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As I've been voted out of my local Land Rover Society by a shithead who didn't even have the balls to say anything to me at last weeks meeting, it appears I'm looking for another club to go green laning with. Anyone got any suggestions for clubs around Merseyside or the Wirral? I don't want to spend my weekends pissing about in disused quarries or fitting sumpguards, just enjoying a nice peaceful spot of green laning every now and then? Bit of banter in the pub, type of malarky.  SignaturePete M - OMF#9 Range Rover V8 Turbo Range Rover 4.6 HSE "Professional Petrolhead" > As I've been voted out of my local Land Rover Society by a shithead who > didn't even have the balls to say anything to me at last weeks meeting, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > fitting sumpguards, just enjoying a nice peaceful spot of green laning > every now and then? Bit of banter in the pub, type of malarky. What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? >> As I've been voted out of my local Land Rover Society by a shithead >> who didn't even have the balls to say anything to me at last weeks [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> fitting sumpguards, just enjoying a nice peaceful spot of green laning >> every now and then? Bit of banter in the pub, type of malarky. > What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? I'll explain. I was one of the original members of said club, went to the first meeting, paid my dues, went to a fair few meetings, behaved well, did my best to help. This chap was the vice-chairman of the club, came across as an arrogant w.nker, but I didn't have a problem with him. His wife wanted to buy a Range Rover I was selling so I told her it had a few issues and to go over it carefully before buying - but it was very cheap and worth doing the work on. She turns up with husband (Mr. Arrogant) and a friend of mine (independantly) who inspected the Rangie. I told them it needed welding around the rear arches, a viscous coupling, an abs sensor and a couple of other bits. They bought it and that was that. A couple of months later I was at the club when Mr. Arrogant came out with a couple of snide comments about the Rangie I'd sold him "It's a f.cking shed" was one of them, so I offered to buy it back off him there and then, for what he paid for it. He declined. So I pointed out that I'd told him everything about the car before he bought it, that it was cheap, and that if he wasn't happy I'd buy it back. He shut up and as far as I was concerned, that was that. This is a couple of years ago. Last July I went Green-laning with the club, Mr A. didn't seem too happy about it, but we stayed out of each others way and the day was fine. I had a verbal bollocking from the club Chairman ( a good friend of mine) about the inhabitants of my car smoking herbal cigarettes and everyone had a great day out. I went to the club last week and Mr A. didn't say a word to me, which I didn't find unusual as I didn't speak to him either, and then I heard him on the phone to the chairman complaining that I was at a club meeting, and that the 'board' had decided that I was to no longer be a member of the Society. Turns out he's been bad-mouthing me to most of the society, and he's managed to persuade a couple of the weak-minded members of the committee to vote me out, but didn't have the balls to tell me himself. Rant over. SignaturePete M - OMF#9 Range Rover V8 Turbo Range Rover 4.6 HSE "Professional Petrolhead" >>> As I've been voted out of my local Land Rover Society by a shithead >>> who didn't even have the balls to say anything to me at last weeks [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > Rant over. Sounds like Groucho's line on clubs fits. Wasn't being judgmental, I did say "what kind of club?" Mrs G (lawyer) recently represented an old bloke to have his membership reinstated in the "nirvana" oldies dance club, reckoned he had been victimised. They lost, very sad. Mrs G was quite kind to him and next thing the dirty old c*nt offered her a cheque to be nicer. You have to be careful of misplaced sympathy. >>>> As I've been voted out of my local Land Rover Society by a shithead >>>> who didn't even have the balls to say anything to me at last weeks [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> >>> What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? >> I went to the club last week and Mr A. didn't say a word to me, which >> I didn't find unusual as I didn't speak to him either, and then I [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Sounds like Groucho's line on clubs fits. Wasn't being judgmental, I did > say "what kind of club?" Indeed you did. The club members are, as a whole, genuinely nice people. It's just this idiot and his mate. From what I've been told they only just managed to wangle getting me out of the club. I'm not too bothered, but I hate this kind of malicious misuse of the tiny amount of power they've awarded themselves (They made themselves committee members before the club had any members). > Mrs G (lawyer) recently represented an old bloke to have his membership > reinstated in the "nirvana" oldies dance club, reckoned he had been > victimised. They lost, very sad. Mrs G was quite kind to him and next > thing the dirty old c*nt offered her a cheque to be nicer. You have to > be careful of misplaced sympathy. Couldn't agree more. Land Rover clubs aren't exactly thin on the ground, two other clubs not far from me have already offered me free membership (I'm a motor-trader and rather useful to them). My main reason for ranting here was to see if anyone else had similar experiences with Land Rover Clubs, or if it's just this idiot trying to take over the club he's in. SignaturePete M - OMF#9 Range Rover V8 Turbo Range Rover 4.6 HSE "Professional Petrolhead" > What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? All of them, I suspect. On the subject of clubs: Groucho makes a good point. SignatureWilliam Tasso Land Rover - 110 V8 Discovery - V8 >> What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? > > All of them, I suspect. > > On the subject of clubs: Groucho makes a good point. You could well be right. SignaturePete M - OMF#9 Range Rover V8 Turbo Range Rover 4.6 HSE "Professional Petrolhead" >>> What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >> >You could well be right. Pete, care to name the club? I had a similar encounter with a north west LR club some years ago, were a committee member left and started their own LR club on the Wirral and had their own sad little fan club who followed the person, not the club. It became a "his name club" not a Land Rover club. Stephen. Signaturehttp://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk Coach painting tips and techniques + Land Rover colour codes Using a British RISC Operating System 100% immune to any Windows virus "Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble". Henry Royce >I had a similar encounter with a north west LR club some years ago, >were a committee member left and started their own LR club on the >Wirral and had their own sad little fan club who followed the person, >not the club. > >It became a "his name club" not a Land Rover club. I'm in the same area, and luckily I'm not very "clubby". I can say that I have experience of an international boat club for people who built and sail a certain specific range of oldish wooden boats. It arranged things like builders meetings, where we could all visit some poor soul and say "Why on earth did you do that!?" with a knowing smile. I well remember a marvellous drive up through the snowline in Snowdonia to crawl all round a beautiful yacht being built over about 5 or more years in an outhouse of a lovely pub. Luckily SWMBO didn't come because the yacht's galley was better equipped than our kitchen The club was chugging along in a nice and friendly way until a bunch of people, who apparently rose (or sank) to greater wealth, opted for posher commercially built vessels and voted off all the knowledgeable true owners and builders from the committee. The people who mattered all navigated through a legal minefield of ownership of names, web addresses etc. and set up a little internet group that has gradually rebuilt the resources to where they were originally, and is much more friendly and really useful. As far as I know the original club withered and died. It's sad how the few can ruin things for the majority, but that's politics for you. :-) SignatureBill >>I had a similar encounter with a north west LR club some years ago, >>were a committee member left and started their own LR club on the [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >It's sad how the few can ruin things for the majority, but that's >politics for you. :-) My brother built a 2 seater hovercraft some years ago and joined a hovercraft club, unfortunately the members were into racing them and if you encountered trouble like water swamped engine or partial sinking, they just left you to sink, its not what a club is about when you expect to rely on your mates to help, especially when stuck or in difficulty. The north west LR club I was a member of was great, but for one or two people who you thought were friends yet turned out not to be. Stephen. Signaturehttp://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk Coach painting tips and techniques + Land Rover colour codes Using a British RISC Operating System 100% immune to any Windows virus "Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble". Henry Royce >>> I had a similar encounter with a north west LR club some years ago, >>> were a committee member left and started their own LR club on the [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > Stephen. Lets be honest, most clubs are little more than a bunch of c.nts that spend more time bitching about other members & trying to be top dog. f.ck the lot of 'em. SignatureNige, talking utter shite since 1967. Focus ST3 Discovery 3 XS BMW K1200S NIGE#1 You could always try Mud Club http://www.mud-club.com/ Mike >>>> What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? >>> All of them, I suspect. >>> >>> On the subject of clubs: Groucho makes a good point. >>> >> You could well be right. > Pete, care to name the club? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > It became a "his name club" not a Land Rover club. Liverpool Land Rover Society. The chap who started it, Geof, is a really nice lad. Most of the members are nice people, but there are a couple of idiots who've been determined to ruin it for me since I joined; I think they saw me as a threat, even though I had zero interest in anything to do with running the club. All I want from a Landy Club is somewhere to go once or twice a month to talk Landy's and have a laugh and the occasional bit of Green Laning. SignaturePete M - OMF#9 Range Rover V8 Turbo Range Rover 4.6 HSE "Professional Petrolhead" > >>>> What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? > >>> All of them, I suspect. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Range Rover 4.6 HSE > "Professional Petrolhead" Most clubs to me seem to be social gatherings in pubs so I avoid them like the plague. I prefer to go green laning with mates in other motors in case one gets stuck or even on my own but if I'd have been in your position I would have been tempted to stick one on him and probably got myself properly banned. :-) Martin >>>>> What kind of club can act on the vote of one shithead? >>>> All of them, I suspect. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >go once or twice a month to talk Landy's and have a laugh and the >occasional bit of Green Laning. The north west LR club was based in north Wales and had meetings at a pub called the Rock at Loch IIRC, I've not been a member for years and can't remember the other LR group that sprang from it who had a following. Stephen. Signaturehttp://www.stephen.hull.btinternet.co.uk Coach painting tips and techniques + Land Rover colour codes Using a British RISC Operating System 100% immune to any Windows virus "Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble". Henry Royce
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