Ken L

Interesting comparison. Allegedly, there are people out there who listen to the likes of Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica" album and profess to enjoy it. Now for me, that album has about as much merit as anything ever done by Tracey Emin (ie. NONE) but they seem to like it.

Smelly Old Age Pensioners PI55

What you all fail to realise is that the art lies in sculpting a REALY TINY figurine and then postioning it amongst some spilt salt.

Check the construction. I've had Mepps spinners that were missing the brass ball below the clevis and refused to spin. Check that the shaft isn't bent. Start your retrieve with a little kick off the rod tip to get the blade moving. Some spinners need a little extra umph to get the blade moving and you can then slow them down a bit. If they still don't work, chuck em.

Carefull. The modern art apreciation mafia will start having a go shortly.

Makes no sence at all. Then again, what else do you expect in a country where prisoners have recently won a case that ruled that being denied a television in their cell breaches their "human rights" !

Bananas Only After Tie-up LUCK

Sorry bushwacker, I didn't intend to jump on you. I see stuff like this most weeks as it gets internally circulated arround the govt dept that I work for. By the time it hits my desk, it's often gone several times around the country. All I'd say is whenever you see some warning about computer viruses; Gang members driving arround with no lights and shooting the first person to flash them or whatever, it's well worth taking a couple of minutes to look at www.snopes.com or doing a Google search just to verify whether what you've been told is true. [ 10. October 2005, 08:13 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ]

It's an interesting thread and an informative one. I see no reason to close it down. Mushrooms may be ilegal in the UK, but I've seen the most straight laced of guys say "yes" to everything from Mexican Blue Caps (another mushroom) to Opium whilst on holliday and if reading this persuades them to make themselves aware of the legal position and any encombant risks to their mental and/or physical health, then that has to be a good thing. BTW. This isn't the opinion of "just another Stonner". For the record, I've not taken any psychotropic drugs (other than alcohol), legally or illegally for several years.

It's a HOAX !! http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data...tiful.hoax.html

You can't get much more of a "Hard Drug" than "V".

I bought Norton's Antivirus/Sys-Sec package 11 months ago. It slows the PC's launch to a crawl (7 minutes - I kid you not) but otherwise, it's done pretty much what it said on the tin - Until now ! I now get the subscription renewal prompt every time I launch IE which is annoying but understandable. What really ticks me off is the fact that having paid for 12 months worth of subscription, it is now refusing to allow me to run "Live Update" unless I re-subscribe. If I pay for a year's cover, I expect a years cover, not 11 months of cover and a month where new virus's can probably trash my system. Is that so unreasonable ? Can anyone recomend an alternative ? Norton can stick their renewal where the sun don't shine.

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Arhhhhhhhhhh. NOT AGAIN !!!!!!!!!

"i may be wrong but dont some christian festivals have their roots in pagan rituals" You mean like Holly, Ivy, Mistletoe, Santa, Yule Logs, Easter Eggs, The word "Easter", Harvest Festival etc, etc, etc ?

I can never remembwe which is which. Does xatvs look live Bevis or Buthead ?

I'm going to be taking some audio comedy travelling with me on my portable HDD player. I've already got some Python, Bill Hicks, Dennis Leary, Steady Eddie (An Ausie) etc but am on the lookout for any other recomendations. Who works well on audio ?

Another vote for the first album from me. "Evil Empire" just didn't cut it and "The battle for Los Angeles" was OK but nothing to write home about. Some of RATM's contempories are worth a listen as well - Check out Senser with their imaginativly titled album "Senser". Comming up-to-date, I presume you've already heared the excellent Audioslave album. [ 09. October 2005, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ]

I tried "Magic Mushrooms" (Liberty Caps) just once. I didn't particularly enjoy the experience and havn't felt the need to try it again. Yes, I was aware that there were some risks attached and decided that I was prepared for any potential consequences of my actions whe I took them. I make a similar decision every time I eat a piece of beef. There is a potential risk from BSE or E-Coli but I choose to take that risk and accept that there may be unpleasant consequences of my actions. Obviously, I don't stare down at every forkfull thinking "This could be the one" any more than any one of the millions of people that take drugs or smoke every week in the UK look down at their fag, joint, fix or pill thinking "This could be the one that kills me" but the risks are there and in going ahead anyway, I am accepting them. Jeepster's advice is sound, make yourself aware of the attendent risks (there is a remote chance that you could realise that fishing is needlessly cruel to some of gods wonderful creatures and you could end up flogging your rods on e-Bay to pay for a teepee in Wales) and then do as you choose.

I've never been very happy about feeding waterfowl. Whatever they get fed, it's rarely a balanced diet (usually bread and chips) and whilst there might be plenty of free tourist handouts in the summer, they tend to dry up a bit in the winter leaving loads of half starved birds on the river with no skills to find their natural food. I'll even go so far as to tap any swanns that come looking for a free feed with my rod. Sounds cold hearted and cruel but there are plenty of low life kids with airguns arround here and they'll happily let food conditioned swans come to them so that they can shoot them with airguns. If you're going to continue feeding throughout the winter and the place is public enough to prevent idiots, I'd go with corn and wheat.

Lots of trees but no sign of a bush.

When you're tripping, try not to think too hard about the little dayglow green maggots that floated to the top when you were making your "Tea".

I use both and catching chub on a light baitcasting outfit and little 1/4oz spinners always puts a grin on my face. One never ending disapointment with baitcasters though is when a big fish screams off to the sound of............Silence. I do love the sound od of a screaming clutch on a fixed spool reel

A Toby in the groin was my best effort. Now, I use braid and although I will try to shake a lure free with the rod, if I have to pumm for a break, I clamp my hand over the reel, point the rod at the lure and syep backwards - No big springs anywhere to catapult the lure back at me.

This subject has done before. I I recall, Newt posted an incredible image produced using side scanning sonar technology. Peter. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.