General Discussion
Sinkerson Says
Dawlish my lover, what have they done, ruined you my beauty, extinguished the sun.
Erected skate parks, for the delinquents to meet, a festering timebomb for the spot to secrete.
A bandstand that used to hum with a tune, now more famous for a bum beneath the moon.
Oh Dawlish, I long for your safe return, please come home, let the court adjourn.
Now the buffoons are about to descend, all sane folk are driven round the bend.
They fill the Strand with a common way, caveman instincts are on display.
Kiss me quick and look at my belly, arrogance on display around Gays deli.
This is Bobs town, let that be clear, so depart to Torquay and be a dear.
Fondest Regards
Bob
for those interested I may do a summer reading on the lawn (no lily livered lefties though).
I don't understand your reference to a 'bum beneath the moon'. Do you mean bums as in tramps or an actual bum beneath the moon.
classic bob. spoke to you once when i was walking the dog round by rockstone. you commented on the lack of maintenance on the drains (a few weeks before they all flooded again!). wish i had taken you up on that whiskey offer by the way.
Oh, leave him alone will ya! I've been totally ingratiated by some of Bob's comments but this is quite funny!
I think it's brilliant.
Must have taken you ages to put that together.
Why don't you send it off to: www.unitedpress.co.uk
Enter it in the poetry competition. ARound250 winners selected each year, each one representing a different UK town. All winners published in the National Poetry Anthology.
Poems up to 20 lines and 160 words.
Send to United Press Limited, Admail 3735, London EC1B 1JB
Tel: 0870 240 6190
Poems to be submitted by June 30th 2008
i can think of a good use for the bandstand.
maybe a public flogging or hanging of bob.Would draw loads of tourists in and the locals would be baying for his blood.
Maybe I am a bit unorthodox in my postings. Maybe my dreams are not shared by the great masses. But even my greatest critics cannot deny I have brought some great debate and opinions to this forum in the few posts I have entered. I know I throw in a few tongue in cheek phrases and quotes which some take exception to, but thats just me. Maybe I should realise that a few others have a kind of tunnel vision and cannot move off of their wavelength. So now I think its best if I sign out once and for all from here and let the forum return to the days when the main topic seemed to be discussing dog fouling and the like. And maybe I should batten down the hatches, stick my head in the exmouth sand and keep my thoughts to my self and just nod my head in agreement with everything.
Farewell to those that have given their own thoughts.
Bob
Dear Bob
Please don't quit, i may not agree with everything you say but you certainly bring a well educated debate to the forum. We are all entitled to our own opinions and at least you have the guts to say whats on your mind. Perhaps if more people were like you this country would not be in the mess that it is. Anyway keep writing!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm most certainly not lily livered Bob. And I most certainly don't agree with all that you write. But please don't stop.
Bye bye Bob if you think that criticising the folk who pay good money to visit Dawlish if you think denigrating the youth etc is constructive then I personally think you exit
from the forum is long awaited.
I have noticed that topics of some real value i.e the high costs South West Water inflict upon us is ignored by your good self.
If we didn't have those tourist with their Jesus sandles kiss me quick hats spending their money Dawlish would struggle to keep out of the red
I wasnt going to post again. But I will not have idiots making false accusations about myself. I can assure you that I DO NOT use other user names and although I have always encouraged people to speak their minds this is totally out of order. So I suggest you follow my lead and keep away.
I was not pointing the finger at anyone Bob
It was just an observation, as some post's
appear to be written in the same style
Perhaps a lot of the people that post on this forum and appear to have written in the same style as others all went to the same school!
I sometimes look at postings on this forum and think they are written in my style, which wouldn't be at all difficult!!!
Bob Sinkerson should not be pushed off these boards by a grumpy small minded minority who have no undestanding of the word 'debate'.
Debate is good
Debate is a two or more way thing
Debate doesn't mean constantly constantly being
nasty to kids and visitors the former to keep for the future latter needed
in Dawlish to keep the economy going
Any would be visitors reading this site would
be put off by some of the remarks.
If a bit of critism stops him coming on here
then he hasn't got the back bone I thought
he had
If so it's a real shame. What do people want: a single point of view on these boards? For example, there are loads of locals who get nothing out of tourism and think that tourists only benefit a small number of vested interests. It's an arguable point. Why moan at Bob for mentioning it - just engage if that's what you feel, not just throw cheap insults. A challenge to Dawlish - engage with Bob!
I hope he's entered his poem into that competition I told him about. If he wins that'll put Dawlish on the map!
You do realise the competition you're endorsing is a thinly veiled self publishing venture? I worked for a similar company and all entries (no matter the quality) are published in different anthologies, and if you want to see your work in print you need to buy the book. Yes, you could win something, but it'll have to be a hell of a lot better than Bob's poem. Out of the 10s of thousands of entries received each year, there will definately be 250 better than that tosh.
be fair though frannie, i dont think bob put his poem on here to win a competition and he never said it was any good. i have read it a couple of times and i am still not sure how much of it is him having a laugh at some of the peoples reactions to his postings. he wasnt that bad and had some fair points.
Most of us get nothing out of the tourist industry, that is no excuse to be churlish about the people who come to visit
Funnily enough, my post wasn't about Bob, but Poet's endorsement of a close-to-the-knuckle vanity publishing company.
I don't think I will be following that one up Mr Wardle. My poem was a little tongue in cheek and I think a few people felt I was blowing my own trumpet a little vigorously so to speak. I thought it wasn't bad for something I knocked up during the course of completing a superb rioja!
A big thank you to those that attended my reading on the lawn on Sunday. It was a lovely little gathering and I must admit I thoroughly enjoyed our get together. Maybe next year I will delve a little deeper in the cellar and fetch out one or two more bottles!
Well it really is time to batten down ones hatches now as we are about to hit peak season (i wonder if they realise the beach is not as it should be?) I myself will be departing dear old Dawlish for a few weeks shortly with a trek down to the old enemy Cornwall! and then back up to visit friends in Oxford.
Oh! and as we discussed on the lawn, just remember "there is always light at the end of the tunnel, the problem is it's probably the 3.15 to penzance!".
Regards to all
Bob
cheers bob, it was a couple of hours well spent. pity there weren't a few more in attendance - they were probably busy on here talking about the youth club! i think next year you will have to bring a bottle of alcohol free wine for mrs treadwell (she seemed a bit too merry for my liking!)