Community Thread XXI: I Once was the King of Spain, Now I Eat Humble Pie!

*Copies and pastes from Nolan's post, which was copied from Sadida's last opening post, which was copied from Cody's last opening post, who copied things from Asia' opening post which she took from BBD's opening post which he also stole from Lemmines which he plagirised for himself!*

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I em feenished my ixems und semester! Su I em beck et hume-a frum schuul fur veenter breek. I em luukeeng furverds tu nut beeeng stressed oooot fur evheele-a. Bork Bork Bork!

Swedish Chef is love. :>

Also, returned to work after a week break today. I was expecting a huge amount of pressure on my return, as we have an incentive/bonus scheme thing going on at the moment, where I needed to get £180,000 invoiced for various work from the end of October. It appears we have pretty much reached this goal now, so I got to ease in to work like I usually would. Heaven.

Also, fresh new CT! :>

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Aaaand I passed the 3K mark not too long ago. Yay!

whoop, new community thread. :]
and 1,100 posts. :3

FIRST PAGE, GET! =D


I missed my 5 year anniversary last month ;-;
which means that I am already a month into my 6th year here... sheesh, is this too long to still be at a forum? xD


ALSO WE (justabout) FINISHED RECORDING THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL PODCAST!! :>!
EDITING HAS COMMENCED!


wewt! ^-^!

EDIT - what am I doing?

Nolan - congratulations on being done with exams! Enjoy your break, you deserve it!

Burty - pHEw glad to hear! xD
Yay for pleasant surprises :>!

I'm going for a bit of festive shopping in New York this Thursday! I'll be gone from the 18th to the 22nd/3rd

Originally Posted by Lady

I missed my 5 year anniversary last month ;-;
which means that I am already a month into my 6th year here... sheesh, is this too long to still be at a forum? xD

:o

How weird is that - you just made me realize today is actually my 5 year anniversary! Which also means, IIRC, that it'll be my retroactive adopter Asci's 6 year anniversary, too!

CELEBRATIONS!

And Asia could never be a part of this forum for long enough! Congratulations on another landmark! Roll on the double figures! :>

ALSO WE (justabout) FINISHED RECORDING THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL PODCAST!! :>!
EDITING HAS COMMENCED!

Very, very awesome. Can't wait to hear it!

Burty - pHEw glad to hear! xD
Yay for pleasant surprises :>!

Yes! It's always good to have that kind of "transition" back in to work after a period of time off. That said, only a week and a half until another stretch off for the holidays. Brilliant!

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EternalSunshine, have yourself some fun in NYC, you lucky thing. :>

I'm going home tomorrow morning at 3 AM. OH YAY. :3

Originally Posted by Lady

ALSO WE (justabout) FINISHED RECORDING THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL PODCAST!! :>!
EDITING HAS COMMENCED!

Yay! I'm assuming that it'll be awesome?

So, Godot has finished the majority of his exams! Luckily, I don't think I'm being kicked off of any courses, since I didn't do absolutely terribly.

Happy anniversary Burty! Happy anniversary (last month) Asia!

Hah, 'gratz Nolan on finishing exams, I've still a few of them to go 'afore I head home.

Originally Posted by Lady

FIRST PAGE, GET! =D


I missed my 5 year anniversary last month ;-;
which means that I am already a month into my 6th year here... sheesh, is this too long to still be at a forum? xD

Bah, you're still a neophyte.


I must admit, I've wondered this myself. I mean, I've been here for six-and-a-half years, that's about a third of my life spent on ZU.

I broke 10 000 posts not incredibly long ago either, it's...staggering, isn't it? I mean, I've given so much of myself and my time to this place...


But yeah, I don't think one can spend "too long" at a forum, any more than one can spend "too long" having friends. That's what this place is, a place where you make friends. There are several people here who I know more about than my real-world friends.

I'm not sure if that says more about me or them, but yeah.

First page for me. :]

Also, I now have 1 1/2 days left of School then it's the Christmas Holidays. However, I have mock GCSE's after Christmas, so I'll probably have less online time, and more revision time. :[

A new one? D:
Gah.
My voice is dying from my cold. ;D
On Saturday I could barely talk. ;-;

Originally Posted by uǝzoɹɟ

Also, I now have 1 1/2 days left of School then it's the Christmas Holidays. However, I have mock GCSE's after Christmas, so I'll probably have less online time, and more revision time. :[

I thought most of the country did them at the same time? We have them now.
They're less annoying than you'd think, if you have study leave. Do you?

Poor Peekay, colds are annoying and nasty. I've only ever lost my voice once from a cold, though - does it happen often with you? Hope you feel better soon. ^_^

There's a lot of colds going round here at the moment, too...

Noooooo! The great number 20 has perished!

I've been on a particular string of forums (each time one collapses for some reason, another new replacement forum is set up) for like 8-10 years now, so 5 or 6 years isn't all that much.

Although you guys probably have more posts on ZU than I've had on all those forums combined.

New Community thread? :O The other one wasn't that big.

Yay, a new CT!

So our dog's undergoing surgery.

I GOT FIRST PAGE!

I danced in gym class today

fun fun ;-;

Originally Posted by Link

I GOT FIRST PAGE!

I danced in gym class today

fun fun ;-;

Dancing in gym class? O.O Was it like a regimen, (everyone had to dance?), or was it just you actin funny?

Originally Posted by Bobby Emerald

New Community thread? :O The other one wasn't that big.

But it was prone to stuffing up, like having people double post often.

EDIT: Oh, and yeah. Firstpagewoot.

page the first one have and stuff.