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48 minutes ago, Tumshie said:
When you click on the smilie face and it gives you the box of emojis - in the top right corner it says categories click on that then on emoticons 45 and you will find a whole new world of silliness.
My internet is so slow that my posts keep getting screwed up.
Rusty69's gonna laugh at me again.
Ang on al give it a bash
lurve this hehe.
Thanks Tumshie
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Well brill. X
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1 hour ago, Tumshie said:
You're fine. Our silly duck moments alway seem bigger to ourselves than they do to other.
Thanks chucky egg.
don't know how to do clashing pint pots.
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8 minutes ago, Tumshie said:
Happens to the best of us.
Thanks
still feel like a silly duck.
Runs and hides.
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3 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:
As an aside, any forumites in the Leeds area might consider offering to help him down the Aire and Calder a bit.
As the raft is usually pulled by Ben himself, support from a powered boat might be a good idea downriver.
I would hate to see it go over Castleford weir!
No worries - it was just that your comment followed immediately after my photos of the raft.
I only read three quarters of the thread sorry.
Am a silly Billy.
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Just now, TheBiscuits said:
Maybe, but Ben is not one of them. He is as mad as a box of frogs, but he isn't a piss taker.
The Piano Raft is a travelling arts project and now a theatre since the extension was added.
The raft is registered, licensed, insured, has a boat safety certificate and wheelchair access.
That is a world apart from the raft house that this thread started with.
It was not aimed at genuine boats that play by the rules in no way at all.
Sorry.
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I am not a crt hugger but crikey I would not like to be an accountant for them or a legal adviser.
So many piss takers on the cut they can't spend money on them all.
One day cranes will be sent to the end middle and top of the system and they pull up the big sink plugs leaving us all with an email.
From :Canal & River Trust
Dear Sirs,
Sorry about that but we've run out of penny's now, we do sujest you take the iron caster wheels off your recliner chairs as your boat may be leaning into the centre of the empty canal.
Have a great day.
CRT, liquidators.
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1 hour ago, Tam & Di said:
And the men too when you really get into it. It can take all day just to go from one end of the village to the other where we are. You also have to know how many kisses to give - one on each cheek is most usual, but it can often be two or even three, and it is an awful faux pas to give too many or too few. At least you don't have to suffer that embarrassing "mwahh" noise you often get in the UK.
In the UK they tend to offer Dandruff kisses instead.
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5 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
Driving my van feels lunatically fast even at 25mph. after a fortnight on the bote.
OMG yer I get in me dad's car and I feel like am in a Bugati Veyron... lol
5 minutes ago, cereal tiller said:MtB 's Engines are Really Quiet.
No I've seen the noisy bugger on YouTube.
Bloody disgusting Mike.....
(no need for that)
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3 minutes ago, Peter X said:
Wagons?? But I know what you mean about the contrasting pace of the canals and the modern world.
I only get to spend a total of about 2-3 months of each year on the canals, and outside of that I live on the edge of London, which has millions of people busy moving about, though probably only averaging about 10mph when they do so by road. Trains and the Tube are faster. But each time I finish a canal trip I really notice the contrast in speed. One day in October at the end of ten days of pottering about on the Thames, speed limit 8kph, I was helping to unload some bags of coal in a quiet spot on the river at Caversham, then within 30 minutes of completing that I was on a train from Reading to Paddington doing over 100mph. It did feel a bit weird.
Peter I am not surprised.
Just now, Mike the Boilerman said:Omigod air cooled Lister? And you’re telling ME to tone it down??? I’ll have to initiate you into the delights of a proper engine like a Kelvin or a Samofa
Your the noisy git butted up to my rear fender last week then. Pfffft.
Cough cough cough !!@!
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2 minutes ago, Tumshie said:
You are horrified at being an introvert? It's not a bad thing - it just means that you need to spend time alone to recharge.
No it's my safety zone, I would be horrified out of it. Lol
'Sanctuary'
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Just now, Mike the Boilerman said:
I think this about myself too. Nothing I like better than frittering away a whole day sitting inside my bote, snoozing, tending the stove, baking some bread, posting some rubbish on here and on the gas engineer forum, playing my geetar, never going outside.
Sounds bloody good to me Mr B.
Just town it down after 12pm, or I'll run my air cooled lister at your back doors. Lol
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Thanks you, fellow mud pluggers
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I think I am a hermit.
I have more confidence on the canal.
Sanctuary where i know people.
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Living on the Canal with social mixing difficulties for the last few years I have come to a point where walking on roads is quite difficult and scary with cars and wagons passing so close, it's like I live in another world away from people.
It's relief to get back on the muddy tow path. (Back to safety)
I never use to talk to people before I got on the canal but now it's like two worlds when I walk on the roads.
I ignore them because they might hurt me.
Weird post I know...
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1 hour ago, TheBiscuits said:
That is the point of a *good* surveyor.
A trained eye know what looks suspicious, so that's where they tap with the hammer.
Where they do not like the sound from the tapping with a trained ear gets a chalk mark.
The chalk marks - and other random bits - then get the scrape and ultrasound.
Our last surveyor also pointed out that when his *good* ultrasound machine broke he bought an £80 ebay one.
He has considered using the ebay one as a hammer because it's more accurate that way than if you use it properly.
He got his proper one fixed!
OMG are you an undertaker ?
Your post comes across a a slow doomy walk. Lol
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1 hour ago, BWM said:
I'm not aware of that sort of prize money this side of the channel outside of carp fishing, which generally has strict rules on hooks and retention. That said, popular carp fisheries often contain magnificent fish whose mouths and fins are hideously deformed by repeatedly being caught, in spite of these restrictions.
Bragging rights rather than fish's wellbeing, most? Are very respectable and look after their catch with a good attitude.
Each fish should be held by hand so they float the right way up before releasing.
I see so many just weigh the keep net and tip them out.
No care !
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All i ever expected was hull thickness readings from our full survey.
Wiring/water pipes and gas piping would need a complete strip down of a boat.
A full out of water survey is only an opinion, that the boat might be afloat next week.
Saying that a basic hull survey something I would always do just for thickness insurance testing. 4mm. < I think.
Edit to add: who the bloody he'll knows where the tester places the steel thickness tester misses the ROT HOLE.?
blimey...
Night night puts my life jacket over my PJ's. Lol
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This never was an anti Fisher people rant but more a nag at careless Fisher people.
I know many that use the right gear but some don't.
I don't like seeing 19lb Pike being picked up in the air and drooping onto concrete because they could not be bothered carrying a landing net.
As I said I am just having a go a the piss takers not the respectable anglers.
Guess it's like owning a boat, the piss takers show us all up.
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4 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
I'm not an angler but I'm fairly sure barbed hooks are no longer in general use.
Considered 'unsporting' I believe.
I see people use them everyday.
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I use to struggle with blowback so I bought a brush. :-/
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Just go for the length you need.
Don't worry about the length its a doddle after one or two trips out.
Enjoy....
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59 minutes ago, Murflynn said:
stuff what? the fishermen?
Don't give me ideas Murf.
Chop their willys off and use them as bait.
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This is very scary omg bring in 'BIN''
Boat Identification Register for inland water's..
Like a registration document.
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I use to try but now stuff em.
lurve this hehe.
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don't know how to do clashing pint pots.
still feel like a silly duck.
London gets tough
in General Boating
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I use to drink that poo while living at me mums , 'mum can you get me some iron brew?'
I had already been to the alcochemists for my additive. Very Very norty.
It's nice but it's gets you dizzy wizzy pritty quickly.
Fankooooo
