What cultural back water do you come from?
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What cultural back water do you come from?
Was this prior to 2012?I was being a **** years ago.
One of my mates was a very wealthy trader in the city and held a private party on a balcony overlooking the thames.
One of his mates bet me that I could not swim over the river and I took him up on his offer.
Now, I had spent several months over the years in heavy surf in the Carribean and could read the tide.
The thames was on an ebb tide and I worked out that I would end up at London bridge at the worst.
A copper overheard the conversation and told me I would be nicked if I entered the river.
Being an Island nation we have very specific and unique maritime laws,including where we can be told to swim and, sail boats.
He was less than impressed when I asked him which act I would be charged under.
I was being a **** years ago.
One of my mates was a very wealthy trader in the city and held a private party on a balcony overlooking the thames.
One of his mates bet me that I could not swim over the river and I took him up on his offer.
Now, I had spent several months over the years in heavy surf in the Carribean and could read the tide.
The thames was on an ebb tide and I worked out that I would end up at London bridge at the worst.
A copper overheard the conversation and told me I would be nicked if I entered the river.
Being an Island nation we have very specific and unique maritime laws,including where we can be told to swim and, sail boats.
He was less than impressed when I asked him which act I would be charged under.
Ah yes, Pendle Hill... Fan Dance of the North. You did a grand job and should be rightly smug and proud of yourself. I bet you were a sight for sore eyes!I was once hiking up Pendle Hill on an August. I was outraged at some people in the picnic area car park setting off wearing trainers and high fashion t-shirts. (I was wearing three layers Plus an outer shell, and also my Salomon hiking boots, boot overlays and had goretex outer trousers packed in my bergan. Due to it being a ferociously hot summers day I also had factor 50 sunblock on the parts of my head not covered by my snood.
As I setup base camp, I was further outraged at a family with two young children attempting the assent, stupidly armed with nothing but local knowledge and a mobile phone to assist them to the 500m summit. I gripped them and offered to chaperone them back to the picnic area but was rudely declined!
As I made my ascent (after preloading with Kendal mint cake and some old 24hr rat pack bits (using a hexistove), I became very aware of the ruggedness of the tough grass either side of the path. I saw one silly woman bend down to readjust her flimsy trainers and I laughed at her as I swanned past easily with the aid of my walking poles and crampons.
Upon reaching the cairn at the summit, I was furious at the sheer lunacy of the assembled families with kids having a PICNIC! I offered to show them where they were on one of my spare maps but was told to feck off! I had the last laugh though when one of their kids scratched his knee trying to climb the cairn - And I didn’t even offer them use of my space blanket. That taught the unworthy ignorant bastards!
Yes you were being a *****.
The sort of **** that filled my weekends at Tower RNLI Station. If you think you know the tides and currents in the Thames enough to jump in safely from a balcony after a party then you are not just a **** but an uber****, however many months you have spent in the Caribbean surfing.
Your'e right, we have a number of specific maritime laws (Although I struggle to see which MARITIME laws apply to a river like the Thames) There are some rules that apply to the Thames, specifically. What the copper would have used to stop you:
Prior to 2012:
The Thames Navigation Licensing and General Byelaws 1993, - General conduct - Section 63 para b or e.
After 2012:
The Port of London Thames Byelaws Section 21. Bathing and swimming.
Defiantly no chance of being hit by redoubt towing a barge or marine 2 whacking into you at 40kts on the plane.
So you traveled to Germany and to fit in culturally you had takeaway food you could get in any small town in the UK?
It would blow your mind to come to rural NSW where you can get all that made by people who can also talk in funny foreign lingo.
What cultural back water do you come from?
All of that on a run but I offset the ankle support with polls. Absolutely essential for gnarly descents and stopping you from doing your ankles. Same idea.
A fast descent would obviously be done at a gallup.Gallup or YouGov ?
I don't think you can get currywurst mit pommes und mayonaise in a UK takeaway, I've been away for a few years mind. After spinal surgery I was not much inclined to use takeaways for my nosh, well other than visiting a landmark schnelli in Koeln for the currywurst, twice, enjoying the day and a view of the Rhine.
I don't think arriving in NSW would shock me anymore after my first visit there, I like Oz and the Akubra presented to me is still worn on rainy days.
As for me, well, actually I am a passport holding, pilsner drinking, property owning, boxhead by birth...........so culturally I think me and my mates know what works best in Germany. Even in Angela's more diversified Germany.
Please send the real Kinder Eggs over! For God's sake the ones they have Stateside suck.
As for me, well, actually I am a passport holding, pilsner drinking, property owning, boxhead by birth...........so culturally I think me and my mates know what works best in Germany. Even in Angela's more diversified Germany.
Wait, so you're a Brit, a German and a naturalized American?