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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 13:27:07 GMT
It's a quiet day, so forgive my ramblings.
I was chatting to a very pleasant lady at a lock, when she began to recount a tale of cruising through Cropedy and said they'd been "passing loads and loads of really scruffy boats" and how horrible they were.
She later began to say that all hire boats were racing about far too fast and never slowed down, it's disgraceful.
Both passing comments irritated me, and I found myself defending both groups and having a 'bit of a dig'.
As it's quiet here, I've been reading t'other place, and find many similar highly judgemental comments that irritate and make me want to 'have a dig' back, particularly on the engine running thread.
I suppose it's very judgemental of me to react in this way, to what I find judgemental in others.
Am I some kind of inverted snob, or do others react similarly?
Rog
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Post by Telemachus on Aug 27, 2018 13:33:29 GMT
Yes and yes.
But I don’t have a problem with judging others particularly, but only when it applies to specific acts by specific people. What is clearly bollocks is to say that “all hire boaters do xyz” and “all scruffy boaters are dole scrounges and will nick stuff from you” etc. And not to mention “all Hudson owners are xyz”. That sort of thing is prejudice pure and simple.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 13:37:11 GMT
All thunderboat posters are twats.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 27, 2018 13:43:14 GMT
I don't find scruffy boats "horrible" but I often find myself wondering why the owner doesn't spend 10 minutes with a bowl of soapy water washing it off a bit. Even just cleaning the green gunk off of the windows would make it far lighter and more pleasant inside.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 27, 2018 14:13:10 GMT
All thunderboat posters are twats. I got the shirt!
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 27, 2018 14:25:29 GMT
I washed our boat twice this Summer - hosepipe, dish-washing brush, CIF cream cleaner. We like to be clean and tidy and neat. If we ever have visitors we would certainly not give them tea to drink out of a dirty, chipped mug. It's always a good feeling after some cleaning and tidying and vacuuming and washing to sit back and admire your efforts. One trick is to imagine visitors are coming in a couple of hours, that encourages you to look around for anything that needs doing, and put your back into it. I always make sure there is one or two spare rolls of toilet paper by the loo, because it's awful as a visitor having to ask for that. I sometimes brush our shower walls with cream cleaner - on showering it off you can see the dirt run off. We have been replacing our shower curtain once a year - the bottoms always get a bit mouldy / go a funny colour. I like to keep all our tools clean, and replace any that aren't up to scratch. And we change our doormat twice a year - cost £2 each from Wilko. We have this sheeps theme shower curtain (Spirella, Made in Switzerland).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 16:00:28 GMT
The thing that 'pushes my buttons' is when someone quite forcefully states "I've got solar" or "I've got LED lights" or "I wash my boat every week" and the CLEAR implication is that others who don't have or do the same are lesser mortals, not worthy of consideration.
Some of the nicest people I have met were on 'scruffy' boats, and the absolute arseholes I've met were shiny boaters.
But that's no rule for life, because the people were all individuals making their own choices and judgements.
Why would anyone close their mind, and not just accept that we're all different, all make our own value judgements and decisions based on our own experience/finance/history etc.
Surely it's not too hard to avoid the judgemental generalizations that create the animosity.
I am of course aware of the irony of me judging people and complaining about their judging, sorry.
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 27, 2018 16:06:46 GMT
I look down my nose at boaters with fake rivets, composting toilets and bow thrusters. And Gingers.
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Post by quaysider on Aug 27, 2018 16:12:51 GMT
I don't judge anyone anymore... not even prostitute murdering, closeted truck-drivers with a regressive ginger gene
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 16:20:06 GMT
I look down my nose at boaters with fake rivets, composting toilets and bow thrusters. And Gingers. Let's not kid ourselves... you don't look down your nose at anyone... you're way too short Rog
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Post by patty on Aug 27, 2018 16:28:19 GMT
Wandered over The Worms Head again today...what gets me and I itch to comment is the idiots vying for Darwin Award who attempt the crossing in the most stupid shoes out and then try and help their townie kids who...yep are also wearing silly shoes.Fortunately as I decided to wade through retreating tide I managed over to the far end and back to middle part before I met any numpty tourists...
Roll on winter then its all mine......like the canals tourists don't come..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 17:17:30 GMT
What I meant to say was those who call others hypercrites are usually hypercriites...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 17:24:54 GMT
Great name for a tribute band... The Hypocrites. Even if they were rubbish nobody dare complain Rog
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 27, 2018 17:26:45 GMT
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Post by JohnV on Aug 27, 2018 17:43:57 GMT
Some of the nicest people I have met were on 'scruffy' boats, and the absolute arseholes I've met were shiny boaters. I would have generally agreed with that before yesterday Rog ...... yesterday I met a total arsehole, in fact just about the biggest arsehole I have ever come across while boating ...... and he had a scruffy boat PS and he was also as thick as a whole stack of short planks and seemed to be imennsly proud of being an ignorant twat
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