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Swarm of Mamils.... or mamwls when in civvies...


 
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A Scatter of ramblers


 
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a cock of ski instructors


 
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A mincing of trail centre warriors


 
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A Scatter of ramblers
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A thicket of managers


 
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an office storage of Orange 5's


 
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A shower of ****s


 
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A Strava of Garmin users.


 
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A forum of trolls.


 
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A Stasi of Mods


 
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It's a Valhalla Stoner.


 
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from Old Norse Valhรถll "hall of the slain"

"Slain" you say? I can work with that.


 
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Swarm of Mamils.... or mamwls when in civvies...

[Pedant]No need for the s, MAMIL is plural[/plural]


 
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A Turing Test of Horas


 
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A Beard of Cocks


 
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A Quiet of Bans


 
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A ban of hammers


 
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[Pedant]No need for the s, MAMIL is plural[/plural]

[pedant]MAMIL can be singular or plural, and anyway it doesn't matter if MAMIL is used in the plural for a collective noun to apply.

For example:

One fish
Two fish
A shoal of fish

One MAMIL
Two MAMIL
A swarm of MAMIL [/pedant]

Boo-ya!


 
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A loss of TJs ๐Ÿ™


 
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Surely it depends if MAMIL is an acronym for

Middle Aged Men In Lycra

or

Middle Aged Man In Lycra

?


 
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It's both, isn't it?


 
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a fettle of moutain bikers
a tangle of dog walkers


 
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so a Rapha of MAMIL then?


 
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A string of bikes.


 
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A Clutter of Students


 
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A Synagogue of bad drivers ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
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A nicolai of Audi drivers


 
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i always thought it was a Stretch of MAMIL


 
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A pillock of Jags?


 
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a cabinet of 5s


 
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A wok of 650b riders


 
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A Wealth of Contractors


 
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A mince of braking bumps.


 
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A Chemist of TdF winners?

A Concussion of helmetless riders


 
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A pontification of paedophiles


 
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