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It would appear nose ring clad, non wetsuit (tough) man didn't like me today or the fact I've travelled from one of the most middle parts of England for that matter. A lovely day was somewhat marred by the fact I was told I should "spend less time ****ing about with that (gopro, I know) and more time watching the waves" when I accidentally bumped in to him in a sea that resembled a wave pool in benidorm. I asked him "or what" which further raged him and when asking him if he owned this part of the sea he lost it and ****ed off. I'm sorry us middle England folk come down and spoil the seaside so often, but we probably do help things a bit too.
pfffft - tourists 🙄
You had the whole ocean to choose from and you chose his bit?
I'm confused.
Why does it matter about the wetsuit?
How did he know where you'd come from?
Is he a Dead President?
Wow, it sounds like you came across a dick. I've heard about them but I've never seen one in the wild.
You lucky chap, hope you managed to snap a couple of pics!
Get in the sea.
Chill dude.
There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans, under the sea.
Maybe you *should* have spent more time watching the waves instead of ****ing about with your GoPro?
Damn right too....literally.
Hook you surfboard lease to his nose... accidentally.
2/10
What are you on about?
But did you wee in the sea ?!
People are even getting shouty and precious in the sea now!
They are everywhere ... 🤣
“or what”
Oooo… hard man.
Did you at any point say sorry?
Maybe you *should* have spent more time watching the waves instead of **** about with your GoPro?
+1
It was a sunny bank holiday ssturday so it was rather busy and I was just getting a few clips of the daughter bodyboarding. Thing is I just got pushed in by the wave where they were breaking in his general direction so there wasn't a lot i could do. I did put my hand up and start to say sorry but he just went off at me. As I say it was in the flagged bit so you were getting bumped in to all the time,
We need the video so we can all jump to our own conclusions.
What's a flagged bit?
The lifeguards corral everyone into a small section of beach so they can sit back and watch the grockles fighting...
Ah cattle herding.
I don't like it when people don't look where they are going and walk into me..... but they usually say sorry or excuse me and then that's that.
Hostilities are avoided 🙂
Hook you surfboard lease to his nose…
It was a rented board?
Cocaine abuse turns people into self obsessed ****ers shocka 😳
Get in the sea.
Wouldn’t this be a case of get on the land?
"Maybe you *should* have spent more time watching the waves instead of **** about with your GoPro?"
Could not agree more.
The sea is dangerous enough without people concentrating on little boxes on a stick rather than their surroundings.
If you don't like confrontation while your'e in the sea, don't go surfing at Saltburn.
Well not next to the pier anyway, at high water when there's anglers chucking 6oz sinkers about.
Wow, it sounds like you came across a dick.
Thats pretty much it, innit.
Never had any problems at Saltburn, other than being able to park... obvz.
grockles
Dorset?
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Emmetts
Don’t forget - you may have not been the first tourist to have done that to him on the day.
Maybe he was minding his own business and someone who wasn't paying attention got a bit to close to him or his loved ones. So he moved. Then it happened again.
Maybe the person not paying attention was so wrapped up in what they were doing they didn't realise they were being annoying and irritating to the people trying to share the same space.
Then the inevitable happen and there was conflict.
Maybe this could have been avoided.
But then we wouldn't have the joy of this thread.
Almost 100% the other guy was a tourist too...
Agreed- my meaning was the ‘straw that broke the camels back’, which could cause the same issue response with either.
Everyone seems to be a bit more angry at the moment. Does no-one remember how to have a good riot and let off steam?
But did you wee in the sea ?!
We all do, one way or another
Did he look like this?
Was this a confessional post that you got shouty and precious in the sea? It certainly reads that way.
As I read it..
Op makes an error of judgement with regard to a wave, quite possibly because increased by or at least the result of the error was increased by the concentrating on a gopro.
Man take umbrage to being bumped into. Expresses himself admittedly in not the best way, but it was the OP's fault.
The OP, despite being in the wrong, rather than defuse the situation with a "sorry" or "sorry, the wave caught me by surprise" responds with "Or what!?!".
Now I fully get that the guy was rude and that you did not intend to bump into him but you did. It may not even be 100% your fault as the wave caught you off guard but you did make an error that contributed to the bump and rather than admit it challenged the guy to a fight. The guy was being a dick, but you out dicked him.
Im more amused that the OP classes you as a tough guy if you dont wear a wetsuit in the sea (im assuming none of the parties here were surfing of course).
Just looked at Peranporth beach and its bloody rammed, so looking for somewhere esle to go for a swim
Just looked at Peranporth beach and its bloody rammed, so looking for somewhere esle to go for a swim
Walk 500yds north. It’ll be empty. If it isn’t walk a little bit further. Surfed penhale last night and it was empty.
Just sat on perranporth beach. It is rammed,but there is plenty of sea left for you👍
I've not long been back from a local beach it was packed must have be almost 12 people along the mile of beach.
Bad enough having phone zombies as part of life now ! Let alone a go Pro goon in the sea
You come across as one of those people who stands behind his mates on a night out threatening other people .
All you needed to do was apologies for YOUR error and he would most likely of accepted and moved on after quite rightly calling you a dick
Did no one read the OP's second post where he said he started to apologise but the guy just went off on one....
Admittedly the "or what" probably wasn't called for, I'd have just ignored him or laughed and turned away.
The one where he went to put his hand up to apologise but didn’t?
That's the one. You need to give someone time time to apologise, not just start ranting.
I’ve not long been back from a local beach it was packed must have be almost 12 people along the mile of beach.
I was sitting peacefully on a beach this afternoon, enjoying a quiet read, nobody for about 100 metres either side. Some people came along and plonked themselves maybe 10 metres from me at most. This is on a long straight beach, no bit being noticeably better than any other (apart from my apparently magnetic presence).
AIBU or is that the act of an utter psychopath?
This thread needs a them song
I wondered what had happened to SurfMat
Surf nazis have been around for decades, seems like this bloke was trying to behave like one, or like the berk at the bar, who gets mouthy because another customer gets nudged into his arm by a third party.
This was nobody’s fault, it was a pure accident caused by a natural phenomenon, a wave on a beach, and some jackass gets all bent out of shape about it. Only one person in the wrong here.
Been in again today, with my own 6 year old wetsuit and body board, all my own and not hired, had to buy the kids new wetsuits this year though as they keep growing. No shouty man thankfully but far less waves so he probably didn't deem it a good day for tourist bashing..
As for apologising , I did genuinely try, but **** him, anybody having a pop that quick deserves a full on **** off tablet. He probably, by the look of him doesn't get it that often, but I'm a bit like the bloke from the intolerant hot tub post these days.
I love meeting nice people on me holidays, like the chap I bothered tonight who was taking awesome long exposure pictures of the waves at dusk, but people like the guy I bumped in to, yes me, my fault, I'll front them up all day long!
Still sound like a door matt op
Better go buy a surfers book on etiquette
I hope it was my bro giving you what for as every bloody topic starts off whinging like a bitch on heat that can’t get any
But yh thanks for your money and your pollution 🤬🖕
Tdog, stop it, you're making me blush. You seem to not like me for some reason as you've been pretty hostile on some other posts. Anyway I'm not sure what a door mat is supposed to be or what I've been polluting by being here, as for surf etiquette we're talking swimming and body boarding here, your brother will tell you if you're not sure, it's the busy bit in between the flags where we try and stay so as not to make the lifeguards job any harder. I didn't jump on some bodies big wave at nazaré as they were flying in. I'll keep an eye out for your brother though.
I was sitting peacefully on a beach this afternoon, enjoying a quiet read, nobody for about 100 metres either side. Some people came along and plonked themselves maybe 10 metres from me at most. This is on a long straight beach, no bit being noticeably better than any other (apart from my apparently magnetic presence).
AIBU or is that the act of an utter psychopath?
Ah that’s a thing.
Oddly enough in other cultures it would be seen as bad manners if they didn’t do that.
If you don’t like confrontation while your’e in the sea,don’t go surfing at Saltburn
Why waste words?
As for apologising , I did genuinely try, but * him, anybody having a pop that quick deserves a full on * off tablet.
What are you, 12?
2 British folk get shouty over nothing in the sea and act like idiots.
Round here (Spain), that is a typical summers day 😀
Some people came along and plonked themselves maybe 10 metres from me at most. This is on a long straight beach, no bit being noticeably better than any other
I’m guessing that you were at a bus stop. 😂
Just gets real same old opening a ****ty thread title then yeap spotting the poster and heck it’s that mid aged crisis wrightyson
Waste of internet space tbh
Anyway I know plenty of surfers that woulda done same thing as your m8 in the sea
Next time try sort your goproness out before you set out
If you don’t like confrontation while your’e in the sea, don’t go surfing at Saltburn
Why waste words?
The chips are ok.
I don't surf, I chuck 6oz leads into the sea. 🙂
Round here (Spain), that is a typical summers day 😀
Be careful in Goa as well. I once saw a lifeguard give a bloke a right smack cos he was on the wrong side of the red flag & kept ignoring the guards instruction to move, so he waded out & bopped him!
Have I missed something, or is Wrightyson the new target for you lot?
He's a site agent type so he deserves any criticism going.
He’s a site agent type so he deserves any criticism going.
Is he a new 'bighitter'? Or is that only when he's in the sea?
My climbing buddy came to to climbing from surfing. He can’t get over how chatty climbers are.
Surf's up dude
5 stars and 5’-7’ here (Laga, Basque Country) tomorrow according to MSW app. I shall be paddling out and trying not to get in anyone’s way.. The locals surf by the rocks and and are more than welcome to it.
Surfers are about as friendly as road cyclists around here.
And still they blurt on about surfers
Does nobody actually read the full thread (or even the opening statement) anymore before commenting.
Although it wouldnt be an STW thread without at least 30% of posters getting their arse in their hand about an entity that didnt exist at the start
(i.e NO SURFERS WERE INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT)
🤣
This thread has given me the phrase "go pro goon".
This I like.
Also,
Emmetts
Bennies