You know you've been on boards.ie a long time...

amp

...when you start trying to describe it to someone not familar with it.
...when you wish all websites were black and gold.
...when you suceed at something and you tell boards.ie before your parents.
...when you see a can of spam on the shelf in the supermarket and you get a severe case of existential surrealism.
...when you decide that it's time to reveal the real you on Personal Issues.
...when you remember when all this was fields.
...when it's the first website you open at the start of the day and the last one you close at night
...when you bookmark dictionary.com.
...when you go over 3000 posts and don't notice.

Kraken

erm yes yes yes yes omg all yes except that black and yellow thing and the pi board nearly there.

WhiteWashMan

well, look at that, when did i go over 3000 posts?

DeVore

"...when you remember when all this was fields. "

Good thread! I like it..

I find I always refer to people by their boards name, or at best interchangeably with their actual name.... Like Slann will always be Slann and Amp will always be Amp to me
In fact, I'm not sure I know Amps actual name at all...


DeV.

FreaK_BrutheR

...when you remember when all this was fields.

Haha The best man!

Shiminay

pffff

Newbie!

My computer illiterate friends now know of the existence of something called boards.ie, but they have no idea what it is and are probably sick of me going on about it.

My computer literate friends are more than likely all members!

And I'll not mention the girlfriend...

amp

Originally posted by DeVore

In fact, I'm not sure I know Amps actual name at all...
DeV.

I don't Adam and Eve it! After all we've been through? Where is the love? Also, when did the real-life(tm) names disappear from the Forum Leaders page?

beardedchicken

yeesh! i feel like such a noob!

maybe one day.......................

seamus

Yeah my gf got a tad worried last time when I told her I was going drinking with a 'load of people from the internet'. She was texting me every 5 mins, and wasn't too impressed when I rolled home absolutely incoherent and completely broke. Of course to my mates I was going drinking with a 'load of people from work'(TBH, a half-truth), otherwise I'd never live down the slags.

Quorthon

Well Im not the most frequent poster here but I use the same alias on various boards eg BW, OCUK, Jolt etc. And I really knew I was spending too much time on BBS's in general, when one day I signed off on an actual work email as "Q"

Needless to say the person on the other end was mightily confused.

Q

BuffyBot

Thats a good un alright

azezil

my family thinks i've an addiction so they sent me to a shrink, after 10min's chatting he signed up.

ykt0di9url7bc3

....when you work out what forums you are going to view and in what order, before you log in......

The Sweeper

When you use boards.ie and internet terminology in common conversation...


"yeah I know it's like that but I don't care tbh"

"...a longer lunchbreak? I heartily endorse this product and/or service!"

"what do I think? fúck it - atari jaguar."

It's nearly as sad as when I dial 9 on my housephone looking for an outside line...

OLDYELLAR

It creeps people out when they say a really funny joke and instead of laughing you scream LOL LOL ......yeah try explaining that .

Clintons Cat

You know When You have been on Boards To Long When...

You start putting Atari Jaguar on Census Forms

Baz_

Originally posted by amp
...when you suceed at something and you tell boards.ie before your parents.

Thats the best one

Clintons Cat

You know When You have been on Boards To Long When...

You Start Using Spoilers For Lame Jokes

daveirl

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po0k

Originally posted by amp
...when you start trying to describe it to someone not familar with it.
...when you wish all websites were black and gold. Oh so true.
...when you suceed at something and you tell boards.ie before your parents. Not really, I don't succeed much at anything. I bítch alot though.
...when you see a can of spam on the shelf in the supermarket and you get a severe case of existential surrealism.
...when you decide that it's time to reveal the real you on Personal Issues. It's there for chuckles at least
...when you remember when all this was fields.That make me a n00b so? Spose it does...
...when it's the first website you open at the start of the day and the last one you close at night/me strokes his browser lovingly
...when you bookmark dictionary.com. only typedef and other pedantic, overly-literate muppets
...when you go over 3000 posts and don't notice.wouldn't know yet - didn't notice 2500 though

"....while flipping through aertel to see whats on, you scream "FFS...Lag!" at the TV"

From Par (ltm) a while back on IRC:
"I just told my ma to STFU"
Was answered with a chorus of "lols", "rofl" and "eejit"

DeVore

Originally posted by Clain
- when you expect to see drop down menus everywhere
- you feel vaguely inarticulate when you can't use a gathering card
- only you find the term 'Newbie' utterly insulting
- you've gone from thinking Devore is power-mad, to completely justified, to just being completely grateful that at least you don't have to do it.

Haha, its amazing the number of people who think I'm power mad and then actually meet me and think "ahh, he's really cuddly"

































Thats when I HAVE THEM MUHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!

Yeah, I dunno how I ended up with this job, all I said was "cloud, we could do a website with that program".

DeV.

ykt0di9url7bc3

...when you see a moive review and you look at the rating and go "whoa five stars, what swear word is that????"

mayhem#

Originally posted by amp
...when you start trying to describe it to someone not familar with it.

Just too true!!!
And they don't understand.....

mayhem#

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
It's nearly as sad as when I dial 9 on my housephone looking for an outside line...

LOL!!

Monty - the one and only

-When you knew this place by another name...

mayhem#

When you start telling people:
"you've gotta try it man, it's great!!"
Makes you look like a drugs-pusher....

TacT

when you look forward to checking each thread you replied to and ones you started and you know exactly where each one is before you've even booted up.

when You set up a hotmail a/c specifically to inform you of every thread you have subscribed to or any pm that may arrive and you can't find any more threads to reply to.

Seamus
When you're going out for a boards get together and you tell your friends you're going to meet some other friends/colleagues/some cute guy/girl you met in the pub the week before because you're afraid what they might say if you told them the truth and are afraid to confess how much time you actually spend here and how well you know everyone.

Gordon

... when you achieve a hard leathery bottom and a hunchback from stooping over your monitor so much!

Thanx 4 The Fish

..... at work when the network admin sends you a mail informing you that you have just won the "spending way too much time on that site" award.



Then signs up.

Cabaal

Originally posted by Minesajackdaniels
When you use boards.ie and internet terminology in common conversation...


"...a longer lunchbreak? I heartily endorse this product and/or service!"

I've done that one a few times, Oh dear god I'm turning into one of you lot

RUNNN!!!

DeVore

"Your poker mates tell you about this great new site they've found called Boards.ie"

This is true they even complained about being warned by a guy called DeVore. *boggle*.

DeV.

hacktavist

Lol, Dev has anyone ever told you about boards.ie not knowing you help run it?

sisob

When the combination of your signature and your avitar is specifiaclly designed to "make an impression"

Winning Hand

When your real life conversations revolve around first repeating what the other person said word for word before saying your bit.

po0k

Originally posted by DeVore
"Your poker mates tell you about this great new site they've found called Boards.ie"

This is true they even complained about being warned by a guy called DeVore. *boggle*.

DeV.

Getting into some serious post-joint existential semantics there man....

Giblet

.....when the avatars start to speak to you

BoobeR

erm yeaaaaa, i kinda got all them except that black and gold thing cos i dont use black and gold boards.ie......

BoobeR

lol.. /me cuddles DeV :P hehe

Shinji

... when you can recognise every regular poster by their avatars (and get horribly confused when some n00b chooses one that a regular already has.)


... when you don't NEED to explain boards.ie to people who don't use it any more, because, er, you don't KNOW any people who don't use it....

Makaveli

Originally posted by Shinji
... when you can recognise every regular poster by their avatars (and get horribly confused when some n00b chooses one that a regular already has.)

Yeah that one gets me quite often.

Corega

You know you've been on boards.ie too long when images such as these appear normal.......









Well that was my first attempt at doing.........that, thanks to Tack without whom this achievement would have never been possible.

Thanx 4 The Fish

In castlebar those images are normal...

hacktavist

Hey, castlebar is perfectly normal...

leeroybrown

When you've used the same reply on about 50 of these type of threads.

I'm still a long way off that accolade.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Depends on your definition of normal I suppose Hack..

smiles

Originally posted by Shinji
... when you can recognise every regular poster by their avatars (and get horribly confused when some n00b chooses one that a regular already has.)

Yup, bloody hell thats annoying, i mean there should be a "my avatar only" option There's a money maker for ya.

When you tell DeV you're going to head hunt him cause he's all fluffy

When people ask you how you started talking to your boyfriend and you have to explain it was while you were selling yourself online...

... when you don't NEED to explain boards.ie to people who don't use it any more, because, er, you don't KNOW any people who don't use it....

My mates know what boards is and i've plugged it so regularly they've told me to stop.

When you're almost afraid that some of your friends will use boards because of the things you told them about and the people you've talked about!

<< Fio >>

Tellox

*read through all posts*
*has a nervous breakdown*
I think I'll go hang myself now..

Corega

Originally posted by smiles


Yup, bloody hell thats annoying, i mean there should be a "my avatar only" option There's a money maker for ya.


<< Fio >>

What a coincidence Tizlox replied right after you and my my look at his avatar

Makaveli

Ah but you see one is purple and the other is blue.

Mercury_Tilt

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elexes

"when ppl looking for advice ask you somthing you say im a bit busy right now do a post and ill read it after i respond to syx.. "

i know i said that one to one person so far . i expect ill do it again .

hate that black and yellow thing tho .