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Origin of the Trainspotter/Anorak label

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  • Here's the story that March51 referred to:

     

    http://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/rolling-stock/wickham-trolleys/bernard-wickham-11717

     

    I have no idea if that's the origin of the nickname or not. Apologies if this gives further credence to it, Beds.

    if it's one thing i've found out from this thread it's the word "credence" ha
  • Apparently (to nigels) Charlton sounds like clowntown and Addicks anoraks.

    It that upsets you....
  • edited June 2011
    imageEDIT FFS, new forum
  • Bernard Wickham is an active member of Bromley Addicks.
  • We all know Bromley is full of rainspotters and anoraks......
  • And Trainspotters! (Cannot edit on this new forum)
  • The average Millwall fan has a very low IQ and thinks that anyone who reads a book is a nerd or a trainspotter. The average Charlton fan has a considerably higher IQ than their knuckle-dragging counterparts from New Cross, hence the nickname. Nothing to be ashamed of Beds, Millwall fans are merely recognising our intellectual superiority. 
  • Unfortunately I have a few Millwall supporting mates and Chelsea reletives, and have been called the above several times during light hearted piss takes ever since I could remember.
    Can anyone inform me as to why fans of a few clubs in London refer to our fans as this?  Was there a specific reason and time when they we got labelled with this?  Do we actually have any trainspotting fans? Anyone else received the same abuse?  And also which clubs started this?




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  • And Trainspotters! (Cannot edit on this new forum)
    You also meant New Eltham.
  • I make Lawrie right on this.  Our unevolved cousins from Croydon and Rotherhithe think that reading books makes you 'a poof', so I have absolutely no problem with being derided for having brain cells that actually go beyond double figures.  Who gives a shit what spanners/nigels think about us anyway?

    Next time those nasty spanner/stripey abominations have a go at you BR7, just point out their lack of opposable thumbs and feel nicely smug.  Watch out if they start chucking bananas or their own scat about though....they can do that when particularly enraged!

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  • We all know Bromley is full of rainspotters and anoraks......


    Seems sensible to spot rain and prepare your anorak to me.

     

     

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