Will bodyboarders get to take part in Sorted Surf Festival at Boscombe reef? (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Will bodyboarders get to take part in Sorted Surf Festival at Boscombe reef?
9:30am Friday 19th March 2010 in
SURFERS will be keeping a close eye on Boscombe’s artificial surf reef this weekend, when it could see its first competitive action.
Organisers of the first Sorted Surf Festival hope to hold the bodyboarding contest on the reef. The other four of the five events are expected to take place in the area of the pier and beach.
The two-day festival, which will include displays and demonstrations, has been billed as “the first surf contest at the newly completed artificial surf reef at Boscombe.”
Shaun Taylor, from Sorted, explained: “What we’ll put on at any particular place will depend on the conditions on the day. The reason we wanted a festiv-al was to get people into the area to see what a great place we have got here.
“This is as nice an area as any on the South Coast. I appreciate the reef hasn’t worked as well as was expected, However, it’s a brand new process, which is being monitored at the mome-nt. It will be great when it’s all done.”
Guest house owner and surfer Danny Chilcott said: “We are playing with nature and it’s difficult to get it right first time – it just needs a few alterations. At the moment it produces a steep wave, which is good for bodyboarding but not for surfing.”
Mr Chilcott, who runs the Ocean Breeze in Westby Road, Boscombe, said he hopes the changes will be made as soon as possible and added: “I have not had a single surf-related booking yet.”
There was anger earlier this month when Bournemouth council refused to reveal the contents of a verbal briefing from Plymouth University experts looking at whether the reef was working as planned.
Comments(64)
Pepper Pig
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9:56am Fri 19 Mar 10
boardstiff
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10:18am Fri 19 Mar 10
Pepper Pig wrote:Tell me more....
Shaun Taylor from Sorted obviously hasn't listened to the local news today. If he had then he'd realise that his comment that Boscombe is “... as nice an area as any on the South Coast" is a bit lame!
McVICAR
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10:37am Fri 19 Mar 10
Gazz43
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11:26am Fri 19 Mar 10
rainbowkisses
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11:38am Fri 19 Mar 10
enotsnihple
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11:48am Fri 19 Mar 10
ian belchamber sausage
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11:53am Fri 19 Mar 10
Gazz43
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11:54am Fri 19 Mar 10
enotsnihple wrote:I`ll second that, can you imagine spending time with these types, hopefully they will stay away!
Good grief. What a misery guts! There are none so blind, that cannot see.
boardstiff
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12:03pm Fri 19 Mar 10
If you did, you'll recall a massive car park that was empty at even the height of the season, a derelict Overstrand building and a pier that was closed to the public because of the burnt out wreck (not, not Bob49) that was on the end of it.
I know what I'd prefer to see - even though I'd have tackled it very differently.
boardstiff
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12:18pm Fri 19 Mar 10
http://www.bournemou
th.gov.uk/News/featu
res/Boscombearttrail
.asp
Any thoughts...?
(Security word: gold-true)
Bob49
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12:24pm Fri 19 Mar 10
We were told that the flogging off of the land would lead to a regeneration of Boscombe.
That would be through 60 new jobs plus 30 part time jobs. Bookings for local hotels, guest houses. Sadly none of those have happened.
There was to be numerous day vistors. That hasn't happened as there's nowhere to park. Likewise there has not been the 10,000 surfers as claimed, who would be staying locally and hiring out the surfpods.
I'm sure there are simply souls who are impressed by a few bits of concrete but the majority of the rest are not so easily fooled.
There is now a shortfall of £3m. Perhaps those that are so easily pleased will put their money where their mouth is and offer to pay for this failure - after all aren't they telling us how much they are enjoying it, so why would they not wish to pay for it ?
It is worth it, isn't it ?
ps Radio 4 are highlighting this absolute waste - 12.00 12.30pm Friday
Upkeep
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12:38pm Fri 19 Mar 10
"You cant polish a turd".
Gazz43
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12:40pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Bob49 wrote:Yawn!! With yr negative attitude its hardly gonna ever work, given the time these things need to filter thro to help improve many things less obvious. But thanks again for your wingeing, so very useful. I certainly ain`t no fool, just see the positives, if you care to open yr eyes occassionally you may too. Boring Bob, quite catchy & appropriate I reckon!
But stiffy my dear old chap you seem to have completely missed the point of this farce. It was not to spend £11m plus to put up some concret blocks and a new toilet block. We were told that the flogging off of the land would lead to a regeneration of Boscombe. That would be through 60 new jobs plus 30 part time jobs. Bookings for local hotels, guest houses. Sadly none of those have happened. There was to be numerous day vistors. That hasn't happened as there's nowhere to park. Likewise there has not been the 10,000 surfers as claimed, who would be staying locally and hiring out the surfpods. I'm sure there are simply souls who are impressed by a few bits of concrete but the majority of the rest are not so easily fooled. There is now a shortfall of £3m. Perhaps those that are so easily pleased will put their money where their mouth is and offer to pay for this failure - after all aren't they telling us how much they are enjoying it, so why would they not wish to pay for it ? It is worth it, isn't it ? ps Radio 4 are highlighting this absolute waste - 12.00 12.30pm Friday
reefwatching
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1:14pm Fri 19 Mar 10
http://www.thisiscor
nwall.co.uk/homepage
news/Fresh-bring-sur
f-reef-resort/articl
e-1916918-detail/art
icle.html
Bob49
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1:29pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Shame that the council did not factor comments on a newspaper forum into it's development plans.
I would suggest, however, that you overestimate the importance of a few words on here.
This farce was doomed from the start so maybe it might be an idea to ask yourself why that was, rather than blame those who are positive enough to want the BEST for our town.
And while you are it perhaps tell us all how much better would this fiasco would be were this forum not to exist. A couple of examples wil do.
Schooners
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1:34pm Fri 19 Mar 10
You all know it does not work.
I dare any of you to stand in front of a TV crew tomorrow and let me interview you in a calm and controller manner.
I would without doubt make you all look as ridiculous and inept as Michael Howard did at the hands of Jeremy Paxman.
£3.6m and none of you have the spine to say, 'Yes we got it wrong and now we are going to sue ASR. We are not happy and it is not producing the waves that we expected. Data or no, it does not work and we are upset that ASR have never produced a reef anywhere in the world that does work'
None of them have the spine and I can tell you from an 'official source', BCC's position is, and I quote, 'WE INHERITED THIS MESS AND WE ARE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO PUT UP WITH IT AS THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO, BUT IT HAS INCREASED TOURISM AND IS GOOD FOR COASTAL EROSION AND MARINE LIFE THE FACT YOU CANNOT SURF IT DOES NOT MATTER'
For the love of god grant me the patience with these morons.
BmthNewshound
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3:29pm Fri 19 Mar 10
rainbowkisses
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3:40pm Fri 19 Mar 10
boardstiff wrote:I don't begrudge the Council tarting the place up, but for all the millions spent, what do the local people actually get for their money? Bottom line is....nothing. All we ended up with is a block of flats locals couldn't afford and still mostly empty, I grant you the Overstand looks better, but still full of huts nobody can afford and a pier that is about as usful to locals as a chocolate teapot. Oh, and a reef that seems not to be for surfers. I do like to look on the positive side of things, but as far as this is concerned, I just can't see how all that money spent on the seafront has benefitted the locals of Boscombe one bit. Tourists may'be, (time will tell on that) locals though gain nothing except the bill to pay for it all. We have loads of things closing down through lack of money, things that locals use....yet they still spend millions on the tourists that bring money into town for the businesses. Just where did all that £30 million that last air show brought in go? Even the most ardent fan of the reef is having a hard time trying to justify it. we are stuck with it I know, but that does not mean we have to agree with it.
Rainbowkisses, did you go "down the front" most days a couple of years ago, too? If you did, you'll recall a massive car park that was empty at even the height of the season, a derelict Overstrand building and a pier that was closed to the public because of the burnt out wreck (not, not Bob49) that was on the end of it. I know what I'd prefer to see - even though I'd have tackled it very differently.
enotsnihple
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4:12pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Casualferret
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4:17pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Gary Sherborne
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5:12pm Fri 19 Mar 10
WIGGINSv
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5:24pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Gary Sherborne wrote:I know a 'water-sport' fan. Now that is FUN.
Water Sports, Arts, Culture and multi-media attention all in one day. The future is bright, the future is Boscombe, all of it, Boscombe East & Boscombe West.
jamyjames
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6:15pm Fri 19 Mar 10
I wonder why he has let Barrett break the laws of the Town?
They are selling off Bournemouth, but who is getting the commission?
Gary Sherborne
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7:38pm Fri 19 Mar 10
peter beneather benifit cheater
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7:39pm Fri 19 Mar 10
Gary Sherborne
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7:41pm Fri 19 Mar 10
peter beneather benifit cheater
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10:14pm Fri 19 Mar 10
whingeyminge
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11:15pm Fri 19 Mar 10
I think come summertime we'll all benefit with the local lasses looking like they just landed from Brazil, and not a stretch-mark in sight.
competitor
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6:52am Sat 20 Mar 10
It will be especially interesting to see if the waves are suitable for competition as I have been very active in promoting artificial reefs. I obviously hope all goes well. If it does, I will continue to promote the idea of building reefs. Hoping for the best- cheers.
jamyjames
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8:48am Sat 20 Mar 10
time nor Tide
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9:06am Sat 20 Mar 10
.
Its the reality that either for, or agin, we have to accept is it not?
Schooners
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9:08am Sat 20 Mar 10
BCC well done you made us into a laughing stock.
Have any of the BCC morons ever even been to Santa Monica and do ANY of them even know how to surf, or do them just specialise in useless excuses and backhanders?
As I look out of my window the reef is unsurfable and will remain so, now and forever.
FT article below
http://www.ft.com/cm
s/s/2/5d3fbe80-30a4-
11df-a24b-00144feabd
c0.html
caz-caz
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9:50am Sat 20 Mar 10
oh great the reef is ok for a few fish or some other marine life that most of us will never see as they dont parade along the beach - the reef then is a bedsit for crabs ..... mmmm should actually fit in well sounds like most accomodation in the area
cynical bill
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10:04am Sat 20 Mar 10
The surfing is incredible. I always thought English surfers were rubbish - being they come from a nation of sporting pygmies where there's no real surf and the ocean is mostly a cold mix of sewerage and litter - , but it's insane. Those boys and girls are shredding the waves, everyone's going vert and the airs are off the scale. The reef is barreling - 200m head high tube rides. It looks like Sunset. More cameras on the beach than at a Shuttle launch. My mates in Australia are watching it live on the webcam and they say they've never seen anything like it.
And I got a fantastic t-shirt. At first I thought £30 for a bit of cheap wear-once-then-bin cotton tat thrown together in sub-asian sweatshop was a bit rich but then I saw the logo so I know it's kosher and I know my £30 is going to help improve Bos Vegas even more. I've just got £90 out the bank so I can go back and by one of the awesome hoodies they have - they have logos on the front AND THE BACK!
It's been so long with everyone doubting it, but now the big day has come we really get to see what this reef can really produce.
Hang about - just had a really weird dream.
peter beneather benifit cheater
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10:06am Sat 20 Mar 10
...Out of Office AutoMessage...
Casualferret
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10:10am Sat 20 Mar 10
caz-caz
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10:42am Sat 20 Mar 10
OH SILLY ME ... THERE ISNT ANY !
peter beneather benifit cheater
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11:15am Sat 20 Mar 10
whingeyminge
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11:30am Sat 20 Mar 10
peter beneather benifit cheater
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4:29pm Sat 20 Mar 10
peter hurt
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5:20am Sun 21 Mar 10
competitor
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7:08am Sun 21 Mar 10
horizon
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9:43pm Sun 21 Mar 10
So if your car is stolen, you can get fit walking every where, RIGHT!?
or if somebody gets killed the maggots have a feast RIGHT!?
And if a previously failed reef design gets build in an international arena you can, be positive and say the crabs have somwhere to live RIGHT!?
Oh, the builders and all that have taken backhanders can afford a few luxuries, now there is a positive RIGHT!?
simonhumby
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2:13pm Mon 22 Mar 10
The council hope it'll draw surfers in from all over the country.
But how many tourists? And how many surf school pupils and university surf degree students will fit on a 30 metre wide reef?
Will there ever be room for a council-tax paying local surfer?
boardstiff
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3:28pm Mon 22 Mar 10
boardstiff
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3:29pm Mon 22 Mar 10
horizon wrote:If you were "RIGHT", I'd be the first to agree with you.
Gazz43 & Boardstiff want to be more positive about this failed object ( as if a name boardstiff has a positive side)
So if your car is stolen, you can get fit walking every where, RIGHT!?
or if somebody gets killed the maggots have a feast RIGHT!?
And if a previously failed reef design gets build in an international arena you can, be positive and say the crabs have somwhere to live RIGHT!?
Oh, the builders and all that have taken backhanders can afford a few luxuries, now there is a positive RIGHT!?
Bob49
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12:00pm Tue 23 Mar 10
Nothing libellious, nothing insulting, nothing offensive merely asking where the money is going to come from to cover the revenue not coming in due to low sales of the surf pods.
Somebody, somewhere doesn't like this particular question. I wonder why ?
horizon
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12:36pm Tue 23 Mar 10
boardstiff wrote:How can you agree with me in your state of mind?
horizon wrote:If you were "RIGHT", I'd be the first to agree with you.
Gazz43 & Boardstiff want to be more positive about this failed object ( as if a name boardstiff has a positive side)
So if your car is stolen, you can get fit walking every where, RIGHT!?
or if somebody gets killed the maggots have a feast RIGHT!?
And if a previously failed reef design gets build in an international arena you can, be positive and say the crabs have somwhere to live RIGHT!?
Oh, the builders and all that have taken backhanders can afford a few luxuries, now there is a positive RIGHT!?
Here is a reef that is not delivering 2% of what was ridiculously promised,
and you live in denial of this fact!
pretending it works is a very sick process and not many can do it.
But you can... RIGHT!?
fuel-fact :]
boardstiff
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7:55am Wed 24 Mar 10
horizon wrote:In not one of my posts have I ever claimed that the reef works.
boardstiff wrote:How can you agree with me in your state of mind?
horizon wrote:If you were "RIGHT", I'd be the first to agree with you.
Gazz43 & Boardstiff want to be more positive about this failed object ( as if a name boardstiff has a positive side)
So if your car is stolen, you can get fit walking every where, RIGHT!?
or if somebody gets killed the maggots have a feast RIGHT!?
And if a previously failed reef design gets build in an international arena you can, be positive and say the crabs have somwhere to live RIGHT!?
Oh, the builders and all that have taken backhanders can afford a few luxuries, now there is a positive RIGHT!?
Here is a reef that is not delivering 2% of what was ridiculously promised,
and you live in denial of this fact!
pretending it works is a very sick process and not many can do it.
But you can... RIGHT!?
fuel-fact :]
I have merely supported the concept of a working reef as part of the regenerated Boscombe seafront. Go read. Right?
time nor Tide
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10:04am Wed 24 Mar 10
k/2/hi/uk_news/engla
nd/dorset/8248360.st
m
"An estimated 5,000 people turned out to the Sorted Surf Festival, held on the redeveloped seafront, over the weekend. "
The event is being reported as a outstanding sucess.
horizon
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10:24am Wed 24 Mar 10
But it is cheap for me to apologize, because it is not necessary to give back anything, like when a thief steals something and apologizes he will give back whatever he stole
That is why ASR will never admit failure. It only needs to work 5 minutes a month for them to keep what they have stolen.
Knowingly selling a product that does not deliver & that would never meet with what was promised, is STEALING!!
boardstiff
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3:20pm Wed 24 Mar 10
Security word: cash-more
Bob49
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6:57pm Wed 24 Mar 10
Something you would never sink to, eh ?
Anyway have you been down the front read the claims about 50m waves ?
Or read up on the earlier claims of 306 days of surfing, 10,000 surfers per annum, the 60 new full time jobs ?
Or will you simply complain yet again and have this post taken down as you have with so many others.
Cheap tactics, methinks.
horizon
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9:32pm Wed 24 Mar 10
boardstiff wrote:A cheap tactic ?
I'm not seeking apologies. Firstly you resort to the puerile tactic of mocking my nickname and then falsely - and wholly without proof - accuse me of taking a stance solely to enable you to counter it. Seen it all before - a cheap tactic beloved of small-time, local politicians who think the electorate is more gullible than it is.
Security word: cash-more
I accused a company of stealing and you change the subject importance to a mere misspell. And then side with the electorate defending their intelligence...?
cheap, cheap,...CHEAP TACTIC !!
poor-soul
boardstiff
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8:19am Thu 25 Mar 10
Bob49 wrote:I understand that the sign refers to waves 50 metres WIDE.
" puerile tactic of mocking my nickname "
Something you would never sink to, eh ?
Anyway have you been down the front read the claims about 50m waves ?
Or read up on the earlier claims of 306 days of surfing, 10,000 surfers per annum, the 60 new full time jobs ?
Or will you simply complain yet again and have this post taken down as you have with so many others.
Cheap tactics, methinks.
No, I haven't "read up". I've merely asked YOU to substantiate the claims, which you persistently refuse to do and now employ a ludicrous tactic that your answers are being removed.
No, I shan't complain again, because I have never complained at all. Why should I?
In every instance I have asked you for proof of your claims, rather than speculation. The silence, as they say, has been deafening.
boardstiff
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8:31am Thu 25 Mar 10
horizon wrote:The "subject importance" was your accusation that I have taken a particular stance, which you have then sought to counter to your own ends.
boardstiff wrote:A cheap tactic ?
I'm not seeking apologies. Firstly you resort to the puerile tactic of mocking my nickname and then falsely - and wholly without proof - accuse me of taking a stance solely to enable you to counter it. Seen it all before - a cheap tactic beloved of small-time, local politicians who think the electorate is more gullible than it is.
Security word: cash-more
I accused a company of stealing and you change the subject importance to a mere misspell. And then side with the electorate defending their intelligence...?
cheap, cheap,...CHEAP TACTIC !!
poor-soul
And where, as you so clearly state, I have I sided with any electorate?
While you're at it, perhaps you'd also like to explain (with the appropriate proof which Bob49 persists in refusing to provide) any stance I have taken other than to support the concept of a reef that works and the much-needed regeneration of the Boscombe seafront (to which Bob49 appears to oppose so vehemently).
I'll take the "poor-soul" from whence it came.
horizon
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10:58am Thu 25 Mar 10
They have stopped claiming that Orlando wavepool is a success, but maybe because there is a nice lawsuit pending. A private company will react this way a lot sooner than government bodies, but it will come.
Why with all their academic engineering and scientific skills don't they build a good reef so that they do not have to pretend and spend so much time fooling people.
It is obvious they need more education. lets hope the people from india have educated them and that asr have rewarded them for doing so.
I was going to pick out my mistakes, but then stiffy would have nothing to relieve his boredom and, another opportunity to keep Bournemouth people from waking up to the fact that they have been .. RIPPED OFF!
( it's more important to find mistakes in comments,..HEY!)
Bournemouth had $6.000.000 stolen from them!!
By PRETENDERS.
3.6 MILLION POUNDS!!!
boardstiff
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12:33pm Thu 25 Mar 10
horizon wrote:In spite of all of your ramblings, you still fail to address the question I asked of you.
You have the talent required to keep the public from waking up to the fact that asr has pulled a scam on them. Not that they need any more such talent, on their web site they are claiming 5000 people at the surf contest, but of course it is always easy to claim it was a misprint.
They have stopped claiming that Orlando wavepool is a success, but maybe because there is a nice lawsuit pending. A private company will react this way a lot sooner than government bodies, but it will come.
Why with all their academic engineering and scientific skills don't they build a good reef so that they do not have to pretend and spend so much time fooling people.
It is obvious they need more education. lets hope the people from india have educated them and that asr have rewarded them for doing so.
I was going to pick out my mistakes, but then stiffy would have nothing to relieve his boredom and, another opportunity to keep Bournemouth people from waking up to the fact that they have been .. RIPPED OFF!
( it's more important to find mistakes in comments,..HEY!)
Bournemouth had $6.000.000 stolen from them!!
By PRETENDERS.
3.6 MILLION POUNDS!!!
You're addressing your own agenda of scam, rip off and so on. And you may well be right.
But where in any of my posts have I ever defended the position of ASR and the council?
Please, please, please - just answer my question ... without hesitation, repetition and especially deviation.
You have more than a minute....
horizon
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12:17am Fri 26 Mar 10
ESPECIALLY DEVIATION !!
The whole issue is that the people of Bournemouth, (Mt Manganui, Opanake), have been ripped of by a B **** who does not have the skills to make an honest living and uses total and complete BS to make money!
but if your priority is to pleasure your ego please, please use one hand and, take more than a minute
boardstiff
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8:25am Fri 26 Mar 10
horizon wrote:The final line of your post seems wholly illustrative of your own personal frustration in not being able to make a valid response to my question.
Without deviation?
ESPECIALLY DEVIATION !!
The whole issue is that the people of Bournemouth, (Mt Manganui, Opanake), have been ripped of by a B **** who does not have the skills to make an honest living and uses total and complete BS to make money!
but if your priority is to pleasure your ego please, please use one hand and, take more than a minute
The issue to which you refer has nothing to do with the question I posed. Cheap tactic. Ignore the question and make a different point.
So here we go again: Go back, read my post, and ANSWER MY QUESTION.
horizon
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11:16am Fri 26 Mar 10
horizon
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11:21am Fri 26 Mar 10
boardstiff
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12:02pm Fri 26 Mar 10
horizon wrote:So after persistently refusing to acknowledge, let alone address, my question, you now aspire to the heady heights of arbiter and decide that the case is closed.
fact-case-closed , :]
And YOU have the temerity to refer to MY ego!
The similarity between your stance and that of Bob49 is almost unbelievable.
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MisterE says...
9:53am Fri 19 Mar 10
I'm sure it'll be about as much use in someone's back garden, as it is out at sea.