10/19/09... The day TIB was born. Happy 10 year anniversary. Here's a tin can. 10 years! That's a long time for an internet message board to be around. Sure the time has flown, but I can believe it's been 10 years. I've had enough life changes throughout that time to make it seem even longer in a way. We've had a lot of members come and go. For some, the "lifestyle" doesn't fit them anymore. You know, the RMMB spun that into this, the reminiscing of personal depraved stories, the one-up-manship of fuckery. Deep down, we're all still fucked up but have matured like a fine kimchi. I do miss hearing from some of our members who dropped off. SmokingBaby (Lust4life), kuhjager, disgustipated, charlesjohnson just to name a few. For others, one thing or another annoyed them too much and they said adios for good. I can think of a few of those but won't do a call out. We even had some meet ups in the past that resulted in solid friendships as well as some stories that shall never be retold. Looking back at some of our "gems" for this thread, a few things come to mind. Firstly, past me annoys the SHIT out of current me. My attitude and opinion about....most.... things have changed quite a bit. That's definitely for the better. Secondly, y'all are some hilarious assholes. Plenty of wisdom scattered in when you're not looking, too. See: How we feel about big dongs Ask a Pervert The Breakup Reason Thread How to Successfully Co habitat Ask an Escort I can't forget how cool that Milly guy was. Then there was the time that random chick Sharona wanted to get paid to moderate. Ha ha...what? Focus: Your 10 year TIB retrospective. What thread made you crack up? Miss seeing a specific member? Reminisce a little. Alt focus: Favorite weird drama or unforgettable member meltdown. Yeah, I'm going there. Alt alt Focus: You've been gone for years and have something to get off your chest. Go for it. And if you've stuck around but are less than thrilled about it, what could we do to make you happier? Request a new feature, a new mod, a new something. My earballs are on. I will write it down, burn it, and sing a hymn to the god of your choice. And as always, obligatory boobies. Because if we have nothing else, we have boobies. Spoiler
My favourite thread was the “Ask A Pizza Guy” thread because we all got to know what it was like to deliver pizzas for a living.
A very important educational experience for all. It's like, you drive pizzas to a house, and you give it to them.
I think this board’s real crown jewel was the first holiday drunk thread. It was such an insane mess of endless shit-talking and porn.
Ballsack said some funny shit, despite being a sociopath. Nitwit was more like a fucking disease. If you want to regurgitate lost contempt, ask Nett on his past opinions of Grind/Supertramp. Now THAT sort of hate cracked me up.
How long did nitwit complain about his music videos being deleted before he finally got banned? I seem to remember that going on for months.
Dud, he wasn’t just complaining about their deletion.... he was complaining that people weren’t enjoying them and validating him for it. Shades of delusion on a John Fitzgerald Page-level. I kept thinking for years... is this guy fucking with us? Telling us that road cycling is the greatest sport on earth?
I’d put a 50/50 bet on ballsack being behind bars for some white collar crime now. He was funny in the sense that there was clearly something mentally unstable about him. In a potentially evil way.
Well, unless somebody can't properly post pictures . . . 10 years. Wow. I have loved all of this place that meets up with the motto. There are some smart and hilarious people that post here. I miss most of the people that don't come around anymore, most of them ladies. Roxanne, TX., audreymonroe, happyfunball, tastemyrainbow . . . ok, well, all of those are ladies. Or, at least pretended to be on the internet. I liked the thread where the guy was riding a bike for charity, or something, and if ladies posted boobie pics, somehow . . . that raised more money. I forget the details, but there were boobs.
FYI, emails were sent out just now inviting all board members (1,700 or so), to come by and say "hey". We'll see how it goes...
Got my email. Stopping by. I have never been a super regular poster but would drop in now and again. It's fun to revist some of the old threads and to read some that I missed.
Looking back at the early threads were loaded with funny-hate. Basically somebody made a topic about a demographic (Teen “werewolves”, self-help conventions, PUA websites) and everybody went claws-first on it. So basically it was still in the same vein as that RMMB.
In my living room are a bunch of coffee table books of “blue dog” paintings. Fell in love with the artist after BlueDog on here. Turns out he’s local and on a vacation in Carmel my wife and I walked into an art studio that was exclusively Rodrigue paintings. If anyone is interested, I’d highly recommend the book of The Sanders Collection.
It says it all where you can simply frame a thread with “Ugh. Discuss.” http://www.theidiotboard.com/threads/first-vampires-now-this.1190/
Good lord, sitting in my office drafting lawsuits 'n shit, and lo and behold, an email from a bygone era. Maybe that email was just the thing I needed to roll back in...(unnecessary ellipsis and all). Actually missed some of you nerds.
Dear God. Isn't this one of the signs of the Apocalypse? Now I'm scared. I think I'll go somewhere and repent.