inappropriate radio chat?

[laika]

what do you think?

You're making a bestiality joke which can presumably be heard by every child on a boat with the radio on within range.

I thought you were particularly sensitive to subjecting children on other boats to things that might be considered inappropriate?

 

[Biggles Wader]

Absolutely disgraceful.... you should be ashamed of yourself
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it was not the Aussies.

Quite so.It was the Kiwis,and nothing pisses them off more than being confused with Aussies.

 

[jimbaerselman]

Each morning at 0900 there is a radio net with the usual weather, items for sale, help, social activities. This is on a non working channel.
Now I like to bring a little bit of humour to the net so yesterday I said:

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Good joke, surely comes under "Social activities". Unless you were selling sheep bladders. Bad VHF protocol, forgot the "out". Or the "over".

Today at the beginning of the broadcast we were told that the net could be heard up to 25 miles away so we should not make jokes, sexual or racial references and stick to only the essentials.

Error. Can only be heard/understood by those with VHF radios switched on, who understand English, and are within range.
Also, bad VHF protocol. Good protocol would say "stick to essentials when transmitting". All other instructions then redundant.

To me someone has a sense of humour failure but it may well be me who's wrong.

Shows distinct lack of humour by transmitter. Better: "all jokes, sexual or racial references should be made after the 21:00 watershed". Unless you're being raped.

what do you think?

Errm, who appointed the policeman?

 

[SamanthaTabs]

Yacht club or winter marina group it's all the same, perhaps there should be rule books handed out?
Best tale I can tell is of someone who became Lady Commodore. First gathering of the ladies section she announced that the section was being dissolved.
Heads down peeps, it'll be spring before we know it..

 

[jac]

Good joke, wrong place.

One could argue about the legality of it (probably outside the terms of radio license) but the killer for me is that anyone else in that Marina may have heard it. Presumably the majority of listeners would have had the sound coming out of a speaker so small children would have heard.

I remember years ago when I did my VHF I was told to keep it short, factual and in language that your maiden aunt would approve it. Keep the jokes for when you can see the audience.

Anyway, I think you'll find the Welsh invented the sheep condom a long time before the Aussies.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Quite so.It was the Kiwis,and nothing pisses them off more than being confused with Aussies.

I'm pretty sure Ben Ainslie and the Oracle USA crew have a far greater kiwi-pissing-off quotient than the inhabitants of the West Island.

 

[Sans Bateau]

Made me laugh.

 

[lenseman]

. . . . . . Anyway, I think you'll find the Welsh invented the sheep condom a long time before the Aussies.

Not forgetting that they also had to give away a free fan-belt as well.



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[Barnacle Bill]

You're making a bestiality joke which can presumably be heard by every child on a boat with the radio on within range.

I thought you were particularly sensitive to subjecting children on other boats to things that might be considered inappropriate?

Well, that's only bad if you explain the joke to the child! This would pass well over my kids' heads (9, 7, 3) - at the very most you might get "Daddy what's a condom?" to which the answer is "Never mind. Eat your cornflakes."

Lot of fuss about nothing!

 

[stevebrassett]

Well, that's only bad if you explain the joke to the child! This would pass well over my kids' heads (9, 7, 3) - at the very most you might get "Daddy what's a condom?" to which the answer is "Never mind. Eat your cornflakes."

Lot of fuss about nothing!

Surely the reply to that sort of question is "Ask your mother" ?

 

[TiggerToo]

- at the very most you might get "Daddy what's a condom?" to which the answer is "Never mind. Eat your cornflakes."

Lot of fuss about nothing!

whaaat? And pass over a perfect opportunity for parent-driven sex education?

 

[phanakapan]

Very funny joke. Made me laugh out loud.

Have hosted /controlled vhf radio nets myself.

I wouldn't have said that joke on the radio- kids etc as others have said.

btw I was in an Indian takeaway with my 6 year old son, he said, very loudly, please Mummy can we buy some of those condoms.....
he meant pappadoms

 

[laika]

Well, that's only bad if you explain the joke to the child! This would pass well over my kids' heads (9, 7, 3) - at the very most you might get "Daddy what's a condom?" to which the answer is "Never mind. Eat your cornflakes."

Lot of fuss about nothing!

Actually I don't have much of a view on this at all, but the post seems a little at odds with Nostrodamus's stance on nudity by other members of the med cruising community. In earlier posts he has objected to people being naked on their boats in case children can see them. I understand both the "consider the moral values of other parents, not just your own" and "What's the problem?" viewpoints. What's harder to reconcile is the apparent dichotomy between holding the former regarding the actions of others but the latter when considering one's own actions.

Plus it's poor radio etiquette

 

[BlueSkyNick]

Surely the reply to that sort of question is "Ask your mother" ?

With three kids, what would she know about condoms ?!

 

[Twister_Ken]

at the very most you might get "Daddy what's a condom?" to which the answer is "Ex-commissioner of the Metropolitan Police"

Lot of fuss about nothing!

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Errm, who appointed the policeman?

Actually, the IMO, I think! This page (http://www.dft.gov.uk/mca/mcga-mnotice.htm?textobjid=908E08C2F38A0072) quotes IMO Resolution A.954 (23). Proper use of VHF Channels at Sea (Adopted on 5th December 2003), and specifically states

1.3 Discipline

• (a) VHF equipment should be used correctly and in accordance with the Radio Regulations. The following in particular should be avoided:
• (b) calling on channel 16 for purposes other than distress, and very brief safety communications, when another calling channel is available;
• (c) non - essential transmissions, e.g. needless and superfluous signals and correspondence;
• (d) communications not related to safety and navigation on port operation channels; communication on channel 70 other than for Digital Selective Calling;
• (e) occupation of one particular channel under poor conditions;
• (f) transmitting without correct identification;
• (g) use of offensive language.

 

[Nostrodamus]

As I said..I will hold my hands up and duck tape my mouth once again.
It was actually Brits who complained but they also complained about another boat having too many pennants flying.
The Aussies who we know well and actually have a sense of humour found it very funny...
Thank you all for putting me right.
Over.

 

[stevebrassett]

Keep posting the jokes on here, mind. It was funny.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Actually, the IMO, I think! This page (http://www.dft.gov.uk/mca/mcga-mnotice.htm?textobjid=908E08C2F38A0072) quotes IMO Resolution A.954 (23). Proper use of VHF Channels at Sea (Adopted on 5th December 2003), and specifically states

1.3 Discipline

• (a) VHF equipment should be used correctly and in accordance with the Radio Regulations. The following in particular should be avoided:
• (b) calling on channel 16 for purposes other than distress, and very brief safety communications, when another calling channel is available;
• (c) non - essential transmissions, e.g. needless and superfluous signals and correspondence;
• (d) communications not related to safety and navigation on port operation channels; communication on channel 70 other than for Digital Selective Calling;
• (e) occupation of one particular channel under poor conditions;
• (f) transmitting without correct identification;
• (g) use of offensive language.

Well item "B" means we cannot have a radio net at all as sharing a ride to the local supermarket hardly falls into the essential transmissions class (that is of course if I have run out of beer).

 

[deuc02]

To me someone has a sense of humour failure but it may well be me who's wrong.

what do you think?

Have you never had a sense of humour failure yourself?