[Vandalised Gatso's]

So speed does not kill. That sounds pretty counter intutive to me. Try this experiment.

 

Find a block of flats.

 

Jump head first out of a ground floor window, you will probably survive.

Now try the same thing from a second floor window, and you will probably be seriosly injured.

Once you have recoverd from that try the third floor, chances are you will die, but if not then when you recover, leap out of the fourt floor window and you will almost certainly die.

 

The only difference is that the higher you jump, the faster your speed upon cranial impact with the deck, so speed kills.

 

If I took a .303 shell and threw it at you you will probably live. The same missile being fired from a Lee Enfield will kill you. The only difference is the speed the bullet hits you.

 

So how come speed does not kill? It seems obvious to me that the faster you are travelling when you have an accident, the less likely you are to survive, or am I missing something here? :confused:

 

[ 20. June 2003, 11:35 AM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

[What are you reading at the moment?]

NickInTheNorth:

corydoras, thanks for that one, somehow I've missed that book.

 

I'll be ordering it from Amazon.

 

Anyone that would like to read an account of Scottish island life as it was in the past could do much worse than read Bare Feet & Tackety Boots, and account of the life of Archie Cameron as a child on the island of Rum.

Nae bo'r ma man. A book well worthy of a plug.

[What are you reading at the moment?]

Not reading anything at the moment but the last book I read was Sea Room by Adam Nicholson. It is about a group of 3 islands called the Shiants (Eilean an Tighe, Eilean Mhuire, Mol Mhor) in the Minch.

 

An absolutely brilliant read, even if the blood that surges through your veins is English and not Scots like mine. Savage, cruel beauty.

 

Même en France il n'y a aucun paradis comme ceci.

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awaaar:

transmittable!

pestilential

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Ahh so! kyusho-jitsu, Graham-san

[Heather's bum]

Colin Brett:

I have just been to see Heather Small at Cambridge Corn Exchange and in my opinion her bum is without doubt better than Kylie's!!

 

Colin

Is a bum better than Kylie's possible? :confused:

[Don't mention the Euro]

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But they're keen on hunting.

IMHO shootin' sparras, skylarks, blackbirds and anything else that rustles in hedgerows is murder not hunting.

 

[ 18. June 2003, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

[Don't mention the Euro]

Graham X:

BTW Corydoras? How will you survive in such a god-forsaken place as Normandy? They can't make haggis, you know.

Well now, other sweaties may disagree, but they can make calvados, cider, andouille and boudin noir. Not to mention camember and bread. I'll trade that lot for haggis any day.

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[Spammers]

Elton:

The relentless spamming of my go-fishing.co.uk domain continues. In fact, it's got worse recently, severely hampering the this server's performance

 

The thing I find 'funny' is the amount of people who email me, having received a junk email, and tell me (often not very politely!) to do something about it.

 

What on earth do they think I can do? Or do they really believe that spammers use their own domains for 'reply to' addresses

 

Elton

Elton. I hope I am not teaching Granny to suck eggs here, but are you sure that you don't have your SMTP server set up as an 'open relay'. This would allow spammers to send email using your mail server (so the mail would come from 'you') and there IS something you can do about it.

[Don't mention the Euro]

Jim Roper:

We will never be in the driving seat in Europe.

 

Every vote in this country will be cancelled out by a lot more somewhere else.

 

Well we will never know if we are never in at the start.

 

Why do they want us in anyway?

 

I can't speak for ALL of them but most French people that I know feel that Europe is 'incomplete' without us and that goes for the Euro too.

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[Don't mention the Euro]

Jim Roper:

Why learn a foreign language when everybody else wants to speak English? Except the French of course!

This is just plain daft. When are you guys going to wake up to the real world?

 

I cannot believe that there are people who claim to be patriots and yet will let this country lose hundreds of millions in new investments. Not to mention the lower interest rates (and hence lower mortgage payments) they would pay if we joined the Euro.

 

Why do you want Britian to lose out? Why just for once can't we get ourselves into the driving seat? Why do you always leave it to Germany in France to make the rules?

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Jim Roper:

If you're going to live in France, why are you concerned about what currency we will be using back here.

Because I will still have lots of family left here and I want whats best for them.

[Ferox trout]

chevin:

chevin:

Do you think Burglars only get charged with burglary? They get charged with possession, fencing, possession of a weapon (probably a screwdriver), obstruction and anything else the Police can think up.

They do??? Not in my experiences as a kiosk owner!(I know that I live in Oz, but I hear the same from friends in the UK). The police come to me and tell me why it is pointless charging them because they were either p!ssed or under the influence of drugs, and I had given them a good hiding anyway, so it would be me who finished up in court if I took things any further. (Shades of Tony Martin).

 

Great to see that salmon smolts are so well protected. I am sure that Tony Martin and many others in the UK will sleep more soundly in their beds knowing that! :mad: :mad:

Different jurisdictions Tony Martin case: English Law

The smolt issue: Scots Law

Salmon are heavily protected under Scots law

[Ferox trout]

Andy Macfarlane:

I know fish farmers grow them, sell them etc. but they are liscensed to do so and only to other farmers and fisheries. They cannot sell them to some punter looking for deads or livies.

If Joe Bloggs turns up ANYWHERE in Scotland with a live or dead Smolt, Atlantic Salmon eggs or Salmon dough. etc. he will be prosecuted. I,m not making this up for christ sake. If a Bailiff turns up and finds you using any of these baits you will be prosecuted too. Just telling you before you get 5 years in Bar-L.

Don't sat I didn't warn you.

The only exceptions to the Salmon offspring rule are the new Pacific Salmon eggs found in shops. Although legal at the minute, I,m sure they will be outlawed soon enough.

Andy is correct as far as Joe Public goes. If a water bailiff finds you with a smolt in your possesion alive or dead you might end up regretting it. I think that water bailiffs in Scotland still have the same powers of arrest as a policeman in Scotland.

 

May I be so bold as to draw your attention to this document.

 

Scan down to section 23. Pay particular attentionto paragraph 7.

 

(7) A person who commits an offence under this section may be convicted on the evidence of one witness, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

 

 

At the the moment level 3 on the standard scale is £1,000. Hardly 5 years in Barlinnie, but unpleasant all the same.

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"><strong>It isn't upto the fishery. They don't make by-laws. Possession of Smolts, no matter where they come from are illegal to have in Scotland. Having Smolts on you is punishable anywhere in Scotland. You simply cannot possess them....period....even if they are dead.

Andy

 

There must be exceptions. Click here to see what I mean.

[Vandalised Gatso's]

kwakakid:

So by sending loads by rail you would be happy to see 40% of the HGV drivers out of work.Just to enable you to travel along at 70mph.

I would like to see as much freight as possible moved to rail. Not 'Just so I can travel at 70 mph', it would also mean less pollution.

[Don't mention the Euro]

Jim Roper:

I see the EU is banning us from using creosote!

Absolutely true. This is because one of the constituents of creosote (benzo-alpha-pyrene) is carcinogenic and is part of European Commission Directive 2001/90/EC.

 

It has got NOTHING to do with the Euro.

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[ 16. June 2003, 03:51 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

[Don't mention the Euro]

aanthony:

corydoras

 

That's exactly right, the UK economy does not dictate my work at all.

 

Funny....so many over inflated egos...so many people think they know better.

It would be interesting to know what line of work you are in then.

 

I don't have an over inflated ego, nor do I think I know better. I am just a Jo Soap that thinks the UK will be better off in the Eurozone, that we will have to go in sooner or later and the sooner we join the more influence we will have on the future of the Euro. At the end of the day if the UK does not join it won't bother me. I have bought a flat in France and will be moving there permanently within the next 12-18 months.