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Happy 20th Birthday Charlton Life!
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Joined on 21 August 2006 and only 210 visits since then lol (I must hold the record for length of service/lack of visits) nice one guys on getting this far!
Without doubt the “Adrian” thread was one of the greatest things I’ve ever read on the internet…still makes me belly laugh to this day.
Am I imagining things @AFKABartram or did there use to be a Charltonlife football team? Hazy memories of playing by the A20?!4 -
Is there a way to see the most LOL'ed posts of all time?1
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Can’t believe I’m still a newbie with only 18 years service.
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20 years. Jeez probably doubled my weight and shed most of hair well annoying you all with my odd humour.
Thanks everyone for being you.4 -
Hippy Beefday.1
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18 years for me in six days time. I'd have got less time for murder.6
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Well done chaps, hard work you put into this is indescribable, brilliant support unit that encapsulates what the Charlton Family is all about. Even a post about train delays tonight! Seriously, congratulations and thank you.
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If we was buying a house 20 years ago, we’d only have 5 years left before being mortage free!!
(sorry but doesn’t feel right this thread has 4 pages and nobody even tried a house buying analogy!)4 -
Happy 20th. Great forum, well done to the mods for the efforts and longevity of it.
I joined a year late in August 2007.
I seem to recall trying to join before hand but failing to do so, but after a few months trying I snuck in and have never left.2 -
I love this site. As much a part of Charlton as anything else.5
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Happy 20th Birthday CL, enjoyable posts & discussions, a great forum.3
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it's weird the things that stick in your head when so many things get forgotten
20 years later I still remember my response to the screening question asking why I was signing up- 'Because AFKA asked me to'
happy birthday and thanks, it's been a good 20 years
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Simply the best. Happy 20th birthday2
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Don’t forget my offer of a pintSix-a-bag-of-nuts said:Simply the best. Happy 20th birthday0 -
Don’t wanna quote it, as so long, but that ChatGPT summary on page 2 is amazing and nearly brought a tear to my eye.AFKA and Lookie you should both be very proud of what you have created.7
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My account was handed down to me by my father who in turn inherited it from his father. You never own a CL account, you merely look after it for the next generation.
Happy anniversary, Charlton life, and huge thanks to those whose fault it is
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They go on to form a successful tech company, which they sell to Google for £800m. Sadly you decline their invitation to join them, and instead join Charlton Life.Henry Irving said:City of London, 2006; I'm upstairs in a pub and there are these two young guys with ideas...
But you don't want to hear that story again.
20 years, 35k members, the go to place for Charlton news read by fans and club staff alike. Congratulations and here's to plenty more decades.8 -
I'm getting a bit misty-eyed about this, thinking about the last 20 years.
I'm attending the funeral of a really good friend of mine tomorrow, I wonder if I have run over a family of black cats given my run of loss in the last few years which is probably triggering that.
Anyway, growing up not in SE London or the surrounding area, it was a great source of joy for me discovering a Charlton supporter in my neck of the woods. Then invariably finding out they were a massive chod.
False dawns all over the place. Me and my dad going, then dad losing a bit of interest, me then working away a lot, playing football on Saturdays or working. Dragging mates along to away games, home games and very, very occasionally doing a game on my own. Then a couple of things happened in relatively quick succession.
@carlsberg decided to lower his standards to playing for my sunday side in Chatham, that led to meeting @Ketman all years before this site was a tickle in @LoOkOuT and @AFKABartram nutbags, that led to meeting @MCS and before I knew what was happening I'd found @Medders, @Gumbo, @WSS and a few others who probably don't want to be associated with me.
Landmarks are the west ham home game in 2007 and putting faces and human names to handles/usernames which is something I've still not wrapped my head around. The charity game at the Valley. @northstandsteve and @Ketman getting their cue ball heads together and arranging a coach to Ipswich and meeting a load more new people who all shared my affliction. @Stu_of_Kunming is one of the most unintentionally funny people I've ever been lucky enough to meet in my life, he's also remarkably intelligent and charming but those go out of the window when he's puking fish and chips up in my garden or accidentally flashing a pub in rochester getting mixed up with drawstrings in jogging bottoms. @charltonDan was a great bloke and a good friend, to be in his or his dads company was to experience joy in its fullest and I miss them both hugely.
Then a bit of a turning point for me, the takeover by shitarse and his ho. I was so glad when the rose-tinting lifted from everyone and they saw what those gimps were about and the protesting came alive. No way would they have fucked off without the collective action we took. What they did to the club and my own subsequent boycott really knocked me out of the habit of attending games as regularly and made me a stern adopter of streaming games, once in the car after turning up to protest then sitting in my car for 2 hours caning mobile data to watch the sacks of jism playing for us at the time fart out a performance worthy of the shredder.
I'll have missed a lot of people in that tribute, what I'm going the long way about saying is I've been lucky enough to make some friends for life through this medium, shared some great memories that I don't see how would have happened if it wasn't for 2 very pure-hearted and passionate "people bringer-togetherers" taking a leap of faith before fibre optic broadband and 5G was a staple of life.
I've shared some stories, anecdotes that I haven't told my non-charlton friends using a thin veil of anonymity to feel safe and distant without thinking some of you have only my shite on here to judge me by and when being unlucky enough to be introduced to me are either disgusted (maybe unfairly, maybe correctly), amused, disappointed, in awe or just confused as how someone so handsome, charming and eloquent can have come out with half of the shit I have on these pages.
On a personal level in some very dark moments over the past 5 years I've found myself at 3am logging on and reading about @oohaahmortimer dairy-milk powered sprints to the can, his batting average, about peoples cancer journeys, the usual suspects fighting over a damp sock on an otherwise trivial thread (no offence meant, you know who you are and I'm sure you all love it really), about cars people lust over, stag do stories, blokes who met a woman in Blackpool in the 60s and want to finish the home run 50 years later, @Leroy Ambrose and his penchant for belly-laughter inducing stories be them about cats, women with morgue fetishes, or my favourite, abusing arsehole argie players in their native tongue. And they gave me moments of distance and distraction from the darkness. That and some help from my medicinal plants when the need dictates
I dread to think of where we would be as a collective if we hadn't found this abstract sanctuary. Its the people that make a community and this is a great community and I'll always be thankful to the people who took an insane leap of faith to start this one32 -
Joined Dec 2006. Thanks for the memories and all the hard work so far and here’s to the next 20 years!It’s a cherished lifetime memory that due to CL I got to play at The Valley.Here’s a throwback to sponsors’ dinner 2012. Shame I’ve got my eyes closed but less concerned about cuddling up to Matt Taylor (though not as besotted as Waggy!)
Anyone else owning up to being in this photo? My caption at the time was “Players immersed in Charlton Life”.
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This cracking recount of the history of the Valley Party is a must read.
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Aug 22nd 2006 for me0
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The April Fools Day thread was epic0
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PragueAddick said:Gotta say, that ChatGPT assessment AFKA posted nails it for me. Those platforms are good at that sort of thing. Nothing that you couldn't probably line up to say yourself but you'd take ages , miss something, and it wouldn't be so clear and well structured.
And in the end that's all down to the moderators who have put in the hard yards over the 20 years, they are the ones who've made it such a class act, despite our best efforts to drive them nuts. Thank you all, you've created something that really has become part of our lives, and keeps so many people connected. Honestly I reckon AFKA and Lookie deserve signed copies of Addicks to Victory or something similar.
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Happy belated birthday wish’s to my constant phone companion,it’s literally the only site I visit,1st thing in morn & pretty much whenever I grab my phone it’s the 1st port of call even on the bog,the wife thought I was having an affair,had to keep showing her the home page to prove it…🫣,also o couldn’t count of how many times I’ve tried to complete a whole page of reading all threads,even the ones I’m not interested or invested in,but it opens ya eyes up to stuff I would never have heard or seen before,love it…& I do chuckle to myself,just when I think I’ve read it all at an unearthly hr someone pops a comment in one of the the most random threads…thanks CL peeps & to all the guys behind the scenes,brilliant,here’s to this one & to many more Happy Birthdays…🥳🥳🥳
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Congrats gents and thank you!
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Congratulations and happy birthday. Simply Cann’t imagine daily life without my fix of Charlton Life. What a great thread and I echo every word of thanks to AFKA, LookOut and the other moderators and posters. It was through Charlton Life that I got to meet Tel and many others through the sadly defunct Addicks Downunder. Happy years. Thanks everybody.2
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Not sure when I joined under my old moniker Addickted, but I believe my first post was December 2007
This forum entertains, informs and infuriates me, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Happy Birthday and well done to all involved
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I'd like to thank AFKA and Lookie for my only social media contact. It's my first port of call in the morning and something I dip in and out of for the rest of the day.
When I enlisted in 2014 it was very fashionable for posters to tell other posters to 'Move on'. I wondered how senior you had to be to do that? Twelve years later I've never told anyone to 'Move on' so I guess you had to be pretty senior
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(I know this site well enough to know what the next piece of advice coming my way will be).7 -
January 2012 for me so a newbie but thats still gone so quickly. Can only echo what others have said. This site is utterly brilliant. Such a varied amount of discussion on here. Posts that can sometimes infuriate, bring a tear to your eye or make you belly laugh show what a rich and special community has been built over the years.
My wife moans about how much time i spend on here but always asks what the latest Charlton Life TV show recommendations are!
Thank you AFKA and LoOkOut for bringing this to life and all the other mods for keeping it clean!2
