America'a Cup - anyone else getting excited?

[vegster]

Starting to think that Ben Ainslie should have stuck to Dinghy racing, losing the lead so quickly having taken it at the start is a complete NO NO at this level of sailing

Heading for a 7-0

It's a very expensive jolly for ex Public Schoolboys, I have absolutely no interest.

 

[Flounce]

It's a very expensive jolly for ex Public Schoolboys, I have absolutely no interest.

A jolly it is not! Massive amount of skill and tactics involved. As an ex dinghy sailing instructor I bloody love it although foil sailing is way out of my comfort zone.

Tony Bloom is a public school boy, do you have no interest in the club he uses for his “jolly”

Any different to Jim Ratcliffe and his investment in United, Mercedes and the Americas Cup?

I have no interest in cricket btw, nothing to with it being dull 99% of the time

 

[bhafc99]

Typically, having seen the first four races, I wasn’t able to watch today’s.

But thank god we’ve avoided the 7-0 whitewash, because it had looked like that was distinctly possible.

Really hope for some slightly stronger winds for the next races, as NZ are clearly quicker in the light winds.

 

[Miami Seagull]

Great day today, let's hope they can keep it going. Attended the Bermuda event when it was held here, the whole thing is a massive operation.

 

[El Presidente]

The technology and skills involved are incredible.

Under normal circumstances I would be wanting team GB to win, but as the repulsive arse Offshore Jim Ratcliffe is involved I’ve even taken to practising the haka cheering on NZ.

 

[vegster]

A jolly it is not! Massive amount of skill and tactics involved. As an ex dinghy sailing instructor I bloody love it although foil sailing is way out of my comfort zone.

Tony Bloom is a public school boy, do you have no interest in the club he uses for his “jolly”

Any different to Jim Ratcliffe and his investment in United, Mercedes and the Americas Cup?

I have no interest in cricket btw, nothing to with it being dull 99% of the time

I bet you've got the Box Set of The Onedin Line ?

 

[Flounce]

The technology and skills involved are incredible.

Under normal circumstances I would be wanting team GB to win, but as the repulsive arse Offshore Jim Ratcliffe is involved I’ve even taken to practising the haka cheering on NZ.

Well if our country backed our Americas Cup challenge you’d have a point. Would you rather we didn’t even enter? NZ govt backs the New Zealand entry along with a Middle Eastern airline. Weird take by you criticising a Brit backing it, is something to do with Manchester and Ratcliffe that irks you?

How very un British to back the New Zealanders over Brits

 

[highflyer]

Well if our country backed our Americas Cup challenge you’d have a point. Would you rather we didn’t even enter? NZ govt backs the New Zealand entry along with a Middle Eastern airline. Weird take by you criticising a Brit backing it, is something to do with Manchester and Ratcliffe that irks you?

How very un British to back the New Zealanders over Brits

What is it about the hypocritical, tax dodging, billionaire, Monaco resident, Jim Ratcliffe that irks you?

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, UK's richest person, moves to tax-free Monaco

Brexiter Ineos boss, who has an estimated £17.5bn fortune, officially changes tax domicile

www.theguardian.com

 

[Flounce]

What is it about the hypocritical, tax dodging, billionaire, Monaco resident, Jim Ratcliffe that irks you?

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, UK's richest person, moves to tax-free Monaco

Brexiter Ineos boss, who has an estimated £17.5bn fortune, officially changes tax domicile

www.theguardian.com

Nothing, I don’t approve as such but it’s not uncommon for ridiculously rich people to do this. Happy for him to fund the Americas Cup and F1, both things I enjoy

Changing your allegiance to another country because of it is just plain weird imo. Maybe @El Presidente is a more of a fan of a UAE airline, one of the larger NZ backers.

Before he left for Monaco, Ratcliffe was the UK’s third-highest individual taxpayer, paying £110m to the exchequer in 2017-18, according to the Sunday Times tax list. Crucify the bastard.

Very easy to criticise until it’s YOU paying that amount of tax

 

[Albion my Albion]

I believe it's a niche event that has a lot of country pride going for most of the people that really pay attention to it.

 

[crodonilson]

What is it about the hypocritical, tax dodging, billionaire, Monaco resident, Jim Ratcliffe that irks you?

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, UK's richest person, moves to tax-free Monaco

Brexiter Ineos boss, who has an estimated £17.5bn fortune, officially changes tax domicile

www.theguardian.com

Lives next door to Sir Philip Green and just down the road from Sir Lewis Hamilton. Is there another street/road in the UK with as many Sirs living on it?

 

[KZNSeagull]

Nothing, I don’t approve as such but it’s not uncommon for ridiculously rich people to do this. Happy for him to fund the Americas Cup and F1, both things I enjoy

Changing your allegiance to another country because of it is just plain weird imo. Maybe @El Presidente is a more of a fan of a UAE airline, one of the larger NZ backers.

Before he left for Monaco, Ratcliffe was the UK’s third-highest individual taxpayer, paying £110m to the exchequer in 2017-18, according to the Sunday Times tax list. Crucify the bastard.

Very easy to criticise until it’s YOU paying that amount of tax

On what income?

 

[Flounce]

On what income?

Enough to think, nah f*** this I’m off to Monaco. Oh to have that problem eh? Would I rather live, as a rich man, in Monaco or London, no brainer for me tbh

I no longer like London at all btw

Weather would also play a big part for me, especially as you get older.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Is there another street/road in the UK with as many Sirs living on it?

So if you are knighted then you are a "Sir" and can live inside the castle walls?

 

[Pavilionaire]

Enough to think, nah f*** this I’m off to Monaco. Oh to have that problem eh? Would I rather live, as a rich man, in Monaco or London, no brainer for me tbh

I no longer like London at all btw

Weather would also play a big part for me, especially as you get older.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

 

[Flounce]

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.

So they say, I say bollocks.

Give me a country home or somewhere in the sun abroad every day of the week and twice on Sundays at my age. Been there, done London as a young man and I bloody loved it. Seriously dislike the hectic dirty place these days, it’s not the City it was when I lived there in the early 70s

I dive into the shower on a return from London these days

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

The technology and skills involved are incredible.

Under normal circumstances I would be wanting team GB to win, but as the repulsive arse Offshore Jim Ratcliffe is involved I’ve even taken to practising the haka cheering on NZ.

Glad I’m not alone in wishing for absolutely everything that Jim Ratcliffe in fails miserably - nasty selfish and hypocritical.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

A jolly it is not! Massive amount of skill and tactics involved. As an ex dinghy sailing instructor I

Let me stop you there.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

So they say, I say bollocks.

Give me a country home or somewhere in the sun abroad every day of the week and twice on Sundays at my age. Been there, done London as a young man and I bloody loved it. Seriously dislike the hectic dirty place these days, it’s not the City it was when I lived there in the early 70s

I dive into the shower on a return from London these days

I still go into town a lot because I work there. It is cleaner and more civilized than it ever was when I lived there as a student in the 70s, and as a young man starting a career in the late 80s.

But I don't go 'out' there much now, because, like you, I am old.

We have to face up to the fact that we are past it. Creature comforts matter now. Walking half way across London in the cold because its late and the tube has stopped and I can't afford a cab, but just had to go to that gig/club, and am happy as Larry, is a thing of youth and is now beyond my grasp.

London, however, will go on and on. Magnificent city.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I bet you've got the Box Set of The Onedin Line ?

*cough* Triangle *cough*