Best Threads Ever

[Ragamuffin_artist]

Perhaps a "best of the Sinner" thread is pushing the limits of good sense, but a compilation of the greatest hits has the potential to be amusing...and may even help prolong the lives of posts which we all thought (indeed hoped) were dead.

As for me, I'm not actually on The Sinner that much to really be an authority. But simply for the sake of casting a vote, I'll go with the worst movies ever thread.
http://www.thesinner.net/messageboard-v ... read=25506

I suppose a runner-up might be when Oli tried to get us to post 1000 replies in a single weekend back in summer 06...but now I guess I may be pushing it...

[Bizarre Atheist]

This is a bit of a classic.

http://www.thesinner.net/messageboard-v ... 206&page=1

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[Duggeh]

If it hadn't been a shameful failure, then the top norks thread would easily have made the list.

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[Big X]

easy winner right here:

http://www.thesinner.net/messageboard-v ... read=24093

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"Never apologise for showing feeling, in doing so you apologise for truth" Disraeli

[Ragamuffin_artist]

Actually, I think a good winner would be the ghosts in St. Andrews thread. I can't be bothered to find the link...it showed up about a year or so ago.

[Amorphous]

Surely that 'New Hall girl wanted' double-bed thing deserves a place somewhere? Although 'best' might be stretching it, mostly it was noteworthy for the gigantic argument with (I think) Agnus Dei. It beggared belief, if nothing else.

Edit:
Here it is:
http://www.thesinner.net/messageboard-v ... hread=8522

It deteriorates into abuse within one reply and just spirals from there.

[Manic23]

Christ.

I'm quite embarrassed after re-reading that. In our defence (I'm sure Campbell would back me up, where he here) it was tremendously easy to get sucked into.

[sabra_girl]

Ah, memories...

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[Manic23]

Quoting sabra_girl from 14:36, 9th Mar 2008
Ah, memories...

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"There are not very many desires in life which we can actually meet. For instance, 'I want to meet the love of my life'. Probably not today! But 'I want a cup of coffee.' That I can do!" Chris Thile (Nickel Creek)

Hi Sabra, long time no speak.

How's Chris these days? Still asking after me?

[KateBush]

Quoting Manic23 from 18:15, 8th Mar 2008
Christ.

I'm quite embarrassed after re-reading that. In our defence (I'm sure Campbell would back me up, where he here) it was tremendously easy to get sucked into.

Hehe. It actually is hilarious to read!

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[queen of scots]

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[munchingfoo]

Quoting Amorphous from 15:34, 8th Mar 2008
Surely that 'New Hall girl wanted' double-bed thing deserves a place somewhere? Although 'best' might be stretching it, mostly it was noteworthy for the gigantic argument with (I think) Agnus Dei. It beggared belief, if nothing else.

Edit:
Here it is:
http://www.thesinner.net/messageboard-v ... hread=8522

It deteriorates into abuse within one reply and just spirals from there.

Did anyone ever work out who agnus was? If this thread was anything to go by,

http://www.thesinner.net/messageboard-v ... hread=8303

he was Jaspal Dhadwal. But that has been edited so it could be a random's address.

Edit:

He uses it again here:

http://www.thesinner.net/messageboard-v ... hread=8128

So i guess that's who it was.

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[Manic23]

Spot on. He turned out to be in one of my 3rd year modules, and was as big a twat as you would imagine him to be.

Just my opinion likes.

[Amorphous]

Quoting munchingfoo from 23:28, 9th Mar 2008
Did anyone ever work out who agnus was? If this thread was anything to go by,

http://www.thesinner.net/messageboard-v ... hread=8303

he was Jaspal Dhadwal. But that has been edited so it could be a random's address.

Yeah, I remember digging around for that when I first discovered the thread a few years ago. The thing that gets me - in a morbid fascination sort of way - is that if you look at his early posts he seems fairly intelligent, if a bit opinionated. There's no real sign of the incredibly angry little boy who surfaces in the 'New Hall bed' thread.

I suppose it's both a blessing and a curse of being a Psychology student that I can be fascinated by the tiniest things...

Oh, and another 'legendary' thread to consider has got to be A Thread By Any Other Name, which seems to rear its head every 6 months or so.

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[Frank]

I'd like to nominate anything with good old (memorised-bible) Paul involved. Those were always interesting threads for drawing people out of the woodwork, as I remember...

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Also, some years later:
"here we are arguing about a few uppity troublemakers with a bee in their bonnet and a conspiracy theory."

[Hennessy]

Quoting Amorphous from 10:04, 10th Mar 2008
There's no real sign of the incredibly angry little boy who surfaces in the 'New Hall bed' thread.

Perhaps he lost his penis in an electrical fire. These things happen you know.

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[beeny]

Quoting Manic23 from 08:58, 10th Mar 2008
Spot on. He turned out to be in one of my 3rd year modules, and was as big a twat as you would imagine him to be.

Just my opinion likes.

daddy dearest, i'm impressed that even after you've left that comes up as one of the best threads ever

was that the one you and Campbell went on about waaaay back when I was a first year?

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[Ian McFarlane]

The best thread ever? There is no debate, Mr Eliot Wilson's Formal Dress thread cannot be beaten.