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zeon
Far too distracted from work Joined: 20 Aug 16 Online Status: Offline Posts: 316 |
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Topic: Dinghy Show 2017 Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 2:44pm |
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Not a problem, think Warwick and Leamington voted remain. |
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turnturtle
Really should get out more Joined: 05 Dec 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2538 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 2:56pm | |
Yep- but no one cares wot those knobs think 😂😘
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Time Lord
Far too distracted from work Joined: 03 Dec 13 Location: Warwickshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 301 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 2:58pm | |
From memory, the areas outside of Warwick and Leam voted OUT. |
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getafix
Really should get out more Joined: 28 Mar 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 2143 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 3:01pm | |
hey I just said "outside of the M25", I got nothing against Brum and even Manchester would be easier to reach from the south coast than Ally pally, the A406 and M25 are hateful and only "bested" by the atrocious weekend London public transport, engineering works and bus-replacement nightmares include.
Who cares which way they voted in that referendum that's slowly being ignored anyhow !! |
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turnturtle
Really should get out more Joined: 05 Dec 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2538 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 3:20pm | |
Country folk did... massively. |
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tink
Really should get out more Joined: 23 Jan 16 Location: North Hants Online Status: Offline Posts: 788 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 3:24pm | |
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. |
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Tink
https://tinkboats.com http://proasail.blogspot.com |
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turnturtle
Really should get out more Joined: 05 Dec 14 Online Status: Offline Posts: 2538 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 3:41pm | |
I know, what an arse.... he even convinced some of our Laser fleet that bacon and beer was a sin. I think they've been radialised. |
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pompeysailor
Posting king Joined: 16 Jul 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 101 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 3:42pm | |
phew!! thought tink was talking about me at first!! - I'm opting out of this thread now, before saying anything else ;)
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Formerly - OK 2145 Phantom 1437, Blaze 819, Fireball 14668, Mirror 54145
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Sam.Spoons
Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 12 Location: Manchester UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 3398 |
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fab100
Really should get out more Joined: 15 Mar 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1005 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 17 at 4:46pm | |
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 not 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 Edited by fab100 - 24 Feb 17 at 5:08pm |
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