I always pictured @TJ as being a tall willowy Scot, receeding fair hair with round metal framed glasses. He had the austere manner of an Edinburgh solicitor, carefully weighing up every word, a real misery boot. Imagine my suprise to find a warm hearted sociable northern English bloke, short arse with a fine crop of black hair!
STW,not unlike Fight Club,same rules apply:-)
chickenman
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I always pictured @TJ as being a tall willowy Scot, receeding fair hair with round metal framed glasses.
He's more like a tanned, older Ian Brady.
With better hair.
I look nothing like anyone, but I do have all my hair (for the time being)...and teeth 😁
LOLz
ive been told either a more tattooed kratos or a more derranged captain spaulding.
I see myslef as little and fluffy, like an ewok, with a tickly belly
I think TJ has a look of Charles Bronson. The actor not the prisoner. @tazzymtb I think I’ve seen a photo of you and you do have a Kratos look. I now want the next game to have a bit where you have to ride a SS Stooge!
Jesus, I've just seen the other thread.
Ignore what I said about 'better' hair.
It's ok,he can hide it with an 'Edinburgh' ponytail.👍🤣🙃
A couple of times I've been out and about and a 'random' has come up and said are you bunnyhop?
Once was in Hawes and the other locally, each time I wasn't mtbing.
I now want the next game to have a bit where you have to ride a SS Stooge!
ah yes, where you have to slay a geared demon using an "attention vortex" created by nothing but the power of little chubby legs whirring a silly gear ratio, whilst swigging a hip flask of mead and using the magic war cry "looooook at meeeeeeeee"
I always picture tazzy with a hipflask or a beer.
Mainly because I don't think I have seen him without one at an event I have been at
Everywhere I go people tell me I look like Dave Gilmour.
Once of a time I looked a bit like Dave Grohl, to a point where I once had someone trying to take a sneaky photo of me at a gig.
A little while ago, someone said to me "you look like, uh, erm..." I said "Dave Grohl?" and they replied "no, Frank from Shameless."
I got a haircut.
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Has definitiely happened a couple of times on trips to the Alps while chatting with other punters.... "so you are a farmer from Wales right? Not Welshfarmer off of STW by any chance?" 🙂 I guess there are not many farmers from Wales, or anywhere come to that, who are properly into MTBs. Most of us spend our days shouting at people to get off our land!
At the tip of the spear all you care about is operating.
I'm never remembering that. "Something, something, tip of your spear?"
According to my mates a cross between Roy Keane and Mark Wahlberg but angrier.
According to my pupils I'm a dead ringer for Egon Spengler's b@5t@rd lovechild with Postman Pat. With grey hair. And a limp.
Wears shorts, frequently muddy, a little high on endorphins. That's most of us, right?
In my late teens when I had lucsious locks and a happy-go-lucky attitude I was often called Robin Hood because of my uncanny likeness. Not the TV heart throb of Robin of Sherwood. This one:
I’m now older, greyer and surly. Often described as a badly shaved gorilla.
I have a beard for one very good reason. Without it I look like Casper the friendly ghost or Robocop without the helmet.
That reminds me! About 10 years ago I was stood on the steam train platform in Minehead and some chap comes up to me and says "Are you that Terrahawk from Singletrack?".
Easy mistake to make. I look like Henry Cavill. Terrahawk is a white middle aged chap from Manchester with thinning close cropped hair.
We need a secret code word or expression for such situations.
On the Calibre Bossnut Riders Group on FB we accidentally made one! After a bit of a flounce a member who then left wrote the immortal words "this group is like cult!" hence the birth of #NotACult
We need a secret code word or expression for such situations.
Baby Robin
Just a few 'sponsors' stickers on the top tube would suffice: Picolax, Sudocrem, Richmond sausages, and a Bomber decal on any fork.
Gnarpoon t shirt. Got me recognised as a member of this cult at a gig by @brant once.
Just a few ‘sponsors’ stickers on the top tube would suffice: Picolax, Sudocrem, Richmond sausages, and a Bomber decal on any fork.
Baby Robin
Challenge laid down for the new STW riding top designers...
Gnarpoon t-shirt
Good shout. Although I optimistically ordered a medium when I should've gone large, hence I've never been seen in it.
Same as me and then it shrunk too 😕
Funkmasterp of course must look like a cross between
Bootsy Collins and Grandmaster flash
I wish. That would be a fantastic combination. Wish I had Bootsy’s bass playing skills too.
3. Amusement ensues.
On this forum, i highly doubt it! 😀
Good idea though!
On the Calibre Bossnut Riders Group on FB we accidentally made one! After a bit of a flounce a member who then left wrote the immortal words “this group is like cult!” hence the birth of #NotACult
There's a comedy duo named Jollyboat (who are excellent and you should all go and see them) who for origins unknown to me have acquired #NotASexCult as a running gag.
I bought one of the Strava? - completed it T shirts that was suggested on here during a thread. It still gets the occasional knowing smile but I don't think anyone on STW would get the significance nowadays.
Despite having hung about here for years, the only people I’ve met are Matt, when he worked at Abernethy Trust, and Stirling Crispin’s wife, when they were kind enough to donate a TV to our youth development charity.
On the subject of misread names, I have a hard time not reading ‘ahsat’ as ‘asshat’, which is a bit unfortunate.
On the subject of misread names, I have a hard time not reading ‘ahsat’ as ‘asshat’, which is a bit unfortunate.
Same. It also took me far too long to parse sadexpunk's name correctly, I originally thought it a bit odd that a punk would be into Sade. There's likely many others I've forgotten too.
On the subject of misread names
cha****ng / chakaping. Even typing it now I'm not sure which it is.
And the abbreviation for Matt_outandabout should surely be Matt_oaa, not Matt_oab.
@Ambrose. I expected him to be a big bear of a man with wild eyes, hair and beard. Instead a tall well groomed man with glasses and a studious air when I met him
We need a secret code word or expression for such situations.
"How is Louise?"
Another misread name: I keep reading onehundredthidiot as "one hundred the idiot." I've no idea where that extra 'e' came from.
I'd suggest that there's probably a thread in this, but it has potential to get unpleasant fast.
I don't look like anyone but lots of people do say "I know you from somewhere". Stock answer was "Crimewatch" but the relevance is wearing thin now.
A lass once claimed that she knew me from Vegetarian Club. But I'm sure I'd never met herbivore.
A lass once claimed that she knew me from Vegetarian Club. But I’m sure I’d never met herbivore.
The 'like' button is all well and good, but what we really need here is a mahoosive **** off 'groan' button!
I get that a lot.
😁
I have the gift of looking like I'm from every Caucasian country all at once, to the point where if I'm anywhere European/Mediterranean Coast then people will engage with me in full conversations in the local language before they realise. Currently in a long-standing battle with the Turkish crane driver at work to convince him I'm not Turkish.
