Ken L

Power consumption from LED lighting is so low that it's probably cheaper and less hastle to just stick with batteries - rechargables of course.

That goes from me too. I'tll be no fun on a boat if it keeps on blowing.

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You either have Tourette;s or you don't. Anyone can cross dress. After seeing a 11 incher once in a toilet, I asked how it got so big and the guy told me that in his tribe, it was customry to tie a string tightly arround the end and tie heavy rocks to it as a boy aproached manhood. I decided to try it and although my willie didn't actually get any bigger, it did turn black - just like his.

I say we nuke the whole site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. I actually heard the first brain dead no life of their own idiotic conversation of the summer at work this morning. The people involved weren't female, gay or hairdressers so I really don't know what the world is comming to. Worse still, I know that I have another summer of going out with a girlfriend, having a nice evening and then having the whole thing ruined by the telly being switched on.......

Education on catch and release fishing and an awareness of the existance of coarse and sea angling would be a good start.

Hey Bob you suprise me. I thought I was sure to get a rise out of you on that one. I do remember rafting down the Tully and being amazed that there was this big powerful tropical river and the only fish of any note in it were jungle perch weghing a pound or so.

Yeh, I read that they were thinking about it a while back because rampant overfishing had caused a crash in Barra numbers - particularly in queensland. Quite why they thought that one Lates specis would survive where another failed is beyond me. Thankfully they introduced sensible bag and size limits instead and started stocking the impoundments with native fingerlings the Barra have largely recovered on their own. Payara in the Tully river though. Now that would be an interesting introduction.

30cm Barra are BAIT for things like that ! I've been bust up by unstopable Barramundi in India. The biggest was guestimated at about 35 - 40lb (it was seen making several jumps) but none of them were even in the same league as that fish. I once met an Aussie who had a photo of himself with a truely awesome fish and he was telling anyone that would listen that it was the biggest Barra that he or anyone he'd ever met had ever caught. I looked at the scales and said (quietly) that it looked a lot like a Nile Perch to me. He just winked and carried on BS'ing his mates.

I'm thinking about dabling (ok so a 14 hour a day commitment would hardly be dabling) with the idea of a comercial fishery abroad. I have a very rough idea about location, fish species etc at the moment but need some rough numbers to flesh out a business plan. I was wondering how many pegs/landing stages anglers would normally expect to find on a water and still have it feel like a fishery with a little privacy and seclusion instead of a concret puddle with idiots sat around it. Just as a ball park figure, how many pegs would you expect to find on waters of 5, 10, 15 and 20 acres ?

Well done that man. Tinaroo is suposed to be a seriously hard water but it certainly contains some monsters.

Exactly how would these figures have been generated when EU nationals (From Poland, the Czech Republic, latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) arn't subject to immigration control or restrictions on whether they can work or claim benefits ? I suspect that it was politically expedient to suggest that huge numbers would be migrating and then give an estimation of "actual" numbers that is much lower than the original projection. Makes the government look good without addressing the issue or actually doing anything.

You're assuming that they'll be working and not scamming the system. We'll all be working till we're 68 to pay for it.

Yep. All the picture problems you describe are typical of a LCD (TFT) set but at the moment, you have to put up with the swings if you want to play on the roundabouts and it's the price you pay for a TV that you can hang on the wall. You're also right that sound from these super slim cabinets can be lousy and the wall brackets are a bl00dy rip off. I just wish that more companies would tell customers about the tradeoff's they're making, that way theyll be happier because they've made an informed choice, they'll be less likely to moan after the purchace and they'll be more likely to go back to an honest dealer when the next upgrade is due.

IDTV = Integrated Digital Television. In otherwords, the tuner in the thing is ready to recieve digital terestrial broadcasts without the need for a seperate freeview box.

Kids. Can't live with 'em. Not allowed to kill 'em.

Ken. Not heard of your new acronym before but I would say that you should do a thorough screen test before parting with your cash for an LCD. In particular, you should look out for latency - pixels that don't change quickly enough to keep up with the action. There may blurring of edges when blocks of colour move accross the screen (like a footballer running across the field) or a slow fading in and out instead of strobing effects. Plasmas overcome some of these problems but their big bugbare is the poor discrimination between dark colours like greys and blacks - why else do you thing they always demo them with nice bright cartoons ? Take a copy of something dingy like blade runner or better yet, a remastered DVD of a B&W movie in with you to check out your screen. SED displays will probablt solve all these issues and be as good a picture as a good old fashioned tube telly but they haven't really hit the market yet.

Presumably, the Chinese guy had all his savings in Japanese currency. The Chinese currency is the Yuan.

Sportsman. It's just struck me that you live in Scotland. Does your advice relate to English law or Scottish ?

Thank you all and particularly Sportsman. I'll definatly have to look into what you've said because it ties in with some things that occurred when my Grandmother was admitted to the nursing home. The Social Worker (employed by the local authority) wanted her admitted into the residential part of the home on the understanding that nursing care would be available when needed. The admissions nurse was insistant that my Grandmother needed 24 hour nursing care and should be admitted as a nursing patient rather than a residential patient and (fortunatly) stood firm despite several attempts by the social worker to try to get her to change her mind. If the information that you've given is correct, it would certanly appear that the social worker was more interested in bolstering LA funds than in my grandmothers best interests.

I agree that the prices are OTT at the moment but if you want to see what HDTV can deliver, pop into your local Dixons, most of their stors have ongoing demos.

The problem is that the PM makes a comment and the BBC takes the oppertunity to turn it into a debate where the animal rights movement has an oppertunity to use their most emotive stock phrases. This happens time and time again.

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jsp...=20060514220927 I find it increasingly hard to believe that the BBC does not have a pro PeTA agenda when I see the PM's comments turned into a debate like this - and the total lack of anling programs produced by them.

Is it because they're uncomfortable with their pubes platted into a warlock.........

Then what incentive is there for spending five years or more getting a degree and profesional qualifications ? Without a renumerative inducement, thise years at university would have been better spent digging the road.