What was the greatest thread?

Just saw this one.... Yes.

A modern tragedy, the talbot/isen saga was.

Surely when @tynan trolled a scammer into doing all kinds of wierd things. Can't remember what thread it was though

GBBF especially around the point that the bidding reached a vomiting chicken...

The La Vita velo thread was funny. Just checked and was surprised to find they still have a website which is now a different kind of shit

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/399421/

Top top top level. The gift that keeps on giving. Hoping the couple in question join in soon

It’s the last gasp of dying civilisation

Another fantastic thread was: Asia on a tandem - I loved following that one.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/293337/#comment17099809

Yeah, definitely one of my favourites. Made the wanderlust strike hard for me.

I also loved following the Transcontinental threads when skinny won and a couple of the previous years. Getting up everything morning and frantically trying to catch up with the tracker and work out what had happened was great fun.

Puffin - a 1937 Hillyard sailing yacht
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/375569/
Nice project and ongoing adventure

One of the best days on here was the day when @Velocio did his “Sponsored by Specialized” hoax.

April fool wasn't it? People flouncing in droves

Surely when @tynan trolled a scammer into doing all kinds of wierd things. Can't remember what thread it was though

Are you referring to this one?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/168361/

What a gem of a thread that is, the Puffin one.

Foffa and the subsequent mocking…

Oh Teddy
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/161690/

Paul Michel. Who I'm still not sure was an elaborate Tynan troll
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/141434/

Thank you thank thank you thank you

Ha yes that was it, Robyn Welch. Although Tynan's mock up of his copycat website isn't there anymore. I remember actual lolling at that

Looking back at a lot of these threads that we think are the greatest threads ever, like the baby blue pixie or Ed’s tire debacle, I now think they’re a bit bullying and gate keeper ish. They were hilarious at the time, but I’m not so sure nowadays.

It was acceptable in the noughties?

I see that the understanding of what constitutes bullying, micro aggressions etc has changed and standards of behaviour and language have evolved considerably.

There are things I have said in the past that I regret and would not do now. My awareness of issues has changed but I am also sure there are things we do now that will be considered questionable in years to come.

Most definitely. The forum has changed for the better. A lot of the old ‘funny’ threads are pretty cringe reading back

It felt wilder at the time and I think a lot of forums did, in-jokes, extreme time wasting, etc and so on. It felt like being in a pub all the time.
I’m not innocent and I’m not being all holy david millar about it either.