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I read a book about football scouts; 'The Nowhere Men' and it dealt with how clubs assess players before taking them on. Attitude was one of the main criteria. But you wouldn't know that looking at how some players behave. So the scouts and those who make the final decisions in some cases are getting it badly wrong. I am obviously missing it, but I don't see the young talent coming through at West Ham like you do at ManU, Chelsea and City. And they don't seem to be making the same quality purchases that Leicester have managed. Even Newcastle have brought in good players on the cheap.
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As you say; they also have tagged bears in the Spanish Pyrenees that's got more followers than any of the Kardashians (I had to look that name up). The local farmers can track them and then phone their neighbours on their mobiles to tell him to get the sheep in as the bear is entering their sector. 99.999% of all professional wildlife photography is set up or fake.
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I think that Frank is doing brilliantly. But, compared to West Ham he has a lot of young talent already on the books. I read a couple of years ago that Chelsea had about twenty or thirty youngsters out on loan all over Europe. It is a different set up altogether and to be honest you need to set your sights a bit lower. Brighton have done very well with limited budgets, as have Burnley and Bournemouth, but have they got any quality youngsters coming through to continue beyond the current squads? If they haven't then they need a really good scouting network lke Leicester have to bring in the lik
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I am reliably informed that 22% of the 'Other' votes thought that it was a goat with a detachable tail and sometimes chases sheep, and also was very cheeterish.
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Obviously a lynx? From that footage? Agreed. Especially if you read the account that came with the video image; The public of Plymouth are undecided: At least if you'd been nicked by me you'd have been nicked proper. Not on some trumped up imaginary charge ? ? For the record; I have posted on this thread before that I do not discount the chances of big cats existing in the wild in the UK. But statistically and logically this ain't likely to be one.
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I have heard of this in respect of sleeping animals, but I still cannot believe that those sheep totally ignored a large predator walking amongst them. And until there is more proof I tend to err on the side of it not being a predator.
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Well, until we have a body or clear proof I don't really see how you can form the opinion that you have based on such a poor video?
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If you look more closely you'll see that it is definitely Price Andrew in that car ?
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Sigh! If the animal was as clearly distinguishable as you think it is there would be no need for debate on here. As I said before,it is easier to discount what it isn't and it clearly isn't a predator from the sheep's reactions. There are two sheep happily grazing just yards from it. It also looks to be grey and doesn't seem to be feline in its movement in my opinion. But, if you want to believe that a grey smudge is a lynx, then go ahead. Believe all you want. For all I know it could be Rudolph videoed by Santa as a prank.
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But the sheep are there and their behaviour is one of the things that you have to take into consideration when forming an opinion. The picture is not clear. You can get an impression of size, shape and gait from it, plus a vague idea of tone or colour. At best you can dismiss what it clearly isn't, but you can't say what it clearly is. But the sheep's reaction is clear and sheep don't behave like that when there is a threat. So for me the animal is either one of their own kind or something they have become accustomed to that does not normally interfere with their lives.
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Well, it can't have looked exactly like a lynx to those sheep. If it had been canine or feline they would have been off PDQ.
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Because its a goat.
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About 8 or 9 years ago I used to buy loads of Ultrafire Cree torches from DX.com to re-sell on ebay. I got 90 lumen red beam ones for night hunting on air rifles and 650 lumen white beam ones for security work. You can also buy belt mounted pouches, rifle mounts, pressure pad on/off switches, rechargeable batteries and chargers from the same site. They are as cheap as chips and I'm still using the white beam ones 8 years later having had no problems whatsoever. https://www.dx.com/p/ultrafire-501b-cree-xm-l-t6-led-650lm-white-flashlight-w-strap-black-1-x-18650-2018239.html One of the
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You are right Wilf. France is finding it hard to attract foreign companies because of the labour laws that are reminiscent of the UK back in the 1970's. The sort of laws that Corbyn would love to introduce. It is a lovely place to live in parts, but you wouldn't want to set up a company here. The red tape that I have to wade through just to run a simple part time one-man pest control business is unbelievable. No wonder there is so much working on the 'black' as they call it.
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All that is very well, but you were trying to make out that foreign and in particular French pensions are far better than the UK one. Just like you were making out thatFarage is a crook based on nothing but rumours and suspicion. The French pension can be greater, under the circumstances used in examples like the one you posted. But, the pensioners who live around here would feel lucky if they got what I'm hoping to receive. Despite working for the required 40 plus years, for many of the quarters used to qualify for a full pension they would not have earned enough. So, in effect they work unti
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Commiserations Wilf. Losing to Poch' would have been bad enough, but losing to Mou' ?
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The above is taken from the same website that you posted. As I have said more than once, the figures often bandied about are based on the maximum a person can achieve. In the UK almost everyone gets the same pension no matter what their wages were.So I would get a higher % of pension to past earnings than Lord Sugar's pension. In France and other countries the actual pensions are dependent on how many months or quarters that the salary was sufficient to reach the required target, and what was the average salary over whatever number of years the average is taken at. For example; when I se
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I know that you don't understand. It comes out in your posts. For instance you think that the biggest Russian coup was Christine Keeler. You've not heard of Burgess, Philby and McClean? You've not heard of Stalin's pact with Churchill and Roosevelt? But as Wilf points out; Russia cannot manage Russia let alone embark on world domination. Russia as been used as the bogeyman to allow America to arm itself to the teeth and the UK to tag along for as long as I can remember except for a brief period when Bin Laden and ISIS had a brief starring role. Our government need a bogeyman to keep the
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As I have repeated; there is no comparison between French and British pensions. The figures often quoted for French pensions are at the top end of a very wide scale. The people I live amongst don't get anywhere near that. They get roughly what I hope to get. In the UK it doesn't matter what your earnings were. You get the same OAP whether you were on £10,000 a year or £1,000,000 a year. In France that matters a great deal. You played the immigration card. A classic Remain ploy. The 'indefensible' as you put it are not guilty until proved otherwise. Over to you.
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It is only at the heart of the EU argument because it suits the Remain camp to make out that all Brexiteers are racist bigots who are too thick to realise how good the EU is. I meet loads of people in my work and obviously Brexit comes up in conversation. Almost all of those who voted Remain did so for personal reasons. They and I are likely be worse off if Brexit happens and will suffer some negative changes. I accept that. But none of them realise the negative impact that being in the EU has on the UK in general. Not one of them knew that the total receipts that the EU get from the UK totals
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What implications do you draw from "the FBI are interested in him?" If he was a suspect he would have been arrested, deported and questioned. He hasn't. Concern about Russian involvement? Who is concerned? I grew up in a time when Russia was behind everything and they were supposed to be light years ahead of the Yanks and us yet all they could muster to sell to us were Zenith cameras and Lada cars. It is all make believe! One of the ways to tell that someone hasn't anything of proof against a person are multiple allegations and questions many of which are pathetic. If someone had anything
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Frankly I think that you are clutching at straws in a desperation to undermine Farage.I mean; some of these questions; #'s 1, 7, 10 - 15 are just desperation, 2 & 3 should be pretty well obvious to anybody and the rest, you have any evidence to back up your allegations and insinuations then why not post it?
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Strangely enough I watched the Farage interview last night and unlike the other politicians he didn't dodge one question. Not only that, he fully explained all his ideas. Whereas Corbyn just repeated the same non-committal statement over and over again when asked on his views on Brexit. The only two politicians that I would believe without hesitation are Farage and JRM. Neither tell lies and both will admit to any mistakes that they might have made or said. Which is why Labour are so afraid of them.
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All this reference to the NHS being sold off is pure speculation. If Corbyn had any proof he would show it. Instead all he has shown is a document with parts obliterated. That isn't proof. And don't forget that Corbyn was asked on numerous occasions where he stood on the EU and he avoided answering the question every time.
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In respect of the average, perhaps so. As I see it the Tories moved left to capture the traditional Labour voters who were disenchanted with their party becoming too right wing. The Far Left was disappearing as quick as the major industries that supported Labour were disappearing, but some in the actual Labour Party couldn't stomach the Bliarite policies associated with New-Labour so caused a split in their own party. And that is how Corbyn came about. In the mean time Farage was splitting the Tory vote by taking a lot of what were old Labour supporters and the those on the right purely on the
