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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 18, 2020 18:34:58 GMT
It's more simple than that. Over there you got warned and ultimately banned for suggesting that people who behave in a particular way are knobheads. Here: we are free to speak the truth. As you're off cottaging in Wales your diplomacy will be sadly missed on the canals. I was curious how a single boat engine can cause you so much anxiety ... last I saw your boat you were moored in the noisiest mooring imaginable at Middlewich and surviving for quite some time there ? Rog Lorries hurtling past is kind of unpleasant but after a while, you get used to it. A monotone diesel engine in perpetual motion less than 10 feet away is a completely different matter. I'd imagine that waterboarding is worse, but not dramatically so. The thing is about this, systems are available to all to avoid having to impose oneself negatively upon other boaters. The systems are not particularly expensive. I have them, this proves this point. If you're going to spend a considerable amount of time out on the cut, why not avail yourself of said facilities, in order that everyone can have a nice peaceful time? I'm quite sure that the vast majority of people who regularly run their engines during the summer months don't intend to cause nuisance to others. But they do and if they thought a little more, they'd realise it. Calorifiers are great, 'free' hot water whilst underway. I like that. They are useless when not underway. Ask yourself, if you were to have a hot water system fitted at home would you go for a hot water cylinder and immersion heater, where most of the energy is wasted, or would you go for a modern gas combi boiler, that only uses the precise amount of energy required? It's high time that new boat build regulations departed from the nonsense that's the 'efficiency' of the engine and instead, mandated solar panels and instant gas water heaters. Far better to not have a diesel engine running at all rather than an 'efficient' one droning away for hours every day, releasing it's noise and air pollution into the atmosphere. I never run my engine between late October and the end of February. Not unless I'm cruising. It wouldn't take too much effort for everyone else to be the same and then, the canals would be much more enjoyable places to spend time on.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 18:38:10 GMT
Still styling yourself as TB's moral high ground moderator Rog? why do you feel Ricco needs to explain himself regarding posts on cwdf and here ...was I the only one that spotted the sly dig "motorbikes on towpaths" in your first reply to this thread? Ricco has always maintained he wheels his bike to his boat or do you assume he guns it down the towpath. There was nothing sly I hope ... I was certainly intending recognition or where's the humour. I assumed (obviously wrongly) that as I'm the butt of everyone's jokes about wife beating and boat stealing, I am entitled to reciprocate. It's good that you occasional post here ... even if chastising me seems to be the only motivation. Still the best avatars. Rog ...and another sly dig, wreathed by the damning with faint praise. The "occasional post" will be considerably less you will be glad to know.
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 18, 2020 18:38:53 GMT
As you're off cottaging in Wales your diplomacy will be sadly missed on the canals. He;s off to live in a cottage. Cottaging is something else entirely. This is true. Similarly, I'm a bit careful who I tell if I'm off cruising.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 18:43:10 GMT
There was nothing sly I hope ... I was certainly intending recognition or where's the humour. I assumed (obviously wrongly) that as I'm the butt of everyone's jokes about wife beating and boat stealing, I am entitled to reciprocate. It's good that you occasional post here ... even if chastising me seems to be the only motivation. Still the best avatars. Rog ...and another sly dig, wreathed by the damning with faint praise. The "occasional post" will be considerably less you will be glad to know. Do I owe you money ... have I done something to upset you ... I do not understand either your 'sly dig' or 'damning with faint praise' comments. Please explain ... I wasn't conscious upto your last post, that we were engaged in any conversation at all, but I'm happy to do so @chagall1984 Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Aug 18, 2020 18:45:26 GMT
...and another sly dig, wreathed by the damning with faint praise. The "occasional post" will be considerably less you will be glad to know. Do I owe you money ... have I done something to upset you ... I do not understand either your 'sly dig' or 'damning with faint praise' comments. Please explain ... I wasn't conscious upto your last post, that we were engaged in any conversation at all, but I'm happy to do so. Rog I'd quit now Rog, this exchange is destined to end in tears before bedtime. It's obviously "time of the month".
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 18, 2020 18:45:52 GMT
I stumbled upon your duplicate post on CWDF Clinton Cool ... all polite and obsequious ... yet on here it's 'knobheads'. Demanding consideration from others whilst demonstrating a lack of any consideration yourself. Was that deliberate ... or is your concern purely that you receive consideration ? Rog Still styling yourself as TB's moral high ground moderator Rog? why do you feel Ricco needs to explain himself regarding posts on cwdf and here ...was I the only one that spotted the sly dig "motorbikes on towpaths" in your first reply to this thread? Ricco has always maintained he wheels his bike to his boat or do you assume he guns it down the towpath. Actually to be fair: technically, a motor bike is a vehicle (even when being pushed) and therefore should not be on a towpath. A CRT bloke reminded me of this once, I thanked him. So, I'm breaking a rule by pushing it along the towpath and putting it on its side stand leaning towards my boat, as I usually do. I don't ride along the towpath, never leave it where it might cause an obstruction, it being there doesn't impose negatively on anyone else. So, I think it's OK and I suspect many (most?) folk who are able to think it a reasonable way would tend to agree. There will always be the odd 'rules is rules' type though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 18:48:41 GMT
I agree Clinton Cool ... and assumed you would have recognised my earlier reference ... no point to humour if you have to explain it Rog ETA I guess it was a typo that you don't run your engine October to February ?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 19:47:16 GMT
Late to this but my feelings are that these people Clinton Cool refers to should be shot at dawn. It's the worst thing about boating by far. It's totally unnecessary to do engine running in the morning if you get the systems set up properly and base the behaviour around the fact you are on a "boat". Isn't it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 19:51:35 GMT
The bloody seagulls are at it again!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 19:53:28 GMT
A scruffy narrowboats is in front (and upwind...) of us, to the side of us a Cruiser in the Marina (again in front and upwind...) Can't see any smart boats about at all, I take it you are at Tol's place? No still at home in Devon Should get the boat back 1st September. It had first grey undercoat on when I saw it a week ago. If its anywhere near as good as others I have seen from there it will be very smart. Ah right, I was getting a bit fidgity! There are 5 at MNCC, very nicely turned out, including one very hard used elderly Charlie Fox original π
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 19:59:12 GMT
I saw a Fox's narrow boat up near Goring on Thames the other day. That funny stem post he used to do there is something Roman about it.
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Post by thebfg on Aug 18, 2020 20:09:34 GMT
Do I owe you money ... have I done something to upset you ... I do not understand either your 'sly dig' or 'damning with faint praise' comments. Please explain ... I wasn't conscious upto your last post, that we were engaged in any conversation at all, but I'm happy to do so. Rog I'd quit now Rog, this exchange is destined to end in tears before bedtime. It's obviously "time of the month".Β True to form, there was nothing sly about that one.π
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 20:18:52 GMT
No still at home in Devon Should get the boat back 1st September. It had first grey undercoat on when I saw it a week ago. If its anywhere near as good as others I have seen from there it will be very smart. Ah right, I was getting a bit fidgity! There are 5 at MNCC, very nicely turned out, including one very hard used elderly Charlie Fox original π Its being done in Epifanes poly two pack, only the second one he has used it on. Life is one big experiment
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 20:20:23 GMT
Still styling yourself as TB's moral high ground moderator Rog? Β why do you feel Ricco needs to explain himself regarding posts on cwdf and here ...was I the only one that spotted the sly dig Β "motorbikes on towpaths" in your first reply to this thread? Β Ricco has always maintained he wheels his bike to his boat or do you assume he guns it down the towpath. Β Actually to be fair: technically, a motor bike is a vehicle (even when being pushed) and therefore should not be on a towpath. A CRT bloke reminded me of this once, I thanked him. So, I'm breaking a rule by pushing it along the towpath and putting it on its side stand leaning towards my boat, as I usually do. I don't ride along the towpath, never leave it where it might cause an obstruction, it being there doesn't impose negatively on anyone else. So, I think it's OK and I suspect many (most?) folk who are able to think it a reasonable way would tend to agree. There will always be the odd 'rules is rules' type though.Β I tend to pass slightly negative judgement on people with motorcycles on towing paths. However if the person is not engaged in riding or revving the motor then it is acceptable albeit rather rude. Must be quite a handy way to absquatulate though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 20:25:44 GMT
Perhaps we should publish a disclaimer for clarity ... Mr Stabby doesn't really murder prostitutes and dye his hair ianali isn't really the cock on Clarence Telemachus doesn't really have a huge head and a valet quaysider doesn't really travel about wrecking the system Clinton Cool doesn't really ride his bike up and down the towpath patty doesn't really drink wine and trash diy projects @magnetman doesn't really work for military intelligence dogless doesn't really beat his wife or steal boats Trina doesn't really have gin for breakfast thebfg doesn't really polish his head I could go on but actually ... it was probably more fun before ... scrap that. Rog
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