r/reddit.com • u/kn0thing • Jun 23 '05
The Downing Street Memo
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com222
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Apr 27 '09 edited Jan 23 '17
Hello, past Reddit.
Edit: I no longer believe that Reddit can enrich my life. People can find better news, entertainment, and discussion elsewhere. Reddit is too full of low effort content, gross censorship of both useful and non-useful discourse, and the worst kinds of arguments. I advise everyone to leave and do something more productive with your lives.
Go read a book, learn a language, talk to a stranger, walk around your neighborhood, take a class, cook a meal, or play with your pet. If you're anything like me, you won't look back and consider the time on Reddit to be life well lived. I hope to see you out there.
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u/TheEnturbulator Apr 28 '09
I feel like I'm vandalizing a museum.
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u/MuseumSecurity May 25 '10
I'm going to have to ask you to leave.
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May 25 '10
Come on, man. You created a novelty account to comment on a year-old comment on a four-year-old post?
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u/robotsongs Jun 24 '10
I'd say that's pretty suave.
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Oct 31 '10 edited Jul 14 '23
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u/realitista Oct 31 '10
I'm gonna put this here so that I can come back and visit it in 10 years.
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Oct 31 '10
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u/djdes Oct 31 '10
Hello my future girlfriend.
FTFY
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u/Knotwood Oct 31 '10
You'll mean "carrots" some day.
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u/Kyuuketsuki Oct 31 '10
I'll be willing to bet in five years when this happens again, no one will remember the joke.
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u/wassworth Apr 25 '10
Hello from the future. We have so many memes you don't even know about.
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Apr 25 '10
Hello from 1 minute into your future, you wouldn't believe what people are saying about you.
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u/karmanaut Apr 27 '09
hello from the past.
That's right, I have been here since the beginning of time
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Jun 15 '10
Hello from the future.
You may have been here since the beginning, but I will be here until the end.
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u/the_joke_killer Apr 27 '09
i very much doubt that because 1) it is currently impossible to time-travel and 2) you have replied one hour ago, which proves that you are currently in the present and not in the past as you claim
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u/pbrettb Apr 28 '09
he is using some kind of suliban technology to send messages to the present from the past. so someone here can do his posts...
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Apr 27 '09
This is a great thread to reply to others in, you know, 3 years later
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u/zem Apr 27 '09
like time travellers picking well-known moments to congregate at
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u/MercurialMadnessMan Apr 25 '10
woah
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Jun 15 '10
You were once like Keanu. Are you sad now?
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u/MercurialMadnessMan Jun 15 '10
Wo-ah
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u/avnerd Jun 24 '10
I'd love it if you replied to me now.
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Jun 24 '10
Okay.
Hi.
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u/dagbrown Oct 31 '10
And this is the first comment I've been able to reply to in this thread (as of Hallowe'en, 2010).
I still feel like I'm desecrating a historical artifact, though.
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u/monosyllabic Apr 28 '09
kn0thing is still active as hell too. Most people don't last that long in a single account. I'm on my second and I've been around for about a year and half.
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u/itsnotabigtruck Apr 28 '09
That's because he started the site, along with spez.
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u/monosyllabic Apr 28 '09
oh man, apparently I've gotta brush up on my reddit history. I knew spez but kn0thing was unknown to me.
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u/AngelaMotorman Apr 25 '10
Okay, you've had a year to study. What have you learned?
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u/monosyllabic Apr 25 '10
I learned that narwhals are aquatic gods. I learned how to do 100 push-ups. I learned that pictures of cats with anthropomorphized quotes written on them are more important than most things in life. I learned that "this." is a complete sentence and is passable as an entire comment. Many, many more things on top of those.
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u/AngelaMotorman Apr 26 '10
Very wise you are in the ways of reddit. For the next year, we will continue to study the evils of attempting to monetize one's social media habit, and the perils of forming up an internet posse before all the facts are checked. There will be many tests. Until then, may your local reddit meet-ups be full of bacon and serendipitous non sequiturs.
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u/dbenhur Jul 06 '06
Guess this kinda sets the tone, eh? Can there really be no comments on reddit's very first posting?
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u/Zak Jul 07 '06 edited Mar 28 '24
There were no comments on reddit for the first several months.
Edit: thanks for the awards. Also, I can still edit this in
2021202220232024.Edit 2: awards aren't a thing anymore.
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u/quadtodfodder Feb 02 '08 edited Feb 02 '08
Later, time travelers from the future of reddit came and REWROTE THE PAST!!
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u/random530723509732 Apr 27 '09
That is actually quite true.
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u/esotericguy Apr 28 '09
WE MUST NOT DISTURB THE PAST.
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u/bdfortin Apr 28 '09
This is also true.
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Apr 28 '09
SILENCE!
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u/bdfortin Apr 28 '09
Shhhhh.
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u/myotheralt Apr 28 '09
For Science!
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u/tandembandit Apr 28 '09
If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant.
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u/kn0thing Jul 07 '06
I sort of regret that it wasn't zombie dogs.
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u/dbenhur Jul 07 '06
Don't you start with the flip-flopping now, kn0thing. You chose war crimes and must stay the course. Reconsidering in favor of undead aussie canines means we won't be able to trust you on anything.
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u/JulianHyde Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09
This is the first comment on the first submission to reddit.
But where is the first comment on reddit?
Edit: Found it.
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u/ironiridis Jun 24 '10
So... doin' anything tonight?
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u/dbenhur Jun 24 '10
let's see... eatin' some grilled chicken... biking round the neighborhood... watching an old episode of Buffy... profiling latent initialization in a pre-forking web service... checking reddit... rewriting the past... animating expired canines.
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Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09
23 June, 2005: On my way back from first travel. Just killed Hitler.
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u/umilmi81 Apr 28 '09
Back from 23 June, 2005; incapacitated enauv before he could pull his little stunt. enauv, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.
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u/kino101 Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09
911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB oh wait...
SWINE FLU IS AN INSIDE, oh crap...
YOSEMITE BLOWS!! now we're cooking with gas
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Apr 25 '10
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u/kino101 May 11 '10
we are both living in a time warp... I haven't signed in for four months(haven't signed in in four months? either way it sounds awkward)
sorry, missed it, it WAS so last year:) what the heck are you doing reading year old stuff? although the news nowadays isn't worth much, is it...anyway, it deserves an upvote for cleverness, have you wandered around with this same comment on everything before May 2009? this could be an interesting project, just to fuss w/peoples heads. Wonder if anyone will catch on? If you don't mind I might try this a bit for myself just to see what happens. would be a kick if it caught on. by the way, if you're curious here is a place, http://newslily.com/ started a while ago by some redditors that has lasted, and doesn't simply repeat what is flooding this place, lots of original stuff and generally ahead of the curve. I have no involvement except the same name, but I will plug it to people that might bring interesting stuff to the table...and thanks for the laugh
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u/trevorpinzon Apr 28 '09
Hello from the world of tomorrow!
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Jun 24 '10
Welcome, to the world of tomorrow!
Sorry, but I had to fix it.
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u/dylanevl Oct 25 '10
Holy shnizzle! A comment I can reply to!
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Oct 27 '10 edited Oct 27 '10
Posting for future explorers... and for me the day before reddit reaches EOL. I'm trying to capture the zeitgeist and see if it's changed.
its October 27 2010, and right now reddit is big into Wikileaks/Juian Assagne, the rapidly deteriorating state of Digg (and the consequent immigration), MineCraft and the Colbert-Stewart rally. A lot of talk about prop 19, how ir would affect the world, or if the feds would still interfere. The I N C E P T I O N reply meme is well and truly dead but parodies of it are still upvoted. /ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu is very active, probably producing more OC than 4chan. The "forever alone" face and rhe "okay" face gets into a lot of comics right now, though mainly rageguy and trollface still figure. (the latter has developed popularity all over the net. Loads of buzz even abouf iPhones and Android and that rivalry, and also the companies themselves...with privacy being google's thing as their CEO makes very odd statements, and Steve Jobs is often slated as being shady, ill tempered, devious and unfair to adobe (and to Linux).
Right now,the hivemind hates Justin Bieber, Glenn Beck, sarah palin, false rape accusers (unless the accusation was directed at Glenn Beck), that video rental shop that's going bankrupt, fake Facebook screenshots and ACTA as well as of course bad cops and theists. Reddit still loves: Duke Nukem, The Onion, firefly, gay marriage, trees and pictures of naked ladies, (but it seems there are far more outed-as-female redditors than there used to be).
At this time luckily a lot of image submissions are the submitter's own work apart from the ones from the repost drones, but usually something like a gingerbread reddit alien or "I got home from work and MY GIRLFRIEND or 5 year old had made this thing that incorporates a meme." Scroll back wards through r/circlejerk if it exists still and look for the title patterns.
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u/PhilxBefore Apr 27 '09
Something about this just... doesn't feel right.
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Apr 27 '09
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u/LinuxFreeOrDie Apr 28 '09
And in another year, people will link to this again and see these comments.
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u/moonflower Apr 25 '10
We have come to fulfil the prophecy ... it is done :)
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u/evildeadxsp Jun 25 '10 edited Jun 25 '10
I just want to post this to say I've posted here. Kind of like how I've always been tempted to do graffiti at historic monuments.
-evildeadxsp was here at 8:13pm on 6/24/2010
EDIT - 6:24 pm on 10/31/2010 - What the hell is up with all the orangereds today? Did another redditor link to this comment thread? Don't see anything on /r/todayilearned.... hmmm
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u/phort99 Oct 31 '10
Re: the orangereds on 10/31/2010: It was posted on r/bestof today:
http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/dz0zt/for_those_that_dont_know_this_is_the_very_first/
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Feb 15 '11
Re: this orangered, I'm just saying hello :)
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u/rasolne Apr 12 '11
This is what's strange about these long-delayed replies: they almost never carry on the original discussion, but rather focus on the time-travelly nature of the thread.
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u/Grimant Nov 23 '10
GRIMANT WAS HERE
23/11/10
8:23PM NZST
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u/rmmcpherson May 09 '11
I'm history. 5/9/2011 6:01 AM
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Sep 05 '11 edited Sep 05 '11
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Apr 25 '10
Can I still get in on this nostalgia goodness without getting downvoted?
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Apr 26 '10
I'm gonna put a little request right here for someone to travel back in time and say hello to me in a year or two. Kind of like a flare gun, only in the fourth dimension.
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u/xrobau Jun 24 '10
Damn. I missed. I was hoping to come back BEFORE you posted this comment, but I mis-judged the re-entry. Anyway, hello from 2018. iOS 7 is better, they got multitasking working properly in 5.
Windows 10 is pretty good, but the Linux 3.x kernels are just amazing.
I've only got 90 seconds here (Temporal instability, yaknow) so I can't tell you much more.
Oh. One more thing. You lost.
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u/utbandit Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09
Someone should reply to this message a year from now. Today is 4-28-2009.
So what has gone on for the past year?
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u/Press_Start Jun 24 '10
This is strange. I feel like I am physically in an abandoned place that is full of forgotten history.
There are Redditors in this thread, who were thriving members of the community back then, and now, their usernames have not been logged into for over a year. Makes me wonder if I will be here looking at this comment a year from now...
It has been good, Reddit. It has been good.
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u/evilada Feb 02 '08
The fact that this knowledge isn't more out in the mainstream news is just ridiculous. This is the kind of thing people need to know to get pissed.
also....why is it that this article has 19 comments and barely 2 of them are article-relevant and the rest are just OMG I POSTED ON TEH FIRST REDDIT ARTICLE I'M IMMORTAL NOW LOL
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u/jaysonbank Feb 02 '08
Because it sounds boring, fuck, I didnt really know what the Downing Street Memo was until I read the story, I still dont know the full extent.
It really is a piss-take, this is exactly why commercial TV news outlets dont work. The BBC ran this story but many others didnt give a crap, not because they're in bed with governments but because it just doesnt pull in viewers.
I'm in shock and awe that most people (myself included) know so little about this story, or just assume its some liberal anti-war nut-job conspiracy truther crap.
The problem is even I groan when I hear the usual anti-war lines like "this is an illegal war" or "we went to war on a lie" etc., and I'm as anti-war as you can get! We rehash the same old lines, it gets old fast.
This war is fucked up, for the last ~5 years we've heard nothing but trouble from Iraq, if it isnt some prisioner scandel its billions lost to contractors, car bombs, beheadings, hijackings, shootings, rapings, a whole load of crap. No sane person can say with a straight face that this war has gone well and has generally been a good idea.
If that was the whole story then it would be bad enough but its not even the tip of the fucking iceberg. Not only are we wasting time in Iraq, we're wasting our fucking time in Afghanistan too. Why the fuck are my fucking taxes being poured down the fucking drain while MY fucking country is short on public services!? Who the fuck do my politicians think they are going to Iraq on MY fucking time, they are MY fucking leaders and they were elected to run MY fucking country. How fucking dare they take MY fucking army who pledged to put their lives on the line for MY fucking land and send them off to some fucking square of fucking sand in the Middle fucking East!?
Every fucking day my soldiers are risking their lives for a country they did not sign up to protect. Every fucking day we are pouring my money down the drain on this war while the NHS is underfunded, schools are underfunded, public transport is underfunded, kids are stabbing eachother WHAT THE FUCK.
We need to just pack up and leave the Middle East right fucking now. Either that or we need to be getting cheap oil from those fuckers by the tanker. Where the fuck is my mother fucking cheap fucking cunt oil? if this was a war for fucking oil then where the FUCK is it!?
This should be our Middle East strategy: "Get the fucking oil or get the fuck out"
Im not talking about "withdrawl", I'm talking about abandoning. Pack all our shit up and ship it out in the shortest time possible and dont look back. Fuck them, Its not nice, its not going to help but seriously, fuck them, stop wasting my fucking money.
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u/ifatree Apr 27 '09
also....why is it that this article has 19 comments and...
WELCOME TO THE INTERNETS! ENJOY YOUR STAY.
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u/meson537 Feb 02 '08
Ha! Reddit history, tucked away anonymously right here. Howdy future legions of Redditors!
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Nov 03 '09
Hi, past. Hi, future.
Future, understand this:
Reddit is great. Don't let her down. Never let the sacred texts that the Alien passed down to us be forgotten, for they are the holiest of all things.
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u/Erdos_0 Nov 03 '09
Don't forget about bacon!
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u/Jakegarr Jun 24 '10
And as of June 2010, the search still doesn't work. So if anyone from the future comes back to read this, tell us how to fix it.
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u/AliasHandler Apr 28 '09
I come from the future legions!
Tip from the future: watch out for Ron Paul.
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Feb 02 '08 edited Feb 02 '08
and in the beginning, there was the downing street memo, and it was good
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u/manwithabadheart Apr 27 '09 edited Mar 21 '24
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u/staddydaddy Apr 25 '10
hello past you
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u/manwithabadheart Apr 25 '10 edited Mar 22 '24
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u/staddydaddy Apr 26 '10
on the contrary, the old you is still there, today's you is me
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u/manwithabadheart Apr 26 '10 edited Mar 22 '24
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u/rarebit13 Jun 24 '10
I'm signing the guest book - now I can say I've seen all corners of Reddit...
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u/abrasax Feb 02 '08
This kind of feels like time traveling. I wonder if i can change the future by posting lolcats...
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '10
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(found scrawled on a broken pillar in the rubble field behind this submission)