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    • mikebarhootM
      mikebarhoot
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      & you kids have fun!!!  safe travels

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      • GilesG
        Giles
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        Pretty accurate…....

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        • DstaufferD
          Dstauffer
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          @Giles:

          This is my Kanreki present to myself….....a bit of diving and some fishing.....

          It's a very long story, but the short version is....

          Giles meets great South African (Chad) when fishing in Oman.  Form firm friendship.
          Chad tells Giles he is building an eco fishing lodge on a remote island in Fiji (it's called Yacata - Google it).
          Giles says, oh great I'll come and spend my 60th there.
          Chad says, won't be finished.  Then in off hand way says "we're looking for investors"
          Giles spends days working out how to broach subject of investing in a mad adventure with Paula.  Plucks up courage and blurts it out.
          Paula says "fuck yeah".
          Giles picks himself up off the floor.
          We invest.
          We are in Fiji.
          Lodge not built.
          Probably end up sleeping on beach.
          Neither of us has ever been so excited about something in our lives.....

          You might be the coolest guy I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Seriously.

          IT guy emails a handful of Japanese denim craftsmen and the one that responds is Haraki-San. IHUK is born and you get involved with and grow IMHO the best clothing brand on the planet. The brand evolves and becomes what it is today…full of unlimited potential.

          About a decade down the road, through happenstance, you get involved with a fucking Fiji fishing lodge...just, wow!

          Forget Yvon Chouinards, when is your biography getting published? (If you need a writer, let me know ;))

          You won’t be satisfied until you wear Iron Heart.

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          • GilesG
            Giles
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            Blush.  I just do shit that I like and have a wife who is prepared to put up with my idiosyncrasies…..

            I think I may start a thread re: the lodge.....

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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            • SeulS
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              @Seul:

              Lost 5 kilograms in 5 weeks. On a diet of beer, wine, cognac and cheese.

              6 in 6 weeks. Replaced cognac by whiskey. Works for me…

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              • S
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                @Dstauffer:

                You might be the coolest guy I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Seriously.

                IT guy emails a handful of Japanese denim craftsmen and the one that responds is Haraki-San. IHUK is born and you get involved with and grow IMHO the best clothing brand on the planet. The brand evolves and becomes what it is today…full of unlimited potential.

                About a decade down the road, through happenstance, you get involved with a fucking Fiji fishing lodge...just, wow!

                Forget Yvon Chouinards, when is your biography getting published? (If you need a writer, let me know ;))

                Quoted for the truth. Gives me hope for the rest of my life too. It all seems risky, but also the good kind of crazy risk that you may as well as you only live once kind of thing. Kudos to you for living good sir!

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                • DstaufferD
                  Dstauffer
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                  @Snowy:

                  Gives me hope for the rest of my life too. It all seems risky, but also the good kind of crazy risk that you may as well as you only live once kind of thing.

                  This!

                  You won’t be satisfied until you wear Iron Heart.

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                  • ChrisC
                    Chris
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                    @Seul:

                    Lost 5 kilograms in 5 weeks. On a diet of beer, wine, cognac and cheese.

                    Weird. I used the exact same diet and I gained five kilos.  Only instead of wine, I had Red Bull, instead of cognac I had pizza, and instead of cheese, I had cheeseburgers.

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                    • goosehdG
                      goosehd
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                      @Giles:

                      Blush.  I just do shit that I like and have a wife who is prepared to put up with my idiosyncrasies…..

                      Are there any good stories of ideas that she shot down?

                      "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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                      • GilesG
                        Giles
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                        Yes, moving to Andros in the Bahama's and me spending the rest of my life researching (fishing for) Tarpon on the west side on Andros….

                        Apart from that, can't think of anything.

                        She may think I am completely mad, but she does have faith....

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • ROmanR
                          ROman
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                          Great story and after meeting G and Paula, the couple of times that I have, why I felt compelled to help celebrate Giles' Kanreki.

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                          • steelworkerS
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                            @Chris:

                            @Seul:

                            Lost 5 kilograms in 5 weeks. On a diet of beer, wine, cognac and cheese.

                            Weird. I used the exact same diet and I gained five kilos.  Only instead of wine, I had Red Bull, instead of cognac I had pizza, and instead of cheese, I had cheeseburgers.

                            I believe @Seul meant to say beer, swine, cognac and cheese.

                            Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…
                            Well, I have others.

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                            • SeulS
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                              True - been piggin' out on swine man…

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                              • BoredToDeathB
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                                • neph93N
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                                  Proud father alert: Number one son (14 years old) went on a «study date» yesterday evening (how much studying was done with young Sofie, I am unsure about). He went out of the house wearing his first bit of Iron Heart, an IHTP-04 that was too small for me. I choked up a bit…

                                  «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                  We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                                  • Dame Vera Lynn
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                                  • Matty123M
                                    Matty123
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                                    Yeah man! That’s a great post @neph93 . for many reasons. Congrats bud. Be proud

                                    Maybe so. Maybe not

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                                    • ColeC
                                      Cole
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                                      If he comes after you you'll be grandpa soon. 😉

                                      WTB:
                                      IHJ-96-OLV Size L
                                      IHE-13

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                                      • neph93N
                                        neph93
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                                        [emoji23]

                                        «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                        We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                                        • Dame Vera Lynn
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                                        • SeulS
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                                          I was just about to say… neph's list reads like:

                                          • 1 billion children: check
                                          • 78 billion grandchildren: work in progress

                                          Have you told Sofie you expect a full soccer team worth of offspring from her?..

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                                          • Matty123M
                                            Matty123
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                                            @Cole:

                                            If he comes after you you'll be grandpa soon. 😉

                                            What’s this now??

                                            Maybe so. Maybe not

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