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KingStromba
08-02-2005, 20:33
Yawn.

Cant beleive they made her a dame. Do they give these things away with kinder eggs now?

Ok so shes the fastest around the world. Big deal. Shes not the first. And most of it is down to her high tech boat.

Fed up of hearing about it. Sir Francis Chichester did this 38 years ago in a shitty little boat. He was 65 years old, suffering from cancer and navigated via a sextant. Robin Knox-Johnstone was the first person to do it non stop and also used a sextant and was out of radio contact for 8 months. To me thats an achievemnt. If something went wrong in those days they were basically dead. Ellen just gets on te web cam and some fat bloke in a chopper comes and lifts her lazy ass off the deck. Not really that dangerous IMO.

2 live
08-02-2005, 20:38
but hasnt a phuket resident done the same journey in 2 weeks on her deck chair??


was only a few weeks ago too hehe

KingStromba
08-02-2005, 20:44
LMAO. :D

2 live
09-02-2005, 11:11
then there were the 2 guys in the transit van from devon last year i believe

big hp
09-02-2005, 11:24
PMSL

KingStromba
09-02-2005, 12:51
Indonesian man smashes Ellen McArthur's round the world record on a palm weave mat

http://cgi.nickywitts.plus.com/uploads/276tsunami.jpg

2 live
09-02-2005, 14:38
lmao...he heard the tourists passports were goin fast so took a risk or 2 to get there before his family...his name is now...GAREEEE lmao

KingStromba
09-02-2005, 14:39
LOL

skipp123
10-02-2005, 13:59
can you belive what just happened to me at work....

few blokes say oh what a fantastic achivement bla bla bla so i quoted the above many thanks to king, and one of them bare in mind is about 45 starts going shut your ****ing mouth or il do it for you what would you know you twat ect ect i turned round and just said freedom of speach my brother and he starts pushing me round the ****ing office swearing in my face... i tell him to go **** himself, and this is going on for about 4/5mins in full view of 1 director and and the bloke that ownes the company they just sat there and did **** all, now im conterplainting not going back after lunch and sit a protest out till they say do something should this be instant dismissal??? what a uptight ****ing old aged imbosil aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh CUNT

KingStromba
10-02-2005, 14:08
Bit out of order. I would have a word with one of the directors and ask how he would feel about a police investigation of assault?

skipp123
10-02-2005, 14:11
what about

negligent supervision
vicarious liability
section98 employment rights act {1996} for dismissal of offender
FREEDON OF EXPRESION!!!!

what a wanker

2 live
10-02-2005, 15:28
then hit them with the constructive dismissal.....basically them making ur job so hard u have to leave

fukkin wanka..even dom diamond was slaggin her off in the papers yesterday for the exact same rasons..gps .team fukkin back up.boat wi stabilizers etc etc etc

skipp123
11-02-2005, 12:56
the guy said hed resign so wont be seeing him for a while, although could earn a small fortune outa this whad u rekon

snakeylady
11-02-2005, 14:42
:wink: okay so I'm going to weigh in with my twopenneth worth :!: :!: For what it's worth I certainly wouldn't attack anyone who disagrees with me so I agree the bloke who started on skip123 is a major dickhead :!: however her achievements, with or without technology etc, are phenomenal and I defy anyone on here to spend a night let alone 70 odd alone in the middle of the southern and altantic oceans :!: so fair play to her IMO she has muchos cojones and deserves all the plaudits :!: :!: IMO

KingStromba
11-02-2005, 21:26
Her life was never at risk snakelady. Her boat was unsinkable and she had every safety measure known to man plus a massive back up team in planes and boats around her.

Each to their own snakelady. Personally i dont think shes done anything i couldnt do given a rich father, lots of sponsorship and some sailing lessons.

2 live
12-02-2005, 13:38
agree with ya both in a way...yeah its a big thing thats shes done....but there is a lot of other people that do bigger things evry day of their lives and get no credit for it..

KingStromba
12-02-2005, 18:37
Yeah like me going into work every weekend to feed my fooking cells. :evil:

J o n
13-02-2005, 11:42
i reckon I could do what she's done, true, it would be boring, but as long as I had an Xbox, loads of porn and loads to smoke i'd be fine... possibly boradband too...

KingStromba
13-02-2005, 13:32
And how do we know she went round the world?

Because someone on the news told us?

More like 7 weeks in the Canaries then back to London for a lucrative sponsorship deal.

skipp123
13-02-2005, 18:41
lol,