corydoras

Hi Rudd You don't need to go to a sports store to buy shotguns, rifles etc. where I go in France. You can buy all of that sort of stuff in the main branch of Carrefour (a bit like Tesco's on steroids) in Caen at Mondeville.

Congratulations mate. I remember my first (and so far only thick-lipped ) It was 'just' 3lb 10oz, but it felt as if I had got caught up on the back actor of a JCB! [ 31. July 2003, 02:24 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

I was in France on holiday last week and I popped into my local Decathlon to get some weights and hooks. I was utterly gobsmacked by the amount of fishing tackle that they had on offer. In two isles they had more kit than all the fishing shops in Southampton put together. I did not really have time to compare prices on the kit but most of the gear looked to be priced about the same as it would be over here, but some of their lures looked fairly cheap. The store was in Caen and it was the 'little' Decathlon store at Côte de Nacre not the huge one at Mondeville. I have never had a chance to visit one of the Decathlon stores in the UK so I cannot really compare the UK stores against the French ones, but I have never seen so many different lures, hooks, weights in one shop. The selection of lures was particularly impressive, everything from tiny little Devon minnows to pirks that were 1.5 kilo (thats about 3lbs in old money) . Has anyone ever visited any UK Decathlon stores? If so what is the tackle selection like? I have had a look on both the French and UK web sites, but they have much more in the Côte de Nacre store angling wise than they have on the French or UK web sites.

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sneeze

Two girls and a boy over here, and I was only a steward in the Merchant Navy. It's more than just the RADAR, one was being suject to all kinds of high wattage RF daily.

quote: Posted by Peter Waller. An eight year old being left to fend for himself by the water, what sort of appalling father is that, for heavens sakes? Who would have saved him if he had fallen in and no one else was there to rescue him? I could not agree more Peter. I am absolutely flabbergasted that any father could do that to his son. He should be shot at dawn.

The plot thicken folks. What do you make of this? [ 18. July 2003, 02:50 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

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No Jim, definitely not like GM crops. If ever there was a solution looking for a problem it is GM crops at least as far as food production goes, although I have an open mind about how they might be used to 'grow' medicines. We might be able to find a cure for diseases like MS and MD by working on GM plants. I know that a lot of young men lied to get into the forces during the war, but lets get that into perspective. War was declared on Sept 3, 1939 by Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand following the invasion of Poland on Sept 1. That will be 64 years ago this year by my reckoning. So even if a 10 year old boy managed to fool a recruiting seargeant into letting him sign up at the outbreak of the war, that 10 year old would be 74 this year, or maybe I can't count? Anyway I KNOW that you are a Senior Citizen (I am trying to be diplomatic ) and I don't have ANY problems with your views at all. What 'bugs' me is when I see posts from folks that I am fairly confident are from folks of my my generation or younger who make themselves sound as if they were at the Relief of Mafeking I found the rest of your post very interesting. Especially paddle steamers and torpedoes. My mothers uncle (who was like a grandfather to me as her own father died) worked in the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria in Dumbartonshire during the war and I was brought up with a paddle steamer on my doorstep. Once I have picked the bones out of it will make a stab at your age, if you don't mind.

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Err! Let me guess. Begins with I, ends with Q and has got RA in the middle.

Liking John Masefield is far from sad. Enjoy France, even if you don't go fishing. I am off to sunny Normandy next week and plan to take both my kids on their first fishing expiditions. Tight lines mate

Us little Amazonian catfish just love the heat! Long may it continue

quote: Originally posted by Newt: corydroas - I'm 58. Hi Newt Yeah I kinda guessed that you must be in that ball park, but you cannot really tell by your posts. My point was thet some of the posters make themselves sound like 88 when the are probably only in their 40s and it bugs me when people are avaricious of the life and achievements of the younger generations.

quote: Originally posted by Jim Roper: So the moral is use an air rifle! How about a crossbow or a catapult? If the intruder had an air rifle, crossbow or catapult then this would count as reasonable force.

That is what I said. Murder is when a man of sound memory, and of the age of discretion, unlawfully killeth within any county of the realm any reasonable creature in rerum natura under the king's peace, with malice aforethought You can only have murder reduced to manslaughter if you can successfuly show provocation or diminished responsibility. If the defendant kills the victim in self-defence it is seen as being lawful, and so the defendant would be acquitted as part of the actus reus would be missing. When self-defence is maintained, it is the burden of the prosecution to disprove this beyond reasonable doubt. The grey area is what is reasonable force. The 'rule of thumb' here is that you can use against like.

Take your gear and ask when you are there. It is not my corner of France so I don't know what you will catch. Permits and licenses should come to about £35 or so for a week, but it depends a lot on where you are.

Can't beat a nice bit of haddock IMHO.

Yes you will need a rod licence and permits to fish. Don't fish without them or you may find your vacances being extended.

It's the fifties bit I don't agree with. If you changed it to the sixties I might half go along with you. In the 50's only 46% of UK households had a bathroom and petrol was still rationed up until 30 May 1950. Marconi went down the tubes because the management jumped on the wrong bandwagon. The world has changed, it is going to change a LOT more. Best get used to it.

If one searcheth for sympathy one will find it in the dictionary betwixt sh!t and syphilis. Was it a chopper?

First of all although you may not like the word the word under UK law is murder. If you kill someone through your actions this is murder. Manslaughter is just a special kind of murder. This is the classic definition of murder under English law "Coke (3 Inst 47): "Murder is when a man of sound memory, and of the age of discretion, unlawfully killeth within any county of the realm any reasonable creature in rerum natura under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, either expressed by the party or implied by law, so as the party wounded, or hurt etc. die of the wound or hurt, etc. within year and a day after the same". These are the classic 'defenses' againt murder A murder can be reduced to manslaughter if a defendant claims either provocation or diminished responsibility. A homicide can be deemed lawful if it is committed in self-defence. Self-defence cannot therefore truly be called a defence - a prerequisite for murder is that it is an unlawful killing. If the defendant kills the victim in self-defence it is seen as being lawful, and so the defendant would be acquitted as part of the actus reus would be missing. A defence on the other hand would exist if part of the mens rea were missing (Allen, 1996) - for example, if there is inadequate intent and premeditation is missing, provocation might be claimed. When self-defence is maintained, it is the burden of the prosecution to disprove this beyond reasonable doubt, as stated in Beckford v R [1988] AC 130. Having said all that, you are correct it is a very complicated area of the law and the chances are that if you kill someone you are going to end up doing time yourself. Another point that went against the Martin case was the fact that he shot him. If you have a Gun License or a FAC then it states quite clearly that a shotgun or rifle must be kept in a locked steel cabinet. The fact that Mr Martin had a shotgun close to hand would have allowed the prosecution to argue that Mr Martin showed aforethought, in otherwords he 'planned' to use the gun if he were burgled.