They Must Think They Are Really Cool
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Category: Dinghy classes
Forum Name: Dinghy development
Forum Discription: The latest moves in the dinghy market
URL: http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1742
Printed Date: 15 Aug 25 at 11:03pm
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Topic: They Must Think They Are Really Cool
Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Subject: They Must Think They Are Really Cool
Date Posted: 09 May 06 at 10:24pm
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http://www.boatsandoutboards.com/view/F99689/ How insecure must you be to write something about someone elses sport. ------------- Greatfully Sponsored By www.allgoodfun.com Int 14 GBR 1503!! |
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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 09 May 06 at 10:45pm
| The ad in question seems to be gone now, but mate, I refer you to your own sig... |
Posted By: phantom871
Date Posted: 10 May 06 at 10:57am
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What did it say? I am intrigued ------------- If its bent pull harder |
Posted By: phantom871
Date Posted: 10 May 06 at 5:50pm
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What was said! ------------- If its bent pull harder |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 10 May 06 at 6:54pm
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yeh answer the question! ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 10 May 06 at 7:25pm
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it was just a very immature advert written by someone who obviously wasn't a sailor or has never sailed basically making out that sailors were 'gay'.
------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: phantom871
Date Posted: 11 May 06 at 11:20am
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But we are arent we! Its the only reason I sail not for the speed or the enjoyment but for the odd bit of (insert Little Britain comment here)
------------- If its bent pull harder |
Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 11 May 06 at 12:50pm
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Ahh. Does that mean your avatar has more significance that a passing glance would suggest? ------------- Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36 |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 11 May 06 at 1:00pm
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Somehow that brings tears of pain to my eyes Boys! Are you going to behave?? ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 11 May 06 at 2:07pm
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No!
------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: phantom871
Date Posted: 11 May 06 at 6:00pm
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Wouldnt dare make a comment that sank so low
Just yet ------------- If its bent pull harder |
Posted By: combat wombat
Date Posted: 12 May 06 at 9:07am
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Shows some initiative though, got to give them that! They offer a
free Laser on a boats-for-sale website, then sl*g us off, I reckon
thats fairly inspired... Wonder what the sailing community did to them though to make them think up such an elaborate plan. ------------- B14 GBR 772 |
Posted By: Tornado_ALIVE
Date Posted: 12 May 06 at 12:19pm
COOL or HOMO.... Somebody had to say it first.
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 12 May 06 at 5:54pm
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where did they get the laser from in the first place then? ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: BBSCFaithfull
Date Posted: 15 May 06 at 10:53am
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Well it is like the biggest ever selling boat isnt it? ------------- Greatfully Sponsored By www.allgoodfun.com Int 14 GBR 1503!! |
Posted By: Bruce Starbuck
Date Posted: 15 May 06 at 1:28pm
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I thought the Sunfish was the biggest selling boat worldwide or has it been overtaken by the Laser now?
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 15 May 06 at 3:51pm
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what i meant was if they're calling all sailors gay why have they got a laser? ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 15 May 06 at 6:36pm
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cos everyone loves lasers *laughs manicly* and yeah its been the biggest selling boat for a while now, just over 186,000 built to date ------------- |
Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 15 May 06 at 6:52pm
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I think there has been in excess of 300,000 oppies built. ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 15 May 06 at 6:53pm
Its that unusual for non-Sailors to "acquire" a Laser... |
Posted By: Bruce Starbuck
Date Posted: 16 May 06 at 12:13pm
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Wikipedia says that over half a million Sunfishes have been made! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunfish_dinghy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunfish_(dinghy ) |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 16 May 06 at 12:36pm
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"what i meant was if they're calling all sailors gay why have they got a laser?" if they're that dumb they probably bought it on ebay in the first place to remove hair and then got really excited when they "had to pick it up by car" ... before mincing up in the MX5 to discover they'd bought a fibreglass 70's classic of the sailing variety, not the industrial hair removal type!  ... come on you lovely boys, get brave and go for waxing, leave the sailing to real men; hair removal by wetsuit zip, divides the men from the boys I'll tell ya!  ------------- Feeling sorry for vegans since it became the latest fad to claim you are one |
Posted By: 29er397
Date Posted: 16 May 06 at 5:45pm
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you never know they might not actually own a laser, only know of the boat.
------------- http://www.kielderwatersc.org - Kielder Water Sailing Club |
Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 16 May 06 at 6:02pm
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If they did have a Laser, stupid little chavs like that aren't gonna give it away are they!! ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 16 May 06 at 7:49pm
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Drop it boys... they're not worth the bother. Let's talk about something else... hmm... tudum dumdum dum hmm....
OH! Did I tell you I'd completed my first race in a Contender on Sunday??!!! ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 16 May 06 at 7:51pm
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I'm still waiting for the photographic evidence!!! ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 16 May 06 at 8:00pm
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I've got no photo, because I was a little busy with paying attention to the course, holding the mainsheet (not hard enough), steering (not pointing high enough), getting on the trapeze (too far at the back of the boat). Plus I didn't have enough kicker and I had a rubbish start and I should get closer to the marks. (It doesn't help when a fellow sailor shouts at you from behind "Get out of the way! You shouldn't be here" when you're near the gybe mark and he's 10 boat lengths behind! He didn't know I was racing...) ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 17 May 06 at 12:31pm
Sounds like a success to me ...and you've even got an action plan for next time.------------- One step forwards, 2 steps back... |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 17 May 06 at 1:21pm
| I personally feel BnS will do wonders for the Contender fleet. More power to her elbow I say !!! |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 17 May 06 at 2:23pm
That was a private comment between you and me, Pierre! No need to warn them beforehand.  ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC
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Posted By: Contender443
Date Posted: 17 May 06 at 6:08pm
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BNS forgot to mention whose boat she was sailing!! It obviously gave her confidence - mind you have not seen the boat in question since it was used. ------------- Bonnie Lass Contender 1764 |
Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 17 May 06 at 6:48pm
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Congrats BnS!!!!!!!!
------------- MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin" The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 19 May 06 at 11:20am
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No greater love hath a husband than to let his missus loose with his 16ft of pure pleasure without supervision... ------------- One step forwards, 2 steps back... |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 19 May 06 at 12:14pm
Absolutely...... unless she threatened him with violence or some other form of punishment. |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 19 May 06 at 7:41pm
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Er excuse me, obviously never been round the twisties in a properly exploited example have we? I'm sure Strawberry will vouch for the fact that a revvy RWD sports car capable of pulling about 1g in the corners has about as much to do with hairdressing as a concrete mixer!!!! ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 19 May 06 at 9:18pm
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Aahhh the memories, drifting about three times round the roundabout by Sainsburys in Rugby.... Hairdressers car... I don't think so sonny! ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 20 May 06 at 2:18pm
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Cherub sailors are not chavs Cherub sailors are not chavs Cherub sailors are not chavs ------------- |
Posted By: Iain C
Date Posted: 21 May 06 at 12:06am
At least it's "aaah the memories" rather than "ooooo the mental scars" Local tyre company loves me. Missus does'nt... ------------- RS700 GBR922 "Wirespeed" Fireball GBR14474 "Eleven Parsecs" Enterprise GBR21970 Bavaria 32 GBR4755L "Adastra" |
Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 21 May 06 at 8:34pm
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could've fooled me
lol, that was a joke before any cherub sailors flame me (or come after me in their pimped up rides with spoilers and underlighting and stuff - trailing a cherub of course- and brandishing broken bottles ------------- |