Flint_Paper posted:

Years ago (probably around when I actually registered) there was a post your phone number thread in GBS. It being The Past and me being bored, I did that thing. Had several extremely goony chats with extremely goony people.

One person decided to call me based on my avatar (look at the little bear!) and her first words were "Where is the booze? I demand to have some booze". Coincidentally I'd just seen Withnail and I for the first time that week, and we had a good old chat. We kept in touch over the years, either through MSN or phone calls and went on with our lives.

Years and years later, during the Scientology protests, I saw that she'd been to the London one, and I mentioned that I was thinking about going to the Birmingham one. She invited me to come to London and join the protest with her. I did, and we had a grand old time. I travelled back to London several times in the next few months, hanging out and going to parties with her and her friends.

A couple of months later I quit my job, left my girlfriend of four years, and moved to London to hang out with her in a slightly more structured way. We've been together for eleven years, and I proposed to her with a ring I'd made from the wooden cork of a bourbon bottle we'd drank at one of those parties, that I'd kept for all that time.

Being in London also got me into performing comedy, and I was in a group that was Quite A Big Deal for several years, before going off to do my own stuff.

Basically this is one big callout post @ CuriousSymptoms for being an excellent curvy goonette wife, and also sitting on the sofa while I'm typing this, with no idea that I'm actually being a bit sappy online.

SomethingAwful: Weirdly responsible for my life an career.

Hilariously the guy who got me to join SA has blocked me on Twitter. gently caress that guy. The jerk.