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That's fine and I now see where you're coming from.

Regarding getting wound up I guess I, too, get a bit fed up with the assumption that, because I live in the SE, I have to make allowances for everybody that doesn't. Like you, I choose to live where I do and expect others to respect my choice. Being in a mixed marriage, Liz comes from Yorkshire, I am used to, but wish I didn't have to be, standard comments such as how easy we have it in the south, da-de-da, etc.

Anyway back to important matters, when do we think that the french cuzzins are going to lower their blockade so that we can go on hols?

ash wrote:Mind you, who needs the Lounge with two locked threads in Scuttlebutt!!!

Looks like I've missed all the fun again (mind you, the sailing was pretty good). Which threads were they?

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Chris, I don't think you have it easy in the SE, personally I think that is a tough choice. I couldn't live there - I couldn't cope with the crowds, the cost of moorings or the lack of hills - among other things.

People with SE money values moving to or holidaying in a place like this do cause some minor distortions in the local economy - but the cost of getting your outboard repaired is pretty insignificant compared to the effect on house prices, and I am really not sure why this discussion ever got started now - a casual throw-away post and all this virtual ink and energy expended.

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Anyway DW, you were pretty quiet yesterday. Practice what you preach and all that. More support in a thread does tend to help the protaganist keep going a bit longer.** with the possible exception of Lord Claymore, who as a mascot is allowed a certain leeway

I did not see the thread until around 30 mins before I wrote the message here and it was already locked. I Don't feel much affinity with Scuttlebutt, as I don't with much of the sailing world unfortunately.

I don't sail for a lifestyle. I see myself as a knackered fisherman who now sails, rather than a yachty, they used to be the yellow welly brigade.

I have yellow and blue wellies, help me

A few months ago I nearly died of an aneurysm while laughing and trying to rant to my better half, at the same time trying to pass her the magazine supplement from the IPC mag. The cover had in bold, seemingly serious, something alike 'Make sure you are wearing the right colours this season'. That simple catalogue encompassed everything I hate about the Solent and surrounding area.

I know you said you don't want an argument over this, but I have said time and again that I would hate to see Jockland and Taffland leave the union. I agree with much of what you say on the subject, but I disagree that you in the north are somehow different from us in the north-west. Everyone from a line drawn just below Staffs is probably a long way closer to Jockland than to Westminster. For you to run to the hills and leave us is rather defeatist. We have all grown together too long now to split up, if anyone needs to split it is the B ship that is the SE, no?

Anyway boats, is it important to be seen in the right gear?

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Anyway boats, is it important to be seen in the right gear?

Oh most definitely!

This is what I prefer for everyday deck wear . . .

"There is a very good reason for Scotland having a devolved assembley and a working government run by a purely Scottish party, it didn't happen by chance. Scotland is a different country politically, always has been before and after the Act of Union, and in spite of the pressures of globalisation it looks as though it is holding on to that different identity very strongly. "

All this, despite being subsidised by the English taxpayer.

[Ducks for cover]
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[Ducks for cover]

Not rising to the bait . . .

Not rising to the bait . .


Can I just say that on our little peninsula on the East Coast, we feel no more affinity with the Solent than Jocks/Taffs/Norveners do.

Personally, I think we would be MUCH better WITHOUT the Scottish parliament. And also the European lot.

We now have, in addition to the MP's we have had for the last few hundred years, MSP's, MEP's, all of whom have their secretaries, researchers, expense accounts Etc., Etc.

How much is all this lot costing us, FFS And what good do they do

If we ever get a UKIP or BNP candidate up here, they can be assured of my vote

Now don't get me wrong. I am NOT really in favour of these parties, but until we get another Churchill, we MUST get a few of these candidates elected in order to gee the other lot into some form of action.

I'm sure many of you will remember the general election, sometime in the 70's IIRC, when 13 SNP candidates were elected to Westminster. Suddenly Scotland was top of everybodies agenda

I will stand up and be counted as one who voted against both entry into Europe and the scottish Parliament.




Now I'm off to lie down in a darkned room

Now I'm off to lie down in a darkned room

Feeling better yet?

OlivePage quoted something I posted on TOP - I didn't post it on here - and tried to use it to get me to rise to a particularly unsavoury piece of bait. This was then followed by a fairly unconnected rant appearing to come from somewhere to the right of Atilla the Hun's position.

FFS If you lot don't give it a rest I am going to impose a unilateral blanket ban on politics on this forum and start pulling threads. The TAASC can pull any posts of mine that he deems transgress my own ruling.

THIS is the place to vent your political spleen - BlueMoment isn't. I don't want to know anything about any member's politics please, and in return I promise not to say anything remotely political. There will NOT be a Lounge on here.

Repeat after me:
I will only post about politics on the other place
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Nick wrote:There is a very good reason for Scotland having a devolved assembley and a working government run by a purely Scottish party, it didn't happen by chance. Scotland is a different country politically, always has been before and after the Act of Union, and in spite of the pressures of globalisation it looks as though it is holding on to that different identity very strongly.
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and in return I promise not to say anything remotely political.

ok then.

After you . . .

"OlivePage quoted something I posted on TOP"

No I didn't

I quoted something you posted on here
"Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject: Chris" .

- I've not read the TOP post so don't know what its about.

I was teasing you - I thought rather gently - sorry if I touched a nerve.

It won't happen again

Olivepage wrote:I was teasing you - I thought rather gently - sorry if I touched a nerve.

It's not a nerve, it's his age. All his hormones are jiggling about.

RIGHT YOU LOT!

THIS IS A SAILING FORUM and if you're not a niche on the internet, you're nothing - as someone once said.

I'm almost apolitical and very tolerant of others' views as a rule. If you say something I really don't like, of a racist nature frinstance, my ultimate sanction is simply to withdraw from your company. You may have noticed that I've never taken part in this type of thread either here or elsewhere except perhaps to lighten the atmosphere with some humour.

A little banter is fine but I come here for the saily stuff, as do we all I'm sure and I'm happy to hear that Nick wants to keep it that way.

Play nicely now.

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(That's a line drawn under it.)