Nope hat

[Drew]

Saw some random ginger guy walking accross the road near george square wearing a nope hat! got some banter apparently inherited from a flat. Eddie?

[rocky]

aye see him round kb quite a lot, 'parently he know grassiemarket

[samsonite]

spot prize at chrimbo for the best sighting of a nope hat. points for randomness, distance from the centre of edinburgh etc, drew, you are winning cos grassie knows him so your sighting is more random.

come on kids, take the hats abroad this summer, take a photo of it on some poor foreigners head, send us the pic, win a prize. double prize for getting pics of it on some really good elite runner.

[mharky]

so if i get Karolina Arewang Höjsgaard and Emma Engstrand (2nd and 4th on WOC Classic) both wearing them do i get a prize???

[Drew]

what happens if i get scantily clad girls to wear them and get photos?
all tasteful of course

[mharky]

who says they wouldnt be scantily clad?

[Mrs H.]

But where do you get a nope hat in the first place to put on a random head? Is it a new line of merchandise ? If you intend to plug them - this is a good place to do it

[mharky]

hmm, cant remeber where i got mine, i think its aly's

[samsonite]

about 8 are/were in circulation. they were the first nope merch apart from the original [nope] hoody. its a bit hard to get hold of one im afraid, i didnt even have one for a while, i had to steal one back.

[Meat Market]

I believe Brian's Iraqi strips maybe the must have accessories for all the cool kids for the next few months- wore mine to the Auld Hoose pub quiz on tuesday and was getting plenty of chat from the locals who took half an hour to figure out that it was the iraqi flag on the front despite knowing that bahrain had a red and white flag!

i found another of my friends that once touched a nope sport hat tho he cant remember what became of it... I suspect (from typical behaviour) that he probably tried to sleep with it or summat and it was having none of it

[bendover]

speaking of making elite athletes wear stuff - i 'liberated' an inflatable rubber ring 'hot dog' from mcdonalds in Borlange in 1999 (o-ringen party, carnage as usual). Then at WOC relays in scotland, me, BJ, candyman and Mark Innes from canada went around asking some of the top runners to wear it around their waists for a photo. we got carsten, juha peltola, jamie or JD - can't remember which, but we were all WAY too scared of Jorgen Martensson....

Gareth Candymans got the photos, I saw them for the first time a couple of months ago, almost five years since it happened. I was so thin i hardly recognised myself. must have been anorexic.

[Asian]

might have to steal one of the hats next time I'm back and get a genuine Iraqi fundamentalist wielding a nice AK47 to pose with a [Nope] hat in Iraq, would I get a prize for that, slogan could be "just say [Nope] to fundamentalism"

[Drew]

i didnt quite manage the fundamentalist quality tho i was a party and quite bored the other night, Didnt quite have a nope had, so i drew a [nope] poster and took pictures of girls modelling the poster.
Do i get a prize?
the party was actually good, just turned up a bit late after travelling back from british champs.

Drew

Once i get the chance to upload the pictures im sure people can see them.

[pyrat]

mharky: ive lost about 3 nope hats on nights out.
good advertising tho!

[brooner]

well here is random KB [nope] hat wearer who the meat market knows bizarly: