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Chat => General Discussion => Topic started by: White Giant on July 18, 2010, 21:49:31 PM
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Hey chaps.
Sorry Ive been away for so long.
Moved into a new place with the missus, had a massive amount to do at work, etc, etc.
Hope everyone is okay, will be checking every morning and evening as usual from now on.
Anyone fancy giving me a quick update, drama? Has Sam finally had that bare-knuckle fight with Spite?
BTW, berks is a muppet(j/k), and LSL is fit(not j/k). :rock:
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Who, what, when, where and why?
:w00t:
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Some of those names sound familiar.... Berks for one.
Who was LSL and Spite?
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I couldnt think who LSL is, Spite ran/runs OCUK.
Berkswolf our old admin isnt on here any more though, same for Juggernaut. Its a shame really as both were characters.
Good to see you back WG
(http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1803/predator2.jpg)
"Stick around!"
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You can pretty much count the female forum members from the last 5 years on one hand. The only ones I can think of are Beans, Cornholio, Soulgirl, and Minx. So unless WG has turned...
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You can pretty much count the female forum members from the last 5 years on one hand. The only ones I can think of are Beans, Cornholio, Soulgirl, and Minx. So unless WG has turned...
Wizbiscuit? wizbit? dunno, was a quite nice blonde of a similar name to that.
Oh, and good to see you again WG, to continue the Predator theme, I assume you have been away busy pushing pencils.
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It was Wizbit youre thinking of.
I think he cooked up a story and wanted to drop us in the meat grinder.
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What happened to Wizbit? And wasnt there a guy, Jim or someone, who she used to hang around with?
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It was Wizbit youre thinking of.
I think he cooked up a story and wanted to drop us in the meat grinder.
What happend to him? he used to be somebody I could trust :disappointed:
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I couldnt think who LSL is, Spite ran/runs OCUK.
Berkswolf our old admin isnt on here any more though, same for Juggernaut. Its a shame really as both were characters.
Good to see you back WG
(http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/1803/predator2.jpg)
"Stick around!"
Dont you mean Spie
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It was Wizbit youre thinking of.
I think he cooked up a story and wanted to drop us in the meat grinder.
What happend to him? he used to be somebody I could trust :disappointed:
You cant trust us? :P
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What happened to Wizbit? And wasnt there a guy, Jim or someone, who she used to hang around with?
Jymjim the Royal Mail Marxist. I think to him we were all assets - expendable assets - and he used us to get the job done, got it?
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I used to hang around with Jimjym in the really real world. Not heard or seen him for years.
Hes litterally dropped off the map.
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He worked at Tekheads for a few weeks helping me packing back in the day, but Sam and Steve didnt keep him on as he was a clockwatcher and graft wasnt a word in his vocabulary.
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http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Bike-ride-inspired-by-brave.5099079.jp
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Wow well its no wonder youve not heard anything from him. Good on him, thats an impressive feat and for charity too. He really lived for cycling, so hopefully hes achieved it.
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Meh, I thought he was alright until he started to get a bit threatening via PM because Id killed him off in "Avatar wars" he didnt get the fact that Id planned on killing everyone off at least once each.
Wasnt there a lady called Aniarchia or something who was associated with Jymjim? The stories "she" told were pretty unbelievable and Im still not sure whether it was a massive con.
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Weve had that discussion before (http://www.tekforum.co.uk/posts/preList/12347/123446.page) zpyder :)
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Ahhh, so it was Emez that was with Jymjim, not Wizbit.
Its all rather confusing.
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Yes, I used to talk to her a fair bit on MSN, they wouldnt say it openly on the forums at the time but they were seeing each other. I quite miss chatting to her actually, she vanished into the ether as well.
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What happened to Chesney Hawkes?
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Jymjim was a nice lad but a total sack of sh*t at work. The kind of person who knocked off at 5:29:29 and wasnt happy if you asked him to stay 5 seconds later.
Then there was the daily 30 minute sh*t he would take on company time.
Google clock watcher and thats him.
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Weve had that discussion before (http://www.tekforum.co.uk/posts/preList/12347/123446.page) zpyder :)
There you go then, obviously the kind of person not worth remembering talking about ><
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Hello WG, nice to have you back :D
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WB! I still think we should send out a bulk mail to all members, especially before we change the forum SW ;)
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Whatever happened to the Yank guy, big in the cycling forum, fan of the single speed, forum name escapes me atm.
edit: maximusotter?!
Jaimz :rock:
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He left after a huge argument over Iraq in Speakers Corner and never returned sadly.
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Most people left due to big arguments over something or other. People dont always agree and some people just cant accept that. :)
It isnt about what you say if you ask me, it is about how you treat people. :)
It is sad that so many people have left, I am not around as much as I used to be but even I have noticed the drop in regular faces.
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Yeah there is a drop but not as much as it could be during summer, so it looks like some increase.
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I dont think it helped either that we lost the s and the various other server outages!
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Speaking of old members leaving due to a bust ups, anyone remember Ni? Pronounced Nigh according to him, but everyone else pronounced it Nee, much to his annoyance.
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Speaking of old members leaving due to a bust ups, anyone remember Ni? Pronounced Nigh according to him, but everyone else pronounced it Nee, much to his annoyance.
www.honeybug.net
He was playing for the above band, site seems to be bust atm tho
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Welcome back WG good to see you! :wave:
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Speaking of old members leaving due to a bust ups, anyone remember Ni? Pronounced Nigh according to him, but everyone else pronounced it Nee, much to his annoyance.
I always thought it was Nigh.
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Whatever happened to the Yank guy, big in the cycling forum, fan of the single speed, forum name escapes me atm.
edit: maximusotter?!
Jaimz :rock:
Like lots of people who left, had a sense of humour bypass.
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I always thought it was Nigh.
The Knights who say Ni (Nee) are not wrong. :P
That was the basis of the whole its Nee not Nigh argument if I recall lol.
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(http://www.pinktink3.250x.com/essays/holygrail_files/image020.jpg)
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The Knights who say Ni (Nee) are not wrong. :P .
I always thought it was pronounced Nigh :p
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The Knights who say Ni (Nee) are not wrong. :P .
I always thought it was pronounced Nigh :p
Watch the movie :P
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What happened to Wizbit?
Jillys doing rather well in her life as a Yeti:
http://www.10yetis.co.uk/about.html
:)
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She should come back and help us with a bit of PR :lol:
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She should come back and help us with a bit of PR :lol:
We dont need PR :P
Just get the "S" back
Failing that, we just need to get people visiting, a better link from Tekheads perhaps a banner with the flavour text "why not visit our forums if you need any question answered" etc
And the plan to make a Review/Article site will surely bring in more people as it gets spread around the net.
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Tracked Brun down to the Briskoda forums.
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Tracked Brun down to the Briskoda forums.
I wondered if that was him! I lurk on those forums occasionally but Ive never posted (handy source of Skoda related info).
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Brun lol. Theres a flash from the past.
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Sorry to bump this thread but nice you see some of you lot are as grumpy as ever.
How is everyone?
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My not so grumpy self :D
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Hello :muttley:
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Sorry to bump this thread but nice you see some of you lot are as grumpy as ever.
How is everyone?
Pretty good, its a bit quieter around here but not so much has changed really. How are you? I never thought I'd see the day you'd return. You are sticking around, aren't you? :D
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Hey Bear and Bacon. :wave:
Pretty good, its a bit quieter around here but not so much has changed really. How are you? I never thought I'd see the day you'd return. You are sticking around, aren't you? :D
I'm good. It is kind of your fault I'm here :) I'll be around a for a while at least.
Nice to see there are still alot of familiar names here.
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Brun lol. Theres a flash from the past.
He was an amusing member - didn't tek once ship him some sort of adapter/hanger thingy for his wired mouse - can't remember what it was called but was supposed to make it feel like a wireless mouse?
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I couldnt think who LSL is, Spite ran/runs OCUK.
Berkswolf our old admin isnt on here any more though, same for Juggernaut. Its a shame really as both were characters.
Think its Spie? who runs OCUK
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He left after a huge argument over Iraq in Speakers Corner and never returned sadly.
He did have a tendency to get a bit too angry if people didn't share the same view as him.
There was some muslim bloke too - Ice something or other who also had a tantrum and stomped off & some admin guy who threw the toys out of the pram because some people messed around with the forums at one of Sam's parties or something.
People take the internet too seriously sometimes....
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Sorry to bump this thread but nice you see some of you lot are as grumpy as ever.
How is everyone?
Hello - I remember you and JymJim(?)
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I've not seen Jim for years :(
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He left after a huge argument over Iraq in Speakers Corner and never returned sadly.
He did have a tendency to get a bit too angry if people didn't share the same view as him.
There was some muslim bloke too - Ice something or other who also had a tantrum and stomped off & some admin guy who threw the toys out of the pram because some people messed around with the forums at one of Sam's parties or something.
People take the internet too seriously sometimes....
Ice Kay. I've got him on Google+ and FB
Zoon. No idea who annoyed him though :D
We seem to have lost Serious too.
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Icekay is still knocking around, he pops on rarely to post a phone for sale :P
Didn't Zoon fall out with Olly? I can't remember but i had a Zoon email address for ages :D
As for Serious, last i heard he got well into Guild Wars and was writing a Guild Wars Novel or something!
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I've not seen Jim for years :(
Makes two of us. :( His parents live in France but I don't think he is there much.
Will probably give them a call closer to xmas so I find out the latest I'll let you know. :)
btw that avatar is soooooooooooo wrong! :gag:
Sorry to hear Serious is not around. :'(
I'm surprised to see speakers corner is a graveyard.
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I've not seen Jim for years :(
Makes two of us. :( His parents live in France but I don't think he is there much.
Will probably give them a call closer to xmas so I find out the latest I'll let you know. :)
btw that avatar is soooooooooooo wrong! :gag:
Sorry to hear Serious is not around. :'(
I'm surprised to see speakers corner is a graveyard.
Speakers Corner might be a graveyard but Waffle has been integrated into GD!
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Tell him to get in touch with me! Be good to catch up.
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I've not seen Jim for years :(
Makes two of us. :( His parents live in France but I don't think he is there much.
Will probably give them a call closer to xmas so I find out the latest I'll let you know. :)
btw that avatar is soooooooooooo wrong! :gag:
Sorry to hear Serious is not around. :'(
I'm surprised to see speakers corner is a graveyard.
We haven't have the likes of you and Jim to keep it occupied with fresh topics sadly. I'd also be interested to hear how he is (and if he's still growing those tasty tomatoes)
Not even a "goodbye folks" from Serious either, even to the Mods, its quite sad. But then having said that, most people that left have slinked off quietly.
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Unfortunately it's the way the forum is going, if you look at the top 10 posters of all time, 3 of those have disappeared, I'm not sure if there is an easy way to check, but how many people have posted in the last month.
It'd only take a couple more key people to leave and I think it'll get very quiet on here, it's not like our efforts to bring in more people have been fruitful, the HTPC guide is one of our largest traffic drivers and is getting on for near 10k visits, the number of members it's created is still relatively few.
The people who post on here regularly, pretty much all know each other in real life I think? I'm one of the exceptions to this, although did know some people back in the day, both of them have since stopped posting..
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Unfortunately it's the way the forum is going, if you look at the top 10 posters of all time, 3 of those have disappeared, I'm not sure if there is an easy way to check, but how many people have posted in the last month.
It'd only take a couple more key people to leave and I think it'll get very quiet on here, it's not like our efforts to bring in more people have been fruitful, the HTPC guide is one of our largest traffic drivers and is getting on for near 10k visits, the number of members it's created is still relatively few.
The people who post on here regularly, pretty much all know each other in real life I think? I'm one of the exceptions to this, although did know some people back in the day, both of them have since stopped posting..
I'm an exception also as i live the furthest down the country, but i have met Nige and Knighty and we have slept in each others beds on regular occasions. :thumbup:
I've met a few more people too who i've sold stuff too!
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The last few months for Web Designers/ Developers who are doing well is/has been a very busy one. That time of year. Me and Nige are core in plans a number of people will be involved with to bring life into things. We just been very busy but hope to get the ball rolling further soon.
The ideas are great and they will hopefully drive interest back to the forums.
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People as Top posters who are not around are..
maximusotter - Who has never posted since we been on the PHP forums.
Serious - Not posted since March
M3ta7h3ad - Not posted since being on these forums
Beaker - Not posted since July
redneck - Never posted on these forums.
Sam - Posted a bit when on PHP but stopped posting after the work to convert over the database.
Their email will be in the system. First point of call to see if they want to start posting again is the question - Why did they go?
For each one why did they go?
Sam for me, a great guy started to get a lot more adgertated(spelling?), I bumped heads with him over Web stuff but I know others in other areas as well. Who still keeps in touch?
Then if with their emails, someone who is a mod/admin flicking off some emails, ask how they are etc. Maybe tell them some plans of whats to come etc see if they want to come back.
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I miss eggonline!
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I miss eggonline!
He is still posting isn't he? Just not as much?
How many mods/admin do we have on here still active?
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I miss eggonline!
He is still posting isn't he? Just not as much?
How many mods/admin do we have on here still active?
Egg doesn't post these days.
Enough mods are active and posting. :D
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Egg doesn't post these days.
Enough mods are active and posting. :D
i dont post because its dead on here :oP
Thats the reason I stopped posting.
You look at the people who used to keep the subforums active, they dont post anymore.
I still browse every few days - more so to keep an eye on what people are doing
with the HP microservers + im very busy with work n stuff (about to start building a reprap http://reprap.org/ (http://reprap.org/) if I can
can make up enough free space in one of the spare bedrooms) - but the truth is, this forum was started
for PC modding & overclocking, etc. - not many members still do that - I have not upgraded
my PC for about 4 years - just a few new graphic cards.
Im not into cars & to busy for photography :P so not much worth posting about
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We haven't have the likes of you and Jim to keep it occupied with fresh topics sadly. I'd also be interested to hear how he is (and if he's still growing those tasty tomatoes)
Not even a "goodbye folks" from Serious either, even to the Mods, its quite sad. But then having said that, most people that left have slinked off quietly.
I'll do my best to pass on your messages soopah and nige but I haven't been in contact with him directly for quite a while.
Do we have an email address for Serious? I would like to say hi at least. :)
I remember redneck, does he use grammar these days? :worried:
Eggonline did you really change your name to Eggtastico? Damn why did I not think of that! Emeztastico has such a ring to it. :bow:
Do you all still use a chat room? I think it used to be IRC.
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I banned redneck some time ago, I'm surprised people forgot how he started being abusive to everyone.
I don't know if people are still using the IRC channel, I haven't been on it in a long time so have no idea, I tend to keep in touch with people on MSN. There is a Twitter and Facebook group - some of us are friends on there - but that isn't really used.
YGPM Emeztastico :)
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Egg doesn't post these days.
Enough mods are active and posting. :D
i dont post because its dead on here :oP
Thats the reason I stopped posting.
You look at the people who used to keep the subforums active, they dont post anymore.
I still browse every few days - more so to keep an eye on what people are doing
with the HP microservers + im very busy with work n stuff (about to start building a reprap http://reprap.org/ (http://reprap.org/) if I can
can make up enough free space in one of the spare bedrooms) - but the truth is, this forum was started
for PC modding & overclocking, etc. - not many members still do that - I have not upgraded
my PC for about 4 years - just a few new graphic cards.
Im not into cars & to busy for photography :P so not much worth posting about
Welcome back Egg and thanks for posting, but your being way too polite! :P
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I just had a look through the member list, and there are so many recognisable names that just aren’t around anymore. :(
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It is sad, especially when a lot of them it seems just stopped posting for no apparent reason or somehow haven't found their way back. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be moving the forums onto a new pro hosting account so they should be far more reliable than with GoDaddy currently, at the minimum I'm going to mailshot all the members and see who we can drag back again but I'm going to try and think of some other ideas too.
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It is sad, especially when a lot of them it seems just stopped posting for no apparent reason or somehow haven't found their way back. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be moving the forums onto a new pro hosting account so they should be far more reliable than with GoDaddy currently, at the minimum I'm going to mailshot all the members and see who we can drag back again but I'm going to try and think of some other ideas too.
- At one stage the site was up but for server reasons it was put under a stupid port and a load of people could not access it. So they moved on.
- Other people had a large post history and a lot of old cool posts which were all wiped. A number of people were not happy and left.
- Just amount of downtime for a period and on off and lack of forum features were also factors for some leaving.
- There was a really dark period where 4/5 people just attacked everyone. Abuse non stop. It was quite a surprise how some people just turned nasty. That put people off, couple of people were banned and others did not want to hang around for abuse.
- There was another period (not so bad though) of abuse and I know people even though they did leave, just got put off a bit again.
Another core factor was everyone grew up. The modding and what not which was a big part of the site went away, people have got married and had kids. Sam sold Tekheads and things just moved on for everyone.
That is why the forums need to be just part of something bigger and better and hopefully we can do that. It would be nice to do a mail out and let people know.
I have always thought that Tek should properly set up a paypal account fund and people chip into it when they can so things like a perminant game server could be formed. It could have BF3 on it, Minecraft, Team Fortres etc and a ventrilo channel for people to use for those and to just chat.
An MMO to pick for MMO tek fans and a proper guild to continue to tap into etc. Properly flesh out the fan page, google + Circle... Youtube Channel...
Properly build up a community and a site which is the portal to it all and lead to the forums. So the forums will just be one aspect of something much bigger.
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There's a fair few over on bit-tech.
ZOON and Kenco_uk for two.
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He did have a tendency to get a bit too angry if people didn't share the same view as him.
There was some muslim bloke too - Ice something or other who also had a tantrum and stomped off & some admin guy who threw the toys out of the pram because some people messed around with the forums at one of Sam's parties or something.
People take the internet too seriously sometimes....
Icekey/Icekay? left after selling a dodgy phone to someone on here and got sh*tty when they wanted there money back
People as Top posters who are not around are..
maximusotter - Who has never posted since we been on the PHP forums.
Serious - Not posted since March
M3ta7h3ad - Not posted since being on these forums
Beaker - Not posted since July
redneck - Never posted on these forums.
Sam - Posted a bit when on PHP but stopped posting after the work to convert over the database.
Their email will be in the system. First point of call to see if they want to start posting again is the question - Why did they go?
For each one why did they go?
Sam for me, a great guy started to get a lot more adgertated(spelling?), I bumped heads with him over Web stuff but I know others in other areas as well. Who still keeps in touch?
Then if with their emails, someone who is a mod/admin flicking off some emails, ask how they are etc. Maybe tell them some plans of whats to come etc see if they want to come back.
Redneck got banned after nexus spat his dummy out, Naturally Red never did quite get the hang of quitting whilst he was ahead, as Nige said, I't was some time ago 2006/7 at a guess
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/john-doe-was-doing-red-in-the-rear (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/john-doe-was-doing-red-in-the-rear)
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf)
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-ass-(i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf-part-2) (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-ass-(i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf-part-2))
Zoon left after we all messed around with the forums at one of the samcrashers, I think it was something to do with messing up the mods lounge or something, Again around 2005/6
Now I do remember someone getting banned for setting his avatar to a pic of serious with twat written across his forehead??? Maybe Nige can remember. (and I believe I still have that pic somewhere)
I still have Mr_Roll's t-shirt for those who remember Cornrocker.
Fun times.
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It might have been brummie, tbh there was a very short period where about 3/4 people got banned, it was just all kicking off.
I'd let red come back if he was to behave himself, when he wasn't being a tit he bought a lot to the place :)
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Redneck is one of my closest real life friends, but you are wright he does like acting the tit lol
I think brummie got banned for getting abusive after falling out with max
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Redneck is one of my closest real life friends, but you are wright he does like acting the tit lol
I think brummie got banned for getting abusive after falling out with max
Everyone fell out with maximusotter at least once if I recall, mostly due to those heated discussions he would get into in speakers corner.
Didn’t he eventually leave because of such a discussion?
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It might have been brummie, tbh there was a very short period where about 3/4 people got banned, it was just all kicking off.
I'd let red come back if he was to behave himself, when he wasn't being a tit he bought a lot to the place :)
red wasn't banned.... he ran off.... most probably because he still owes me £340 for the laptop I posted to him :(
it wouldn't be so bad, but I sold it for a noob mate... so have to give him £340 out of my own pocket to cover it :( :(
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He did have a tendency to get a bit too angry if people didn't share the same view as him.
There was some muslim bloke too - Ice something or other who also had a tantrum and stomped off & some admin guy who threw the toys out of the pram because some people messed around with the forums at one of Sam's parties or something.
People take the internet too seriously sometimes....
Icekey/Icekay? left after selling a dodgy phone to someone on here and got sh*tty when they wanted there money back
People as Top posters who are not around are..
maximusotter - Who has never posted since we been on the PHP forums.
Serious - Not posted since March
M3ta7h3ad - Not posted since being on these forums
Beaker - Not posted since July
redneck - Never posted on these forums.
Sam - Posted a bit when on PHP but stopped posting after the work to convert over the database.
Their email will be in the system. First point of call to see if they want to start posting again is the question - Why did they go?
For each one why did they go?
Sam for me, a great guy started to get a lot more adgertated(spelling?), I bumped heads with him over Web stuff but I know others in other areas as well. Who still keeps in touch?
Then if with their emails, someone who is a mod/admin flicking off some emails, ask how they are etc. Maybe tell them some plans of whats to come etc see if they want to come back.
Redneck got banned after nexus spat his dummy out, Naturally Red never did quite get the hang of quitting whilst he was ahead, as Nige said, I't was some time ago 2006/7 at a guess
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/john-doe-was-doing-red-in-the-rear (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/john-doe-was-doing-red-in-the-rear)
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf)
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-ass-(i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf-part-2) (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-ass-(i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf-part-2))
Zoon left after we all messed around with the forums at one of the samcrashers, I think it was something to do with messing up the mods lounge or something, Again around 2005/6
Now I do remember someone getting banned for setting his avatar to a pic of serious with twat written across his forehead??? Maybe Nige can remember. (and I believe I still have that pic somewhere)
I still have Mr_Roll's t-shirt for those who remember Cornrocker.
Fun times.
Spat my dummy out? I do not remember being the reason for anyone to be banned. I know some people targeted me (And others) for abuse at times.
Someone changed Zoon's post count and no one could remember what it was to put it back.
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Spat my dummy out? I do not remember being the reason for anyone to be banned. I know some people targeted me (And others) for abuse at times.
Someone changed Zoon's post count and no one could remember what it was to put it back.
I can't exactly remember what it was all about tbh, there are only the three threads left from that, the rest got deleted/lost.
But I do remember you really losing you're rag
red wasn't banned.... he ran off.... most probably because he still owes me £340 for the laptop I posted to him :(
it wouldn't be so bad, but I sold it for a noob mate... so have to give him £340 out of my own pocket to cover it :( :(
I didn't know that Knighty!
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He did have a tendency to get a bit too angry if people didn't share the same view as him.
There was some muslim bloke too - Ice something or other who also had a tantrum and stomped off & some admin guy who threw the toys out of the pram because some people messed around with the forums at one of Sam's parties or something.
People take the internet too seriously sometimes....
Icekey/Icekay? left after selling a dodgy phone to someone on here and got sh*tty when they wanted there money back
I had a few problems with Icekay and a transaction many many years ago back in the glory days of the forum. Seems some people are repeat offenders.
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Spat my dummy out? I do not remember being the reason for anyone to be banned. I know some people targeted me (And others) for abuse at times.
Someone changed Zoon's post count and no one could remember what it was to put it back.
You did ask for it at times ;)
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It might have been brummie, tbh there was a very short period where about 3/4 people got banned, it was just all kicking off.
I'd let red come back if he was to behave himself, when he wasn't being a tit he bought a lot to the place :)
red wasn't banned.... he ran off.... most probably because he still owes me £340 for the laptop I posted to him :(
it wouldn't be so bad, but I sold it for a noob mate... so have to give him £340 out of my own pocket to cover it :( :(
I totally forgot about that! He was banned as well it seems, probably after that. You should get hold of him on facebook
maximusotter left after falling out with a few people over Iraq or GWB, I forget which.
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maximusotter left after falling out with a few people over Iraq or GWB, I forget which.
Wasn't he a yank anyway?
It would explain his extreme views over Iraq and GWB
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Quite :lol: I still speak to him every now and then, he knows he's welcome back but I don't think he has the interest to come back still sadly.
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Wow, I'm having a serious nostalgia moment reading through the list of people who are no longer around, but also amazed by those of you who are still knocking about.
I don't know if you'll remember, but Emez, you and Jymjim came to visit me some time back and I came up to see you too - nice to see that you're still around, although I too haven't heard from James for some years.
Some of you may remember me, I was more outspoken back in my youth but I've mellowed somewhat. I had 1500 odd posts way back in the day, but when the DB got wiped I lost heart somewhat and drifted away. Has it really been 10 years...
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Wow, I'm having a serious nostalgia moment reading through the list of people who are no longer around, but also amazed by those of you who are still knocking about.
I don't know if you'll remember, but Emez, you and Jymjim came to visit me some time back and I came up to see you too - nice to see that you're still around, although I too haven't heard from James for some years.
Some of you may remember me, I was more outspoken back in my youth but I've mellowed somewhat. I had 1500 odd posts way back in the day, but when the DB got wiped I lost heart somewhat and drifted away. Has it really been 10 years...
The rest of us who stayed on have lost our postcounts more times that i've had hot dinners this month!
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The rest of us who stayed on have lost our postcounts more times that i've had hot dinners this month!
Silly really isn't it, what's a number?
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Spat my dummy out? I do not remember being the reason for anyone to be banned. I know some people targeted me (And others) for abuse at times.
Someone changed Zoon's post count and no one could remember what it was to put it back.
You did ask for it at times ;)
No one! Ever does - forum discussions. As soon as people take it to that level of attacking the person not the discussions and the people loosing their argument turning to insulting people they are the ones in the wrong and deserve to be banned.
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well im still a lurker........dont know if anyone remembers me.............
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I remember you
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me too....
you're not doing solar panels now are you ?
(used to be a roofer yeah?)
theres a gavin who installs solar pannels on another forum who spells it with the capital N like you do :-)
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nah still not able to work properly, in fact i have another operation in january and wont be walking for 3 months again...........
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It seems I missed out on all the fun ): it sounds like Tek was a good place to be in the olden days...
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It seems I missed out on all the fun ): it sounds like Tek was a good place to be in the olden days...
It was the Daddy Beans.
When I joined it was called Bigforums lol.
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It seems I missed out on all the fun ): it sounds like Tek was a good place to be in the olden days...
It still is, it just needs to keep getting busier! There was a time when it was actually too busy if anything, I used to spend about an hour just moderating posts.
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It was the Daddy Beans.
When I joined it was called Bigforums lol.
I've only been through one change, I joined in 2009 - God, it really doesn't seem that long ago, but it is :\
I have Clockity here to thank for that (:
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I forgot when I joined, I know I had an Asus P5a with an AMD KII @ 600 mhz and dual Vodoo IIs , it was called Bigforums and Trubador was
frying eggs on an AMD cpu :D
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i remember trubador ie jason...
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I forgot when I joined, I know I had an Asus P5a with an AMD KII @ 600 mhz and dual Vodoo IIs , it was called Bigforums and Trubador was
frying eggs on an AMD cpu :D
I remember that - the forum had so many hits it ground to a halt. Didn't the local press go and interview him at his house?
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nah still not able to work properly, in fact i have another operation in january and wont be walking for 3 months again...........
sorry to hear that.... it's been going on for a bloody long time now :-(
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I joined in 2002 just before the switch to bigforums If i remember correctly.
Yep after some digging I found an old post of mine with a 14/08/2002 join date. Nearly 10 years. :o
http://web.archive.org/web/20040417125232/http://www.tekforums.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=37272
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A follow up to Trubador’s world famous egg frying experimant.
Copy & Paste the link into your brower to get it to work.
http://web.archive.org/web/20021123165941/http://www.bigforums.co.uk:81/viewtopic.php?t=17839&highlight=
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I think I was on here at 18/19 and I'm 30 now :o
Still got a massive nob though so it's ok.
:lol:
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That thread said I joined in 2001. That's 11 years ago.
18!
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You can wayback with http://www.tekheads.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi to 19th June 2001
Mods at the time where,
BRUN, Juggernaut
Zakir, ISJX_Ian
Koolvin, Kna
C0oL, Zoon
Juggernaut, OooohMatron
Zakir, Juggernaut, Dave, White Giant
FunkyBadger, BaroN
BRUN, jonespr1
Harry Bo, Lem
Jackhammer, [TEK-CS]PhoenixFlame
White Giant, [TEK-CS]JK23
Sam, jimD [Tek]
Interesting one from August
Checking if u got my case :) (Clock'd 0Ne)
01 August 2001 15:15
What case? who knows 8)
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I have no idea what this might have been :lol: But there are some great names there that it would be good to have back posting here again.
In August 2002 I had around 5100 posts, I dread to think how many total posts I've accumulated over the life of the various forum incarnations, probably a scarily high figure.
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I joined in 2002 just before the switch to bigforums If i remember correctly.
Yep after some digging I found an old post of mine with a 14/08/2002 join date. Nearly 10 years. :o
http://web.archive.org/web/20040417125232/http://www.tekforums.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=37272
I cant remember that! Was that my motherboard i linked in the image! I'm shocked i can't remember it.
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I have no idea what this might have been :lol: But there are some great names there that it would be good to have back posting here again.
In August 2002 I had around 5100 posts, I dread to think how many total posts I've accumulated over the life of the various forum incarnations, probably a scarily high figure.
I remember at one point a group of us had 10k plus i believe!
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Well the people have found it should stay, stick around. Get others back on here. Things are really going to go places next year. Wait till you a logo.
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it was tek long before bigforums wasnt it? it was only renamed when sam wanted to split the board from his shop
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Yes, it was tekforums.co.uk, then bigforums.co.uk, then tekforums.co.uk:81, then tekforum.co.uk (aka "we lost the s") and now tekforums.net ;D
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Argh stop posting wayback machine links - I lose hours of my life everytime!!! :)
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Who was the guy who had the Citroen BX GTi 16? That car was apparently quicker than any other car ever made iirc...
I've just found at thread I started in 2002 about using vegetable oil to increase engine performance. I have absolutely no memory of that, I'm not sure I even know anything about vegetable oil :dunno:
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Yes, it was tekforums.co.uk, then bigforums.co.uk, then tekforums.co.uk:81, then tekforum.co.uk (aka "we lost the s") and now tekforums.net ;D
I'm sure it was Bigforums first??
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I'm sure it was Bigforums first??
It became Bigforums in August 2002 around the time I joined, as I remember finding this place a few months before when it was still Tekforums, and then when I came to register my account it had just changed its name.
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F...ck a decade ago !!! hard to remember exactly :D
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Who was the guy who had the Citroen BX GTi 16? That car was apparently quicker than any other car ever made iirc...
I've just found at thread I started in 2002 about using vegetable oil to increase engine performance. I have absolutely no memory of that, I'm not sure I even know anything about vegetable oil :dunno:
I think that was Mark or his brother (BXGTi16v), Mark has gone silent lately though, last thing he was building a 700bhp monster.
knighty and me both run on veg oil!
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Who was the guy who had the Citroen BX GTi 16? That car was apparently quicker than any other car ever made iirc...
I've just found at thread I started in 2002 about using vegetable oil to increase engine performance. I have absolutely no memory of that, I'm not sure I even know anything about vegetable oil :dunno:
I think that was Mark or his brother (BXGTi16v), Mark has gone silent lately though, last thing he was building a 700bhp monster.
knighty and me both run on veg oil!
He crashed at over 900 mph.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
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eh ? I thought mark and BXGTi16v were the same person ?
iirc the citron bx was written off :(
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eh ? I thought mark and BXGTi16v were the same person ?
iirc the citron bx was written off :(
Yeah it was wasn't it? I seem to recall seeing him request the name change in a thread?
BTW Bear - a decade!!! That is frightening!!!
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eh ? I thought mark and BXGTi16v were the same person ?
iirc the citron bx was written off :(
Yeah it was wasn't it? I seem to recall seeing him request the name change in a thread?
BTW Bear - a decade!!! That is frightening!!!
yeah I'm sure too...
iirc it was his brother that wrong the car off going round a corner when a lorry hit him ?
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Who was the guy who had the Citroen BX GTi 16? That car was apparently quicker than any other car ever made iirc...
I've just found at thread I started in 2002 about using vegetable oil to increase engine performance. I have absolutely no memory of that, I'm not sure I even know anything about vegetable oil :dunno:
I think that was Mark or his brother (BXGTi16v), Mark has gone silent lately though, last thing he was building a 700bhp monster.
knighty and me both run on veg oil!
Mark still owes me a battery for a laptop I bought off him. Haven't been able to get hold of him, seems to have vanished off the face of the earth.
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On re-reading my post it looks like I implied they were different people; BXGTi16v was Mark's old name, yes, but he did also had a brother that was into the cars. It's funny how people seem to vanish right before concluding a trade with someone. I genuinely hope he's alright and is coming back at some point!
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Mark still owes me a battery for a laptop I bought off him. Haven't been able to get hold of him, seems to have vanished off the face of the earth.
I wouldn't worry about it... I bought a projector and a cisco phone from mark and both times he posted them to me before the got the cheque...
I find trusting people are also very trust worthy :-)
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Has anyone heard from him to hear that he is even ok :-\
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Has anyone heard from him to hear that he is even ok :-\
He replied to a pm i sent ages ago on May 11th! I thought he had popped up since then, but i could be wrong!
And as Clocked pointed out BX16VGTI or w/e it was is Mark :P
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Mark still owes me a battery for a laptop I bought off him. Haven't been able to get hold of him, seems to have vanished off the face of the earth.
I wouldn't worry about it... I bought a projector and a cisco phone from mark and both times he posted them to me before the got the cheque...
I find trusting people are also very trust worthy :-)
I wasn't implying anything with regards to Marks' trustworthiness, just that he still owes me a battery for a laptop I bought off him and I haven't been able to get hold of him since. He seemed to be very busy at the time of the purchase so I'm not sure exactly what happened to it or where it ended up, I believe it was posted but then never arrived, then posted again or something, then he apologised profusely for the hassle if memory serves.
Lovely bloke and a pleasure to trade with all in all.
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This thread is turning into forum lost & found.
If anyone finds Mark, Serious or any of the others then please deposit them in the Moderator's Lounge pigeon hole.
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Pigeon deposits? :gag:
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MARK:
Last Active:
July 20, 2011, 00:40:19 AM
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MARK:
Last Active:
July 20, 2011, 00:40:19 AM
I can't believe its been that long!
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This thread is turning into forum lost & found.
If anyone finds Mark, Serious or any of the others then please deposit them in the Moderator's Lounge pigeon hole.
Do we get to keep them if nobody makes a claim?
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Only after 30 days!
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MARK:
Last Active:
July 20, 2011, 00:40:19 AM
I can't believe its been that long!
That's why I was asking if anyone had heard from him above :(
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Sorry to bump this thread but nice you see some of you lot are as grumpy as ever.
How is everyone?
Still grumpy as ever and only got back on myself after a 7 month absence. Fibromyalgia isn't a nice option, now I've got 365 day a year flu symptoms to go with my sleep, muscle and joint issues.
Thankfully nobody can catch it off me.
Emez is a name I've not seen in a very long time, glad you found your way back :)
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Good to see you Serious, welcome back
here's a chimp playing golf to celebrate
(http://flatrock.org.nz/static/frontpage/assets/animals/chimp_shot.jpg)
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Good to see you back Serious, sorry to hear you are suffering more though. Do you have medication to reduce the symptoms or are you basically stuck with it?
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Basics is I'm stuck with it, most of the medicines presently available which might help don't do a smartie worth of good. Those that do help often come with unacceptable side effects, a good 2 months of this year was in a drug induced haze trying out a medicine that was supposed to ease the symptoms but ended up with a near inability to think, although I seem to remember being very happy... :heehaw:
Trading in pain and discomfort for being a medicine induced moron isn't my idea of a good deal.
Unfortunately there is no permanent treatment available and some discussion between 'health professionals' as to if it exists at all! Seems very real to me though :dunno:
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I left not through any form of animosity :) I left due to other reasons.
Still keep my nose in from time to time, although you almost lost me this time.
What's with the new domain name? :D First the S disappeared, now the S is back but we've lost the .co.uk :D (Realises that this puts his joining when it was :81)
p.s. apologies for the thread necromancy, but vanity made me search for my name :D :nana: :rock:
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I left not through any form of animosity :) I left due to other reasons.
Still keep my nose in from time to time, although you almost lost me this time.
What's with the new domain name? :D First the S disappeared, now the S is back but we've lost the .co.uk :D
p.s. apologies for the thread necromancy, but vanity made me search for my name :D :nana: :rock:
We dropped Tekheads and were going to link the .net domain to tekmonkeys.net as well, but that plan only half worked. :P
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Cool, I wasn't a fan of having tekheads associated with these forums back when the big split happened. Happy to see its still going strong unaffiliated. :)
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Cool, I wasn't a fan of having tekheads associated with these forums back when the big split happened. Happy to see its still going strong unaffiliated. :)
The regulars keep the place going and we have had a few signups and some of those stay around and post a bit more, but the regulars are here regardless. :D
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Cool, I wasn't a fan of having tekheads associated with these forums back when the big split happened. Happy to see its still going strong unaffiliated. :)
Good to see you stopped back in to say hello matey, it's seeing the old regulars pop up again that makes keeping it all going even more satisfying :ptu:
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I left not through any form of animosity :) I left due to other reasons.
Still keep my nose in from time to time, although you almost lost me this time.
What's with the new domain name? :D First the S disappeared, now the S is back but we've lost the .co.uk :D (Realises that this puts his joining when it was :81)
p.s. apologies for the thread necromancy, but vanity made me search for my name :D :nana: :rock:
Nige is in control now and doing a dam good job of it. Should be here as is to stay now.
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Hello m3ta :D nice to see you are back.
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Cool, I wasn't a fan of having tekheads associated with these forums back when the big split happened. Happy to see its still going strong unaffiliated. :)
The regulars keep the place going and we have had a few signups and some of those stay around and post a bit more, but the regulars are here regardless. :D
Either it's Nige using voodoo dolls to get peeps back or it's Knighty withdrawal... I'm not sure which :dunno: :o :tinhat: :dunno: Wub
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He left after a huge argument over Iraq in Speakers Corner and never returned sadly.
He did have a tendency to get a bit too angry if people didn't share the same view as him.
There was some muslim bloke too - Ice something or other who also had a tantrum and stomped off & some admin guy who threw the toys out of the pram because some people messed around with the forums at one of Sam's parties or something.
People take the internet too seriously sometimes....
nah just got bored of a few idiots that were and still are on here !!
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He did have a tendency to get a bit too angry if people didn't share the same view as him.
There was some muslim bloke too - Ice something or other who also had a tantrum and stomped off & some admin guy who threw the toys out of the pram because some people messed around with the forums at one of Sam's parties or something.
People take the internet too seriously sometimes....
Icekey/Icekay? left after selling a dodgy phone to someone on here and got sh*tty when they wanted there money back
People as Top posters who are not around are..
maximusotter - Who has never posted since we been on the PHP forums.
Serious - Not posted since March
M3ta7h3ad - Not posted since being on these forums
Beaker - Not posted since July
redneck - Never posted on these forums.
Sam - Posted a bit when on PHP but stopped posting after the work to convert over the database.
Their email will be in the system. First point of call to see if they want to start posting again is the question - Why did they go?
For each one why did they go?
Sam for me, a great guy started to get a lot more adgertated(spelling?), I bumped heads with him over Web stuff but I know others in other areas as well. Who still keeps in touch?
Then if with their emails, someone who is a mod/admin flicking off some emails, ask how they are etc. Maybe tell them some plans of whats to come etc see if they want to come back.
Redneck got banned after nexus spat his dummy out, Naturally Red never did quite get the hang of quitting whilst he was ahead, as Nige said, I't was some time ago 2006/7 at a guess
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/john-doe-was-doing-red-in-the-rear (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/john-doe-was-doing-red-in-the-rear)
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf)
http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-ass-(i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf-part-2) (http://www.tekforums.net/general-discussion/i-kicked-serious-in-the-ass-(i-kicked-serious-in-the-mouf-part-2))
Zoon left after we all messed around with the forums at one of the samcrashers, I think it was something to do with messing up the mods lounge or something, Again around 2005/6
Now I do remember someone getting banned for setting his avatar to a pic of serious with twat written across his forehead??? Maybe Nige can remember. (and I believe I still have that pic somewhere)
I still have Mr_Roll's t-shirt for those who remember Cornrocker.
Fun times.
i don't remember selling no dodgy phone, i was the mod of the for sale forum, i left because i had a heated argument with berks in the mods lounge and decided to leave
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He did have a tendency to get a bit too angry if people didn't share the same view as him.
There was some muslim bloke too - Ice something or other who also had a tantrum and stomped off & some admin guy who threw the toys out of the pram because some people messed around with the forums at one of Sam's parties or something.
People take the internet too seriously sometimes....
Icekey/Icekay? left after selling a dodgy phone to someone on here and got sh*tty when they wanted there money back
I had a few problems with Icekay and a transaction many many years ago back in the glory days of the forum. Seems some people are repeat offenders.
during my moderator days i remember you having problems with a number of members in the for sale/wanted section, but thats none of my business ! lol
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like egg mentioned, this forum just slowly died, all the good people left and the scraps remain ! lol
people grew up and lives changed thats all really, i just don't have time to go on the internet let alone spend hours on forums like before.
good to see some of the old faces, sam, clocked, bear, walrus, egg, super
miss the old guys COol, Zoon, Omar....the powercomputer day !
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I seem to remember Ice being a little hot headed at times around me, although I rarely ventured into his trading sanctum.
Can anyone ever forget Trubador and that f***ing frying an egg on a processor thread?
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I'm still here sadly :muttley:
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I'm not really here...first login in several months!
Got married a month ago!
Think everyone has well and truly grown up.
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I chat to Nige on Facebook, anyone else is welcome to join :P
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I'm obviously still around here, don't post as much but I'm happy letting it all tick over, it costs me sod all to keep running. Happy to chat to anyone on Facebook too!
In recent news, I'm trading my MX-5 for a Golf GT TDI.
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I'm obviously still around here, don't post as much but I'm happy letting it all tick over, it costs me sod all to keep running. Happy to chat to anyone on Facebook too!
In recent news, I'm trading my MX-5 for a Golf GT TDI.
Fancy pants :)
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YAY!!! It's like old times ;D
I lol'ed so hard just then, totally forgot about me messing with the forum at Sam's NY bash. I apologies, I know it's like 11~12 years late, but I'm sorry. :w00t:
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Got married a month ago!
One sec....
...you got married a month ago and just managed to drag yourself out of bed to put that tiny post up? :o
Must be going well then - gratz ;D
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YAY!!! It's like old times ;D
I lol'ed so hard just then, totally forgot about me messing with the forum at Sam's NY bash. I apologies, I know it's like 11~12 years late, but I'm sorry. :w00t:
Hahahah :D
I'd forgotten about that!
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I'm obviously still around here, don't post as much but I'm happy letting it all tick over, it costs me sod all to keep running. Happy to chat to anyone on Facebook too!
In recent news, I'm trading my MX-5 for a Golf GT TDI.
A VW? You're dead to me. :(
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I'm obviously still around here, don't post as much but I'm happy letting it all tick over, it costs me sod all to keep running. Happy to chat to anyone on Facebook too!
In recent news, I'm trading my MX-5 for a Golf GT TDI.
A VW? You're dead to me. :(
Don't worry i just sent him a link to a 230bhp mx5 mk1 running a mitzi turbo at 7 psi for 2 grand
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There's a 1955 Standard with a 660cc Suzuki Cappuccino engine with Passat turbo on RetroRides :D
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News update:
The Golf is BORING. Also WTF is with the sponge gears, is it really that hard to do properly?
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Cars are not toys, they are means of transportation ;)
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News update:
The Golf is BORING. Also WTF is with the sponge gears, is it really that hard to do properly?
Surely it's got some grunt? Chip it?
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get the golf remaped nige, it makes a massive difference
the guy who did mine is awesome at it, and he lives down your way iirc ;-)
costs about £200.... but that's for a proper remap, guy sitting in your car with a laptop making a custom map, test driving it etc...
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p.s. which engine is it ? how many PS ? maybe it just needs a good service / filters changing ?
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What's a PS? its 1999 mk4 TDI, its done just under 200k. The turbo pulls quite nice in 2nd, sh*t in 3rd for some reason and reasonably in 4th.
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PS is the metric version of horse power... use doe most cars after 1998 ish and pretty much everything now
no idea why, but it seams to be used for all diesels but only some petrol's
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Ahh right, all I know is its a 1.9 TDI, no idea what PS that equates to!
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Which letters are red on the TDI Badge?
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Look in the boot by the spare wheel there is a label with the engine code, get me that. :P
If its 5 speed it will likely be 110bhp and 6 speed 115bhp, i believe those to be the figures on the pre 2001 engines.
I would assume they all remap well.
If you want something fast, cheap and diesel then consider a Vectra C, i have a Face Lift base model, you need one with the Z19DTH engine, which produces 150BHP and a sh*t load of Torque, you can map them to 185BHP and buy them for peanuts.
The Sportier looking Astra 3 or 5 Doors with the same engine sell for double the cost or more and your not saving an awful lot of weight.
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Which letters are red on the TDI Badge?
GT is in silver, TDI is in red.
I'll probably have a look in the boot at the weekend Jamie when I fit my new head unit. It's a 5 speed.
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Or msg me your reg on FB tomorrow and i'll regcheck it