Dontcha just haaate...

[Christopher_B]

300 billion hp tug running past moorings at full throttle dragging tsunami-like wake.

Retrieving navigational instruments, cutlery, intricate parts of instrument being serviced, tools, spectacles, wife etc from bilges.

Port and Coastguard radio operators who say 'Sir' only when talking to yachts, not real ships, in that sort of tone of voice.

Speedboat with humungous outboards and 'dogs bollox' emblazoned in huge letters on side.

People driving it

Michael Howard.

And for the sake of balance, the rest of them.

 

[FullCircle]

See? Planet Thanet again! Wrong side of the Wantsum. Unhinged those folk. And what do you expect from Queenborough?
Move to Tankerton, and put the boat in Conyer. Job solved. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Christopher_B]

I concede the tugs. But dogsbollox translated from the Latin = Essex boy. Definitely the geezers who took over at Paglesham - used to be nice place, kept my boat there for years - and just nip over when they've got a spare 15 mins to taunt us.

Anyway thought Essex was where they sent lads like that until they grew up and sold the boat to buy an Essex girl and a BMW with low profile tyres that won't go over speed bumps.

And where do you think they get those radio operators from? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[FullCircle]

Ere mate, you might have guessed from my knowledge of the name of your moat that I might hail from somewhere thereabouts.
Essex boys these days (having cornered the market in moody motors) are buying up Rocketship Tupperware from Paglesham and others. And I know where they gather too. I think the other local dialect translation is 'MuttzNuttz' or even seen PenileProjectile on the side. Saucy Sue it ain't.