Euro bashers

Sorry no sympathy from me mate. Maybe, try introspection?

No matter what you may think or feel, personally I don't find your avatar amusing. It's pretty easy to take you for an unpleasant redneck bigot ****tin on those you perceive to be weaker than you. Now in your post you're also exhibiting what appear to be xenophobic tendencies. Dude tryin to do the right thing, double checks by asking you a question, you take the piss. Great interpersonal skills! How Aussie is that really?

Yeh likes ter light yer own farts, sport? Ha. BIG fkn ha....

my float you rock are you RSC maybe ....

Ben (the guy in my avatar ) is a personal friend of mine in Fiji ,he was coming up the road one day with the T shirt on last year not long after Kevin received the knife in the back (impeccable timing) .It reminds me of how impermanent life is and I hope that I have enlightened those wondering why i have a Fijian guy wearing a Kevin 07 T shirt as my Avatar .You really are taking your political correctness a bit far and you need to lighten up a bit (as perhaps does our Euro friend).I was merely passing on something that indicated to me that this guy seemed oversensitive and perhaps had been made unwelcome elsewhere (If he is there today I'll get his details so that you guys can catch up ,I'm sure that you will both get along really well) , I wasn't looking for sympathy. I have had other non Euro people ask the bleeding obvious about all sorts of things and I have had a bit of a joke with them as many people have done to me when I state the bleeding obvious and we all have a bit of a laugh .
Isn't the world serious enough already?

BTW the hat that the guy is wearing on your profile page is as good as useless and makes him look like a duck .this type of hat is much more effective

i also beleive in the inpermanence of life.... I have been reincarnated on this forum sooo many times....

I can't even remember who I really am anymore.

Ok - hating someone coz they have some foreign ethnic birthplace, isn't there a word for that?

Hating someone coz theyre stupid , thats just funny.

still a lot of hypocrasy when it comes to "takin da piss". ppl harass me all da time and expect me to handle it but when i send it back their way they can't take it.... haha

europeans are fine... nothing wrong with them

damn strait i like my sheep all to myself

over here in OZ i starting riding this ram starkers and he couldn't understand what i was doin.... i told him i was a Kiwi and that he can't handle my kiwi sense of humour

Bloody kiwi's..... keep em AWAY from the sheep

probably german. no sense of humor

I don't understand the red thumb to my report of todays incident .Are you saying that its ok for some mindless gimp of a visitor to blow in and potentially injure and maim an innocent bystander and **** it for everyone who lives here ?

He didn't follow these golden rules always "keep downwind area well clear " and "others - be considerate and courteous to all other water and beach users" (BTW I missed the misinformed bit ,I think your rant is misinformed because you obviously did not read what I said,maybe you could be a better ambassador for yourself).He had also seen where we kited the day before and told where by me and others (again I should have just stuck to telling him the harbour and added right under that coal ship) ,well up the beach and definitely NOT where he went yesterday because he was too lazy to go somewhere less intrusive .
The lifeguards have made it quite clear in this area that they are well aware of kiting issues and will handle any situations if I had seen this in an area without lifeguards I would have said something .I did intervene when I saw fit and did not run down and abuse the guy or threaten to cut his lines or kite up and followed the local protocol by reporting a situation that i think they might have missed or that I feel could lead to an incident .
My original post was why this guy was so defensive and now I can see why ,he is a hazard and does not respect lifeguards either and if kiters in other areas have experienced his behaviour I am sure he has been given a frosty welcome.HE is a poor ambassador for wherever HE is from and from what I have read about situations in WA particularly he is not alone .

I will finish by saying that we have had alot of visitors this year (particularly withe the QLD weather situation ) they have largely kited without incident ,been welcomed and been friendly and there has only been one other incident with a visitor when the flags were well up the beach where we usually kite and he went out a bit too close stuffed up and eneded up in the flags . I had a chat with the lifeguards and it was handled professionally .Again no abuse or threats or unwarranted localism .

Picture is from NSW Waterways handbook, referring to Surf Zones.

The following is cut and paste from book

"A designated swimming area in a surf zone is defined as the area extending 500 metres out from shore between surf patrol flags or signs.

In all other areas a swimming area is defined as the area extending 60 metres out from shore between signs for swimmers.

A vessel must not be operated in these zones or within 60 metres either side of the flags or signs marking such zones unless it is a vessel operated by Surf Life Saving NSW or Council lifeguards."

Now if Kite surfers follow this the Life Guards don't need to bother us, pretty simple.

Only thing I would add is don't crash on the up wind side of a flagged area and get washed / dragged through the surf zone. (quickest way to get the life guards p####d off.

Hey Float and others.
I offen wonder if a Sign at Nobby's (where most kiters walk past) displaying the do's and dont's would help ?
Using the K.I.S.S theory, a few words in English and Pictures (for non English Euro's)

Ps, did you hear the rumour that 2hour parking meters will be installed in all the car parks spaces at Nobby's, they say they will start at 6am till midnight ??????

well where I kite there are no shops (thank god)

there are no instructors (thank god)

not every kiter has the web (thank god)

and most sydney blow-ins and touring euro seem deviod of common sense.

if I/We leave it up to the lifeguards to deal with, then the lifeguard and council have the ammo to come at us with restrictions and bans and today tonight mums screaming 'won't somebody think of the children!'...

If I/We (as a concerned kiting local) deal with it by telling them to wake up themselves or advising they not return, then the lifeguard sees that the locals self regulate/police the irresponsibles off the beach and he can go back to reading his who weekly, perving on hot mums in bikinis' and playing games on his iphone and as far as council is concerned there are no problems with kiters on the beach...

If you see a gumby moron doing something that would draw negative attention to kiting at your local and you do nothing, then you are a gutless idiot

If you see a gumby moron doing something that would surely result in the utter spanking of said gumby moron, without affecting any other innocent, oblivious to danger by-stander (exceptions to those accompanying gumby withstanding), then you are in for a treat.

Front up and say something

Yep good idea and this has been discussed previously with the beach co ordinator at the time and Smaithy .the current course was adopted and it usually works well .Perhaps it could be revisited though

On that topic, I saw one that said, how do you make a kilo of fat attractive?

Put a nipple on it. boom boom.

dude, sheep are all yours...

if we need scaffold

we'll call you