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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 highly respected Grix.

His posts were funny, intelligent and informative and towards the end he generally just got slated by alot of you.

Shame he left, I regard him as one of the best posters this place had.

Ineedsleep wrote:
> Wasn't that Slaveunit? Something about him and his girlfriend wanted
> to ask a good friend of hers if she would join them in a threesome?

That's the one.

Hmmm, don't see him anymore. Or the saggy one.

The only people (in my age bracket, as far as I know) that are still here are Chipseh(Microchips), Paradox(Kyz22), gerrid(thegerrid), Memorandum, Whitestripes and FFF. Well, from the olden days anyway when I used to just habit in the Xbox or Ninty forum.

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Kore wrote:
> Why
> does just about everyone keep saying that he went insane?
>
> Because he used to, in all seriousness, speak to his brain. Everyone
> thought it was a gimmick for a while until it eventually turned out
> it wasn't and that he infact had been diagnosed with Disassociative
> Personality Disorder.

Having a personality disorder doesn't make you insane. It's no wonder he left with all the assumptions about him. I remember him trying to express himself and look for assurance with his angst and I think all he ever got was ridicule.

Wait..no, he actually had someone from here contact him for advice in a crisis with his suicidal girlfriend. So, I suppose there were some people who truly appreciated him. Amazing they'd reach out to someone labeled as "insane."

This is sad. Grix was so much better than how a lot of you are preceiving him. I think it's slander. Why don't we just vote him out of being a Notable while we're at it.

Kore wrote:
Why
> does just about everyone keep saying that he went insane?

Because he used to, in all seriousness, speak to his brain. Everyone thought it was a gimmick for a while until it eventually turned out it wasn't and that he infact had been diagnosed with Disassociative Personality Disorder.

Strafio wrote:
> I'm surprised no one's mentioned the FogStories yet... I guess that's
> going back a bit too far.

Ummm... It's been mentioned twice, by myself and someone else.

Ah, Darkness_2K, Dan B. Yeah good lad.

And Ant's Pringles signature at the end of every single serious or semi-serious post he made. Forgotten about that :-) I remember your heartbreak thread aswell. Can't remember if I commented though.

He'll be back. Everyone comes and goes for whatever reason.
No one manages to stay away forever!

Back on memories, did Gerrid do a Notable Campagn for Ashley with the slogan "Ashley loves you!"? That made me laugh! :-)

Shame about Grix leaving, he generally made this place better.

What, so you didn't turn from hugz and kisses 'lil miss smile & flirt into some spiteful, biting, scream-n-retort anger-goading crazylady after all?

Ant wrote:
> PS - Who remembers this...?
>
> {:) "ONCE YOU POP, YOU CAN'T STOP!!"
> CLASSIQUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It rings bells.

You would put the smiley at the end of a post and someone would say "ONCE YOU POP, YOU CAN'T STOP!!" after you posted.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Kore wrote:
> Light wrote:
> - Watching Celeste descend into a morass of wailing hypocrisy.
>
>
> Hmm..that's not how I recall it.
>
> No, it wasn't really a decent, more of a straight-plummet.

I still don't recall that either. But, I guess we all like Light, so we'll just keep believing that to be true and move on.

/rosetinted