Bit of a spat!

Loser!

bad form sir: you oughta run your own scrap without trying to threaten that the shipping minister will come and get him,esp when the threat is delivered and almost 2am.

In any event: know your quarry! Even the briefest research would have shown that you surely picked the wrong guy in Observer? Realistically, he can only be challenged on the basis of his dodgy sunglasses and other minor issues. I suppose you could have started off on sunglasses which might have put the skids on the rest of his arguments, but i don't think that's an option now...

Heyho :-)
 
On reflection, I acknowledge that your thread on S/B may not have been intended to be as provocative as it appeared to me when I posted my first response. Nevertheless, as I demonstrated with the later analysis, your headline is entirely unsupported by the facts in the report you linked to. Your connected anecdote about the affair in Padstow would have won my sympathy, if it had not been for the earlier sweeping and unjustifiable attack on "big power boats".

I could have invited you to reconsider and retract your headline statement instead of going straight for the jugular. I was irate and I dealt with you harshly, for which I apologise.
 
Re: Bit of a spat! Mea culpa.

An outbreak of reasonableness. I s'pose the grim weather, or toothache, or recurrent indigestion is to blame for my indulging a fit of 'grumps' - or maybe it's just a lack of couth! Whatever.

The 'stream of semi-consciousness' that led to the original post actually did not register the medium/small powerboat shown in the PBO site e-article ( "Government report reveals 'astonishing' number of boating accidents" ), which was a 'News' item when I logged in that evening. I was quite unaware of the 'Sea Snake' inclusion on the page until after all the stramash started, and I looked back.

I was also thinking about the Padstow episode, and the real source of irritation was NOT the boat that these folk were on, but that they deliberately wound up their hifi volume to the max, when the Padstow folk with their dancers and accordion band, processed slowly along the quay past them. That was an act of aggression, IMHO, seeking to provoke trouble. And, later, it did - taking a 'paddy wagon' and two patrol cars full of rozzers to put a lid on it.

As for the ladies' line dancing, that was funny/entertaining ....for the first hour or so. Now, if they'd been slim and lissom, instead of built like this.....

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One might have been more welcoming to the likes of these......

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Some boaters have all the fun!!

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