Merry Christmas to everyone, and to all our faithful lurkers. I hope you have a good holiday, and if not, I hope you have enough money for good booze instead.
I wish to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as well.
I won't go off into a long spiel, like I thought about doing, and I know this is stuff I say a lot, but I'm going to reiterate it. A lot of people talk shit about us and complain about various aspects of the forum, some valid criticisms, some not. Obviously I think we should be willing to look at our flaws and try to improve upon them. Yet I also think we need to think about the things that are good about the forum. We just did a Secret Santa where people got together and made things for other forum users. We raised money for charity this past month. We're usually accused of being A-Logs yet we managed to raise a good chunk of change after Chris's house caught on fire. While his so called "friends" got him a can of sardines, we got him a bunch of gift cards so he and his mother could try and rebuild their home. I've seen that we have a thread where users encourage other users to help accomplish goals like weight loss which I feel is a very positive thing. People on here get together and play games together and even some people are dating other users (it boggles my mind that a forum I made has led to people being in relationships, not so much as how Chris has probably gotten more people into serious relationships yet he himself can't get into one).
When I made this forum, it was simply one reason - to get people to stop talking about Chris on the CWCki itself. I planned on helping the forum get set up, find some users to take over for it, then I'd go back to admining the CWCki. Yet I find myself still here, mostly because I feel a connection to the forum. I'm sometimes surprised to hear that people really do take this forum super seriously. That can be a bad thing but it's also a good thing as I think many people here come here as a major social outlet for them. It wasn't my intent but it's cool that I set up something that would evolve into a regular community where people tend to look out for each other.
Again, I just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year. I hope that 2015 will be better than 2014, and that we continue to get better and better every day.
You're all fucking spastics and I genuinely can count the number of you on this site I dislike on a single hand. Thats really low for me and I basically love you all so merry winter solstice, lets all do awesome shit next year together too.
Thank you for finding this! I interviewed this guy a few years back on a radio show I used to run, he seemed super pleased with all the attention he was getting as he didn't clock people were making fun of him. Sadly a year later he claimed it was all a joke and tried to pull it off the web, been a while since I found it again. I also bumped into him at the Millbank riots of all places; I laughed when I found he was interviewed by The Telegraph (skip to 1:45):
Getting back on track Merry Christmas everyone, hope you all have a wicked time getting together with loved ones and sharing with the people you care the most. Or if you're like me where an internet forum shows more love than your own fam, have a good one getting shit faced on booze &/or weed