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"The complete history of UKchatforums.com"

I often think about the history of these forums, and how things used to be. That's not to say they've declined in quality over the years, but as with most things, you keep them going long enough and you'll find people complaining that things ain't what they used to be.

Anyway, I got to remembering some of the good times while bored at work today (a regular occurence) and yeah, it might be a bit sad, but some of the memories really did make me smile. UKchatforums.com must be my most visited website ever (still my homepage) and despite it just being a collection of poorly-designed .gif images and text-speak, sometimes it genuinely manages to make me laugh out loud (LOL).

So... in the spirit of one of my Shiznit lists, I want your top UKchatforums.com moments of all time, from throughout history - it can be favourite users, brilliant moments of realisation or just your favourite threads. I'll get us kicked off with a few memories that brightened up my day.

THE BELLDANDY SAGA - I've never had so much fun berating someone over the internet as I did with Belldandy. Probably still floating around somewhere under a newly mysterious (very probably Manga-related) username, Belldandy was NEVER WRONG. Even if he was, he wasn't. And if he really was, then he'd run away and not come out to play, until the next time he was wrong. It came close to bullying at a few points (I used to get his emails) but it was coming from both sides: Goaty, Light, Pandy, myself and others (all anti-war and common sense) versus the one man righteous army of Belldandy.

The Belldandy saga reached a hilarious conclusion, when on one of his many mysterious reappearances under another nick (HALO Fan), he was sussed by the lot of us and nevertheless proceeded to dispute it for several months, despite have all the curt mannerisms and blind flag-wankery that good old Bell had. It stopped being fun when we finally saw a picture of him on Special Observe, then realised our physical name calling was disturbingly prophetic.

There have been others, but none as more fun to bait as Belldandy.

I wish!

I had to fundraise 4000GBP to get over here (which was rather difficult), and I went on various TEFl (English-as-a-foreign-language) courses. The organisation I'm with is called Project Trust, it's like gap year's ... without the moonlight parties in Thailand. Anyway, I got all the money together over the course of the year and here I am, sitting in the staff room of this Tokyo private school, writing this message.

Obviously, we're not quite as fully trained as the others, but because we're native speakers everybody loves us, which is handy. We go into classes, repeat phrases, try and teach better pronounciation, a little bit of grammar, marking and assessing. Also, in the afternoons and evenings we teach local residents and the P.T.A. It's hard work, but worth it to be here. I mean, Akihabara ('The Electric Town') is insane. The amount of electronics, components, video games, gadgets and gizmos is obscene. Chuck in a healthy dose of shrines, temples and an impossibly large alphabet and you've a year made in heaven. Well, when the homesickness fades :S

EDIT : Japanese knowledge? You can get by in first week with basics (Hello, Good morning, I would like etc etc) but as time passes I've learnt some hiragana (a i u e o, ka ki ku ke ko, sa si su se so, except instead of letters they look like ‚©�@‚«�@‚­�@‚¯�@‚±�@etc). The kids have a grasp of English, even the youngest ones, and with a bit of gesturing you can get the idea of the lesson across. Just.

So there's gonna be loads of Japanese kids running around speaking English with a Scottish accent?

Cool.

lcarus wrote:
> gamesfreak wrote:
> Albert the Large.
>
> Remember him?
>
> RIP. Our first dead forum member.

:'(

phuzzy wrote:
> Niddle getting a grand from his parents, and taking a fudgin' photo.

*feels loved*

Mr Snuggly wrote:
> It paid to be nice to the Snuggly.

That's how I think I won mine. I've not won once since you left.

I remember you once saying that Timmarah and I were the only two posters worth reading on this site, but since then I had to get jobs and stuff, which ballsed things up for me.

I still haven't finished my Broken Sword walkthrough.

Go back, Snuggers, (I can call you that because of our history), and give me games!

Please

I remember when I first came on this site.

I was a spammy twonk, to be fair, and I remember someone telling me that my thoughts mattered none because I was a newbie. I remember saying that "my views are as valid as the next mans!"

I think I'd been watching The Simpsons.

Snuggly's stalker story made my night last night when I was struggling to sleep.

I used to come on this forum a lot more then I do now, but looking back at it, I can't remember many really interesting things. Of course I remember Bell, Forest Fan and the like. I remember The Future Of Gaming forum being really popular before general chat was created. I remember reading some of Sniper's posts and thinking, "how the hell did you become Notable?"

I remember Snuggly quiting, posting a rebel post and then going crawling back and being made pink for a while.

Just spent the best part of an hour reading this thread and it great, especially the stalker story. I've only been posting here 2 months as I didn't have a PC at home until then although I've been reading the forums for about a year now at work (we can read them but can't post as it's blocked)

To tell you the truth I can't remember most of the stuff on this thread as it probably happened before I started reading the forums but hopefuly next time one of these threads are done I'll be able to add a few memories of my own.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Don't forget Gejay.

AHAHA

Oh yes.

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Lord H was great, he was a guy who told it how it was. I played Unreal Tournament a few times with him.