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Tom's Farm, near Rhayader.
Disco Matt:
We could really use a good pay and play out here, but it needs to be a site where everyone feels that their vehicle is safe. See, I know I won't try anything that looks to me as though it has a high risk of doing serious damage. But that doesn't help when someone else's idiot mistake ends up doing damage to your truck.
TechnoTurkey:
Have been there many times, but not for a couple of years.
The site itself couldnt be better, plenty of variation. You do get some idiots there and as a previous poster said, Tom is from a different generation/way o flife.
With a few marshalls and the proper permissions etc then the place could be the best in the country, as it is with Tom collecting the money and his wife making the tea there just isn't enough resource there to stop people from being very dangerous at times.
I can't comment on the farming side of things as I am not an animal expert nor have I seen any cases of extreme neglect there.
clbarclay:
--- Quote from: TechnoTurkey on April 30, 2009, 08:24:07 ---You do get some idiots there and as a previous poster said, Tom is from a different generation/way o flife.
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Thanks for that. Would you please like to explain what part of that makes you think I am an idiot, or was it just stating the obvious for you. That comment was intended for people who had not stopped to think about 'why' and instead just jump straight to judging people. I've known a fair few people that are in ways similar to Tom, and when people come along and start telling them how to do things different having been doing it their own way for a long and they don't like it, whether they write or wrong. Just telling someone they are wrong, doesn't necisserily solve anything, particuarly if there 'defence mechanism' is to just ignor the other person.
I don't think insults, locals complaining, court orders or police crack downs etc. allown are going to change Tom to be in keeping with the general society. After all being called an idiot doesn't make me think any better of or inclined to agree with TechnoTurkey.
On a lighter, but serious note
--- Quote from: Lord Shagg-Pyle on April 29, 2009, 21:14:16 ---On the other hand, places that are available should abide by all the regs that are there to stop injuries. In this day and age of the 'blame culture', is that not a good thing?
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I would have though someone as PC as would know that using words like stop in that circustance was liably dangerious. What if an accident does happen and you just said they couldn't. It sound rediculous (to me at least), but people have gone to court just beasue of the seamingly innocent at the time words that they used.
In engineering we get it a fair bit. For eaxmple where instead of stating a car passed a test, you have to state it did not fail during the testing, just to cover your self in case later on the component you tested failed and resulted in injoury or death.
Its a strange world we live in.
ChrisW70:
--- Quote from: clbarclay on April 30, 2009, 13:04:19 ---
--- Quote from: TechnoTurkey on April 30, 2009, 08:24:07 ---You do get some idiots there and as a previous poster said, Tom is from a different generation/way o flife.
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Thanks for that. Would you please like to explain what part of that makes you think I am an idiot, or was it just stating the obvious for you.
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Now, now, I believe the point trying to be made was that "some" of the people that have been to Tom's Farm, in the previous posters experience have been a bit silly, pretty much akin to any pay and play site, particularly those with only a few marshals - NOT everyone that has been to Tom's Farm is an idiot.
Let's try not to read things into posts that aren't there please.
Back to topic...
clbarclay:
Sorry, I must have miss read that without the 'and' between "idiots there" and as a" :doh:
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