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 Magpies 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.
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Was lurking since 2002, but didn't sign up until after a drunken bender after watching an AB game in 2004. Hence the rather erm special username.
2007 was gut-wrenching. I actually said that I wanted to give up supporting the abs, because the RWC pain was getting too much to take. The fact that they were dudded by Barnes made it much worse. It was like some kind of farking curse. But of course my exile lasted until the very first game of the next season.
Wayback Machine
All Blacks named - for real.
