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On 23/12/2022 at 01:25, CJP said:
What happened to this site? Just rejoined after many years away. Its died a death, I remember when any post would get hammered in minutes. I appreciate many will have wrapped in but thought the younger generation would have stepped in.
No, the younger generation haven't stepped in. Look at the numbers of members in fishing associations, wildfowling clubs, etc. All declining. There are one or two areas where there is growing interest, but generally the old traditional sports are declining. Legislation hasn't helped along with other obstacles like cost, housing unsuitable to keep dogs, ferrets, hawks, etc. A lot of people would prefer to go to a club and smash a few clays rather than tramp round a field on their own. Same in fishing. The carp lakes are full and the river banks empty. It is the same here in France. The Chasse or hunting clubs are losing old members and not recruiting anywhere near the same numbers in youngsters.
Then there are other factors like an abundance of social media to choose from. Facebook and youtube channels for example along with the professionally sponsored blogs. People only have so much time and there are lot more choices.
It is like WMCs and local pubs. Everything has its day.
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9 minutes ago, hambone said:
Don't do a lot of course fishing so it may be obvious to most but what are "gozzers"?
They are larger, softer maggots. Traditionally they were bred on wood pigeons as pigeons attracted the fly that bred gozzers.
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6 minutes ago, bell said:
I was banned on PW for posting the phrase ‘Spear Chucker’
I should think so. Javelinist is so much more refined.
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13C overnight rising to 18C today and dry. For once they got it right and the car had been packed last night ready for the off at 9am. Local tackle shop was closed so I detoured to a larger national chain that opened bang on 10am. There were five trays of what used to be maggots to choose from. Mostly it was casters and bran. I reckon they hadn't ordered any this week and what was there was last weeks order. I filled a hallf litre tub by taking the best few from each tray so I had squatts, pinkies, red maggots, white maggots and gozzers all in the same tub. The guy at the counter never opened the box. I reckon he was ashamed. Instead he picked the box up, shook it once and from that deduced that I owed him €3.95.
Next stop was a boulangerie where I got a quiche, apple crumble and custard flan and the nice lady gave me a pen as a momento of my visit. Then after arriving at my chosen swim all I had to do was walk the dog, put her back in the car, carry most of my stuff 200 metres to the swim, return for the rod and dog and after all that I could start fishing.
The method was simple; one rod length deep, one rod length out and one rod length downstream. Bait was applies via a dropper on my mini-spod rod
I also invested some groundbait based on ground maize, hemp and Gros Gardons mix. The water was clear enough to see the bottom, 10 feet down and I saw my first customer enter the swim. The bite was typical bream, i.e. fannying about then bobbing a few times before the sliding float went under. The fight however was not typical bream. It actually took line. Then it realised its mistake and became a bream again.
I didn't want to waste good worms on such unworthy quarry so I put a large grain of sweetcorn on for the next cast. The bite was more decisive and the fish took off towards the far bank. I really struggled to control it and on landing the fish I saw why. Whilst it was hooked fairly somehow the line had lasooed one of its pectoral fins and that was the point of contact.
And that was it. I packed up at 3:30pm, walked the dog again and made my way home in the last of the sunshine. The local tackle shop was still closed so tomorrow on the Vienne will see a combination of dead maggots from the freezer along with half dead maggots from today.
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When Jeff, the old fellow who lived across from us died I knew that he had previously signed the house over to their daughter to dodge death duties. His wife had no idea until the daughter found her a place in an old folks home and physically carried her out of the family home she had lived in for over 50 years. According to the old bloke next door to us, Jeff and his wife had done the same to Jeff's mother after his father died.
Inheritance brings out the worst in people.
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2 hours ago, paulus said:Once upon a time in China, lived two Chinamen. One named, I Cum and one named, No Cum. No Cum married a pretty Chinese girl named, No Cum Tu. For very obvious reasons, No Cum and No Cum Tu did not have any children.One day, No Cum went out of town on business and I Cum came over and spent the night with No Cum Tu.That night I Cum came and No Cum Tu came too. This made them both very happy.However about 7 or 8 months later, No Cum saw he was about to become a father but he do not know how come. So when baby the came, he named it, How Cum U Cum. Of course, I Cum and No Cum Tu know How Cum U Cum came but to this day, No Cum does not know how come, How Cum U Cum, came!Cum again ? (͡๏̯͡๏)
Come again?
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1 hour ago, Daniel cain said:
Had one run and missed it,my lad had 2 small perch on his dropshotting outfit...the water level was down around 2 metres because the barrage was open because of the volume of rain water
Do you dropshot with worms or lures? I tried it a couple of times and vever had a touch using latex jelly worms.
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On 29/12/2022 at 10:00, Daniel cain said:
Any luck?
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Difference between euthasing animals and people is the higher risk of decisions being influenced by matters other than the person's best needs. I have seen examples where heirs were keen to get their hands on the money and other instances where relatives who were funding care home costs were keen to end their obligations. Then you have hoslital trusts keen to reduce their medical bills and clear beds. It is a moral and legal minefield.
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I know that I am not allowed to have an opinion, but this is something I know about having previously worked in a Coroner's Office. In the 1990's there was a scheme called the Liverpool Pathway (not the Liverpool Heighway, totally different thing). Basically it allowed senior medical staff to allow certain patients to pass away more speedily than if treatment was continued. The problems with it were that some people naturally thought that it was being done for financial reasons, not humane ones. Then there was the Shipman enquiry that tightened up on doctors being able to certify causes of death. What happened in my part of the world is that some elderly and chronically ill patients were starved to death or had life prolonging treatment stopped after the medical staff had discussed the situation with relatives and reached an agreement.
I only found out about this by accident when both Coroner's Officers were off work at the same time and I had to deputise for both. It had obviously been going on for some time and the Coroner was fully aware as were the town's Pathologists. Whilst I am in agreement with the principle of the scheme I can see issues where for example relatives want to speed up the inheritance process or doctors want to clear beds. The decision has to be made for the right reasons. And that applies to euthanasia. Care needs to be taken to prevent pressure being put on people to opt for assisted suicide for the wrong reasons and I don't really know how that can be ensured.
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12 hours ago, Francie, said:
Somebodys wrong here, voon said earlier that THE TOP SCIENTISTS they didnt think it would mutate like that, but your saying the rollout was a sucess?which is it?
An your wrong also about it being a sucess, the trial aint done yet, so the whole picture isnt seen.
So if you want to take your fifth shot go ahead, but dont think your going to bully or ostresize us again, it wont work.
You are cherry picking small pieces out of a much larger pie in desperation. The rollout of vaccines worked. You might not think so but those who actually know about these things agree that it was. Mutations were encompassed in successive generations of vaccines. There was no blue print for all this. Different people hsd different theories. If we had followed your idea we would still be waiting for clinical trials of the first vaccine to be approved. There wasn't time.
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32 minutes ago, Greyman said:
Looking outside and talking to our neighbours tells us all we need to know mate, we took a choice to sit back and wait for events to unfold before jumping in and if the evidence showed the jab was a success and our worry’s were unfounded we could always catch up but again everything we see tells us our decisions were the right ones and we made the right choice we don’t need a document we don’t understand written by someone we don’t know to see this, it’s clear as the nose on your face and is everywhere for everyone to see except those that simply don’t want to see it
ps sorry for answering someone else’s quote but I still find it quite incredible that people are still repeating the same arguments after they all proved false, or did we actually flatten the curve
Yes, you could be right about your local area. Same as jonjon. And the medical people could probably be right about the rest of the world outside your little bubbles. Try reading the reports instead of just ignoring what doesn't suit you.
I also have personal experience. Mine runs pretty close to what the medical experts are saying.
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10 minutes ago, Jonjon79 said:
Why do I need to post anything to support my views? - I've been proven right.
You're confusing your original statement - you do that a lot on here.
........ Is your cognitive function starting to slip? You may want a test old fella.
You are only proven right if you have something to support your views. That's how it works. We don't just take your word for it. And, your comments on the report are there for all to see. I haven't confused anything.
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41 minutes ago, Jonjon79 said:
When did I weigh in on that one?
Ok, for the hard of thinking - the uptake in vaccine is declining, the scared and gullible have realised that they were spun a whole bunch of spurious claims in order to get those vaccines sold.
Like a lot of folk, I was intelligent enough to sit back and take a look at what was going on - the claims about covid were wildly exaggerated, as were the claims about all of the rushed out, potentially dangerous vaccines.
......... What qualifications do you imagine I need to smell a rat?
Well, you have studiously avoided posting anything to support your views again. Seems to be the norm'. So we are not to believe the medical experts, so who do you go to when you have a medical emergency; the grocers?
And you'll find your post at 17:46 yesterday covers undermining the report mentioned.
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4 minutes ago, Jonjon79 said:
'Vaccine programme is a success'
How many times do you have to be told that it helped divs like you to spread the virus?
We are back to who knows best and I put my money on those trained and experienced people like the BMJ & The Lancet professionals, not the THL Massif.
We are also back to Chart's post that you all side stepped once you realised that the report you thought supported your views actually destroyed them. So you all went quiet. Then when I brought it up you went as far as to challenge its credibility. Funny that it was regarded as credible when you thought that it said something else.
You have absolutely nothing to show to prove your views. And your qualifications are?
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8 minutes ago, Greyman said:
Think that one has been totally debunked mate look deeper, there is no link between catching covid and blood clots, unless your jabbed it was another fib by those wishing to push the vaccine, also your previous post simply highlights what the people you have been arguing with for two years have been trying to tell you, the vaccine does not work simple, it don’t protect, it don’t stop transmission and it don’t make your symptoms any less when you do get it,
Covid-19: Vaccine programme a success, but staff burnout is a major risk, auditors warn
WWW.BMJ.COM
The UK’s covid-19 vaccination programme has been a success and has delivered value for money so far, but future success could be undermined by staff burnout...
Rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout: immense success but challenges ahead
WWW.THELANCET.COM
In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Eric Haas and colleagues1 estimated the benefits of the rapid mass roll-out of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine in Israel... -
4 minutes ago, shaaark said:
Yeah, but you might all be 'closing ranks' on Francie, therefore compounding his thoughts into real turmoil and paranoia!!
We are the last of his worries. The World Health Organisation are planning to oust democracy and take over the world whilst the para-military arm of the Salvation Army are taking on the role for UK Defence.
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42 minutes ago, paulus said:
It possibly went to Admin in that case only IanB would have received the email.
Yes, I think so too. Strange though how he jumps straight to the conclusion that all the mods are either inept or working in unison against him. Not that it might be a fault on the system. Even after we have all confirmed the same.
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1 hour ago, jukel123 said:
Very good. I'd never thought of that.
Here's another puzzler.Why is there this weird thing about lopping foreskins off and certain religious sects? Lopping off clitorises is a popular activity too.
Why is there this cleanliness thing about sex? As in priests and nuns must be celibate . As in Mary had to be a virgin. Did Joseph know about her impregnation? Was he cuckloded? Was he OK with bringing up JC or did he secretly think I'm sick of this perfect kid performing these miracles? We may never know or care. It's all bollocks and fairy stories.
The biggest question about religion is why those who shout loudest about them being Christians haven't got a Christian bone in their bodies judging from their actions and attitudes. And it has always been tbe same right through the ages.
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27 minutes ago, keepdiggin said:
In other words you’ve dabbled
Never felt the urge, but I don't disrespect those who are inclined that way. We can't change who we are.
It is interesting to hear how society, for most parts, turned a blind eye to homosexuality. When our friend received his call up papers for National Service one of his lady clients had a quiet word with someone in the MOD and he spent his two years living over some stables on a Brigadier's stately pile and doing little else but grooming and training of the old boy's own horses. He never saw a parade ground or bren gun. That sort of class looked after their own.
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We have gay friends one of whom is almost 90 so grew up when homosexuality was a crime you could be jailed for. Both he and his younger partner have no time for the rainbow nonsense. Neither have they time for all the overt homosexuality on tv. They just get on with their lives and don't expect or look to be treated any differently.
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19 hours ago, Francie, said:
Jon they can say what they want,the email was sent to the mods via the channel on here,so they can make excuses all they want mate.
It didn't arrive in my inbox. No excuses, just fact. Possibly a programmer's error, another glitch in the system, whatever, we don't know as we didn't devise the system that the forum runs on.
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12 hours ago, foxdropper said:
Bingo
No. They didn't have bingo then. Good idea though. That would have got the message out to a lot of people.
censorship. ...yet again by our mods
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The threads were closed for a reason. Not the smartest thing to reopen them.