doesn’t count but was friends with melesmeles aka Tom Whyman at 6th form college and played in his band in 2007, must have met him in 2006
so i think the first DiSer i met must have been acoleuthic aka ldnmetropolitanelite aka LJ because in early 2010 when i was at uni we were going to start a band, i met him on a bench under a statue of someone near bank station
i think the next time i met a DiSer was when i realised that @pip worked for the same company as me, but i can’t remember specifically when that was. it was outside the office so next to old st tube, i reckon it must have been in 2011?
march 2012 i met @Garrardinho without realising he was a DiSer at a gig put on by people who went to school with me and uni with him
in the summer of 2012 i became a meme which weirdly made me more confident about the idea of going to a meat on the basis that people would recognise me haha
the first ‘proper’ DiS meat i went to was Damnit pop punk night in Camden. i walked in with my non DiS mates and @DaisyFlower recognised me immediately and could probably tell that i looked a bit lost so introduced herself and pointed out a few key people, i think the first thing i did was walk over to @sophiacherryx + @Avery point at my face and scream my username luckily they reacted with joy. i then walked over to @Garrardinho and opened by saying that I’d definitely met him before. It was only the next day I realised it had been the gig in March, a few months later we ended up in the same houseshare and lived together for 5 years. then i walked across the room to get a pint and @mildmanneredjanitor asked me where my lightsabre was. @fappable did i meet you for the first time at that night?
have met plenty of people since then, at wethercrawls, emo gigs, pub trips and a couple of meals. special shoutout to @whiterussian tho, met her on a wethercrawl, i was stood at the bar and her opening line was “i can’t believe you’re a real person” and she honestly sounded really surprised
according the poll upthread i have met @anon50098204 which i didn’t know!
@wizardlizard was my first. And my last come to think of it. Possibly my everything?
Finally met @SunnyB recently after several failed attempts as he mentioned upthread. Hopefully next time will be a bit easier to organise!
Shout out to @chadders doing his driving instructor thing as I gave him a lift to Thee Oh Sees. That was a grand old night even though I was on shandy all evening.
I’m massively intimidated by the number of DiSers planning to come to the Disintegration State evening. I’m glad I’m not on the bill else my anxiety levels would by at potential heart attack levels.
@ttf - 2008 in the Guildford Friary food court. I was participating in some sort of survey he was doing for uni. he was very nice and friendly, and me and the pal I was with probably acted like penises since we were 17 years old.
Think I met melesmeles before I even posted on here but I can’t work out how I knew that as I remember noticing him at the time and in my head I said there’s melesmeles, but that’s impossible. Maybe it was during my lurking period in 2006/7
remember meeting brainlove for the first time, saying ‘hi i’m profk off dis’, him giving me a disgusted look and saying ‘i’m john’, then turning to talk to someone else