Ellen MacArthur

[yrwyddfa]

I am sure that you will join me in wishing Ellen all the best as she completes her historic and record-breaking 27,000m journey around our home.

[crptcblade]

Who?

[wossname]

Some whining, helpless bint messing aroung in a boat. AGAIN!

She does the same thing all the time and somehow its news.

She gives Derbyshire a bad name.

[yrwyddfa]

Some whining, helpless bint messing aroung in a boat. AGAIN!

She does the same thing all the time and somehow its news.

She gives Derbyshire a bad name.

You are, of couse, entitled to your opinion.

However wrong it may be

[crptcblade]

She gives Derbyshire a bad name.

Sure, she did that...

[Valleysboy1978]

Some whining, helpless bint messing aroung in a boat. AGAIN!

She does the same thing all the time and somehow its news.

She gives Derbyshire a bad name.

You just have to ask WHY??
What has she done that's so impressive? I would consider someone fighting against cancer much more couragous than that "whining, helpless bint"
Ellen, get a real job and stop evading taxation!

[Pino]

You just have to ask WHY??
What has she done that's so impressive? I would consider someone fighting against cancer much more couragous than that "whining, helpless bint"
Ellen, get a real job and stop evading taxation!

Can you try to keep your opinions controlled and respect others

[mendhak]

This is as exciting as a game of golf.

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You just have to ask WHY??
What has she done that's so impressive? I would consider someone fighting against cancer much more couragous than that "whining, helpless bint"
Ellen, get a real job and stop evading taxation!

Yeah it is impressive but like Valleys says, the real hero's live among us. Ellen's achievement shows she has bravery and determination. But, how many other people in the world have to show these qualities every day of their life just to survive?

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This is as exciting as a game of golf.

Whenever I play golf, people hit me over the head with the clubs

[Valleysboy1978]

Me thinks you're doing something wrong Visual

[wossname]

Can you try to keep your opinions controlled and respect others

I am the real hero here because everyday I have do battle with my unpleasant, aggressive, and inconsiderate personality. My complete disregard for others' feelings and welfare, my brazen attitude towards their ambitions and interests is a real burden and I am trying my utmost to overcome it. I am a real jerk, chump.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Could someone please step aside from the sarcasm and enlighten a poor benighted American as to who this gal is, and what she is doing?

[Pino]

Could someone please step aside from the sarcasm and enlighten a poor benighted American as to who this gal is, and what she is doing?

She sailed single handed around the world in record time (beat it by just over a day)

[yrwyddfa]

She sailed single handed around the world in record time (beat it by just over a day)

She sailed single handed NON_STOP around the world beating a record that was presupposed to stand for at least ten years in a boat that was 20% slower than then previous record holder.

[Valleysboy1978]

Could someone please step aside from the sarcasm and enlighten a poor benighted American as to who this gal is, and what she is doing?

She decided to go sailing, got a bit lost and only just got back

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She decided to go sailing, got a bit lost and only just got back

[wossname]

Silly cow didn't even sail along straight lines, I reckon she plotted her course with a can of silly string and an inflatable globe.

[Valleysboy1978]

Thats what I couldn't understand. Why travel all the way down the atlantic, go around the world then back up the atlantic to Britain?
Why not go to the southern tip of South America and just keep heading East/West....she would go all the way around and would eventually end up back where she started in half the time!?!

[JPicasso]

Could someone please step aside from the sarcasm and enlighten a poor benighted American as to who this gal is, and what she is doing?

I didn't think Americans can carry noble titles.

Something about how gross beans for breakfast is.

[Valleysboy1978]

I didn't think Americans can carry noble titles.

Something about how gross beans for breakfast is.

Anyone from any country can be knighted....but they cannot use the title "Sir"

[Shaggy Hiker]

We have titles, they just get you banned from this forum if you use them.

Now, about the arogance of the brits. Around the world shouldn't start and end in England for any reason. You could make a case for starting and ending on an equatorial point, but if you don't do that, then Cape Horn to Cape Horn would be the fastest and easiest way to go round the world.

Sounds like a Golden Globe race, was it? Those are pretty cool, but I'd never do one.

[yrwyddfa]

She started at Ushant which is just of the French coast. It's also, coincidentally, where she finished.

The start and the finish line has nothing to do with Britain. It's the traditional start line of the Jules Verne challenge - how the hell you get in a balloon in victorian times in the middle of the north atlantic is anyone's guess.

[yrwyddfa]

As for 'the arrogance of the Brits' I would just like to add to all English speaking nations (and many others)

'Greetings from the Mothership'

[Wally Pipp]

speaking for the rest of the world: Please come and collect them, we don't want them anymore

[Valleysboy1978]

We have titles, they just get you banned from this forum if you use them.

Now, about the arogance of the brits. Around the world shouldn't start and end in England for any reason. You could make a case for starting and ending on an equatorial point, but if you don't do that, then Cape Horn to Cape Horn would be the fastest and easiest way to go round the world.

Sounds like a Golden Globe race, was it? Those are pretty cool, but I'd never do one.

Can I just say.....thank you very very very much for accusing the English of being arrogant. It's so nice that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (who make up Great Britain with England) aren't tarnished with the same brush as the English

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All the welsh people I know are homosexual. What does that mean?

[davebat]

That for some reason you know a lot of homosexuals. What does that mean?

[Valleysboy1978]

That for some reason you know a lot of homosexuals. What does that mean?

[wossname]

Can I just say.....thank you very very very much for accusing the English of being arrogant. It's so nice that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (who make up Great Britain with England) aren't tarnished with the same brush as the English

Better arrogant than a Welsh, and its "tarred with the same brush".

Anyway, (earlier on) that's not what benighted means. It means something like godless or heathenistic as far as I can tell.

[Valleysboy1978]

Better arrogant than a Welsh, and its "tarred with the same brush".

You're just saying that because we defeated you last week

[Shaggy Hiker]

Geez, people seemed to really like the arrogance bit. As a Yank, we are given that label quite often (we aren't arrogant, most Americans I know would be more properly described as 'clueless', but that can be mistaken for arrogance), so I thought I'd give it back.

What does getting into a balloon have to do with this? This was a sailboat wasn't it? Jules Verne and balloons would probably be a reference to Mysterious Island, but I can't figure it out.

[dglienna]

Better arrogant than a Welsh, and its "tarred with the same brush".

Anyway, (earlier on) that's not what benighted means. It means something like godless or heathenistic as far as I can tell.

Actually,

1. Overtaken by night or darkness.
2. Being in a state of moral or intellectual darkness; unenlightened.

[yrwyddfa]

Geez, people seemed to really like the arrogance bit. As a Yank, we are given that label quite often (we aren't arrogant, most Americans I know would be more properly described as 'clueless', but that can be mistaken for arrogance), so I thought I'd give it back.

What does getting into a balloon have to do with this? This was a sailboat wasn't it? Jules Verne and balloons would probably be a reference to Mysterious Island, but I can't figure it out.

Jules Verne wrote 'Around the world in 80 days' which used a balloon to achieve it. Sure, it doesn't quite have the same wit once you've had to explain it but hey! nevermind . . .

The English aren't arrogant, per se, it's just that they're always right. We want to give Scotland back - but we have Scots running the English parliament (even thought they've got one of their own) Even worse is Wales: if we gave Wales back they'd go bust - they've already sold all their mineral resources off!

Incidentally - Scotland only became part of the Union because it went bust on some missions to settle in America - they put nearly all their cash into it - but when they arrived they found that their location was swamps and disease killed the settlers off. The English bailed them out on condition that they join the Union.

The Welsh since Roman times have 'Run to the hills' when anything gets a bit scary. Wales has no natural resource of it's own, so relies on the service sector and farming. BSE put pay to the farming - so Wales export their service industry to England (and Ireland) Leaving them to face export tariffs should they claim independence will ruthlessly kill off all 20 million sheep and will harm the remaining 3 million people.

As far England: well we're the ******* nation of Europe - every marauder, pirate, and thug all thought they'd have a go - raping our women and eating our children. Mixed genetics is not the word for it.

Still - the English started the Industrial Revolution - so I think that all other nations should take time to stop and say 'Thank You'

[Valleysboy1978]

Jules Verne wrote 'Around the world in 80 days' which used a balloon to achieve it. Sure, it doesn't quite have the same wit once you've had to explain it but hey! nevermind . . .

The English aren't arrogant, per se, it's just that they're always right. We want to give Scotland back - but we have Scots running the English parliament (even thought they've got one of their own) Even worse is Wales: if we gave Wales back they'd go bust - they've already sold all their mineral resources off!

Incidentally - Scotland only became part of the Union because it went bust on some missions to settle in America - they put nearly all their cash into it - but when they arrived they found that their location was swamps and disease killed the settlers off. The English bailed them out on condition that they join the Union.

The Welsh since Roman times have 'Run to the hills' when anything gets a bit scary. Wales has no natural resource of it's own, so relies on the service sector and farming. BSE put pay to the farming - so Wales export their service industry to England (and Ireland) Leaving them to face export tariffs should they claim independence will ruthlessly kill off all 20 million sheep and will harm the remaining 3 million people.

As far England: well we're the ******* nation of Europe - every marauder, pirate, and thug all thought they'd have a go - raping our women and eating our children. Mixed genetics is not the word for it.

Still - the English started the Industrial Revolution - so I think that all other nations should take time to stop and say 'Thank You'

Seeing as you don't like the Welsh, why are you using a Welsh name for your ID?

[yrwyddfa]

I think you should read it in the vein it was intended.

(The clue being at the end)

[yrwyddfa]

Seeing as you don't like the Welsh, why are you using a Welsh name for your ID?

Well it's better than 'Snowdon' isn't it!

[Valleysboy1978]

True, very true.
I tell ya what though, if I was McArthur I'd tell the queen to stuff her damehood up her jacksie. I mean c'mon!!!