How long you been here?
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Since 2000 or 2001.
I used to post on a small international cricket site and a South African guy who posted there pointed me in this direction. He didn't stick around long but he posted here as Tsotse and he wasn't very popular.
Mind you - that cricket site was vicious - West Indians vs Jaapies and a bunch of Pakistanis thrown in - and a few of the rest of us. The race card was played left, right and centre - but, there were some very entertaining characters among them. Psychos, but entertaining.
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@jegga said in How long you been here?:
What I remmeber most about the 2007 q final was Redbeard starting a thread about having a really bad sense of foreboding about the game two days out . He was given the expected amount of grief about it, I don't think he took much pleasure out of being right though.
That was me, or at least I started a thread entitled "A dark feeling of foreboding".
There were a million threads after that game not to mention a million trolls. The mods had a massive job. The 2 wins have made it much easier to look back on those dark times. Perhaps I'll even watch that game again one day.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel I will never watch that game again.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in How long you been here?:
@jegga said in How long you been here?:
What I remmeber most about the 2007 q final was Redbeard starting a thread about having a really bad sense of foreboding about the game two days out . He was given the expected amount of grief about it, I don't think he took much pleasure out of being right though.
That was me, or at least I started a thread entitled "A dark feeling of foreboding".
There were a million threads after that game not to mention a million trolls. The mods had a massive job. The 2 wins have made it much easier to look back on those dark times. Perhaps I'll even watch that game again one day.
My apologies , unfortunately you were right.
I didn't post much after the game, the mods understandably had short fuses that day . It was right in the middle of that stupid "this is not a jersey" ad campaign and I posted on the match thread "this is not a jersey, its a second half choking device". I think it was about two minutes before it got deleted.
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It was certainly an interesting time for the fern.
I do recall someone posting at halftime in the game thread that even though we were up, it did have the 99 feel to it all. Proved to be on the mark.
The post match meltdown was pretty funny IMO. I couldn't delete posts fast enough.
However all the Barnes related stuff was a low point in Fern history from my perspective.
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there was a SA poster who was posting some tee about choking over and over until he got banned within an hour or so...
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I remember there was a guy with Mooloo in his name that would ridicule anyone for feeling nervous in the days leading up, its a certainty he would say , this is not a dangerous French team he said, France are shit ,
Pretty sure he went missing , I looked out for him afterwards to see his reaction , but never saw him again
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My profile says 13 years, which seems an age, but would tie in with RWC 2003.
Seems like many of my posts have disappeared over the years. Remember one when we were debating ABs 12 at point when DC was tried there and pointed out Nonu would be awesome there if he could kick! -
I shared the 2007 drama with fellow Ferner, the esteemed Shark. The power went out at my dad's place just out of Christchurch, so I called Shark and asked if I could pop in to his place above the Night N Day at Lower Riccarton. Got there (purchased some snacks on the way up - as you do) and slowly watched the horror unfold. I don't even know if we spoke after the final whistle - I think I just left in shock.
He may or may not have finished off my prawn chips.
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@Kruse said in How long you been here?:
38 minutes - I finally had to sign up instead of just lurking, to get rid of the highly visible white screen while at work.
Dammit.Welcom to the crazy house
You can check out, but you can never leave!
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Since about 8am, when I logged in to read the comments on the All Blacks vs Pumas and Qantas Harmless Wallabies vs Springboks.
Why do you want to know this? Are you from Border Protection or Medieval Death Cult Watch? ... oh, I see now.
January 16, 2007
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@Kruse said in How long you been here?:
38 minutes - I finally had to sign up instead of just lurking, to get rid of the highly visible white screen while at work.
Dammit.Welcome to the fern . Did you know I had a pre Bledisloe breakfast with Jerome Kaino, Damien MacKenzie, Joe Moody and Liam Squire?
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Profile says 7 years but definitely recall being a frequent poster somewhere around the cricketing summer of 06/7. Must not have moved the account properly after the last migration.
First solid memory was a thread entitled being Mills injured which pretty much consisted of posters cursing the OP for making them think Muliaina was out in the lead up to the RWC rather than Kyle Mils out of the Australian summer.
Read some of the articles for a couple of years before that too.
Was camping for the 2007 QF (watched a truck stop somewhere in mid north NSW) so missed out on that debacle but the Henry vs Deans fallout was an absolute shit storm and instead of new posters it was old vets.
PaarlBok will forever be the greatest.
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13 years ago while living in UK. Needed moral support during RWC and wasn't getting it on PR. For all the wackos we've had here over the years, they're tame (or banned quickly) compared to that place.
I think I self banned off all rugby discussion for a week after 2007 QF. Was just coming right then Wellington choked in yet another NPC final.
Cricket season couldn't start soon enough. At least we're used to being plucky underdogs there.
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Started during lions tour 2005. Have given myself a couple of time-outs, and even tried the competition for a while. I did get banned from GAGR for arguing with the lord of GAGR though (short-term only).
But like a fly to a piece of shit, I just keep coming back.
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@MajorRage said in How long you been here?:
Started during lions tour 2005. Have given myself a couple of time-outs, and even tried the competition for a while. I did get banned from GAGR for arguing with the lord of GAGR though (short-term only).
Mine was permanent. Turns out he didn't like being called out on a lie.