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jeffers
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Topic: More great race reports Posted: 29 Jul 15 at 12:33pm |
Sounds like the voice of (bitter) experience....
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Paul
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kneewrecker
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 29 Jul 15 at 12:46pm |
you never heard of Sinbad? Ask Graeme one day.....
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Woodburner
Far too distracted from work Joined: 13 Mar 15 Location: Folkestone Kent Online Status: Offline Posts: 332 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 29 Jul 15 at 1:53pm |
Sinbad (internet windsurfing troll)is sadly gone, died a few years back, was good value whilst he lasted, and that nutter Oneup or Pueno who was probably him as well.
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iiiiitick
Far too distracted from work Joined: 19 May 15 Online Status: Offline Posts: 240 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 29 Jul 15 at 4:26pm |
I am new to this instagram thing, an instagram virgin you may say. Quite a few teenage girl sailors seem to 'like' our pictures and some of their photographs seem to be of them doing beachy things with their friends. I have been told that I should 'like' or even 'follow' them back, but I have no wish to share a cell with Mr. Glitter or Rolf, so I do not.
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PeterG
Really should get out more Joined: 12 Jan 08 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 818 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 29 Jul 15 at 5:49pm |
I think Rolf and Gary did a little more than "like" a few instagram photos!
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Peter
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tgruitt
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 2:06pm |
Can people stop using "Snakes and Ladders" in race reports, I'm reading about 2 or 3 a week now with this most irritating phrase in. Many thanks. Disgruntled.
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Needs to sail more...
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kneewrecker
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 2:12pm |
could be worse.... they could be talking about the apres-sail in terms of Cluedo....
... you know Colonel Mustard doing Miss Scarlet in the Drawing Room with a Candlestick. Very RS200...
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Roger
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 3:49pm |
I agree.... but also.... I wish they'd stop using "Champagne Sailing" - it means so many different things to so many people and it's repeated use in report after report just shows a lack of imagination...... rant rant rant over. |
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JimC
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 4:46pm |
Mmm, but cliches become cliches because they communicate well with people. Maybe a talented writer can come up with a different phrase, but its a pretty evocative shortcut for variable conditions in which it was easy to gain or lose a lot of ground quickly...
Anyway I'm sure we all have our own stylistic quirks. I'm very prone to starting paragraphs with adverbs, particularly ones starting in a, and most especially anyway. If I'm not careful I'll see half the paragraphs in a report starting with it... |
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tgruitt
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jul 15 at 9:04pm |
Nicely put, I'd much rather read that than and stupid board game related cliches! I agree about 'Champagne Sailing' too, I don't even like Champagne! |
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Needs to sail more...
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