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JTB_5 said:
Let us also remember that the British Navy is no longer the ruler of the seas. . .
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Aye and those mighty sea dragons now belong to us....renamed
The Maybe
The Perhaps
The Unaacceptable
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The Blancmange
The crew.. although beaten, bruised and bloodied ....are still capable of holding an oar....Steward..fetch me anothe deepfried Albatross with side order of blubber and a pint o rum
 
meako said:
Aye and those mighty sea dragons now belong to us....renamed
The Maybe
The Perhaps
The Unaacceptable
&
The Blancmange
The crew.. although beaten, bruised and bloodied ....are still capable of holding an oar....Steward..fetch me anothe deepfried Albatross with side order of blubber and a pint o rum
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How about the SS Wishy Washy Whiney Hinies? ☺️
 
The only way this is ever happening again is if the dedicated people who do the groundwork... .don't get pilloried by an angry mob who for whatever reasons have got their flippers in a twist.
I know for sure that I don't want the annual bf trad knife tradition to stop...So how to keep it going? Positive ideas tempered with a smidgeon of reality might help...we've done it before....but there's a lot of work involved(polls)...a major hurdle that needs to be kicked off the track.
Other knife clubs do it so what is stopping us?
 
I agree Meako, and I thought last year’s experience was generally positive, but then people started to get all worked up about weird things like eligibility. If it happens at all it has to be a back-to-basics approach and those involved need to be respected and thanked.
 
meako said:
meako said:
The only way this is ever happening again is if the dedicated people who do the groundwork... .don't get pilloried by an angry mob who for whatever reasons have got their flippers in a twist.
I know for sure that I don't want the annual bf trad knife tradition to stop...So how to keep it going? Positive ideas tempered with a smidgeon of reality might help...we've done it before....but there's a lot of work involved(polls)...a major hurdle that needs to be kicked off the track.
Other knife clubs do it so what is stopping us?
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Nothing can stop us! Except, maybe the laws of physics...
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but we have ...BrainPower...

What we need is the well heeled well connected high powered go getters to jump back into the engine room.....

Maybe its too late.??.....What is it about the annual BFT knife that has caused such anguish in the last 4? years?...

1.GEC availability/popularity
2.Lack of any other maker wanting to take on the order......
3 The insane amount of time spent polling ..... ok its fun....but causes conflict with numbers and adds a tremendous load to the ones who are trying to organise it.
4.Flippers .
5.Newbies without a shred of Porchiness wanting a cheap GEC ...I will make bold and say there are a few from 21 who scraped in their post count currently residing in the where are they now file...but hey if weed need the numbers ...a volunteer is worth 10 conscripted men.
6. Reliance on the same people year after year...
7.the vast outlay of funds required to get it moving. A risk.

This is something I have looked forward to for like the last 11 years......it may sound lame but I enjoy the whole process.

I'm looking for solutions. #3 and #6 especially ....why these two? Because there was way too much rotten fruit being hurled and not enough carrying the them high on our shoulders to Porchenbergs most classiest Hotel ,The Earl of Porchington..for an all night feast of fat slices of roast narwhale and jugs of PorchyPorter (fermented blended narwhale blubber)
and snifters of The Isle O' The Glen Meako single blubber Portch whiskey ( fermented and distilled from a single narwhale blubber ).
 
meako said:
3 The insane amount of time spent polling ..... ok its fun....but causes conflict with numbers and adds a tremendous load to the ones who are trying to organise it.
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It seems we want to make it OUR knife. We sure got a lot of strife out of it last year, and wasn't it just handle material and color?
meako said:
6. Reliance on the same people year after year...
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Where on earth would we find more people willing to take it on?

I still don't know how it's supposed to work.
We make noise until Spark says, "Oh, all right." One or more mods finds out who is willing to do what. We vote on the details.???

I don't get inflating one's post count. Isn't it supposed to be so many posts as of the date of the announcement?

Seems to me a lot of the eligibility unhappiness last time was from eligible people who alleged that they couldn't get knives because ineligible people got them first because nobody was checking. I have no way of knowing if that was true, but it would be an understandable disappointment.
 
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If I were the “powers that be” I’d have everything settled beforehand (manufacturer, pattern, dealer) and then present the option to buy or not buy to the forum. I know it sort of ruins the fun of all the polling and democratic decision-making, but it also keeps the administration from losing its mind. Some people are going to gripe no matter what happens, but it eliminates most of the moderation needs. The biggest burden is still on the dealer—who makes no profit—to handle a big order.
 
JTB_5 said:
If I were the “powers that be” I’d have everything settled beforehand (manufacturer, pattern, dealer) and then present the option to buy or not buy to the forum. I know it sort of ruins the fun of all the polling and democratic decision-making, but it also keeps the administration from losing its mind. Some people are going to gripe no matter what happens, but it eliminates most of the moderation needs. The biggest burden is still on the dealer—who makes no profit—to handle a big order.
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And before someone says it, this is also why I’m not a “power that be” 😁. Just a sailor shooting his mouth off.
 
JTB_5 said:
If I were the “powers that be” I’d have everything settled beforehand (manufacturer, pattern, dealer) and then present the option to buy or not buy to the forum. I know it sort of ruins the fun of all the polling and democratic decision-making, but it also keeps the administration from losing its mind. Some people are going to gripe no matter what happens, but it eliminates most of the moderation needs. The biggest burden is still on the dealer—who makes no profit—to handle a big order.
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right, its an enormous under taking, especially the front costs. and the second you mention gec, you get folks crawling outta the wood works.
 
Do the letters OKCA sound familiar? The site appears to cater to some type of knife weirdos, mostly porcher oriented. They show an uninterrupted list of club knives sold from 1979 through 2022. Maybe someone in the admiralty of our fleet could ask them how they accomplish the feat.
 
abcdef said:
Do the letters OKCA sound familiar? The site appears to cater to some type of knife weirdos, mostly porcher oriented. They show an uninterrupted list of club knives sold from 1979 through 2022. Maybe someone in the admiralty of our fleet could ask them how they accomplish the feat.
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are they a closer knit group? because last year, Bill did a small bunch of group knives which resulted in the rest of us getting the left overs for a 15 SFA at the rendezvous last year. What about AAPK?
 
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