Oh, most definitely. I had the joyous experience not long ago of suffering my first hemorrhoid - which was just terrific. What made it even better is that I was visiting my wife's parents in Germany at the time. Her dad is a retired medical doctor and insisted on checking it out (I wasn't sure what the hell it was at the time), and it's a simply marvelous experience to bare your arsehole at your father-in-law...  :-@

It would really have sucked if City of Durham was still a unitary authority but County Durham is huge. We could even have visited Barnard Castle, legitimately.

:D

Ok, so, I propose an annual Teh Day when we all pile back in here. When's good for y'all?

Any day you fancy. 1st of June?

Well, gosh, this place is still here. (heart)

I pop in once every couple of years, I guess, when I randomly think of it.

I was curious to see what date I first registered here, but apparently that's not in my profile. Member #39 though, so that feels pretty early.

It's reassuringly nostalgic to see quite so many names I remember still posting, even if it is for the first time in years.

When was the last Meat?

There was a London meet, that was quite well attended but it's going a good way back now - 10+ years, maybe even longer.

There's probably a thread!

Aside from that, I suppose there's arguably been mini-meats here and there - I've had the pleasure of Kenny's company a few times lately and I think I saw a facebook update showing erm, two people from here, in Manchester recently? Oof my poor memory. But a mass attendance event has not happened in a good while.

Yes, very true, I met Serg for dinner a couple of years back in London too. Oh, thinking about it, there was a York meet too - that was after London I think

From a quick search I count at least five meats in the past ten years...

2024-04-03 msg:43024.1 Manchester Mini Meat
2020-01-20 msg:42105.1 Leeds mini-meat, Saturday 20ndsth Jan
2017-06-24 msg:41942.1 June Meat
2014-12-20 msg:41295.1 Saturday 20th December
2014-07-19 msg:41092.1 Teh Northern Meat - Summer 2014

None of those combine "London" and "well-attended", but I have photographic evidence of three that do, in Sep 2013, Sep 2010 and Dec 2008.

Oh I'm very out of touch then! I think that Northern Meat one was the last one I attended

That was also probably the last one that had more than four people at. :(

We need a new big meat... one to celebrate reaching a quarter of a century, which we actually did last year if the dates in msg:34805.35 are correct.

where's Fozza. He was always good at forcing people to do fun stuff, some kind of sales magic skill.

Last person I've seen from here is Mouse when he drove by where I was living and I happened to be doing some gardening in the front. These days we live relatively local to each other.

I miss you all. This place was really special.

As William said, my mental health has been in a slow decline for a long time. Nothing new, still just the anxiety, panic and resultant agoraphobia. A couple of years back, though, my mum died and that sent it all off a cliff. Had a very rough couple of years. I'm levelling out again now though and that's *good*.

I'm still doing the same old stuff - chatting online, playing games, watching and reading stuff.

I think of the people from here frequently. You all had a huge, formative, impact on me and mean more to me than I can express. It was an amazing place to 'grow up' online, we were all incredibly lucky to have experienced it.

It also kinda ruined me for the modern web. Everything is so *disappointing* in comparison.

I do seek out places which capture some of those old internet vibes. I messed around with Gemini for a bit and I'm on Mastodon (and sporadically active - let's be friends if you're over there!). I've avoided the Facebooks and the Twitters and whatnot.

Spending most of my time when I'm not in voice chats watching/reading lefty political stuff and wondering whether, in the upcoming election, I'm going to not bother voting or cast a pointless vote for the Greens.

(hug)

 

Lovely way to put it. That's exactly how it feels  :') 

I shall try to catch up with you on Mastadon although I become increasingly poor at managing complexity. I set up a Mastadon account a while back just for this reason.  Meanwhile, don't be a complete stranger here. There are a handful of things associated with this site that have changed my life. You're there in the mix. 

Yeah, I'm going to try making logging in here part of my habits again.

And please do get in touch on Mastodon!

There's complexity and there's faff. Mastodon, much as I love a lot about it, does involve a fair bit of faff. 

So many hugs to you Xen - i was so happy to see you had posted! I don't know what else to say except i hope you are more than ok and will post something again.

I just read through all the posts and I love that so may of you came back to reply. Back when, logging into TEH everyday to see what you all had to say that day was a part of my daily routine.

I know we can never go back, but its awesome that so many think we shared something pretty special.

I think the knowledge that we can never go back often stopped me from logging in when I thought of the place.

But that's okay, it can be whatever it is now!