Ode to the grumpy gits!

[Capn Pugwash]

Inspired by various vitriolic posts from miserable old gits!


The YBW forum it would seem
Attracts those with views that are quite extreme
Such belly aching and grumpy retorts
From sad little men in ill fitting shorts

They should spend more time at their local tailors
Instead of behaving like armchair sailors
I think you agree with me in your heart of hearts?
(Unless you are one of those silly old farts!)

 

[jimi]

ROTFLMSO ... brilliant!

 

[GulfCoastOne]

Very amusing /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Twister_Ken]

Harumph, young whipper snappers writing pomes when they should be concentrating on kicking IPC's ass don't know they're born half of them with their gold-plated keyboards and trophy wives designer oilskins and bandanas what's wrong with smocks and army surplus gas capes eh and another thing always whingeing about the weather when I was a boy you needed a good force six to get the old tub above three knots with their skimming dishes made from frozen snot and shiny sails whats the world coming to we've blackballed them from the Royal Mudslide-on-Sea Yacht Club turning up in their BMW military vehicles with their revolting children called Troy and Kylie asking for pina colada at the bar I ask you pina (word deleted) coladas what's wrong with a pint of Frobishers mild not gassy fizzy bright yellow muck brewed by some jerry wearing leather shorts and a glass of amontillado for the ladies then moaning about the price of diesel because they can't sail their plastic toys back on to a mooring no seamanship any of them of course if they'd take their ipods out of their ears frying their brains with so-called music from beat combos rather than listening the band of the Royal Marines playing hearts of oak I'd take the lot of them and...

 

[Koeketiene]

Daddy!

 

[GulfCoastOne]

I think you forgot to mention one or two items such as the use of a chart plotter doing away with the need for a paper chart and chart table ?

 

[Twister_Ken]

tried talking to one of them about using an astrolabe he thought it was something you kept in the bedside table drawer

 

[GulfCoastOne]

Probably confused when the word 'Uranus' cropped up.

 

[KenMcCulloch]

[ QUOTE ]
tried talking to one of them about using an astrolabe he thought it was something you kept in the bedside table drawer

[/ QUOTE ] Astrolabe, pah, what's wrong with a backstaff and a regular examination of the taste and colour of the water?

 

[Twister_Ken]

you're being mucky young man no call for that and nothing wrong with a dawn sight of uranus either of course some of 'em don't know the difference between uranus and elba...

 

[Oliveoyl]

Great tribute to James Joyce. Hard to write without punctuation, while keeping the tempo.
Bravo!

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Ken,
You really are becoming a pinko liberal mandlbarmy softie these days. I'd hoped for a better example of diatribe.
You omitted horsewhipping those with chartplotters, gps, and matching pastel his?/hers oilies, to mention just a few of these wretches aberrations.

Fortunately, Old Chap, their sort never sail in the the winter, und so the Solent is all mein again. On, On, invade Newport/Poland, enslave zer brickies und chippies, march them to my properties- gentrify, gentrify. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Oh Bu**&%r, I'm So Ssorry, it's these headaches and the voices in my head- I'll just go for a lie down and an 'elfin satiety risk assessment. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif