Scuttlebutt losing it's lustre

Re: Scuttlebutt losing it\'s lustre

Fair enough rhinorhino

If you want to see a discussion about the state of the UK charter market, what's prevented you from starting one? It takes active participation to make the site interesting for all. Perhaps there are too few people starting these threads, but you can hardly react by calling it boring and expect to move anything forward.

Tom

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Re: Scuttlebutt losing it\'s lustre

Perhaps a trifle unfair, I do start quite a few threads and join a lot more (when I have something to say, I hope) My point was however one about the over usage of mock regional acents and in-jokes.

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Re: Here here

Instead of complaining about content of some threads .. Scuttlebutters who wish to see more "substance" should post / start thread with "substance"

Personally I take the stance that not everything I say will be of meaning or sense.. in fact most of it wont.. but life would be very boring if every word you uttered or typed had to be of consequence..

Sorry but I am frivolous and refuse to take myself seriously.. I find it is more fun that way!
 
Re: Any More Grumpy Old Men Out There?

Has Stingo managed to get around the world already?

I thought he was in La Corunia ?

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policing Again!

I often look at these forums because I find them very entertaining so much so that sometimes they make me laugh out loud.

By way of an example some geezer called Brigantine (or something like that) submitted a covert ad for crew for the Fastnet. (When in reality he was using the forum to drum up business). The responses were nothing short of fantastic, witty, clever and very very funny which all contributed to a significantly brightening of my day. It's pretty evident to me that the forum polices itself using wit alone and when someone is really out of order Kim appropriately steps in.

I have also learnt a great deal and have often used the forum to pick the brains of the various experts. Plus I have bought and sold a few bits and pieces.

The pot marker thread may lead to something constructive being done about this virus and indeed warns of problem areas.

For my money the blend is bang on target and I thoroughly enjoy it as it is.

I also think it's very parental to suggest that their should be greater policing of the site but the writers suggestion doesn't surprise me. That's what police officers do best isn't it.........................restrict the freedom to express ones self in any way which doesn't meet approval. Least ways that's my understanding of any police state that has ever existed.

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Unusually quiet

I agree we all have a responsibility to participate and input quality posts.it is a small minority who tend to populate the board with nonesense which unfortunately means that many interesting posts don't get any attention because people are raving on about speed cameras or other drivel. It's quite interesting that none of those people have anything to say about this thread.Quite telling really.

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Re: Scuttlebutt losing it\'s lustre

Badger, you have come in for some real flak here, from people who normally know better. You're right. The word is JADED.

All sailing BBs get there eventually, everything about marinas, moorings, antifoul, stinkpots, blue ensigns, anchors, plastic vs wood... has already been said, so we end up with irrelevant crap posted in heathen dialect (to establish a little clique) or navel-gazing like yours.

;-))

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Navel gazing

I think you have hit the nail on the head Denbeigh.Upon contemplating my bellybutton , I am inevitably forced to concede that it is redundant. My bellybutton served its purpose by supplying me with nourishment while I was in the womb but upon my birth it shriveled up and died. Its sole function now is to gather lint and other dross,which leads us back to the original post.

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Re: Grossly unfair

Among others, I seem to recall there was at least one thread about a certain houseboat owned by Vince Shalom which was pulled for no particular reason other than some people thought it was boring and a few others got rather excited . It was, nonetheless, one of the more active threads about a worthwhile sailing topic of relevance to many sailors. Moreover, it provoked discussion.

Was he then asked to cease using the forum, or was it that his threads on the Liveaboard forum just removed themselves?

My profuse and sincere apologies if no such threads were deleted.

(if the kettle's black ... etc.)

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Re: Grossly unfair

>>of relevance to many sailors<<

How so?

There are many issues with liveaboards in marinas. Noah's issues are unique to his situation.

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Re: Unusually quiet

Hold on sunshine, I'm not letting you get away with that. I posted to the speed camera debate, but also to a number of 'worthier' discussions and am fairly new to the forum.

For a while I just read the entries, got a feel for the regulars, the kind of conversations, etc before chipping in for the first time a few weeks back. The way I see it, it's just like a yacht club. You go to a yacht club because the people there all have a common interest, but it doesn't mean everyone talks all the time about sailing. Every now and again a debate will open up about something outside boats. And there'll be a few cliquey groups that may seem a bit off-putting to outsiders. Fine - those that want to stand at the bar and carry on talking about the merits of one type of knot over another can do that.

If you don't like it, don't bother reading it! I've not interest in other people's views on politics, so I don't click on a thread labelled 'IDS - In or Out?' Simple! For me the occaisonal forays into non-boating subjects - as long as they don't grow too much - help me form a mental picture of what my cyber- yacht mates are like.

Are the sailing related postings interesting? Maybe you're bored of them, but I've found reading and contributing to threads about the origins of '80s Jeanneau in ORC racing designs, or how to finance a new boat purchase, or the pros and cons of buying ex-charter to be different and interesting.

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Re: Grossly unfair

Well, happy to put the record straight.

No he wasn't asked to stop using the forum. If memory serves right I did, quite a few months back, ask him to stop posting the same message on several occasions.

Yes I pulled two of his several threads because on those occasions they were attracting a level of abuse from other posters that looked like it was heading for trouble. It was done as much for his own good as anything else.

Noah got his day, and more besides, on these forums and if you pop across to Reader to Reader you'll see he is still there. Given that we are not entirely aware of the other side to his story I think we were more than fair.

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Re: one who has seen

noah
has the mv picton from memory
it was an mv in name alone
i have seen it it is a big white thing alongside the wall aat penarth? cardiff anyway
and bears more resemblance to a house than a vessel
that aside my own personal gripe was that noah accused the local yard of being uncooperative simply cos they would not give out details of how they lifted the local rnli boat out of the water
and then went on to put obtuse posts up that were supposedly hypothetical but in actuality related directly to his grievance



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Re: Personal gybes and a tack

There is a third option, surely, and that is to react with humour. Mostly, in my experience hereabouts, they aren't made at all seriously. An example was the so-called "attack" by me on you which was entirely jesting, and which you unfortunately took very badly, which i didn't mean you to do. But life moves on! Unfortunately (but not exclusively) the humour option is only easily available if the "opponents" have met in real life. One needs a high degree of ability to laugh at oneself.

Anyway, regardless....of great interest in your post was the intersting and very apropos nautical mixup of the words "gybe" insead of "jibe". I wonder if the word "attack" also derives from " a tack"?



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Lost lustre?

Now back on land, I'm catching up with Scuttlebutt and telly viewing etc in an effort to postpone the decorating. Best T.V, so far 'Grumpy Old Men' a load of opinionated comment from the likes of John Peel, Bob Geldof etc on a range of things from the monarchy, politics and the school play. Fascinating and very entertaining. Bit like Scuttlebutt at its best! Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, fellas. This is still an excellent forum, but, sadly, it seems to be missing some of the more controversial characters at the moment.

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Stingo retreats

>Stingo (because forumites thought he was taking the piss about sailing around the world in a Benteau and how he's gone and done it - making a lot of people look like some right plonkers)<

1) If our lad has already been round the world, then, having left on the 4th october, 2003 at 1630, then he has just won the Jules Verne trophy, single handed in a placcy Benny.
2) He's standing by my side at the moment in a London suburb, having drunk all my beer. I haven't seen a Jules Verne trophy anywhere (John is that a trophy in your pocket or are you just pleased to see my daughter?)

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Re: drunk all my beer..

this is a common character fault with solo circumnavigators I am informed and anyway having busted Jules Vernes record rather well don't you think he deserves your beer?

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From 2003

Badger:

"I don't know if it's only me but this forum seems to be losing it's lustre somewhat.There used to be really good debates on sailing topics such as the best watch system, how to rig spinnakers, jet-skis, anchoring and much sailing related humour and fun. Recent postings seem to be a lot of drivel about speed cameras (please don't give Happy1 any more encouragement to post here), politics, racism, Paul Burrel or tedious in jokes amongst a few etc. Where are the quality posts of the past and the quality posters ? Or have we just run out of things to talk about. "
 
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