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    Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 2:21pm
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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LOL  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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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 3:22pm
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 ...


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Post Options Post Options   Quote yellowwelly Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 3:31pm
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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Posh? Good Sarf Lunnen boy, me.

Couldn't wait to get out, though, so delusions of grandeur, at least!
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Post Options Post Options   Quote transient Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 3:43pm
Any council estate oiks on here?
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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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Post Options Post Options   Quote yellowwelly Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 4:04pm
Originally posted by iGRF

And we don't talk to council chavs...

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Post Options Post Options   Quote alstorer Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Nov 13 at 4:06pm
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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the same, but different...

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