Are single handers wearing the wrong kit

[prv]

- and it is currently quite legal for you to drown using one anywhere without a LJ.

How can you be without one if you are using one?

Because you've randomly decided to cut out the part of his post where the "one" in question refers to a stand-up paddleboard.

What is it with people's reading comprehension on this thread?

Pete

 

[Greenheart]

Go on, Pete - Thinwater did say "flirtation" when he meant flotation.

I'll be on my way.

 

[Daydream believer]

Because you've randomly decided to cut out the part of his post where the "one" in question refers to a stand-up paddleboard.

What is it with people's reading comprehension on this thread?

Pete

Apologies. If it had been explained that SUP meant stand up paddle board ( an item of which i have little knowledge not really being within the scope of yachting) then one might have had a clue what you were talking about.

What is it about people being too lazy to type & constantly use confusing initials without first indicating what they are supposed to mean ???

 

[Greenheart]

Apologies. If you had explained that SUP meant stand up paddle board ( an item of which i have little knowledge not really being within the scope of yachting) then one might have had a clue what you were talking about. What is it about people being too lazy to type and constantly using unexplained abbreviations?

Must admit, I'd never heard of SUP either.

 

[prv]

If you had explained that SUP meant stand up paddle board ( an item of which i have little knowledge not really being within the scope of yachting) then one might have had a clue what you were talking about.

But I wasn't talking about stand-up paddleboards - Jonathan was

Pete

 

[Daydream believer]

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[prv]

Must admit, I'd never heard of SUP either.

Maybe not - but you don't actually need to know what the thing is in order to make sense of the sentence:

"Legislation has not yet caught up with borogroves - and it is currently quite legal for you to drown using one."

Anyway, nowt wrong with misreading things from time to time, but if you try to take the piss based on your misreading (post #38) then you can expect to have it taken right back

Pete

 

[Daydream believer]

But I wasn't talking about stand-up paddleboards - Jonathan was

Pete

Of course I had not noticed the change of forumite-- I have edited my post which should be clearer
Thanks for pointing that out

 

[Daydream believer]

Anyway, nowt wrong with misreading things from time to time, but if you try to take the piss based on your misreading (post #38) then you can expect to have it taken right back

Pete

If you are referring to my post I am not sure that i was trying to "take the piss". I just had not understood the text. Possible put off by the use of initials which I admit that I do find confusing & sometimes quite annoying.
There are some initials that are quite clear such as LJ, SH SWIMBO etc However, I still have no idea who on earth "OLEWILL" is supposed to be along with quite a few others !!!. IIRC for instance
The general subject was about legislation, life jackets etc so when "SUP" was introduced I did not realise it was possibly a "sarcastic" subject drift
No paragraph to indicate that either !!!!

 

[Greenheart]

I...I...I quit. G'night. :moon:

 

[thinwater]

I either ask or Google unknown acronyms. SUP is common usage here, as is PWC (personal watercraft) and PFD (personal flotation device). Apparently AWB is common in Oz, so I asked (average white boat).

Google is great.

 

[Neeves]

Apologies to all.

SUP is common usage in Oz (as mentioned Stand Up Paddle board - developed from surfboard/windsurfer and all the rage here) and people use them, that's SUPs, without LJs (that's lifejackets or PFDs (Personal Floatation Devices)) to paddle out to the heads where Sydney Harbour meets the Tasman Sea (and a location where few in a dinghy tender would certainly ever consider venturing, in their tender.

I was trying to illustrate different decisions made for use of LJs by both bureaucracy and individuals and it was prompted by an earlier thread in which Oz was considered a nanny state for legislating use of LJs when alone in a tender (dinghy) and by the accurate comment that deaths from falling from dinghies was also common in other countries - especially for older gentlemen. Which might suggest that older gentlemen, in this situation, need bureaucracy to keep them alive? And if it saves lives - Nanny States seem to have it right.

Sorry for the thread drift. Also sorry for not clarifying - but I'd gone to bed - and had no appreciation that common usage in Oz and US might not apply to the UK, or some people in the UK.

Knuckles rapped!

Jonathan