DownUnderPaddy

calm down, you'll live longer

Hutch

You need to chill out a bit mate. She's not rich. The boat was borrowed, sponsors such as Ella Bache paid for everything. And how does this impact on your life one way or the other?

He should stay angry then ...

boots

DownUnderPaddy,
The fervour and hysteria on this insigficant situation proves the mass hysteria theory on the ignorant.

joho

Why do you think she is rich, she isnt. You keep saying that. Her parents mortgaged their home and her one wish was to make them debt free. She may get rich but she wasnt rich.

Look who did a book too!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sailing-Drea.../dp/0593065980

oh and if you go to the last entry on the following .it says "Mike returns to a hero's welcome".

http://www.totallymoney.com/sailmike/

Of course I also think what he did was marvelous too. But we Brits are no different, we celebrate the accomplishments of our own and so we should.

Now I think this is enough bitching, let them all go and be proud with themsleves.

Jo

DeadVim

I'm nicking that for a signature line (I won't bother editing it), it seems deep but I can't work out what it means.

I might have a t-shirt made with it on

DeadVim

How does it look?

(edit) Should really provide some attribution ... hold on ...

mohogony

Yes l read her parents are not rich her father works as a boiler maker and they are from New Zealand so they must be poor.

joho

Stunning.

boots

So Hutch,
My daughter wants to go to say,the moon.
Sponsor pays for it-and this where it gets murky,yourseves are more intelligent than myself,please feel free to explain how a POOR GIRL from a DISADVANTAGED SUBURB gets the royal treatment?
Methinks you can't.
Please explorate your defending of a person participitating in a wealthy sport being rewarded with more wealth,whilst contributing nothing whatssoever to the community,should recieve more accolades than say,I don't know doctors/ nurses-they don't count in society.

DeadVim

Thanks, I'm quite pleased with it myself.

Now, back to plot ...

joho

But we are not talking about her making money you are, we are mearly celebrating her accomplishment. Did you miss my links one of my posts or are we merely ignoring them because they dont fit your argument.

But I will agree that doctors and nurses don't receive what they deserve (and I work at a hopital and my son is a nurse and my other son is in the navy supporting his country), but I dont hold it against her.

Jo

coolshadows

Kinda get the feeling some folk wished the boat had sunk.

lapin_windstar

You weren't very interesting, insightful or convincing the first time around. The second time wasn't any better.

The newsworthiness of this story is this: it's unusual, inoffensive, and unlike a potato shaped like a VW Beetle, the subject of the story can give an interview which will be widely watched and won't cost much to make.

boots

Ok,say J Watson cures cancer tommorow.
Can you,or any other media whores give her the same media exposure?
Can you,or any other media whores justify the overblown exposure on an insignificant situation?
Can you or any other media whore dare to retort on why this weekend there were road smash rescues of critical patients,surf life saving clubs?
Thats Ok ,they don't run to the media every time a life is saved,like a media whore HERO?

DownUnderPaddy

Yep, I reckon it's safe to say she would get at least the same media exposure tomorrow if she cured Cancer.
Not sure what your argument was there....