Author Topic: Forumite spotting (Read 589103 times)

hellymedic · « **Reply #3975 on:** 07 March, 2019, 08:22:23 pm »

Didn't do much Latin so better ask a scholar...

ElyDave · « **Reply #3976 on:** 07 March, 2019, 08:35:16 pm »

Quote from: hatler on 07 March, 2019, 08:15:36 pm

Quote from: ElyDave on 06 March, 2019, 08:51:12 pm
Quod Erat Demonstrandum - which was to be demonstrated
Isn't this a gerund(ive) ?
In which case the translation is more properly "That which had to be demonstrated".

I'm an engineer, I think my last use of a gerund was as a drip tray under my Land Rover

iddu · « **Reply #3977 on:** 07 March, 2019, 10:52:44 pm »

Quote from: ElyDave on 24 February, 2019, 12:28:10 pm

Iddu, I think, on an elliptigo coming through Brampton heading towards Huntington. I was heading the other way in the car.

Must have been my evil twin; that's a steed variant I don't own...

ElyDave · « **Reply #3978 on:** 08 March, 2019, 09:57:21 am »

Quote from: iddu on 07 March, 2019, 10:52:44 pm

Quote from: ElyDave on 24 February, 2019, 12:28:10 pm
Iddu, I think, on an elliptigo coming through Brampton heading towards Huntington. I was heading the other way in the car.

Must have been my evil twin; that's a steed variant I don't own...

Yes, my confusion

citoyen · « **Reply #3979 on:** 09 March, 2019, 12:41:01 pm »

Iddu and Idai are quite easy to tell apart IME - the choice of vehicle being perhaps the most obvious point of difference.

On which subject, I saw an Elliptigo this morning, tearing along Marine Parade in Whitstable at great speed, while I was cooling off after parkrun. The rider could have been Idai - had the right kind of stature - but hard to tell from the distance.

ElyDave · « **Reply #3980 on:** 09 March, 2019, 07:26:36 pm »

never met either in person, it was definitely Idai though, recognised from his LEJog write up. Just typed the wrong name in haste

Deano · « **Reply #3981 on:** 09 March, 2019, 07:29:07 pm »

I said hello to Idai on PBP 2015, but called him iddu

Kim · « **Reply #3982 on:** 09 March, 2019, 07:42:04 pm »

Wait, they're not the same person?

hellymedic · « **Reply #3983 on:** 09 March, 2019, 08:00:14 pm »

Mistaken ID innit?

Jakob W · « **Reply #3984 on:** 15 March, 2019, 04:49:37 pm »

That nikki, at the Lapworth Museum, reading books to and doing giant jigsaws with (whilst being subjected to a barrage of questions) the misses W...

Salvatore · « **Reply #3985 on:** 05 April, 2019, 01:59:59 pm »

Don't know if it's anyone here, but I spotted a cyclist in acf shorts just outside Henley (on Thames) about an hour ago.

matthew · « **Reply #3986 on:** 05 April, 2019, 02:01:05 pm »

Quite possibly Fuzzy as that is his neck of the woods.

fuzzy · « **Reply #3987 on:** 05 April, 2019, 02:14:29 pm »

Not guilty. I was laying paving slabs.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3988 on:** 05 April, 2019, 04:46:26 pm »

I spotted Butterfly on the US-Mexican border! Well, not in person: someone on Whatsapp posted a photo of a newspaper article with the headline "Butterflies could stop Trump's wall".

Little Jim · « **Reply #3989 on:** 05 April, 2019, 05:44:44 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 05 April, 2019, 02:14:29 pm

Not guilty. I was laying paving slabs.

Who's pissed you off this time?

Basil · « **Reply #3990 on:** 05 April, 2019, 07:04:25 pm »

Quote from: Little Jim on 05 April, 2019, 05:44:44 pm

Quote from: fuzzy (retd.) AAGE on 05 April, 2019, 02:14:29 pm
Not guilty. I was laying paving slabs.

Who's pissed you off this time?

Salvatore · « **Reply #3991 on:** 05 April, 2019, 07:40:07 pm »

Quote from: Salvatore on 05 April, 2019, 01:59:59 pm

Don't know if it's anyone here, but I spotted a cyclist in acf shorts just outside Henley (on Thames) about an hour ago.

According to strava flyby it was Patrick Wadsworth aka GrandMaster Flash who was last active here in January 2017.

Jurek · « **Reply #3992 on:** 05 April, 2019, 07:57:46 pm »

Old shorts.
Just sayin'

ElyDave · « **Reply #3993 on:** 14 April, 2019, 11:49:44 am »

Wobbly John I think, heading up Ten-Mile Bank away from Littleport, while I was headed in the opposite direction early this morning

Wobbly John · « **Reply #3994 on:** 14 April, 2019, 11:56:19 am »

Yes, probably me if I was in white blue and black Orbea kit, on the black and red Orbea.

I met 3 cyclists on the way to Ten Mile Bank, where I crossed Modney bridge to Hilgay & Ryston before going through Denver and back along the riverbank.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #3995 on:** 20 April, 2019, 05:08:19 pm »

As the lift doors closed on platform 4 in York station a cyclist appeared outside them... I looked at the current population density within the lift and sort-of-smiled apologetically at the cyclist in a Terribly British way clearly intended to signify "sorry, even if I get out I don't think you'd fit a bike in".10 minutes later I spotted the same Reading CC jersey on platform 9, and also clocked the saddle bag as I passed so stopped, took a step back, and enquired "Was it an arrow?".

Nice to make your acquaintance, Brymbo!

L CC · « **Reply #3996 on:** 20 April, 2019, 10:15:09 pm »

That Crinkles was spotted in Newcastle Station by No2Son

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #3997 on:** 21 April, 2019, 06:44:07 am »

But I was only on the train to Durham! I did end up in Newcastle, but not at the station...

L CC · « **Reply #3998 on:** 21 April, 2019, 03:50:58 pm »

Ah. Clarification from said childer- he was going to NCL not returning. So York. He could have spotted Brymbo, too

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #3999 on:** 21 April, 2019, 11:28:36 pm »

That makes twice he's spotted me and I haven't spotted him!

(Maybe I should tryharder to remember that he isn't about 14 any more...)