Is there anything this forum does like?

[ChrisE]

We don't appear to like:

1. Sea horses
2. Wind farms
3. The Olympics
4. Rocna

Etc

Could we perhaps make 2012 the year when we like something?

A Happy New Year to you all.

 

[Wandering Star]

Messing around in boats?

Cheers, Brian.

 

[Searush]

Hang on, we love seahorses; it's the people who harrass them & us in order to feather their own nest by gaining grants for bothering them. Seahorses, residents, holidaymakers & boaters would all be better off without the seahorse botherers.

There are some very virulent & noisy people on here who are anti-windfarms, but some of us think they are delightful & I love to see them "striding across the landscape" gracefully waving their arms & generating power without pollution.

The Olympics, well I might watch some on the telly but I can understand why the locals whose lives will be totally disrupted are a bit upset, but some of the smarter locals will make a fortune by renting out their houses & going away until it's all over.

ROCNA, well it's not the anchor they dislike, it's the lies & disinformation wilfully spread by a member of the designer's family that upset people on here.

BTW we like people to post in the correct forum too, shouldn't this be in the lounge?

 

[yoda]

I like sea horses - until they stop me putting the hook (obviously not a Rocna) down. Wind farms are OK (but not in the sea or near my home) as they will help power the TV so I can watch the Olympics on my telly as I clearly can't afford to watch live.

Clearly what we all like is nice boats, fair winds, flat seas and free berthing. I do feel the next season may require a few compromises.

Yoda

 

[lustyd]

but some of us think they are delightful & I love to see them "striding across the landscape" gracefully waving their arms & generating power without pollution.

You mean without generating chemical polution. Removing power from the wind is NOT without its effects so don't assume that because you can't smell it or see it that they don't affect the environment because they do. Give it 20 years and you'll see the wind patterns permanently altered because of these devices and suddenly the carbon worriers will have a new game to bother the rest of us. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

 

[lustyd]

Rum

+1 Rum is good.

Whisky is nice, as is whiskey, and wine

 

[Robin]

Wine
Whisky
Whiskey
Gin
Beautiful women
Sex
Not necessarily in the above order, the reverse in fact...

 

[FullCircle]

I am thinking there is a fair quantity of forumites who I like.
Not in the biblical sense. Ahem.
Except one called Goldfish. Strange fascination with that one.

 

[jimi]

Curry
Robust debate

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

As a sailor and diver I get email from the yacht club, my diving school and YBW. This week I got invited to a cruise to Studland and a dive to Studland.

The Studland dive invite had a picture of seahorses and a picture of a circular patch of sand in a bed of seagrass with the caption "anchor damage".

I like seahorses, but it's their fantical, irrational, supporters that worry me.

 

[FullCircle]

Curry
Robust debate

I prefer to Mass Debate, but the Curry I can deal with.

 

[Woodlouse]

There are plenty here who certainly seem to like complaining.

 

[photodog]

Sticky buns.

 

[Conachair]

whiskers on kittens?

 

[longjohnsilver]

Warm woollen mittens........

 

[webcraft]

Give it 20 years and you'll see the wind patterns permanently altered because of these devices

Care to produce any theories, factoids or references to back this extraordinary observation up?

- W

 

[penfold]

1. Sea horses
As several posters have noted, it's not the seahorses which are the problem, it's the strident braying noise eminating from the single issue pressure group(person) that is 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'. There appears to be no evidence, empirical or otherwise, to suggest anchoring has any effect on seahorses.

2. Wind farms
I don't have any strong opinions either way about windfarms, I just object to subsidising them to the absurd extent that they are. Given the choice, not that we ever have or ever will be, I'd rather have a nuclear power station. In interests of full disclosure I live about 20 miles from Hunterston and my brother works there, so I have a bias.

3. The Olympics
As with the windfarms, it's not that they are happening but the fact I'm paying for it but will recieve no benefit, economic or otherwise. I live 500 miles from the olympic village so ticket price not withstanding unless I found myself in the vicinity by happenstance I would never go, and the ticket/sponsor/fascist stasi farce indicates that the spirit of mammon rather than the corinthian is prevalent. Despite apparently being awash with money from sponsors, the enterprise has sucked vast amounts of money out of grassroots sport by emptying the lottery fund for a decade.

4. Rocna
I've never used a Rocna, I don't even have any idea what one looks like. Indifference prevails.

I like presents. I also like sailing and stinkpotting, which is why I like posting rubbish on here.

 

[SailorBill]

4. Rocna
You can make interesting shapes with them. It's a bit like origami.

 

[[2068]]

Fray Bentos?

 

[Seajet]

There's only one thing I like better than sailing.

Sailing with my arm around my girlfriend.

I knew they must have invented autopilots for a reason !