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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.

English_Bloke wrote (about Mr. Sngggly):
> I remember you once saying that Timmarah and I were the only two posters worth reading
> on this site ...

Was he tripping at the time?

Game wrote:
> I miss FM

Try cleaning the scope on your sniper rifle, I'm always around here even if I don't post much. (I went away for a week once, been too busy catching up on all the spam ever since).

I remember the time we used to give our GADs away for sick kids in hospital, and I remember a time when all we used to talk about on here was games, consoles and the future of gaming and nothing else, but the rest of it is just a blur of spammage that might have brought a few smiles to a few faces at one time but in the long run didn't really matter. I felt it was a shame that the site diversified away from purely gaming discussions and turned into every other chat forum out there, it lost it's uniqueness and I suppose in some way it's innocence.

In the interests of bringing a smile to your faces (something I always try to do otherwise what's the point?) I just caught on the news that Ireland has suffered it's worst air disaster. A two-seater Cessna crashed into a cemetary. Irish rescue workers say that so far they have recovered 536 bodies and the death toll is expected to rise as they continue digging into the night.

Timmargh wrote:
> English_Bloke wrote (about Mr. Sngggly):
> I remember you once saying that Timmarah and I were the only two
> posters worth reading
> on this site ...
>
> Was he tripping at the time?

No, he was face down on the floor and I was sitting on his back at the time though.

I killed the forums on my first day - that was fun.

Hours. Wasted.

I've never forgiven you.

I wrote down the cure to AIDs/world hunger/bird flu (I was phsycic and saw into the future that it'd become a pandemic)....



And now it's all gone... Gone!

Good ol' days, 2002. I was a complete idiot known as Ultima Weapon. I Never made a huge impact, but I did win a couple of GAD's through rather unusual, imaginative, messy stories.

I was actually there then.
I remember all of those guys.

You don't remember me though......

I would remember all this stuff...

But when I came I stayed in thee sony forum.:(

Just out of curiosity, because I've missed a few years:

Do SR still do Gamer of the Year? If so, they'd better reopen the Norwich store in time! lol!

The "internet wooing" in FOG Prime.

That was bad.