How to convince others in the boatyard that you have Special Powers

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1. With boat ashore, leave a small nut or similar about twenty or thirty yards from the boat, but near an identifiable stone or lump of wood, say. Then, when someone else hangs about for a chat as they always do and pertwing you drop another small nut ...you can demonstrate incredible eyesight and ask them to pass it to you "oh look, there it is over there..." and rather amazingly direct them to it from high up on the boat, and even though they're on the gound they won't be able to see it until within a yard or so.

Actually, i found this out by dropping a nut or summink but had others so didn't bother picking it up. But aftr dropping a few more onthe floor I needed the first one...
 
Then, when you get home you could secretly record Mastermind then quietly play it back the next night - answering all the questions correctly. SWMBO will be most impressed at your phenomenal mental capacity.
 
Similarly, if commuting by train to work, insert yesterday's crossward page into today's Daily Telegraph, whistle through it in about seven or eight minutes, look around the compartment and with a jaunsty smile annonce, "Well, that's that done then!", and then start looking through a new testament, or something, in Greek.
 
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1. With boat ashore, leave a small nut or similar about twenty or thirty yards from the boat, but near an identifiable stone or lump of wood, say. Then, when someone else hangs about for a chat as they always do and pertwing you drop another small nut ...you can demonstrate incredible eyesight and ask them to pass it to you "oh look, there it is over there..." and rather amazingly direct them to it from high up on the boat, and even though they're on the gound they won't be able to see it until within a yard or so.

Actually, i found this out by dropping a nut or summink but had others so didn't bother picking it up. But aftr dropping a few more onthe floor I needed the first one...

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Didn't you nick that from the Great Escape? I'm sure the bloke who is going blind does summink similar.
 
Hollywood lifestyle

Hm, i've spoken to the moderator about you jezbanks old boy and i'm sorry but well, we simply can't risk having you on this thread. I am sorry but there it is, nothing to be done about it old bean.
 
Yeh - "The Great Escape" I knew it sounded familiar.

Bet he gets rid of all the rubbish off his boat by stuffing it down his trouser legs and releasing a draw string whilst standing over a pot-hole in the boat yard!

"Gut Luck"

"Oh, how jolly nice, thank-you!" /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
plagerised fomr great escape or otherwise, mildy amusing.

however...what I need is some method of making that same group of people in the boat yard bugger off, I loose hours when working on the boat due to the following conversation openers

'she's a classic'
'all that wood to look after eh?'
'my dad had one of those'
'great sea keeping'
'my uncle had ones of those'
'used to race these didn't they?'
'how fast is she?'
 
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what I need is some method of making that same group of people in the boat yard bugger off, I loose hours when working on the boat due to the following conversation openers

'she's a classic'
'all that wood to look after eh?'
'my dad had one of those'
'great sea keeping'
'my uncle had ones of those'
'used to race these didn't they?'
'how fast is she?'

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Buy a crap plastic boat, maybe American. but not a new one, they are too good - buy a early 90's model so that you can still be down the boatyard fixing it rather than using it. Having a boat like that should stop all of the above comments /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I had this with the copper foil misadventure, people makingspecial trips to ooh that's a new idea etc blah, very flatterig to start but soon you do no work and just chat.

Best i found was to play the hired hand: "dunno i'm just working on it" which pretty much kills it dead.
 
on the subject of t shirts (which we wernt really but never mind), I wanted to buy one in M and S that said 'Sale' on the front and Lorna said they would not let me have one.

which gave me an idea....

I'm going to have a t shirt printed to take skiing.....

'I'm wearing a Borat Thong'
 
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