Charlton Life is 15 Years Old - Some Highlights and Favourites

Blackheathen

sadiejane1981 said:

I think I should have the prize for longest running meaningless thread with the most comments with “new word game” I’m sure it generates about 500 notifications everytime I log on lol. 

I’ll second that sadiejane.  The prize is yours.  Perhaps we could take “new” out of the title after 11 years? 👨‍🦳

Amazing thread aliwibble thanks.  Cann’t imagine how long it would have taken you to put it together.

Chris_from_Sidcup

I always remember this 'work colleagues' one, where the thread was fairly tame with some funny stories..........until @Billericay Dickie announced his work colleague had been complaining about his drains and turned out this guy was mates with serial killer Dennis Nilsen!

https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/80723/weirdest-thing-a-colleague-has-done/p9

The Prince-e-Paul

Much appreciated trips down many of the memory lanes. Great to see my dad there with his cards.

Also my own video from Carlisle. 

Many thanks. 

bolloxbolder

Wasn't there a thread where a guy needed encouragement to ask a girl in his office out and he was after advice from lifers about how to do it? 

Garrymanilow

I've just remembered another absolute favourite: Cabbles asking for advice on how to tell a direct report at work that he smells terrible and needs to sort it out...and then bottling it by 5pm. I can't find any of these threads but if anyone else does, it's a winner

Croydon

The long lost love in Blackpool was a classic

ForeverAddickted

Garrymanilow said:

I've just remembered another absolute favourite: Cabbles asking for advice on how to tell a direct report at work that he smells terrible and needs to sort it out...and then bottling it by 5pm. I can't find any of these threads but if anyone else does, it's a winner

Here you go for the Cabbles thread

https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/74862/business-critical-question-need-help-before-5-20pm-if-possible-please/p1

Garrymanilow

ForeverAddickted said:

Garrymanilow said:

I've just remembered another absolute favourite: Cabbles asking for advice on how to tell a direct report at work that he smells terrible and needs to sort it out...and then bottling it by 5pm. I can't find any of these threads but if anyone else does, it's a winner

Here you go for the Cabbles thread

https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/74862/business-critical-question-need-help-before-5-20pm-if-possible-please/p1

You're my hero

aliwibble

Thanks for all the kind words everybody. I'm not expecting you to wade through the entire thing at once, but more use the post as a reference so you can dip in to the various threads at your leisure. I'll do an update at a later point to add in the extra posts that people have tracked down, although I'm working on the principle that if it's a thread largely poking fun at one specific poster then I want to get them to confirm they're happy for me to add it in (and thanks to @Redmidland, @sadiejane1981, @paulie8290 and @BDL for agreeing on this round).

On the subject of the extra posts, thanks for the links @Scoham, @Chris_from_Sidcup and @ForeverAddickted, it's a big help, particularly as the site search function can be a bit idiosyncratic. @creepyaddick, the Trevor thread isn't included as I don't think it was suggested a few weeks ago and I don't remember it, but if you can find it, I'm intrigued to see what that one's about. And now I'm off down the rabbit hole of the Weirdest thing a colleague has done thread

cafctom

My personal favourite is the discussion about the best pub to find an older lady. I think about that thread every time I go through Bexley and see the Millers Arms

ValleyGary

I started the Trevor thread but I’ve gone through my discussions and can’t find it. Think it may have been deleted.

Edit: Ali ‘kindly’ found it https://charltonlife.vanillacommunity.com/discussion/39303/dear-charlton-life

10 years ago, wow. It’s cringe but if you can’t laugh at yourself….

kielyskickingboots

Thanks @aliwibble - looking forward to revisiting some of these.

The 'Needing To Go' thread - can't remember exact title - was also a stone-cold classic. @DamoNorthStand is a modern-day folk hero to a couple of fellow Addicks and me after reading that. We still sometimes talk of 'going for a Damo'.

aliwibble

@ValleyGary to be fair, the kind bit was DMing you with the details, rather than just following up on the thread.

@kielyskickingboots it's in part 3 in the NSFW section (Damo's post is on page 6, but I think @RodneyCharltonTrotta's post from p5 beats it)

orpingtonRED

RodneyCharltonTrotta said:

ValleyGary said:

I still think of getting a t-shirt that reads ‘I think a 4 but my Nan reckons a 5’  on it 

You can wear it when you are coaching kids and shooting anyone caught talking to your mum.  ;-)

Just been reading this one
The attack came from nowhere and was so brutal and nonsense it had me in stitches.
Viewfinder must have been having a really bad day and the Dulwich Hamlet display tipped him over the edge. Reminds me of that Michael Douglas film when he just loses his shit.

DA9

cafctom said:

My personal favourite is the discussion about the best pub to find an older lady. I think about that thread every time I go through Bexley and see the Millers Arms

That was for my Wirral mate before he moved back to Merseyside 3-4 years ago, wanted one last guaranteed hoorah 😎

paulie8290

The worst thing about when you create a legendary thread is you dont think about the future, sure the highlight thread was 7 years ago when I knew nobody on here and thought it was safe.

But now, i play football and meet up with @cafctom and @ReeCAFC15 and @ForeverAddickted obviously i became friends with due to our partners working together.

Suddenly people know you and you instantly regret the one thread 🤣🤣🤣

RodneyCharltonTrotta

paulie8290 said:

The worst thing about when you create a legendary thread is you dont think about the future, sure the highlight thread was 7 years ago when I knew nobody on here and thought it was safe.

But now, i play football and meet up with @cafctom and @ReeCAFC15 and @ForeverAddickted obviously i became friends with due to our partners working together.

Suddenly people know you and you instantly regret the one thread 🤣🤣🤣

Well done for taking it in good spirits Paulie

AddicksAddict

Blackheathen said:

sadiejane1981 said:

I think I should have the prize for longest running meaningless thread with the most comments with “new word game” I’m sure it generates about 500 notifications everytime I log on lol. 

I’ll second that sadiejane.  The prize is yours.  Perhaps we could take “new” out of the title after 11 years? 👨‍🦳

Amazing thread aliwibble thanks.  Cann’t imagine how long it would have taken you to put it together.

It’s not a new game about words, it’s a game about new words, so the new should stay. 

Blackheathen

Let’s ask sadiejane

cfgs

Millwall Stu is my all time favourite.  

sadiejane1981

Blackheathen said:

Let’s ask sadiejane

Call it what you like, i called it “New Word Game” because there was another word game thread previously, slightly different set up but it got deleted as it was taking up a lot of server space I think, as it got so big, so I thought hmmm…. Let’s start a new one, let’s see how far it can go before it gets deleted…. Never anticipated on it going for 11 years. Good show guys lol 

eaststandmike

paulie8290 said:

The worst thing about when you create a legendary thread is you dont think about the future, sure the highlight thread was 7 years ago when I knew nobody on here and thought it was safe.

But now, i play football and meet up with @cafctom and @ReeCAFC15 and @ForeverAddickted obviously i became friends with due to our partners working together.

Suddenly people know you and you instantly regret the one thread 🤣🤣🤣

I never noticed any hi-lights when I did the work at your place the other week Paulie, mind you it would have been difficult as you had a lot of curlers in   

Blackheathen

sadiejane1981 said:ł

Blackheathen said:

Let’s ask sadiejane

Call it what you like, i called it “New Word Game” because there was another word game thread previously, slightly different set up but it got deleted as it was taking up a lot of server space I think, as it got so big, so I thought hmmm…. Let’s start a new one, let’s see how far it can go before it gets deleted…. Never anticipated on it going for 11 years. Good show guys lol 

Legend.  Thank you sadiejane 😀

_MrDick

cfgs said:

Millwall Stu is my all time favourite.  

Think that was from the NetAddicks days … might be wrong 

aliwibble

Nope, it's this one:
https://charltonlife.vanillacommunity.com/discussion/32842/the-intelligence-of-a-millwall-fan-aka-the-stuwall-thread/p1

I was going to save this until a later date after previous mentions, but figured we could probably do with a laugh today.

soapy_jones

aliwibble said:

Nope, it's this one:
https://charltonlife.vanillacommunity.com/discussion/32842/the-intelligence-of-a-millwall-fan-aka-the-stuwall-thread/p1

I was going to save this until a later date after previous mentions, but figured we could probably do with a laugh today.

Absolute pearler of a thread .

Alex Wright

I think we should re-open the Question for @BDL thread

APRAWA!

Chizz

aliwibble said:

Nope, it's this one:
https://charltonlife.vanillacommunity.com/discussion/32842/the-intelligence-of-a-millwall-fan-aka-the-stuwall-thread/p1

I was going to save this until a later date after previous mentions, but figured we could probably do with a laugh today.

You're going on a date with Stu?