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While we are here...I just want to say thanks to southace for the clean out. Thank you southace.

I for one am finding the one thousand stupid questions quite interesting. It has at the very least gotten people talking about their boats, what they like, what they want, what they would change. Plus it may also inspire other people to do things to their boats that they might not have considered otherwise.

On other sites it's know as trolling

Sorry guys, 1 hour later................. going back thru a heap of bs I see what's going on ,I go away for a couple of weeks and come back to a big heap of crap.

Off course it's a nice red ......... life is too short to drink bad reds.

Anyone wanna buy two and a half cases of Grange?

Soooo, anybody done the cement pond joke today ?????????????

jev7337 said..

^^ You trying to get some cash to buy a concrete slab?

Nope, it's just that I have two and a half cases of Grange

brizzydave said..

Hi mofo!.... Sorry for being rude mate. Just sipped a glass (bottle) of Chardonnay down on my boat in the bayou-mudflats- baton rouge of Brisbane. Loosechange....I inspect the grange each week at the bottle shop. I'm ok splurging $100-$150 for a red but $500 will just alllow my wife to buy a $500 dress. We don't need that behaviour. Let alone a case. Are you a barrister?

Here ya go Dave www.danmurphys.com.au/guides/johnnie-walker-sons-content. Just what we need for christening a concrete barge

LooseChange said..
I for one am finding the one thousand stupid questions quite interesting. It has at the very least gotten people talking about their boats, what they like, what they want, what they would change. Plus it may also inspire other people to do things to their boats that they might not have considered otherwise.

Gold

brizzydave said..

While we are here...I just want to say thanks to southace for the clean out. Thank you southace.

To be fair, I made a lot of posts - yes, but I kept to my "own" few threads and didn't spam the forum half to death with capital letters (screaming). I didn't take over anything. And the only reason I made so many posts was because so many people were responding.

And I maintain that I was trying to be serious. And I have been completely genuine and forthright since the very inception of joining this form. Anyone with half a brain can see all my first posts and see that. I got a bit back-chatty towards the end, but that's only because some people were calling me an idiot and encouraging other people to come and start on me (which worked). I never wanted to argue with anyone! Still don't!

brizzydave said..

No one here cares about threads, posts, likes, and half the crusty old blokes here dont know what half that crap means. This forum, and being a personality on it ......is not the centre of their attention. They just drop in here when they wanna know/ask/or contribute back/ help someone. The backbone of this place is knowledge.

I have no idea how what you typed actually addresses what I said - but I can agree that I am here to learn knowledge. So if the backbone of this place is knowledge, that's a huge benefit for me - because that's what I am here to gain. Unless you object? Again? And wish to interrupt my proper attempts at communication and start calling me names again? These are rhetorical questions.

brizzydave said..

So just contribute if you know or can help or shed light on something or have a laugh.
I started at six years old. You are only starting now. You need to buy a sailing dinghy or a trailer sailer to see if you even actually like sailing. Have you ever sailed? Sailing isn't everything! It can be ****in# boring sometimes on long runs. Wind against tide....blowy....uncomfortable...boating can suck. But once you realize that you actually love the sh!t elements of it, then you know you want to sail/go boating.

The things you are saying are completely irrelevant. You are just trying to dismiss me (unfairly).

This is a public forum and if I want to come here and ask questions about yachting, then I will. It's a free country.

If you would spend less time trying to be mean and pick on me (if it's not one thing it's something else), maybe everything will go more smooth?

I don't want to discuss whether I have the right to be here or not, or answer to you exactly what I have done and what I haven't (as some kind of prerequisite to gain your "personal" approval to be allowed to post here in peace).

I am GETTING to all the things you "insist" I should be doing or have done. Just give me a bloomin' break.

You're not the gatekeeper of seabreeze forums. Who made you king of what I should be saying or have experienced?

You're just plain out being nasty. That's all you're doing. So I will politely ask you to give it a rest.

..please. Just leave it alone. Again, I am here for genuine discussion, and what I am doing, planning, learning, wanting to know, needing to know.. etc will come out during the course of time in conversation. Not because you prized it out of me with spite, and then badgered me because you don't approve of my current knowledge/experience level.

See, look at this stupid conversation we're having. I don't want to have it! Just leave me alone!

SirJman said..

The problem with you Len is that you say you are here to listen and learn, but you're not willing to accept anyone's guidance. You take the answers to your questions as personal attacks on your intellect.

I am willing to accept guidance (and have accepted heaps) - but I also know the difference between sincere guidance and plain out nastiness.

Many people have provided me with some great advice on this forum, and I gave the appropriate humble thanks.

"Some people" have also been dismissive of me, called me names.

This is causing the people who WERE serious, and treating me fairly to retreat into dark corner.

SirJman said..
If you are serious about sailing, put away the computer, join a club and come back with something to say.

Of course I am serious. I am doing everything I possibly can to learn, including making enquiries to yacht clubs. Why do people keep saying I need to be doing things that I already stated I am doing (many times) in previous threads. One guy even offered to let me come to his boat On Saturday, and I responded with excitement and appreciation. I said I'd even help him fix his boat if he'd allow me to hang around. However,all the arguing and bickering obviously turned him off. The only reason I am still hanging around here is because I can see that it is a relative "few" who are trying to make me out to be insincere, when I am anything BUT insincere. I am being made out like all I want to do is dream on my keyboard. I even made ads on Gumtree asking if people will allow me to come hang out with their boat, and I offered to do work for them in exchange. It annoys me that I have to sit here and IN POINT FORM, try to "explain to you" exactly all the actions I am taking in order to become worthy to beat off the few people who are being unfair, berating me over trivial pettiness.

I am GETTING to all these things. And the fact that I am still very new does NOT mean I have to pack up my keyboard and go elsewhere - which is basically what I am being told to do by a relative FEW. It is mean, it is petty, it is disruptive. Some people have completely ignored my completely genuine attempts at proper conversation and dialogue (which was going very well at one point), but have found HOURS to mock and laugh and call me names and berate me and be generally disruptive and spiteful. Again, I know the difference between sincere helpfulness and plain out spitefulness.

So, I am just asking that people stop making posts dismissing me and basically telling me I wouldn't know what I am talking about so I need to get lost. I am not going to get lost. I am not going to pack up my keyboard. I will go and learn to sail, and I am ON IT. I am looking at $10,000 worth off courses (which I have already researched AND MENTIONED, and linked to). I want to learn about yachting and I am KEEN to learn (and even help people), and this is one of the only forums in Australia where I can see genuine help/knowledge is available - and I don't see why I should have to get lost, just because a few people think I am interrupting their comradery and seafaring stories (nastily pointing out that I don't have any).

I don't want to have THIS conversation. I don't want you to say the things you are saying (above). It is disruptive, UNTRUE, and unnecessary, and completely unhelpful. How about just back off, and stop making me explain myself every second post and just contribute with your "knowledge" when I do ask questions?

There is a small mutual admiration society on this forum, and I am going to get through you so that I can be left alone. I am not going to let you guys make me upset (or push me away). You aren't the boss of the Internet! I am going to remain genuine and serious. As I was from the start. Ok, I don't have a lot of experience. That doesn't give you the right to stand over me as if I am a "nothing" and not even worthy to make another post. That's what you're doing - and it's unfair. So SHOVE OFF!

I am not responding like this for the sake of arguing. I am responding because I am fighting for a place where I can just be left alone to post and learn and make friends with people. There's a few people on this forum purposefully preventing that, for their own petty reasons.

SirJman said..

Mate take a chill pill, you're being silly.

No, I'm just sick of being told to go learn to sail and come back later. THAT'S silly. And unfair. I have a right to post here like anyone else.