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MBChat, I\'ve changed my mind!
Right, 48 hours standing back, and Motor Boat Chat seems to have turned... DULL. In my humble opinion, anyway.
So, completely against wot I sed earlier (!).......probly time for a motorboat not-chatty forum ...where peeps can post slightly PBO stuff as they have done for the last 2 days.....somewhere else!!
I wd prefer a forum where its' a bit interestin. With the risk of a joke! Or at last smirk! The bar name thread was ok, but other stuff: Dull! Very dull indeed.
MBC (change the name if you want after a week or 2 to "boaters lounge" or such, but leave the post history here, please, Kim)
Jokes
These will be postively encouraged. BUT not loads and loads of jokes allripped off from elsewhere on the net? Oh well, alright, but loads and loads (and loads) of jokes under friday humaour, or monday or er any other day humour.
The acceptabilty test of is the joke is ok is if you'd laugh ( a bit) even if you were the object of the joke. This means no (crap) blue jokes, and no racist jokes. Except against germans, obviously. Oops, well maybe not ? Anyway, americans ok, esp fat americans. But not jokes all v nasty bout sailyboaters, or motorboaters.
Any boaty things
These very much encouraged BUT er well no buts at all really. The Where Do I Find Press Studs question (which I originally thort was a wind-up) is out of the way, so this should be ok. Good chance of a serious question being properly answered. BUT not allowed to prefix "serious" or "get lost with jokes" or " no timewasters" or suchlike. Help to provided if available, else vaguely relevant help, else possible joke, or all the above.
Daft postings
This also permitted, but expect a light flaming, tittering in the background a bit, but not too much, or if too much, apology to be sent by private message at least. EG sorry for being a bit of a tit not knowing wot the rudders do last week etc. etc.
Spoofing
Yes, a bit. ..but of course eventually you'll have to come clean and say" aha I spoofed you" after which you'll get ribbed to bits, for ever.
Newbies
Of course. But, not stupid newbies, or haughty newbies expecting chop chop answers without thread drift. Flaming of newbies not allowed untill after they go ape "eg what gives you the right.." or if it seems that safest and best wd be to frighten v silly newbie off the idea of boats altogether.
Thread drift
Permittes, unless it gets very silly or very horrid as above. A bit horrid is ok, but natch no personal stuff. Talking of horrid here's a joke I ripped off from somewhere else...
Bloke lying in bed in hospital, wife turns up. Wife asks what he's thinking. "I was just thinking about us" he says. "Oh really? what, my dear?" she says. "Well," he says, with tears in his eyes "I remembered how I lost my job, and you stood by me. And how I started business, but it failed, and you stood by me. And how we then lost the house, and again you stood by me. And how now I had a car crash, and here you are again, standing by me". Wife goes all weepy"So what are you trying to say, my darling?". The bloke turns to her and says "You're obviously a f*&$&&ng jinx , why don't you eff off and leave me alone!"
er anyway, that's agreeable, as far as I'm concerned.
"In" jokes
Permitted. But er please explain some of them, to me anyway.
Stupid boat stories/questions
Stories will include all the money you have wasted on things, including boatie things, and so on. Discussions thereof. Crap/good places to visit, dreadful happenings, wife-on-boat problems, hubbie-on boat problems, kiddie problems, doggie problems, also mudwrestling, er foxy-boxing and such-and-such.
Unrelated rubbish
also welcome, provided it doesn't take over utterly. Unless it turn out to be more interesting than boats, which it possibly might, specially in blimmin february.
Your website/hols/pics/boat
Very very interesting and welcome, as everyone on every pontoon in the known universe would love to have a good root round your boat, especially to see if its in a worse state than theirs, thereby saving washing or tidying, and to generally satisfy their pointless noseyness.
Raggies/stinkies
All welcome. Permitted terminolgy will be raggies, rag and stickies, laundry merchants, stickmen, sailyboaters, rag-and-stick merchants, stinkpotter, dieselheads, petrolheads, stinkies, ragpotters, and other non-combative labels, but no nastiness. There will be no resolution of whether powerboats or sailing yachts are better/crapper except for that loony idiot last week who....
Complaining
This will be forbidden. "Out of order" or too-filthy jokes will be canned. But, I am hoping that Kim (who still has the golden padlocks) will start umpteen new forums:
The very-PC "Gosh isn't boating really MUCH MUCH more interesting than sex or drinking?" forum.
The Lurkers forum, for the very worried and frightened
The Complaint Forum, for all the complaints (why didn't Kim think of this?)
The Anode forum (except for wife electrocution stories, which should be here)
The electric/mechanics forum for peeps who want to talk techno but haven't got
time or a decent modem/Internet conexxion to spin past the jokes.
Right, 48 hours standing back, and Motor Boat Chat seems to have turned... DULL. In my humble opinion, anyway.
So, completely against wot I sed earlier (!).......probly time for a motorboat not-chatty forum ...where peeps can post slightly PBO stuff as they have done for the last 2 days.....somewhere else!!
I wd prefer a forum where its' a bit interestin. With the risk of a joke! Or at last smirk! The bar name thread was ok, but other stuff: Dull! Very dull indeed.
MBC (change the name if you want after a week or 2 to "boaters lounge" or such, but leave the post history here, please, Kim)
Jokes
These will be postively encouraged. BUT not loads and loads of jokes allripped off from elsewhere on the net? Oh well, alright, but loads and loads (and loads) of jokes under friday humaour, or monday or er any other day humour.
The acceptabilty test of is the joke is ok is if you'd laugh ( a bit) even if you were the object of the joke. This means no (crap) blue jokes, and no racist jokes. Except against germans, obviously. Oops, well maybe not ? Anyway, americans ok, esp fat americans. But not jokes all v nasty bout sailyboaters, or motorboaters.
Any boaty things
These very much encouraged BUT er well no buts at all really. The Where Do I Find Press Studs question (which I originally thort was a wind-up) is out of the way, so this should be ok. Good chance of a serious question being properly answered. BUT not allowed to prefix "serious" or "get lost with jokes" or " no timewasters" or suchlike. Help to provided if available, else vaguely relevant help, else possible joke, or all the above.
Daft postings
This also permitted, but expect a light flaming, tittering in the background a bit, but not too much, or if too much, apology to be sent by private message at least. EG sorry for being a bit of a tit not knowing wot the rudders do last week etc. etc.
Spoofing
Yes, a bit. ..but of course eventually you'll have to come clean and say" aha I spoofed you" after which you'll get ribbed to bits, for ever.
Newbies
Of course. But, not stupid newbies, or haughty newbies expecting chop chop answers without thread drift. Flaming of newbies not allowed untill after they go ape "eg what gives you the right.." or if it seems that safest and best wd be to frighten v silly newbie off the idea of boats altogether.
Thread drift
Permittes, unless it gets very silly or very horrid as above. A bit horrid is ok, but natch no personal stuff. Talking of horrid here's a joke I ripped off from somewhere else...
Bloke lying in bed in hospital, wife turns up. Wife asks what he's thinking. "I was just thinking about us" he says. "Oh really? what, my dear?" she says. "Well," he says, with tears in his eyes "I remembered how I lost my job, and you stood by me. And how I started business, but it failed, and you stood by me. And how we then lost the house, and again you stood by me. And how now I had a car crash, and here you are again, standing by me". Wife goes all weepy"So what are you trying to say, my darling?". The bloke turns to her and says "You're obviously a f*&$&&ng jinx , why don't you eff off and leave me alone!"
er anyway, that's agreeable, as far as I'm concerned.
"In" jokes
Permitted. But er please explain some of them, to me anyway.
Stupid boat stories/questions
Stories will include all the money you have wasted on things, including boatie things, and so on. Discussions thereof. Crap/good places to visit, dreadful happenings, wife-on-boat problems, hubbie-on boat problems, kiddie problems, doggie problems, also mudwrestling, er foxy-boxing and such-and-such.
Unrelated rubbish
also welcome, provided it doesn't take over utterly. Unless it turn out to be more interesting than boats, which it possibly might, specially in blimmin february.
Your website/hols/pics/boat
Very very interesting and welcome, as everyone on every pontoon in the known universe would love to have a good root round your boat, especially to see if its in a worse state than theirs, thereby saving washing or tidying, and to generally satisfy their pointless noseyness.
Raggies/stinkies
All welcome. Permitted terminolgy will be raggies, rag and stickies, laundry merchants, stickmen, sailyboaters, rag-and-stick merchants, stinkpotter, dieselheads, petrolheads, stinkies, ragpotters, and other non-combative labels, but no nastiness. There will be no resolution of whether powerboats or sailing yachts are better/crapper except for that loony idiot last week who....
Complaining
This will be forbidden. "Out of order" or too-filthy jokes will be canned. But, I am hoping that Kim (who still has the golden padlocks) will start umpteen new forums:
The very-PC "Gosh isn't boating really MUCH MUCH more interesting than sex or drinking?" forum.
The Lurkers forum, for the very worried and frightened
The Complaint Forum, for all the complaints (why didn't Kim think of this?)
The Anode forum (except for wife electrocution stories, which should be here)
The electric/mechanics forum for peeps who want to talk techno but haven't got
time or a decent modem/Internet conexxion to spin past the jokes.
