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With all the excitement of last night's threads behind us (and as a relative newbie to the forum), I'd like to know: What are the Greatest Hits threads of STW over the years?
Picolax was before my time so it has to be either Sudacrem Cat or Ling
Picolax
How to get Sudocreme off a cat?
Magnetodog.
I also enjoyed Is there any such thing as a road legal hovercraft? but it doesn't attract the attention it deserves.
Do headsets come with a crown race?
FS: Silent Clutch hub.
Any coffee thread where the bloke who sells coffee machines and electric guitars pops up to recommend spending more on your espresso machine than your bike, and more again on the grinder.
Any attempt at astroturfing by fruit/tango/superstar
The guy (Simon?) who got off with his wife's best friend on the sofabed and then came here for advice.
Any time WCA has a world-class accident or gets accosted by Juan* "excuse me, are you ze World-Class Accident"?
*
whatever happened to him?
deja vu senses tingling
I enjoyed the mixologist hipster guy one who happened to be on here.
Penguin Jizz.
Mrs toast and Jamie's legendary photoshoping.
Airplanes on conveyor belts.
Anything photoshopped by the much missed Jamie.
I find the lack of links disturbing...
If you think I'm going to bang in a search for Penguin [ahem] Reproductive Fluids on my work computer you've got another thing coming!
Pun entirely intentional.
The car leasing thread where ling appeared was highly amusing.
Picolax has me in tears everytime i read it
Pilolax was funny at the time, I think it's impact pales a bit in the re-reading...
I find the lack of links disturbing…
abingham needs to show he is serious about this place by putting the effort in! 😁
Picolax and Magnetodog for me.
abingham needs to show he is serious about this place by putting the effort in! 😁
You mean a website exists with a search function that actually works? Surely not!
You mean a website exists with a search function that actually works? Surely not!
Google for site:http:\\www.singletrackworld.com and then the search criteria, it works a lot better than the search bar on the site.
The guy (Simon?) who got off with his wife’s best friend on the sofabed and then came here for advice.
Oh I missed this one, any links?
I am still enjoying the gifs thread
Anyone else remember the guy with an "outdoor" girlfriend, as opposed to his "indoor" girlfriend?
Talking maybe 6 or 7 years ago...
The guy (Simon?) who got off with his wife’s best friend on the sofabed and then came here for advice.
Oh I missed this one, any links?
Don't get excited, it wasn't me 🙂
Argh! My eye is a great thread and the Ling one was fun
Oh I missed this one, any links?
Google finds nothing so may have been pre hack, definitely a while ago. The username I thought it was exists but hasn't got any threads linked to it so I guess it was pre one of the updates.
Anyone else remember the guy with an “outdoor” girlfriend, as opposed to his “indoor” girlfriend?
The other way around wasn't it? He was the outdoor boyfriend, but she lived with another guy?
Argh! My eye is a great thread
Beat me to it. That's possibly my all-time favourite.
The mammal top trumps (starts towards the bottom of the first page) on this one has been sadly forgotten.
and seems like many of the pic links no longer work, but still plenty there to raise a smile.
I Google Things So You Don't Have To. In no particular order:
As it popped up in another thread yesterday, Mr Nutt's Allotment.
Any more for any more?
Picolax was of a time, still well crafted writing but now locks the shock and awe factor.
Magnetodog, especially the denouement (you did put a magnet behind the picture for old time's sake didn't you)
For those that were here at the time, Sudocrem cat, especially his (young at the time) daughter and her emergency Union Jack, I'm sure i read that she's now at University or started a fmaily or retired or something, hust to make us realise how old we all are.
My neighbour's hedge or fence or whatever it was - I don't remember but it was very clever at the time.
{edit - Mr Nutt's allotment, just reread following the link above. Superb, I'm 4 pages in, when you know the ending the gentle drip feeding in of the clues is just brilliant, and all those that haven't got it yet getting increasingly angry at his inability to MAN UP!! No spoilers please, but you should be scriptwriting for Inside Number 9}
There was also the thread by the guy who was so fed up with his courier failing to deliver that he arranged for them to collect a parcel from his own address and deliver it to himself to prove they knew where it was.
That was great, if not a classic.
RIP Joe Cocker
RIP Joe Cocker II
RIP Joe Cocker III
RIP Joe Cocker IV
RIP Joe Cocker V
notice the theme?
Improving the wife signal was superb.
Sudocreme cat still makes me cry with laughter, Picolax has worn off. As it were.
The one about the elite Taekwondo club based in Edinburgh. Could of kicked the shit out of pro MMA fighters but didn't bother as they all earned £500k a year anyway.
There was also the thread by the guy who was so fed up with his courier failing to deliver that he arranged for them to collect a parcel from his own address and deliver it to himself to prove they knew where it was.
That certainly was a small piece of genius
You mean a website exists with a search function that actually works? Surely not!
You're not new here are you?
The "Badger" thread was mixture of eye-wateringly funny and feeling so sorry for Badger who just dug deeper and deeper. As Badgers do I suppose 🙂
There was also a great thread years ago by a user called "42" who posted pictures of himself in various poses showing you "how 'ard" he was....
And who can forget the pics of the young lad modelling "full Enduro kit" in his bedroom in his mum and dads house?
So many classics . . .
Not forgetting Smurmatts legendary tales of driving prowess.
iirc the thread where someone ‘had to’ drive over someone else’s verge to get up their own drive.
Any thread to do with removing wasp nests is usually good. Or in-laws at Christmas.
The guy (Simon?) who got off with his wife’s best friend on the sofabed and then came here for advice.
I don't remember that one either 🙁
(and as a relative newbie to the forum)
Yeah, but are you Fred?
To agree with some of the above, the Tango/Neil threads were epic. And spawned, inexplicably, Octoporn
The Ling thread was the only thread I can remember, where I couldn’t read fast enough to keep up with all the new posts as they were coming in so fast.
Not forgetting Smurmatts legendary tales of driving prowess.
There are a couple on here today seemingly with similar Skilz.
Smurfmatt's flounce was a thing of wonder.
The one about the elite Taekwondo club based in Edinburgh. Could of kicked the shit out of pro MMA fighters but didn’t bother as they all earned £500k a year anyway.
That was classic STW, someone who couldn't back down and his claims just became more and more delusional.
Surfmat and his driving was along the same lines.....
The thread with the guy whose dog pee d on the mil garden, as she flapped her arms enthusiasticly from behind tje double glazing
So he put dog back in car and drove off to spend xmas alone
You mean a website exists with a search function that actually works? Surely not!
I got a lifetime ban about 15 years ago for mentioning the search didn't work very well!
The Surrey hills brokeback mountains bromance thread was a good one
Yonks ago mind
Smurfmatt’s flounce was a thing of wonder
Made even better by the knowledge that he did an identical flounce off the Bikeradar forum
The Gnusmas car thread was great in a STW all pulling together to help someone they had never met kind of thing.
I got a lifetime ban about 15 years ago
The dead are among us!
My all-time favourite was the London Olympics opening ceremony thread. The running commentary on here had me and the family in stitches.
I forgot about the olympic opening thread, that was hilarious. I kept getting asked what the hell i was laughing at
Found it
2012 opening ceremony
Same with the Eurovision threads.....
fantastic.
All i can remember about that was George Washington and teenage pregnancy hobbits for some reason
The Badger thread was the best, so many memes.
Puddinggate was good
The guy who got ripped off by the painter & decorator
References to the trails round the back of the Nationwide - which apparently actually exist
Crown races
Picolax
Genuinely helpful technical threads
Genuinely helpful life advice and support threads
Endless bickering on political threads - which I enjoy.
That’s what STW means to me.
Aye the 'Did Aldo Take a Dive" aka the taekwondo Gods from Edinburgh that earn 300k per year and would ko all of the UFC dudes with consomethinge ease is an absolute classic.
The Mint Sauce keying thread was awesome too!
That driving thread where Surfmatt and someone else....potentially the aforementioned Taekwondo God actually....traded claims about being invited to become CEO of the institute of advanced drivers and other such nonsense was fairly funny too.
Rate my Brickie amused me.
The kind of construction used to build ww2 submarine pens.
Anyone else get savage lag on here btw?
Anyone else get savage lag on here btw?
Heard them back in 91 at Camden palace before they got signed
Yep it's a real issue for me tonight too. Agree, rate my rickie was hilarious
The stand out funny threads are mostly covered post (and some pre) the 2009 hack.
The most amazing acts of support and kindness of this place often don't make light reading though. It's better for them but not ones for a casual evenings browsing.
The Gnusmas car thread was great in a STW all pulling together to help someone they had never met kind of thing.
That Gnusmobile thread should be front and centre here. It's STW's equivalent of what happens when someone falls down in the middle of a mosh pit.
Sick of the incessant snow updates slightly backfired on the OP
😆
Was it here or Bikeradar where everyone went mad and started posting animated german shepherds off some terrible website everywhere for a day, then never spoke of it again?
The Ling thread was already good but the Ling's ride followup made it perfect
not really a fan of the picolax thread itself but I love that it gained a life of its own... Seen it on Overclockers and Pistonheads, my brother sent me a link of it on a home brewers' site, my other brother saw it on bloody hm****ickback... Some mate of my dad's literally printed it out and gave him a copy because that's how my dad consumed the internet.
richmtb
Full MemberMade even better by the knowledge that he did an identical flounce off the Bikeradar forum
I was a bikeradar mod at the time... I banned him after he flounced, he complained to the mod team and Nick laughed at him, apparently he then complained to Future.
Endless bickering on political threads – which I enjoy.
No you don't.
Was it here or Bikeradar where everyone went mad and started posting animated german shepherds off some terrible website everywhere for a day, then never spoke of it again?
It was definitely on here, and I'm reasonably sure it was a current poster. I want to say someone like Edukator or CountZero or Northwind, with the caveat that I'm atrocious at remembering usernames. It was someone with that sort of cadence.
Agree, rate my rickie was hilarious
10/10
Does the Penis Beaker (I think that was the title) count? Link from here to Mumsnet wasn't it, I'm sure they had another classic too...