Achievement ?

[Cornishman]

I've just been listening to Talk Sport Radio and some man was saying that he admired a bloke who has made 14 million fishcakes at a factory in 23 years more than he does Ellen McA because she was in a sponsored multi million pounds boat with a large back up team. He finished up by saying he didn't see this sort of sailing as a sport, anyway.
Any comments?

 

[ParaHandy]

ah well ... the fish didn't catch, gut and cook themselves did they?

 

[ShipsWoofy]

Stop listening to talk sport!

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[tome]

Well, that's about 2,000 fishcakes per working day. But he had a support team of fish-choppers, batter stirrers and packers to assist him plus his sales and marketing force not to mention the fishermen who provided the catch.

I think it could be done in less than 23 years so there's room for a challenge.

 

[AlexL]

Nope. Ellen got herself in a position to acheive what she acheived, whereas someone who makes 14 million fishcakes in 23 years does so because they are incapable of doing anything else, or rising above the crowd.

 

[jimi]

Aye but the real challenge, Capt Birdseye, is to see how fast you can eat them without getting fishy fingers ...

 

[AlexL]

I see everyone is still Carping on about this.....

 

[ParaHandy]

there are many who, like the fish-cake geezer, go about their business without any desire for public acclaim, fame or money and that doesn't make them any less a person for that ...

 

[Samphire]

Absolutely right,you hit the nail on the head there, Ellen is one in many million.

 

[Evadne]

Just who is this guy who makes the fishcakes, and what do they taste like? What is that doing to the ever declining stocks of North Sea Cod and why doesn't he get one of those fishcake-making machines to save himself the bother anyway?

 

[Sans Bateau]

Hang on! How many millions do they pour into Man U and the other over exposed football clubs that dominate the television I pay a licence to watch?

Talk Sport? They sound like the sort of outfit who would favour something like snooker over sailing.

We ARE the greatest sailing nation in the world (keep telling yourself) and we DO HAVE the greatest sailors in the world (Ellen, Emma, Shirley, Ben etc)

 

[tome]

We also have the greatest fishcake makers - rock on Britain!

 

[jimi]

Erm .. I think your wrong cos the french are the best sailors on the world cos they've got more miles of coast line than us .. Ellen is a redoubtable wee lass .. one in 55 million .. on the other hand there's few more french successes on proper boats, teensy weensy wee dingies do'nt count ..

 

[Salty]

Aren't the Kiwis the best sailors in the world; highest number of boats per head of population, all manner of star sailors, etc etc. Oooh, I feel a lengthy debate coming on...

 

[aitchw]

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teensy weensy wee dingies do'nt count ..

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See you, Jimi, waddaya mean they don't count yer blasphemous silly hat wearer?

 

[cameronke]

Didn't I hear somewhere that Argyll (Gods own country) has a longer coastline than France?

I may be wrong

Regards
Cameron

 

[StugeronSteve]

Re: French are definitely the best coz....

.... they're raving mad, the lot of them. They go out sailing in any sort of weather and seeing as you've got to be mad to own a boat and go sailing, the French, being completely bonkers, must, therefore, be the best sailors.

As an achievement I still rate Ellen's round Britain trip, in Iduna, up there. Given her age, limited experience, boat, and the negligible back up support that she had at the time, it was possibly a greater feat than her latest exploit.

The French have nationalized Ellen anyway, they seem to have taken her, well and truly, to their gallic bosom. Must be where she aquired the art of writing whinging emails, couldn't possibly have developed that skill here.

 

[AlexL]

quite right - but it doesn't make them "exeptional", or an "acheiver" either - which was the implication made in the origonal comment.

 

[Sans Bateau]

The French USED to be the best sailors, Ellen is our 21st Century version of Nelson, better looks more hands and eyes as well!

 

[mirabriani]

That sort of remark reminds me of the story
(don't you dare sigh)
about the bricklayer who became a millionaire laying bricks
It turns out he had several "helpers" who delivered, stacked,
"mucked up" and did all the easy bits.
As he was being paid per thousand bricks, he was able to earn enormous amounts.
I would hazard a guess that this was before the "lump"
was stopped.

Anyway having said all that If B & Q approached me and said
"O K here it is, off you go" I would probably muck it up in the first few yards and certainly by nightfall (I do like my sleep)
On the other hand, I'm sure I could learn to operate the fishcake machine for a few hours a day for 30 years....Get a life!

Regards Briani