The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)

[Scattamah]

My nick was yelled at me one night by a drunk...it stuck. Years later when the int0rwebs went mainstream I used it as a handle. Don't recall seeing another Scattamah in the wild.

Greetz

S.

[sean_iow]

My nick was yelled at me one night by a drunk...it stuck. Years later when the int0rwebs went mainstream I used it as a handle. Don't recall seeing another Scattamah in the wild.

Greetz

S.

I've always wondered were it came from. Where in the world was this drunk? So in my head when I read your forum name I can have the right accent

[Scattamah]

The correct accent to say it in is slurred Canberran...found natively in the Australian Capital Territory.

Greetz

S.

[UnderTheRadars]

I’m usually found wearing Oakley Radars

[Jurassic pusher]

I live on the Jurassic coast (Dorset) and its hilly and I ride single speed a lot hence the Pusher bit!!
Some call me Rob in real life.

[Matt]

it's my name

[Leerowe76]

Somewhere
The night is on the run
With a bottle of ouzo
And a rusty gun
The north wind
Is like a Spanish Guitar
Soaked in petrol
Burning on the bar

Love Cat Empire, great band

[thenorthwind]

Love Cat Empire, great band

[Bedmaker]

I first used Bedmaker signing up for STW back around the millennium.
I was attempting to make a living making bespoke furniture at the time. I made a few beds.

[UnderTheRadars]

Oh btw I’m that tw@ H0uns off of STW

[Verena]

Hi, how do I get myself an avatar please? I have tried and failed multiple times... thank you!

[RIP]

on any of the forum pages, click on the 'upper body shape' at top right > User Control Panel > Profile > Edit avatar

You've got a 'signature' so you must have been to Profile already though.....

Note they have to be quite titchy photos - 100 x 100 pixels

Looking forward to seeing what you go for

[Cheeky Monkey]

I vaguely remember having to crop and reduce the size of image a lot to get it to work. I think the max 100 x 100 was quite a critical ceiling.

[sean_iow]

The size limit is the key, so you'll need to use an editor to reduce it. That's why I have Ralph, he's only 150 pixels tall in real life so didn't need much shrinking

[ledburner]

From memory it was when I signed up to STW and "Bob" had already been taken, either BB hadn't started at the time or I didn't know about it. Whitestone is the name of a crag https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=3 ... &A=Y&Z=115 on the family farm where I first started climbing, nothing more prosaic (another posh word ) than that plus a bit of consistency I suppose.

Bobcatmax - Rupert Murdoch?

have spent the pension pot on bikes and where did you find the body double (florid a?)
Robert Max - well-I never!

[Verena]

Thanks, that worked.

I'll tell you the story later....

[lune ranger]

Holy thread resurrection Batman!
I’ve joined the fun with an avatar too.

[redefined_cycles]

Well found thread there btw. Have bookemarked it for the next time I forget a name. Why coulndt everyone just be called Stu (and Lisa)

[Kumquat]

Username chosen by me partly for its intrinsic comedy value and a slight dig at some of the cheesier/pretentious marketing descriptions rife on the internet.
Also, I like the colour orange.

[ledburner]

Thanks, that worked.

I'll tell you the story later....

hey did you knit that avatar your sel[f] ? out of beans shoots & muslei?
very organically impressed.
- Recyclable as well (which thread do we pull?)

[ledburner]

And a brief history of of cycle lighting and a few other dark places ..
once up a time, back in the dark ages just after feint EverReady & Wonder-light using C & D batteries - remember lugging those around? , when Catseye and Vistalite were the Cateyes were the Cat's PJs~ bling for working on AA batteries and would last a fortnight...
I converted a green LED front lamp to white at some expense. the bug was sown in 2000. a few years later in 2007, I Pimped My Petzl (zoom headtorch ) to 3 x 16850 cells & switching current regulator and it would lads all night with adjustable light output. I had some epic climbs in the dark. and a few caving trips, the 3 watt power led was under driver at 10% output. I had to point it down wards as I was dazzling all the other caver & troglodytes in a wrong way..
I then made a 10 watt Mtb front light. it wasn't as bright as 20 halogen and nicad units. it was a lot lighter, has a better colour rendering Index (cri*) so you could perceive more detail with less light. [poor cri-think how bad a orange streetlight were-and what colour was that car that drove off was?] I saw these new fangled Power LEDs, as a endurance option where you 'under drive' then to get less light but you gained a lot longer run time output at 50%= treble burn time. the opposite of Halogens.. I did a few upgrade for mates, didn't have the time, resources or knowledge to market it, and didn't get on the boat...
later I did make an all led dynamo light with stand-by. with me bombing down the hill to catch up the gangster - rohloff whirling away, my 'searchlight' front lamp and a tractor in the next field, half the cycling gang were scared a tractor was about to run them all off the road!
so ledburner user name was created on candle power forum and it transfer over to here...

[Verena]

Thanks, that worked.

I'll tell you the story later....

Ok, so a colleague at work, because typing is oh so 2020 , wrote me an email earlier this week using voice to text, but this changed my name to Varuna. He then sent me another message saying he reckons it was the divine spell checker at work, and to Google it, because Varuna is the Hindu god of water, the ocean and the night sky, and he remembered I like swimming and reckoned it suits me... Well so did I, and when I googled it and found this picture of Varuna riding a crocodile I liked it even more. I immediately considered changing my name by deed poll , but then thought changing my forum name (Stu can I do that please?) and getting myself an avatar would be a much cheaper option

[ledburner]

Thanks, that worked.

I'll tell you the story later....

Ok, so a colleague at work, because typing is oh so 2020 , wrote me an email earlier this week using voice to text, but this changed my name to Varuna. He then sent me another message saying he reckons it was the divine spell checker at work, and to Google it, because Varuna is the Hindu god of water, the ocean and the night sky, and he remembered I like swimming and reckoned it suits me... Well so did I, and when I googled it and found this picture of Varuna riding a crocodile I liked it even more. I immediately considered changing my name by deed poll , but then thought changing my forum name (Stu can I do that please?) and getting myself an avatar would be a much cheaper option

Veruna- now is a Welsh dragon rider!

[Bearbonesnorm]

Stu can I do that please?

Just say the word oh great one.

[Bearlegged]

Stu can I do that please?

Just say the word oh great one.

Please could you change mine to Bearlegged?