married happily since nearly nine years

Thanks for your compliments, guys, though I don't really get it. You sound like you see yourselves as some kind of hunchbacks...

Not necessarily. We're just envious of the fact that you look like a movie star, man

A gorgeous, perfectly postured movie star. Hahaha.

^ haha .. I expected you to be bigger, but .. you bad ass.

Ten bucks say that there's an actual blade hidden inside the wooden sword.

I think we should have Morrigan's picture removed, bit too revealing if you ask me.

Nah, it's not...Not sure it would be legal, eh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinai

Eh, a guy can dream

Nice to know that those things are specifically designed so that no one can get hurt using them, though.

An amazing design concept for a training weapon indeed!

great pic - Kendo indeed is bad ass and not just because of it's gear.
I did various martial arts in my teen and early twen years and always wanted
to do Kendo, too, but couldn't find a training place in my town back then.

Cue the obligatory Morrigan-posts-a-picture-of-herself-in-a-Kendo-suit joke I guess...

But yeah, I imagined Morrigan to be taller for some reason as well.

You can hurt someone with a shinai if you really try. But with the armour we're (mostly ) safe.

Bokkens, on the other hand... small wonder they're used for kata only. You could literally kill someone with it.

Living the Dutch dream.

You liar. That's obviously not in Netherlands, I can spot height differences in the scenery in the pic.

To be fair, it's near the German border.

They do have pretty big piles of sand in the Netherlands though.

Hey, big props for going through life dealing with all the adversity that would result from having your feet be completely backwards. Cool beard, too!

So..... Picked the Captain Obvious ball there.



Compound fractures, ruptured organs..... Yup, that's pretty damn nasty for a piece of wood.

Strange, of all the admins to not have a face, I would've guessed Nightgaunt, not Morrigan.

What are you talking about?

I'm the gentleman in a suit and tie with the glasses and the flags, duh.

But ho! If only they would make some sound,
Or wear a face where faces should be found!

Where's the weed, chips with mayonnaise and the dead prostitutes in the canal, then? You're no Dutchman, you fraud.

Through my amazing internet detective skills, I've found the real Morrigan in the picture

Morrigan is Patrick Stewart?

"Metal: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Encyclopedia Metallum. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new bands, to seek out new genres and new compositions, to boldly hear what no man has heard before."

What a mental image.

Yes. Damn, I thought I was subtle, but I've been found out.

You know nothing. That picture was taken by a clog-wearing, weed-smoking dead prostitute who suffered a stroke when she accidentally dropped her mayonnaise-drenched chips into the canal. Who do you think the other bike belongs to?

I stand corrected, sir. You are a true Highlander Dutchman.

i think ive seen you at a gig once. Where you at?

Unlikely, as I haven't been to a gig since about 2009, except for one shitty death metal concert in Alkmaar last year.

ive been going to gigs since 2006 so who knows.

I used to have long hair and a beard so I still doubt it, hehe.

I used an illegally downloaded C.S.I. picture manipulation program, and enhanced and zoomed the picture to find the reflection in his sunglasses. You don't want to see what I found. I'm barricading myself with my family to my basement for a few weeks with enough chainsaws, axes, tuna cans, beer and machetes to keep us isolated.... ....the fries with mayonnaise on weed are coming! On a bicycle! ...From a canal!

I shaved:

....Why

Because clearly he is ALL THAT IS MAN.

But seriously, cut away the mo and just go with the sweet chops.

Cut it all off, now. It can grow back later, but for now it's ruined.

After lurking in these forums like that creepy dude in the back of the bar for more than 3 years, I have to say that none of you look anything like I assumed you would.

You didn't expect Derigin to be the most Canadian dude ever with a big, thick beard? The first picture of him that I ever saw, he looked like a lumberjack and was in front of a Canadian flag, that's exactly what I expected him to look like