Well despite a twitchy eye and a feeling to sleep, I have indeed just read the Donation Thread (This thread here) and mmm i do like the sound of

3. You can have your own personal rank on forums, increase PM box size, change in display name on your wish, etc.

Particulary, Ive always liked the idea of chaning the personal rank on forums such as PB and IP. Makes you stand out no? As for the PM i always felt it was an issue in bandwidth; i know many many a forum limited to 100 pms mx and ive always felt a shame to have to delte the old threads Me? Im a classic hoarder. Cant throw anything away, but today i did mange to chuck out nearly 4 stones worth of old school work and it did knida feel good. At the vbery least it will free up some space ^^ As for the change in name, I only ever use two names - F257 and another on several, shall we say adult and slighty dubious (? ) sites. Indeed, quite how this name arose is a mystery; certainly i wanted to join a foruum at the same time it was my very first forum to join and i didn''t want to forget my username. My own popular belief is that F257 arises from the first intial of my first name - Francis - 27 from my house number (too much info? ) and 5 number of people i count in my family (even if that does include a half-brother). Im one of those people who like to find symbolism and meaning in things - like when you your afraid karma is going to come back and bite you on the ass - so i decided to sandwhich the 5 inbetween the '2' and '7' as though to keep the family of 5 safe. Strange no?

Taking a look at the donators list (Here) its certainly nice to see people that care. Admitdley i dont recongise a fair few names - certainly i belive KILLERGUN, Dermir and Kinan play on COD (since hardly any of our members play BF2 lol. I try BF1 once - celerons arent' cut out for it i found, and certainly flying things is hard without a proper joypad lol ^^ ) . Looking at my name does bring perhaps the most eventful of my FA memories in recent months.

Ill admit the donation came out of guilt really. It was a silly inciddent really . I rember messing round with Pepe (great guy - i think i cursed ourt relationship because he dissapered soon after this >< ) and jokingly i said to him 'You know, Dare sleeps in money' or something like that. Nothing serious, and certianly nothing meant to be spiteful , just some throwaway comment like perhaps ' You know Simon Cowell likes to play teddy bear picnic (Maybe he does ?)' . Its not really true , both know it and just say it for absurdity of it. Of course , jokes really only work if both parties are on same level and unfortunatly my sense of humour seems to be on a diffrent frequency to others at time. A case in point is when i manged to piss off Skull on NQ when i joked he liked cats too much. I think we made up, but i can never be sure. Hence i keep bugging Baska if we're still kwl lol . Hard to read Interent emotions.

Of course too do this day i do feel bad. I dont think our realtionship has ever been the same (><) and i do miss Pepe. Saying the latter indeed makes me want to write at least the names of thos that have come and gone. This then is a list of thise that were once are brothers and still are but in memory only . These are AWOL and or inactive for long time (or else i havent seen them long time ^^)

Stalker

RomanceXMafia

Granny

Subvert

Inf

Quick (quit)

Fred (Banned)

AndyExpandy

Dead

Grim

Ladyluck (Gone)

Ackmey

Dead

JamJam

Elf

Sushi

Wala

Dot

Pepe

To add to this i will also add the list of meber i know who have in the past been a FAG regular (well.. i saw them playing in FAG at least ) and or member. Kinda amazes still the amount of players who moved here. My apoligeis if i have missed you off list

Dare

Fem

Rainer

Joe

Goat

Ironchef

Kato

Roadkill

Skullcollecter

Valkryie

Yoyo

Kato

Medic

Sex and toys

KYN

Timberwolf

Dot

Warmongrel (if its the same guy im thking of )

Marbles (Ditto)

Spl@sh (Ditto ditto)

GIJOE (Ditto x3)

Savage (Come back and play...)

Dead (Didn't he go to COD?)

hester prynne (Appernlty)

F257

Also

Quick

Fred

Xeon (Apperntly; thoguh he's left)

And further still we get other regulars like Iceman Quebec and Koba playing here

So here's to you . To those missing or gone , we wish you come back, or else in good health. To those that have made the transition its proof you dont meet your friends (and enemies!) on just the one server. And to thos who have gone off the rails we wonder why!

But to all the players and admins of =F|A= ...a message to say thank you , for contuning to help make =F|A= what it is ; the best damm server i know thus far