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Rossiter Pintail Mortagne sur Gironde, near Bordeaux |
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Laser 28 - Excellent example of this great design Hamble le rice |
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GarethT ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 21 Apr 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 714 |
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You're forgetting the 'Death of the Laser class' threads. We've not had one of them for a couple of weeks. |
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H2 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Jul 17 Online Status: Offline Posts: 750 |
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I will post up some thoughts of ownership in the coming days - still lots to learn
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H2 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Jul 17 Online Status: Offline Posts: 750 |
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I do not spend long on forums but the one I know best is SELOC which is for people who own Lotus cars - its totally the opposite of this forum - so perhaps I had unrealistic expectations about what can happen when you get a bunch of strangers together that share a passion for a past-time. They are actually nice to each other and super helpful, plus they can engage in a whole range of topics all related to small plastic cars built by turnip farmers!
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H2 ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 26 Jul 17 Online Status: Offline Posts: 750 |
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It is all a little cliquey...the same crowd responding to the same people and if your not one of them they just ignore your posts as if you are not worth engaging with. The weird thing though is that they all seem to dislike each other, perhaps its some kind of S&M thing where they get a kick by coming on here and beating each other up?! I was wondering if it was just me that was invisible
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DiscoBall ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 03 Jan 05 Online Status: Offline Posts: 305 |
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Pretty much seems a feature of internet forums generally.
In fact also seems quite prevalent in real life in clubs of all types - couple of popular contentious themes of conversation and occasional forays elsewhere. I suspect you could actually copy posts from old threads to a new topic on a similar theme and nobody would actually notice...
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turnturtle ![]() Really should get out more ![]() Joined: 05 Dec 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2538 |
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There's few topics which do the rounds, one of which is a new thread every other year or so questioning the breadth of conversation going on on the forum, and the quality of the contribution.
Seems it's here again... and thus signalling a retreat to private chats on WhatsApp and closed groups on Facebook again.... shame, but a sad reality of no longer living with Web 1.0
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iGRF ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 Mar 11 Location: Hythe Online Status: Offline Posts: 6499 |
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There's a simple solution, post about something else we're all as bored as the next man and just as eager to talk about boats, bits of kit etc, the trouble is lots of it has already been done. Forums can be very transient places if you don't participate, I read lots of stuff, just because folk don't respond doesn't mean the contribution is any less valuable.
Every Troll knows unless you post something outrageous that sets their eyebrows twitching and smoke comes for their ears, 'they' will never post. You have a boat lots of us are interested to read about, how about a couple more tales in that section where you get to talk about recent outings (forget what it's called but there's a heading somewhere). Edited by iGRF - 22 Nov 17 at 1:57pm |
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ian.r.mcdonald ![]() Far too distracted from work ![]() Joined: 24 Feb 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 440 |
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but surely there are only 5-6 people involved with posting anyway?
those of us trying to get involved are either ignored or rubbished which is why people look and dont post |
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Eisvogel ![]() Posting king ![]() ![]() Joined: 09 Dec 16 Location: Birmingham Online Status: Offline Posts: 135 |
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Probably a conspiracy by the GL/PY committees.
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Enterprise 20361 (Eisvogel), Laser 102727 (Halcyon), Laser 121986
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JimC ![]() Really should get out more ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662 |
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Sadly there's a lot of truth in that.
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