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EKE_38BPM
EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
edited July 2011 in Commuting chat
When regular posters change their avatars I have to do a double take. Most recently it is ITB's new picture that has done this to me on Chat, but I think this is a step too far!

What would Thora Hurd do?
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Annoying isn't it. Avatar recognition is the internet equivelant of face recognition to me so when people change theirs it confuses me no end.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Where is your avatar, Suzy?
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    EKE_38BPM wrote:

    What would Thora Hurd do?

    Would she stop defrosting groups of cows?
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,776
    I should come up with something. Undercover Elephant changed his. Was it after the comment that his avatar made someone think he was old(er)?
    I liked his old one.
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    There was a point after the first xmas drinks and curry at the morpeth where most of the commutering contributors had the same avatar. Try picking your post out of a page full of the same avatar.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Maybe to protest NapD being banned everyone who wants him reinstated should change their avatar to his for a day?
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Maybe to protest NapD being banned everyone who wants him reinstated should change their avatar to his for a day?

    Eh nap was banned? When why what for?
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    itboffin wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Maybe to protest NapD being banned everyone who wants him reinstated should change their avatar to his for a day?

    Eh nap was banned? When why what for?

    He had a bad crash when racing and some scum was trolling/winding him up. He bit and was banned for what he said.
    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12787501
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Where is your avatar, Suzy?
    It's invisible. Just like me in RL generally.

    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Maybe to protest NapD being banned everyone who wants him reinstated should change their avatar to his for a day?

    Eh nap was banned? When why what for?

    He had a bad crash when racing and some scum was trolling/winding him up. He bit and was banned for what he said.
    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtop ... t=12787501
    That was a bit excessive, banned for that thread despite him generally being helpful everywhere else.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Well, rules is rules, but if he was banned that is harsh. People like NapD make this forum work.
    I would probably have banned the trollers and given NapD a warning rather then banning NapD who had been seriously wound up and was probably on some pretty strong drugs at the time.
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    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Well, rules is rules, but if he was banned that is harsh. People like NapD make this forum work.
    I would probably have banned the trollers and given NapD a warning rather then banning NapD who had been seriously wound up and was probably on some pretty strong drugs at the time.

    +1 Particularly when it is a new member who wading straight in with the trolling that escalated everything in the first place.
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  • Confusedboy
    Confusedboy Posts: 287
    I have been trying to load an image of a Tyrannosaurus Rex on a bike as my avatar after some of my posts here and on the Workshop forum where I moaned about my stumpy little arms, but the image is larger than the 10k limit. Pity. Just try and visualise it whenever you see my name, chaps......
  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    Confusedboy wrote:
    I have been trying to load an image of a Tyrannosaurus Rex on a bike as my avatar after some of my posts here and on the Workshop forum where I moaned about my stumpy little arms, but the image is larger than the 10k limit. Pity. Just try and visualise it whenever you see my name, chaps......
    Can you not resize the picture?
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    load the original into mspaint and stretch by xx% where xx is a figure less than 100

    Save a copy, rinse and repeat ON THE ORIGINAL until you get the right size
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  • mossychops
    mossychops Posts: 262
    I now have an Avatar
  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    mossychops wrote:
    I now have an Avatar

    Where?
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  • mossychops
    mossychops Posts: 262
    Sketchley wrote:
    mossychops wrote:
    I now have an Avatar

    Where?

    Erm...lol....you were too quick and noticed that my upload didnt actuall work. Doh!
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I would have thought this is more what you are after
    istockphoto_4847423-dinosaur-on-trick-bike.jpg
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • mossychops
    mossychops Posts: 262
    Thats pretty cool, especially as my nick comes from a dinosaur!
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    My avatar is me ( possibly)
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    mossychops wrote:
    Thats pretty cool, especially as my nick comes from a dinosaur!

    Use it then.
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Jay dubbleU wrote:
    My avatar is me ( possibly)

    nod, but sufffers from bad stretch marks...
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    my avatar even scares me :shock: :lol:
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    NGale wrote:
    my avatar even scares me :shock: :lol:

    I thought you were fearless!
    FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
    FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
    FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees

    I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    my avatar even scares me :shock: :lol:

    I thought you were fearless!

    As my munchkins found out on a visit to the Royal Marines Museum last weekend, I am rendered a total wreck by a snake in a tank on display in the 'Jungle zone'.

    I'm sorry but what's a live snake doing on display in a museum!
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    My Avatar is the most awesome sight in nature - a Total Solar Eclipse, of which I have seen 4 so far. Next stop Indonesia 2016!
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