Cootehill thinks that he is a TOTSE og...

1. 2018-08-15 at 10:10 PM UTC

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   WellHung Black Hole
   Folks, but he failed the initiation proceedings miserably.
2. 2018-08-15 at 10:13 PM UTC

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   Cootehill African Astronaut [my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]

   Originally posted by WellHung Folks, but he failed the initiation proceedings miserably.

   
   
   In fairness it was my fault for buying my costume at PoundWorld.
3. 2018-08-15 at 10:14 PM UTC

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   WellHung Black Hole
   Lolol
4. 2018-08-15 at 11:04 PM UTC

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   Cootehill African Astronaut [my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]
   I've been on totse since 2001 or so. It was just a source for text files for me, the forum seemed like a place of ill repute, and I warned against it on one of my homepages (lol, remember homepages?).
   
   Then I gradually got sucked in around 2002, 2003 or so. Just a lurker. I made an account around 2004. Around 2006 I was Issue313, and ran the forum totsealliance.com and the ogame.com totse alliance. It was amazingly flattering to have been chosen as a leader, but I didn't like it very much.
   
   Totse closed around 2009, at the same time as I had cancer and had a moderate chance of survival. While on chemo I posted on Zok's forum, then nothing, now I'm back here.
   
   I'm sorta OG, but in a desperate, clingy, failing to move on and totally non-cool way.
5. 2018-08-15 at 11:08 PM UTC

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   PrettyHateMachine African Astronaut

   Originally posted by Cootehill I've been on totse since 2001 or so.

   
   I'm the second oldest OG here
   
   No wonder you are all such boring wastes of oxygen and this place doesn't feel like TOTSE at all.
   
   Where did all the early 00s totseans go?
6. 2018-08-15 at 11:11 PM UTC

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   PrettyHateMachine African Astronaut
   That's unfortunate about your cancer btw
   How did you survive?
7. 2018-08-15 at 11:12 PM UTC

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   Cootehill African Astronaut [my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]

   Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine Where did all the early 00s totseans go?

   
   My impression is some went to jail, some were lost to suicide, but most just straightened out and left the whole underground scene.
8. 2018-08-15 at 11:13 PM UTC

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   WellHung Black Hole
   Apparently Cootehill does not want to talk about his cancer.
9. 2018-08-15 at 11:14 PM UTC

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   Cootehill African Astronaut [my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]

   Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine That's unfortunate about your cancer btw
   How did you survive?

   
   Via chemotherapy. My cancer was very treatable, after the first session all my lumps disappeared.
   
   Of course I had 9 more months of misery, with chemo every 2 weeks. Each time I'd spend the first week in bed, then the second week moving around.
   
   And the doctors were real cunts the whole time, even cutting my benzo prescription right in the middle of chemo because once, due to low blood pressure, I collapsed back into my chair after being inflated with the chemo drugs.
   
   And chemo drugs = about 4 litres of solution. I'd have to piss multiple times while having them run into me. Then on the way home they'd hit, and I'd feel like shit.
   
   I still feel ill whenever I see a Pizza hut, because one time I was eating there when the chemo hit. Goddam.
10. 2018-08-15 at 11:16 PM UTC

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    WellHung Black Hole
    Apparently, cootehill is kosher with talking about his experience.
11. 2018-08-15 at 11:18 PM UTC

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    Cootehill African Astronaut [my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]

    Originally posted by WellHung Apparently, cootehill is kosher with talking about his experience.

    
    The most galling thing of all, my Mom insisted on giving my head oncologist a bottle of booze.
    
    Fucker. I could have drank that fucking brandy!
12. 2018-08-16 at 12:16 AM UTC

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    EllariaSand African Astronaut

    Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine I'm the second oldest OG here
    
    No wonder you are all such boring wastes of oxygen and this place doesn't feel like TOTSE at all.
    
    Where did all the early 00s totseans go?

    
    They grew up & got lives?
13. 2018-08-16 at 12:22 AM UTC

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    Daddyissues Tuskegee Airman

    Originally posted by Cootehill I'm sorta OG, but in a desperate, clingy, failing to move on and totally non-cool way.

    
    Lol.
    
    Does my avatar show?
14. 2018-08-16 at 12:24 AM UTC

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    EllariaSand African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Daddyissues Lol.
    
    Does my avatar show?

    
    No
    
    
    Edit
    
    Yes
15. 2018-08-16 at 12:26 AM UTC

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    cupocheer Space Nigga [unwillingly condescend the dp]

    Originally posted by Cootehill Via chemotherapy. My cancer was very treatable, after the first session all my lumps disappeared.
    
    Of course I had 9 more months of misery, with chemo every 2 weeks. Each time I'd spend the first week in bed, then the second week moving around.
    
    And the doctors were real cunts the whole time, even cutting my benzo prescription right in the middle of chemo because once, due to low blood pressure, I collapsed back into my chair after being inflated with the chemo drugs.
    
    And chemo drugs = about 4 litres of solution. I'd have to piss multiple times while having them run into me. Then on the way home they'd hit, and I'd feel like shit.
    
    I still feel ill whenever I see a Pizza hut, because one time I was eating there when the chemo hit. Goddam.

    
    How long have you been in remission? Congrats, on still surviving.
    
    I would go in for chemo one week which would result in a weeks worth of puking.
    
    Then I would recover from my excessive weakness for a week.
    
    Then I would go home for a week to get my strength back.
    
    Then when I was feeling pretty good it was time to go back to the hospital and start all over, again.
    
    Eight full treatments -- miss one and you have to start over at the beginning.
    
    Glad you are feeling well enough to BS online.
16. 2018-08-16 at 12:41 AM UTC

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    WellHung Black Hole
    Cup, anyone who is a cancer survivor... you become fond of... for you... it feels good to be part of a cancer survivor, informal online fraternity. You feel it's where you belong.
17. 2018-08-16 at 12:46 AM UTC

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    Daddyissues Tuskegee Airman

    Originally posted by EllariaSand No
    
    
    Edit
    
    Yes

    
    Ty:)
18. 2018-08-16 at 12:58 AM UTC

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    cupocheer Space Nigga [unwillingly condescend the dp]

    Originally posted by WellHung Cup, anyone who is a cancer survivor… you become fond of… for you… it feels good to be part of a cancer survivor, informal online fraternity. You feel it's where you belong.

    
    
    WH -- such a serious shared life experience tends to make a survivor remember that others have been where you have and have valiantly fought the battle to overcome the silent killer.
    
    And sir, during the early years of cancer research and treatment one is very privileged indeed to still be surviving.
    
    Thank you for your attention. (I'd leave you a rose if the site admin ever had learned to code smilies for site use in spite of the BBCode Reference.)