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Longstanding member. Well, at least by New Board standards. He is also VulcanTrekkie45‘s AH mentor.
Thande slipped under the radar when he first joined, which may be something to do with the fact that IronYuppie and Othniel joined in the same space of time. He was thus never labelled with n00b status.
He originates from Yorkshire and, as is traditional on the Board, is a violently nationalistic regionalist. He commonly gives his location as ‘The Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire’. This also gave rise to the board political party, the Yorkshire Socialist Party. Thande came second to Leo Caesius in the 2006 Presidential election. As a result of the 2007 elections, Thande is now one of the Vice Presidents of the Board.
Thande is the Board’s official Chemist, occasionally quoting chemistry jargon. He commonly recounts the story of him accidentally smashing a glass pipette into his finger and thus injecting himself with a vanadium compound.
Thande is known as a prolific writer, both on the AH.com Series and his own series of ISOT novels. He is also a regular on the Map Thread.
He also founded the Unfortunate Thread Juxtapositions Thread and the Coolness Polls, and started the Heterosexual Reconquista. He invented the Universal Colour Scheme, but his version has long since been superseded by the work of others (see main article).
Thande was also chosen as the 2007 AH.COM Person of the Year, for his entertainment of all users, and his many contributions to the board.
He is a Christian socialist who nonetheless tends to steer clear of the religious and political debates on the board, except when the other British members require another voice to support the merits of universal healthcare. He is generally opposed to the EU, but elevates this opposition to a cartoonish level in order that political debates on this issue do not become too bitter. He, along with MrP, also engage in P-rants about the British Education System, political correctness, health and safety, and other topics which plague modern life. Thande, despite his best efforts, cannot resist a P-gah when Americans get Celtic stuff wrong.
As Fell cannot open his mouth without mentioning, Thande is fond of wearing elasticated trousers.
Almost all photos of Thande that exist depict him as being about to stab the cameraman.
But Thande is most famous for the practice known as Blaming Thande. After initially resisting the Blame movement, he eventually threw in the towel and began supporting it himself.
In English Thande is pronounced to rhyme with hand or land, and with a soft initial th as in the word ‘thing’. The name is originally Trehóritan and in that context is pronounced with a soft final schwa, but this should not be attempted in the English pronunciation. Got that?
According to Baldian Smileyology, Thande is associated with the :rolleyes: smiley.
Thande is the ‘Ship’s Chemist’ on the AH.com Ship. He does not appear in every episode.
Thande is the Snape character in Luaky Commer but does not appear in AH.COM WARS, except in a breaking-the-fourth-wall way as the director. This role was expanded in the prequel films, as Thande was finding it hard to parody them without doing direct jokes about Lucas’ direction. He now appears as a megalomaniac out of touch with reality, assisted by various cameramen and production team members, who is convinced that his new prequels are so much better than the originals.
In the Pirate Novella, Thande was the powder monkey and ship’s “chymist”.
In Midgard‘s The Devil's Own, the character of Thomas Anderson is based on Thande.
There are also several different characters based on or named after Thande in Chris‘s works, most obviously “Professor Thande” in The Multiverse War series.
The character of High Consul Tomas Andersen in GTD Aquitaine’s Our Watchword Evermore is (loosely) inspired by Thande.
In Max Sinister‘s Chaos TL, the Technische Hochschule Argentinien/Neustadt für Delizierung und Eisenverarbeitung, short: T.H.A.N.D.E. (meaning: Technical university/college of Neustadt/Argentine for refining and iron processing.) was named in his honour.
Appeared in Dial M for Elastic as Sir Thomas Ribb-Tikkler Thande.