Discussion On Elizmor Thread

[Lakesailor]

Can't wait for the book - and the film of the book.

Miranda Hart as JE. George Clooney as Lakesailor and Danny de Vito as Blueboatman

Sounds good....erm except....there is a scurrilous rumour about George Clooney. I can't allow anything to sully my Brand.

 

[Elessar]

Can see little point in continuing until she returns with an update. As you said no one is going to wade through
all those pages & pages of posts. Knock it on the head.

I wouldn't reply though with all the nastiness, would you?
Great, informative and uplifting story in my mind. That I was interested to read.
Killed by the moaning minnies that inhabit the forum.

 

[ripvan1]

Seems to me that those who want to lock the thread, or are bored with it, have also been those that have been perpetuating it.

And as Bluey asked - where is Nathan ?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Better still (or is that a device for making booze), mods take the thread down, leaving JE's blog (blag?) with a 404 link.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I wouldn't reply though with all the nastiness, would you?
Great, informative and uplifting story in my mind. That I was interested to read.
Killed by the moaning minnies that inhabit the forum.

I don't think a thread which is at 1300+ posts, increasing by 100 or so per day, can accurately be described as "killed". It might not be going quite the way the OP wanted, but tough, really.

 

[Monique]

I abandoned reading the original thread somewhere around post number 800. It seemed to be going nowhere.

Haven't people better things to do?

+10000000000.....

She is a young woman with "drive and attitude". I thought those same values to my own daughters as they grew up.

 

[zzyyxx]

Ok, it's getting a bit stalky over there now...

 

[Rigger Mortice]

She is a young woman with "drive and attitude".

From where I sit she appears more like somebody who certainly has attitude but not very much drive as she appears to have fallen at the first hurdle.
But you may be right. Time will tell.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Ok, it's getting a bit stalky over there now...

If someone starts a thread, gets to a cliffhanger and then b*gg*rs off, it's hardly surprising if other participants start doing a little investigation.

 

[JumbleDuck]

From where I sit she appears more like somebody who certainly has attitude but not very much drive as she appears to have fallen at the first hurdle.
But you may be right. Time will tell.

Is "attitude" a good thing to have?

 

[Rigger Mortice]

Is "attitude" a good thing to have?

Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no.
In this case, probably no.

 

[William_H]

I find the whole story quite sad. Not just the difficulties with getting it back in the water but the comments on this forum then silence on her blog. Sure the whole project was optimistic but one should not be punished for optimism. I wish her the best of luck olewill

 

[Lakesailor]

Better still (or is that a device for making booze), mods take the thread down, leaving JE's blog (blag?) with a 404 link.

Quite a good idea, but can you imagine the outcry against the mods?

 

[JumbleDuck]

I find the whole story quite sad. Not just the difficulties with getting it back in the water but the comments on this forum then silence on her blog.

The comments came after the silence, and largely as a result of it.

 

[Seajet]

I have made a few suggestions as I genuinely want to help and would love to see a happy ending, I have also made jokey remarks which someone would have to be seriously if not deliberately thin skinned to take offence at.

I tend to agree the thread should be locked - not removed - until Ellie returns and explains.

Bear in mind she is not answering PM's now, including those from a concerned friend of hers who on seeing I had been in PM contact in the early days got on to me asking if I've heard anything; I haven't.

There is the point that apparently Ellie had to go to hospital for something or other a while ago, though I'd have thought she could have responded by now whatever it was.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I tend to agree the thread should be locked - not removed - until Ellie returns and explains.

However she wishes to present things to potential "sponsors" (a more accurate term might be "clients"), discussions here are not Eleanor's private domain to control for her own benefit. She could easily add a discussion forum to the Elizmor website.

 

[Twister_Ken]

I'm still hoping for a happy outcome but if not, sadly, JE won't be the first or last person to have his or her heart and wallet broken by a big, wooden boat.

 

[Vara]

Well done Lakey, now we have two, long, tedious, circular posts on the same subject.

 

[Lakesailor]

If I can get another three underway we can have an Olympic symbol

 

[sarabande]

An Olympic cymbal might be more appropriate, given the, err, 'clash' of opinions