Apostasy

[Danny Jo]

Any others we need to be careful with?

Anyone who has died at sea

Any discussion of what they might have done differently to improve their chances of staying alive is taboo.

 

[Peegee]

anyone who has excelled in one field and then is held to be to be an expert in anything else they suddenly adopt.....usually comes with new-found celebrity status.

 

[David_Jersey]

She used to push me on my swing in Malaya when I was 5!

Is that a euphemism for something?

 

[David_Jersey]

Anyone who has died at sea

Any discussion of what they might have done differently to improve their chances of staying alive is taboo.

To be fair, some of those threads do start whilst the subject is still warm. If not still struggling to stay afloat

 

[bilbobaggins]

"I am talking about the fashion for attacking anyone who questions the accepted beliefs of the tribe. I could have said heresy"...

...or contrarianism

There's a fair bit of that around here!

 

[cliffordpope]

Not at all. I am talking about the fashion for attacking anyone who questions the accepted beliefs of the tribe. I could have said heresy but I was feeling like being a little different today.

Fine. But that's not apostasy.

 

[Danny Jo]

To be fair, some of those threads do start whilst the subject is still warm. If not still struggling to stay afloat
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Posted by downthecreek:
You are a prolific producer of offensive and gratuitous drivel

Your signature line caught me off my guard. "Hey!" I thought, "I've arrived - years of toil on Scuttlebutt have at last earned me a five-star put-down." But before I had sent off for a "Producer of offensive and gratuitous drivel" T-shirt I realised that "you" didn't mean me, but, er, you, no I mean . . . Oh, heck! I give up.

But to get back to your point - yes, it is fair. My earlier post was like this one, gratuitous drivel.

 

[Roberto]

Any others we need to be careful with?

Gisele Bundchen plastic surgeon.



That man *is* God.

 

[robp]

She used to push me on my swing in Malaya when I was 5!

Please tell me she looked like this!

Edit: Oh Bugger

 

[Danny Jo]

Please tell me she looked like this!

Edit: Oh Bugger

 

[David_Jersey]

"Hey!" I thought, "I've arrived - years of toil on Scuttlebutt have at last earned me a five-star put-down."

For some it takes years of toil to receive a comment like that.

But for some of us it's a gift

 

[Boreades]

That hasn't constrained them increasing their fees. I wonder if that's in response to the free-fall in numbers doing Shorebased courses...

Anecdotal/circumstancial evidence: Carol and Bob at Performance Yachting used to have a nice RYA-cert training school in Plymouth, with their own boats. Last year they decided to sell their boats, apparently because the bottom is dropping out of the UK-training market. Bob told me that people are using cheap flights to got and get their training in warmer-weather places like Greece and Turkey.

 

[snowleopard]

Fine. But that's not apostasy.

I was thinking of the context of Iran, the place where people are put to death for apostasy. In that case, everyone is assumed to be brought up as a Muslim and anyone who turns against that is in danger of hanging. I was drawing a parallel between that and the persecution of Ellen-sceptics on here.

I really can't be bothered with dictionary pedantry. That wasn't what the thread was about.

 

[bilbobaggins]

and the persecution of Ellen-sceptics on here.

Not just Ellen-sceptics!

There's a fair few wot are a bit sceptical about W-W-W-Webbie....

 

[Ubergeekian]

Any others we need to be careful with?

Rocna anchors?

 

[Ubergeekian]

Bob told me that people are using cheap flights to got and get their training in warmer-weather places like Greece and Turkey.

Somewhere I have my RYA Elementary Dayboat Certificate with tidal endorsement. Perhaps they should introduce a "bloody freezing water" endorsement as well.

 

[robp]

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Thankyou Freestyle. I'll try and work that out when I get time!

 

[Danny Jo]

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Thankyou Freestyle. I'll try and work that out when I get time!

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[robp]

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Thanks v much! I must have been lucky the one other time I managed it.. Might have been the old forum though.