Jim Roper
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I think a lot of Tory supporters paid £3 to vote for Corbyn last year. At £30+, I wonder if this year's Corbyn votes were funded by Conservative central office. Cheaper than ploughing money into election campaigns, perhaps. More that one way of skinning a cat!
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Is Spasor still around? Seems to have disappeared.
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Is Spasor still around? Seems to have disappeared.
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Blimey you still alive! Long time etc
I look in from time to time, but it always seems a little dead. I presume people got fed up with Lord Mullet of Medway and the political correct, gay fraternity.
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supprise supprise, the job losses predicted by Cameron and co are not a reality.
Just shows that Cameron tried to take us for kunts, but we didn't all fall for it.
The UESR is not for us.
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Should be a few cod caught along the beach soon.
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That could mean a lot of sea anglers voting to leave the EU in the coming referendum.
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Lord Mullet of Medwey will be laughing all the way to the vegetarian shop with a copy of the Guardian in his bicycle basket.
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I was told that peeler crab is working best, but doesn't it always! The chap who was telling me about it also had 2 smooth hounds one night.
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I understood that the ones that cause us the most trouble come over from Holland when their canals are frozen.
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Forgot to mention that a chap caught 4(I think) Tuna off the beach at Langton Herring last year. Not far from where all the Trigger Fish get caught.
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Got off to a good start but it's gone a bit dead lately. Waiting for some cold weather to get them moving south. Had a blank season last year as I was nursing a broken ankle and didn't want to aggravate it. Plates and screws part way up my leg. Still fairly stiff every morning and I can feel it(level 1) every step I take. Still stoking myself up with Cod liver oil and Green-lipped mussel tablets every morning. Mobicosa Gel worked wonders!
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Plenty of cod up to about 7lb being caught all along Chesil Beach, so I'm told. I met a couple of chaps at Langton Herring last night, they had driven all the way from Plymouth.
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The most worrying thing is the ignorance of some conservationists. We have a local reserve warden who thinks the eels that are caught in the Fleet(behind Chesil Beach) are born there. He has only been a warden there for 40 years!
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done so, same opinion. On what do you base your conjecture?
If you cannot reasonably expect to have trespassers, by putting up signs and/or fences, you cannot be responsible for their stupidity. Putting up a sign 'Trespassers will be prosecuted' implies that you know you may have trespassers and therefore have a duty of care toward them. Have a word the the man on the Clapham omnibus.
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Sorry to disappoint you Jim, but even with such a sign you would still owe the same duty of care to trespassers :-)
Read the Act again.
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No one ever mentions the shag, very similar to the cormorant, both eat fish, yet the population of the shag is 3 times as healthy as the cormorant. That's because the Southern Sea Fisheries Committee no longer issue Shag permits. There used to be a 7/6d bounty on every pair of Shag feet.
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I see most cormorants in Winter, but they usually see me first.
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I am sure most people who watch it will just hope they will be lucky enough to see such a beautiful creature in the flesh one day and be impressed by the size of the fish it can eat.
Go down to Radipole Lake and you'll see about 40 on the little island in front of the RSPB hut every evening.
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A local gamekeeper, who has a permit to shoot cormorants, cut one open to see what it had been eating. The stomach was one large ball of worms(not eartworms) and he concluded that most of it's food intake was to feed the worms in it's stomach. I mentioned this to a fish farmer who found it most interesting, as these same stomach worms are responsible for spreading some fish deseases.
When appying for a permit to shoot cormorants, their is also space on the form to apply for a permit to shoot herons.
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So much for them taking only small fish..............
It's here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038l8jb/The_One_Show_13_08_2013/ ... begins just short of 24 minutes in.
There is a picture somewhere, of a cormorant trying to swallow a 5lb pike.
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Never tried it. Have you?
Is it a Myth?
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I was told this by a chap who had been a CPO in the British Navy. Hilarious, but is it true?
Some years ago, before 9/11 I suspect. A British Navy warship paid a courtecy to Boston Mass. 'The Troubles' were still active and the crew were told to 'keep their heads down' when they were out and about, because of the local Irish Nationalist sympathy. A group of them were drinking in a bar and got talking to a chap who claimed to be the local Noraid organiser. They got him blind drunk and took him to a tattoo parlour. I doubt they saw him again, because next morning he must have woken up to find 'God save the Queen' and the Union Flag on his chest.
I wondered if it was true, but an ex-Army officer told me recently that they had done something similar to a German chap who had been berating them about their military victories again Brits.