How long you been here?
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MIne says 46 years.....
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Just 9 years for me - Higgins gave me the tip that this place existed, and I've been losing time here ever since
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11 years , its funny I cant remember the beginning to be honest ,
my strongest memory of the beginning , was that morning after the 2007 quarter final , but that was 2 years later
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11 years also. I was struck by the international flavour of the site back then, and as a prop finding two gems like Bartman and Red Beard sharing yarns... well end of story.
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I stumbled across the Fern about 2001 after a shocking Super 12 season by the Saders. But it wasn't until I met a fellow Ferner in person at the beginning of 2005 that I started posting.
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Mid-2008. Wish i had been here for the 2007 meltdown
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five years ago apparently. Although I was crapping on online around 2000 on rsru...
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This link has Bart mulling over the team selection pre the game that didn't happen.
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@mariner4life said in How long you been here?:
Mid-2008. Wish i had been here for the 2007 meltdown
Still holds the record for the most new posters and most bans in one evening.
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2003 for me. I heard about it on Brendan Telfers show on RS.
Still remember my first post in a thread about good/funny/biting sporting put-downs.
MvJ climbed into me and it made it very clear I was an ignoramus and my suggestion (Bunce saying that's a lot of penalties when told England had beaten Scotland by 20 points or similar) was neither funny, good or biting.
I lurked for a while after that...
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My little brother who was a lurker here sent me a link around 2006, after reading some of the ridiculous theories some people were pulling out of their arses I had to sign up to put them in their place. Been my go-to since then, and thank fuck for that because MSM has been deteriorating at a rate of knots in that time.
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I came online straight after the game , i watched the game with kiwi friends and family at home , and they left straight away in disguist. All of a sudden I was alone .
I started a thread about us being chokers or something negative , it had a couple of replies and was on page 2 in a matter of minutes there was so many new threads starting .
It was chaos .
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I don't really remember the meltdown too much on the day, even though I likely participated over the week.
But, I was up at a friends in HB who didn't have internet, and while I had an internet enabled phone (I can't remember what it was called, it was the same era as a Palm Treo) it was so slow that I didn't even bother using it.
Anyway, later that day the Shield Snorters thumped Waikato in the 1/4 final of the NPC (which was probably our first big win since the new comp had started) so I actually drove back up to Palmy in a good mood.