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For the next month or so, the forum is changing its name, and the following New Rules will apply to all posts which mention Alan Priddy, the fact that he is going across the Atlantic again in a yellow boat, and/or Soltron.
1. Niceness clause: There will be no criticism AT ALL permitted of Alan Priddy or anyone else on the boat "Sprit of Cardiff" which is due to make a transatlantic trip very soon. They are all nice blokes. This is an easy clause, cos it's actually true, and even if AP does go off one one, who doesn't from time to time?
2. The No-Criticising Our Brave Lads - It's For Charity clause. There will be no criticism permitted of any aspect of the project. Posters are to behave as though the survival of our way of life and nationhood depends on the success of the yellow boat reaching its target, just like, say, the Battle of Britain. It's MUCH more important than, say, the World Cup, even though the England soccer team was actually representing England and SOC wasn't representing anything other than perhaps (a bit) Cardiff, sort-of.
Any criticism of the prepartion, the boat, route or anything else will taken very personally indeed and met by simulataneous official statements in response thus
a) that you are unpatriotic
b) that you are a hateful unsupportive git and
c) that you couldn't do any better.
It doesn't matter that the last 30 med ports you visited in the dark all had fishfarms in or around them and you hit none of them, nor does it make any difference if you donated money towards their last project.
NOTE: a post that projects the current average speed of (say) seven knots foward to the end and suggests that they might not make it also constitues "cricitism" and the penalties above will apply.
3. Technically Advanced clause: The boat spirit of Cardiff is always to be recognised as a wondrous craft. All its gear is very advanced and not ordinary at all, with specially designed everything and pillows. So, there'll be no carping about the upward-facing windscreen, for example, when even casual non-experts might notice that most atlantic-bound vessels have the screen downward-slanting or vertical with Kent screens.
4. Unforseeability clause: There may be problems. In fact, there might be loads if last time is anything to go by and the boat has been rotting in a shed for a while since then most of the time BUT any and all problems are hereby deemed "unforeseeable" or "unlucky" and, like last time NOT ONE problems is even in the slightest bit the fault of the skipper or anyone else - except YOUR fault for not giving them enough money, you tight git, and the lack of loot is the ONLY reason they failed last time, hence already YOUR FAULT.
If the team manages to get out of the problem, on their own or with any and all assistance of the combined airforce and rescue services of North Atlantic, all praise will be heaped on the crew, and primarily upon Priddy for "saving someone's life" or whatever. There will be NO suggestion that pursuing the project long after any chance of record-setting had passed actually nearly killed the person in question, for example.
5. Soltron Clause: If you choose to comment on the project (you fool you!) you agree that the project would be impossible without Soltron. Every opportunity must be taken to praise this product, and to confirm that if this or any boat had lots of diesel - without soltron the engine would splutter, the crew would catch scurvy and the moon would crash into the sea. Further, YBW moderators, for example, are NOT ALLOWED to say er just a minute, every time someone mentions anything about that spirit of cardiff boat or priddy, up pops a sponsor with a load of free advertising again, which would be very horrid, for some reason.
6. The Diversionary Response Clause: all posts regarding the Priddy atlantic challenge will be responded to by the ever-helpful Depsol, who like Priddy is also actually a nice bloke. Depsol will in part police the above terms, and also helpfully send you off to other websites from which there is no return to any of the blimmin carping on ybw.
Have I missed anything?
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1. Niceness clause: There will be no criticism AT ALL permitted of Alan Priddy or anyone else on the boat "Sprit of Cardiff" which is due to make a transatlantic trip very soon. They are all nice blokes. This is an easy clause, cos it's actually true, and even if AP does go off one one, who doesn't from time to time?
2. The No-Criticising Our Brave Lads - It's For Charity clause. There will be no criticism permitted of any aspect of the project. Posters are to behave as though the survival of our way of life and nationhood depends on the success of the yellow boat reaching its target, just like, say, the Battle of Britain. It's MUCH more important than, say, the World Cup, even though the England soccer team was actually representing England and SOC wasn't representing anything other than perhaps (a bit) Cardiff, sort-of.
Any criticism of the prepartion, the boat, route or anything else will taken very personally indeed and met by simulataneous official statements in response thus
a) that you are unpatriotic
b) that you are a hateful unsupportive git and
c) that you couldn't do any better.
It doesn't matter that the last 30 med ports you visited in the dark all had fishfarms in or around them and you hit none of them, nor does it make any difference if you donated money towards their last project.
NOTE: a post that projects the current average speed of (say) seven knots foward to the end and suggests that they might not make it also constitues "cricitism" and the penalties above will apply.
3. Technically Advanced clause: The boat spirit of Cardiff is always to be recognised as a wondrous craft. All its gear is very advanced and not ordinary at all, with specially designed everything and pillows. So, there'll be no carping about the upward-facing windscreen, for example, when even casual non-experts might notice that most atlantic-bound vessels have the screen downward-slanting or vertical with Kent screens.
4. Unforseeability clause: There may be problems. In fact, there might be loads if last time is anything to go by and the boat has been rotting in a shed for a while since then most of the time BUT any and all problems are hereby deemed "unforeseeable" or "unlucky" and, like last time NOT ONE problems is even in the slightest bit the fault of the skipper or anyone else - except YOUR fault for not giving them enough money, you tight git, and the lack of loot is the ONLY reason they failed last time, hence already YOUR FAULT.
If the team manages to get out of the problem, on their own or with any and all assistance of the combined airforce and rescue services of North Atlantic, all praise will be heaped on the crew, and primarily upon Priddy for "saving someone's life" or whatever. There will be NO suggestion that pursuing the project long after any chance of record-setting had passed actually nearly killed the person in question, for example.
5. Soltron Clause: If you choose to comment on the project (you fool you!) you agree that the project would be impossible without Soltron. Every opportunity must be taken to praise this product, and to confirm that if this or any boat had lots of diesel - without soltron the engine would splutter, the crew would catch scurvy and the moon would crash into the sea. Further, YBW moderators, for example, are NOT ALLOWED to say er just a minute, every time someone mentions anything about that spirit of cardiff boat or priddy, up pops a sponsor with a load of free advertising again, which would be very horrid, for some reason.
6. The Diversionary Response Clause: all posts regarding the Priddy atlantic challenge will be responded to by the ever-helpful Depsol, who like Priddy is also actually a nice bloke. Depsol will in part police the above terms, and also helpfully send you off to other websites from which there is no return to any of the blimmin carping on ybw.
Have I missed anything?
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