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iitick 
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Joined: 09 Sep 13 Location: Tunstead Milton Online Status: Offline Posts: 392 |
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 Topic: Sailing is for posh peoplePosted: 15 Nov 13 at 2:21pm |
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Yes Mr Welly, there has been much discussion on the radio today about the decline in social mobility. I was born in the gutter, have shuffled along it all my life and will die in the gutter. I thank you all for allowing a humble son of toil into your esteemed ranks.
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yellowwelly
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Joined: 24 May 13 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2003 |
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 2:28pm |
 let's be fair, sailing inland, at some weird man made puddle that either cleans piss water, or provides drinking water (no one is quite sure which- it's probably both) is always going to be a minority interest for the local demographic.... as for coastal areas, I've seen quite a bit of investment into getting people to use the water for recreational purposes. But if you were dolling out cash, would you make it available to the sport where the cost of basic entry (new) is about £4.5k for a Laser, or would you make it available to Canoeing where you can get into it for the price of a pair of Nike Air Max trainers and continue through the winter at the local swimming pool....
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iGRF
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Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 3:22pm |
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Well judging by the sheer volume of braying yah yahs and hollering hoorays that used to tear around the dinghy show, we all thought y'all were posh. Posh is an acronym of Port Out Starboard Home as some of you are probably aware so by it's very nature a nautical term.
And even if you don't have a name like Jones, Vanessa? sorry Vanessa is posh. But the deciding factor can only be judged by accent, just a hint of RP and you're done I'm afraid, then we should also talk about Rupert, who calls their child Rupert other than the upper middle classes, my Rupert he sails a lot... 
Then, don't even talk about that arch double barrelled chinless wonder - James Y Wellington Brace ... Edited by iGRF - 15 Nov 13 at 3:25pm |
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 3:31pm |
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said Graeme Reginald Fuller - the Third
you even went to posh local school.... a Grammar wasn't it. Although to be fair, growing up in Kent you're lucky your mum could afford to have extra fingers surgically removed, most of the kids round there had to get the butcher to do it... A local at Hythe comparing boom blisters....  |
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Rupert
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Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 3:35pm |
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Posh? Good Sarf Lunnen boy, me.
Couldn't wait to get out, though, so delusions of grandeur, at least! |
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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transient
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 3:43pm |
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Any council estate oiks on here?
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iGRF
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 3:59pm |
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It's Ross ectually and I was born in Oxford..
And we don't talk to council chavs...
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 4:04pm |
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alstorer
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 4:06pm |
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sport that, despite some people that will protest otherwise, is pretty expensive to take part in a "attracting well off people" generally shocker.
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winging it
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Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 4:15pm |
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the same, but different...
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