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18 years and 400,000 posts

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Post by PTRACER »

It's the 22nd November. The Fastlane has hit 18 today. As Monte said privately, the forum is legally able to drink!

I wish I had some idea of how to celebrate this massive milestone besides getting drunk myself, but I have no idea. If there's some kind of enhancement or upgrade or something you would like me to do, please make a suggestion. I'll probably send this out on an email to everyone later this week as well.
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Post by MonteCristo »

Happy birthday!
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Post by Everso Biggyballies »

Happy Birthday to TFL :mates: :drunk:

Been a fun journey. Kept me off the streets. :haha:

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Good run guys. It was almost two decades ago I joined the forum at www.grandprix.com. It was a very good forum with a lot of great people. But.... it was not moderated and some people let arguments over drivers (primarily Schumacher) turn into personal fights. It eventually devolved into daily slagging matches and forum broke up. I have been drifting since then, after spending time on two other forums, ended up here about a year ago.
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Party time!

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Well get collectively drunk individually.
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Alice says Hi

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Post by Star »

Ruslan wrote: 2 years ago Good run guys. It was almost two decades ago I joined the forum at www.grandprix.com. It was a very good forum with a lot of great people. But.... it was not moderated and some people let arguments over drivers (primarily Schumacher) turn into personal fights. It eventually devolved into daily slagging matches and forum broke up. I have been drifting since then, after spending time on two other forums, ended up here about a year ago.
What he said ;)

Actually it's true, we were at home on gp.com, it was a great bunch of people and had a lovely feel to it. I've never felt at home on an F1 forum since then, until I found this place.

For one reason or another I haven't been around as much as I'd like to be, but this is my F1 home and I'm more than happy to celebrate the birthday with you all. Sorry I'm a day late, I missed this yesterday :blush:

I think getting drunk is okay for those who want to, there should also be a big gooey cream cake for those of us who like cake too :haha:

Here's to another 18 years and then some :mates: :drunk: :oimate: :bow:

Thanks for all your work to make this place all that it is @PTRACER. Please keep doing it some more :cool:
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Congrats and happy birthday to TFL. :mates: :bow: Hats off to Paul, Jesper, Warren for keeping this place humming for all these years. As well as erwin, Jacob, Monte, and everyone else that keeps things nice and orderly.

What's hardest to believe -- especially for those of us who've been here since the start or just about -- is despite the many changes to our lives, the ups and downs, the happiness and sadness, TFL has been a constant for 18...let that sink in...18 years. I find that to be a very grounding feeling.

It's a shame we're all in different corners of the globe and can't get together to celebrate the occasion with a few pints. A Zoom call might be the next best thing.
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Post by Cheeveer »

Yay, been a big deal for.... *makes math* half my life. :shocked: Was 16 when I joined, 32 now. Good people around here!
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Post by Everso Biggyballies »

Cheeveer wrote: 2 years ago Yay, been a big deal for.... *makes math* half my life. :shocked: Was 16 when I joined, 32 now. Good people around here!
Yeah ISTR we joined the same week. I was very new to the internet back then, All I remember is finding somewhere with videos I could download (albeit with Dial up, and spending hours, days even getting stuff. Then I plucked up courage to make my first post, a tl:dr about ground effects. And the novelty of chatting to other race fans online grew from there. Now over 35000 posts later.....

its now part of my. daily routine, well has been for ever other than a short health related break, and its a great respectful environment where we can have different views and not have the place go into meltdown. Well, very rarely . A happy little community and I seriously think of the regulars here as friends..

Thanks to all. :oimate: :mates: :drunk:

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I wasn't sure exactly when the anniversary was, so just to be on the safe side I've been getting drunk every day.
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:drunk: Time to paaaaartyyyyyyy!
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Post by PTRACER »

I've been mulling over the idea of setting up a Zoom call. Even if only a few of us join, for some reason I would be absolutely petrified to come on camera and speak to you all lol
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Post by Everso Biggyballies »

PTRACER wrote: 2 years ago I've been mulling over the idea of setting up a Zoom call. Even if only a few of us join, for some reason I would be absolutely petrified to come on camera and speak to you all lol
I have never made a video call in my life so would be equally petrified. I dont know zoom, certainly dont have it, but know the name from it being referred to in Covid times as being a conferencing thing that the teams etc used for meetings.....

.....what could possibly go wrong? :rofl:

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