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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.
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.
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Bonus wrote:
> Ok, I've had nothing better to do than look around the archives for
> the last little while.
>
> [URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/archive/display_messages.php?threadid=29864&forumid=416[/URL]
>
> Some real classic Goatboy :D.
I can't believe that no one else commented on that. It was genius.
> Ok, I've had nothing better to do than look around the archives for
> the last little while.
>
> [URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/archive/display_messages.php?threadid=29864&forumid=416[/URL]
>
> Some real classic Goatboy :D.
I can't believe that no one else commented on that. It was genius.
More recently there was Flockhart's Lucy-Laptop and Flockette, both appeared and disappeared fairly quickly. Posted just like him, liked the same stuff, always posted straight after each other. Especially that one time he was talking to "Flockette/himself" for over an hour one night.
loki wrote:
> We should publish those threads as a book one day.
Step up [URL]http://www.lulu.com/uk[/URL]
Now, how about that? SR's finest messageboard days in print. Imagine that, you could sell them on the website! lol
> We should publish those threads as a book one day.
Step up [URL]http://www.lulu.com/uk[/URL]
Now, how about that? SR's finest messageboard days in print. Imagine that, you could sell them on the website! lol
Mr Snuggly wrote:
> er-no claiming he got off with Keira Knightley in all seriousness.
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He claimed that he went to the same school as her and quite liked it when she sat on his lap. Excellent stuff, er-no.
> er-no claiming he got off with Keira Knightley in all seriousness.
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He claimed that he went to the same school as her and quite liked it when she sat on his lap. Excellent stuff, er-no.
OddToe wrote:
> Whatever happened to Turbonutter?
> Is he here under a different name?
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Jesus, I hope not. I know he failed to get into uni, so he's probably still crying about that.
> Whatever happened to Turbonutter?
> Is he here under a different name?
--
Jesus, I hope not. I know he failed to get into uni, so he's probably still crying about that.
Ok, I've had nothing better to do than look around the archives for the last little while.
[URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/archive/display_messages.php?threadid=29864&forumid=416[/URL]
Some real classic Goatboy :D.
[URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/archive/display_messages.php?threadid=29864&forumid=416[/URL]
Some real classic Goatboy :D.
When El Blokey got rather annoyed that someone else had but "El" at the beginning of his name, so everyone else became "El "Insert Name Here""
Maybe that's why he left?
Maybe that's why he left?
He was the man :D.
Mr Snuggly wrote:
> El Robin going all spastic when we changed the design of the forums,
> claiming it looked horrible when all we did was change something from
> a light grey to a greyish pastel purple colour.
Aha, almost everyone (except me, of course) hated it when it changed.
But look at how it used to look in the archives and you can see why it was so godawful.
> El Robin going all spastic when we changed the design of the forums,
> claiming it looked horrible when all we did was change something from
> a light grey to a greyish pastel purple colour.
Aha, almost everyone (except me, of course) hated it when it changed.
But look at how it used to look in the archives and you can see why it was so godawful.
I think I still have the .wav file of him drumming the pen on the table.
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