Is this a Virtual Yachy Club bar?

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TimfromMersea

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The posts seem to be getting to have an increasinlgy tenous connection with sailing or boats. It sounds like the normal 'Wednesday night bar talk' that we have at our Club, with a bunch of middle aged Telegraph readers grumping about changing times, flogging criminals, the lying Blair, and so on. Occasionally boat talk as well!

Does everyone agree? Anyway, here's another 'virtual club bar' comment. I read in the paper the other day that some local council had banned Father Christmas from the Local Authority children's party. Instead they have a visit from the 'Winterval Patriarch'..............!

Hope you all get what you want from the Winterval Patriarch. Merry Christmas forumites.
 
Not half as bad as the lounge, which is veritably teeming with curmudgeonly Victor Meldrew wannabees.

Don't believe everything that you read in the papers. From the Guardian:

"Perhaps the most notorious of the anti-Christmas rebrandings is Winterval, in Birmingham, and when you telephone the Birmingham city council press office to ask about it, you are met first of all with a silence that might seasonably be described as frosty. "We get this every year," a press officer sighs, eventually. "It just depends how many rogue journalists you get in any given year. We tell them it's bollocks, but it doesn't seem to make much difference."

According to an official statement from the council, Winterval - which ran in 1997 and 1998, and never since - was a promotional campaign to drive business into Birmingham's newly regenerated town centre. It began in early November and finished in January. During the part of that period traditionally celebrated as Christmas, "there was a banner saying Merry Christmas across the front of the council house, Christmas lights, Christmas trees in the main civil squares, regular carol-singing sessions by school choirs, and the Lord Mayor sent a Christmas card with a traditional Christmas scene wishing everyone a Merry Christmas".
 
Prompted by your post - I had a qucik look at the messages posted over the past 2 weeks. Are there 2 Scuttlebutts because the one I've been looking at is pretty much the same as usual and really quite focussed with a bit of seasonal added to the blend.
Summer where is this, Origo Stoves, a Colregs post, and a few of us who are leaving for a while wishing our friends the best for the Christmas break, but plenty of sailing related stuff.

I'm away now so will not see any response but I really can't see what you are complaining about - and as I said before - its as yachty as you make it - which your post isn't

Best wishes for Christmas
 
I would of thought a few of us wishings our friends a happy christmas is definitvely something that should be done in the lounge.If everyone put there christmas messages here the sight would close down there are about 200 signed on just at this moment-
 
It doesn't matter if here or in lounge, it's all the same software running on the same server, so the server would be under exactly the same load, and the software can cope with plenty more than 200
 
Thank you for taking it upon yourself to keep control of the forum, it would otherwise be a right old mess.
 
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I would of thought a few of us wishings our friends a happy christmas is definitvely something that should be done in the lounge.If everyone put there christmas messages here the sight would close down there are about 200 signed on just at this moment-

[/ QUOTE ]Why keep digging? Sorry, but you're making yourself sound like a miserable git.

Why the beef about Claymore? He's one of the funniest people on this forum, does boaty threads, and is a regular contributor of new threads. Talking of which, I haven't noticed many new threads from yourself (like none out of your last 200 posts?).

And Claymore's never made any comments about Bav 34s, so it can't be that.

Anyway, Merry Christmas!
 
I watch these trends and can concur with you on that. Virtually all of the moaning posts that complain about other's posts or threads come from sometime posters with low post counts. (quite a few posts in there)

Nothing wrong with that.

But if they aren't willing to contribute why the hell should they feel they have a watching brief over those of us who do more than our fair share. And where would the forums be without people who post at the drop of a hat.
Just like all the other boring and dying forums, that's where.

And if they feel so strongly, why don't they originate some threads of their own to redress the balance, if they really feel it is out of balance.

Or of course they could start their own Seriously Sailing Forum. The software and hosting services are out there. It's easy. Then they could be Moderator In Charge to their hearts delight.

in the meantime Keith is the Moderator here.
 
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in the meantime Keith is the Moderator here.

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....and you have his permission to say so!

Donald
 
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