Dinghy Show 2017

Originally posted by fab100 Originally posted by tink Originally posted by iGRF Nope we also used to enjoy our annual trade show when it was in Manchester, a great city, then it moved to Telford, also quite fun, that Ironbridge is quaint and the beer not too expensive, it's just Birmingham that sucks, probably just ahead of Liverpool in vying for the ultimate title - City Hell on Earth. I have read quite a bit of this thread and flabbergasted that such a poisonous person is tolerated on this forum. If you don't have a positive contribution just shut up you sad little man. Please don't let him put you off. Grumph is a troll, in the modern vernacular, although Golem would be a better metaphor. And yes, he is little. He is a sailboard pioneer and legend from its early days, he tells us (constantly), migrated to dinghies a few years ago but simply does to understand how a sailing dinghy works.  Without his crass provocativeness, there would be virtually nothing to read on this forum, although he's almost certainly also driven a few participants away as he seeks diversions from the boredom of his shop. There are two recommended approaches with iGRF - one is the "never argue with idiots, they drag you down to their level and beat you on experience" angle. After all, it's just attention-seeking behaviour, best ignored, otherwise you just encourage it. The other, if you want some entertainment and have some time, is to string him along like you might a 419 Nigerian e-mail scammer. The best bit with the latter is that everyone else can see it and is enjoying themselves laughing at him but our resident Golem posts on, digging his hole deeper and deeper. Some of his classics include theories... - that phantoms got faster because sandwich construction made the hulls wider and bigger (er, no the measurements are taken from the outside, not the inside of the hull),  - that Lasers are faster on salt-water (or is it fresh) because the salinity makes them float differently (like everything else then, but to an extent that is totally irrelevant in the context of all the other variables) and  - that Portsmouth Yardsticks are a conspiracy against him personally, managed by people locked in smoke-filled rooms, not a statistical number crunching data with faults, but objective faults at least. His resolution of course, ignoring all provided references to the disastrous history of such schemes, is for his own set of rating rules, determined by, um, someone sitting in a smoke-filled room. This demonstrates not only a blindness to the irony of it but also a complete lack of understanding of the complexities of what makes a boat go, or not, in a particular circumstance and of the law of unintended consequences. This post is of course likely to result in me getting an ad-hominim flaming in return, but, uniquely, I did sort of start it this time. So hang in here and just laugh at the crassness. It can be both fun and thought-provoking on here. Final thought, be warned that, in tribute to Godwin's Law, virtually every discussion on here does end up hijacked to the subject of Portsmouth Numbers

Indeed - not even a hint of homophobia yet....

Originally posted by iGRF @Fab100 - You'd be better off spending time finding out what happens when you google Frensham Frenzy and why y'all are blacklisted and as for our new Northern Woodbotherer if you think that's bad chum, then stick around, I'm capable of much worse.

Originally posted by tink If you get your kicks out of making yourself look like a complete idiot in front of complete strangers carry on. I don't think you juvenile rubbish is bad just sad. Even sadder that you have spent time looking me up and finding out I like 'bothering wood'.

I get my 'kicks' as you call it out of promoting a response, any kind of response from people I regard as shy, retiring, quiet, meek, unprepossessing, dinghy sailors essentially, they never say much, pad about with beer mats sewn to their butts, have very little to say for themselves, get on with their lives, live, die even, with little remark.
Now trying to get a peep out of them is like wringing blood out of a stone, so it's tough, but I somehow manage.

Now you've blundered in, did you do any research first before insulting me? I doubt it, not that I mind, but I did at least take the trouble to find out what makes you tick before responding, quite why you're upset i don't know, insulting Birmingham and Liverpool? I'd do that to your face, there might be a twinkle in my eye and a wry grin, because it's meant in jest, but you wouldn't get that, it's the wood dust, woodbotherers tend not to 'get' a 'dry' sense of humour, something about all that saw dust clouding their vision.

Then again, could be you're trying a bit of trolling for yourself and my my I'm such an easy target, but welcome to the forum anyway you'll find lots of allies here, they love to have a pop, but only once they have someone else's skirts to hide in.

And you've responded at least, so I'm happy for that, this place needs more, if there were enough, I could shut up and just read away or stay on Facebook where most of the humorous types have gone.

Edited by iGRF - 24 Feb 17 at 9:53pm

Just don't mention Hillsborough ... crap venue, even for the dinghy show

Edited by turnturtle - 24 Feb 17 at 11:37pm