ChrisJones
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I do that and I'm neither of the above. You asked about your kids. That's your job! I'm still working on my kids!
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Wall meet again?
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You! You're the parent!
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Agreed but why would anyone let a rapper educate their kids? At least not without some form of rebuttal. Saying that Chuck D educated me more on the civil rights movement than anyone at my school ever did! The US is going through a partial legalisation process. Certain states have legalised medicinal use marijuana. Others have gone full recreational. Of those that have they're seeing a huge tax windfall and the law has been written so that much of that money goes back into educations. I've linked to articles from Colorado earlier in this thread. Parents need to be way mo
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It's not going to irradicate the problem but it will lessen it and allocate resources to deal with the remainder. It's been a very interesting and engaging thread I'll concur! The government aren't the experts. If they were we wouldn't have the problem. I'm sure there are plenty of people better qualified to buy/sell/trade pharmaceuticals... Remember those folks that work at the chemists? It's the taxation that the government need to address and that should require it's own laws and regulations so that the money doesn't get spunked on something else.
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That's a huge concern over here too. Again if someone could only find a huge influx of money to tackle the issue. Parents have a huge responsibility in all of this. How many parents leave the educating to the state though? If all kids have are their peers then we're part of the problem...
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A good kid, with hopes and dreams, who's educated on the subject is far more likely to make informed decisions. The not so smart kids, that get sucked into the endless cycle of crash, and rebound, will have access to treatment and rehabilitation, and may take advantage of the education not to do it again. No? I'm out of likes, for today, Tili so have a
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Alarm sounds as billionaire donator shuts of the tap...
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So we should just leave it the way it is? f**k em? Throw them on the scrap heap?
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It already is chewing up the money we don't have.
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To answer the first question it's about allocation of resources. Currently the taxpayer is 100% contributor and the problem is growing, wouldn't you agree? I propose a huge cash boost for everything across the board which can achieved with sensible regulation and taxation. Do you agree that criminalising drugs hasn't solved the problem? To answer the second question I don't think it's a good thing if youngsters start smoking it. But I do think that using the tax windfall, from it's legalisation, to educate, rehabilitate, and treat, those that want to stop using drugs, is preferable to the
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Fair comments. Nothing wrong with sensible discourse. IMHO it's about improving the situation while addressing everything from personal liberty, all the way through to sensible enforcement. In the US you can get a average sentence of 81 months for drug possession, but you can walk away from jail 3 months, into a 6 month sentence, for raping an unconscious woman. I think that's worth another look at the War On Drugs on it's own.
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That choked me up, a little!
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What would your strategy be, mate?
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The last rat job I did was in a north western town centre. It was in an alley behind a kebab shop and infront of a railway embankment. I caught the old dear peeling potatoes into an open inspection chamber and washing it down with a hosepipe. It went against everything in the rule book regarding rodent behaviour. I went through about 35kgs of bromadiolone in a month, and they were eating it from the moment I was putting it down. 5 days into the treatment I was walking up and down the street picking up dead, and dying rats. Picking them up with grippers and filling the empty broma buckets t
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Just holler and I'll put you a bed up!
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The only thing that will make the local authorities do anything is a good plague outbreak. They're cutting back on sanitation and pest control, so this isn't something that will go away any time soon. Environmental health... that's a department that isn't worth the tax payers contributions. Money for old rope.
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I don't smoke it. If you legalised it across the board, tomorrow, I still wouldn't rush out and take it up. Those that would are going to do it anyway, so instead of costing the taxpayer money through healthcare and enforcement, etc, why not take a chunk of tax revenue to drop back into the benefit of the communities? Tried it in my teens. Didn't like it. Still support full legalization. If you banned it would you stop people drinking and smoking? Look at drug/alcohol use in the species... It goes back to the beginning, regardless of legality! I'm not going to argue the issues/
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Yeah the mechanism is similar but it's being able to hold the bow at full draw. Even with the weight training the shoulder gets very sore on even the smaller recurves, initially. It truly is a resistance exercise. You could hold a compound at full draw until you get bored. Recurve and long bow it's seconds, to start with, depending on the draw weight. EDIT: My mate's longbow I can't even draw it!
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Banned in the early 60's I believe. Not sure though. I know it's stamped on the Wildlife and Countryside Act. We were fed the bullshit that it's cruel, and with no frame of reference, I believed it, until I saw it for myself. Watching skilled archers take deer is truly something to behold. The rifle lads could learn a lot about fieldcraft from them. Saying that plenty of bowhunting goes on in the UK. Stealth and camoflauge isn't just about deer!
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Same here, mate! Locals are pushing me to get a compound but the natives tell me to learn to shoot properly on a recurve, or a longbow.
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Hard to say. The learning curve on them is shorter, I'm told. My current bow go-to is a Paiute native. He laughs at compound bows and is drawing something in 3 digits on a traditional longbow. Arms like Eddie Hall and legs like Zola Budd! One thing that has stuck is that skill trumps gear... Practice, practice, practice!
