Chris

Yes that's right! Head on over to the dedicated forum for our annual Forum Awards where you can vote for who you think deserves to win each award. All the voting is to be done in this topic, while the hottest member award will be done separately, in this topic. Both topics have been pinned in that forum for your convenience Good luck everyone!

This year the voting will consist of just our male participants, as only 2 females entered themselves. We felt in unfair that the two of them would have to go head to head. So until we get some more female members (do your best to get them to join here) the contest will remain male orientated - bear in mind this doesn't mean you're gay. It's just a bit of fun To vote, simply list the top 3 members, in your opinion. We will allocate a number of points for who you say is 1st, 2nd and 3rd, etc. The winner will be the member who has racked up the most points by the end of the contest. We'll let you know later when that is. So without any further banter, here are the members and their mugshots, in order of submissions: Chris: Gerard: SkyliИe^: mvi: 888ball: Airashii: Ðãvë´: Spaz The Great: 8-ball: Righty: Click here (link is broken! Righty upload your pic to imagelodge.net and edit it into this post when you see this) Shifty: Wu Zi Mu: Chris82: Oh and please, no voting for yourself, you little cheats!

Ok it's time for the annual forum awards voting ceremony to take place. This year is better than ever, considering last years didn't really happen. Anyway, let's get straight into action, what you're about to lay your eyes upon are the categories for voting your fellow members in. So time to get thinking about who deserves each award. Please read the notes at the end of my post which should answer any of your questions. For your post, just copy and paste the following code and insert the member names of who you want to vote for. Voting can be for anyone in any member group, so this includes all mods, super mods and admins etc. [i][b][u]GTA Awards[/u][/b][/i] [b]Most Knowledgeable[/b]: [b]Most Helpful Member[/b]: [b]Best Stunter[/b]: [u][b][i]General Awards[/u][/b][/i]: [b]Most Respected Member[/b]: [b]Most Improved Member[/b]: [b]Best New Member[/b]: [b]Funniest Member[/b]: [b]Most Intelligent Member[/b]: [b]Best Signature[/b]: [b]Weirdest Looks[/b]: [b]Most Annoying Member[/b]: [b]Best Graphics[/b]: [b]Best Writing[/b]: [b]Most Original Username[/b]: [b]Most Active Member[/b]: [b]Biggest Userbar Whore[/b]: [b]Most Likely To Be Lying About Their Age[/b]: Notes: Voting for the hottest member will be done in a separate topic You cannot vote for yourself in any award Best new member can be anyone who has registered DURING or AFTER June 2006 Best graphics - whoever has made the best graphics Best sig - who has the nicest sig (doesn't matter who made it) Userbar whore is who in your opinion loves userbars the most likely to be lying about their age - who looks much older/younger than they do/say in their photo/profile. Best writing is who has created the best fanfic or other literary work in the creativity forum. most improved member is who has been a n00b for most of this year but is now a decent member. And that's it I think, so go ahead and post your votes. If you're not sure of who you want to nominate for a certain award then just leave it blank for now, you can always come back and edit your post. Please keep chat down to a minimum so it's easier for us to count votes at the end. Good luck everyone!

Better than your previous but definitely get that banner sorted out.

yeah, click on it again and it goes to the full screen version.

I am going bowling today, I haven't been for years. I'm probably gonna suck

LOL, this is where all the funny internet meme's start isn't, such as the O RLY owls, and other hilarious images.

Yeah it's a great series, first one was the best IMO. The second one was pretty good too, but I didn't think the third one was all that great to be honest. But still, there's no denying it's an awesome trilogy.

Gears of War.

Do you guys know that 2.7.2 isn't even the latest version. Get 2.8.1. Speak to stunters on MSN.

It's pretty foggy here today and 3 degrees C apparently.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Fraps_d149.html And I fixed your name.

I just chose the other UK server in Derby, which is further away than London to me. Not much difference really...

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It's dark, obviously, at 8pm. And pretty cold, almost freezing I think.

That's true. Anyway, here's some interesting topics that have been made since the introduction of this frivolous topic: Whats weather like Your internet speed Drunk name If you're a man and you share a common interest of liking women, why not contribute to the infamous hot babe thread. You could also show off your own ugly mug in the post a picture of yourself topic. There's just so many legitimate posts to make.

You have a 2mb connection I see. How come your upload speed is so much slower than mine and Gerard's? Were you doing other stuff on the Internet at the same time as the test or something?

The Official Speedtest.net Thread Everyone go to http://www.speedtest.net/ And post back here with the results it gives you. They have servers all over the globe so it's not US based like all the others, you can get an accurate reading of how fast your internet really is. Here's my lame 1Mb connection: I'm hopefully upgrading to 8mb soon though Note: Take the test and scroll down, it gives you the "Forum link", copy and paste it into a post here

Actually, it's 500,000 - that's when we get on Big-Boards.com

I used to be a big Nokia fan but I find their stuff is way too expensive nowadays. On the other hand I absolutely love Sony Ericsson. I have a Sony Ericsson K800i and it's awesome. It's one of the most feature-filled phones out. Even has a built in RSS reader which is very handy. 3.2 Megapixel camera with flash. Nokia probably have one with similar features but I bet you it's more expensive. Nokia and Ericsson are the two clear leaders in phones anyway, so whatever you get isn't going to be a bad purchase in my opinion. From experience I would stay clear of the following brands: Samsung - Nice phones but they are flawed in that they don't last very long, especially if you're a heavy user like my sister, her past two Samsungs have both broken, yet her old Sony Ericsson K500i (not sure if thats the model) is still going to this day, albeit with a worn keypad, but 2 years in use is pretty incredible. Gerard said "all their kit is decent technology and solidly built" - yeah, I agree, EXCEPT for phones. My TV and Monitor are both Samsung, they're awesome, my sisters phones, shit. LG - Again, nice phones, but way too fragile, a friend at school had one of these (the one that when you flip the phone up the menu buttons are actually touch pad lights) and that got easily scratched and eventually broke so he had to send it back to them to fix it. Siemens - These are actually ok I think, haven't had one myself but I know people that do. Only thing is they never seem to have as many, or features that are as good as other phones. So yeah my overall choice, Sony Ericsson.

Then perhaps here we could (instead of asking how the weather is) we could post suggestions for new topics. HEY! I know, why doesn't someone post a "What's the weather like?" topic in forum fun and games. Should be a VERY exciting one indeed I don't actually have any other ideas right now, but I'm sure someone else does, so let's get making some new topics and posts everywhere

Yeah, I'll sort out some voting topics tonight.

Well don't spam Though the weather is just cloudy here btw To achieve 100,000 posts on Xmas day we need just over an average of 500 posts per day, so I don't think this is really possible, though some days we have had more posts than this To achieve 100,000 posts on New Year's Eve then we need just over an average of 250 posts per day. This is a much easier target to achieve. Last week we were getting around 200 posts per day, before that we were doing much better, I don;t know why it dropped, but we all need to get back into decent posting habits

I was hoping we could all help to achieve the 100,000 post milestone this year, ideally before or on Christmas Day, or if not, then before the end of the year. We have 12 days to achieve this. At the current rate of posts, it's going to take 15 days This makes Chris very upset. So, what do you all say to being a little more active over the festive period and help us get to 100,000 posts? Check around for unanswered topics, use the View new Posts feature to find new posts that have been made recently that you can reply to. And post here and say whether you think we'll get there. Happy posting!