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Post by Stumpy on Jun 10, 2018 15:45:20 GMT
It's all to do with manners. Manners were drilled into me before I was the knee height of a grasshopper, and have held me in good stead all my life so far. Something sadly lacking in today's society.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2018 15:45:31 GMT
Imagine turning up to moor and finding a wrinkly old whingeing prick with delusions of grandeur, and fake rivets. You just know he does not really want to boat, but he has to because his partner enjoys it. 😂
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Post by Telemachus on Jun 10, 2018 15:47:02 GMT
Don’t get jealous krissypoos, if we pass your boat on our travels I’ll stop for a huge wet sloppy snog! I wouldn't bother if I was you Nick, as a kick in the bollocks often offends. Ooooh! you’re such a tease!
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Post by Stumpy on Jun 10, 2018 15:50:03 GMT
Mind you, I equally hate the phenomenon where you choose a lonely isolated spot to moor, so that you can strip naked and conduct sun worship and human sacrifice (or whatever) and despite there being over 2,000 miles of possible mooring sites, some twat comes and moors button to button with you. Actually I think that's more annoying, as you expect some noise at busy sites. Rog That is something that used to make me boil ....... moor up for the evening, feet up, glass of vino, dinner warming nicely. miles from anywhere and anyone and lo and behold, just as dinner is ready some b****** rocks up and moors right next to you ...... why? there's sodding miles of empty and he stops next to you ..... B******* And then complain that your mooziks to loud, or you're pumping out to much smoke from the chimney. Three words....Fuck Off Then !
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2018 16:08:38 GMT
It's irrational I know, but it's not that they make noise or any disturbance....... it's just that they're there......in the place I selected just for me. They could moor 100 yards away if they feel lonely out of sight of another boat, they don't have to be touching surely! I always work on the view that if they moor near me, I was there first so they have to put up with me. We've often pondered saving empty beer cans to scatter around once moored, and putting a large genny and a 'ghetto blaster' on the towpath. When we had two large GSD's we seemed to attract fewer neighbours too Rog
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Post by metanoia on Jun 10, 2018 16:24:56 GMT
It's irrational I know, but it's not that they make noise or any disturbance....... it's just that they're there......in the place I selected just for me. They could moor 100 yards away if they feel lonely out of sight of another boat, they don't have to be touching surely! I always work on the view that if they moor near me, I was there first so they have to put up with me. We've often pondered saving empty beer cans to scatter around once moored, and putting a large genny and a 'ghetto blaster' on the towpath. When we had two large GSD's we seemed to attract fewer neighbours too Rog Next time the boat's out of the water, must remember to get that massive mooring magnet removed .......!
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Post by thebfg on Jun 10, 2018 16:35:02 GMT
That is something that used to make me boil ....... moor up for the evening, feet up, glass of vino, dinner warming nicely. miles from anywhere and anyone and lo and behold, just as dinner is ready some b****** rocks up and moors right next to you ...... why? there's sodding miles of empty and he stops next to you ..... B******* Yes but one has to be careful of one’s grounds. We recently moored for the night between Minworth and Curdworth. I suppose that might seem “in the middle of nowhere” by BCN standards. We had joined another boat already there. Later on, 2 further boats joined the line. I got chatting with the chap on the first boat, perfectly pleasant but he hinted at this phenomena - they’d moored in the middle of nowhere with no boats around, and 3 hours later there were a further 3 boats all nose to tail. The thing is, he had failed to notice that the Cuttle Bridge Inn was about 30 yards away the other side of the bridge (and thus just out of sight) and mooring right outside tends to be a bit noisy with road noise. So actually he had stopped in prime over night mooring zone, it was just that he was the first to get there. it's things like that that interest me and one of the reasons I don't join in on Facebook rants. Boater one moors in what he perceives is a quiet isolated spot and then when the other boats moor up he goes of rant and raving on faceache eventually naming and shaming these boats for ruining his quiet night and all the others on what group it happens to be start gathering up their pitchforks. the other boats are just happy they have turned up and there is space. perception is a wonderfully strange occurance
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 10, 2018 17:11:29 GMT
Well, I had the pleasure of Nick and Jeff passing by this afternoon just as I was getting ready to set off, and so naturally being an irritating shit I yelled "Oi, TellyMackus!" as they did.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2018 17:45:57 GMT
New thread title, boater leaves marina, gets bored, creates thread to entice confrontation.
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Post by Telemachus on Jun 10, 2018 17:51:49 GMT
New thread title, boater leaves marina, gets bored, creates thread to entice confrontation. And your point is...?
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Post by Telemachus on Jun 10, 2018 17:52:30 GMT
Well, I had the pleasure of Nick and Jeff passing by this afternoon just as I was getting ready to set off, and so naturally being an irritating shit I yelled "Oi, TellyMackus!" as they did. Yeabut your magnet was shit. All rivets still intact!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2018 18:12:05 GMT
New thread title, boater leaves marina, gets bored, creates thread to entice confrontation. And your point is...? Didn't you get it? Sigh, dumber and dumber.
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Post by kris on Jun 10, 2018 18:13:37 GMT
Well, I had the pleasure of Nick and Jeff passing by this afternoon just as I was getting ready to set off, and so naturally being an irritating shit I yelled "Oi, TellyMackus!" as they did. Yeabut your magnet was shit. All rivets still intact! Rivets?
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Post by Telemachus on Jun 10, 2018 18:15:52 GMT
Yeabut your magnet was shit. All rivets still intact! Rivets? All right, “rivets”. Or even washers. There, better now?
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 10, 2018 18:19:01 GMT
Black spray-painted beer bottle tops.
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