This is my 22th Anniversary of being on WP. I remember the original members who were here in 2004 and 2005. I remember the Church of Everything. I remember all the parents and the Christmas presents that we'd come up with for each other. I remember my mourning the demise of the Routemaster and later on the censorship that came along with that. I remember the time that I shared more than I should have about my intestinal health in The Haven. I remember losing a friend on here in the January of 2007 and taking it in a very angry light. I remember my dark punk rock years that followed the incident. I remember the September of 2009 when I decided to forgive everyone who did me wrong and I went back to being a 60s-type Mod. I remember the 2010 and 2012 Olympics that took place in Vancouver and London. I remember Pete Quaife of The Kinks passing away and how angry I was that I got the cold shoulder from my mum. I remember finding a British Invasion radio station and watching the 2014 Olympics in Sochi and feeling like an outsider on WP because I was the only one who cared about the Olympics. I remember the January of 2016. I got a big screen TV for Christmas and I found Hogan's Heroes. I also came to the realization that I prefer Germany over England and I have for 30 years. My avatar changed from The Kinks to Sgt. Schultz. I started wearing a German helmet around the same time, because I wanted to be seen and treated as a man after years of being misgendered. I remember Covid 19 and switching my avatar to The Kinks for a while because I was thinking about how I wanted to be remembered. I remember the time that I moved into my new apartment and a year later I spent 6 weeks in a motel because I was getting a cockroach treatment done. I remember watching the 2024 Olympics in Paris and learning about Matt Steiner the German weightlifter who promised his dying wife a gold medal back in 2008. I used him for an avatar instead of Schultz for a while along with some other German themed avatars. I remember last year in 2025 when I didn't want October and Oktoberfest to end. Now it's 2026 and I'm being creative with my avatars.
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The Family Schlager
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