Did JP ever really post here or was just a foolish dream of Elysium that I had?

**chalice** · 02-25-2011, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by Snee

Originally Posted by chavis

Nothing very sensitive was touched upon. It was Care-Bear implicit. Debates were long-drawn and sterile. These were the Salad Days.

I believe that the first quantifiable turd in the swimming pool was Chalkmongoose.

This was the end of Eden and what led Bazza post blood-letting pics in the lounge.

I actually came in just after chalkmongoose made his final exit (I'm half sure that during our initial encounter, JP thought I was him). I didn't hit it off with JP, and for the longest time, I thought we'd end up colliding in some big conflict, once he started responding to me again anyways. You, Skweeky, Nigel, DanB, lilmiss and TheDave are the people I remember getting along with on the temp forum. When I joined the forum proper, the first person I hit it off with after that was Johnno

One of my earliest posts on the temp forum (from whence I joined) was actually questioning whether chalkmongoose was what he was, what with it being a srs accusation (and me accidentally having clicked a link of that sort once). I asked for proof I think, of which there turned out to be some.

Balamm really set the tone during my initial experience of the board, but that I suffered through 50+ hours of insomnia just as I'd found the place also helped. At any rate balamm is still both the harshest, and the craziest mod the board ever had, and I still miss him.

My first six months or so, all I did was being nice, trying to accept everyone for the unique snowflakes they were. I got over it.

I also remember doing weird shit like trying to mediate between the aussies and JP, despite everyone from JP to mediaslayer telling me they were making the place worse, and making overly flowery and archaic sounding posts about every possible subject, for the lulz.

Oh, and my grades really took a hit from finding this place.

EDit: Cheese* once told me I was afraid of conflict, cos I never argued with anyone even if I didn't like them.

*The original Cheebus, not whatever douchebag gets called that now in the BT section, if there still is one.

The temp forum was fucking bedlam. Psychopathic bumper cars to the max. Chalkmongoose had just been exposed as a paedophile just before the board proper went down. He took a healthy disliking to JP and tried to half-stalk him in the temp forum. He popped up with names that were variations on a theme. Tartan Fruitfly was one of them where he used diseased pigeon scots vernacular. The scary thing was that he didn't appear to be that stupid. When the board came up again he posted and I descended upon him in what turned out to be my very firstest apoplectic adventure on the internets.

I liked Balamm too. There seemed to be no catalyst to his histrionics and I was bemused when he went all fruit loop. I always thought he was just joking, like. Turned out he wasn't.

The first troll was Hypo. Innocent days indeed. He was a troll who argued with you. That's not a troll. That's fucking comedy gold. I always got on pretty well with Billy Dean but JP did a number on him over a period of months. He ended up a gibbering blancmange. I used to love nothing better than JP slowly chipping away at some cunt's psyche. The man's a fucking artist.

Nervous breakdowns on the internets. Better than the fucking news.

**Snee** · 02-25-2011, 08:53 PM

I remember Tartanfruitfly. We had a conversation once, before either you or JP tore into him and he eventually just went away. Like everyone else, I thought he was a decent bloke, when you didn't know about his special tastes.

Billy though, I think he was never completely right in the head, but I still talked with him.

It wasn't just JP who did a number on him though. I don't know when it happened exactly but eventually it became open season on him, and the subsequent campaign, if you can call it that, involved several of us and ranged over a few boards. I don't clearly recall exactly my initial motivation behind joining in, but I was raging pretty hard over him defending someone who posted links to kiddie porn (oh, the irony), though all of the defending side claimed it wasn't really, it just looked like that, while I was all like 'fuck you, I clicked that, my eyes are bleeding'. His anti-catholic and anti-israeli posts didn't help either, nor did the fucking around with sock puppets and the constant coming back after he was banned (he was like a coherent version of j-dye with a clear agenda, arguing against whatever the people he liked the least were for).

I think you were gone for most of it. Some of it was funny as fuck, and some of it I'd rather forget. Just know that sam^4 is an evil genius, and that alcohol made him twice as fantastic.

During that time I learned to be harsh on the internet. Then it was more like broadening my range though, not something I did all the time.

EDit: You missed when the troll forum set their sights on FST and came to wreak havoc. While we were arguing with one of the idiots here, one of us had joined their board, and found the login details to the idiot's account here posted, which, as it turned out were the same as what he used for his admin account over there. Their board turned into 'a rubik's cube' they swore vengeance, and were never heard from again, that I know.

**Snee** · 02-25-2011, 09:17 PM

Even the conflicts were better then. Entire, if much smaller than fst, boards got lost in the crossfire, but that was acceptable, cos I was harshing people I genuinely disliked for something else than being idiots.

Also, after having debated with some of the best, or worst, depending on how you look at it, no one adds anything new anymore. I think I've even had a go at hypo, though the main argument was really if he was hypo or not.

Fuck's sake, now I even miss the people I dislike.