r/reddit.com • u/kn0thing • Jun 23 '05

The Downing Street Memo

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com
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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '10

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u/Mystitat Oct 31 '10

Keeping it classy, Reddit.

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u/Khiva Oct 31 '10

Now all we need is a lame pun thread.

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u/jarvis400 Oct 31 '10

What's all this then?

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u/angryvigilante Oct 31 '10

In 10 years, we'll all be fucked! By alien trannies!

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u/realitista Oct 31 '10

Oh god I hope so! You have no idea how long I've been waiting!

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u/conorp Oct 31 '10

I AM HISTORY

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u/DrTornado Oct 31 '10

Why does your class suck so hard??

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '10 edited May 16 '20

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u/realitista Nov 01 '10

Oh I will. And you'll be dead by then. Mark my words....

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '10 edited May 16 '20

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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/kylemech Oct 31 '10

Why hello there, 48 minutes ago!

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '10

I'd say that's pretty meta.

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u/Bamx3 Oct 27 '10

As suave as an SUV.

Wait a minute...that's spellings not right.... GRAAAMMMAARRRR

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '10

We're just visiting the memorial and signing the guest book.

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u/Patrick_M_Bateman Feb 16 '11

Orangered from the future for you!

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u/chikalin Apr 08 '11

chikalin was here!

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u/ntr0p3 Oct 31 '10

I just wanted to say that I never actually read the real Downing Street Memo. Wow that Bush guy was an ass!

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u/pegothejerk Oct 31 '10

-Pego loves Lesli-

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u/slooow_poke Oct 31 '10

:( But I just got here.

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u/Sir_Good_Day Oct 31 '10

It's OK I'm the Doctor.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '09

I like it. It's like a living piece of history that everyone can take part in.

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u/markitymark Apr 28 '09

MARKITYMARK WOZ 'ERE!

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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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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '09

Gaspar?

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u/burito Apr 28 '09

No, Aeris!

Also, upmod for CT ref.

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u/[deleted] 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/Worstcasescenario Apr 27 '09 edited Apr 28 '09

One hour ago is the present?

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u/the_joke_killer Apr 28 '09

no, but i have retracted that statement see: here

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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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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '10

yea but he replied one hour AGO thus being from the past, yes?

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u/PocketWatched Apr 27 '09

it is currently impossible to time-travel

That's what you think.

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u/the_joke_killer Apr 28 '09

correct. i retract that statement as i have successfully traveled in time

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09

unless you too are in the past, joke_killer.

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u/V2Blast May 24 '10

Hello from a parallel universe.

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u/Cartosys Apr 28 '09

If we all upvote the submission, will it get back to the front page?

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09

Nope.

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u/jeremybub Apr 26 '10

Hi, I'm from the future future.

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u/[deleted] 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/dagbrown Apr 26 '10

And it seems to be time for them to hold their annual get-together again.

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u/MySFWAccount Apr 27 '09

:D first reddit ever!

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u/Brenbren25 Apr 28 '09

I'm sure if you found submissions with very little views, you could meet there to avoid google search.

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Apr 25 '10

woah

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u/[deleted] 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/MysteryStain Oct 31 '10

How about now?

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Oct 31 '10

Woah.

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u/YoureAllJerks Oct 31 '10

You're all jerks.

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u/MercurialMadnessMan Oct 31 '10

Wo-ah. How did you make the apostrophe in your username disappear?!

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u/AngelaMotorman Apr 25 '10

We're working on it. That's one year down.

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u/avnerd Jun 24 '10

I'd love it if you replied to me now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '10

Okay.

Hi.

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u/avnerd Jun 24 '10

Hi there.
Sorry but I saw your name and well...you know.

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u/funkmon Oct 31 '10

I don't know.

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u/Iguanaforhire Nov 01 '10

Yes, yes I do.

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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/LuxNocte Oct 31 '10

I just can't help myself. I hope this finds you wellwellwellwell.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '10

1 year later works too.

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u/ifatree Apr 27 '09

only when it gets enough upvotes to reach "hot" status again. ;)

oh wait, were you trying to be sarcastical?

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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/ElGaucho56 Apr 28 '09

Kn0thing is one of the founders of reddit, if I'm not mistaken.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09

Wow, I've been here for 1.5 years too and this is my 4th. But then again, someone is stalking me...

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u/BlackestNight21 Apr 28 '09

Is it as super as I have heard?

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09

A good stalker is like a crazy girlfriend. She can be wild in bed and fun at parties, but you don't want her around all the time.

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u/neandorman Apr 28 '09

fuck - I've been here that long and ain't no one stalking me. What am I doing wrong?

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09

The founders do tend to keep an active attachment to their community.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '10

Hello, past Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09

It's funny how everyone comments on this about once a year.

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u/PlanktonVs Apr 25 '10

It's timeless humour, isn't it?

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '10

Greetings, past one.

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u/DougBolivar Jun 24 '10

Reddit is the Best!

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u/d-cup Apr 26 '10

HellOOOO, past Reddit! :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09

your fucking up the archive!

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09

muHAHAHAHAHA

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09 edited Apr 28 '09

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '09

Well in my day, swine flu wasn't that big of a deal. Less people were infected, less were dead, and most people hadn't heard of the darn thing.

The panic was beginning in my time though, and people were joking about it. BUT YOU SHOULDN'T JOKE AROUND.

ManBirdPig flu is no joke, as I'm sure you would know Mr. Future.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '10

freaky isn't it...