Ken L

Another vote for fresh (still twitchin') makerel fillets dusted in flour, oatmeal or instant mash and then grilled until crispy.

Wollies are currently flogging an 8 LED headlamp at half price - It'll cost you the princely sum of eight quid.

The pic on the left is me, just after landing my best Barramundi ever in April this year. It was taken at night (obviously) on a Bomber lure from a river in India and came in at about 4KG's. You could probably catch them the same way in Australia but you'd most likely get eaten if you tried. BTW, this was a baby. I lost one a couple of nights before this photo was taken that was clearly well in excess of 15KG's.

Oooh. I spoke to soon. Popped out for a couple of hours and now my ugly mug is plastered all over AN. It seems that new avatar's take a while to upload when the software re-sizes the piccies.

Looks like it but I'd have thought that PM's were fairly low priority for transfer and they might pop up in a couple of days. There are a couple that I need access to (one contains SLASHLEY's address) but I'm assuming that I can still go back to the old forum and pull the information out from the olf PM system when I need it.

Hmmm. I put my old avatar back with no problems but now that I've found a better picture, it doesn't seem to want me to replace it. It might just be settleing down so I guess I'll have to try again latter.

Not unless you're growing feathers.

Personally, I use both options. I have a 160GB internal HDD piggybacked onto my machines 40GB disc. There are some minor power supply niggles but it lets me organise my music, photos, video etc easily. I then use an 80GB external HDD as backup. This is usually stored at my parents house and retrieved/updated every month or so. Using both options gives me lots of flexibility but more importantly, in the event of fire, flood or spontanious meltdown of my PC, 99% of my data will be safe - important when that data is family photos and a music collection that has taken me ages to convert to WMA format. With external drives now costing 50p a Gig, there's no reason not to use two external drives if you don't want to mess about with installing the internal IDE jobbie - It can be tricky and I had to get help from a mate because I couldn't get my machine to recognise the new drive. One to use and one for safekeeping.

looping, tangleing and wind knots are definate problems with traditional (as opposed to fused) braids, particularly if you're casting light baits or lures. It really helps if you don't fill the spool quite as much as you would if you were fishing with mono because the slight increase in drag as it's comming off the reel helps to keep everything straight. It's also less of a problem with the newer densly woven braids than it was with the older loose flat profile stuff - especially if you use the heavier BS versions.

No, it's not just you - and it doesn't go away when you put your user name and password in either.

I didn't know that the Trent ran through Clapam Common.

Quick tip. putting all your rubbish into a carrier bag at the end of a fishing session and they tieing it to a tree is NOT an appropriate means of disposal. Stories about the Wombles collecting it overnight are not actually true.

The constant worries about where the H5N1 bird-flu is at any one point in time is just so much media hype but if/when it stops being bird-flu and starts being people-flu it's going to leave continents reeling and so many people dead that the bodies will be left on the streets to rot.

Not mad enough for you lot then ? Try this http://www.drboylan.com/

"The government has deemed blind and visually impaired people competent enough to use a cooker for cooking, sharp knives to prepare the food, gas fires to keep warm, etc. They are also, according to the goverment, competent to use MACHINERY,to wit, Vacuum cleaners, washing machines, tumble dryers, blenders, mixers and anything else in the home!" How so ? [ 17. October 2005, 10:03 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ]

Nah, it takes a very special kind of idiot to pee me off to the point where I'm the one who starts the fists flying. Last time was a nice young man who was in the process of breaking into my fathers car with a window bar. I caught him red handed and as I could see there was no damage, I told him to "go away" or words to that effect. Unbelievably, he tried telling me it was his mates car and I just lost it...... Other than that, I only hit paying customers.

"It would be good to know if options other than running away or whacking people with mag lights exist." I've been involved in the martial arts for over twenty years and whilst it is possible to lock people up or tweak their nervous systems to control them in a dojo, nothing comes close to the reliability of repeatedly hitting them as hard as you can before they get the chance to do it to you for reliable and repeatable results. I have restrained people who were swinging at me by joint locking without striking them first, but doing this in a live situation takes a lot of practice (I hold black belt grades in both Aikido and Ju-Jitsu) and a fair bit of luck. Far better to smak them in the face and then start grappleing. As for pressure points. Don't believe the hype. The only pressure point knockout that I've ever seen work on the street was the tip of the jaw - applied with a fist or an elbow. Just a quick edit to point out that a finger tip to the eyeball also works, but Mr Plod tends to get upset - obviously, eyball juice is hard to get off a uniform and hospitals make for more paperwork [ 17. October 2005, 06:15 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ]

Jeepsters favorite = "foie gras". Apparently, this contains "no intensively reared meat". :confused:

In no particular order: Cod Chips & Mushy Peas – Preferably from Kristen’s on the fish quay at Tynemouth. Thai Green Chicken Curry – From Bangkok. Thai/Vietnamese Green Papaya Salad. Balti Chicken with a fresh Nan. Khatong Laksa. Chicken with Chorizo, Cannelini Beans and Spinach. Christmas dinner with all the trimmings – including chestnut stuffing. Proper Steak and Kidney Pudding. Goan fish Curry. Mousakka.

Lots of maps here http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=Pirate...G=Search+Images If you open the link to the image of the map on the extreeme right of the first line, the guy tells you that he stains the paper with tea and wine and draws the map in ink. Rough up the edges with a lighter and Bob's your unkle. You could even make a map based on a high resolution O/S map of the area that you'll be visiting and burry some "treasure" for him to find.

I keep on running into this guy's pages when I'm bored and trawling the net for weired stuff. If you think that some of the links sound fairly normal, just click, read and be amazed. http://www.detailshere.com/

And for those who enjoy the cheary flipside: http://www.findyourfate.com/deathmeter/deathmtr.html

Ah, the anchient Japanese art of running away. Otherwise known as Nike-Jutsu. Bit of a bummer when you're leaving a couple of grands worth of kit on the bank though.

Ryanair offer stripped down prices and a stripped down service. If someone needs something more than the stripped down service, it's not unreasonable to ask then to pay for it - whether it's an inflight sandwich or a carer. If somebody wants an airline to wipe their ar5e for them, they should use a major player and pay the premuim or buy an extra ticket for their carer.

Ovbious inclusions would be how to hold/use a Maglite style torch in the event of you suspecting that someone is sneeking about at night. You could also include suff like making sure that the lanyards on things like disgorgers that hang around your neck are not so strong that they can be used to pull you arround or strangle you. It's also usefull to be able to grab something like a disgorger for use as an impromptu Kobutan On a similar line, it might be worth suggesting that baliffs who wear ties (are there still any left ?) should seriously consider a clip on. [ 15. October 2005, 07:55 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ]