Tell me why !!!

Re: Reality check

Utrecht is ruled by the Turkish mafia, as was Amstrerdam, it's now going to the eastern block mafias, as you say, since the wall came down. I could tell you stories about the drugs trade over there, which would make your hair curl! I lived and worked there for many years!
 
Re: Reality check

Yes well, Pwllheli, and living up there, you live in a small town or the country, I think you had better visit a bigish city, the back streets, any street! before you tell me I'm a doom and gloom merchant, don't you read the papers, listen to the news, worse race riots in 20 years in the north west, and now Preston! I live 100% on board by the way, I love the cruising people I meet, I will not be going to live onshore, not until I can't get on the boat anymore! But doom and gloom merchant I'm not, just well informed!
 
Re:First bike

My first road bike was a C15, can't remember which model, seem to think SS80. Got knocked off it coming back from Pwllheli one Easter (1971) then someone nicked it, did well out of the insurance and bought a Honda C150 Benly twin, so smooth, had a hole in the silence which sounded lovely!
 
Re:First bike

My first bike, was a royal enfield continental 250, five speed box, went like a bat out of hell, but couldn't keep oil in it, no matter what I did, extra breathers etc. I saw one the other week, it was still dripping oil! They never did stop them leaking oil! The royal enfiled constelation 700, late one, I still lust after! I'm thinking of buying a 1974 triumph adventurer, same frame as the B50, to replace the B50, but with the 500 triumph twin, I would put the alloy 650 barrels and head on it, with single carb, electronic ignition, belt drive primary, morgo oil pump, all the bells and whistles, reliabilty, oil tight and lots of oomph! Light aswell, with ally everything! Plus of course it's British!
 
Re:British Bikes

In those days if they didn't leak oil you had to be mighty suspicious that something was seriously wrong with them. Which daft sod thought of horizontally joined crankcases?
 
Re: Doom and Gloom

Todays evening standard

Camden. Street crime up 30% car crime up 38%
Greenwich. street crime up a whopping 73.9%
Westminister.Sex crimes up 49% Highest violent crime level in London

1,057,360 offences in London. Clear up rate just 14%. i.e. 86% not caught or got off. They must be laughing all the way to the bank with our wallets and cars etc.In the last few years I personaly have been a burglary victim (that was in a quite genteel hertfordshire village) one car stolen, one set of wheels stolen, one car radio stolen, one push bike stolen, accosted on the streets for money. So not gloom and doom.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/yacht/serafina/
 
Re: Doom and Gloom

Thanks, I didn't think I was overeacting! Some people just believe everything is rosy in the garden, but never open the gate.
 
Now I know why !!! Or not ?...

Well, I'm impressed, really.
In spite of the fact that my english is as poor as everyone would expect from an italian, which means that in some cases I did not catch 100% of each message, I'm impressed by such an interesting and various list of replies...
...and just in another few days outside, rushing as usually in the daily job !
OK, I guess that part of the reason lies in how silly my question was...
Most of you were right saying that there is no answer at all, or that we have to find a personal answer on our own. Or maybe, could the answer be that we should not look for THE answer, but rather continue to ask questions, and keep searching ?...
Believe it or not, I also have a new Volvo scraped on its side, as the friend of southchinasea.
But hey, both of us still have a Volvo!
And the internet, and a fridge full of beer and food, and the satellite TV, and other amenities.
Last but not least, we can spend some time (now and then, at least) sailing some lovely sea with some lovely boat...
We can not complain after all: most of the people around the world have better reasons than ourselves for being angry with their own lifestyle: I don't think that those gentlemen who scraped our cars in the night are driving a Bentley during the day...
Which is not, of course, a good reason for those (or possibly even worse) behaviours.
But definitely, this is a viewpoint which make me accept more easily some cues on the motorway, some endless and useless meetings, and so on.
And eventually, the dream of leaving sooner of later the civilization behind and sail away still helps in the daily life...
Whether the dream will ever turn into reality or not, is it so important?
...meanwhile, we can continue to struggle trying to get rich.
Gosh, now I remember what was actually my main reason for joining the forum tonight: posting a message in the "for sale" section ! Back to business, show must go on !!!
Many thanks to you all for the suggestions.
 
Re: Doom and Gloom

Probably it is not overreacting. Still I believe that the vast majority is not really often confronted with all these problems. Living (aboard, thank heavens) in the rural south-west of the Netherlands, I for one do not often really see real crimes happen. What is getting on my nerves is the ever more suffocating rules and regulations on anything you can imagine. The only way to get away from them is take the boat en simply go. But, alas.... unless we win the lottery we shall have to struggle on for a couple of years more. But finally the big day will come. I know, until then it is a dream, but at least it keeps us going...


Peter a/b SV Heerenleed, Netherlands
 
Re: Doom and Gloom

I lived in Holland for a few years, two of them living aboard on the Alkmaardermeer, I loved it, but the winters, Brrrrr! Bloody cold! I know what you mean about interference, but I could put up with it in Holland, it's when I went home the problems really started, I just didn't know the system and didn't want to, I was treated like a gipsy, no fixed abode they call it, no rights, not like Holland atall. Crime in UK is really bad now, I used to go to Bergen for a beer, in fifteen years I saw two fights, in UK in Dartmouth, at least one a night and its half the size of Bergen! Plus its a very backwoods type of place, very quaint, I would hate to live in a city! The theft, vandalism, muggings and drug abuse is getting really bad. I'm glad I'm out of it.
 
Re: Doom and Gloom

Todays Doom and Gloom comes from the Daily Mail." You are now more likely to be mugged in london than Harlem." Blunkets response is to blame the police. Classic.
Do you remember the pre- election pledges?
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.....We will be whiter than white.........we will rid British politics of sleaze......no tax and spend........we will always be honest.

Yeah right.

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/yacht/serafina/
 
Re: Doom and Gloom

Come on! Have you ever heard a politician tell the truth? The only one I knew was John Smith, and he went and died on us! Of course, it's all in our imaginations! The country isn't going to the shitheap in a hand cart, Oh! No! Open yer' eyes! Not you sorry you already have yours wide open, probably in fear! You may have to tread those streets!
 
Re: Doom and Gloom

You need to rehearse for a wedding, I thought you just went and did it, booked a registrar and got on with it! The government can borrow my handcart if they want! I've never had as much as a shackle stolen in Portugal! The crime rate in Lagos and generally on the Algarve is very, very low! IMHO of course!
 
Rose coloured glasses, eh?

Why? Just because I will not condemn a whole society as a result of the current situation in some areas? Just for the record, the whole of my professional working life has been with young people. This is how I currently see things:

IMHO
Youngsters:

Group 1 (a small minority) are aggressive, antisocial and are all too aware of their rights, but refuse to accept their responsibilities. They have always existed, but are a growing group causing major problems within society. I agree with the p.c. comment about this lot and how we are not (and never have) tackling them effectively.

Group 2 (larger, and much more of a worry) are those disaffected youngsters with -for a variety of reasons- low self esteem, who feel they are failures within the current system. After all we frequently tell lots of them that they are failures at the age of 7, 11, 14 and in all major exams. For them underage sex, booze and drugs seem a big attraction. Most of them damage no-one but themselves, however they are vulnerable to the group one people and can become caught up in a cycle of antisocial and aggressive behaviour.

Group three (the majority) are hard working, honest and altogether delightful. I have absolutely no fears that this group will do anything other than mature into responsible adults.

There are many things in our culture, background and traditions of which I am proud. I'm simply not prepared to condemn the whole nation.

Hope I've convinced you that I do know what is at the other side of my garden gate. Do you?

This will probably be my last 'political' statement - looking forward to returning to boating issues.

Cynthia
 
Re: Rose coloured glasses, eh?

Terribly sorry, Cynthia, but I wasn't talking about just the young in this country/society! I happen to agree with you on some of the issues, albeit not many. You will never convince me iot was as bad as this 25 years ago, the violent and all crime figures back me up, I'm sorry. I think I'll leave it there also
 
Re: Rose coloured glasses, eh?

Yes lets all leave it here. Cynthia you are dead right about the groupings. The BIG problem now is we are not allowed ,due to pc and other crackpot ideas, to DISCIPLINE them untill they also join the decent majority.

And so back to the delights of boating.............................

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/yacht/serafina/
 
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