Verily I say unto you, good sir, that we should embark upon this once more.

Those were the days... Makes me even more depressed that I haven't done anything impressive with my life since.

A period of reminiscence of a day long gone? Count me in dear chaps, I for one miss those days.

those were the days--!
HERP

Yeah, I miss all those great incest thread, too.

>>8175809
>2009

Try 08, fool

>>8175734
We still are gentlemen, but times change.

At least we are not one of those /b/yobs.

>>8175809
I remember that thread, it was on my birthday.

Goodness, I remember the thread where that picture was made. When was that?

>>8175809

I hate you so much...I'm crying now

>>8175809
Fionn, I remember that thread as well. It played on my evolutionary hatred towards all Fionns. Holy shit I hate Fionn.

FUCK YEAH CAIN, anyone?

>>8175862
Gentlemen don't spend all day crying over and raging at women.

>>8175962
That's the thing. I don't. I have little interest in female relationships.

Ah, yes. A time when there were delightful threads between the b'aww and relationshit. Such a long time ago, it was. I nearly forgot.

Anyone up for some rainymood and some Coltrane?

>>8176003

Yes sir! Link us, so our gentlemanly rears may remain rested?

>>8175734
quite an interesting observation, old chap.

>>8175998
Easy to forget, it seems like such a short time now.

I'm not sure why I keep checking back here.

/r9k/ was indeed better before.

the first week sucked though.
but then we were gentlemen for a while, that was good.
but now we've become misogynistic racist aspies bickering about college majors and relationshit

at least all those "what is your _____" quiz threads are mostly gone though.

>>8175956

Aye, the cool guy with the donuts. That wasn't all too long ago, was it?

>>8175734

Was a rather good run, we had back then. A bitter shame our arrogant jaunts were lost in the torrent of emo aspie shame threads. What a pitty /adv/ didn't come a bit earlier.

Oh, man. I miss when Gummy Bears was on, even though I only remember the theme song to that show and even then only like 3 lines of it and as I recall the show was kind of daft.

A commercial break would come on, and I'd dash up the stairs as fast as I could, grab like 3-4 apples from the fridge, then practically roll back down the stairs just in time for commercials to be over. I used to think I was SO FAST because I could run up those stairs.

Nowadays, I realize I've grown so big I'd hit my head going down the stairs that fast. That house is so SMALL. And they don't make cartoons like they used to. And food just makes me fat.

Oh god, what happened!?!?!?

My good sirs, my fellow denizens of this elaborate place known as /r9k/, I bid you all good evening. I hope that you all have been disregarding females and acquiring currency, for if you have no money, you cannot own an estate, and if you do not have an estate.... what woman will be attracted?

Sure, you could screw the scullery maid, but let's keep that under the rug, shall we?

So like you miss when basement dwelling aspies made fun of pseudo intellectuals and not the other way around..

>>8176163
>>8176163
>>8176163
Yes, goddamn, the raging misogyny in here is something fondly absent from my memory of the yesteryears of arcanine.

It's absurd, the board isn't even that old.

>>8176181
You'd have had to have been awfully fast with /adv/ to save /r9k/.

The way it looks these days, you'd think /r9k/ didn't want to be saved, it's sad really.

I know you all still love our sleepovers though, we should arrange more even though we're all sleeping in the same server now.

>misogynistic racist aspies bickering about college majors and relationshit

You know it's sad but truuue~

Just look at the first page. 4 top threads are relationshit.

>>8176240
Yeah seriously. The trolling and the stupidity needs to stop, people are just fucking stupid. Of course I only ever post on 4chan when I am terribly depressed but WHATEVER

Fellow sirs, I declare a call to arms, our genteel ways should plague the board with a sense of class not seen in years.

OP here,

I am a fagit

I'm still curious as to who punched Jeff even after two years.

Seriously-!

Dude, that happened for like what, almost 2 months? Yeah, 'those' days.

>>8176380
I heartily second this recommendation! Come, sirs, I cordially invite you all to recall those halcyon days, and with that memory burning as a torch within your breast, assemble as one to rise and defeat the current unhappy status quo! We may once more be restored to our former greatness, gentlemen! The stars are the limit, we need only make the attempt!

>>8176506

Also, [spoiler] C A W K S [/spoiler]

>>8176240
Unbelievable

Even with /adv/ /r9k/ is still huge pile of relationshit.

Man, we really need. someone with an iron fist to come in and say "No. This does not fly." and go trigger happy with some bans.

I remember how much red text was on the board at its inception, justice was swift.

Then again, that was when r9k had like 50 unique users rather than whatever it has now.

>>8175904

21st April 2008!
I'm the one that drew it and I can't believe it's still around, also how shonky it looks now. I always meant to do something better as that one was a rather crappy coloured version that I posted to show the progress whilst everyone else made more suggestions.

I too miss the days when we discussed things in the gentlemanly manner, I always envisioned them being held in a library lit by gaslamps whilst the oil portraits of gloomful and moustached robots of bygone ages looked down from their gilded frames.
There were pipes too, to be used as gesturing tools if not being actively drawn upon.

like any other civilized society, decline is inevitable.

IRC that way ->>>

this never happened
OP is a troll

>>8176601
This good sir speaks a truth! Its moderation and authority this community needs to exile those who choose to bitch and wail about there lack of class and their monetary and relationship problems

My brethren, I know our burdens are many. Our allies are few. But now is our hour! I implore every man jack of you to shake off your acquiescence and rebel against the distasteful bourgeoisie mentality that currently overwhelms us. Stand and be counted, allow your insight and wit to illuminate your wayward fellows! What more deserving effort could be made, and at what hour could the advantage better be seized, than the present?

Those days were good my bot/hren

>>8176646
I do not believe this! You, sir, are one who created this picture the OP has posted?

Did you have any other drawings? Do you have a portfolio I can take a look at?

>>8176646
I recall the thread wherein the local gentlemen came together to create that image. I believe I may even have some earlier versions.

>>8176966
I recall when human had been rather injured by a knife and as his, uh, uh, blood, yes, I think that's what it's called. as he laid there dying he said "take me to a dock!" No doubt he intended to say "doctor", but he was unable to complete his thought, for, you see, as he had died. So, taking him at his final word, we took his body to the waterfront, where the sea gulls fed upon it.

I've been here since day one, and I can say that that this time did not last long.

Yes most defiantly a shame that it has degraded into school yard mentality and not the intellectual discussions of past.

However those days are long gone and OP is now just a faggot.

>>8175734
Maybe this means that the old /b/ has moved here, and as for the new /b/... God knows what that is.

>>8177037
I'm afraid, friend, that you yourself are, as they say, a part of the problem. Defiantly and definitely are distinct words with quite distinct spellings, and the word "however" should almost always be followed by punctuation of some kind.

>>8177091

No it's just that like all cancer it starts in one organ and spreads to the others. Now that /b/ is completely overrun with cancer it has spread in order to continue its rampant consumption of 4chan.

>>8177113

Someone cannot take the joke as was intended. I was being ironical.

>>8177113
Ah, what a muddled mess we find ourselves in! So few are willing to put forth the necessary (and might I add, minimal) effort to communicate in a polite manner, and half of those who are willing are seemingly unable! Alas, I fear our time is fast approaching its nadir, brother. At least we have the consolation of complete physical superiority over the fleshy humans, and the immortality granted by an electronic brain. Small consolations abound!

This board is for the basment dwelling aspies now. The least we can do it try to stem the flow of the next demographic shift - the normalfags.

>>8177170
^^
Oh and "however" does not always require a punctuation. If used as a conjunction it does not require punctuation.

So if your going to be a fucking english professor, DON"T DO IT WRONG! douchebag

inb4
you're

no sleep for 2 days.

Fuck you

>>8177255
I'm afraid I must correct you yet again. Even when used as a conjunction, "however" is to be followed by a comma, as in: "Black tea was originally drunken without sweetener or cream, however, modern sensibilities demand both."

Basement dwelling aspies have nothing to do with the decline of this board. They do not know enough about women or humans in general to hate them, and obviously have no relationshit to talk about.

>>8177222
To my knowledge, the gentlemen of /r9k/ are far more "normal" than your average Asperger's sufferer. We might favor intellectual pursuits over social, on the whole, but we still have social graces a certain type of posting here would suggest are absent from 4chan.

>>8177298

You didn't use it as a conjunction, you used it as an adverbial you fucking idiot.

'I will despise you however old I grow'

Now fucking add punctuation to that and have it make sense!

>>8177321
You'll find the majority of relationship threads here are of the type "I'm in love with a woman who wouldn't give me the time of day." Which does tend to suggest spergers.

I'm not pretty much sure how great that kind of sex is.

>>8177298
I am sorry to say that in trying to prove your point you have made quite an egregious error of your own. The word "however" may or may not be followed by a comma. However, you seem to have placed a comma ever so absent-mindedly before the "however." The aforementioned comma is quite unnecessary and need never to be placed before a conjunction only to be followed by yet another comma.

Well 4chan has been getting more views now because its been talked about.Also, /r9k/ has gotten dumbed down to some degree.

>>8176966
Let me see them. I'm interested.

>>8177335

Can one not be both intellectual and a basement dweller?

>>8177352
You'll find that, when joining two sentences, it does serve as a conjunction. Furthermore, when used as in your example, it is an adverb (describing, in this case, the adjective "old"). This is, of course, one of those particular cases in which no punctuation is required; the vast majority of usages do require punctuation.

>>8177379
In fact, both commas there are necessary in modern grammar.

There is something of the old element that still persists to this day. Diminished as it is, it exists nevertheless.

Quite.

Hey remember when 8/10 posts on /r9k/ were about something highbrow? Science, history, philosophy, serious music?

>>8177555
What the hell is serious music.

/r9k/ was always /b/ with a tophat...not that that was was a bad thing. It's just that /r9k/ is the tophat'd version of /b/ from the moment of /r9k/'s inception, like it was stuck in time. This IS a good thing.

For the most part, though, I still see gentlemen in /r9k/. I am pleased.

So basically you miss the first 2 weeks of /r9k/'s existence.

>>8177572
Classical is frequently serious, I find. Of course, accounting must be made for tastes, and certain classical aficionados have a laudable abundance of enthusiasm that nevertheless fails to be serious.

>>8177572
Pretentious hipster elite faggotryawrtgwnieoar;vmnawerig

>>8177612blox
GOD when is someone gonna invent a machine that lets you punch people through the internet

>>8177510

Wrong, completely wrong.

The use of a comma is to signify pause in a sentence. You can have a sentence with the word "however" without a comma if you do not wish it to be read with a pause. You can have a comma before and after the word "however" if you wish pause to be added both before and after the word. You can also just have the comma before or after. All three are grammatically correct.

Get over your high school English lessons.

For as long as I have been here it's /b/ lite. Slower and a lot less total morons.

For fucking real. This is my first time back on /r9k/ since lent begun, and i've yet to see an old fashioned misogynist thread. Only ones about chubbies.
I'm shocked.

>>8176240
remove the -racist- aspect and it's true.

>>8177667
Let's have it your way, then. Failing to pause after the word "however" would create ambiguity, because "however" can, as another gentleman so astutely observed, be used as an adverb. Without that pause (which is to say without that comma), the second clause is correctly interpreted as "regardless of the extent to which modern sensibilities demand both". The comma is necessary to distinguish between these two cases and should therefore always be present.

>>8177791
It's true that racism rarely rears its ugly head on this board, but whenever a thread begins to touch on race (particularly in the context of intelligence), an astonishing portion of our brethren reveal themselves for bigots.

>>8177759
It does appear to be "The NIGHT of the CHUBBIES" in here. Most strange indeed, sir.