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The Night the Forum Showed Up: Tobbo's Cry for Help

A teenager's cry for help lands in the Debating forum — and the regulars actually show up for it.

In August 2007, a member called Tobbo opened a thread in the Debating subforum asking about painless ways to die, describing a messy breakup and family fallout. Staff moved it from general Off-Topic into Debating, and responses ranged from blunt dismissal to genuine, if roughly-worded, concern from moderators and members. The thread runs six pages, reflecting how a throwaway-looking title actually drew real engagement from the community rather than being ignored.

im feelin all emo whats the easyest n least painfull way to go?— Tobbo

Fkn0wned is not a suicide cult thanks very much take your extreme emo shit else where— Malware

just remember killing yourself is the pansies way out, =\— pwn911

Could You Crack This? — The KidsWatch Parental-Control Thread

A guy asks the forum to help his 'friend' beat her parents' monitoring software — and nobody buys the cover story for a second.

User 'Industry' opens a thread asking if anyone can defeat KidsWatch Time Control, supposedly on behalf of a female friend whose parents were installing it. The community immediately clocks the 'friend' excuse as a thin cover, then splits between mocking the request and actually engaging with it — offering everything from task-killing and registry edits to safe-mode boots, VB programs, and admin-account keylogging as theoretical workarounds. It's a classic fkn0wned mix of skepticism, dark humor, and genuine amateur technical one-upmanship, with a staff member ('miLLer') dropping the most direct 'just do it' answer near the end.

Theory, she is a he and he is you...— blacknight00

Come on man, this is a re-phrased request.— Peski-Ruski

Logon to admin account (by keylogger/guessing/use when dad is using it)... easy.— miLLer

Oh, Behave: A Manager's Lecture on Staff Conduct After a Demotion Wave

A manager drops a truck-driver analogy to explain why your admin got demoted for acting like a normal member.

A Manager-ranked staffer named tKeR posts a long lecture aimed at the community following a wave of staff demotions and kicks, addressing members who reacted with drama and flaming instead of accepting the decisions gracefully. The post lays out an expectation that promoted staff (Manager, Supervisor, Administrator) should behave with more restraint and responsibility than regular members, using a 'truck driver promoted to boss' analogy to make the point. It reads as a public justification/warning about staff standards rather than a genuine open debate, posted in the Debating subforum with only one early reply from Sonikk visible.

TAKE IT LIKE A MAN.— tKeR

fkn0wned isn't gonna give you these colorful names just so you can act the same, we expect you to act like that positon— tKeR

Don't give me excuses on how you can't do something.— tKeR

Robot Marriage, Im serious

Could you legally marry a robot by 2010? fkn0wned's Debating forum weighed in, and it got weird fast.

A 2007 Debating-board thread sparked by a class article on Honda's talking, violin-playing robot Robina, asking whether a human could morally marry a human-like robot with no soul. The thread quickly splits between earnest philosophical musings on robot emotions and aging, and members cracking jokes about robot sex, drop-kicking robotic partners, and misreading the plot of I, Robot. Classic mid-2000s off-topic sprawl: half sincere futurism, half locker-room heckling, capped off by a staff member just wanting to shoot robots in the face.

So what happens if in the future a Robot and a Human "Fall in love" and decide to get married? Is this morally wrong, how would people react.— hunterbrute224

who gives a shit you will be like 30 or older just drop kick that hoe— Afteryou

Shit I cant wait til I can get a gun and run around shooting robots in the face.— HaSh

Global Warming Debate (2008)

2008's climate change flame war, complete with an Al Gore takedown and an IQ of -1 insult

A long-running Off-Topic debate thread (already on its third page) where members argued the merits and skepticism of global warming/climate change, a hot-button topic of the mid-2000s. Posts range from one-liners joking about warmer Canadian weather, to a lengthy skeptic manifesto citing 'global cooling' fears from decades prior and questioning the science, to pushback citing worsening storms as proof of human impact. Classic early-forum Debating board energy: half-researched arguments, personal jabs, and no one changing their mind.

Global warming makes Canada warmer. Thank God.— Firerain

I feel this thread lacks brains on the side of against global warming.— ri0t

then you sir must have an IQ of -1. kthnxbai.— killswitch101

Mac VS PC, rofl

A 40+ post religious war over Macs, PCs, and who's the bigger fanboy — ends in someone getting called a 'pre-judging cunt'

A classic late-2000s Mac vs PC flame war in the Debating subforum, running at least 3 pages deep by the time this excerpt picks up. Members argued over OS security myths, GPU specs, SLI setups, price, and 'performance vs design,' with the usual mix of half-informed tech takes and fanboy posturing. It escalates from casual back-and-forth into a personal spat between Anexxion and Olie22 over PC vs Mac performance claims, complete with insults and mod-bait language. Pure early forum debate-culture nostalgia — everyone's an expert, nobody agrees, and it's all in good chaotic fun.

your talking out of your arse so stfu... ur a pre-judging cunt and stereotypical since u hate PC fanboys.— Olie22

geez, i hate PC fanboys, macs ARE better than PC in terms of performance/design.— Anexxion

LINUX FOR THE WIN microsoft winblows, you've never tried anything else, n00b— aesir09

Why Do You Smoke Marijuana? (2007 Debating Thread)

A 2007 Off-Topic debate thread where teenage forum regulars argued about weed, brownies, and dying faster.

Started by member Industry (who noted he'd accidentally duplicated Peski-Ruski's identical thread title), this Debating-board thread asked members why they smoke marijuana and how they got started. Responses ranged from proud non-smokers (olie22, banak, hunterbrute224) to casual and daily users (kingkoopa, QuiX, orangespwnz), with Afteryou repeatedly clashing with others over the morality and health effects of smoking versus edibles. The tone is classic mid-2000s teenage forum debate: blunt, a little edgy, mixing genuine personal stories with trash talk and 'lol' one-liners.

Smoke if you wanna die faster.— Afteryou

dont smoke it never will and im proud of it— olie22

Don't smoke it then, make special brownies,problem solved.— LoG1c

Germany: Nazi Jokes, WW2 Flamewar, and 'It's Just a Country'

A Russian-in-Germany kid asks the forum what they think of his country, and it spirals into a WW2 debate and a rant about coffee shops.

Started by Peski-Ruski, a Russian member living in Germany who was tired of getting called a Nazi in text fights, this thread asked members for their honest first impressions of Germany. Replies ranged from genuine affection (autobahns, legal-ish weed myths, prostitution jokes) to lazy 'Germany = Nazis' jabs, with some mixing up Germany and the Netherlands/Belgium along the way. It escalates when Jack Bauer drops a flat 'GERMANY=FAIL, think about WW2,' prompting a long, furious rebuttal from Peski-Ruski dragging US history (Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Taliban, oil, racism) into the mix before things cool back into shrugs of 'it's just a country.'

GERMANY=FAIL if you don't agree, think about WW2— Jack Bauer

You piece of useless dogshit. Are you fucking playing smart?— Peski-Ruski

lol what?! haha. who cares, its a fucking country. have fun.— -Still Life-

Gun Laws: US vs UK Debate Turns Into Arsenal-Comparing

A 2007 argument about American gun control turns into dudes comparing home arsenals and beer cap collections.

Founding/staff member Shifty. kicked off a Debating-board thread contrasting US Second Amendment culture with UK gun laws, asking whether the US should tighten firearm sales given its high gun-death rate. The five-page thread meandered through the usual UK-vs-US gun debate, then got personal when Jack Daniels listed out his family's actual gun collection, prompting Astrea and Peski-Ruski to needle him for 'trying to look hard on the internet' while Peski-Ruski deflated the tension by comparing his own 'arsenal' to kitchen cutlery and a beer-cap collection. Fairly typical early-2010s (well, 2007) forum off-topic debate energy — earnest political opinions mixed with light mockery and internet-tough-guy jabs.

And I got a kitchen knife, a couple of forks, a spoon and a machete. My arsenal rocks.— Peski-Ruski

nah i use them. they dont just sit there.— Jack Daniels

gg trying to look hard on the internetz.— Astrea

Best Drinks!

Fkn0wned's cheat-scene regulars trade favorite booze mixes and drop a 'J + A = 1337' joke that basically says the topic's already solved.

A lighthearted Off-Topic/Debating thread from November 2007 where forum members swap their favorite alcoholic drinks and mixers — rum and coke, vodka with OJ or Sprite, gin and tonic, absinthe, and more. Staff members and long-time posters chime in alongside newer members, giving it a casual, community-hangout feel typical of the board's off-topic banter. A running joke about the thread being a 'double-threaded' repeat (a rehash of a past drinks thread) adds a bit of in-community continuity humor, with a member literally named 'Jack Daniels' fittingly showing up to say he prefers to drink himself.

Double-threaded. Assuming 'J' is Jack Daniels and 'A' is anything drinkable. J + A = 1337. Don't bother, the equation is already solved.— Peski-Ruski

i prefer to drink myself, the captains my friend as well— Jack Daniels

Dark rum and coke. Jack D. Guinness. Absinthe.— cedars

Is This Worth In-School Suspension?

Kid doodles a dick on a girl's cheek with a leaky pen, gets slapped with 25 demerits — forum jury says overkill.

A member at a strict private school recounts drawing a crude doodle on a female classmate's cheek as a joke, which led to a teacher and principal escalating it into an in-school suspension worth 25 demerits. The thread turns into a lighthearted debate/poll on whether the punishment fit the 'crime,' with most voters (58%) siding with the OP that it wasn't worth anything. It spirals into members comparing absurdly strict school rules across countries, trading school-drama and hot-teacher stories, and general off-topic ribbing typical of the Debating subforum.

Wow, what strict mother fucking bitches, do you lo...— HaSh

I'd say just 5 for drawing a dick haha.— Janza

I highly recommend you transfer to another school.— Hasibur.fkn

Life, the Universe, and Everything

A late-night dorm-room philosophy dump lands in the Debating forum — aliens, religion, and why humanity keeps ruining its own party.

In December 2007, member hunterbrute224 opened a rambling late-night existential thread in the Debating subforum, floating the idea that humans might be aliens from Mars, questioning the point of religion, and asking why people keep trying to 'make the world better' while making it worse. A handful of regulars (Peski-Ruski, Eckos, Seaking, olie22) jumped in with quote-chain replies, mostly praising the topic and sparring lightly over the points raised. It's a small, low-drama thread typical of the forum's Off-Topic corner — a place for stoner-hour big questions between rounds of CS.

What if humans are the aliens themselves?— hunterbrute224

WHY DO HUMANS CONSTANTLY TRY AND MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE, BUT ONLY SUCCEED IN MAKING IT EVEN MORE OF A SHIT HOLE?— hunterbrute224

Awesome topic, respect.— Peski-Ruski

Will France Ever Be Useful?

A 2007 poll and pile-on about the French turns into a mini flame war over Iraq, WW2 jokes, and one guy's 'French ex-pat email' copypasta.

A Debating-board thread opened with a poll asking users' opinions of France, followed by a wall of old French-bashing jokes and a copy-pasted email supposedly from someone who lived in France. Most replies were low-effort jabs and jokes (rugby player Sébastien Chabal, French kissing, accents), but user Peski-Ruski broke from the pile-on to angrily call out the OP's Iraq/WW2 comparisons as incoherent, sparking a brief real argument before the OP admitted it 'wasnt really a debate.' Typical Off-Topic energy: a flimsy premise, a poll nobody takes seriously, and a couple of members trying to inject actual substance into the chaos.

Are you trying to change some one's mind about the French? ... So far you've only stirred shit— Peski-Ruski

France Sux, Quebec pwn kthx— blackxthink

iut wasnt really a debate, i just wanted to know people's opinions.— Industry

"Most Painful Way of Suicide" — Off-Topic Debating Thread

A joke debate thread where forum regulars one-up each other with the most absurd, cartoonishly gruesome hypothetical death — then get called out for it not actually being about suicide.

A member named Legit_Hacks spun off a companion thread to an existing 'least painful way to die' topic, asking forum-goers to imagine the *most* painful way to go instead. What followed was classic Off-Topic escalation: increasingly over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek scenarios (sandpaper, acid, sledgehammers, and worse) rather than any serious discussion. A side-argument broke out over grammar and whether the posts even qualified as 'suicide' versus just describing murder, with staff members and regulars ribbing each other and the OP's spelling. A staff member eventually shows up pages later to point out the thread is a duplicate and belongs in the humor section, not Debating, calling it barely a 'debate' at all.

None of you are talking about suicide. Your all talking about some killing you, you have to be able to di it yourself.— Bucketface

if the dumbass cant spell "suicide" correctly in the thread title then im not going to talk about what the thread is intended for.— -Still Life-

this thread is not only a duplicate, but it also fails, it should be in the humor section. It's as much as a debate as my socks ffs.— Peski-Ruski

Cannabis Legalization Debate (2008)

Fkn0wned's resident CS 1.6 mods and 1-post wonders settle the war on drugs, 2008-style.

A 2008 Debating subforum thread kicked off by longtime member/moderator c0ke asking whether weed should be legal, weighing the appeal of legalization against how easily the black market could be exploited for profit. A handful of members chimed in with typical forum-philosopher takes on regulation, dealers moving to harder drugs, UK drug classification law, and anecdotal claims about weed and mental health. Fairly low-traffic but earnest thread, capturing the classic early internet forum pastime of teenagers debating drug policy in the off-topic section.

I think that bud should be legalized but at the same time I don't because of how exploitable the black market for it is.— c0ke

It'd be more helpfull if it was legalised, even though i can't see it happening. And dealer's would have to move onto Harder drugs.— Geist

Moving should be made illegal but possession and use should be made LEGAL.— zumzum1

AMD vs Intel, Nvidia vs ATI hardware debate

The classic PC hardware holy war lands in Debating — everyone's rig, nobody's mind changed.

A straightforward hardware debate thread from the Fkn0wned Debating subforum, where Famousss asks members whether they run AMD or Intel and Nvidia or ATI. Responses are quick and casual, with most posters admitting brand loyalty rather than hard data, a couple of Intel Pentium/Core 2 Duo callouts, and a mild meta-jab about the thread even belonging in the Debate forum. Standard early-2010s tech-forum banter, low drama, high nostalgia for the old CS 1.6/CS:S crowd comparing gaming rigs.

Meh bad topic All this does is cause Arguing Intel sucks AMD wins— hunterbrute224

never go for intel pentium there shit intel core 2 due and quds are good AMD is ment to kik ass— olie22

And to hunterbrute, this is the Debate Forum.— Arcade

Paranoid behaviour when smoking weed

A small-town stoner asks if anyone else feels like their dad's hiding in the bushes — cue the forum's resident smokers, skeptics, and one guy repping legal weed in Germany.

A member starts a thread in the Debating subforum asking if others get paranoid while smoking weed, describing feeling watched in his small town. Replies range from non-smokers shrugging it off, to a member citing Germany's weed laws, to a moderator (miLLer) admitting he gets 'big time' paranoia too. The tone is casual, joking Off-Topic banter typical of the board rather than a serious drug discussion.

LOL, if your gonna be paranoid dont smoke it— mr.N0Nam3

I get Paranoia big time... you're not alone.— miLLer

who ever takes drugs is kinda a loser if ya cant enjoy yaself without drugs— olie22

Parallel Universe? - Debating Thread

Old-school forum philosophers speculate on parallel universes between classes and Xfire pings.

A laid-back Off-Topic/Debating thread on Fkn0wned.com where members mused about the existence of parallel universes. Staff members hunterbrute224 and Industry chime in with brief, casual takes, with hunterbrute224 cutting the discussion short to head to school. The vibe is typical mid-2000s forum philosophizing—low-effort but earnest musings between regulars rather than a heated debate.

I think there are it explains a lot about what we dont know if you think about it. Gotta go to school so I cant elaborate on any of this...— hunterbrute224

Egg Nog: Spam or Not?

A one-line 'tastes good, yes or no?' post spirals into a mini-debate about what even counts as spam.

A low-effort thread simply asking if egg nog is good sparked a brief back-and-forth about whether it qualified as 'spam' compared to other off-topic threads, alongside genuine (if scattered) chatter about who likes or has never tried egg nog. Classic Debating-subforum filler: mundane holiday-drink small talk mixed with meta-arguing over forum posting standards. A couple of Aussie and non-North-American members chimed in confused about what egg nog even was, adding a bit of culture-clash comedy to the thread.

How is this spam? I guess every other thread here is spam aswell then...— Sideways

Wtf is "Egg Nog"? Whenever I say it I get a weird feeling in my nose and i feel like blowing all my snot on the nearest person...— Whats that?...BANG!!

How you set the topic up is what I considered spam.— orangespwnz

Pickles Debate (Warned and Closed)

A thread about pickles got warned and closed by the Forum Police within hours.

A member started a 'debate' in the Debating subforum simply asking who loves and who hates pickles, name-dropping a tangent about Marmite for good measure. A handful of replies weighed in on pickle preferences (with a shot at McDonald's pickles), before another user called out the thread as pointless. Supervisor DCLXVI shut it down the next morning, tagging it a 'Stupid debate.' A tiny, perfectly mundane snapshot of low-stakes off-topic chatter and quick moderation on the old board.

Stupid debate. Warned and closed.— DCLXVI

Stop making these fucked up threads man, wtf pickles?— Peski-Ruski

i love them but the one that maca's has are shit!— olie22

Ricky Hatton VS Floyd Mayweather

One Brit's fan-boy prediction thread before the biggest fight of December 2007 — poll says Hatton in a landslide (of one vote).

A short prediction/poll thread in the Debating subforum ahead of the real-life Hatton vs Mayweather boxing match, posted December 2007. Member -Shikari- makes the case for fellow Brit Ricky Hatton, dismissing Floyd Mayweather as arrogant and disrespectful for trash-talking Hatton and comparing himself to Muhammad Ali. The poll only ever recorded a single vote for Hatton, and the thread doesn't appear to have drawn further discussion in the captured page.

Fuck mayweather, yes he is skilled no doubt, but my gosh does he have the biggest gob on him, and to be honest he is a pillock.— -Shikari-

Mayweather said he was even better than Muhammad Ali. Up your arse much?— -Shikari-