Peter Sharpe

I wish I hadn't been reminded it of it quite honestly. I feel really disgusted about it. Just putting a gun in your hands when you are a teenager seems to bring out the worst in you. I even remember throwing bread down on the lawn and shooting starlings from my bedroom window when they came down for it. I honestly can't think why I would have wanted to do that and I even to this day, I find it really quite disturbing. If I hadn't been given the gun I'm sure it would never have occurred to me. I will probably have a sleepless night now just thinking about it. It is something that had been locked in my memory for years and I can't believe what an evil bastard I must have been. Ban air guns immediately.

When I was young teenager, I borrowed a friend's .177 air rifle when he went on holiday. I was overcome with the hunting instinct and shot a hedge sparrow in my garden. Immediately afterwards, its mate flew down and hopped around the dead body and I had never felt so horror struck in my life. I felt disgusted with myself and the memory has stayed with me all these years. I also shot a bluetit when it was inches away from the barrel; I can't now reconcile the action with anything that I believe to be the person that I am now and it haunts me. I would love to see air rifles banned, as I honestly can't see any justification for them being allowed. I only wish that they had been illegal and that I never had the chance to get hold of one.

Nearly everything that AVG has ever found have been items in the Temporary folder that would have been removed by IL SystemWiper, which is set to run at close down. I run a complete AVG scan about once a month and it never ever finds anything that counts as being more than an irritant.

Do you mean those fine hairs that the woman in the video was stroking? Perhaps she should have been wearing Marigold gloves.

Hemp seeds ARE cannabis seeds, its just that they are as similar to a wild cannabis plant that grows in India (for instance), as a wild Indian plant is to a strain of skunk. Cannabis plants grown from hemp seeds do contain THC, but in such small quantities that you would be coughing yourself hoarse before you got much of an effect from them. I should imagine that hemp seeds imported for fishing and used back in the Sixties would have grown into stronger plants than those on sale in tackle shops today. Virtually all of it is grown in Britain and is a by-product of the crops that are grown legally under licence. I think most of it is sold as pigeon food, in fact I have heard of pigeon keepers who have had dozens of the plants growing from spilled seed all around the lofts. I have a feeling that some of the larger hempseeds such as Manchurian hemp, might have been potentially stronger than the standard varieties. The proposed Bill seems to be just a stunt from a publicity seeking nonentity, although it is quite ironic that it should be proposed by a member of the Liberal Party. By the way, I have a fairly strong feeling that the original Levis were made from hemp fibre. Further edit: so it seems even stranger that one of the most useful and eco-friendly crops on the planet is so restricted: http://www.hemp.co.uk/bodyTextiles.html http://www.naturalcollection.com/organic/hemp-guide-new.aspx

The i-Pod is just a cynical marketing exercise in getting people who are susceptible to advertising, to pay far for for something than it's worth. You can buy an MP3 player for very much less that will hold as many tracks as you are ever likely to need (2 gigabytes holds a huge number). I'm sure there are a few inadequate people who need to have their inferiority complexes boosted by having something with a knob that goes up to 11, but leave them to it. Whether it's an MP3 player, a phone or a sat-nav, you will always get the best value by buying something that sticks to the purpose it is primarily designed for. If you genuinely get personal enjoyment from watching video clips on tiny little screens, then you will probably disagree.

Having seen that, I found it almost impossible to tell the difference between the Daily Mail and the Daily Mash.

Why not just go to the Home page and read all of it? I quite liked the agony aunt

Or in English here: http://paleo.cc/ce/plesio-russ.htm http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/...an-plesiosaur2/

I would have said a crocodile, but it seems to have the teeth of a herbivore. ...but on scrolling down, I see that whatever it was, it was far more intelligent that the people who posted on there

You've just explained exactly why rivers could be running dry. With ever more concrete and tarmac covering areas of flood plain, the rainwater, instead of soaking into the ground to fill up the aquifers, goes straight into the rivers and causes widescale flooding. This means that the sluice gates are opened to protect property that should never have been there and and all the precious water goes straight into the sea. Water companies then have to pump increasing amounts of water out of the ground to meet the growing demand - straight from the aquifers that would have kept the river levels topped up.

Oh yes. Michel Foot and Dennis Skinner are two obvious ones in the Labour Government, but I'm sure there must be a great many more. Don't forget, as Bob Dylan said, Hey, they called me an anarchist - that's kinda cool here isn't it?" (or words vaguiely similar).

Bog standard knotless knot hair rig. I watched an old Kevin Madddocks video last night and it seems miles better than the rigs he was using on that.

Strangely enough, a non-angler who goes to car boot sales has just sent me Carp Fever 3 and Winter Carp Fishing, both by Kevin ________s. I found them almost unbearably dull - and KM didn't use an unhooking mat in the first one. By way of contrast, I watched the Hinders Particles one (on VHS) straight afterwards, and Andy Little came across as somebody who would be fun to go fishing with. Horses for courses and all that. (How incredibly weird - KM's name is edited out by the forum's software for some strange reason).

I second that. That's when I always do my Christmas shopping, unless it's something I have to order over the internet. Quite honestly, people these days seem to buy everything they want as soon as they want it, so presents have largely lost their meaning. Perhaps another year of acute credit crunch might restore a bit of the original meaning. There is all that religious stuff of course, but I think that part of it has all but disappeared.

It depend what he means by attaching a hair rig. Does he mean how to tie a hair rig, how to tie the hook to the line, or how or how to attach a hook length to the main line?

It wouldn't install on my computer at all, always failing after about 20 minutes. While uninstalling itself, it also removed Net.Framework, that was necessary to get my computer to recognise my TV tuner card. Worse still, it knocked out System Restore, so that I was unable to go back to before I installed the damned thing. In the end, I had to use some kind of registry hack that I found on a forum somewhere, which at least got my TV card working again. What then happened was that Windows Update tried to install Service Pack 3 again and I had to repeat the whole procedure all over again. This would probably have continued ad infinitum, so I have now turned off Windows Update completely and have no intention of turning it on again.

Go into Aldi and look for the Tronic 2500 Ah rechargeable AAA batteries. They only cost about £4 for a pack of four.

One of the great joys of abandoning "serious" carp fishing is that I no longer feel inclined to waste countless hours reading all the nonsense written about rigs. The sudden sense of freedom and re-birth that comes with it must be similar to the sensation of having cataracts removed.

I want to know what the Creationists' stance on pixies and fairies. After all, it would be highly unfair if they were left out of their "science" lessons. If Creationism had to be included in the curriculum, then it would surely need to be balanced out by an examination of the powers of self-delusion. A Creationist has no place in the teaching or practise of science in the same way that you wouldn't deliberately employ a dyslexic as a lexicographer. At least the dyslexic has the excuse of having a diagnosable mental impairment.

Many people criticised the Golden maggot programmes when they were first shown, but I would love to see them again. I also vaguely remember a proramme called Strike. All I can remember about it is seeing somebody trying to catch chub oof the surface at Walter Bower's North Muskham Fisheries, but I think it was mainly match orientated.

It's disappointing news. I was hoping that reality would finally strike home in the US and that there might be just a tiny chance that they would realise how wasteful they have been for so many years.

DON'T Just make sure that Robson Green isn't allowed anywhere near it, together with anybody associated with that disastrous programme. Don't use a presenter who deals purely in the mechanics of fishing, spending ten minutes on explaining how to shot a waggler, or other such tediousness. DO Use a presenter who understands what it is that compels people to go fishing and who understands the interaction with nature and the environment.

Seeing how fish don't seem even to hesitate when presented with a feeder full of semi decomposing maggots that stink to high heaven of ammonia and god knows what else, it makes me wonder if the last thing they want is a whiff of strawberry. If the positions were reversed, it would be like serving up strawberries and cream in a recently emptied out and unwashed maggot tub. I'd stick with maggot flavoured maggots.

I had a 300 in excellent condition, but sold it at a car boot sale for seven quid. I had a couple of the later versions (the old shape but with a faster retrieve - not those recent monstrosities), which I gave away to somebody who had recently started fishing. You would have to be stark raving mad to pay £700 for those two, as they're not really worth all that much. Let's face it, a twenty quid Okuma makes a Mitchell 300 look like a meat mincer.