Mike Smith (Illustrator)

9 Comments

1. Anonymous
   Posted May 28, 2008 at 10:28 am | Permalink

   What a w*nker! You should have stuck that pole up his ass and said how’s that for pole-ution!
   Tan x

2. Mike
   Posted May 28, 2008 at 10:50 am | Permalink

   That’s the sort of riff-raff we have to put up with!

3. jo
   Posted May 28, 2008 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

   grrrr … what an arse, poor you guys : ( xx

4. R
   Posted May 28, 2008 at 10:12 pm | Permalink

   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

5. Chris
   Posted May 31, 2008 at 11:32 am | Permalink

   A classic case of row rage.

6. Stuart
   Posted June 5, 2008 at 10:30 am | Permalink

   Tosser
   I know some people – just say the word…
   Ex-boss

7. Anonymous
   Posted June 5, 2008 at 10:37 am | Permalink

   ‘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

8. R
   Posted June 6, 2008 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

   “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

9. Connie Martin
   Posted July 2, 2008 at 9:33 pm | Permalink

   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!