opinion that all these news items are appearing one-by-one in AH.

    Is it just me or do others feel this way also?

    Its just you.






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    Did ya hear the Maccelfield manager died.
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    Only messin definitely a news forum


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    #47
    AllYourBass
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭AllYourBass


    Charco wrote: »
    The thing is that in AH you could have the most serious, solemn topic imaginable, within 3 posts there would be someone making crappy puns and by the end of the first page the topic will inevitably have moved on to the weight issues of Mary Harney. No matter how erudite and serious the OP is, the lowest common denominator that is AH always seeps through.

    Pun-ishment.


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    #48
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I think serious topics work on AH - some great debates can get going. And the humour can work really well too - nothing wrong with a well-timed, sharp, satirical one-liner, often it can be brilliant, and Politics/Humanities don't allow for this. And fair enough.

    The one type of thread I don't understand though is the "Here is an horrific story about child abuse. Please line up to express your outrage" one. No discussion, just an invitation to post words when there pretty much AREN'T words...


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    #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Nothing wrong with bringing up news stories, funny news, happy news, sad news & stark raving bonkers news!

    Surly it's better than toilet threads with details of klingon collections etc

    If you don't like the "live" threads, just start one about something you want to discuss. ;)


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    #50
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I never really got what was so wrong with the toilet threads. Some of them were hilarious. A little vetting rather than a blanket rule on threads of a more base nature might yield interesting results.
    For example the bulmers pear thread...


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    #51
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I never really got what was so wrong with the toilet threads. Some of them were hilarious. A little vetting rather than a blanket rule on threads of a more base nature might yield interesting results.
    For example the bulmers pear thread...


    Yes, I would agree with that! just have it limited to one b(l)ogroll thread.

    The Bulmers pear thread, wasn't really intended as a toilet thread, it just flowed (or was that squirted) that way. :pac:


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    #52
    AllYourBass
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭AllYourBass


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    For example the bulmers pear thread...

    Scutters or scuttered?


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