This place

rirv · #1 08-02-2008, 06:01 PM

I can still remember when I signed up here - 27 or 28 January 2001. That was at GrandRoyal.com because for some reason they wouldn't accept hotmail accounts on the old bbmb. Then shortly after the two boards merged and I got swallowed up in this huge community. I was but a shy 15 year old, still on a dial up connection who spent too much time indoors doing stuff like listening to music no one else liked and looking up porn on the internet... one... picture... at... a... time. Now teenagers have got redtube and youporn. They don't know how lucky they are.

I probably started by asking stuff like "Which is your favourite Beastie Boys album?" and "Who is your favourite Beastie Boy?" but soon turned my attention to this section with people swearing lots and talking about how big their shit was that morning.

Of course, Echewta was always there, omnipresent making glib jokes about Star Wars (which I still have never watched). abcdefz must have been there talking about how much he despises Tom Hanks (probably because his films are in colour) and the best sushi restaurant to go to in downtown San Fransisco. How very... quaint. Boomin'Granny was there, DipDipDive - I remember she posted a photo and everyone went WOW UR HOT. Then there was minton, seemed a bit uptight. TpK, Swedish? A bit odd. Blighty - I thought this guy was pretty cool when I was 15 or 16. He used to tell me about old school hip hop I didn't know about and how big his vinyl collection was at the time and also about the fact he had no television. Then he started sending me links to David Icke sites. Looking back he was a big ass. Does he still post here? There's probably laws against 30 year olds sending links to teenagers about lizard conspiracies now.

Anyway, this board became quite a feature in my life. As a growing lad in a bit of a provincial town in the North West of England it became my source of finding things out about music and life and so forth that I wouldn't necessarily have been exposed to. Of course I had friends at school that I used to socialise with but none lived too close so when I was at home I'd log on to here. In a way these "people" became "friends".

Then things really got serious. A new wave of people started joining or if they had already joined they became more prominent. mythago - he pretended he hated rap music but later admitted to me he quite liked it. Cosmo105 started talking about vegans and Mexicans and ended up co-habiting with Boomin'Granny who had a bowl cut. Did they marry? There was Beth who married BobbyD (who was always there since the start - I remember now). Drederick Tatum/Sprewell and Dusty Brain ran a campaign of terror which I sort of joined in with. I thought they were the bees knees so imitated their style of picking on the mentally handicapped and homosexual. And female. And intellectual. Looking back it was probably all a bit silly. psyzmac - now he was a giant wiener. Well meaning - but a ass. Of course there was the time that someone used Bob's account and posted a thing about him losing his virginity and the fact that he came so hard he thought he was going to shit the bed.

In those two years, as I turned 17 and 18 and was heading towards the end of school, I got pretty involved in this community. I even met venusvenus123 at Leeds Festival, twice, and in London. And I met that Lucy girl from Leeds at Leeds. I talked to quite a few people on msn: Tulla, venus, Sprewell, alruggs, KateD etc. Received things in the mail from people even.

I'd never admit it to any of my friends as I struggled through a tough teenagerhood - being a bit shy, a bit overweight, wasn't good at meeting new people etc.

Anyway it all pretty much ended as I went to University in London. Perhaps I logged on a few times, but never seriously got into it again. I think I was just better at life in the real world and didn't need this place so much.

How is everyone?

saz · #2 08-02-2008, 06:43 PM

hey dude, good to see you back. yeah, life is good. still keep in touch with jadge?

Bob · #3 08-02-2008, 06:57 PM

didn't namedrop me, don't care

rirv · #4 08-02-2008, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sazi

hey dude, good to see you back. yeah, life is good. still keep in touch with jadge?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS11JPhoAgA

saz · #5 08-02-2008, 07:05 PM

this would've been better.

rirv · #6 08-02-2008, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by sazi

this would've been better.

Stop filibustering.

DipDipDive · #7 08-02-2008, 07:09 PM

Ha.

Hi, how are you? I remember you being swell.

saz · #8 08-02-2008, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by rirv

Stop filibustering.

well, i asked you first.

rirv · #9 08-02-2008, 07:15 PM

DipDipDive - that was the exact photo! haha.
sazi, yes I do keep in touch with him via that magic of Facebook, saw him in the flesh about a year ago.

Bob · #10 08-02-2008, 07:16 PM

how much do i have to insult you to make you pay attention to me

saz · #11 08-02-2008, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by rirv

sazi, yes I do keep in touch with him via that magic of Facebook, saw him in the flesh about a year ago.

cheers. i dare you to buy the new paul weller album for him. or a style council compilation.

rirv · #12 08-02-2008, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob

how much do i have to insult you to make you pay attention to me

I edited my first post you whining bastard.
Hell I forgot loads of people, Notriousa LOL aka the Ayatollah of Iran (you dirty bitch) aka My Online Alias, Sarky devotchka, Bitchamatchahahaaaa, Abe Froman, paul jones (has he been locked up yet?), Adam G, mp73 erm... erm... HEIRESS, etc.

Bob · #13 08-02-2008, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by rirv

I edited my first post you whining bastard.
Hell I forgot loads of people, Notriousa LOL aka the Ayatollah of Iran (you dirty bitch) aka My Online Alias, Sarky devotchka, Bitchamatchahahaaaa, Abe Froman, paul jones (has he been locked up yet?), Adam G, mp73 erm... erm... HEIRESS, etc.

that'll do

King PSYZ · #14 08-02-2008, 08:14 PM

I have to say I was kind of a dick back then, I think having a kid now has mellowed me out a bit as far as internets stuff goes... Some things I guess I am more uptight about now.

It's odd though, I always pictured you as a skinny dude which is why you hated me for being a "Fat American". Didn't expect you to be a shy kid either.

Glad to hear you've done well. I wish I had gone back to school but now I just have to make sure my little one gets the oppertunity to do so.

rirv · #15 08-02-2008, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by King PSYZ

I have to say I was kind of a dick back then, I think having a kid now has mellowed me out a bit as far as internets stuff goes... Some things I guess I am more uptight about now.

It's odd though, I always pictured you as a skinny dude which is why you hated me for being a "Fat American". Didn't expect you to be a shy kid either.

Glad to hear you've done well. I wish I had gone back to school but now I just have to make sure my little one gets the oppertunity to do so.

I think everyone, in their mind's eye at least, was "a dick back then", me included.

Dorothy Wood · #16 08-02-2008, 09:06 PM

hi rirv! it's me, sarky.

Lyman Zerga · #17 08-03-2008, 05:50 AM

DDD is now even hotter, with glasses and stuff but some gaylord stole her from us!

Lyman Zerga · #18 08-03-2008, 06:16 AM

oh and

BOB IS STILL A VIRGIN!!!!!HAHAH!!

me too btw

na§tee · #19 08-03-2008, 07:08 AM

ha! blast from the past!

i'm okay, thanks for asking. here, have a bite of my bacon sandwich with brown sauce.

mikizee · #20 08-03-2008, 07:33 AM

I want a fucking bacon sandwich

NOW

venusvenus123 · #21 08-03-2008, 07:40 AM

hi rirv. i like your post. it's like a walk down memory lane.

everyone's coming back these days.

i'd just like to tell all that rirv is not exactly chubby. strapping 6ft plus rower type. but not chubby! i always felt safe with him at those festivals

remember you and jadge said i was smaller than you imagined.

say hi to jadge. he's dropped off my facebook i think

we should do pizza at kings again someday.

HEIRESS · #22 08-03-2008, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by rirv

I edited my first post you whining bastard.
Hell I forgot loads of people, Notriousa LOL aka the Ayatollah of Iran (you dirty bitch) aka My Online Alias, Sarky devotchka, Bitchamatchahahaaaa, Abe Froman, paul jones (has he been locked up yet?), Adam G, mp73 erm... erm... HEIRESS, etc.

last one before the "etc"?
tsk tsk.

I do miss you though.

alruggs · #23 08-03-2008, 03:21 PM

Hi! Just last week I (for some odd reason) clicked to page 1 on the Family Album. And there you were!. And I was thinking, "Hmm, I kind of miss that guy. I wonder what he's up to."

Me? Lost over 100 lbs. Work at the same place but make twice the money. One of my employees was brutally murdered last year. Lost a dear friend to cancer in March. Lost one of my dogs 3 days after that. My mom just kicked breast cancer in the arse. I'm sure there's stuff I'm forgetting.

abcdefz · #24 08-03-2008, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by rirv

abcdefz must have been there talking about how much he despises Tom Hanks (probably because his films are in colour) and the best sushi restaurant to go to in downtown San Fransisco. How very... quaint.

Actually, I stick up for Hanks quite a bit. He doesn't get a fair shake around here.