2 pairs of concept 2 sculling blades for sale

noex · Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 1

2 pairs of concept 2 smoothie sculling blades for sale due to purchase
of different blades contactv 07919492233

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martin · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 9

On Feb 19, 10:29 am, noex wrote:
> 2 pairs of concept 2 smoothie sculling blades for sale due to purchase
> of different blades contactv 07919492233

where? how old? how much?

carolinetu · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 33

On Feb 19, 11:08 am, mar...@tokyoleasing.co.uk wrote:
> On Feb 19, 10:29 am, noex wrote:
>
> > 2 pairs of concept 2 smoothie sculling blades for sale due to purchase
> > of different blades contactv 07919492233
>
> where? how old? how much?

In which country?

Ted van de Weteringe · Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 51

carolinetu wrote:
> On Feb 19, 11:08 am, mar...@tokyoleasing.co.uk wrote:
>> On Feb 19, 10:29 am, noex wrote:
>>
>>> 2 pairs of concept 2 smoothie sculling blades for sale due to purchase
>>> of different blades contactv 07919492233
>>
>> where? how old? how much?
>
> In which country?

Yare BC, Norwich, UK. But you knew that from the UK mobile number.

Carl Douglas · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 93

Ted van de Weteringe wrote:
> carolinetu wrote:
>
>>On Feb 19, 11:08 am, mar...@tokyoleasing.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>>On Feb 19, 10:29 am, noex wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>2 pairs of concept 2 smoothie sculling blades for sale due to purchase
>>>>of different blades contactv 07919492233
>>>
>>>where? how old? how much?
>>
>>In which country?
>
>
> Yare BC, Norwich, UK. But you knew that from the UK mobile number.

Most Brits, some knowledgeable Dutch, & some others, knew that too. But
we narrowly-gifted individuals are not the sole readers of RSR. So
let's not leave relevant information encoded thus within an
international newsgroup on rowing. Nor blame the rest of the world for
its less-than-compendious knowledge of national phone systems.

By way of example, here's a little rant:
We need to accept each others' varied abilities & skills. I first used
computers when the bloody things ate cards & paper tapes, occupied whole
buildings & were like places for the worship of whirring mag tape drives
& clattering chain printers. Even so, I've always hated the attitudes
of geeks who treated their own narrow specialist knowledge of computers
as something to put them above & in power over normal, balanced humans.
The worst are the psychopathic "idiots savants" who think it smart to
propagate malware of all kinds & whose pet games destroy businesses &
even bring suicides. But there's a gradation right back to normal folk
who flounder when told to do anything beyond using an already set up
email system & get really stressed when told to click on a properties
tab. How truly frustrating for intelligent members of the latter
category to have someone further up the geek scale spout utterly
incomprehensible jargon at them. We know the jargonistas do so because
they're so out of touch with real life that they can't even see the need
to turn their arcane gibberish into plain English. It's just the
misplaced "I'm smarter than you" attitude that grates.

There, I feel much better now. Now what was your problem?

Cheers -
Carl

--
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Fine Small-Boats/AeRoWing Low-drag Riggers/Advanced Accessories
Write: Harris Boatyard, Laleham Reach, Chertsey KT16 8RP, UK
Email: carl@carldouglas.co.uk Tel: +44(0)1932-570946 Fax: -563682
URLs: www.carldouglas.co.uk (boats) & www.aerowing.co.uk (riggers)

Rob Collings · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 19

On 19 Feb, 16:22, Carl Douglas wrote:
> We know the jargonistas do so because
> they're so out of touch with real life that they can't even see the need
> to turn their arcane gibberish into plain English.

Is this the point where we start telling brand new beginners to hold
the saxboards, mind the riggers, check the stretcher and close the
gates? Wink

Rob.

Ted van de Weteringe · Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 51

Carl Douglas wrote:
> Ted van de Weteringe wrote:
>>>> On Feb 19, 10:29 am, noex wrote:
>>>>> 2 pairs of concept 2 smoothie sculling blades for sale due to purchase
>>>>> of different blades contactv 07919492233
>>
>> Yare BC, Norwich, UK. But you knew that from the UK mobile number.
>
> Most Brits, some knowledgeable Dutch, & some others, knew that too. But
> we narrowly-gifted individuals are not the sole readers of RSR. So
> let's not leave relevant information encoded thus within an
> international newsgroup on rowing.

Of course. I should have interpunctuated thus: "Yare BC, Norwich. (UK,
but you knew that from the UK mobile number.)" I got Yare by googling
his name from the email address.

TvdW
+3130

Carl Douglas · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 93

Rob Collings wrote:
> On 19 Feb, 16:22, Carl Douglas wrote:
>
>>We know the jargonistas do so because
>>they're so out of touch with real life that they can't even see the need
>>to turn their arcane gibberish into plain English.
>
>
> Is this the point where we start telling brand new beginners to hold
> the saxboards, mind the riggers, check the stretcher and close the
> gates? Wink

>
> Rob.

Could be. And stay with the sunken boat?

Mind you, the mind did boggle a bit over that instruction in the old
Water Safety Code - "Check your Velcros".
Wink

Carl
--
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Fine Small-Boats/AeRoWing Low-drag Riggers/Advanced Accessories
Write: Harris Boatyard, Laleham Reach, Chertsey KT16 8RP, UK
Email: carl@carldouglas.co.uk Tel: +44(0)1932-570946 Fax: -563682
URLs: www.carldouglas.co.uk (boats) & www.aerowing.co.uk (riggers)

TidewayUmpire · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 17

On Feb 19, 5:50ï¿½pm, Carl Douglas wrote:
> Rob Collings wrote:
> > On 19 Feb, 16:22, Carl Douglas wrote:
>
> >>We know the jargonistas do so because
> >>they're so out of touch with real life that they can't even see the need
> >>to turn their arcane gibberish into plain English.
>
> > Is this the point where we start telling brand new beginners to hold
> > the saxboards, mind the riggers, check the stretcher and close the
> > gates? Wink

>
> > Rob.
>
> Could be. ï¿½And stay with the sunken boat?
>
> Mind you, the mind did boggle a bit over that instruction in the old
> Water Safety Code - "Check your Velcros".
> Wink

> Carl
> --
> Carl Douglas Racing Shells ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½-
> ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½Fine Small-Boats/AeRoWing Low-drag Riggers/Advanced Accessories
> Write: ï¿½ Harris Boatyard, Laleham Reach, Chertsey KT16 8RP, UK
> Email: c...@carldouglas.co.uk ï¿½Tel: +44(0)1932-570946 ï¿½Fax: -563682
> URLs: ï¿½www.carldouglas.co.uk(boats) &www.aerowing.co.uk(riggers)

While we are ranting [and not to be too much of an OF] hopefully,
sometime before the beginner gets anywhere near a boat or going out on
the water, someone perhaps even the Club Water Saftey Officer, using
jargon or not, has already made sure he/she [the beginner] knows all
about the cheapest and most effective bit of safety kit we have - heel
restraints.
What they are for, how they work, why & how to check them EVERY time
they go out. NOT to go out if they are faulty, how to replace them and
what, potentially, effective heel restraints save - the beginners
life.
Once thats done and understood, the other essentials for safety, not
having the shoes too tight, bow balls, bouyancy compartments etc., can
be covered

THEN we get on to saxboards and the other sexy stuff !!

paul_v_smith · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 48

On Feb 19, 9:50 am, Carl Douglas wrote:
> Rob Collings wrote:
> > On 19 Feb, 16:22, Carl Douglas wrote:
>
> >>We know the jargonistas do so because
> >>they're so out of touch with real life that they can't even see the need
> >>to turn their arcane gibberish into plain English.
>
> > Is this the point where we start telling brand new beginners to hold
> > the saxboards, mind the riggers, check the stretcher and close the
> > gates? Wink

>
> > Rob.
>
> Could be. And stay with the sunken boat?
>
> Mind you, the mind did boggle a bit over that instruction in the old
> Water Safety Code - "Check your Velcros".
> Wink

> Carl

What in the heck is "Check your Velcro's"? Something to do with the
shoes?
And if so, what are they being checked for?
I rarely bother with fastening them down at all, since there are often
multiple straps and the string that connects them all for conveniently
pulling them up, in case of needing out quickly, has long been lost.
God only knows how that happened.

- Paul Smith

PS - Nice rant above. Of course that sort of thing NEVER happens here
on RSR. [;o)

Henning Lippke · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 4

TidewayUmpire schrieb:
> sometime before the beginner gets anywhere near a boat or going out on
> the water, someone has already made sure he/she [the beginner] knows all
> about the cheapest and most effective bit of safety kit we have - heel
> restraints.

Now this is drifting really of topic.

How can I introduce beginners to the importance of heel restraints if
the boats they initially use don't have installed shoes (only the
'advanced' boats have them)?

Henry Law · Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 51

Henning Lippke wrote:

> How can I introduce beginners to the importance of heel restraints if
> the boats they initially use don't have installed shoes (only the
> 'advanced' boats have them)?

Assuming that these boats have a heel cup and a strap (what used to be
known as "clogs" over here) then you could point out that this a very
safe means of foot restraint, and emphasise that when they graduate to
the advanced boats they put themselves at greater risk.

--

Henry Law Manchester, England

John Mulholland · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 24

wrote in message @i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
On Feb 19, 9:50 am, Carl Douglas wrote:
> Rob Collings wrote:
> > On 19 Feb, 16:22, Carl Douglas wrote:
>
> >>We know the jargonistas do so because
> >>they're so out of touch with real life that they can't even see the need
> >>to turn their arcane gibberish into plain English.
>
> > Is this the point where we start telling brand new beginners to hold
> > the saxboards, mind the riggers, check the stretcher and close the
> > gates? Wink

>
> > Rob.
>
> Could be. And stay with the sunken boat?
>
> Mind you, the mind did boggle a bit over that instruction in the old
> Water Safety Code - "Check your Velcros".
> Wink

> Carl

What in the heck is "Check your Velcro's"? Something to do with the
shoes?
And if so, what are they being checked for?
I rarely bother with fastening them down at all, since there are often
multiple straps and the string that connects them all for conveniently
pulling them up, in case of needing out quickly, has long been lost.
God only knows how that happened.

- Paul Smith

PS - Nice rant above. Of course that sort of thing NEVER happens here
on RSR. [;o)

Isn't the string that threads through the multiple straps the spare heel
restraint?

...and how is any of this related to "2 pairs of concept 2 sculling blades
for sale"?

--
John Mulholland

Carl Douglas · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 93

John Mulholland wrote:
> wrote in message
> @i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On Feb 19, 9:50 am, Carl Douglas wrote:
>
>>Rob Collings wrote:
>>
>>>On 19 Feb, 16:22, Carl Douglas wrote:
>>
>>>>We know the jargonistas do so because
>>>>they're so out of touch with real life that they can't even see the need
>>>>to turn their arcane gibberish into plain English.
>>
>>>Is this the point where we start telling brand new beginners to hold
>>>the saxboards, mind the riggers, check the stretcher and close the
>>>gates? Wink

>>
>>>Rob.
>>
>>Could be. And stay with the sunken boat?
>>
>>Mind you, the mind did boggle a bit over that instruction in the old
>>Water Safety Code - "Check your Velcros".
>> Wink

>>Carl
>
>
> What in the heck is "Check your Velcro's"? Something to do with the
> shoes?
> And if so, what are they being checked for?
> I rarely bother with fastening them down at all, since there are often
> multiple straps and the string that connects them all for conveniently
> pulling them up, in case of needing out quickly, has long been lost.
> God only knows how that happened.
>
> - Paul Smith
>
> PS - Nice rant above. Of course that sort of thing NEVER happens here
> on RSR. [;o)

Of course not!
>
> Isn't the string that threads through the multiple straps the spare heel
> restraint?

Errr, No. Supposed quick release of overtight straps across the shoe is
a nonsense in every respect:
1. Safety devices must operate passively
2. The heel restraint operateds passively & is your 1 & only means of
escape after capsize
3. No one should row or scull with the straps or laces across their
shoes tightened enough to prevent easy exit - there never being the
slightest need for tight lacing.
4. Velcro-fastened shoe straps have no safety function. They are just a
means of quickly (?) fitting your feet into the shoes. The occasional
linking of these straps by cords has no safety function: it leaves
inconvenient loops of string which not infrequently get trapped under
the Velcro, it helps a certain shoe maker (as you indicate) to extend
their trade-mark based on 3 of everything into the shoe fastenings as
well (& eventually leads to the tearing off of some of those supernumary
straps - a form of built-in obscolescence), it encourages sloppy
practice & it gives rise to the bogus notion that heel restraints are
optional/unnecessary.

>
> ..and how is any of this related to "2 pairs of concept 2 sculling blades
> for sale"?
>

That's how RSR threads, just like conversations, develop & wander.

Cheers -
Carl
--
Carl Douglas Racing Shells -
Fine Small-Boats/AeRoWing Low-drag Riggers/Advanced Accessories
Write: Harris Boatyard, Laleham Reach, Chertsey KT16 8RP, UK
Email: carl@carldouglas.co.uk Tel: +44(0)1932-570946 Fax: -563682
URLs: www.carldouglas.co.uk (boats) & www.aerowing.co.uk (riggers)

ken · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 6

On 22 Feb, 12:30, Carl Douglas wrote:

> 1. Safety devices must operate passively

Not quite. Some safety devices must operate passively; some must not.

Prize of a pint of Brown Ale to the first reply stating the obvious
safety device in our sport that must NOT operate passively.

(PS. I am *not* selling 2 pairs of Concept 2 blades)

Ken Hastie

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