Popular topics from the old board

[Neil]

Why not let the people who thought of them originally start them up again?  Seems a bit fairer to me, and it means that we can sort of return to how things were.  I'm talking about topics like Links To Cool Things and Song Du Jour etc.

[butnut]

And maybe 'Who Do You Fancy?'

[Bilko]

Who's gonna start the 'Having a Wank at  Work'  thread

[terminallyrelaxed]

Sounds like a plan....

[Timmay]

Well fine, fuck you then Neil you nazi bastard. Christ, you try to help people out, get things moving around here, and shit gets fucking closed down!

(joke)

Jus' trying to help.

[Neil]

Well fine, fuck you then Neil you nazi bastard. Christ, you try to help people out, get things moving around here, and shit gets fucking closed down!

(joke)

Jus' trying to help.

Fuck off, cunt.

(joke)

Just wanted to be the first to say it to you on this board.

[Pinball]

:-)

[Timmay]

Hmm... you could've been more convincing with the (joke) there. I detected serious undertones, fascist pig.

[Neil]

Oh, go and eat some cow-pie, you cunt.

[terminallyrelaxed]

I don't know about anyone else, but I was never sold on the meat pies. Those fucking great big Steer horns coming out the top just fed my overactive imagination....

[Timmay]

Well, you can take the sessions table out of a forum, but you can't take the spirit out of CaB!

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Can I presume that all of the old posts are lost for ever and ever?



Amen.

[Alberon]

I think the plan is that the remains of the old board will remain a read only archive, but a lot of it is gone for good.

[weekender]

I don't know what number in line I am now, but Timoethei smug chiselled bastard is certainly a cunt.

You should have called yourself Timoethei, actually, you square-jawed freak.

[Timmay]

Number 2, weekender. You are a number 2.

[weekender]

Do you realise that my initial attempt at a joke involved some sort of shit wisecrack about your shallowness, and was also a reference to a hair product?

Christ, 9 cans of cider down the line and I'm still better than you.

[Timmay]

Oh, Timotei. I get it. Yeah, not heard that one before.

Where was the wisecrack about my shallowness exactly?

[weekender]

Where was the wisecrack about my shallowness exactly?

Look, just fuck off.

[blue jammer]

Tits, sorry Neil, I started the Recommends thread in SE, thinking it'd spark off people's memories a bit, and they'd go "ahh must post this, and that," etc.

Also, wasn't sure how long it'd be before the people who posted them first time round, signed up/re-posted them.

I was going to start the 'Foreign films' thread too, but I'll leave that, think it was splat that did that anyhow, I'll go and dig him in the ribs...

[Ambient Sheep]

I think the plan is that the remains of the old board will remain a read only archive, but a lot of it is gone for good.

Not in theory.  We think that all the posts are still there in the database, but without any users to link them to (since ~3000 out of ~5000 user accounts were lost) phpBB refuses to display them.

There's two ways round this, if and when Neil gets the time and/or wants to, which is (a) run some script to make 3000 fake accounts, or (b) hack that copy of the phpBB code such that it will display the orphaned posts regardless.  (He knows this, we discussed it in the shelter a few days ago, just letting you and anybody else who's curious know.)

In the meantime it was more important to get the board up and running again (since in its modern incarnation the whole board relies on phpBB as a base, not just the forums), and so the corrupted version was put to one side and the forums restarted from scratch.

[Capuchin]

Can someone start the hateful ads thread again then?
As the Specsavers/Trisha type ad is deeply repellent.

[TJ]

Did anyone save the questions from "an alternative to all those hello, I'm new threads"?

[Neil]

If not, I can probably dig them out from the database!  In fact, your posts should show up fine so if you check the read-only board at chilled.cream.org/vw/ you shuold get them. Hmm on second thoughts I didn't bother building a search index so that probably won't work.  I should do that, really.

[Silver SurferGhost]

I dunno, it's a tricky one this, it's often not so much whole topics that I miss,
just the little individual nuggets/rants/abuse etc that often grew out of them.

That said, I really enjoyed the interesting and informative Ghost Underground Stations thread, for one.

Back to being nice old sensible SurferGhost it is, then.

EDIT: Fafucksakes, I thought you were asking us what old topics we missed...
And yes, I know I can trawl through the archive for it,
but I had that bugger in my favourites Goddammit

[aaaaaaaaaargh!]

That said, I really enjoyed the interesting and informative Ghost Underground Stations thread, for one.

That's a good call.  I had loads of fun reading about all that stuff, especially the web page that had the story of a false house built so a street didn't look untidy.  I can't remember the url for the life of me.  Does anybody know it (I'm sorry if the description is a bit poor)?

[Ambient Sheep]

That's a good call.  I had loads of fun reading about all that stuff, especially the web page that had the story of a false house built so a street didn't look untidy.  I can't remember the url for the life of me.  Does anybody know it (I'm sorry if the description is a bit poor)?

http://www.secrethour.com/leinster.html

[aaaaaaaaaargh!]

That's a good call.  I had loads of fun reading about all that stuff, especially the web page that had the story of a false house built so a street didn't look untidy.  I can't remember the url for the life of me.  Does anybody know it (I'm sorry if the description is a bit poor)?

http://www.secrethour.com/leinster.html

I love you!  Thank you so much for that.  Have now bookmarked it to prevent it going astray