James R,
God, (sorry!)
Vince Cobley alone, Knows what your beef is!
So far I'm up to page 7 of this thread; the only one you seem to have contributed to, and as far as I can tell, have driven as a customer with Protrax, once, on Happy Valley, taken objection to some-one critasising something about Protrax, and spent the rest of the debate arguing wildly with every-one, indescriminately, with the actual comments being added, and contradicting yourself hugely in the arguments you are creating!
Very 'troll' like behaviour, to which accusation you have taken curiouse objection.... but then you've taken objection to everything, so it doesn't really matter, I guess!
Bizare!
Even for for the Zone!!
Cutting through a bit of the crap here; Protrax have a very BAD reputation; in wales, in Morocco, in the Lakes, in fact everywhere they are to be found leading thier 'adventures'......
For good reasons or bad, a lot of people dont like them very much. End of.
Moving swiftly on; the 'Tread Lightly' code, was not 'written' by GLASS, but an evolved and accepted guide to 'best practice' derived from advice generally pooled from participants in green laning, accross the spectum over many years.
Either way, the 'Code' whether law or not, is pretty much the 'standard' by which 'responsible' behaviour on the lanes might be judged.
Code says groups should be kept under five vehicles. More than that can REASONABLY be critasised as 'irresponsible', whether its illegal or not doesn't really matter here, does it?
First of all you claimed you were in a group of six..... on the large side of advised.... irresponsible..... not MUCH but still above code guidelines.
Next, you claim that you were in a group of 18?!?!
Sorry, run that past me again, which was it, 6 or 18?
Then we get, it was 18, but split into TWO groups.... OK, so now its 9.......
Or do you have some kind of wiered system of numerecy on your planet like hexidecimal, where eighteen divided by two is six, by some dint of intergallactic mathmatics, that explains all?
And we get the comment 'so what, its not illegal'.....
No, but it IS irresponsible!
As ALL the bloody numbers, you cant make your mind up over, are higher than the maximum of FIVE, provided for by the code of RESPONSIBLE practice!
Up to page 15.... and skipping through the bollox, including the nice scematics you have posted of the litteral ones!
And I have to ask; were those part of your briefing pack from planet 'R' to help identify us 'earthlings'......or.... hang on, post #195.... Oh! thats what you had the piccy for..........taking holy orders!
I find the out of context quote from the self proclaimed god of Green-Laning from another thread on another Forum!
Well, that's definative then, isn't it! Becouse the man at the head of the hydra, has deigned to comment on ONE incident his chuck-house outfit has come under critasism for, and found a plausible excuse for it..... ALL the scores of critasisms that pop up on the boards every time they take those bloody orange trucks out MUST be JUST as unfounded......
You know, even LRO readers got sick and tired of the self publicity the bloke does, and the mag at one point even stopped publishing the 'advice' he offered so readily becouse of the number of complaints the article generated!
I seem to recall one, on the topic of recovery, that had H&S executives screaming for withdrawals and retractions (THAT THE MAGAZINE PRINTED!) becouse so much of the advice he offered was pottentially LETHAL!
{Point of Note; Even on the LRO forum he's not flavour of the month! And curiousely, despite the adverts on the mag pages for his operations; few of the LRO'ers seem to avail themselves of them for some reason; even THEY are more want to head out on our 'freindlies', like the one I did with them this week-end! Not a cobler in sight!}
And we're now
'Too Politically Correct for Words'
becouse, ****!
We completely FAIL to accept the man who's a legend in his own lunch-break, and self proclaimed discoverer of off-roading and all things mud-based, the almighty who
created the lanes for us, before he invented the persuit of driving them, and his arogance in running commercial excursions in controvention of ALL accepted 'good-practice' is 'Responsible'!
Oh....Kay.......
Page 18......
I always had the point. My position has been unchanged!
Ah, right, so on your planet the poles invert them selves, what, every twenty minutes?
Does it actually rotate, like the earth, or does it sort of oscilate like a rotary pendulum in an old fasioned carriage clock?
Up to Page 22 now and post #212 and a comment about people getting stuck, as though its impossible to drive lanes and NOT get stuck....... more, something that we should EXPECT.... even go
looking for, becouse suggestion is, getting stuck is 'all part of the fun'!
Curiousely, it IS possible to drive the trails of this country without incident, and 'responsible' laners, remarkeably dont get stuck very often...... if at ALL!
Going 'looking' for the sort of trouble that gets Landies stuck I, though, was the kind of activity best saved for P&P days.....
But then I must be one of them loonie greenies appologising for driving a Landy, while sipping my real ale through my beared and picking the gunk from my toes through my sandals.......
Up to page.... I give up! Lost count, beginning to loose the will to LIVE now!
Post #234!
I feel that you lot are giving Protrax a bad name with no cause.
Oh..... Kay......
So your statements providing that they dont run their excursions to code, all the allogorical evidence they dont run thier excursions to code, all the critasisms of people who've been ON thier excursions, providing that they dont run them to code, and thier own bloody directors ADMISSIONS that they 'occassionally' infringe the ruddy code, are like......
**** it! Your NOT going to accept in any way shape of form that this outfit dont run to code, are you!
Just got to post #253.... err.... yeah, telling our DirtyGirtie to
I think you might need to go back to that briefing pack with the genetalia schematics in it.... I think SHE already has a pair, but they probably wouldn't interest you!
God! (sorry, my mistake, correction)
Vince Cobley! That bit was FUNNY!
Oh dear, up to page, thirty, far too many, and I think my brain is starting to melt......
We finally get some sort of reasoned 'discussion' appearing through the crap, and your unshifting possition, while your world gently oscillates around your ego, seems to to be to agree big groups are not in accordance with the code, but to then suggest that simply means that the 'code' must be wrong!
And ****ING HELL, its only six in the morning, and I've been sat here all night, but FINALLY got to the bloody end!
You are back to insisting that the Protrax group you were in was only of six vehicles, while big groups should be promoted, becouse its a pro-active stance against the anti's, and any-one who dissagrees with you is a wet, liberal minded apeasementist, with a penchant for real ale.....
And the conclusion is..........
You talk ****; Know ****; and I dont know why I'm bothering to GIVE a ****!