Attempt by our Committee to change the Club rules without notifying the members

[Seajet]

Daydream Believer,

I have followed the thread and I recall several times when other people posted things making the club easier to identify, NickC asked them to rein it in and delete or modify posts.

Floyd Raser,

still petulant to the point of offensive I see.

The more rubbish like that you come out with, the better NickC looks every time.

 

[dom]

Perhaps if the mods moved it to the lounge, where it would be more appropriate - I don't really see that it fits into the category of "Share practical, hands-on information" - the OP might lose interest a bit if it was away from the public gaze in the registered users area...

Disagree. This thread opened with three isolated protagonists, NickC, Mr B and Floyd Raser, who together faced a series of bizarre and surrealistic predicaments, all of which flowed from Mr C's entanglement with the incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers exercised by a small-town sailing club committee.

The thread has gradually evolved from some huge outboard on a tiny sailing yacht, to fuse such absurdity with realism and thereby provide a platform to explore themes such as social alienation, cliquee yottees, existential anxiety and our collective guilt.

Our very own answer to Franz Kafka! Well done NickC :encouragement:

 

[RichardS]

You've swallowed his story hook line and sinker without hearing from the other side.

The "other side" are so completely absent that their silence speak volumes to everyone following the saga.

Someone from the "other side" needs to grow a pair and get their arse on here! :encouragement:

Richard

 

[Floyd Raser]

The "other side" are so completely absent that their silence speak volumes to everyone following the saga.

Someone from the "other side" needs to grow a pair and get their arse on here! :encouragement:

Richard

+1

 

[Floyd Raser]

Disagree. This thread opened with three isolated protagonists, NickC, Mr B and Floyd Raser, who together faced a series of bizarre and surrealistic predicaments, all of which flowed from Mr C's entanglement with the incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers exercised by a small-town sailing club committee.

The thread has gradually evolved from some huge outboard on a tiny sailing yacht, to fuse such absurdity with realism and thereby provide a platform to explore themes such as social alienation, cliquee yottees, existential anxiety and our collective guilt.

Our very own answer to Franz Kafka! Well done NickC :encouragement:

Dom,
I congratulate you on you excellent vocabulary; I am seriously jealous.
I have been called many things on this thread and "isolated protagonist" is one of the better ones, but I'll take it thanks. However I should correct you in that I was never posting at the beginning. I was reading and thinking "here's another thread about club politics; same old same old". I joined in somewhere to try and help Nick see that he was going around things the wrong way, if he was genuinely telling the truth.

 

[Otter]

The "other side" are so completely absent that their silence speak volumes to everyone following the saga.

Someone from the "other side" needs to grow a pair and get their arse on here! :encouragement:

Richard

Or perhaps their silence speaks even louder than words - they got on with life and sailing!

 

[l'escargot]

Disagree. This thread opened with three isolated protagonists, NickC, Mr B and Floyd Raser, who together faced a series of bizarre and surrealistic predicaments, all of which flowed from Mr C's entanglement with the incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers exercised by a small-town sailing club committee.

The thread has gradually evolved from some huge outboard on a tiny sailing yacht, to fuse such absurdity with realism and thereby provide a platform to explore themes such as social alienation, cliquee yottees, existential anxiety and our collective guilt.

Our very own answer to Franz Kafka! Well done NickC :encouragement:

Dom,
I congratulate you on you excellent vocabulary; I am seriously jealous.
I have been called many things on this thread and "isolated protagonist" is one of the better ones, but I'll take it thanks. However I should correct you in that I was never posting at the beginning. I was reading and thinking "here's another thread about club politics; same old same old". I joined in somewhere to try and help Nick see that he was going around things the wrong way, if he was genuinely telling the truth.

Indeed, you seem to appear at post #196 and the thread had been running some two months before you even joined the forum - I still don't think it is a PBO subject though...

 

[Floyd Raser]

Daydream Believer,

I have followed the thread and I recall several times when other people posted things making the club easier to identify, NickC asked them to rein it in and delete or modify posts.

Floyd Raser,

still petulant to the point of offensive I see.

The more rubbish like that you come out with, the better NickC looks every time.

And I recall Nick posting the name of the club ("accidentally on purpose"?) on an attachment. And as I pointed out before, he has teased others into it.

 

[Floyd Raser]

Perhaps if the mods moved it to the lounge, where it would be more appropriate - I don't really see that it fits into the category of "Share practical, hands-on information" - the OP might lose interest a bit if it was away from the public gaze in the registered users area...

+1 but it'll never happen. Look at Nick's post #720 on page 72. It has no value in the debate, it's cynical and arrogant. Rather like most of my own contributions (thought I'd get in first!). But it's only purpose is clearly to revive the thread after a 19 day holiday. If Nick were more like Seajet: high and mighty, up himself, not lowering himself by indulging in petty confrontation with those trying to help, and not insulting the very people from whom he says he wants an apology, he may get on better.

 

[steveeasy]

Happy Days,
NickC posts seldom on here now, with just enough to keep the thread live. You actually have to dig very deep to identify the club. He believes his allegations are genuine and I believe he has responded very clearly to forum members.

It could be argued, that NickC is the only person who actually has moved on, whilst the rest of us are still watching and commenting on topics that were covered a long time ago. I recon while we are following this thread, NickC probably has moved on and is actively pursuing his own interests, How ironic is that.

Steveeasy

 

[Seajet]

Well I have followed the thread, never delved too deeply, and I don't know which club it is !

No doubt if I did some researching ( Not now, Kato ! ) I could find it by description and location, or if really keen I could trundle around looking for an unused looking yacht with a silly big engine, but I'm happy to take it as an abstract argument.

A chap seems to have been treated very badly and is drawing attention to it.

Many posts later the club have not put up any sort of response let alone explanation of their side.

Common sense dictates onlookers decide there was something true about the OP's description of things.

All these posts later, that's how I see it at this moment.

 

[l'escargot]

And I recall Nick posting the name of the club ("accidentally on purpose"?) on an attachment. And as I pointed out before, he has teased others into it.

I found out the name of the club quite easily out of interest from "clues" on here, it's nowhere near me and not the sort of club I would be interested in if it was - small clubs often seem to be full of small, self important people in my experience and prone to cliques and politics. Much prefer the larger anonymous business like clubs myself but each to their own I suppose...

 

[Otter]

Well I have followed the thread, never delved too deeply, and I don't know which club it is !

No doubt if I did some researching ( Not now, Kato ! ) I could find it by description and location, or if really keen I could trundle around looking for an unused looking yacht with a silly big engine, but I'm happy to take it as an abstract argument.

A chap seems to have been treated very badly and is drawing attention to it.

Many posts later the club have not put up any sort of response let alone explanation of their side.

Common sense dictates onlookers decide there was something true about the OP's description of things.

All these posts later, that's how I see it at this moment.

We have an exaggerated view of our importance on these forums. We're a collection of Internet chat rooms and that's not the same as real life. I suspect they are happily going about their business completely unaware of your expectation that they leap into action, register a user on the forum and mount a vigorous defence of their policies and procedures.

 

[l'escargot]

We have an exaggerated view of our importance on these forums. We're a collection of Internet chat rooms and that's not the same as real life. I suspect they are happily going about their business completely unaware of your expectation that they leap into action, register a user on the forum and mount a vigorous defence of their policies and procedures.

And even if they are aware, not interested in the slightest of the opinions of anyone on here...

 

[[159032]]

Quite. It's an internal matter which the OP has brought out into the internetworkweb world.

The club should have no interest in justifying itself to the rest of us.
If they are sure they have acted within their rules and the OP is sure they have not the remedy lies in arbitration or the law.

 

[Floyd Raser]

Quite. It's an internal matter which the OP has brought out into the internetworkweb world.

The club should have no interest in justifying itself to the rest of us.
If they are sure they have acted within their rules and the OP is sure they have not the remedy lies in arbitration or the law.

Quite right.
But on their website they talk about dwindling numbers. If they are squeaky clean then here is opportunity for them to show a large number of yachties that they are decent club worthy of joining.

 

[VicS]

Quite right.
But on their website they talk about dwindling numbers. If they are squeaky clean then here is opportunity for them to show a large number of yachties that they are decent club worthy of joining.

Got a link to the website ?

 

[Floyd Raser]

Got a link to the website ?

PM sent

 

[Otter]

send one to me as well please

 

[Floyd Raser]

send one to me as well please

Done