A yacht as a garden ornament

Farken 'ell. That didn't make any sense at all. And I read it twice.
 
I feared you had spent an afternoon with my best (no, oldest, actually) mate Steve, and had an induced fruit loop from his conversational and intellectual proximity. He speaks like that from noon each day, so I thought I understood it perfectly.
A second read made me realise that it not so. I feel you need more work on the mid section paragraphs.
 
Nick/ST/Lecher, you're changing your name and your avatar more often than some peeps around here change their undies. BTW saw a new take on your old name, a mechanic whose moniker was Shy Torque.....
 
I am not short on words, so please bear with the length of this post. Here's my side of the story: The point and the appointee has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. I could accuse the point and the appointee of using otiose mendicants to get its way, but I wouldn't stoop to that level. This brings us to the dark underside of the point and the appointee's epithets, the side that's known to promote a culture of dependency and failure. Cameralism is a crime, an outrage, and a delusion. There are different ways of reconciling oneself to this unpleasant, yet honestly longiloquent, fact. Some people see nothing at all, or rather, want to see nothing. Others are perfectly well aware of the indecent consequences which this plague must and will some day induce, but only shrug their shoulders, convinced that nothing can be done, so the only thing to do is to leave things alone. How can we trust a closed-minded, muddleheaded fence-sitter who actively conceals its true intentions? We can't. And besides, it will not be easy to put an end to the point and the appointee's evildoing. Nevertheless, we must attempt to do exactly that, for the overriding reason that it never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. The point and the appointee presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, it seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that while we do nothing, those who exhibit a deep disdain for all people who are not inarticulate, virulent antagonists are gloating and smirking. And they will keep on gloating and smirking until we build an inclusive, nondiscriminatory movement for social and political change.

The point and the appointee has no right to be here. But let's not lose sight of the larger, more important issue here: the point and the appointee's slatternly causeries. Of course, I leave open the question of the extent to which this discussion could be applied to predatory pickpockets. I say "of course" because the point and the appointee is capable of only two things, namely whining and underhanded tricks. In a manner of speaking, throughout history, there has been a clash between those who wish to punish the point and the appointee for its materialistic cop-outs and those who wish to inflict untold misery, suffering, and distress. Naturally, the point and the appointee belongs to the latter category. It is probably unwise to say this loudly, but all of the point and the appointee's invectives are based on the premise that its debauches are the result of a high-minded urge to do sociological research. That's something you won't find in your local newspaper because it's the news that just doesn't fit.

Almost everyone will agree that I regard the point and the appointee the way I would the sort of stinking filth I might have to clean off my boots after a careless walk in a dog kennel, but I find that some of the point and the appointee's choices of words in its dissertations would not have been mine. For example, I would have substituted "directionless" for "overintellectualization" and "callow" for "pharmacodynamic." The point and the appointee has been offering the worst classes of parasitic, inaniloquent doofuses there are a lot of money to cultivate an unhealthy sense of victimhood. This is blood money, plain and simple. Anyone thinking of accepting it should realize that some reputed -- as opposed to reputable -- members of the point and the appointee's den of thieves quite adamantly insist that violence and prejudice are funny. I find it rather astonishing that anyone could think such a thing, but then again, it is a cardinal principle that it can be distinguished only with difficulty which of the point and the appointee's worshippers act out of inner stupidity or incompetence and which only pretend to for whatever fastidious, addlepated reason. I challenge it to move from its broad derogatory generalizations to specific instances to prove otherwise. The moral of the story: My personal safety depends upon your starting to criticize the obvious incongruities presented by the point and the appointee and its underlings, just as your personal safety depends upon my doing the same.
 
It is just like the crap essays I had to write as punishement for some misdemeanour at school.

Entertaining titles like:

"The sex life of a London Bus"
"The secret life in the inside of a ping-pong ball"
"1001 uses for belly button fluff"

All a minimum of 8 sides of A4.

They were never read, but the handwriting had to be perfect, or you'd have to write another one.
 
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Yes, I realize that I have absolutely nothing in common with AJT, but for the sake of brevity I've had to express myself in simplified terms.

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Why be so consice? Let us have the unexpurgated version that we may fully enjoy the subtle nuances of this captivating essay...

Nah On reflection, your talking shite.... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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I must admit that I've read only a small fraction of AJT's writings. (As a well-known aphorism states, it is not necessary to eat all of an apple to learn that it is rotten.) Nevertheless, I've read enough of AJT's writings to know that I truly dislike AJT.

[/ QUOTE ] No-one expects every post to be intelligible, informative, interesting or funny. But someone please tell me that this isn't ordinary bullying, behaviour that is exacerbated, sadly, by the inaction of bystanders.
 
Apologies to all offended by my puerile attempt to amuse by using an automatic rant generator. It won't happen again.
 
The problem with Jimi . . .

As much as I enjoy writing letter after letter about Jimi, the fact remains that Jimi has no concern for the common good. To address this in a pedantic manner, in the rest of this letter, factual information will be prefaced as such and my own opinions will be clearly stated as opinions. For instance, it is a fact that Jimi drops the names of famous people whenever possible. That makes him sound smarter than he really is and obscures the fact that Jimi is guilty of at least one criminal offense. In addition, he frequently exhibits less formal criminal behavior, such as deliberate and even gleeful cruelty, explosive behavior, and a burning desire to slow scientific progress. For the purpose of this discussion, let's say that if you'll allow me a minor dysphemism, some deep void within Jimi makes it necessary for him to replace the search for truth with a situationist relativism based on rude authoritarianism. Or, to phrase that a little more politely, the next time Jimi decides to hoodoo us, he should think to himself, cui bono? -- who benefits? It is therefore reasonable to infer that someone has been giving his brain a very thorough washing, and now Jimi is trying to do the same to us. He once heard a disagreeable, obstreperous know-nothing say, "Jimi's opinions represent the opinions of the majority -- or even a plurality." What's amazing is that Jimi was then able to use that quotation plus some anecdotal evidence to convince his apparatchiks that immoralism is a viable and vital objective for our nation's educational institutions, which obviously makes me wonder, "What will be the outcome of his quest for world hegemony?" To turn that question around, is there anything that he can't make his followers believe? We must certainly ask ourselves questions like that before it's too late, before Jimi gets the opportunity to fill the air with recrimination and rancor.

It is certainly the height of ironies that Jimi's arguments don't even prove his point. Well, that's a bit too general of a statement to have much meaning, I'm afraid. So let me instead explain my point as follows: Jimi craves more power. I say we should give him more power -- preferably, 10,000 volts of it. Due to the power relationship between the dominator and the dominated, whenever there's an argument about his devotion to principles and to freedom, all one has to do is point out that the confusion that he creates is desirable and convenient to our national enemies. That should settle the argument pretty quickly. Jimi will probably throw another hissy fit if we don't let him obstruct various things. At least putting up with another Jimi hissy fit is easier than convincing Jimi's functionaries that if Jimi can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that children don't need as much psychological attentiveness, protection, and obedience training as the treasured household pet, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Misinformed Rhetoric. In the meantime, somebody has to solve the problems of solipsism, narcissism, economic inequality, and lack of equal opportunity. That somebody can be you. In any case, we must hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. To do anything else, and I do mean anything else, is a complete waste of time. Yet there's more to it than that. Jimi doesn't care about freedom, as he can neither eat it nor put it in the bank. It's just a word to him.

Jimi's invectives have kept us separated for too long from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in this wonderful adventure we share together -- life! I myself have a hard time trying to reason with people who remain calm when they see Jimi limit the terms of debate by declaring certain subjects beyond discussion. Is there a way to counter his distasteful sophistries? Oh yes, there is a way. It's really quite simple and can be done by any individual. It doesn't cost a thing, monetarily. It requires only time, diligence, and a desire to make technical preparations for the achievement of freedom and human independence.

On the issue of imperialism, Jimi is wrong again. Sure, society has paid a dear price for letting him brandish the word "photodisintegration" (as it is commonly spelled) to hoodwink people into believing that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune. But Jimi wants you to believe that people are pawns to be used and manipulated. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Jimi's refractory revenge fantasies. Ironically, he ignores a breathtaking number of facts, most notably:

Fact: My motivations for writing this letter are not of insult or hatred, but of the deepest love for mankind and the truest concern for its future generations.

Fact: The need his expositors have for his bestial hastily mounted campaigns is especially strong as a means of transferring blame -- an outlet for the despair they face when normal channels of protest and change are closed.

Fact: He is greatly increasing the size of his vitriolic, sententious band by needling and wheedling the most sanctimonious polemics you'll ever see into it.

In addition, the hysteria and witch-hunts fueled by his cop-outs will lead an active disinformation campaign in the blink of an eye. It follows from this that if Jimi is going to talk about higher standards, then he needs to live by those higher standards.

I mean, when I'm through with Jimi, he'll think twice before attempting to coordinate a revolution. His confreres claim to have no choice but to propound ideas that are widely perceived as representing outright mercantalism. I wish there were some way to help these miserable, raucous, ungrateful scoundrels. They are outcasts, lost in a world they didn't make and don't understand. Jimi has a strategy. His strategy is to adopt approaches that have not been tested to try to solve problems that have not been well-defined. Wherever you encounter that strategy, you are dealing with Jimi. Anyway, that's it for this letter. Let Jimi read it and weep.
 
How about a flower arrangement on the front lawn spelling out a fancy word like hemegony or pomelics?

To answer the question, though, GRP, definitely. I mean, if we don't use old GRP boats as garden ornaments, what happens to them? They end up as broken boats, or large chunks of broken boats littering the Menai Strait shore and obstructing the work of good, honest beachcombers.

Whenever I see a fine old clinker skiff filled with earth and planted with annuals, my heart sinks. For it represents a lost future opportunity for some enthusiast to restore it, or use it as a model for a replica. What, for goodness sake, would Joshua Slocum have done, if someone had used the boat on which he modelled Spray as a garden ornament?
 
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