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At some point in my residency on STW, the whole 'Bombers' joke started. Can someone please explain its genesis?
Who said what to whom? What is the mythology? There may be a child's story in there. Or even a whole new religion.
Someone claimed to have owned a burglar with a set of bombers. Can't remember who though.
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I might be confused with someone else but if I am right then I seem to remember him being a fairly slight built chap who claimed to have powerful arms.
Interested in hearing how one of the least funny things oft repeated here came to be.
I din't see the original thread, but I believe someone came across an intruder in his house, and set about him with a pair of bombers.
Bloke got broken into. He restrained/lamped ([i]owned[/i] in his own words) the burglar with a set of the aforementioned forks.
He also had a bit of an incident with cut / snapped forks at an LBS which IMHO was a much more amusing thread.
The guy was a little Walter Mitty TBH
IIRC (and I stand by to be corrected) someone caught a burglar in his basement, and clocked him with the first thing that came to hand, which happened to be a set of Marzocchi's finest. The whole thread got lost in the great STW forum crash a few years back.
Andy
He was, IIRC, oneyedwilly.
So to speak. And yes, it was very amusing.
(My god, how long have I been hanging round here..?)
it was oneeyedwilly. it was a hugely funny thread made even funnier by the pic he posted of himself.
iirc he later got retired from the forum for a comment about skull ****ing a dead relative.
surely the most bizzare comment i've ever seen on here
It was on that thread that I decided to take up a gay pron-career and become.... [i]Conan the Destroyer[/i] with many many men slain at my feet or impaled on my sword.
😯
i just choked on my chilli........ 😆
I wish I could see the photo.
Of me in my leather loin cloth and fur sweatband?
I wish I could see the photo.
If that's in reply to Hora's post, I really I really don't.
IIRC I think he was actually Leo Sayer
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Hora - I thought your gay pron-career was kicked off by David Cameron when you were at Eton together?
binners did Paul mention he bumped into me in the peaks on his way back from a party yesterday? He looked 'tired' 😆
Just look up photos of Manowar and that is what I imagine Hora to look like in his new career 😉
He was apparently fixing his bike in the kitchen holding said forks when a scrote wandered in through the open kitchen door. I believe he himself used the term 'owned'. He was a fairly good sport about the ensuing ribbing, leading him to post a picture of himself in an aggressive pose holding the now legendary forks 🙂
He did, yes. And he politely declined my offer to join us out riding yesterday afternoon. Everyone seems to be randomly bumping into you in the Peaks. Well.... you or your car 😉
leading him to post a picture of himself in an aggressive pose holding the now legendary forks
weren't there a couple of pics, including a close up of the barely visible wounds inflicted on him during the scuffle as evidence that there had in fact been a scuffle.
not of the same standard, but in the same league as the picolax thread imho
thats wasnt the best one, the best one (if i didnt dream it) was the guy who posted a pic of himself wearing a new cycle top in the mirror and then posted "does this look a bit tight" he was being deadly serious!
i think he left in shame.
IIRC he looked less like Chuck Norris and more like Screech from Saved by the Bell
Everyone seems to be randomly bumping into you in the Peaks
I was in Hudds this weekend as well and bumped into three sets of people (that I know). Wierd.
Bombers are so passe. Ice axes are where it's at these days.
I seem to remember his reference to his 'big arms' before he posted the pic as well....
A defining moment in STW history I believe. It was utterly hysterical. 😀