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Don't mind a bit of banter with away fans, but got to say I can't stand these c**ts. Went there on the infamous 'town full of bombers day' & vowed never to return. I don't know how you do it.
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 22:42 - Feb 22 with 8597 views
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 19:19 - Feb 22 by NoDiddley
Don't mind a bit of banter with away fans, but got to say I can't stand these c**ts. Went there on the infamous 'town full of bombers day' & vowed never to return. I don't know how you do it.
In fairness that was almost ten years ago. I'm sure we've all got some big regrets over the past tem years. It's not as if they keep doing stuff like that the way Chelsea fans seem to do.
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 09:17 - Feb 23 with 8375 views
Don't you get fed up by now with all the comments etc you get at away matches?? Or do you just tell yourself it goes with the territory?? Anyway all the best!
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 09:26 - Feb 23 with 8367 views
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 18:00 - Feb 22 by smegma
"WHY do you paint your nails like a f-cking girl ? "
Embarrassing video I think. You seem to enjoy the attention sax bend...fair enough if that's your thing but it just comes across as a piss take all round.
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 09:17 - Feb 23 by JAPRANGERS
Don't you get fed up by now with all the comments etc you get at away matches?? Or do you just tell yourself it goes with the territory?? Anyway all the best!
Nail on head. It is a part of being different that you have to accept. The only way people are going to know the answers to the same questions is if you tell them. I'm not apologetic or sheepish about what I do, and I don't feel I have to "stand up for myself" in that I don't feel intimidated. But I am singled out for a very obvious and acceptable reason - I'm doing something that most people just don't expect to see, so they want to know about it and as long as they're not hostile about it, I'm perfectly happy to be as enlightening as necessary.
I learnt quite a while ago that before it can be seen to be at all ordinary or unremarkable to anyone else I have to see it as perfectly normal myself - which by now it is as I've been doing it long enough, and as I've been answering the same questions for so long and getting a lot of practice in, I can carry myself as someone doing something that appears completely normal which is the only way it's ever going to come across as such to anyone else. That doesn't guarantee it will, but at least it means I'm not holding a flashing neon sign saying "vulnerable prey here, come and get me!".
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 10:07 - Feb 23 with 8317 views
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 09:26 - Feb 23 by WilloW4
Embarrassing video I think. You seem to enjoy the attention sax bend...fair enough if that's your thing but it just comes across as a piss take all round.
Yes, of course it's a piss take. And yes, I do enjoy it. The alternative is to feel sorry for yourself for being picked on, whinge about the lack of social justice for people who don't want to wear shoes, or put a pair of trainers on, none of which appeals to me. :)
I started doing these videos with a couple of aims in mind. One was to increase the visibility of what I do so fewer people are surprised by it in future. The other is to link any attention drawn to the charity walks I'm doing (starting another one tomorrow - http://www.justgiving.com/saxbend2015 )
As I said in reply to JAPRANGER if you're going to be that different from everyone else you have to accept that attention comes with it, and you don't get to control how much or what kind. So instead I just manage it and try and make it work in my favour. I can handle having the piss taken out of me, and I like to take the piss out of other people as well. If anyone crosses a line I can stop feeding them and walk away. Sometimes that means some people think I'm short with them. The rest of the time I'll humour them because it's very much in my interest to leave the impression that for a weirdo who doesn't wear shoes, at least I can take a joke, so the next person like me they encounter is more likely to induce a goodnatured approach from them than a hostile one.
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 10:16 - Feb 23 with 8300 views
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 10:07 - Feb 23 by simmo
Why paint your nails though? That's not you just walking with bare feet, that's you actively drawing attention to the fact you go barefoot.
Well I did it for Wembley initially as an obvious variant of facepaints, hats, etc. I then realised that by drawing attention, as you say, that it demonstrates I'm barefoot by choice, not just out of laziness or because I escaped from somewhere in a hurry.
Other people get tattoos or dye their hair. I'm already doing something unusual so it really doesn't extend it much further in the weirdness direction to add a bit of colour, and as I said on the video it gives it a more deliberate look. Plus, it's Rangers. Blue and White. What's not to like? ;)
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 11:46 - Feb 23 with 8210 views
I'm always impressed by the lucidity of your answers Saxbend, fair play to you. However I'm guessing if you weren't up for the reaction you'd grin and bear wearing shoes.
They should make shoes without soles for secret barefooters, or those who want to play cricket.
A magnificent football club, the love of our lives, finding a way to finally have its day in the sun.
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 11:46 - Feb 23 by hopphoops
I'm always impressed by the lucidity of your answers Saxbend, fair play to you. However I'm guessing if you weren't up for the reaction you'd grin and bear wearing shoes.
They should make shoes without soles for secret barefooters, or those who want to play cricket.
Actually they do make them. They're quite popular in North America where rather than simple pisstaking, you can expect to be told arrogantly and forthrightly what you can and can't do by every man woman and child.
I wouldn't go for that myself because I think it sends out the message that you don't believe you're supposed to be barefoot yourself, and if you don't believe it yourself then it's silly to expect anyone else to go along with the idea. But I can sympathise with people who really don't like being hassled.
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 12:16 - Feb 23 with 8168 views
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 12:16 - Feb 23 by Rangersw12
Attention whore and an embarrassment
As I say, I'm going to get the attention whether I like it or not, so I may as well apply it to something positive. And no, I'm not embarrassed. The whole point is to normalise it as much as possible.
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 13:27 - Feb 23 with 8013 views
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 13:09 - Feb 23 by saxbend
As I say, I'm going to get the attention whether I like it or not, so I may as well apply it to something positive. And no, I'm not embarrassed. The whole point is to normalise it as much as possible.
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Keep doing what you're doing, Ben. Narrow minded people always tend to pick on people who are a bit 'different'. With all the issues over racism in recent days, it's amazing to think we can have a row with each other over bare feet (I'm not saying you have started a row, btw).
Just been reading 'Born To Run' - an interesting book about barefoot running. There's every chance that you are right and the rest of us are all getting it wrong.
"Thank you for supporting Queens Park Rangers Steep Staircase"... and I thought I'd signed up for a rollercoaster.
Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 13:27 - Feb 23 by paesanu
Excuse my ignorance saxbend, do you walk around barefoot and painted nails just because it's your particular quirk, or is it for charity.
Both. I do it anyway, but since I do I find it useful to help promote what I do for charity. The nails were initially going to be just for the Wembley walk, but I since realised that they added something to my appearance that I liked, particularly a way of showing that I'm barefoot by choice and not afraid of the attention it brings.
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Some of those Hull fans are really good value :) on 13:41 - Feb 23 with 7979 views
Saxbend. Do you model yourself in some way on Alf Tupper? Are you Alf Tupper ++?
Even Alf wore running spikes.............
Alf Tupper was 18 years of age when he first appeared in Rover in 1949 and he continued his adventures in Victor in the early 1960s. He lived with his Aunt Meg in Anchor Alley, Greystone. The house had one room upstairs and one room downstairs; Alf's bed was a mattress on the kitchen floor. He was employed as a welder working in Ike Smith's welding shop which was located under a railway arch, his wages were £1 5s (£1.25p) per week of which he paid his Aunt £1.2s.6d (£1.12½p) for rent. This meant he had 2/6d (12½p) for himself. Following a bust up with his Aunt Meg, he moved into Ike Smith's welding shop, sleeping on a mattress by his workbench. Alf joined the Greystone Harriers paying a subscription fee of half a guinea; he was only a member of the Harriers for three weeks and was instructed to return his membership card by Bob Richards the Honorary Secretary, following an ontrack fight with Vic Mason in the 440 yards at the Greystone Harriers Sports meeting. Alf's staple diet was fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
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