Name the cliques of Boards.ie

Necro

Camilo Mysterious Towel wrote:

[Not a football head, stupid question incoming] Is the Premier League the best to watch? I've some hipster friends who bemoan it and say the German league is better but they're contrarian. I'm not sure if there;s an objective measure (European championships?) but wondering on it from someone who knows their stuff?[/]

English league is most exciting imo. Champions are pretty interchangeable amongst the top teams as opposed to Germany where Bayern have a monopoly, Spain where it's Barca or Madrid, Italy where it's always Juventus...

Standard of football is quite decent down the league for the most part too (and similarly the Championship) as a result of the massive money clubs get or got from TV deals.

Church on Tuesday

Camilo Mysterious Towel wrote: »

[Not a football head, stupid question incoming] Is the Premier League the best to watch? I've some hipster friends who bemoan it and say the German league is better but they're contrarian. I'm not sure if there;s an objective measure (European championships?) but wondering on it from someone who knows their stuff?[/]

Well, it's all subjective to be honest.

There are realistically 5-6 teams in the premier league that could win the league there; right now is it between City and Liverpool, looks like City have the psychological edge though with 9 or so games to go.

LoI can be exciting as well in it's own way, it's just the standard of football and amenities is pretty poor.

As for Germany/Bundeliga - Dortmund and Bayern are neck and neck, really the only two teams that can win the league there anyways.

Same with Spain with Barca/Real Madrid with Atletico Madrid crashing the party from time to time.

So it depends on your preference, mine is the Premier league all the way. Bottom team can beat top at any even time.

mbur

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

I can find out who all my favourites are using this:

https://www.boards.ie/love.php

Thank you gloom. My fan club revealed.

Annasopra

Giveaway wrote: »

Sinn Fein/PPP bots. Need to realise if the revolution didn t happen in the 1920s, its never gonna happen

I saw a new one the other day. TrotBots.

Omackeral

Amish, Maori, Travellers, Amazonian Tribes and African Americans

RobbingBandit

We hate RobbingBandit ltd is thriving

facehugger99

The AH traveller-basher society - must hate travellers with every fibre of being to be allowed join.

facehugger99

facehugger99 wrote: »

The AH traveller-loving society - must love travellers with every fibre of being to be allowed join.

fixed that for u

easy game to play, this

greenspurs

i............... must ................not................ post................... anything.................... Arrgggghhhh .................

AllForIt

facehugger99 wrote: »

The AH traveller-basher society - must hate travellers with every fibre of being to be allowed join.

that's not a clique, i disagree with eotr on that thread but find myself agreeing with him on others, for example

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Those werewolf people are bit weird. Best avoided. All that stabbing and betrayal is messy.

But great fun!

Come join our clique. We promise to not kill you for a few hours. After that, new meat tastes sweetest.

EmmetSpiceland

One I crossed recently was the sartorially challenged bootcut jeanophiles.

Very sensitive bunch.

Ush1

The construction and planning forum I find fairly hostile, particularly one mod. Seem to give short shrift to anyone not already an expert builder.

Franz Von Peppercorn

greenspurs wrote: »

i............... must ................not................ post................... anything.................... Arrgggghhhh .................

That didn’t work.

FrancieBrady

Ush1 wrote: »

The construction and planning forum I find fairly hostile, particularly one mod. Seem to give short shrift to anyone not already an expert builder.

Have to agree...it is suffocated by arrogance and 'have you got planning/met the regs' type conversation closers.

Deebles McBeebles

Da fuq is this, Mean Girls?

storker

I don't believe I'm a member of any particular clique but I've seen a few mentioned that I'm definitely not a member of.

That aside, if anyone thinks I'm a member of their clique, please send the relevant membership pack, and if any cliques are accepting new members, please send an application form...

Triceratops Ballet

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Those werewolf people are bit weird. Best avoided. All that stabbing and betrayal is messy.

Necro wrote: »

You take that back or I'll set the hounds, I mean... the clique... I mean...

Wolf.

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

But great fun!

Come join our clique. We promise to not kill you for a few hours. After that, new meat tastes sweetest.

Always liking and quoting each others posts to excess too and now our mod is mod of you all Mua ha ha ha ha ha ha

Please raise your hand if you have ever felt personally victimised by Regina George werewolfers

Plopsu

The After Hours Haters. Complain constantly about how awful AH is and how awful the posters in AH are. Seem to spend all their time in AH.

storker

storker wrote: »

I don't believe I'm a member of any particular clique but I've seen a few mentioned that I'm definitely not a member of.

That aside, if anyone thinks I'm a member of their clique, please send the relevant membership pack, and if any cliques are accepting new members, please send an application form...

If you get satisfaction from killing innocent villagers then werewolf is your clique.

gozunda

The moaners and the b1tchers ....

Triceratops Ballet

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

If you get satisfaction from killing innocent villagers then werewolf is your clique.

Strawbs: always on the hustle!

Ush1

And now we move on, to liars....

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Ush1 wrote: »

And now we move on, to liars....

That's not true.

Feisar

I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member

Henry Ford III

The electric car forum is a joy to behold. Some real characters on there.

Beasty

Henry Ford III wrote: »

The electric car forum is a joy to behold. Some real characters on there.

So long as they are driving black electric cars, what do you care??

branie2

Clique cliches

Bigbagofcans

The vegan bashers. They unite together to berate. I swear some of them have multiple accounts & are constantly liking each others' posts.

railer201

facehugger99 wrote: »

The train and train drivers appreciation society.

gozunda wrote: »

Ah you mean the Little Brothers of Steam and Diesel?

Cliquetty click..................cliquetty click...................cliquetty click..........;)

branie2

railer201 wrote: »

Cliquetty click..................cliquetty click...................cliquetty click..........;)

sixty-six

railer201

branie2 wrote: »

sixty-six

Bingo

corner of hells

corner of hells wrote: »

I'm here too.

Metoo

Zorya

The clique with small or cuddly creatures in their names

The posh gym patrons. Less to do with fitness more content how different members were offended in some way at their cool gym, by lower castes and common folk.

jimgoose

I refuse to belong to any clique that would have someone like me as a member. Yizzer are all bollixes, so yiz are, and yiz can go and shi'e.

Deebles McBeebles

Anyone want to set up a clique that is annoyed by the notion of cliques?

railer201

jimgoose wrote: »

I refuse to belong to any clique that would have someone like me as a member. Yizzer are all bollixes, so yiz are, and yiz can go and shi'e.

Full marks for the grouchy post !

gozunda

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

The vegan bashers. They unite together to berate. I swear some of them have multiple accounts & are constantly liking each others' posts.

Preceded by the anti meat brigade who jump on anyone who point out that what they are posting (mainly about farming tbh) is bulk****e or outright attack on anyone who doesn't agree with them. I swear some of them have multiple accounts & are constantly liking each others' posts. But there you go :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND

Deleted User wrote: »

The posh gym patrons. Less to do with fitness more content how different members were offended in some way at their cool gym, by lower castes and common folk.

Such mugs.

Paying over the odds for something that you can do for free.

Bigbagofcans

gozunda wrote: »

Preceded by the anti meat brigade who jump on anyone who point out that what they are posting (mainly about farming tbh) is bulk****e or outright attack on anyone who doesn't agree with them. I swear some of them have multiple accounts & are constantly liking each others' posts. But there you go :pac:

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

gozunda

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Gratuitously bashing other posters about alleged 'bashing' lol.

Parody is always the best way to address mendacity. But hey truth hurts ...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Bigbagofcans

gozunda wrote: »

Lol. Parody is always the best way to address mendacity. But hey truth hurts ...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You're relentless..

gozunda

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

You're relentless..

I like you too

Franz Von Peppercorn

The people who think clique is pronounced click clique.

Muahahaha

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

The vegan bashers. They unite together to berate. I swear some of them have multiple accounts & are constantly liking each others' posts.

Not a vegan myself but always find it bizarre that people would get upset about what other people choose to eat.

aaronjumper

Muahahaha wrote: »

Not a vegan myself but always find it bizarre that people would get upset about what other people choose to eat.

I would agree with you if I didn't know people that put pineapple on pizza.

hatrickpatrick

I've never noticed this oft-maligned aspect of Boards. I remember at one point there was a great guffufle about clique-forming in two specific threads - "where are you right now" and "trivial things that annoy you". So much so that both threads were closed for a while and there was this ridiculous rule imposed involving not being allowed to respond to another person's post agreeing or disagreeing with that they said, or something like that. Ostensibly, this was because some stuff going on around AH at the time made the place hostile to newcomers?

Personally I've just never noticed or been impacted by this at all. The only time I'd see it is when someone posts an extremely controversial or opinionated message and people point to their registration date or low post count as evidence that they're a troll or re-reg banned user, which I can imagine must be annoying for someone who's legitimately just joined to post in a controversial thread, but beyond that it's just not something I've ever really understood.

Can anyone who posted regularly in either of the two threads I cited above give an explainer or summery as to why they generated so much controversy in the area of people having conversations within those threads? The rules which were temporarily imposed seemed bizarre to me at the time (even as someone who never really posts in those threads) in that they turned them into a sort of "notice board without conversation" type thing, which always just seemed to be at odds with the purpose of a thread-based discussion forum like this - but I'm sure those who actually participate in those threads could shed some light on what that was all about at the time?

Spanish Eyes

Always be glad to be an outsider.

greencap

gozunda wrote: »

The moaners and the b1tchers ....

yes, absolutely.