what is your AVATAR from

[Icehaven]

Ian McCulloch of Echo and the Bunnymen looking old and pissed, like moi.

[pigamus]

A children's book I think

[Mister Six]

Mine's from the cover of the Soul Coughing album El Oso, selected because I got tired of my old one and wanted something simple and colorful. And it's a good album.

My previous one was Mister Six, the character I nicked my username from, taken from the cover of volume 3, issue 6 of the comic book The Invisibles.

Newer posters might not know that 'the Christopher Lambert avatar' was a stock avatar on here for many years; I just wanted to keep him around for his general gormlessness.

Haha, I'd forgotten all about the little automatically dispensed avatars back on old CaB and always assumed this was Super Hans.

[Glennhoddleishavingagoal]

hi new poster btw

[Janie Jones]

JaDanketies kindly done mine, I think it offends no-one, for which I'm grateful

[Gurke and Hare]

The Canadian actor Eric Peterson, in his role in the sitcom Corner Gas, jackass.

[Captain Z]

Niche 15-minute BBC2 show, shown late at night in 2001. Contestants would travel around London on a bus answering deliberately stupid real-or-fake type questions. Keep hoping episodes will emerge somewhere on the internet but seems increasingly unlikely.

http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Z_for_Fake

[mothman]

The explanations on this thread might be slightly misleading if it's bumped in a year or so, because people on here often change their avatars.

Eg: what if Butchers Blind changes theirs to the late, Tony Hart? His family would be so hurt.

Great, now I have to keep mine forever and hope people get the joke, or someone will think I actually did have a GIF from Triumph Of The Will as my avatar.

Whatever happens (hello, future CaBers!), it was this:

[Steven88]

The Canadian actor Eric Peterson, in his role in the sitcom Corner Gas, jackass.

Hammerhead.

[Ambient Sheep]

Mine's really obvious, but just in case, it's the cover of KLF's Chill Out album, which they apparently got from some big book of stock images they were presented with at a meeting, the actual location and photographer are, I believe, unknown.

Chosen to fit my username (which goes back to 2001 in this form and c. 1992 in a slightly different form), as it depicts ambient sheep.  The fact that it's also an ambient album is nice, but secondary.

And yes, I use it on Twitter too, where it occasionally gets compliments, I've even had a couple of random follows off of it!

[Old Thrashbarg]

Mine is Xavier: Renegade Angel from the show Xavier: Renegade Angel. Sometimes he wears a Christmas hat.

[zomgmouse]

Mine is currently a photo I took many years ago of a cup of tea with a light and some flowers in the reflection

[rue the polywhirl]

Mines from a best-selling Nintendo game series called Pokomon, naturully.

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

15 Storeys High, a scene from Vince's imagination of what Finnish national costume looks like.

[Echo Valley 2-6809]

It's ma dawg.

I often look at the bottom third of that and think it's Ken Bates.



I think I'm going to need a bit of a break soon.

[chveik]

15 Storeys High, a scene from Vince's imagination of what Finnish national costume looks like.

always thought it was from delocated but clearly i didn't look closely enough

[flotemysost]

I was looking for a GIF of a maneki neko then I found one of a real cat half-heartedly impersonating a maneki neko, so that had to be it. Nothing deeper than that.

[Mr Farenheit]

'Face House' in Kyoto designed in the 70s by the Japansese architect Kazumasa Yamashita (who unfotunately doesn't seem to have done a whole series of this kind of thing).




I liked Chairman Bodog's avatar, I always thought it looked like an astronaut at first, then when I looked closer I'd see the horrifying truth- never got old.

[Cuntbeaks]

A selfie of a notorious cunt from Port Glasgow, salvaged from a fruitful Facebook trawl of similar cunts, junkies and the deceased.

[flotemysost]

What are the two people at the top doing? Bumming/vomming, and is the person on the ground trying to reason with them? Always liked your avatar, any road.

[JesusAndYourBush]

It's Yagughi Mari with some meat on her head while a big lizard (not pictured in the avatar) prowls around trying to get the meat, from "13nin Gakari no Christmas", December 2001.

Clip here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhw_gcenErc

[Bigfella]

Been quite curious about the avatars but didn't ask because I suspected a good few of you would go 'wouldn't you like to know, haha' and feel smug at my expense.  I liked the one of the cartoon character sticking up the two fingers, they've changed it though.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

and where, may I ask, is your avatar Bigfella? You could have, I dunno, Geoff Capes or something. Get on it.

[imitationleather]

The eldest, best looking and funniest posters will remember that back in the old days on CaB[nb]Talking first half of the noughties here[/nb] you used to have your avatar and personal text assigned to you rather than getting to pick it yourself.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Liz Heverin, a student of dodgy views but alluring appearance.

[Spiteface]

The eldest, best looking and funniest posters will remember that back in the old days on CaB[nb]Talking first half of the noughties here[/nb] you used to have your avatar and personal text assigned to you rather than getting to pick it yourself.

And we all had to suffer the indignity of "Bastard John" eventually.

Some posters who were special enough, got their own Avatars though.

[Magnum Valentino]

It's two power station chimbleys having a chat and a cuppa, before collapsing in a big fuck off explosion.

The cups and jug disappearing upwards is the funniest thing I've seen in ages.

[Bigfella]

and where, may I ask, is your avatar Bigfella? You could have, I dunno, Geoff Capes or something. Get on it.

You may well ask such a just question.  Sadly I am currently technologically disadvantaged, no PC, tablet etc, just a ten quid caveman phone.  I'll be 'properly' online again at some point.

[Retinend]

15 Storeys High, a scene from Vince's imagination of what Finnish national costume looks like.

Ahhh, I always presumed it from the brilliant ski-mask-premised Jon Glaser show, Delocated.

[Retinend]

Mine is the final stage of evolution of what that began as a self-hating incel meme, which was itself mocked, and then began being used as a generic template for "bad" vs "good". I found this variant on an edgy 4-chan type board dedicated to literature, and I though it was hilarious. It's a little out of place on here, though.