Festive WDYTOE Spectacular

[Baz]

I did a list.

I'm 29.

[JPA]

Yeah but you never have, or will, lead a very fulfilling existence.

[Giggles]

Who is this plum anyway?

[mugbull]

Yeah who the fuck

[Magic]

I'd take a wild punt and say people have better things to do with their time than spend 4 hours writing a list.

4 hours? What a spaz!







More like 8...over the course of 2 weeks.

[Foe]

I did a list.

I'm 29.

Fuck off are you older than me wiTh that hairline

I'll do one when I'm off for Xmas. WDYTOE is great for passing pre Xmas days.

[Baz]

Fuck off are you older than me wiTh that hairline

My hairline is actually secretly terrible.

Getting my haircut tomorrow and I'm gonna ask her never to cut the front ever again, in fear of it no longer growing.

[JPA]

4 hours? What a spaz!







More like 8...over the course of 2 weeks.

If you've got one hand maybe.

[Foe]

My hairline is actually secretly terrible.

Getting my haircut tomorrow and I'm gonna ask her never to cut the front ever again, in fear of it no longer growing.

Buzz cut brothers soon.

[Magic]

If you've got one hand maybe.

Cock in other.

[Queenslander]

Wedge?

[Mazuuurk]

Who is JPA?

[Giggles]

I'm guessing Zimidy with the Villa connection.

[Kikó]

It's JPA, 3rd famous Villa poster on the board. A bit like the West Brom.

[Giggles]

Richie is surely 3rd.

[Kikó]

Richie is 2nd. Mainly because of his death.

[Lewis]

So what is it? Zimidy, Richie, and then this JPA person. Oh, and Dr Barry as well. Was enigma a Villa fan? We can't have had that many.

[Giggles]

Mellin is top dog surely.

[Lewis]

I don't know who that is (and surely it would be 'Melvin'?).

[Magic]

Lol @ being a so called 'published writer' and not being able to do a WDYTOE. Peaked too early.

[John]

Magic embracing the Netmums staple of misusing the term 'so called'.

[Magic]

You'll get your so called comeuppance in time.

[Spammer]

Can't believe the Phonics BOTTLE JOB of stopping half-way through a list. I was next too. Unbelievable.

[Smiffy]

JPA was the Aston Villa supporting shelf stacker for Lidl who believed he'd rise to the top and take on his own store once upon a time, no? He's right on this occasion though, WDYTOE threads are from a bygone era.

[Baz]

I always liked JPA, but I think it was cos he was mates with Whizz.

[Adamski]

Disappointed at the lack of so called engineer responses.

[Kikó]

So what is it? Zimidy, Richie, and then this JPA person. Oh, and Dr Barry as well. Was enigma a Villa fan? We can't have had that many.

The quite excellent Melling, Richie, JPA, Zimidy, Dr Barry. RIP to all of them, they're with the angles now.

[Magic]

People from the Midlands have been the biggest freaks on here.

[Kikó]

I didn't know you were from the midlands.

[JPA]

I was more infamous than famous.

Mellin was tough, he did bird. Enigma was a bit of a moany old git. I just about remember Zimidy but no idea who them other two are.

Smiffy, get it right, it was ASDA �� That soon got sacked off for a life on the road Merchandising.

And Baz, I'm still mates with Whizz on FB. He is a top bloke, married now. He was the one who'd start most the shit then sit back and enjoy the fireworks when I argued with nearly every single person on the board before being banned.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pretty sad making lists of forum posters and what you think of them, imo.

[Spammer]

It's good to read other peoples' though, even if I do only ever look at their entry for myself.

I assume that's also what most other people do. Personally I don't care what Phonics thinks of James and so on.

[Lewis]

It's a bit of fun, and a chance to draw a cheap seethe out of some people. I don't know why fannies are always looking to paint it as some sort of validation exercise, when in reality it's nothing compared to all those awards I won for being popular and great.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Since we're agreed, you can have a list. It's actually more a stream of consciousness than a list, so apologies to those whose entries aren't even about them, and I chopped a lot of people for whom nothing immediately came to mind, so apologies to them too.

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Adamski ― I don’t know if he used to have another name but I’ve noticed him in the last year as an increasingly amusing presence. For some reason, there is a certain manner in which the Scot is often quite funny, a sort of balls-to-the-wall gallows directness which the Englishman, with his privilege and his soft drinks that are not amber hell, can never quite emulate.
Amigo ― When I met him in London, in 2011, and bought him a coca-cola (with ice), he failed to finish it during the three-odd hours that he, I and other TTHers sat around a pub table. I have never forgiven him, and I never shall.
Andy Mahowry ― Perhaps his Andy Murray schtick (what is that? Something Jews throw for a dog?) was a long-game attempt to get himself up towards the top of the WDYTOE list, in which case I congratulate him most heartily on his success. In all other respects, I commiserate him on his failure.
Baz ― I really like Baz these days, even though, were we ever to meet, we’d probably be less likely to enjoy ourselves than Hendrik Verwoerd at the MOBOs. But, you know, each to his own.
Blitz ― Saffa, which, as can be seen in the above entry, isn’t a good start in life, but he seems nice and most importantly, likes cricket, which is the one true sign of a good man.
Boydy ― I reckon you could send him one of Sir Harvey Yevrah’s famous triple cunted hookers, on the house – or, let’s say, paid for by a workers’ collective - and each cunt could be fitted with a specially adapted monitor for him to play those stupid pet gifs to his heart’s content, and she could ride him like Red Rum every night for a year whilst three virtual Fidos do funny faces and fart, and he’d still find something to whinge about.
bruhnaldo ― I find it very hard to relate to his football posts. I discovered the sport in the mid-90s, as a 6-8 year old, sitting eating a crumpet at the kitchen table on cold, dark winter teatimes, listening to the classified results on the telly. My family had no Sky in those days and even if we had, I think it was only 1 televised game a week at the time. So my introduction to football was through the medium of ‘Tranmere Rovers one; Stockport County one’ being read out by an august old man and the pools results would come in afterwards – ‘Five score draws, one no score draw’ – and then it would be time for the latest news from the IRA or the Bosnian war, followed by a repeat of Dad’s Army (some things never change) and then Jim Davidson’s Generation Game would start, at which point my mother would turn the TV off, but I’d still remember ‘Tottenham Hotspur two; Queens Park Rangers three’, and from there the childhood-long obsession began. I think bruh’s introduction to football was probably as far away from that as it’s possible to be whilst still in the same language.
Byron ― Good poster, I’d sometimes like to see him post in more detail, but then I’ve said that about people before and they’ve turned out to produce out the sort of stuff that normally adorns the inside of South Croydon minicabs at five in the morning.
Chrissy ― Genuine, and there is a lot to be said for that.
Clunge ― I’d love to hear from him a detailed, no holds barred account of the local journalism trade in 2016 (or 2017, or 2020, or a year of his choosing). I don’t know if this forum grants sufficient anonymity for him to do so. I find it remarkable that something that is a basic tenet of civilised society is being basically smothered to death. Surely if anything there should be more journalism in this day and age, not none at all. I suppose the problem is that nobody pays for it since the internet, but we lose so much as a society and a country just from the loss of that one thing, it genuinely pains me. I hope I’ve got the right bloke here.
Cord ― I honestly don’t get why he doesn’t post more. It clearly can’t be because he has anything better to do, and he’s the funniest poster on here, give or take, so come on.
Danny ― Good, underrated poster, the board needs more like him.
Dark Soldier ― If he’s happy, I’m happy.
Davgooner ― Has barely been seen since Tronald Dump got elected? Perhaps he’s taken the van stateside. Although he seemed to take more pleasure from Hillary Clinton’s defeat than displeasure from The Donald’s oh so glorious victory, so he must have gone full lefty.
dino ― I still don’t buy betting as a job. It must be so fucking miserable and stressful to have your livelihood riding on whether or not some gangland under 19 side from the slums of Bratislava have been bunged enough to bother that day. I suppose it’s a fairly slippery slope towards doing the bunging oneself.
Disco ― One of the best. I haven’t managed to work out whether he’s one of those long-haired, long-bearded grungey types who repairs things and is known as a bit of a ‘character’, or a more austere designer with a slick jawline who sits at a table signing off drawings and has never set foot on the factory floor. Probably somewhere in between. Or more likely just neither.
elth ― Have I ever told the story of when I met elth? I think I have, but probably at another meet and not on here. So I had never seen a picture of elth, and he PM’d me telling me he would be wearing green shoes. OK, I thought. So I was a bit early and stood outside the pub waiting for a mid to late twenties Aussie with green shoes to come around the corner. I’m not sure why I didn’t just go in and buy a drink, but this was my first ever TTH meet I think, I was quite young and a bit nervous. A few minutes pass and then a bloke with longish hair rocks up on the opposite side of the doorway, wearing green shoes, and starts looking edgily around and checking his phone. Well, he’s a bit older than I expected, I thought, but how many people in 2009 wear green shoes? So I shuffled over to him and said ‘Nice green shoes,’ because it suddenly occurred to me that I didn’t know his actual name and I didn’t want to call him ‘elth’. The bloke just looked at me like I was ill, and at that moment I realised it wasn’t elth at all, and dived into the pub out of sheer embarrassment, at which point I saw Raoul Duke having just come in on the other side and from then on acted, I think, like a relatively normal human being. Elth’s real shoes proved greener still.
Foe ― There’s surely only so much you can do in fucking, you know, up there. I know he’s been to Shetland so the river Styx probably seems like the Elysian Fields in comparison, but come on, move to Texas. Or have you already done that? I lose track. Nice chap, when I met him.
Giggles ― Really outstanding poster, even though he is the most miserable sod this side of the Pyrenees. Seems to have zero awareness of anything outside his immediate environment, which to be honest is probably the way to go. The reason he’s a great poster is that he’ll be bumbling along being the miserable bastard he is, a mild discussion will take place and he’ll suddenly change the pace by calling someone a ‘fucking rat cunt’ for no discernible reason. I tip my hat.
GS ― The Bard of Belfast, or at least he would be if ‘Bard’ referred to meticulous accountancy rather than elegant verse. Do you remember where you were when Michael Jackson announced his farewell tour? It was branded THIS IS IT. Sadly for Jackson, he was pushing up daisies before THIS IS IT ever came to fruition. GS’s repeated use of the phrase whilst adding a generally superfluous hot take in politics threads has ruined those special memories of MJ, so much so that I associate the two with each other. The GS ‘Thriller’ gags write themselves, so I’ll concoct a much more laboured effort surrounding ‘Beat It’ in which he spits the lyrics in a tuneless Paisley accent to a drum-playing youngster at the back of an orangemen’s parade who, frankly, grows tired of the constant advice.
Hammer ― The centrepiece of his various, very entertaining, tales always seems to be the striking up of conversation with a total stranger for no particular reason, which, being the patriotic Englishman I am, fills me with utter seething hatred for the bastard.
Henry ― I love his book reviews. I’d actually buy a book – say, for 15 quid – of Henry reviewing every book he’s ever read in the 200 word fashion he does.
hfswjyr ― Wonder if he’s yet met anyone who isn’t either a humourless anzac or a fat, mouthy Saffa.
Ian Webly ― Ian Webly is a great persona. He sounds like an anal bastard from a local news report. ‘Now, bird-watchers across the county will be pleased to know that the first breeding pair of yellow-tailed pottinges for almost three decades has been spotted nesting in the Shropshire Hills. I’m joined now by Ian Webly, from the Ludlow and district birdwatchers’ association. Thanks for joining us, Ian. It’s certainly good news for wildlife lovers, but what is the wider significance of this sighting?’ ‘Well, Amanda, what your viewers may not know *glances disdainfully to camera 1* is that the yellow-tailed pottinge is not yellow-tailed at all – in fact, from a distance, it looks rather more like a brown-feathered morningtwat than a European nighthawk, and that’s something that newcomers often get wrong. You see…’
igor_balis ― Given that he likes both cricket and Saint Etienne, he really should be my tragic born-in-the-wrong-decade blood brother. The fact that he definitely isn’t is to his great credit.
ItalAussie ― The problem Ital and I encounter is that we are both used to being right 95% of the time – he about fluid mechanics, physics and other things that contribute to the betterment of humanity, I about sandwich fillings, batting orders and other things that do not. As such, occasionally we hit little impasses on here where neither of us will back down. Still, your weekend elections are shit.
John ― Also has the jock humour as noted in my entry for Adamski, but whereas the latter deploys it more in little bursts of gunfire, John is more of a NATO airstrike campaign. Sometimes he misses the target and wipes out a load of civilians, but fuck it, innocent people deserve painful deaths for our amusement sometimes.
John Arne ―
Kikó ― He is a delightful chap. He has always seemed the same poster (at least to me), which is odd when you think he’s only about my age or maybe younger – 27-28? – and so we must have had a good chunk of his teenage years, as well as the cappuccino follow-up and its emerging soya latte successor. His posting is a weird hybrid of ultra-cynicism and the opposite, but all good stuff.
Lee ― I can only assume he’s in the same hideout as Paddy Ashdown, George Osborne and co, plotting their way out of Brexit Britain. Crack open a packet of custard creams (chocolate digestives absolute max) and enjoy it.
leedsrevolution ― His place in the world of fucking weird drunken posting is similar to that of Tolstoy in the world of literature – seminal, and irreplaceable, but actually reading it is a bad experience.
Lewis ― I think I’ve already done ‘The best poster I know, definitely the best poster you know’ in the past, so instead of that I’ll offer some incisive social commentary. All the Tony Blair theory – the fact that he politicised the civil service, the fact that red wine wasn’t as cheap prior to 1997, the fact that wheely bins are rubbish and the outside shots in Mr Bean are snapshots of a better Britain – all of this was Lewis’s original idea, and he’s mentioned it at least as often on the board as I have, and presents it more eloquently and in a more entertaining fashion than I do - and yet I’m widely credited with it. What does this say about society? What it says is that we only see in people what we want and expect to see in them. Nobody wants to see a far-fetched politico-sociological theory from Lewis – they want to see him do wrestling references, obscure TTH history because he has a spreadsheet (he actually just has an incredible memory, which is presumably also a big help in writing an academic book without slitting your wrists), and off-colour jokes about the dead. Similarly, people in the wider world don’t want to see a tough-looking, direct-speaking northern bloke with a thick accent be smarter than them, and nor do they want to give such a person a job. It’s how life is now – people don’t just judge a book by its cover, they judge a book by the cover they think it should have. They probably think ‘Duncan Sandys and British Nuclear Policy’ should have a picture of Duncan Sandys on the cover. How little they know.
Magic ― I have always seen this board as a completely separate thing to the rest of my life, and this stayed so even once the era of social media dawned. The ‘persona’ of Jimmy Floyd that I post with is not consciously separate to my actual character, but over the years it has somewhat evolved so. Offline I am less forthright, more boring (I know, right?), and a lot more laid back. I am aware this is not the same for everyone and it’s probably been to my detriment in terms of getting as much out of modern-day TTH as I once did. Nowadays, we are much more in the Baz camp of being completely open and transparent, with the forum persona and the real person being one and the same. Over the years, TTH has had posters ranging from the Baz types through to total secrecy like Oimoi/niko_cee, and everything in between, and I think that diversity has been to our great benefit as a board. Magic the poster is generally very engaging, interesting to read, very funny – yes, with a bit of a dark edge, but that’s a good thing. Magic the bloke is none of my business, but I hope he’s like Magic the poster.
Manc ― I know he posts a fair bit but I probably confuse him with others and/or it fades into the background – but you’re sound, I think. Do correct me if I’m wrong.
Max Power ― Great company in the cricket thread along with the rest of the crew. He posts very rarely about his own life so I was disappointed to read in the recent thread that it was only packing a 4/10. Upwards next year.
Mazuuurk ― Lovely chap, he was the first and perhaps only TTHer to get me blind drunk and Jesus Christ I was young then. Not even 20, I don’t think, and I was a late developer; later, indeed, than that evening. Surprised I survived it.
Mellberg ― Hopefully his absence means pleasure for him and not for Her Majesty.
The Merse ― Seems to have overcome that little bump in the road and is pressing on into the delightful tedium of his thirties, a state at which I can only gaze enviously on.
Mert ― If it’s an act, it’s pretty convincing. I like to think that it’s not an act, and is all true. Accusations that America has gone ‘post-truth’ are, in my view, deeply unfounded. They never had any truth in the first place, it’s a country founded on a load of absolute bullshit and has continued along that path ever since. We should have just taken it back in 1812.
Mike ― Historically preferred him to Baz but less convinced of that these days.
mo ― Seems a good guy, always enjoy reading his posts about what it’s like being a teacher. I know a teacher who’s like 23 and ridiculously optimistic about it, presumably because he’s only just started.
mokbull ― Gah. I’ve tried to be as nice about everyone as not being a pious cunt allows, but what can you say?
niko_cee ― Probably one of the best posters without actually putting any effort into it, which probably says a bit about both us and him.
Offshore Toon ― Good to see you again. You seem happier than in the old days.
Panda Bear ― I like that he still pops in. Always been a nice chap, even though I think we had a period of disliking each other which is so long ago I’m not convinced it actually happened.
Pen ― I rarely see him post nowadays, but he was always good.
Pepe ― Gets a lot of flak, including probably from me in past editions of these lists, but he’s sound as a peso, which is actually not sound at all, but oh well.
phonics ― I find his political posts pretty risible and never quite see what the point of them is, but aside from that, he seems like a very honest sort of individual and when you get him down to actually posting from the heart rather than reposting stuff from twitter, he is very interesting to read.
Queenslander ― Quality as always. Keep a couple of tinnies cold for my entirely fictional trip to Brisbane.
randomlegend ― I don’t get his chip-on-shoulderness about things. If I ever post anything vaguely off message he’s always the first to leap in and call it horseshit in a fairly aggressive manner – I’m sure it often is horseshit, but there’s no need to stand to attention like Mert’s piece in front of a mirror, particularly when you could be spending the time making 10/10 confectionery and posting pictures of it.
Raoul Duke ― Cool dude and I want his predictions of technological dystopia to come to fruition sooner rather than later. The robots will probably eat him first, mind.
Reg ― Has toned down the tactics truck stuff now, or realised the error of his ways, or both, or I’ve changed my mind, or some combination of all of the above, or it was a myth in the first place, and now he’s one of the best posters on football.
Sam ― Like Manc, I know he’s around but hard to distinguish, probably for generic username or avatar reasons. Is this the Wolves fan? You’re alright.
Samadini ― Total geezer, seems to have less time for us these days but hopefully that’s for nice reasons.
Shindig ― Still, after all these years, has a funny turn of phrase. Seems completely out of touch in a lot of ways but I suppose that comes from living in Gateshead or wherever the fuck he has to spend his days.
Smiffy ― He reminds me of my dog, and I don’t mean he smells bad and shits in the garden, although he may. What my dog does, and I imagine most dogs are like this, is she can only operate at two speeds – complete all-out pull-your-hamstring sprinting frenzy, or asleep in front of the fire. She does pull out a little businesslike brisk trot when she takes a chew out into the garden, but that is just for show. Everything is geared towards moments of sprinting ecstasy, or moments of slovenly inertia, and that is how it will always be. Still, I like my dog, she’s a lot more likeable than I am, and the household is better for having her in it.
Spikey M ― Seems a really nice guy these days. I mean, I may have thought that before, but it was so long ago that R Kelly was at number one and Pards was still alive, so I really can’t remember.
Spoonsky ― I love Spoonsky. If I ever pass through Utah again (though to be honest once in my life was probably enough) I’ll stop by for a *insert stupid measure Americans use* of Jesus Juice.
SvN ― Good these days. Used to wind me up, doesn’t anymore. I suspect we’ve both got older. Well, I know we’ve both got older. But you know what I mean.
7om ― Is one of the better posters when he is around.
Vim ― Managing to be both Italian and Danish is pretty impressive. Both ends of the European shitness spectrum. Hamlet, and the Merchant of Venice. Highly taxed, and terribly organised. Crap pastries, and crap breakfast. Von Trier, and Pasolini. Bjarne Goldbaek, and Gabriele Ambrosetti. Poor guy.
Waffdon ― Seems to have descended into one syllable only now.
wullie ― Still up there with corduroy for funniest poster, and Lewis I suppose, but the former two benefit from being a better player when you’re on the bench.
Yevrah ― As close as we’ve ever come to the soul of the board, drifts in and out these days but I reckon he’s got one last big posting spree in him. Mind you, I said that about SG. I wonder what became of him. This wouldn’t have been a good year for SG. Might have been a Brexit suicide.

[Lewis]

It was 2010. Friday 21 May, 2010.

[Jimmy Floyd]

So it was.

[bruhnaldo]

bruhnaldo ― I find it very hard to relate to his football posts. I discovered the sport in the mid-90s, as a 6-8 year old, sitting eating a crumpet at the kitchen table on cold, dark winter teatimes, listening to the classified results on the telly. My family had no Sky in those days and even if we had, I think it was only 1 televised game a week at the time. So my introduction to football was through the medium of ‘Tranmere Rovers one; Stockport County one’ being read out by an august old man and the pools results would come in afterwards – ‘Five score draws, one no score draw’ – and then it would be time for the latest news from the IRA or the Bosnian war, followed by a repeat of Dad’s Army (some things never change) and then Jim Davidson’s Generation Game would start, at which point my mother would turn the TV off, but I’d still remember ‘Tottenham Hotspur two; Queens Park Rangers three’, and from there the childhood-long obsession began. I think bruh’s introduction to football was probably as far away from that as it’s possible to be whilst still in the same language.

Not exactly off but we're not exactly too far apart either. When I first got into football it was basically off of playing FIFA, but as far as televised matches go, it was nearly the same. Honestly, I'm not sure any Premier League games were televised. If they were, we didn't get the SPORTS PACKAGE through the cable to watch them. So, given that matches weren't televised over here like they are nowadays, I used to sit at my compuiter on "ESPN'S SOCCERNET" and read minute by minute updates of matches. Talk about a boring, tedious exercise.

One such glory I remember from those days with the infamous "pizzagate" match. Louis Saha and Alan Smith setting up Rooney to tap-in the 2nd of the 2:0 and I'm running around my house like a lunatic. My mom asked what I was doing and I told her that United just won. She asked if I was somehow watching it online (this was before streaming was good) and she was puzzled that I could legit sit at my computer and read these minute by minute updates for hours on end. At that point she swiftly told me to get outside and go do something productive lol.

[7om]

Yeah, the entry for bruh was great. Exactly how I was introduced to football in the early 90s.

[Baz]

Tell your parents to get sky you scruffs.

That's what I'd say if I could go back in time 20 years and go round yours.

[Lewis]

We used to get rid of Sky periodically, like when they put the price up or whatever, and it always seemed to coincide with when WCW (which was available on Bravo/TNT, which was free if you kept the box) was good.

[Giggles]

Oh and @Baz, forget that PM I sent you (if you ever read it) when you're in Dublin go to the Brew Dock. Just don't under any circumstances walk to it.

[Spikey M]

"Chrissy ― Genuine, and there is a lot to be said for that." Followed by absolutely nothing being sad about it got a lol.

Great list, that. You really nailed @John Arne

[Adamski]

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7om - I enjoyed 7om's posting when I was a lurker, my increased activity seems to have coinciding with him disappearing. Chinese wife right? We lose everything to China these days.
Alan Shearer The 2nd - Dundee person, loves cars more than humans
Andy - Really good on football, thought he vanished but popped up again recently which was nice
Andy Mahowry - Just, I don't know. Seems to try and take the piss out of himself but it doesn't quite come off as anything approaching funny. Still responsible for some of the most inanely, brain frazzlingly, dull posts on here. Mostly in little things that fuck you off and mostly about forgetting that he had ordered socks and then this time where his socks arrived and he wore them.
Baz - A good egg, I bizarrely enjoy his job posts even if the mileage (!!) is ridiculous. Seems like a normal guy but has that geeky side to him as well.
Boydy - Fuck up everyone, Boydy is great. I must have missed the historic whinge everyone is still going on about. You can tell he's 5 minutes away from a fuckery meltdown at all times, but I think we have a similar humour.
bruhnaldo - Jimmy nailed it, I think. Total clash of cultures and just too AMERICAN WOO SOCCER YEAH PUT IT IN THE HOLE.
Byron - An FM stalwart, but not noticed him about that much recently.
Chrissy - I don't mind when he's promoting his comedy gigs, but much prefer when he's shit the bed and posting about it.
CJay - Doesn't Cjays house have the great view out the window? As soon as it snows get a 2016 photo posted.
Danny - Still remember that epic Crewe save from a few years back, loved it.
Dark Soldier - An absolute monster in the film thread, him and Spoonsky keep me going when I'm looking for something to watch, although I don't always post my thanks.
Demerit - Estate agent.
dino - Not much interaction with dino, even though he's from Glasgow too. Hope everythings cool.
Disco - Love Disco, he enjoys a bit of Giggle baiting as much as I do but aside from that he's generally very funny. I think we have similar senses of humour.
Dquincy - I'm not sure what the schtick is. Is he coming on every so often and posting ironically as if he thinks he's genuinely trying to wind people up? Or is this what he classes as being funny? Either way it's awfully odd.
Foe - Foe's a nice guy, does seem like he's starring in his very own Bridget Jones film though.
Giggles - Total cunt but I've warmed to him recently. I can't get any more mileage out of the hipster chat so there's nothing else for it but to appreciate the simplicities of a man who has no interesting in absolutely fucking anything except Android phones and lager.
Gray Fox - Not much interaction recently, the work chat has died down and quite unremarkable on football.
GS - Don't agree with a huge portion of what he posts, he's essentially a British Mert but has the brains to do it with greater subtlety.
Hammer - Hammer's a good lad, if Igor is Oscar Wylde then Hammer can be Rabbie Burns.
Ian - Ian seems like a nice guy, the kind you would meet outside a pub smoking and go back in and have a whisky together and chat about the football. As your trips to the toilet synchronize, things would get awkward, but it would be fine.
igor_balis - I don't know what you're referring to in your entry but you're alright for a star gazing mong.
Jimmy Floyd - What a turn of phrase Jimmy has, probably the best on the board. The postings in the job thread have been quite fun. Still prone to the odd inexplicable comment in a football thread passed off as fact despite it being utterly ridiculous. Also seemed to go out of his way to let everyone know he wasn't watching the Premier League as if he was better than that, until Chelsea started not being shite. Really good guy though.
John - Interesting to read in the FM thread but other than that doesn't really offer much. Seems to go off on one with people at the very smallest thing, is one of the most pedantic posters on the board and still continues to come across as such a smug know it all wanker in the TV thread.
John Arne - By the way he posts, I don't know how he survives in Asia. Genuinely seems to come across as being permanently surprised at everything, however trivial. Glad the football threads are back on track and we don't need to guess the fucking timezone.
Kikó - I really like Kiko, just seems like a genuinely nice guy who has similar interests to myself and I could happily go for a pint with.
Lee - He's missed from the board, like I said the other day, if people don't find this place interesting any more then fair enough but the beauty of the place is having a conversation about carrots and then someone wades in with an outlandish opinion and before you know it Mahow is sitting in the corner crywanking into his own socks. You won't get that in the group.
leedsrevolution - Seems to have calmed down a bit, still prone to the odd bout of madness.
Lewis - Lewis is alright, seems to just be a bit snarky these days without really offering anything. Get a job.
Magic - I do love digging him out but to be fair to him he takes it quite well. He's a genuinely interesting poster even if I do thing large parts of it are made up for our entertainment.
Mike - I don't mind Mike although he does seem like a massive cuddly dork. Sorry Baz.
Pepe - Pepe is OK, but just seems so lethargic I'm surprised he doesn't fall asleep halfway through posts. Maybe that's why theyre all so short.
phonics - Decent and quite helpful, seems to get a bad rep for no reason. No denying he dresses like a cunt.
randomlegend - Can be prone to the odd tantrum but quite enjoy his posts in the food thread.
Raoul Duke - Big fan of Raoul, another one with very similar interests to mine and would be happy to go for a pint with.
Shindig - Shinners is harmless, like that old uncle who gets wasted at Christmas and pisses himself. Seems to have calmed down the brain thuddingly dull posts about printers and the mythical 'WORK' not coming in. Definitely fancies this fat cow at his work and isn't emotionally prepared to deal with it.
Smiffy - Comes across as such a smug know it all in football threads, glad those ridiculous predictions seem to have stopped. A very high opinion of himself and absolutely prone to a meltdown at tiny little things. Always fun to do.
Spikey M - Spikey is solid. SImilar stage of life to myself and adapting well to the general dull crushing monotony of fatherhood and suburbia where life's only pleasures coming from pretending you're away for a poo but you're actually having a wank.
Spoonsky - Nice enough little fellow. Seems genuinely quite a bohemian hipster sort rather than putting it on for show.
SvN - Another good guy, never skim his posts but can't think of much more to say.
The Merse - Christ that break up hit hard. Merse is definitely a bit of a try hard, always wants to be seen to be doing something cool and OUT THERE.
Waffdon - Another I love digging out but he doesn't take it as well. I see him as the kid at school you used to dare to eat deodorant for 10p or throw dog shit in people's hoods and get a kicking, but he he did it anyway and was happy because you let him stand next to you at lunchtime.
wullie - Some of the one liners are awesome, especially subtle ones hidden in the middle of massive paragraphs of text.
Yevrah - Not much to say these days, FM and movies were/are good, but not about so much anymore.

[Magic]

I'll take people thinking I'm making stuff up.

[Kikó]

For the 5th year in a row, I've read all of Jimmy's list. Good effort.

(And you Adam)

[ItalAussie]

For all that we've shrunk in the last few years, this is still a damn good online community. It really is.

You guys are great, and one day I'll write a list to tell you all why.

[Manc]

I'll produce the goods at some point over the holidays. Can't imagine it will differ too much from my last.

On the whole it seems the board has mellowed. No coincidence given certain figures have left.

[Spoonsky]

Boydy ― I reckon you could send him one of Sir Harvey Yevrah’s famous triple cunted hookers, on the house – or, let’s say, paid for by a workers’ collective - and each cunt could be fitted with a specially adapted monitor for him to play those stupid pet gifs to his heart’s content, and she could ride him like Red Rum every night for a year whilst three virtual Fidos do funny faces and fart, and he’d still find something to whinge about.

Fucking hell.

Jimmy going fully mental would be good for the board if that list is any indication.

[Spammer]

We used to get rid of Sky periodically, like when they put the price up or whatever, and it always seemed to coincide with when WCW (which was available on Bravo/TNT, which was free if you kept the box) was good.

Aye I remember Nitro being on TNT after 9pm on a Friday once Cartoon Network had finished.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We got Sky in 1998. I don't think a great many people had it before that sort of time, although saying that I think we became a lot more well off around the '97 mark (funny that) so it could be confirmation bias.