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The Thunderdome

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  • 14-07-2014 5:36pm
    #1
    mbur
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭


    What happened to the thunderdome?


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    #2
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Essentially the powers that be decided that it had no future and used a half arsed excuse to close it, then try to sanitise it, then kill it altogether.


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    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 25,304 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    Or slightly more accurately:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87335624&postcount=83


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    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    Spear wrote: »
    Or slightly more accurately:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=87335624&postcount=83

    Depends on who's version of events you believe ;)


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    #5
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    I believe Seamus Heaney was working on a body of work inspired by the Dome before his death. Some man.


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    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    I believe Seamus Heaney was working on a body of work inspired by the Dome before his death. Some man.

    That would have been an epic read.


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    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    mbur wrote: »
    What happened to the thunderdome?

    It left home and is now in a nice detached home all of its own. You should visit one day......it's as funny as ever but now with 99% less ginger!

    Edit: i've never liked ginger, how anyone can pit it in food is beyond me.


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    #8
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Yeah, what did happen to the Thunderdome??


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    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    Yeah, what did happen to the Thunderdome??


    Ah the old port dried up:(
    Like a proper tumour though it came right back again!:D


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    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Ah the old port dried up:(
    Like a proper tumour though it came right back again!:D

    I've heard it was a cesspit, inhabited by the lowest of the low, mainly bullies and Walter Mitty types with anger management issues. I doubt it is any loss to the Community of Boards. That sort of thing has had its day.


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    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    I've heard it was a cesspit, inhabited by the lowest of the low, mainly bullies and Walter Mitty types with anger management issues. I doubt it is any loss to the Community of Boards. That sort of thing has had its day.


    You believe everything you "hear"?

    Good for you kiddo ;)


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    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    I've heard it was a cesspit, inhabited by the lowest of the low, mainly bullies and Walter Mitty types with anger management issues. I doubt it is any loss to the Community of Boards. That sort of thing has had its day.

    There were some fair Walters alright... Still though, equal opportunities and all that!


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    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    There were some fair Walters alright... Still though, equal opportunities and all that!

    It caters for all sorts, most of them disturbed in one way or another though.


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    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Deank wrote: »
    It caters for all sorts, most of them disturbed in one way or another though.

    I didn't even have a chance to retrieve my lucky **** sock before the doors locked down:(


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    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Nucking Facker was the worst. Banning him could gave saved the Dome. Keelanj69 on the other hand. Wow.


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    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    I didn't even have a chance to retrieve my lucky **** sock before the doors locked down:(

    It took robotic drones to retrieve it, using barge poles. Thorntons wouldn't even dispose of it. I do believe that Facker had a terrible reputation alright. Seemed alright to me though. A beacon of sense in a sea of madness..


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    bumper234
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    Un Croissant wrote: »
    Nucking Facker was the worst. Banning him could gave saved the Dome. Keelanj69 on the other hand. Wow.

    Who and who? :confused:


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    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Who and who? :confused:

    The first was a much maligned Dome poster, the second, no idea, sorry.


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    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    The first was a much maligned Dome poster, the second, no idea, sorry.

    I thought the dome was akin to the strange relative who is a bit weird and isn't supposed to be mentioned in public anymore?


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    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    bumper234 wrote: »
    I thought the dome was akin to the strange relative who is a bit weird and isn't supposed to be mentioned in public anymore?

    Yeah but someone didn't close the cage right and it got out at the public. How do you hide a 7ft, fresh excrement flinging, trench coat wearer after it breaks into Dail Erin during session?


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    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Yeah but someone didn't close the cage right and it got out at the public. How do you hide a 7ft, fresh excrement flinging, trench coat wearer after it breaks into Dail Erin during session?

    Lure him out with sweeties?


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    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Yeah but someone didn't close the cage right and it got out at the public. How do you hide a 7ft, fresh excrement flinging, trench coat wearer after it breaks into Dail Erin during session?

    Keep them busy changing oil?


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    Deank
    Registered Users Posts: 7,238 ✭✭✭Deank


    bumper234 wrote: »
    Lure him out with sweeties?

    Carrots or pork crackling should do the trick too.


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    #24
    mbur
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    Well thanks everone for all that information. The thunderdome is mentioned in a very few official looking post here and there. I suspected it was no more but had no idea when or why. Its creation was a bold move by Boards. There was always a risk it would end badly. If someone wants to lock this thread I'm ok with that. I don't feel the need to investigate further.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qu6SdazWAM


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