Alan Stubbs

I often think that chivalry isn't dead - it just isn't understood anymore The funniest put-down I ever saw was on a train journey a few years ago. A woman stood at the door to a carriage and said quite volubly 'if any of you were gentlemen, you'd let a lady have a seat!' The reply was devastating in it's effect: 'If you were a lady, we wouldn't hesitate!' It doesn't alter a thing, in my view, life is about mutual respect, and people are the lesser for not showing it.

I'd suggest a trip to a local tackle shop, they are a mine of useful local information - as we are on here. However, local knowledge will be far more specific and therefore more suited to your needs. However, your question as posted here is too generalised to know where to start - What type of water are you going to be fishing? Which fish are likely to be there? - After all, what's the point of setting up with gear unsuited to the type of fishing on offer. What style of fishing are you looking to use?

One of the finest anglers I have ever met is a lady. She has only been fishing for around 5 years and was coached by her husband. Already her PB's are better than the chairman of the PAA can claim. And although it sounds patronising, I think it's great to see women and young people fishing - the last thing I'd like to see is angling becoming elitist. Anglers tend to be a generous group of people, by and large, and one comment I read in another forum, now closed down, said that due to people's behaviour he tends to fish syndicate waters - it keeps you away from the riff-raff. It begs the question 'why not try to do something about it, then?' The comment was made by a man who has had posting rights on here withdrawn. Says it all really.

Now I'm a believer!

That's not a leading comment- it's a statement of the obvious!

It's a bit worrying that apart from the originals appearing on this version, the only others I've heard of have been through newspapers from any number of reasons apart from music.

Friends subscribed to AOL Broadband. Every time they booted up their PC the AOL modem crashed taking the PC down with it. They reverted to AOL dial-up which ran well. AOL's 'technical service team ' told them that the afult lay with their PC.... So Matty's wife said to the AOL-person 'Are you saying that my PC is responsible for the Broadband modem smoking around the casing like it's doing now, then? They got a new modem and 12 month's free BBI from AOL. At the end of which period they propose subscribing to a proper ISP.

No... he was possibly with the Spanish fans in sprirt, though. Or else he was masquerading as the Spanish coach.

A more cynical view is that the Exchequer is happy to allow smoking as it contributes massively to his income - moreover, lower life expectancy also means that he saves expenditure on pension payments. But that , of course, daren't be admitted publicly.

Augmented Reality? Isn't that just PC-speak for Surrealism?

VOL: 3 Removal of rod from up a**e?

Sorry Rob - Rooney's tackle around the Spaniard's thigh looked like petty thuggery to me - and it isn't the first time he's done it in his short career. Then he tried to help Casillas get to know the Spanish fans better (booked for that), followed less than a minute later with a lunge at a player that took his ankle away. That is someone either very stupid pr totally lacking in self control. Maybe calling him lower than pondlife was a bit OTT - but so was his behaviour. I don't deny the man has talent. However, he does have too many apologists. Duncan Ferguson did time for assault for the same sort of behaviour on a football pitch.

I saw the article in the Times and for the 1st time in ages went and bought a copy of the Angling Times. The quality of reproduction of the photographs was so poor, that the reader would be hard pressed to recognise any similarity between the fish. you simply have to trust the words of a journalist, and I am reluctant to do so. Still, the article served it's purpose - get people to buy the rag. Notwithstanding that, IF it is one and the same fish, would the cost of generating the burden of proof required to get a prosecution justify the expense of doing so?

Sorry - messed up this post due top several interruptions at work - uncaring so-and-so's! [ 18. November 2004, 09:56 AM: Message edited by: Alan Stubbs ]

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I saw the article in the Times and for the 1st time in ages went and bought a copy of the Angling Times. The qulity of the photographs was so poor, that the readership would be hard pressed to recognise any similarity between the fish. Still, the article served it's purpose - get people to buy the rag. Notwithstanding that, IF it one and the same fish, would the cost of generating the burden of proof required to get a prosecution justify the expense of doing so?

1 - They serve a purpose - they generate cash for the FA 2 - As for the Spanish fans, they simply showed themselves to be lower than pondlife in the evolutionary order - I'd say they were on a par with Rooney after his performance last night.

I couldn't agree more.

Yvette Fielding doesn't look remotely haunted. Not easy on the eye, that's for sure, but she does't look haunted.

purgatory

Many UK companies quote prices net of VAT in their prices - mainly because it lowers the headline price and because the majority of their clients are able to reclaim VAT, and are not, therefore particularly interested in a VAT inclusive price.

As someone who lost a parent and several close friends to smoking related disease and knowing those who have 'apparently' suffered smoking related diseases through 'passive smoking', I have seen the state people have got into and have no wish to follow them. I find cigarette smoke deeply unpleasant and welcome any moves to limit smoking in public places - especially if they are enclosed.

I have fished 3 lakes stocking sturgeon. I was using lobworm looking for perch when I causght the first, and curried luncheon meat looking for carp when I took the second. I was unaware that either lake held sturgeon - and those I caught were more like sterlets - 4lbs max.

Mr Howard is husband number 4 or 5 for Mrs howard - who was, apparently a well known model in the '60's. This brings a few thoughts to mind - the years haven't been kind to her, and having had so many husbands in her life, I suspect there had to be some overlap between most of them. As for the sacking of Boris Johnson, the Tories put out a press statement saying that he wasn't sacked because of his extra-marital, only for his lack of candour in dealin with it when asked about it by Michael Howard. But, answer me this please, is who's shagging whom any business of anyone apart from the families of those involved?

My neighbour's 8 year old calls them 'Misery meals' From the mouths of babes and sucklings....! Someone once said that McD's is the only place on earth where you can die of malnutrition and food poisoning at the same time.