Meh.. Ive seen better. Mind yourself Mick. See what happened when they praised Mercille, then they came to bury him.
Pip
It’s just an Illyushin.
meadowlark
Happy Birthday to one and to all a good night!
Congratulations BS. Here’s to five more years.
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Seems about right! Thanks for helping me waste precious work time BS!
Eric cartman
you forgot accusations of Una mullally’s presence in whiney feminist stories.
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And whiny man-babies in any story with a vaguely feminist twist
Mikeyfex
LINE!!
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Wait wait, I forgot to put anything about fedoras!
Murtles
Typical FF post just like that lad Moynes puts up. I blame the travellers, sometimes they’re small, sometimes they’re far away. Of course can’t say that here as my last comment was mysteriously wiped out by some cack of punts. Wiped out like Mayo wiped out Sligo last week in the pitch n foot competition. C’mon Mayo, best county in Ireland, FACT!
Dang, nearly got them all in one go. Have to go to Wikipedia to see who these Poe and Godwin fellas are and why they have laws. Great bunch of lads I’m sure
What about ‘Idiot who keeps forgetting his name and changes it every few weeks’?
Or ‘Gobshite who sometimes has two IDs on the go, concurrently, but on different computers’?
-Do they not exist?
Are you trying to tel…
Hang on…
Bad at Memes is good at long conversations with himself.
garthicus
hahaha,
Happy birthday Broadsheet! x xx
Caroline
Objective, devastating intellectual thinks *boths* sides of the argument are wrong, actually
Proud contrarian doesn’t expect any of the biased regulars on here to agree with him
New commenter thinks sketch shows promise
Mikeyfex
Deeply sarcastic commenter leaves respondee confused about whether they’ve just gained a friend or an enemy while others skit into their sleeves.
Caroline
Too kind (really).
I forgot:
Reasonable individual is in favour of granting rights, just wishes everyone could spend a bit more time discussing how awful everyone campaigning for them is.
Mikeyfex
I asked for that
Caroline
Oh. That’s not you. I hope.
Mikeyfex
Well there was this one time…but no I’m not anyone else but Mikeyfex on here.
My sarcasm detector was set to hair -trigger awaiting your reply it seems.
ahjayzis
^YES!
Super Devils Advocate syndrome.
“I’m on your side, but I happen to believe the people opposed to us are right on every count and generally better people who we should support and regurgitate all their talking points, but of course I’m on your side”
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I wonder who that could be…
Caroline
It’s a concern troll, and there have been many on the site at various times. I’m not trying to make this personal, it’s supposed to describe an archetype.
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I meant, yeah I know at least one. So so very concerned
classter
Your archetypes seem designed to push eveybody into tiny little boxes, whereby they either fully agree with you fulsomely or else are douches.
classter
And I’m not only saying that because I’ve a bad feeling I might have fallen afoul of several of them in the past.
Caroline
Just describing the very tiny little boxes people tend to inhabit online. Not just here, I’ve wasted most of a lifetime watching this stuff play out on forums. If it stings, it’s working. And yes I’ve popped out of them too, I mean just how many nested levels of archness do I suppose I sit atop?
Now, anyone waiting on ‘Commenter leavens harsh criticism of others by including self’ is going to clean up.
classter
I hear you but your archetypes all spring from a place where you openly dismiss the intentions of others. Nothing, even genuine trolls, hurt online discussion more than this assumption of bad faith.
It is quite possible to think both sides of an argument are wrong without being conceited. Its also very possible to arrive at the same place as one with whom you might usually disagree from a different point of view. Either way, much more can be gained by engaging with the argument rather than dismissing your interlocutor.
I’m sure I have fallen into some neat, revealing archetype or other here too.
Caroline
Yeah of course you can hold any of those positions genuinely, I’m poking fun (or fatally undermining the very fabric of online discussion, if you will) at how certain people present themselves while doing so.
You’ve presumably seen that often what is posted in a discussion is not or not solely in furtherance of the discussion but to position the poster in the overall argument and get a bit of the old distinction going on.
classter
This was a nice line, ‘fatally undermining the very fabric of online discussion, if you will’.
On reflection, as melodramatic as it makes me seem, I actually believe it.
Caroline
You see? I’m terminally cynical, true, but I don’t actually do the thing you ran ahead and accused me of.
(PS, cause I know you’re wondering, “martyred voice of reason”. Kidding! I’m kidding, that will never catch on, no one else has your patience.)
Lush
Happy Birthday Broadsheet.
Thanks for keeping me both amused and informed over the last five years.
And to all the commenters, those here since the beginning and those who have come and gone.
Wouldn’t be the same without youse either.
Joe the Lion
Surprised the bingo sheet doesn’t look like Ireland
mike
LOL.
Should’a been a square with just “+1” in it too.
Spaghetti Hoop
That’s class Flavo ;)
I came across a lonely Broadsheet wandering around the Irish blogosphere looking for friends when it was 6 months and with a mere handful of followers / sock-puppets. (What every happened to Prada Meinhof and Holemaster?)
What banter ensued.
And some top notch journalism of late.
They grow up so fast…..
*sucks pipe, nods to barman to put on another pint and stokes fire (on a cold July at the Man o’ War).
Happy 5th Birthday Broadsters!
Joe the Lion
and don’t mind what he says about the puns – it wasn’t yours he was referring to ;)
Buzz
Most of the regular punsters have already placed their puns so who is going to take ownership of the ten shitty puns?
Snorts…true so true.
Happy Birthday Beloved Broadsheet.
House! Nailed it, Mick. Happy 5th to all at the Towers.
I want a coloured one to put on me wall ^_^
The puns do need work.
A love the mitsubishis, ha!
Many happy returns.
A = And
I think the puns are of a very high calibre around here…
I saw a long series of them on a thread the other day and I was really hoping one of them would make me laugh. Sadly, no pun in ten did.
it’s off to the pun-in-ten-tiary for you, caroline
I ha pun to like them.
I like to be pun-ished
everyone should have a pun-t at them
That your idea of gentle wordplay, Joe?
So long as it’s consonantsual Madame Hoop
Narcissistic commenter elevates online commenting from petulant adolescence to student union activism.
Puns are not meant to make you laugh. They’re enjoyable riffs, little flourishes of verbal dexterity.
Happy birthday BS, the only website I visit daily.
A lot of punnage for the sake of punnage lately, spud1. Everyone above here is normally quite strong though.
Googlehoo used to be great for getting them going. Haven’t seen him/her in a long time though.
A chuckle in every square… I had to read that with my face practically kissing the desk… :)
Brilliant stuff Mick !
And Happy 5th BS, thanks for everything! :)
Meh.. Ive seen better. Mind yourself Mick. See what happened when they praised Mercille, then they came to bury him.
It’s just an Illyushin.
Happy Birthday to one and to all a good night!
Congratulations BS. Here’s to five more years.
Seems about right! Thanks for helping me waste precious work time BS!
you forgot accusations of Una mullally’s presence in whiney feminist stories.
And whiny man-babies in any story with a vaguely feminist twist
LINE!!
Wait wait, I forgot to put anything about fedoras!
Typical FF post just like that lad Moynes puts up. I blame the travellers, sometimes they’re small, sometimes they’re far away. Of course can’t say that here as my last comment was mysteriously wiped out by some cack of punts. Wiped out like Mayo wiped out Sligo last week in the pitch n foot competition. C’mon Mayo, best county in Ireland, FACT!
Dang, nearly got them all in one go. Have to go to Wikipedia to see who these Poe and Godwin fellas are and why they have laws. Great bunch of lads I’m sure
What about ‘Idiot who keeps forgetting his name and changes it every few weeks’?
Or ‘Gobshite who sometimes has two IDs on the go, concurrently, but on different computers’?
-Do they not exist?
Are you trying to tel…
Hang on…
Actually, forget that I said anything.
And what about comments posted in the wrong place?
Is that not a thing?
Do you know what should be a thing?
A new thing?
Replies, followed by gatthicus going ‘hahaha,’
Or Bad at Memes writes 4 posts for every 1 !
Bad at Memes is good at long conversations with himself.
hahaha,
Happy birthday Broadsheet! x xx
Objective, devastating intellectual thinks *boths* sides of the argument are wrong, actually
Proud contrarian doesn’t expect any of the biased regulars on here to agree with him
New commenter thinks sketch shows promise
Deeply sarcastic commenter leaves respondee confused about whether they’ve just gained a friend or an enemy while others skit into their sleeves.
Too kind (really).
I forgot:
Reasonable individual is in favour of granting rights, just wishes everyone could spend a bit more time discussing how awful everyone campaigning for them is.
I asked for that
Oh. That’s not you. I hope.
Well there was this one time…but no I’m not anyone else but Mikeyfex on here.
My sarcasm detector was set to hair -trigger awaiting your reply it seems.
^YES!
Super Devils Advocate syndrome.
“I’m on your side, but I happen to believe the people opposed to us are right on every count and generally better people who we should support and regurgitate all their talking points, but of course I’m on your side”
I wonder who that could be…
It’s a concern troll, and there have been many on the site at various times. I’m not trying to make this personal, it’s supposed to describe an archetype.
I meant, yeah I know at least one. So so very concerned
Your archetypes seem designed to push eveybody into tiny little boxes, whereby they either fully agree with you fulsomely or else are douches.
And I’m not only saying that because I’ve a bad feeling I might have fallen afoul of several of them in the past.
Just describing the very tiny little boxes people tend to inhabit online. Not just here, I’ve wasted most of a lifetime watching this stuff play out on forums. If it stings, it’s working. And yes I’ve popped out of them too, I mean just how many nested levels of archness do I suppose I sit atop?
Now, anyone waiting on ‘Commenter leavens harsh criticism of others by including self’ is going to clean up.
I hear you but your archetypes all spring from a place where you openly dismiss the intentions of others. Nothing, even genuine trolls, hurt online discussion more than this assumption of bad faith.
It is quite possible to think both sides of an argument are wrong without being conceited. Its also very possible to arrive at the same place as one with whom you might usually disagree from a different point of view. Either way, much more can be gained by engaging with the argument rather than dismissing your interlocutor.
I’m sure I have fallen into some neat, revealing archetype or other here too.
Yeah of course you can hold any of those positions genuinely, I’m poking fun (or fatally undermining the very fabric of online discussion, if you will) at how certain people present themselves while doing so.
You’ve presumably seen that often what is posted in a discussion is not or not solely in furtherance of the discussion but to position the poster in the overall argument and get a bit of the old distinction going on.
This was a nice line, ‘fatally undermining the very fabric of online discussion, if you will’.
On reflection, as melodramatic as it makes me seem, I actually believe it.
You see? I’m terminally cynical, true, but I don’t actually do the thing you ran ahead and accused me of.
(PS, cause I know you’re wondering, “martyred voice of reason”. Kidding! I’m kidding, that will never catch on, no one else has your patience.)
Happy Birthday Broadsheet.
Thanks for keeping me both amused and informed over the last five years.
And to all the commenters, those here since the beginning and those who have come and gone.
Wouldn’t be the same without youse either.
Surprised the bingo sheet doesn’t look like Ireland
LOL.
Should’a been a square with just “+1” in it too.
That’s class Flavo ;)
I came across a lonely Broadsheet wandering around the Irish blogosphere looking for friends when it was 6 months and with a mere handful of followers / sock-puppets. (What every happened to Prada Meinhof and Holemaster?)
What banter ensued.
And some top notch journalism of late.
They grow up so fast…..
*sucks pipe, nods to barman to put on another pint and stokes fire (on a cold July at the Man o’ War).
Happy 5th Birthday Broadsters!
and don’t mind what he says about the puns – it wasn’t yours he was referring to ;)
Most of the regular punsters have already placed their puns so who is going to take ownership of the ten shitty puns?
There is no blogosphere.
There never was a blogosphere..
Never say that word again, do you hear me!
(。◕‿◕。)
this makes me happier than YOKES
YAY!
“We love you Sarah, we do…”
Broombridge Station?
Cabrawest?
Anne Doyle’s garden?
HA! Yes! I was just about to post these.
Gawbewitdadayus.
(Happy Birthday, Broadsheet)
Or as I should have said…
“It’s 57! Fifty-seven!”
Giving people wrong ages used to wind SO many people up! Heh.
I used to love that, I think they should start doing it again
A welcome distraction from my nail chomping work colleague. Sigh
lol. High praise indeed!
*Sighs loudly*
*Rustles in bag of cheese and onion*
*Jiggles crossed leg under desk*
She is also a Tayto muncher and hair flicker..
*Grunts*
*Rolls eye*
*Dagger stare*
Mind you don’t accidentally plug out my phone or computer when you jiggle those legs.
I love it Mick i could probably fills this out twice daily.
Excellent Mick :-) and happy birthday Broadsheet!
Happy birthday and thanks for keeping me in touch with the turf…
” swivel-eyed obsession with Israel ” is missing.
as is strawman spotting
The very game itself is, I feel, a tribute to meself….
Happy Birthday BS.
Keep up the good work!
return to form mick, good one :)
Happy Buirthday BS!
Brilliant!
Poo
For the house jackpot
And “I don’t normally do this” for the Snowball game
Flaps
Love it.
Change “Flaps” to “Flags” though.
Flaps
Flaps.
S**TE I meant “Flags”…
Flags.
Hurrah for the Broadsheet!
-Daily Mail, 2010
is there jelly and ice cream?
Belated birthday wishes BS, I can’t believe nobody mentioned the long running ‘beaker’ gag or the crying chair