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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.
Great days. IB has since been less fun because he's turned reasonable. He's no Belldandy.
Which was nice.
Then all the funny crap gerrid and AJ pulled out of thin air. The Shaneo shenanigans with GAD. The various 'hacks' into SR. Three free games every day! The excitement of checking to look for my name! The mediocre walkthroughs I posted!
Some of the faces, too, old and not so old - Microchips was decent, Dringo too (I wish I could of agreed with him on the Ninty stuff, but man, did he love that company - whats all this barn incident about?). Niddle getting a grand from his parents, and taking a fudgin' photo. Special Observe! The plan to all meet up and have some kinda LAN tourney, only to have someone (I think Turbonutter) mention how nobody's getting near his 'pork sword'. DarkMark and his exploits with Edgy. The orgasmic realisation of a 129 quid gamecube (in retrospect, this was maybe a little over the top...)
Mystique and her ... well ... just 'her'. Belldandy being ripped apart, reading those posts made me weep. Ah, all good stuff.
And the relatively new things! Rosalind going from Newbie to Notable in some tiny amount of time. Top Score et al! It's so hard to keep up with it all.
Crazy stuff, this place.
> The plan to all meet up and have some kinda LAN
> tourney, only to have someone (I think Turbonutter) mention how
> nobody's getting near his 'pork sword'.
Ah. Tilt gave a warning to anyone who fancied slipping him the pork sword in the night. Also, I think it was Nintendo multiplayer time rather than LAN. I wanted to suggest LAN Halo as well but that was strictly against the rules.
And then when Tilt used the word "pork sword", all serious discussion went out the window! :D
> Hercules!, remember him? Totally licked my rusty starfish, always the
> first to jump to my defense when Stryke decided to be nasty and make
> me cry.
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Don't ruin the myth. You don't cry, you just go and try to curl park benches in manly frustration.
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> Mystique and her ... well ... just 'her'.
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Whats that supposed to mean?
Good luck in your silly Scottish shenanigans.
As for monkey_man, tae hell with ye!
What, so you just went to the airport one day, then became a teacher? How much Japanese do you need to know to teach English over there?