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    I agree to some extent. Very nice things but BSA did not keep up with the design and development side of things when the Germans marched ahead and left them behind. Another British manufacturer did manage to produce the perfect BSA Airsporter though and called it the Pro Sport.
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    Off topic but talk of Guns' n Roses puts me in mind of The Cult, formerly The Southern Death Cult, and the Death Cult and ended up just The Cult. Same era as GNR but British and had grown up with the same music influences before they started making their own. The thing that I like about them is that they grew up with punk. Punk became the anti-thesis of what it was meant to be. Middle class judgemental. We are punks and cleverer and cooler than you and the music that came before us counts for nothing. The Death Cult thought, hang on, we love Led Zeppelin and want to be them! f**k t
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    AC/DC, better with the Geordie lad (pun intended) or without?
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    Got it, Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi.
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    No mate, they're TV chefs that are on C4 travelling around Italy. It will come to me don't worry.
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    The 2 front men (memory not what it was) always came across as a bit strange. They knew that they were living the dream making millions of £s being in a rock band with adoring fans, but they knew that they were not accepted as a "proper" rock band and always seemed a bit pissed off about that.
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    A strange band. Very successful and loved by many people of course but always "uncool" for some reason. Some of the best intros and riffs throughout some of their songs but... always seems something missing. RIP.
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    Smart. The terriers not the man ?
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    I'm hoping that he is still around next April, I think, for the re-scheduled tickets that I have for Sage Gateshead.
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    Thinking on the best part was when the witch got tired of the crap coming out of Ricky Gervais and put a spell on him so that every time he opened his mouth he croaked like a frog... shame someone couldn't do that in real life.
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    I have just watched Stardust on ITV2. Not the David Essex film but a more recent completely daft but sumptuous enjoyable escape from reality fantasy film. Robert De Nero perfect as usual. Clare Dane as effervescent as a real star. Michelle Pfeiffer... playing a witch, a 400 hundred year old witch, still hot. Even liked the Take That song.
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    I do like a posh green wellie but quality seems to be more luck of these draw days than the manufacturer having true quality control. Had a pair of Le Chameau that lasted for years and were well worth the money. A live in terrier pup chewed the tops off one night so bought a replacement pair. Lasted less than 12 month but got replaced under warranty. Unfortunately those lasted just over a year so wasn't able to get a free replacement. Bought Muck boots next but they didn't last long. A few Christmas' ago someone got me another pair of Le Chameau and they are wearing as well as they used to. Wo
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    I have become so accustomed to "diversity" on tv programmes it actually seems strange watching Bangers & Cash when all the people are white and none of them overtly homosexual. It's almost like the real world.
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    A couple of photographs from mid 1980's, at Braes O' Derwent hunt show I think. Topography doesn't look right as kennels are on top of a hill but for some reason that's where I think it was. The slightly short docked terrier in the middle was mine. Very well bred. The lines that at the time were being exported around the world and most notably to USA. The lines that were the foundation stock of the KC Parson Jack Russell that was later changed to Parson Russell. Bred for work not show though. My bubble was burst one day when bothering a man who had seen, done and dug everything, who
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    A Brittany is not really a spaniel though is it? More of a small HPR type. Leggier and finer boned than a Springer or cocker. Probably better prospect for 1st cross with a whippet. Possibly easier to live with than a hard hunting spaniel. That cross in the posts above is a stunner.
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    The terrier on the right is very much of a physical type that was referred to as a border/lakeland at one time. I remember people having them and they more or less seemed to breed true to type. Those types and Russells just seemed to get superseded by the "Patterdale" in the 1980's. The Patterdale is obviously very much a worker but I'm not sure exactly how much fashion played a part in it's rise in popularity.
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    It is something that I find interesting. We had established and proven types of working terriers but then, in the mid 20th century a different type emerged, from somewhere and something (?), that proved to be better than those that existed previously. A finely bred family of terriers that just happened to stand out because they tended to be black and had a bull type look or something more? The most certainly became popular at the end of the 20th century that's for sure.
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    I don't think that any new information, if the facts differ from what is generally accepted and has been recorded in print as to the origin of the type, will ever arise as the people that it concerns are either dead or not interested in rewriting the history books. Just my opinion. Never been involved with the type other than seeing other people's dogs.
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    I took a day off to watch the football but it is over now so looked at what else is on TV. Harry Potter Half-Blood Prince. Tried to watch with an open mind as several times before in the past. But no... what an absolute load of shite these series of films are. Makes the shite "Hobbit" films look like the Godfather series.
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    I though the Romans domesticated the ferret. After his time?
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    I think that is closer to Einstein's quote, but it is still just one man's opinion. And was he not a scientist rather than a philosopher or sociologist? How much did he know about people? I think he was right, and pointed out something blatantly obvious. People do tend to repeat the same mistakes, we all do it. We expect our dogs not to do it. They tend to be better at learning this than we are.
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    Great post. Most interesting to me is the misses feeding the dog but who would it follow in the field? I would add, even if the dog follows you why does it hunt for you? Some don't of course. By hunting for you I mean even when the heat is on responding to instruction and depending on what you are hunting, once caught bring it in or hold it rather than trying to eat it. The willingness to please. That's the bit I find fascinating.
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    I watched Ronin last night on catch up TV. Don't think I've ever watched it all the way from start to finish but have probably seen all of it in stops and starts. Not a bad film. Nice cars. As usual the bad guys can't shoot straight. De Nero perfect. Natascha McElone beautiful.
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    I used to love those above ground cable ducts. Hunting rabbits with dogs that weren't fast enough to catch them in brambles on railway banks, soon as bunny made the mistake of dropping into a duct one of us would race along and lift a lid and stick a foot in. Once we had a dog at that end peer along to see if we'd trapped it. If so, rabbit in the bag. We always replaced the lids so as to avoid detection but left the odd one off so rabbits would use them. Days before CCTV and brains.
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