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1 minute ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:
, the serial number on it always finishes with '007' or at least ours always did, until we got a mooring.
Licence to roam?
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6 hours ago, Loddon said:
Unfortunately the Mod concerned doesn't see it as offensive so let it stand............
I hope it wasn't the same mod who found the word "b***" offensive because it once, many many years ago, had a less savoury meaning than the mild term it has become.
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8 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:
I remember reading on here that the BOD...
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3 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
To be fair Carl the NBTA in realty need to drop the " T " its certainly not appilicable to many of their members.
I'm not entirely sympathetic to their cause because, like most single issue organisations, they fail to see the bigger picture but that doesn't mean that they are always wrong or deliberately misleading.
This case may or may not have merit and neither side are pure as the driven snow.
It will be interesting to follow though.
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30 minutes ago, MoominPapa said:
By using latin, the same product can be sold in any EU country.
MP.
Thank the boris that we can go back to good old English water on Nov 1st.
I'm sure this pollution malarkey is down to the Eurowater rubbish they've been putting in our washing up liquid.
(edited to add : How did mrsmelly get my login details?)
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14 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
Yes it does work....snip
Yes of course Mike...and anyone who hasn't seen your many snipes at NBTA will accept your waffle at face value.
Just my opinion of course.
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On 30/07/2019 at 09:39, Mike Todd said:
For us, one of the characteristics of being on the canal (and we are high usage not liveaboard) is the fact that you live cheek by jowl with such a wide range of folk.
Not just canals but boating in general.
I was chatting to a neighbour at the marina the other day and he remarked that he loved my boat but wooden boats were so expensive to maintain.
I pointed out that his Fairline Targa 50 cost more than I've spent on boating in 30+ years and the guy who sells the Big Issue who is mooring his little yacht here for the summer is going to teach me how to fly fish for bass at the weekend.
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9 minutes ago, NicolasL said:
I’m not saying that grey water discharge is causing fish to die. However, there has been a big fish death event in west London in the past week (see picture of part of the clean-up). I am wondering about two things:
It may also be worth considering the unprecedented heatwave we had which may have deprived the fish of oxygen.
A one off event usually has a one off cause.
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2 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
And it is equally confrontational, childish and sloppy to conflate me saying "I don't believe" with me accusing NBTA of lying, which I did not.
As I said in another thread... I have no problem with the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black"
Saying that you do not believe the words said by someone is pretty much calling them a liar by the way. Parliamentary type euphemism doesn't work here.
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1 minute ago, Alan de Enfield said:
The frogs don't mind.
(A bit like the Cod that congregate at the end of the sewage discharge pipe off New Brighton)
Don't mention fish !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sat in a marina which has no pump out facilities and no elsan point so I have opted to use the marina toilets.
As there are 300 boats and never a queue for the bogs I can only assume that they are using their sea toilets and emptying straight into the river along with the grey water.
I can only assume that mullet and whatever they eat are made of stern stuff because the water is teeming with them.
No frogs though.
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On 29/07/2019 at 12:11, canalboat said:
Is it not strange that the mention of Volunteer Lock Keepers on this forum is one of the few subjects that will produce 16 pages of mostly drivel.
You're just bitter that your rant about how rubbish CRT employees are didn't have the same staying power...
On 09/07/2019 at 18:27, canalboat said:Is there anyone else out there who has noticed a general decline recently in rudeness and sheer laziness of CRT employees out on the canal. Have they all been sent on a mandatory tea-drinking and skiving course or is it an understandable, if not acceptable reaction to more and more volunteers? Put that together with the increase in Chuggers scaring people away from popular bits of tow path and I wonder what direction the management have decided to impose.
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On 07/03/2019 at 10:22, nicknorman said:
A candidate for the Dunning-Kruger effect, methinks.
Hey there's a name for it!
Do you think I could claim disability benefits?
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43 minutes ago, NicolasL said:
What can be done?
Whilst not disputing your uncited academic research I do know that the canals and rivers of the UK are no longer the stagnant open sewers devoid of life that they were in my youth.
It is unlikely that the infrastructure required to deal with grey water tanks will be installed any time soon.
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15 minutes ago, NB Esk said:
People with stoves already do have to access NBW........in the lighting process.
There's a paper version?
Is it soft and absorbent?
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4 minutes ago, LadyG said:
My last ALdi trolley failed the anchor chain test...
How did you stop the Robert Dyas one from dragging in a strong current?
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Just now, Mike the Boilerman said:
Silly escalation and a silly, childish tactic not worthy of you. I know you can do better than this.
No escalation from you calling someone a liar despite admitting you know nothing about the case.
That is childish, confrontational and pretty sloppy.
As I said... Most sub judice discussion has to be hypothetical.
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5 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
Oh I see, we were discussing some imaginary hypothetical case, not the case described in the OP. Silly me.
I geddit now....
So despite you asserting that neither you nor I know the full details of the case you are happy to call the NBTA a liar?
Yes... Silly you.
It is usual for discussion about live cases to be hypothetical by the way.
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1 minute ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
On the other hand, "We screwed someone's life up because despite a dozen or more written and verbal warnings they failed to comply with a simple set of rules designed to stop the canals filling up with CMers", is a very good argument in court....
...hopefully.
The thing is I just don't know the reason(s) for CRT's refusal to grant another licence, and not do you. I simply don't believe the NBT's claim that he met all the criteria for a licence, whereas you presumably do. There must be something going on here we are not being told.
Funnily enough I am aware that I don't know the details of the case but am happy to talk hypothetically without using language such as "I simply don't believe..." regarding either side.
Perhaps you understand what I meant about "irony" in another thread now?
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On 19/06/2019 at 23:13, LadyG said:
I now need a new porta potti but they don't have wheels...
ALDI are doing a sturdy looking trolley at the moment (called a "festival" trolley) for £5.99.
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2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
Moorings and licencing are two different departments in CaRT. Easy for the left hand not to know what the right is doing.
Jen
Fortunately "We screwed someone's life up because we are completely incompetent." is not a good argument in court...
...hopefully.
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But folk have been putting sheds on punts, rafts and old work flats for years with fewer disasters than inexperienced boaters in fully compliant narrowboats who can't deal with the boat or the waterway's foibles.
There is little weight in a shiplap shed so I doubt very much if it has stability problems (far less than a narrowboat with a winter's worth of coal on the roof anyway) and I doubt if it has any more than the basic electrical installation.
My guess is that the biggest risk here is CO poisoning though if they are capable of building a home then I imagine a safe stove installation is within their capabilities.
I don't fear for their safety nearly as much as the first time hirer entering their first lock after inadequate training.
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8 minutes ago, matty40s said:
You could have told me, for a nominal fee I could have created a much bigger joke.?
Fuzzy duck made the same offer but I felt that making the point that if BW were stupid for not securing the American Web suffix then what did that make him for not getting the .org.uk address for NBW was enough.
I'm sure he doesn't read the forum (because he's never plagiarised it) but if he does it is still nice to drop in the odd reminder of his lack of due diligence every so often.
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3 minutes ago, frangar said:
What are you suggesting?? There are so many holes in this article it would sink quicker than a hipsters white painted “barge”
That's exactly what I'm suggesting.
Tom could make it up.
Edited to add : and almost certainly did.
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16 minutes ago, Murflynn said:
".............. we ordered this boat at last year's Crick Boat Show .......................... really useless, design."
you couldn't make it up .... could you ?
Tom could.
Grey water discharge
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Not according to Nanette Newman it doesn't.