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Post by JohnV on Oct 30, 2017 7:35:30 GMT
We met a couple this summer, who were relocating from London, to cruise the Stratford area as they have work there (thespians). Very pleasant couple. I suspect many will seek to move out of the centre to find a better way of life, certainly the committed boaters. Rog Yes it's alright rog, the committed boaters will leave first. But what about when the rest get the same idea? We need to block all waterways now. Well except the Thames heading downstream any boater who has the wearwithal to leave London by the tide way and head round the coast should be allowed to. sod off !!! us salty types don't want freshwater refugees on our patch ...... they're welcome to visit but then they can piss off back into the smoke  |
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Oct 30, 2017 8:37:44 GMT
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Post by kris on Oct 30, 2017 8:37:44 GMT
Yes it's alright rog, the committed boaters will leave first. But what about when the rest get the same idea? We need to block all waterways now. Well except the Thames heading downstream any boater who has the wearwithal to leave London by the tide way and head round the coast should be allowed to. sod off !!! us salty types don't want freshwater refugees on our patch ...... they're welcome to visit but then they can piss off back into the smoke but it would be a kind of Darwin filter because I'm sure lots wouldn't survive and the ones that did would be hardened boaters. |
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Oct 30, 2017 9:57:29 GMT
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 30, 2017 9:57:29 GMT
Yes it's alright rog, the committed boaters will leave first. But what about when the rest get the same idea? We need to block all waterways now. Well except the Thames heading downstream any boater who has the wearwithal to leave London by the tide way and head round the coast should be allowed to. sod off !!! us salty types don't want freshwater refugees on our patch ...... they're welcome to visit but then they can piss off back into the smoke You can mow them down if they get in the way.  |
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Post by peterboat on Oct 30, 2017 10:35:42 GMT
I met lots of nice and friendly boat dwellers when I was in London last year. There is a totally different mentality to London boaters, who typically seem to have no interest in boating per se but who cannot afford mortgages or rent and generally contrive to move their boats as infrequently as possible and for the shortest distance possible. It may as well be a lock-up garage or a garden shed to them. This doesn't make them "bad people" although their presence does make it very difficult for visiting boaters to moor. I doubt the couple you met herald the beginning of an exodus. Most London boat dwellers seem to have media, banking and advertising jobs which are only available in London and so in London they will stay, unless and until CRT make their lifestyle impossible to continue. The wider problem is of course the horrendous housing shortage in the UK. I agree with what you are saying other than the housing shortage we have to many people in the country! we also have a lot of empty properties, before we destroy any more of our valuable land building lets resolve the first two problems first |
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Oct 30, 2017 11:48:12 GMT
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Post by kris on Oct 30, 2017 11:48:12 GMT
I met lots of nice and friendly boat dwellers when I was in London last year. There is a totally different mentality to London boaters, who typically seem to have no interest in boating per se but who cannot afford mortgages or rent and generally contrive to move their boats as infrequently as possible and for the shortest distance possible. It may as well be a lock-up garage or a garden shed to them. This doesn't make them "bad people" although their presence does make it very difficult for visiting boaters to moor. I doubt the couple you met herald the beginning of an exodus. Most London boat dwellers seem to have media, banking and advertising jobs which are only available in London and so in London they will stay, unless and until CRT make their lifestyle impossible to continue. The wider problem is of course the horrendous housing shortage in the UK. I agree with what you are saying other than the housing shortage we have to many people in the country! we also have a lot of empty properties, before we destroy any more of our valuable land building lets resolve the first two problems first iif only Peter, it seems the disconnect between the politicians and the people is getting greater all the time. |
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Post by Jim on Oct 30, 2017 15:31:17 GMT
It's Hebden Bridge wot is the Lesbian capital of the country, the "drugs town with a tourist problem". Stratford-upon-Avon is the Thespian Hotspot. “It’s an accepting place in general. Gay or straight, you can join the Hebden family.” - says Karla Butler, "and if you haven't got £500,000 for a house you can fuck off!" www.ft.com/content/ef2cb9f2-2408-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d?mhq5j=e7More dykes than Holland! Where is Peter when they need him? |
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Post by peterboat on Oct 30, 2017 18:41:25 GMT
It's Hebden Bridge wot is the Lesbian capital of the country, the "drugs town with a tourist problem". Stratford-upon-Avon is the Thespian Hotspot. “It’s an accepting place in general. Gay or straight, you can join the Hebden family.” - says Karla Butler, "and if you haven't got £500,000 for a house you can fuck off!" www.ft.com/content/ef2cb9f2-2408-11e6-9d4d-c11776a5124d?mhq5j=e7More dykes than Holland! Where is Peter when they need him? Never done anything for me Hebden Bridge My mate Chris Chittel lives at Mythenroyd or near there and he wants to move back onto a boat!! so maybe its not all its lutuces and califlowers there |
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Post by tadworth on Oct 31, 2017 21:45:51 GMT
London is a third world pigsty.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 22:30:15 GMT
A lot of the original and more genuine London boaters have gone. They have been replaced by fuckin parasites. Bridge hopping selfish twats who are generally being a bloody nuisance. Total idiots some of them, with not the faintest idea of boating. Getting north of kensal rise would see them breaking out in a rash. If I had my way, they'd be nuked.
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Post by Jim on Nov 1, 2017 6:12:14 GMT
A lot of the original and more genuine London boaters have gone. They have been replaced by fuckin parasites. Bridge hopping selfish twats who are generally being a bloody nuisance. Total idiots some of them, with not the faintest idea of boating. Getting north of kensal rise would see them breaking out in a rash. If I had my way, they'd be nuked. Nice to see you agreeing with Parry for once. |
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Post by kris on Nov 1, 2017 7:20:36 GMT
A lot of the original and more genuine London boaters have gone. They have been replaced by fuckin parasites. Bridge hopping selfish twats who are generally being a bloody nuisance. Total idiots some of them, with not the faintest idea of boating. Getting north of kensal rise would see them breaking out in a rash. If I had my way, they'd be nuked. im coming round to this way of thinking, after talking to people who have actually experienced it. |
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Post by kris on Nov 1, 2017 8:19:34 GMT
That's old foxy, it's much worse now.
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Post by kris on Nov 1, 2017 8:32:44 GMT
That's the good old days on the cut in London. Films like that are probably responsible for encouraging more people onto the water in the capital.
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Post by tadworth on Nov 2, 2017 2:30:10 GMT
If those cunts with the guitars moor near me they better bring Vaseline and take the sharp edges off.
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Post by phil70 on Nov 2, 2017 8:10:44 GMT
London is a third world pigsty. That's why I moved out over 30 years ago, and having made the odd visit I can say it's only got worse in the intervening years. Phil |
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