Meirl
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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“Buy-hards”
In the cycling world they’re called Fred’s and it’s assumed they own a dental practice.
Optimists
In Sweden they are called “Prylbög”
roughly translates to “Gear fag”
Dentists
All gear, no idea
Jerrys
Posers
Dilettante
I buy the best used gear I can for a new passion. Call me what you will
Gearsluts
Full kit wankerz?
In climbing, one term frequently used is gumby.
pramateur (professional gear, amateur skills- and pram makes it sound as childish as this is).
I love these people cause then they sell it for cheap when they get bored of it
Elon.
They are called “googans” in fishing
We already have it, we call them dentists.
Weekend warrior
All hat no cattle
Tourist
Whale
All the gear no idea
Its been about for ages
Wacker
What we used when I was in EMS
There is a common phrase in Scotland (maybe UK) to describe them being “All the gear and no idea(r)”
See people do this all the time at sports like golf and get rinsed for it ahahah
Whales. They are called whales.
Pay to win
The last time this was posted this was equally as lame. Let people enjoy things.
Industry supporters?
Uh, it’s called my ADHD hyper fixation. I get into something and I want the best of the best otherwise I’m not interested. And then a week later, I’m over the hobby and have all this expensive stuff laying around hehe
Subsidarians
Snoob
In climbing we call those people “gumbies”.
Spendthrift is an oldie but a goodie.
That’s just people with ADHD
In the camera world it’s called “Uncle Bob”
How has the word “Poser” been forgotten? It’s the perfect word for this scenario
Yeah and when we show up with crappy gear we’re told that’s the problem 🙄
Dentists.
We call those people whales
Enthusiast
Try hard
Nah just let people buy the materials they want to use. I leave em be
Fuck this guy for gatekeeping hobbies and interests
Proobs? (Pro, Noobs)
“Not poor”
The FNG
How would this apply to trainspotting?
Would it be having an expensive camera/notebook?