Proposal for a distasteful sport.

[Drago]

Let's write our own article encouraging people to fill up anal (sic) boats with liquid concrete while their owners are out, post him the link, and then all just wink and tell him we're joking, and any solid concrete canal boats are a complete coincidence.

 

[Kestevan]

Nah concrete is heavy and unwieldy.

I can let you have a recipe for a humorous little thermite, which if it was to be "accidentally" ignited on the back of a narrowboat wouldnt stop giggling till it reached the waterline.....

 

[Dec66]

I used to drink on a narrowboat called the Tollesbury Barge in the Millwall Inner Dock. They did a mean egg, chips, sausage and beans too.

They had a board proclaiming how the boat had survived the Blitz, Dunkirk and a number of other adversities. It didn't survive the local redevelopment, though.

Shortly after a developer of some luxury flats tried to get the boat moved, unsuccessfully, as he thought it was an eyesore (visible as it was from his floating showroom), the boat suddenly found itself listing heavily to one side. And that was the end of that.

Obviously the two events were unrelated, and I am more than happy to accept that this was the case.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Hardly surprising they came up with this as fun - have you ever been on a narrow boat; cramped, smelly, damp, cold, gloomy and drab. If I was condemned to eek out a meagre existence on one of these floating dung tubes I'd jump into the stove and try to end it all.

 

[TVC]

Not as eloquent as Vernon, but here is my response.

"Telling it like it is" as your banner proclaims.


Are all narrowboaters as vile, smallminded and intollerant as the author of this artical. What kind of under developed interlect thinks that proposing violence towards others is humerous?


F**kwit.

 

[Venod]

if you do ever fall into the average UK canal, the best thing to do is stand up

Please don't take this as advice, I did a lot of swimming in canals as a youngster and I can assure you standing on the bottom with head above water was just not possible even for the 6ft youths.

 

[Globalti]

If anybody bothered reading to the bottom of that article they would see the author's note that the article is tongue-in-cheek.

 

[vernon]

If anybody bothered reading to the bottom of that article they would see the author's note that the article is tongue-in-cheek.

If anybody bothered reading the article to the bottom earlier in the day they would have observed that there was no author's disclaimer....

 

[ufkacbln]

Lets face it..

You (insert racist / sexist insult) would not be accepted by a delayed response claiming it was a"tongue in cheek

A pathetic attempt to excuse the article when it should simply be withdrawn and a full apology for the content and their poor judgement in publishing

 

[Dec66]

If anybody bothered reading to the bottom of that article they would see the author's note that the article is tongue-in-cheek.

"Tongue-in-cheek", in the same way that DLT was "tactile".

 

[Bollo]

Lets face it..

You (insert racist / sexist insult) would not be accepted by a delayed response claiming it was a"tongue in cheek

A pathetic attempt to excuse the article when it should simply be withdrawn and a full apology for the content and their poor judgement in publishing

I'll confess, I'm not annoyed. Or at least I'm not annoyed by what Worzel Gummage wrote. It's more a sense of frustration that these kind of tedious, unoriginal received opinions are brought into existence. They're puked into being by two-bob Farages obsessed with straw-man enemies like the "PC brigade" and the "metropolitan elite" via the Daily Mail pub bore playbook.

So, a tip for Ralph. If you're going to write this shoot, actually make it funny. Wistful, wry, eccentric, surreal, anything will do. Throw in a tale about dropping some acid and thinking you were sailing to the moon on a barge powered by electric cheese. I'll laugh like a drain or, at the very least, not think you're quite such an enormous bellend.

 

[machew]

Having looked at the site, it is hosted by 1and1 and in the AUP it states
"You agree and warrant that Your Data shall not contain or link to any material which is harmful, violent, threatening, abusive or hateful."
Now it may be worth people emailing 1and1 and raising this (abuse@1and1.co.uk)

 

[Mugshot]

Not as eloquent as Vernon, but here is my response.

"Telling it like it is" as your banner proclaims.


Are all narrowboaters as vile, smallminded and intollerant as the author of this artical. What kind of under developed interlect thinks that proposing violence towards others is humerous?


F**kwit.

I'm not sure I'd sign my letter off as "F**kwit" to be honest.

 

[mybike]

Perhaps the tone of this article and here sheds some light on the opinion of towpath cyclists held by the publication.

I must admit I adjust my riding to the conditions, and especially when there are dogs around since they tend to manoeuvre their rear ends independently of observed hazards

 

[TVC]

I'm not sure I'd sign my letter off as "F**kwit" to be honest.

Why not, everyone else calls me it