Canal in crisis video

[Annie cariad]

Just watched the video what is Richard on ! you have sub contracted,without proper measures in place, so much of the operational requirements it cannot work.Just taking the big bucks and waiting for someone to turn the light out .Boat cruising is finished ,want to live onboard ? Get a good marina mooring that's all that will be left ,if marinas survive !???

[Creaking Gate]

That makes no sense at all.  

 

[Mad Harold]

On 19/07/2023 at 19:37, Annie cariad said:

Just watched the video what is Richard on ! you have sub contracted,without proper measures in place, so much of the operational requirements it cannot work.Just taking the big bucks and waiting for someone to turn the light out .Boat cruising is finished ,want to live onboard ? Get a good marina mooring that's all that will be left ,if marinas survive !???

That's a bit gloomy, but I can see where you are coming from. 

Cue  Chopin's Funeral March.😢

[pete.i]

1 hour ago, Creaking Gate said:

That makes no sense at all.  

 

Whilst the wording could have been a tad clearer if you think "that makes no sense" then you are part of the problem although you are not alone. I gave up the canals two years ago as I could see then the possible way things were going.

[Creaking Gate]

7 minutes ago, pete.i said:

Whilst the wording could have been a tad clearer if you think "that makes no sense" then you are part of the problem although you are not alone. I gave up the canals two years ago as I could see then the possible way things were going.

Really, what we do not need is the ramblings or incoherent mumblings, of more CRT bashing....  without any real fact... I'd say you are the problem.  Plenty of complaining, but no ownership of anything, just a get up and walk away attitude.  

[MtB]

53 minutes ago, Creaking Gate said:

Really, what we do not need is the ramblings or incoherent mumblings, of more CRT bashing....  without any real fact... I'd say you are the problem.  Plenty of complaining, but no ownership of anything, just a get up and walk away attitude.  

 

Quite. 

 

I shall keep my boats and support the waterways until the bitter end. 

 

After all, there might not BE a 'bitter end'. I bet the canals are mostly still here in fifteen years, and all the same problems persist. And in the meantime, I'll have had fifteen more years of brilliant boating. 

 

 

 

Edited July 24, 2023 by MtB
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[SLC]

During our latest "adventure" I was thinking that before long travelling the the canal network will be like trying to travel the country using preserved railway lines - lots of lovely sections but none joined up due to neglect. Apart from the lock at Stoke Bruene, there were several others which frankly were awful and that is just on the Grand Union. Before it was repaired / bodged, lock 13 at Whilton was a health hazard but at least it has been fixed for the time being.

What price can you put on the company and the people you meet on the waterways, going through locks, sharing experiences and knowledge, socialising and so forth. It is not just money but the mental health, the physical well being and the sheer pleasure of being close to nature.

[Dockeroo]

Its Scaremongering propaganda just to get people talking about it because other people don't want us to be free in our own country and the canals is one of the few ways left to be able to sustainably live off grid and off government owned land.

 

Don't listen to it,

Don't mention it,

Don't believe in it.

 

Dont support it, and it will never come true.

 

I dont know why people choose their own destiny like this, tricked by media to talk negatively together about something thats not actually going to happen yet if at all, they don't want to happen, then it happens...

 

Leave it. Resist temptation to be weak and don't discuss clear propaganda and it won't work, just dont be dumb people, did you not learn anything from brexit?

 

Edited July 26, 2023 by Dockeroo

[MtB]

 

1 hour ago, Dockeroo said:

Its Scaremongering propaganda just to get people talking about it because other people don't want us to be free in our own country and the canals is one of the few ways left to be able to sustainably live off grid and off government owned land.

 

 

Can I have some of whatever you're smoking please?

 

In what way is living on a canal boat "sustainable'"? 

 

 

[Alan de Enfield]

32 minutes ago, MtB said:

In what way is living on a canal boat "sustainable'"? 

 

 

sus·tain·able

[səˈsteɪnəb(ə)l]

1. able to be upheld or defended:

[Dockeroo]

41 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

 

Can I have some of whatever you're smoking please?

 

In what way is living on a canal boat "sustainable'"? 

 

 

I didnt say that mate learn to read before being a pillock for no reason.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Dockeroo said:

I didnt say that mate learn to read before being a pillock for no reason.

 

I think you said it in your first sentance.

 

2 hours ago, Dockeroo said:

few ways left to be able to sustainably live off grid and off

 

Did you forget?

[Dockeroo]

22 minutes ago, M_JG said:

 

I think you said it in your first sentance.

 

 

Did you forget?

So where does it say I said;

 

"is living on a canal boat "sustainable'"? "

 

 

Edited July 26, 2023 by Dockeroo

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Dockeroo said:

So where does it say I said;

 

"is living on a canal boat "sustainable'"? "

 

 

If you genuinely didn't read properly and made a mistake, ok no worries, but if your just being am idiot and trying fabricate and argument with a stranger over nothing thats sad.

 

Are you unable to read what you posted?

 

No problem help is available....

[Dockeroo]

1 minute ago, M_JG said:

 

Are you unable to read what you posted?

 

No problem help is available....

Your missing the part where I said living on a canal boat is sustainable, because I didn't.

 

I said "The canals is one of the few ways left to be able to sustainably live off grid and off government owned land."

 

Are you stupid?

[Guest]

Just now, Dockeroo said:

Your missing the part where I said living on a canal boat is sustainable, because I didn't.

 

I said "The canals is one of the few ways left to be able to sustainably live off grid and off government owned land."

 

Are you stupid?

 

Are you unable to read what you posted?

 

If not no problem, help is available.

 

No I'm not stupid.

[Dockeroo]

6 minutes ago, M_JG said:

 

Are you unable to read what you posted?

 

If not no problem, help is available.

 

No I'm not stupid.

What is going on you are either really dim or a sad lonely troll you are derailing a thread with complete nonsense in this context:

 

Me: Canals is one of the few ways left to be able to sustainably live off grid and off government owned land.

 

You: In what way is living on a canal boat "sustainable'"? 

 

seems like your the one whos "smoking something" mate I never even said living on a canal boat is "sustainable", I mentioned the word in a completely different context unrelated to living on a canal boat.

 

it's OK your wrong, have a good night or keep trolling and being sad.

 

Edited July 26, 2023 by Dockeroo

[Guest]

Just now, Dockeroo said:

What is going on you are either really dim.or a sad troll you are derailing a thread with complete nonsense in this context:

 

Me: Canals is one of the few ways left to be able to sustainably live off grid and off government owned land.

 

You: In what way is living on a canal boat "sustainable'"? 

 

seems like your the one whos "smoking something" mate I never even said living on a canal boat is "sustainable", I mentioned the word in a completely different context unrelated to living on a canal boat.

 

it's OK your wrong, have a good night or keep trolling and being sad.

 

 

As I say if you have a problem reading what you posted help is available.

[Dockeroo]

Just now, M_JG said:

 

As I say if you have a problem reading what you posted help is available.

Ok sure buddy 🤨👍

[Guest]

Just now, Dockeroo said:

Ok sure buddy 🤨👍

 

As I say if you have problems reading what you have posted help is available, it really is.

 

 

[Dockeroo]

Just now, M_JG said:

 

As I say if you have problems reading what you have posted help is available, it really is.

 

 

What?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Dockeroo said:

What?

As I say if you have problems reading what you have posted help is available, it really is.

 

 

 

Oh hang on we have another Thunderboat incarnation, goodnight.

[Dockeroo]

Luckily I don't, thanks though stranger.

 

Why have I annoyed you? I haven't even spoke to you, you just thought I said something I didn't and won't leave me alone, weirdo.

Edited July 26, 2023 by Dockeroo

[MtB]

9 hours ago, Dockeroo said:

I didnt say that mate learn to read before being a pillock for no reason.

 

I like being a pillock. I put a lot of effort into being a better pillock.

 

What's your reason? 

 

 

[Alan de Enfield]

 

 

10 hours ago, Dockeroo said:

Your missing the part where I said living on a canal boat is sustainable, because I didn't.

 

I said "The canals is one of the few ways left to be able to sustainably live off grid and off government owned land."

 

Are you stupid?

 

 

 

Ah, now I understand what you mean.

 

You actually meant that living on the canal (presumably on the bank rather than in the water) is sustainable.