I'm really quite surprised

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I\'m really quite surprised

that there sems to be so much resentment to people posting "where are we now type things."
We exchange ideas and information on here as we always have - some friendships have developed which have resulted in practical activities taking place and it seems to me that exchanging images of where we've been or stimulating a bit of thought by posing questions of where the shot was taken are just a natural extension of what has gone before.
Strange - one thought process logically promotes or stimulates similar ones - its how humans work of course - so we get an ensign question and that prompts a rash of similar ones. We get a photo and a similar response ensues.

I wonder why people seem to immediately start calling for specialist falori?

On a personal level- I'd much rather look at some of the truly stunning images that people have posted on here than read screeds of unintelligible nonsense about VAT or similar.
Perhaps we should have a VAT forum /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Praps we can each have individual forums - only ever speak to ourselves, post pix to ourselves, argue with ourselves - and only ever irritate ourselves ;p.

S x

oh stop procrastinating and go and do the bl**dy housework, woman - dont even think of stopping for that other cup of coffee. What is it? Three so far and not even 1000? And you need a shower, and do some writing, not just here but the real stuff ...

(signed) Thief of Time xx

B*ggering off now, really, truly, honestly x
 
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There are far too many people cluttering up my forum with pictures of places where I don't sail and things I'm not interested in. They should all be taken away and put in a Not Interesting to Me forum.

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Better we post images of the last VAT inspection /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Always use to make sure our dog was in that day - he had told
me early on he didnt like dogs.
 
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There are far too many people cluttering up my forum with pictures of places where I don't sail and things I'm not interested in. They should all be taken away and put in a Not Interesting to Me forum.


snigger, snigger!!!!!
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Time came for a VAT inspection last year. The junior who turned up didn't understand my sector enough to do it, so came back with her grizzly old boss a couple of months later.

After a chat and a probe he asked if we could re-work the last VAT ireturn, during which the young bird made a massive thing about the 3 or 4 items I had sold cheap on e-Bay to clear.

In the end she thought she had me nailed on 1 transaction on e-bay that we couldn't find the VAT accounting for. Fortunatelly it was an individual with an unusual and Italian sounding name, and a voice piped up from the corner (the grizzly old feller), to say that he had the VAT invoice for that in his hand.

Not sure if the dog helped or hindered the process.
 
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I mainly come for the photos. The boat's out of the water, and I'll be armchair sailing for the next 6 months or so.
 
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Claymore is using the corrupt plural of phalloral, as found in the Aeneid:
"Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem"
"Phallori, cornuto!"
(Literally: O queen, thou asketh me to renew unspeakable pain..."
"Thou speakest a lot of cock, O horned one!")
Hope this helps
 
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First post I have ever read from Claymore, (bless his tartan cotton socks), where he not only seems to of lost his accent but strangely seems to be speaking with some common sense, rather than his usual obscure intellectual humour, (Sorry but I did not go to Uni or learn to spell).

Should we listen to him still - I think so.

I never read beyond the first post of a "Where is this" thread unless it has relevance to my sailing area.

A forum is just like a notice board. Only read the news that takes your interest.

To many of us think we have to read every post. It becomes an obsession as if it is our own backyard and woe to anyone who tries to step onto our "property" without approval.

How any forum member can log up several thousand posts, and still manage to have to sail and make a living is beyond me. Get a life you poor souls.
 
Get a life you poor souls.

I get particularly fed up with people who lecture me (and I qualify by your standards) about "getting a life"
I live in a beautiful area, run a busy guest house and go sailing, as well as restoring the odd boat, exploring the area and making myself generally a nuisance around the town.
How dare you criticise the way I have managed my life. I can manage all these things, and still follow the forums.
As it happens I spend a lot of time on the internet on unrelated things and float in and out of the forums.

It is perhaps you who should look at your life and seek to make more time for things which are important and interesting. Making a living is merely a requirement.
 
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and I can assure you that I have a very full and satisfying life , but I prefer to relax an have a laugh in here rather than go down the pub every night , so how do you rate my post counter then /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif
 
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coo - you HAVE posted a lot - yet still claiming to be a newcomer, eh.

(signed) Disingenuous Poster x
 
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