How come you are allowed to have fun here...

[JeremyF]

.....and any attempt at the same on Scuttlebutt is frowned upon, with postings canned and contributors sin binned because 'Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells' writes in to the Fat Controller (Ooops, that will get me in trouble)

Can I be an honorary Stinkie please?

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[EME]

Why else do you think other scuttlebutts come here?

Reasons given so far include:

a) Sense of Humour
b) Improved Speling
c) Human interest stories
d) Dislike of fellow raggies 'cos either pompous, foul-mouthed , woosy liberals or combination of all.
e) Serious discussions on exploding heads...a ls HLB
f) Fed up of slagging off 'In another Place'


Only condition of entry is posting a 'Let's all buy MBs' on scuttlebutt forum

Not sure Steve101 totally agrees with 'Lack of censorship' statement though !

...I wanna boat please..

 

[JeremyF]

Initiation rites

Hmm, so what,s the initiation rites here? Do I have to buy and fly the MoBo pennent?

Do you promise there is no archane discussion about defaced ensigns, bizzare Colregs scenarios?

Is the MoBo equivalent of Ben/Jen/Bav vs long keelers a debate about semidisplacement hulls vs planing hulls, or don't you bother, and just get on and enjoy yourselves?

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[KevL]

Ooooh your for it now - just you wait till Kim hears that you've called him fat.

Contitions of membership are:

1, You have a fridge and it's full of beer for visiting MB'ers.
2, You don't mention the MB that passed 6" off your horizon fully on the plane.
3, You tie your bl**dy halyards down so that we can all get some sleep.
4, You don't brag about the egg cup of fuel you used on the last channel crossing.
5, And last but not least you take the p*ss like the rest of us and take it like a man when it comes your way.

Oh and if any one of us catches you in a cravat prepare for a good kicking.

KevL

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It may be the early bird that catches the worm but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

 

[JeremyF]

I think thats a deal, except item 2, which I will trade if you let me motorsail and tack straight in front of you, with no warning!

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[KevL]

OK As long as you get no closer than 6" off the horizon......

Welcome to the club.

KevL

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[BrendanS]

It's obvious.It's all down to perception.

Raggies are supposed to be practical, down to earth, seadog types who write letters to press complaining about powerboats spoiling their enjoyment of the water, and who spend their life learning arcane nautical terms and practicing getting an extra 0.00001 knts by playing with their strings, and would never dream of spending a coupla hundred quid in fuel just to go to the pub.

Stinkpotters are seen as extravagant, loud, drunken playboy types who wreck the environment with their guzzling toys, and act like overgrown schoolboys whose parents have gone away for the weekend.

So when stinkpotters act to stereotype, no one minds. When the scuttlebutters start posting about things other than flag etiquette, everyone knows standards are slipping, and quite rightly action is taken!! <G>

 

[EME]

Re: Initiation rites

Nay , nay no need to fly it but all donations to the following address.

My nome de plume doesn't allow me to comment on alll rites although I have picked up that collision avaoidance regs sems to entail avoiding raggies tacking under power cos they don't like being overtaken .

Everything goes on this forum , even my inane requets for information such as what do you shout at sialors in the solent as greetings ? and ' How fast can you go ina ......?'. Humour provided by notable worthies on this site , trick is to avoid feeling insulted at abuse. So basic SM tendencies are pre-requisite.

...I wanna boat please..

 

[tcm]

ooh i don't know. Seemed quite a larf over there last coupla weeks. I particularly enjoyed e-dismantling steve101's boat.

 

[byron]

Sheeet! (Mexican for siht) I am allowed in here, I own several cravats, slavishly obey flag etiquette, get on with Raggies, don't flash past them at a cable's length, use all sorts of nautical terms like "porting my starboard and setting my t'gallants." Horror of horrors I can even navigate without a GPS and use a Sextant.
Admittedly everyone ignores me but I am used to that, even at school I was the last kid to be picked for a game of playground football and me own mum and dad wondered who that kid was in the other bedroom.
In short welcome to the Forum of the bewildered /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Dave_Snelson]

Re: Initiation rites

I was going to say the initiation rites are that you have to be shouted at and abused by an annoyed yacht or dinghy sailor, something along the lines of...

"I say, you there...yes you, Paaaar-boater, slow that bl**dy thing down!!"

But its actually much simpler
1) Bring the beer
2) Take the micky
3) Enjoy the craic

Regards
DAVE

Madoc Yacht Club
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[BrendanS]

I'd better become a raggie - people are taking my puerile posts seriously! <g>

Well, send any of the scuttlebutters with a sense of humour over here (but only if they can take it, not just dish it), and as long as they pretend they're noisy boisterous petrol guzzlin types, no one will notice or care if they are being non pc.

Can leave all the 'annoyed of Tunbridge Wells' over there discussing which string you should pull to make the boat go (they're all wrong, you turn the key!)

 

[paulineb]

So!! you\'ve decided to come out

I thought you might be a closet stinkie!! You're very welcome to live with us - and bring Steve101 with you, he's definiately NOT a boring old fart of a yottie. You can keep your beers in my fridge instead of dangling them over the side in a net.

Pxx

 

[hlb]

Think it started in the olden days, When not many people came here. There was just a few of us. One renamed himself TCM for some reason. Dont know who he was in another life. Maybe one of the Cray twins? One thing that changed the place for good, all though quite by accident, was my early rendition of some exploits with the toilet. Up till then most questions and answers were quite normal. The other truth is. What the hell is there to talk about on here except crap. The only other bit is how to turn the key!!

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Haydn

 

[hlb]

The Kimotallah got fed up with trying to control us lot a long time ago, in the olden days. We are a lost cause. So get left alone to ramble on about most anything. One point is, over here we make sure we slag every one off. Equally. No faviouritism./forums/images/icons/smile.gif.

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Haydn

 

[Steve101]

If I come over here will you pick on me? nm

..

 

[BrendanS]

Re: If I come over here will you pick on me? nm

Course we won't pick on you.....so long as you do your own homework and don't ask silly questions which are answered in 5011, section IK, page 30, section 12. You're expected as a reasonably intelligent person to find such stuff for yourself, unless it's a troll! I wouldn't go trolling over there for while though, sense of humour failure. Come keep us company, and let them recover for a while!

Want to keep Nicho's scuttlebutt thread going?...you post on odd days, I'll post on even days. If he begs for mercy, we give up in a year or so

 

[lyc]

Re: If I come over here will you pick on me? nm

What an unfriendly, humourless lot over on the other forums I have never seen so much nastiness.

Can only think that either the questions posed were too simple for them that they were born with the knowledge or they hadn't a clue what the answers were and didn't want to look stupid.

I have learnt from your postings as others will have so keep them coming even on a Motor Boat forum and welcome.

 

[byron]

Re: If I come over here will you pick on me? nm

"answered in 5011, section IK, page 30, section 12"

Yep! I looked that one up, it says Narrowboat owners and Rowers must have their brains extracted and washed clean of any nautical knowledge before going afloat. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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