Hmmm... went to the water point tonight. On my way back, I noticed loads of empty plastic water bottles floating in the river. Good job the rowers don't use those or someone might think they were from them: clearly liveaboards are the culprit. Nasty, dirty, freeloading, litterbug, environmentally aware, frugal, tree hugging, socially responsible liveaboards!
'Liveaboards' - It this term supposed to refer to people who choose to live on narrow boats? If so we should have a term for people who live in houses. How about 'brick-dwellers'? Why the f@*k does everyone have to be labelled!
"Liveaboards" is the term that people who live on any kind of boat frequently use to describe themselves.
As such, it's more of an identity than a label, providing a sense of belonging. This is important when your lifestyle provides little or no sense of security (no permanent home). It is especially important when you are a minority group that is occasionally attacked, derided or persecuted (albeit by an ignorant minority).
It's not all bad though: The liveaboard community is the most neighbourly (and most diverse!) community I have ever had the pleasure to live in :-)
Loved this little saga. Owned a boat once and can emphathize with the owners. Thank you for the ending, though; there's nothing like a good hug to make life bearable!
Comments
What a w*nker! You should have stuck that pole up his ass and said how's that for pole-ution!
Tan x
Posted by: Anonymous | May 28, 2008 10:28 AM
That's the sort of riff-raff we have to put up with!
Posted by: Mike | May 28, 2008 10:50 AM
grrrr ... what an arse, poor you guys : ( xx
Posted by: jo | May 28, 2008 12:24 PM
Hmmm... went to the water point tonight. On my way back, I noticed loads of empty plastic water bottles floating in the river. Good job the rowers don't use those or someone might think they were from them: clearly liveaboards are the culprit. Nasty, dirty, freeloading, litterbug, environmentally aware, frugal, tree hugging, socially responsible liveaboards!
R
Posted by: R | May 28, 2008 10:12 PM
A classic case of row rage.
Posted by: Chris | May 31, 2008 11:32 AM
Tosser
I know some people - just say the word...
Ex-boss
Posted by: Stuart | June 5, 2008 10:30 AM
'Liveaboards' - It this term supposed to refer to people who choose to live on narrow boats? If so we should have a term for people who live in houses. How about 'brick-dwellers'? Why the f@*k does everyone have to be labelled!
A brick-dweller
Posted by: Anonymous | June 5, 2008 10:37 AM
"Liveaboards" is the term that people who live on any kind of boat frequently use to describe themselves.
As such, it's more of an identity than a label, providing a sense of belonging. This is important when your lifestyle provides little or no sense of security (no permanent home). It is especially important when you are a minority group that is occasionally attacked, derided or persecuted (albeit by an ignorant minority).
It's not all bad though: The liveaboard community is the most neighbourly (and most diverse!) community I have ever had the pleasure to live in :-)
Posted by: R | June 6, 2008 01:26 PM
Loved this little saga. Owned a boat once and can emphathize with the owners. Thank you for the ending, though; there's nothing like a good hug to make life bearable!
Posted by: Connie Martin | July 2, 2008 09:33 PM