Misfits, Dad's Army Types et al...
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Truckosaurus said:
I was foolish enough to click on a link to an 'army surplus' website whilst searching for a new coat yesterday and now my social media feeds are all full of walty adverts for 'tactical gear'.
Just what I need for my dangerous commute across the Hampshire/Surrey border...
That’s amateur hour stuff. Just what I need for my dangerous commute across the Hampshire/Surrey border...
A few years ago there was a Preppers thread on here that filled up with some full time mentalists. I followed one of the website links and used a semi redundant email address to access it and that inbox is now receiving around 50 emails a day. From the content of these emails I can deduce that the average Walt is:
Riddled with haemorrhoids and fungal infections.
Prefers under age Asian sex.
Likes buying tactical knives and drones.
Invests in crypto currencies.
DonkeyApple said:
A few years ago there was a Preppers thread on here that filled up with some full time mentalists. I followed one of the website links and used a semi redundant email address to access it
Good skills. A sleeper account, ready for when you need to “go dark”jasonbourne@hotmail.com?
Crossflow Kid said:
DonkeyApple said:
A few years ago there was a Preppers thread on here that filled up with some full time mentalists. I followed one of the website links and used a semi redundant email address to access it
Good skills. A sleeper account, ready for when you need to “go dark”jasonbourne@hotmail.com?
Lord Marylebone said:
My uncle has been a biker his whole life and during the 80’s and 90’s he owned numerous ‘ex Police’ BMW bikes.
Usually white fully faired bikes with panniers and the odd remnants of police stripes left on them.
He would then proceed to add a few more Battenberg looking stickers to them and a couple of spotlamps to the front and so on.
Even as a child I thought it was a bit odd.
He used to give the explanation that it was good because car drivers ‘got out of his way’ when they looked in their mirrors and saw him.
Having seen a fully marked up police bike with the siren and lights going have to swerve to avoid a car that pulled in to his lane on a motorway the other day, I'm not sure eve that works.Usually white fully faired bikes with panniers and the odd remnants of police stripes left on them.
He would then proceed to add a few more Battenberg looking stickers to them and a couple of spotlamps to the front and so on.
Even as a child I thought it was a bit odd.
He used to give the explanation that it was good because car drivers ‘got out of his way’ when they looked in their mirrors and saw him.
techiedave said:
I think the Walter Mitty hunters on facebook have been attacked by one of their victims and had their page removed
They seem to have formed a new page as a result ?
They ripped into a Walt, who was Walting as a Para. That stuff doesn’t go down terribly well with gen Para lads. A complete tw@ ( not the actual Walt involved ) ejected the tampon, and several ‘hunters’ got Zucked off Bookface. The other page, is actually set up by a super turbo Heraldo, who was former RLC, but told everyone he was airborne. He even fooled the WMCHCHQ ( the proper ones) for a bit, and was even admin. They caught him out right royally, and he sThey seem to have formed a new page as a result ?
t his slacks, and set up a ‘rival page’. The problem is, that page has a habit of trying to out people, without doing the serious due diligence, that the proper lot do, as the other site admin don’t have the connections and access to the databases, and they keep screwing up.Crossflow Kid said:
DonkeyApple said:
A few years ago there was a Preppers thread on here that filled up with some full time mentalists. I followed one of the website links and used a semi redundant email address to access it
Good skills. A sleeper account, ready for when you need to “go dark”jasonbourne@hotmail.com?
GOATever said:
techiedave said:
I think the Walter Mitty hunters on facebook have been attacked by one of their victims and had their page removed
They seem to have formed a new page as a result ?
They ripped into a Walt, who was Walting as a Para. That stuff doesn’t go down terribly well with gen Para lads. A complete tw@ ( not the actual Walt involved ) ejected the tampon, and several ‘hunters’ got Zucked off Bookface. The other page, is actually set up by a super turbo Heraldo, who was former RLC, but told everyone he was airborne. He even fooled the WMCHCHQ ( the proper ones) for a bit, and was even admin. They caught him out right royally, and he sThey seem to have formed a new page as a result ?
t his slacks, and set up a ‘rival page’. The problem is, that page has a habit of trying to out people, without doing the serious due diligence, that the proper lot do, as the other site admin don’t have the connections and access to the databases, and they keep screwing up.I thought the original came across as very well researched and genuine but also had bags of humour attached to it
Thanks again
I find the really rabid walt hunters almost as weird as the walts. The ex-service people I know don't take walting very seriously at all. About the only thing that winds them up is people dressing up and wearing medals at remembrance events. I also think you need a certain degree of credibility before you go full Rambo on walts. Paras have it. Payroll rather less so. Doesn't every pub in the country have their own resident ex special forces hero (laughing stock)?
On a daily basis it's people given a high viz vest and some authority that get my goat. So people controlling entry and exit to fetes or policing what I can or can't put in the domestic waste skip at the tip. All would make perfect low level Stasi. I think the only training they get is on how to be as obnoxious and irritating in the shortest possible time. It's certainly effective.
On a daily basis it's people given a high viz vest and some authority that get my goat. So people controlling entry and exit to fetes or policing what I can or can't put in the domestic waste skip at the tip. All would make perfect low level Stasi. I think the only training they get is on how to be as obnoxious and irritating in the shortest possible time. It's certainly effective.
Edited by Taylor James on Tuesday 29th October 08:19
Taylor James said:
On a daily basis it's people given a high viz vest and some authority that get my goat. So people controlling entry and exit to fetes or policing what I can or can't put in the domestic waste skip at the tip. All would make perfect low level Stasi. I think the only training they get is on how to be as obnoxious and irritating in the shortest possible time. It's certainly effective.
We have focussed much attention on the 4x4 Walt who has that slight tendency to slip towards emergency services, Military etc but I was reminded yesterday of another type of Walt and I’m not sure if we’ve covered this one?Edited by Taylor James on Tuesday 29th October 08:19
The Roadie.
When I was growing up the local pubs always had a chap in a tour t shirt, a waistcoat, and various bits of silver death effigies on strands of black leather. And of course they always had a ponytail. They were generally skinny blokes who smoked rollies.
Every single one had toured with Led Zep and knew Ossie Osbourne personally.
What I’m wondering is whether the roadie Walt is a pan UK sub culture or was it very local to where I was at school as various members of these big rock bands all lived locally in that block of suburbia between the M40 and M1 a few miles either side of the M25. Or maybe the Walt Roadie is national but unlike the SAS Walt who were all on the same balcony maybe their ‘tours’ differ depending on the concentration of local artists?
Taylor James said:
On a daily basis it's people given a high viz vest and some authority that get my goat. So people controlling entry and exit to fetes or policing what I can or can't put in the domestic waste skip at the tip. All would make perfect low level Stasi. I think the only training they get is on how to be as obnoxious and irritating in the shortest possible time. It's certainly effective.
Yep give them a hi viz, or clipboard, or some keys, or if they are really lucky a radio and they become a mega tt. Last face-to-face run in I had with one was at parkrun. My daughter had one of her melt downs and decided she didnt want to run the rest so I ran with her on my back. Everyone thought it was funny. Then you get the end and senior Walt hiz viz clipboard holder comes up and says "I have had reports of you running with your child on your back, That's not allowed." I was wearing my club t shirt, otherwise I would have told him to fk off.DonkeyApple said:
Crossflow Kid said:
Maybe Live Aid is to Roadie Walts what The Balcony is to SAS Walts?
The ones near me definitely all worked for Led Zep. They must have had more roadies than audience. DonkeyApple said:
We have focussed much attention on the 4x4 Walt who has that slight tendency to slip towards emergency services, Military etc but I was reminded yesterday of another type of Walt and I’m not sure if we’ve covered this one?
The Roadie.
When I was growing up the local pubs always had a chap in a tour t shirt, a waistcoat, and various bits of silver death effigies on strands of black leather. And of course they always had a ponytail. They were generally skinny blokes who smoked rollies.
Every single one had toured with Led Zep and knew Ossie Osbourne personally.
What I’m wondering is whether the roadie Walt is a pan UK sub culture or was it very local to where I was at school as various members of these big rock bands all lived locally in that block of suburbia between the M40 and M1 a few miles either side of the M25. Or maybe the Walt Roadie is national but unlike the SAS Walt who were all on the same balcony maybe their ‘tours’ differ depending on the concentration of local artists?
The Roadie is a good shout.The Roadie.
When I was growing up the local pubs always had a chap in a tour t shirt, a waistcoat, and various bits of silver death effigies on strands of black leather. And of course they always had a ponytail. They were generally skinny blokes who smoked rollies.
Every single one had toured with Led Zep and knew Ossie Osbourne personally.
What I’m wondering is whether the roadie Walt is a pan UK sub culture or was it very local to where I was at school as various members of these big rock bands all lived locally in that block of suburbia between the M40 and M1 a few miles either side of the M25. Or maybe the Walt Roadie is national but unlike the SAS Walt who were all on the same balcony maybe their ‘tours’ differ depending on the concentration of local artists?
The ageing 50-something with scruffy black jeans, cheap costume jewellery all over their fingers, and an ‘Iron Maiden - Donnington Park - 1988’ T Shirt.
Their personal life is never mentioned apart from a vague reference to ‘so many women on tour’ but you get the distinct impression they still live with their mum in a terraced house.
Always has a seemingly absolutely encyclopedic knowledge of ‘Marshall amps’ but makes excuses and goes ‘outside for a smoke’ when someone who actually plays the guitar asks them something technical.
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