How big is yours and do you illuminate it at night?

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This boat was on a dock near where I was moored recently. The owners weren't around, but they had the lights on a timer so that they could make a statement about their boat even in their absence.

I suppose there are various phrases that come to mind but I wonder what people think when they see the boat?

The marina manager had some personal comments which are more or less unprintable as they referred to the ethnic background of some people and how he thought they'd made their money.
 
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Not a phrase that comes to mind, but a single word. 'Eyesore'

Some lighting, if done subtly, can be nice. In this instance just completely OTT.
 
Last year we were at 3 different anchorages overnight with lights like these. It changes the atmosphere of a pitch dark cove, whether going for a midnight swim or just having drinks in the cockpit after dinner.

And of course the generators ran all night - I guess they need to with aircon (was 15-20 degrees overnight with at 5-10 knot breeze most nights), and to keep the lights burning til dawn.
 
jac said:
Wow he must really be worried about engine failure, having 3 spares.
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They're probably fakes; like the boy racers with a whole line of massive tailpipes poking out the back of their cars and only one actually connected up :D

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josephmoore said:
They're probably fakes; like the boy racers with a whole line of massive tailpipes poking out the back of their cars and only one actually connected up :D

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Sorry for the drift-
Anybody watch that BBC prog last night, "Licence to Kill"?
Shocking (but sensible possible solution) to young drivers killing themselves (and others).
My point = If the spectators can find and turn-up at the "cruises", why can't the police and get the whole thing stopped?
And where do these kids get the money from to spend £ooos on their hot-hatches etc?

Morons, the lot of them.
 
Robert Wilson said:
Sorry for the drift-
Anybody watch that BBC prog last night, "Licence to Kill"?
Shocking (but sensible possible solution) to young drivers killing themselves (and others).
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No - I did see a bit of the BBC breakfast interview with the young lady who flipped her car off the road and ended up paralysed...
Her stance was that she used to think the accident was her fault, but now she's spoken to many other new drivers with similar accidents .....

So - driving >70mph on a country lane is the fault of someone else?!
Granted, it may be that driving lessons and test could be altered to reduce the possibility of "boy racing" - but to imply that the accident was someone elses fault is just ... well, words fail me ...
MTFU - take RESPONSIBILITY for your own actions ... hopefully she has and the phrasing she used in interview was just a little mis-understanding ...
 
fireball said:
No - I did see a bit of the BBC breakfast interview with the young lady who flipped her car off the road and ended up paralysed...
Her stance was that she used to think the accident was her fault, but now she's spoken to many other new drivers with similar accidents .....

So - driving >70mph on a country lane is the fault of someone else?!
Granted, it may be that driving lessons and test could be altered to reduce the possibility of "boy racing" - but to imply that the accident was someone elses fault is just ... well, words fail me ...
MTFU - take RESPONSIBILITY for your own actions ... hopefully she has and the phrasing she used in interview was just a little mis-understanding ...
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I think she fully accepts that the actual accident (sorry incident) was her fault. The point she was making IIRC was that the procedure to get a driving licence does not equip young (and others) to realise /deal with "faulty driving" - mentally or skills-wise.
The clip showing the lectures to young people made a LOT of sense. Most of them were horrified at what they saw and heard, and clearly had not even contemplated what can/does happen with a half-tonne WMD.
Apparently the human brain/psyche does not start to develop a sense of mortal danger until 25 years of age. 1 in 5 drivers by then will have had a serious and/or fatal motor incident.

Her aim is to get the "learning procedure" to be much more to do with "what can happen and how to deal with it" rather than "what does that sign mean, how do reverse around a corner etc etc."

I hope she succeeds - the waste of young lives and destruction of families has to stop.
 
john_morris_uk said:
This boat was on a dock near where I was moored recently. The owners weren't around, but they had the lights on a timer so that they could make a statement about their boat even in their absence.

I suppose there are various phrases that come to mind but I wonder what people think when they see the boat?

The marina manager had some personal comments which are more or less unprintable as they referred to the ethnic background of some people and how he thought they'd made their money.
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I should think an enterprising clerk in holy orders could get a whole sermon out of that picture, based on Matthew 7: 1-5

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

Once I looked beyond the superficial, I saw a beautifully kept boat in respect of which the most disturbing thing was the dock line. Clearly tied by someone who has an interest in maritime matters and yet you just wouldn't, would you?...I mean, of course, leave the bitter end on the dock cleat rather than on the boat. :D
 
Robert Wilson said:
I think she fully accepts that the actual accident (sorry incident) was her fault. The point she was making IIRC was that the procedure to get a driving licence does not equip young (and others) to realise /deal with "faulty driving" - mentally or skills-wise.
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That's ok then - I did only catch a little of it as I was getting ready to ride to work ...

Shortly after I passed my driving test I was sent on a skidpan course ... very valuable IMHO.
 
fireball said:
That's ok then - I did only catch a little of it as I was getting ready to ride to work ...

Shortly after I passed my driving test I was sent on a skidpan course ... very valuable IMHO.
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Both my two little darlings did that - they found it absoultely invaluable. Mind you, it didn't stop darling daughter rear-ending a car at a pedestrian crossing!
Amazingly, she managed to get the other driver ( a toe-rag male in her words) to accept blame! "He stopped without warning, officer!!!!!)
There is NO JUSTICE for we males................
 
"How big is yours and do you illuminate it at night?"

I suspect that the answer for people like that is, "It's so small that I can't find it at night".

And "My ego's so huge I need four vast engines to shift it".

Truly pathetic.
 
Well, The flash mobo is one thing..... But the good vicar making a DOUBLE ENTEDRE in his thread title!

That is shocking!

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