How much like their...
 

  You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more

[Closed] How much like their online persona have you found people to be?

66 Posts
32 Users
0 Reactions
204 Views
Posts: 13369
Full Member
Topic starter
 

As per title really. Rather than judging youselves, judge others.


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 6:44 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

You are as bonkers in real life as you're here judging by last Saturday.


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 6:46 pm
Posts: 13369
Full Member
Topic starter
 

What??!?!?


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 6:49 pm
Posts: 19914
Free Member
 

Judge others?

What can possibly go wrong there?

😉


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 6:50 pm
Posts: 19914
Free Member
 

Fred talks more in real life than he does on here, but isn't quite as irate....usually

Juan was/is even more French then he types. Top bloke though....


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 6:52 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

All the ones I have met have turned out to be really lovely people.

WCA is completely mad, though. He's simply not-right.


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 6:54 pm
Posts: 19914
Free Member
 

That might change afer 12 hours in a vayyn in France though, Fred!

😉

I do fart a LOT, for instance.....


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:00 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

WCA is loooovely, serves gin and rides a weird bike. Clearly, the same sensible bloke from the forum 😉


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:04 pm
Posts: 19914
Free Member
 

Awwww. I can feel the lurrve from here!
😀


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:04 pm
Posts: 24332
Full Member
 

i found some that are the same, most though are big, tough and opinionated behind the keyboard, but strangely quiet in real life when they don't have time to think of something witty to say and have to be spontaneous, very disapointing actually, so buck up your ideas people! 😉


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:46 pm
 ton
Posts: 24124
Full Member
 

i have met loads of here, and i mean loads.
and all baring one person 'who blanked me, but his good lady chatted happily' every single one of them have been spot on ding dong a ok. 😀

they will think i am a big to55er tho.


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:51 pm
 Smee
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Aye, Ton's a big to55er. 😀


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:53 pm
 ton
Posts: 24124
Full Member
 

barsteward..... 😆


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:56 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Ooh, ton, you can't leave it like that!!
Who blanked you, do tell!


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:56 pm
 Smee
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I bet it was GLupton.


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 7:57 pm
Posts: 1
Free Member
 

All been top people so far. Special mentions to MrNutt, Ton & Vortex Racing because they're the only ones I've met so far.

Everyone I've dealt with in Classified section have been top people too but not met many of them.

I think most are as they would seem to be IMO its way too hard being something you're not.


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 9:06 pm
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

I've been in the same field as ton, but don't think I spoke to him.

Everyone I've met and spoken to has been very nice.


 
Posted : 12/01/2009 9:09 pm
Posts: 3300
Full Member
 

All I've met seem great, in a 'spend too much time on internet forums' great.

🙂


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:10 am
 hora
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

[i]I've been in the same field as ton, but don't think I spoke to him.[/i]

Are you two cows?

Has anyone met Fatsimons wife?


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:15 am
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

Are you two cows?

No, we were both at Hit the North 🙂


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:18 am
 DezB
Posts: 54367
Free Member
 

S'funny, I think fred is much more like rudeboy than he was like fred.


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:34 am
 hora
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I always pretend not to be incase someone duffs me up


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:40 am
Posts: 95
Free Member
 

most of the folks I've met in the real world have been pretty cool.

I have met a few that have turned out to be either too much of a bike geek, on an ego trip, trying too hard to be 'cool' or opioniated bores. I think i kinda thought they would be different in real life (or i never noticed it in their postings previously).


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:43 am
Posts: 17
Free Member
 

All the Glasgow people I met a few months back were really nice. Some a little too fast. Some skitted my retro T-shirt and my retro full sus. Pretty much as per online. I've not really met any of the more controversial members in person, so hard to say more than that!


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:45 am
Posts: 1
Free Member
 

fatmuthahubbard isn't actually [i]that[/i] fat. Or a mutha. He has a suprising amount of tattoos.

sponging-machine is far louder and posher than he comes across in his posts. And he is absolutely the tallest person i know. You can't tell the tall ones on here. (but i would love to guess who the really short people are on here!)


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:45 am
Posts: 5245
Full Member
 

I know Terrahawk quite well now and I think he comes across as a right barsteward on here. So, yeah, 'bout right really! 😀 *

* insert 'only joking clause' here.


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:50 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

All sound so far. Aleigh (nicer than she seems online ;)), Solamanda, K, Sheldona (and Mrs Sheldona), coolhandluke.

All been top people so far. Special mentions to MrNutt, Ton & Vortex Racing because they're the only ones I've met so far.

???!!!


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:52 am
Posts: 17
Free Member
 

You can't tell the tall ones on here. (but i would love to guess who the really short people are on here!)

Lol we should do a height guestimation thread. Or I should just get on with work.


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 10:58 am
 juan
Posts: 5
Free Member
 

I will second comment of peter and fred and WCA on what fred peter and WCA look like in real life.

All very nice blokes too (so does dezb).

The girls I have met in real life, foxychick, mrs poddy, aleigh, elaine are nicer and hotter in really life (not that I have misbehave no no not that).


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:01 am
Posts: 227
Free Member
 

Are you two cows?

No, we were both at Hit the North [:)]
Posted 44 minutes ago #

Mike you would not have bumped into him in the bar neither!

Cough

Top bloke just needs to take out plenty of accident insurance

Rich


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:05 am
 juan
Posts: 5
Free Member
 

I am in the "midget group :'( "


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:05 am
 juan
Posts: 5
Free Member
 

Oh yes I met richmailman and richpip too (not sure they remember me though) they are very nice too...


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:06 am
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

Mike you would not have bumped into him in the bar neither!

🙂

I think you signed on at HTN next to me Rich.


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:11 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

"The girls I have met in real life, foxychick, mrs poddy, aleigh, elaine are nicer and hotter in really life (not that I have misbehave no no not that). "

sobs quietly to herself. Does this mean I am more horrible and less hot in real life?? 🙁


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:16 am
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

sobs quietly to herself. Does this mean I am more horrible and less hot in real life??

I think I rode with you for a while on the first lap of HTN. Not really for long enough to decide if you're more horrible than on here though*. And I can't say that I get any sense of how hot you are from the forum, so couldn't comment on whether you're hotter or not in real life**.

* not that you're horrible on here
** not that you're not hot in real life


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:25 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

😆 Mike. HTN was not a good day for me, I was very down, so probably exceedinly grumpy and therefore more horrible than on here! On here I type a lot of shouty posts out and then don't press post 😉


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:29 am
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

You didn't seem too grumpy, but it was just lap one 🙂


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:37 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

mr & mrs poddy etc are lovely WCA - which troll are you... (its gayle here)


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:40 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

On here I type a lot of shouty posts out and then don't press post [;)]

share and enjoy :o)


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:44 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I only did one 🙁 I just couldn't see the point in all that mud after having slogged through it at mayhem.


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 11:45 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

The Soft Southern Shandy Drinkers was formed to get people from the forum together. Why not, when you share common interests, and a love for the outdoors? Makes perfect sense. The first SSSD ride was organised by Peter Poddy. Since then, there have been numerous rides in Swinley, Lordswood, Tunnel Hill, Surrey Hills and other places, not forgetting the infamous Summer Festival up at WCAs, and of course the most recent, Cinnamon Girl's Swinley ride. Several good friendships have resulted from all this. It's all good.

IMO, if you don't get out there, and meet people, you're missing out. Not always easy, as some people might be quite shy, or have had bad experiences with other groups, but if you make the effort, then life can be more fun.

Personally, I intend to meet as many people as poss, off here, 'cos I want to explore Britain, with others who are passionate about their local and favourite riding places.

(The STW Massive, as one, close all the curtains, turn off all lights, and hide under the bed, in case RudeBoy turns up...)


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 12:02 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I'm incredibly shy 🙁


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 12:05 pm
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

I only did one

I did three. I was having skipping chain issues that meant I couldn't even pedal on the tarmac sections if they were even slightly uphill. If it had been just the mud or just the skipping chain, I'd have done more but both meant I was just pushing a bike round in circles.

Personally, I intend to meet as many people as poss, off here, 'cos I want to explore Britain, with others who are passionate about their local and favourite riding places.

Get yourself oop north RudeBoy.


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 12:08 pm
Posts: 3371
Free Member
 

everyone I've met off here has been great.
Apart from Mr Sparkle, but he's a Wanderers fan so I was never expecting too much anyway 😉


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 12:11 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

If i'm hora, does that make me specially-abled?


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 12:24 pm
 juan
Posts: 5
Free Member
 

sobs quietly to herself. Does this mean I am more horrible and less hot in real life?? [:(]

Sorry Mrs flash... It's just I am getting old by now 😉

But you are a lovely lady too 😀


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 4:36 pm
 juan
Posts: 5
Free Member
 

mr & mrs poddy etc are lovely WCA - which troll are you... (its gayle here)

The one with the loveliest accent 😉


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 4:37 pm
Posts: 0
Full Member
 

A-hem ? ;-D


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 4:40 pm
Posts: 34376
Full Member
 

Knew before I even looked, who'd be posting on this thread


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 4:41 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Oi! Juan, stop chatting up them ladies, where's that top you promised me?? 👿


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 4:43 pm
Posts: 0
Full Member
 

MrsFlash you were making me jealous at HTN looking all cosy and holding a bottle of red. Do you remember I VERY nerly dumped the bike and stole your bottle of wine!!!!?


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 4:43 pm
 juan
Posts: 5
Free Member
 

A-hem ? ;-D

D'ooooh

Yes and clarey too she has a sexy accent on the top of it 😀

(Hope I don't forget anyone)


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 4:44 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

What about my sexy accent?????

Eh, eh?????? 😉

*stamps feet and flounces off*


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 4:49 pm
Posts: 12
Free Member
 

Er, i 've met binners and hora. Binners, much like himself on here, only met hora briefly, but seemed rather more normal than his online persona. His dog, bingo, OTOH, very much lived up to the ("shut that door") hype.

Oh, and me and handsomedog (as was - not sure if he is or isn't on here now) are in the same club, so see him around now and again.


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 5:03 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

lol clare I do indeed remember! 🙂


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 5:03 pm
Posts: 17
Free Member
 

Crikey, its like the Juan's Harem here!


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 5:15 pm
Posts: 13369
Full Member
Topic starter
 

[i]Crikey, its like the Juan's Harem here! [/i] - Well me and MrsFlash spent a night together when I was up north in a hotel*

Perhaps I should clarify that I was in the hotel with 4 bottles of Shiraz and MrsFlash was on the forum sharing the thread.


 
Posted : 13/01/2009 5:32 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

yep juan is quite the ladies man!!


 
Posted : 16/01/2009 12:56 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Ah, but he's all mouth and no action.

And he's a git.


 
Posted : 16/01/2009 12:58 pm
 Drac
Posts: 50352
 

From what I recall and the ones I know I've met all seemed ok.


 
Posted : 16/01/2009 1:11 pm
Posts: 32265
Full Member
 

Everyone I've met has been great.

Some famous comments before and after meeting for rides though:

[online] I've not ridden much in the last few months...[when we meet]...since I completed the Etape

[online] I don't get out to ride much round here....[when we meet]...as I'm always in the Peaks/at trail centres

STW - the place to meet great likeminded people who will rip your legs off!

LOL!


 
Posted : 16/01/2009 1:45 pm
 Drac
Posts: 50352
 

Actually now I come to think of it without revealing details there was a few I met and I mean just a few who were complete and utter ****ers.


 
Posted : 16/01/2009 2:23 pm
Posts: 11937
Free Member
 

Actually now I come to think of it without revealing details there was a few I met and I mean just a few who were complete and utter ****.

I didn't think we'd met 🙂


 
Posted : 16/01/2009 2:25 pm
 Drac
Posts: 50352
 

We probably have.


 
Posted : 17/01/2009 1:54 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Actually now I come to think of it without revealing details there was a few I met and I mean just a few who were complete and utter ****.

me? I wouldn't put it past myself to land in that category! 😀


 
Posted : 17/01/2009 9:35 am
 Drac
Posts: 50352
 

Nope pretty sure they don't post on here any more.


 
Posted : 17/01/2009 11:39 am
Posts: 13164
Full Member
 

Anyone got some Oust for all the raging hormones filling the place?


 
Posted : 19/01/2009 10:36 pm

6 DAYS LEFT
We are currently at 95% of our target!