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jez1954

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I like Hebden very much, didn't see any eyesores when we were there in 2009 - did I visit the same place as everyone else?

 

I holiday up there about once a year, and the scruffy boat community between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden has been there a good while now, and growing.

 

I'm not being judgemental. However, I do reserve the right to be able to freely walk upon the highway or towpath or anywhere else I am legally entitled to do so without being sworn at by the unwashed. (or anyone else for that matter).

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What a barmy comparison.

So what are we to have on our canals. Lines of shiny boat, all the same. There,s a place for all.

You have the option. If you dont like Hebdens boats dont go to Hebden.

 

1. Not a barmy comparison at all (IMHO). Remember it's my opinion - I previously respected yours - please play by the rules and respect mine.

2. Why should I not go to Hebden just because some boat owners (I hesitate to call them boaters as many look as though they haven't moved in a very long time) don't know how to (or can't be bothered) to look after their boats. A boat is an expensive piece of kit - what sort of person buys one to apparently let it rot away?

3. In a later post you commented on the poor attitude of people residential there to others (it's not the first time etc) - why support them then? Not that it matters to me, you can support who you want, but others on the forum may be interested.

 

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you have to own a tatty boat if your an eco hippy, its all part of the lifestyle image! Just dont tell anyone that its your well off middle class parents that pay for everything you need, as you want people to beleive you live off the land and make things from twigs etc lol but each to their own.

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My Grandad would turn in his grave if he could see Hebden Bridge today. All the mills and industry gone, and the town filled with shops selling pot pourri and scented candles etc.

Yeah them blumming hippies....They did exactly the same to the steel industry, in Sheffield and the dockyards shutting just after the first head shop opened, on Tyneside, is surely no coincidence...

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Oh how perfectly ridiculous!

 

Did nasty middle class eco hippys stamp on your toys when you were small? What concern of yours is it how others choose to keep and maintain their boats?

 

You jump to the conclusion that as we may have scruffy boats, we don't pay our way. That's offensive - we all pay moorings and licence, just like you do.

 

To reverse the collective logic of this thread, everyone in a shiny boat is a raving class obsessed snob unable to see past the first micron of gloss on their cabin side. I know that not to be the case, so perhaps the logic is flawed?

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To reverse the collective logic of this thread, everyone in a shiny boat is a raving class obsessed snob unable to see past the first micron of gloss on their cabin side.

Maybe they are but, unlike the hippies, they are not responsible for the demise of the British Manufacturing industries, are they?

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Maybe they are but, unlike the hippies, they are not responsible for the demise of the British Manufacturing industries, are they?

 

Now, lets think who is most likely enjoy swanning around in a shiny boat. A mill worker, or an accountant specialising in the overseas outsourcing of manufacturing labour?

 

I moor in Hebden Bridge and the woven yoghurt scented candle shops tend to be filled with tourists and BBC Salford workers, not boaters. We generally stick to the butchers / bakers / grocers / coop / skips round the back of the coop.

 

P.S. Britain DOES have sizeable a manufacturing industry, should you bother to look for it.

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Maybe they are but, unlike the hippies, they are not responsible for the demise of the British Manufacturing industries, are they?

 

That may explain the explosion of Hippies in the Eighties. That Margaret Thatcher worked in mysterious ways !

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It is a scientific fact that eating too many mung bean fritters suppresses production of the hormone responsible for detecting irony.

 

Are you sure? I though it was ironing

 

Richard

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It is a scientific fact that eating too many mung bean fritters suppresses production of the hormone responsible for detecting irony.

 

Was it the lack of this basic social skill that caused the hippies to foment the six day war in 1967?

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It is a scientific fact that eating too many mung bean fritters suppresses production of the hormone responsible for detecting irony.

 

 

I was trying to be ironic too!

 

And please point me to peer reviewed science that shows a conclusive link between mung bean fritters and irony detecti.... oh I give up!

 

Can't everybody just be nice to each other? I like shiny boats and I like scruffy boats. I like boats. I don't like mung beans.

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I was trying to be ironic too!

 

And please point me to peer reviewed science that shows a conclusive link between mung bean fritters and irony detecti.... oh I give up!

 

Can't everybody just be nice to each other? I like shiny boats and I like scruffy boats. I like boats. I don't like mung beans.

Me too :cheers:

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