you messy pup lol                                                                                                                                                                              

I'm so glad I did'nt come to this meet. You all sound like a bunch of scatterbrained ruffians!.....             Oh hang on....I did! pmsl                                                                                                                                                                             

Once again brings up the possibility of bm t.shirts,what happened with them matt?                                                                                                                                                                             

Sod BM t-shirts, we want BM beards!                                                                                                                                                                               

Another online group I sometimes meet up with always have an A-Z with a bondage bear sitting on it on their table... newbies can easily recognise the group that way.

It used to be just an A-Z but occasionally you get "innocent" folk sat there with an A-Z in front of them, so the bondage bear stops that confusion
                                                                                                                                                                             

dare I ask?                                                                                                                                                                             

You can ask 

                                                                                                                                                                             

na stick 2 the beards thing wud b a lot more fun lol                                                                                                                                                                             

damn,,does that mean i gotta stop waxin mi chin?                                                                                                                                                                              

Hell no Kaz! Let it grow long & lush!                                                                                                                                                                              

I was going to meet up with a mate I made via ebay at an Ale Festival some time ago... Having not seen a photo of him, I asked how I'd recognise him... I got "I'll be the beardy bloke, drinking a pint" in response 
                                                                                                                                                                             

hmmmm that cudda been anyone of us then Lou?     Ok.... will stop waxing..shud have a ZZ Top stylee by the height of summer !                                                                                                                                                                              

Kinda fits the description of the vast majority of folk attending an ale festival eh? I had visions of myself bounding up to every single bloke asking "Hey! Are you Prod?" and being greeted with puzzled silences...

So I made him come and find me... I said "I bet I'll be the only 39 year old woman there with a red n glittery black Capn Jack Sparrow bag"... and I was
                                                                                                                                                                             

God dammit, WB, you've been deceiving me. Told me at your last birthday you were just 29!!   Admittedly for the 12th time                                                                                                                                                                               

*curses*

Some old woman's hacked into my account today! I am, of course, as you rightly point out, a mere 29 years of age Wills.



*looks round... yep... reckon I've got away with that one*
                                                                                                                                                                             

That camera lens does extend somewhat!                                                                                                                                                                             

so what is happening about this bm t shirt or patch even...something that we can all instantly recognise. every meet i go to i end up askin Karey who he, whos she, are they one of us? i think Karey was somehow appointed unofficial meeter n greeter lol. be gud to get something to stop situations like poor born to be biker happenin again, coz we are friendly really we are.                                                                                                                                                                                 

Karey was appointed meeter n greeter cos she's bin around a bit.                                                                                                                                                                             

oi !! XK !!  im watching thee laddy!!!     lol @ Debs.... i dont mind bein the meeter/greeter, but I agree we should have some kinda badge/symbol/mascot type thingy that everyone can recognise.   I reet like WB's idea of something that can be associated with us, rather than a t-shirt, which some ppl might not want to buy, let alone wear?!.. orrrrrrr  what about silly hats/bandanas/neck tubes??   lol                                                                                                                                                                               

Or maybe just some large sign saying BikerMatch plonked on a table, with a couple of the BM folk nearby.
It's been a bit of a problem with just about every club I've been a member of, people who know each other tending to talk among themselves and forgetting there are others who are first timers and maybe a bit backward in coming forward.
As for the T-shirts, good idea, you don't have to have everyone dressed alike, just three or four people who'll make the time to greet newcomers. A supply of large sticky labels and a felt tip pen has done the trick in the past.
Tip, put the labels on people's backs! Reading everyone's back and then going round the front soon breaks the ice.