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Everything posted by Ken L
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The problem with the UK in November is the weather. A day of heavy rain and any river you might have planned to fish will be buggerd. At £25 a day minimum for B&B + fishing, that's £175. £175 would buy you a return flight and a week's accomodation in lots of places in southern Europe. Largemouth Bass, Asp, Catfish etc are all there for the taking.
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I agree that we need to offer succor to those that desperatly need it. We've done it since the day's of empire and we as a nation should continue to do it without regard to creed or colour BUT I also believe that we should look after our own first and anyone who claims to be a refugee and isn't should be immediatly repatriated with ALL of their UK posessions and monies confiscated to pay for the process. BTW. I honestly expected to br branded as a racist (again - yawn) over this thread and would have taken great delight in pointing out that the guys with the coupons and the levis were white and the guy who lost his rag was a sikh.
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I was unable to confirm or deny Brian's statement about ring fencing of budgets but at the end of the day rigfencing doesnt mean much because there is a finite pot and it matters little whether it's administered by local authorities or the treasury or whether it's raised from income tax or council tax. Its all public money. This from Hansard: "The NASS budget for 2002–2003 is #40.5 million*. This figure includes grants totalling #18.6 million* to the voluntary sector for the provision of services to asylum seekers. The current budget for support is #434 million. * All figures rounded to nearest # million." Of course, those figures exclude Income Suport and Jobseekers allowance. That's a lot of pensions and nursing home placements !
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http://www.yearsofgold.org.uk/1982WEEK6FEB6.htm I just try not to think about how long ago it was.
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Vindaloo - Something to worry even hardened chilli eaters.
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Have a read of Michael Chricton's "State of Fear". Very interesting stuff. He points out that although suprisingly accurate, many historical temperature readings are the work of universities and gentlemen scientists who were based/lived on the fringes of towns and cities. Over time the cities expanded to encompass these suburban areas and although there is a continual temperature record from many known points on several continents, many of these show artificially high modern temperature readings because of the urban heat island effect. Averaging them all out, we appear to see a global temperature rise which is in fact nothing more than a serise of local temperature rises. He also states that far from receeding, the majority of glaciers are in fact increasing in volume and cites scientific papers to support his statement. Of course, it's a work of fiction so the glacier statement and the papers that suport it could be just so much hokum but the heat island theory is very, very plausable.
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I thought I could hear bacon frying. Now I realise it must have been the sound of thighs being slapped in the distance.
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It looks like I found it and it's gone. I did a search on the visible part of the name, got more information from that and then found the program listed as a search assistant.
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Check with the isurance company. I've heared a lot of nasty reports of them not paying up on policies because the car had been "modified".
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I downloaded a toolbar on a whim and frankly, it's not only rubbish but it's pushed my File, Edit, View and other options off the screen. There's nothing to identify it for deletion in the program files or add/remove programs so I can't find any way of deleting it. Any suggestions ?
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I know what you mean about Burma. I've spoken to people who've gone treking in Burma and walked into a Karen hiltribe village only to find everybody there massakered by the Burmese army. Not my cup of tea and I'll be laying off a visit until the current junta are out of the way. When we were on the Cauvery, we were told that there'd been a disease outbreak that had killed a lot of the catfish and when I mentioned that it was a shame because we fancied a shot at the Ghoonch, we were told that they're only present in the north of India. Is that right ?
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Brian, you know perfectly well that no local authority report is ever going to state that services for the elderly have been limited by the financial limitations placed on the authority by having to provide housing and support for illegal immigrants - not because it isn't true, but because it is.
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Given the clothing, general swagger and contempt with which the goods were paid for Davey, I'd guess that they've done both. A case of having our cake and eating it.
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Why is it that everytime a story like this one appears, one like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4981720.stm appears a day or two latter to redress the balance ?
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What I object to is so called assylum seekers living the high life whilst old folks are left with no services.
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Jan, These particular vouchers were issued by the UK Government.
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I was in my local Asda yesterday. Two guys in front of me are dressed in leather coats, Levi jeans and Nike shoes. Both are dripping with gold and sporting the latest 3G type phones. Both are very fit and healthy and obviously have fresh haircuts. Both were speaking in a language that was clearly not English - in the Black Country, it's sometimes hard to tell. The stuff going through the till is top notch - Organic fruit and veg, fresh steak, the works. Once the goods have been skanned, they are told that the bill is a little over £70 and they start to pay for it WITH £2, £1 AND 50p LUNCHEON VOUCHERS ! Scanning these things into the till took 4 or 5 minutes and the girl on the desk appologised to me for the delay. As the two swaggered off, she looked up at me and said "Youve just paid for that". BTW. This is anything but an uncommon occurance. Something similar has happened on three of my last visits to the store. On another occasion, there was another guy between me and the chappie with the vouchers and he got VERY upset.
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That's the trouble with PC humour. Once you stop taking the p1ss out of people, it's not funny.
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errr. What other thread ?
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A few years ago, I saw an alternative to the breachcaster rig using a big controller float with a carbon fiber arm built into the float. When the float sat upright, the arm would be about 35 degrees to the surface and had a length of line and a hook left hanging from the end so that the bait would just rest on the surface. The bait isn't really achored in the same way as in a BC rig but it would seem to let you have some of the advantages of a BC without breaching the ban.
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Strange that. Their spinning rods are to long for most spinning aplications and they don't make a decent rod for freashwater bottomfishing. It does make you wander exacly what these highly paid product designers and consultants actually do.
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This seems to be the best way of getting up to the minute information. http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=Beaconsfield Just hit refresh when the page loads.
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"Better not start doing any no-bucks reminiscing" Paul I can see what your thinking but the reality is that these days, the Indians have largely woken up to the potential value of the fishing in their worthwhile inland rivers and sting forigners accordingly. Although we had cheap fishing by European standards, we were still being charged more than 10 times what Indian Nationals were being asked to pay - despite the fact that the only Indian anglers that we met whilst there were owners and directors of multinational companies who were earning several times my salary. Where the Indians fail to maintain the waterways, they are netted, poisoned or dynamited to a degree that renders fishing pointless. This leaves two choices - Poach (something I wasn't prepared to do) or pay. I'm sure that real groundbreaking Mahseer fishing is still possible on a misers budget and in rivers where there are still some decent fish but I suspect that you'd have to go to Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Assam, Manipur or completely out of India to Myanmar (Burma) to do it.
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A couple of gems there. I loved the cat one but then again, I thought it was hysterical when Samsung (A Korean company) sponsored Crufts dog show and nobody else seemed to get it.
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Don't do it. If you buy a tele, you'll hate it 'cause it's top heavy and it'll inevitably let you down at some point. Go for a multisection rod like one the heavier Shimano Exage or Beastmaster spinning rods. They're actually way to long to be a decent spinning rod but they'd suit you for general heavy float or light lead fishing and will handle big fish with ease. Mate of mine had Mahseer to 25lb on one without to much trouble.