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Today I went to the London boat show and had great fun poking around £8 million power boats. Indeed, there were even those that were roped off with someone standing guard, the "How much have yoyu inherited recently?" types.

Now on average boats like these are sold once every twenty four minutes. But what I object to is not the people who buy them (wags indeed) but the impact they have on the environment. I mean, you could kill off a whole coral reef in a day, the fuel costs over a thousand pounds for a day. Why do people need these atrocities destroying wildlife and polluting the seas?

We saw boats like this, and larger. Why would anyone need such a thing? Why would you spend eight million on a ghastly thing with white leather sofas and three levels (so the servants get a room too). It's stupid and rediculous. It's damaging our environment, although certainly not our economy.

Another thing that shocks me is that so many people can afford to spend several hundred thousand on a yacht. Today has opened my eyes to the middle classes of today. It's certainly a statement on how rich people are becoming and how materialistic we are. I'm not saying that we should give everything to the poor, however I'm just shocked at the amount of money people have to waste and how this effects our environment.

So, yeah... Now I have ranted, please discuss!

Save a species, burn a boat!

I'm EnglishXD

Indeed, it is... 'tis sad.

It's like videogames. I seriously don't get them, they cost so much, all the equipment and everything yet people will waste sooo much money just to be able to shoot some pixilated Nazis, or whatever. It's just stupid.

I'm planning on breaking into the boat show one night and writing COMMUNISM in really big letters and the hammer and sickle symbol everywhere, just for the comic value because we all know that Communism is almost impossible and I wouldn't like it anyway.

Powerboats are stupid...

however sailboats are really awesome! with only a back-up motor, my grandparents have a 42- footer. Sailing is so much fun, but it takes a small amount of work, and you have to deal with choppiness every so often.

These rich folk just like having a piece of land far away from other people. They don't enjoy the nature or the boating: merely the party...

*sigh*

P.S. Don't you dare make fun of "Castle Wolfenstien" !!!!
Computer games are fun! They let you vent (or create more) anger just by shooting... and shooting... and sometimes dying. Its not stupid, Its fun because you get to chat with other people while interacting with them.

...And if you say anything more against video games I'm getting my BFG.

Yes, sailing is wonderful! We're going to get a boat at some point too. Indeed, I agree with you about the party bit, very true!

Yeah, I take your point about videogames, but my point was the amount of money people spend on something you don't atcually need etc.

*Le gasp* What type of boat do you have?!

Indeed, it's silly...

I like sailing but I tend to be a land-lubber. I like to feel solid dirt beneath my feet and in between my toes (yes I am strange,) or riding four legged, hooved, herbivores is even better biggrin . My mom loves sailing, I used to sail sunfish and other small racing watercraft and my mom used to have a hobie-cat (catamaran).
I confess we had a yamaha jet-ski crying it was fuel efficent though, and very much fun. What can I say my mom is a water person.....

Hah, that's coolXD I thought you meant, like, a yacht or something! We use our friend's 28ft but we're using a 34ft when we go to Greece in the summer^_^

See, sailing is by far superior to power boats. Why would people want otherwise? It seems beyond me...

Sometimes I am very glad I do not live in America. Don't these people have anything better to do with their time?