What boardsies would you bring back?

retro:electro

Raconteuse wrote: »

That I don't know but god could he be humorless and unjustifiably snarky. Found it bizarre that a man who is older than my father would launch into attack mode every time Mr Fegelian, a kid, started a maybe inane but harmless thread. And I've never seen Mr F get snarky.

Yeah I felt that too. There was just always something a bit smug about his posts. Like it wasn’t natural or endearing but a bit boastful or something. I don’t know. It could be just me and a reflection on who I am and that’s grand. But there was something about his posts I could never click with. Willing to be told I’m wrong probably am!

Ubbquittious

Im tempted now to start a Walter Mitty account. Purely for entertaining boardsies of course because I'm such a salt of the earth lad. Ill be dripfeeding a constant stream of factoids about my yacht and mad party destinations I visit, sordid tales of all the girlies pining for my love and subtle boasts about my business acumen. Wont ever post any pics of course nooooo why would anyone want to do that?

Asitis2019

I still feel really terrible for dragging up that post that contradicted his retirement age.

Ok we better all be good or the thread will be closed and that means our inquisitive natures won't have an outlet!!

Ghosteen

I seriously doubt he was a made up character but then again who knows. The interweb is full of oddballs. I'm intrigued though about this retirement post. Can someone at least point me to the thread where this all happened?

Ghosteen

What was the post from 2012?

Ghosteen

Dying to know now :pac:

endacl

Ghosteen wrote: »

What was the post from 2012?

None of our business. Its kinda bad form to be trawling through people's post histories to spot flaws and inaccuracies.

Ghosteen

endacl wrote:

None of our business. Its kinda bad form to be trawling through people's post histories to spot flaws and inaccuracies.

Ah relax will ya it's only boards

endacl

Ghosteen wrote: »

Ah relax will ya it's only boards

Only slightly less inane then 'shur its after hours'...

retro:electro

endacl wrote: »

None of our business. Its kinda bad form to be trawling through people's post histories to spot flaws and inaccuracies.

In fairness it’s nothing he didn’t do himself to others when he felt like it

Notdeco

Ghosteen wrote: »

Dying to know now :pac:

Sorry deleted my post, I was naming the wrong thread. It was this one, and the post that called him out has been deleted too...

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058052123/1

It just said that he was asking about fishing as a child and wanted to get back into it as he was about to retire soon,yea dates didn't add up at all.

Quantum Erasure

dav was great, I'd bring him back

Ghosteen

Will someone please think of the children and tell me of the discrepancy everyone's talking about!! :pac:

Notdeco

Ghosteen wrote: »

Will someone please think of the children and tell me of the discrepancy everyone's talking about!! :pac:

Look at my last link...(22 years ago vs his post in 2012)
Yea,math... lol

Raconteuse

Notdeco wrote: »

It just said that he was asking about fishing as a child and wanted to get back into it as he was about to retire soon,yea dates didn't add up at all.

Busted so. Must be the reason for his departure. Ah well, it'll be forgotten in five minutes and he'll probably come back.

Ghosteen

Notdeco wrote:

Look at my last link...

Thanks.

Ah right, so he was saying in 2012 he was about to retire?

Notdeco

Ghosteen wrote: »

Thanks.

Ah right, so he was saying in 2012 he was about to retire?

Yes, his post said that, and the post in my link he said 22 years ago.

Ghosteen

Notdeco wrote:

Yes, his post said that, and the post in my link he said 22 years ago.

This is fookin mad... I'm kind of excited :pac:

I did find him a bit smug with people at times too but he did send me a very nice pm a few years back when I was lucky not to kill myself in a bad car crash.

Purple Mountain

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Im tempted now to start a Walter Mitty account. Purely for entertaining boardsies of course because I'm such a salt of the earth lad. Ill be dripfeeding a constant stream of factoids about my yacht and mad party destinations I visit, sordid tales of all the girlies pining for my love and subtle boasts about my business acumen. Wont ever post any pics of course nooooo why would anyone want to do that?

That reminds me. When I was about 10, I had my name in Irelands Own for penpsls.
Got a heap of replies.
Anyhow, for some reason, I don't know why, I decided to reply to one girl telling her about my fantasy life.
I think my parents were doctors, we went on multiple holidays a year, we had many horses bla bla.
Needless to say she never replied.
I guess I was a paper troll

coinop

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

dav was great, I'd bring him back

I disagree. Being the Community Manager of Boards.ie must be the easiest job in the world. All you have to do is nothing - let the people talk. But Dav was determined to restrict all discussion into a tiny window of "approved opinions" that was amenable to advertisers. Which is ironic because his efforts had the exact opposite effect. Boards was over 100,000 euro in the red at one point under his reign. Remember his now infamous "right wing opinions are dangerous" rant?

He also dismantled any semblance of a community by shutting down character driven fora like the Thunderdome while championing other dubious fora like the unsavory Islam one (which is far more offensive to anyone with a sense of decency or cares about human rights). His legacy was hundreds of power posters that were the lifeblood of the site upped and left for Reddit or Twitter for their internet discussion fix. Towards the end I vaguely remember Dav making threads desperately seeking opinions on how to stop the hemorrhaging of users but it was too little, too late and he was shown the door.

Gynoid

Ghosteen wrote: »

... but he did send me a very nice pm a few years back when I was lucky not to kill myself in a bad car crash.

Then take that as the real him rather than presuming smugness. It was a genuine thing to do. I found him an amiable old curmudgeon, though I did once call him Srameanie for one of his ascerbic remarks. He is the kind of oul chap I like in real life.

Omackeral

For a moment I was getting Dav mixed up with dav3. Jesus, that guy.

Trigger Happy

I am sad to see the old fella close his account. Some people only post the nice things that happen in their lives and not the day to day drudgery. Maybe he was for real or maybe not but he was a nice constant around this place.
I wonder if people have yet worked out that I am not who pretend to be and am posting this from a (freezing cold) bot factory in Vladivostok...

Deja Boo

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I am sad to see the old fella close his account. Some people only post the nice things that happen in their lives and not the day to day drudgery. Maybe he was for real or maybe not but he was a nice constant around this place.
I wonder if people have yet worked out that I am not who pretend to be and am posting this from a (freezing cold) bot factory in Vladivostok...

I've been called a chatbot before, for posting in the wee hours... buuuuut chatbots don't type this poorly so I must be real :pac: or atleast that's what I tell myself.

Trigger Happy

Deja Boo wrote: »

I've been called a chatbot before, for posting in the wee hours... buuuuut chatbots don't type this poorly so I must be real :pac: or atleast that's what I tell myself.

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Deja Boo

Trigger Happy wrote: »

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Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

Raconteuse wrote: »

Busted so. Must be the reason for his departure. Ah well, it'll be forgotten in five minutes and he'll probably come back.

He's no Frank Abagnale, but still the old todger left an impressive body of work behind him... even if it was fabricated. :P

Nice detective skills to catch him out btw!

Poor chap might feel a bit lost now, killing off such a well established online persona.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »

He's no Frank Abagnale, but still the old todger left an impressive body of work behind him... even if it was fabricated. :P

Nice detective skills to catch him out btw!

Poor chap might feel a bit lost now, killing off such a well established online persona.

The love in for him has begun over on another thread so if he is reading he can be reassured that he has his fans.

Thelonious Monk

I liked Srameen. I think he's genuine. Bonne chance monsieur.

Deebles McBeebles

Always thought he was full of it. BS and snark that is. Maybe I'm wrong though and he really did know all those people he said he knew. Unlikely as it is.

Anyway, he's not f*cking dead. He got caught in a lie and rage quit Boards, he'll survive.

Ghosteen

Deleted User wrote:

The love in for him has begun over on another thread so if he is reading he can be reassured that he has his fans.

But if it was all a load of sh!te they're just missing a made up character. I wouldn't mind someone setting up an account just for a wee piss take and giggles but to build a character that's supposed to be taken seriously and have all these details and to keep it going for so long is very odd.....also how was the Scooby Doo reveal post deleted so quickly before he closed his account... think on that

Omackeral

He was no Permabear.

Ghosteen

Ghosteen wrote: »

But if it was all a load of sh!te they're just missing a made up character. I wouldn't mind someone setting up an account just for a wee piss take and giggles but to build a character that's supposed to be taken seriously and have all these details and to keep it going for so long is very odd.....also how was the Scooby Doo reveal post deleted so quickly before he closed his account... think on that

I don't think he was a lie but I'm not "shocked" "devastated" or whatever else that he's gone. He reported more posts than almost anyone. He had a constant bee in his bonnet about Mr Fegelian and to use the word of another poster, was humourless and of course the smugness of being a wealthy old man.

Ghosteen

Deleted User wrote:

I don't think he was a lie but I'm not "shocked" "devastated" or whatever else that he's gone. He reported more posts than almost anyone. He had a constant bee in his bonnet about Mr Fegelian and to use the word of another poster, was humourless and of course the smugness of being a wealthy old man.

But if he was spoofing that he retired 22 years ago and there's a post from 2012 saying he was about to retire why would you believe the rest? I'm thinking now it was a grade A space cadet :pac:

Earthhorse

If he was an act of imagination he didn't have a very active imagination. Never suspected he was spoofing tbh. The only unusual thing he mentioned was knowing David Attenborough which is hardly beyond the realms of believability.

If he was a spoofer, he was harmless.

JohnnyFlash

He was a source of great amusement to wind-up merchants I’d imagine.

Deebles McBeebles

Earthhorse wrote: »

If he was an act of imagination he didn't have a very active imagination. Never suspected he was spoofing tbh. The only unusual thing he mentioned was knowing David Attenborough which is hardly beyond the realms of believability.

If he was a spoofer, he was harmless.

Andrea Corr was another one he knew, from a recent thread. There were lots more but I just can't bring myself to keep stuff like that in my memory.

Oranage2

About 4 years difference, doubt he rage quit over that, could have easily said itwas an easy mistake, I can barely remember what I ate for breakfast.

Though all in all good fun, can't believe some people that their boardsie persona so seriously

Bigbagofcans

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Andrea Corr was another one he knew, from a recent thread. There were lots more but I just can't bring myself to keep stuff like that in my memory.

Maybe he was actually the man himself Jim Corr. I bet Jim is lurking on Boards, creeping on anti-vaxx threads.

Earthhorse

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Andrea Corr was another one he knew, from a recent thread. There were lots more but I just can't bring myself to keep stuff like that in my memory.

Again, if he worked in media that might not be so unbelievable, unless he was saying he was best mates with them all.

But obviously, I'm not as up to date on my Srameen-facts as dedicated fans like yourself!

Deebles McBeebles

Earthhorse wrote: »

Again, if he worked in media that might not be so unbelievable, unless he was saying he was best mates with them all.

But obviously, I'm not as up to date on my Srameen-facts as dedicated fans like yourself!

They would be more Srameen-"facts" and I'm no fan, in case you missed it. He was hard to miss, given he spent 23 hours a day on here. I have no strong feelings either way but he was a cranky spoofer so no huge loss.

Woke Hogan

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Andrea Corr was another one he knew, from a recent thread. There were lots more but I just can't bring myself to keep stuff like that in my memory.

Is that the man who said he knew Patrick Kavanagh as well?

Deebles McBeebles

The very same.

Thelonious Monk

He could have had 2 jobs, his plans may have changed, God only knows.

andekwarhola

Raconteuse wrote: »

That I don't know but god could he be humorless and unjustifiably snarky. Found it bizarre that a man who is older than my father would launch into attack mode every time Mr Fegelian, a kid, started a maybe inane but harmless thread. And I've never seen Mr F get snarky.

Did you know he had a full pension. Paid up diligently and early, no less?

Leg End Reject

Oranage2 wrote: »

About 4 years difference, doubt he rage quit over that, could have easily said itwas an easy mistake, I can barely remember what I ate for breakfast.

Though all in all good fun, can't believe some people that their boardsie persona so seriously

He claimed to have retired 22 years ago, but in a post from 2012 said he was about to retire.

That's 14 years difference by my maths. When this was pointed out he closed his account.

EmmetSpiceland

Leg End Reject wrote: »

He claimed to have retired 22 years ago, but in a post from 2012 said he was about to retire.

That's 14 years difference by my maths. When this was pointed out he closed his account.

Weird that all the posts were “deleted” so fast. Very strange.

gifted

TBF to the man.....he's gone folks....let's not get into the oul tarnish his name when he's not around to defend himself

iamwhoiam

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

He could have had 2 jobs, his plans may have changed, God only knows.

I retired from a HSE job at 55 . I couldnt access that pension until 60 ,so I worked agency until I was 61 or so .I know technically I wasnt retired at 55 but its a way of saying it I guess .