Ken L

Fine, that's why it should be on the cirriculum. But schools are no place for religious indoctrination - especially when that (christian) indoctrination takes the form of condemnation of one of the most important pagan festivals of the year.

No problem with banning halloween from schools. Just ban all the other religious mumbo jumbo as well. If the kids or their families want to celebrate halloween, christmas, nirvatri or eid outside school, thats fine but it doesn't have a place in educational institutions unless it is on the ciriculum.

I'm not sure whether this relates to a sea or a carp fishing accident but it should serve as a timely reminder of the dangers of yanking on a snagged line with a rod. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_eas...ast/4315748.stm

Another vote for some US material. There must be tons of musky, striper, bass and walleye fishing material that's been about for a decade or so who's distributors would welcome Discovery opening up the European market for their material. In the UK, it'd be a good idea to try doing all the things that Mr Wilson tries to avoid. How does our angler choose his swim? What features does he see or anticipate from looking at the water and what does he see as being the likely fish content of the peg? How does he decide how to takle the water? How does he set up his tackle - in detail. How does he fish/control the tackle?. What does he end up catching ? No pictures of pretty birdies or flowers. Not that there's anything wrong with Mr Wilson's format, but there's more than 10 years worth on film already and a change would be nice. On the lure issue, no need for transmitters. Just record the video to a chip and upload it after every couple of casts.

Great idea ! What do I do after they heal and she brings a knife to bear on my knackers ?

Big problems in florida with illegally released "pet" snakes. Cobra's, Gabon Vipers etc to ruin peoples day with a little nip. Now it looks as if Pythons are moving in to take over the top spot as apex predator. Unfortunatly, Python's don't dig holes so there'll soon be nowhere for the fish and amphibians in the dry season.

"putting nuts in the fire to see which one jumped out first" Painfull ! Did you do a "weiner roast" at the same time ?

No fish = No Herons. No Kingfishers. No Grebes. No Otters. It what way is it a "Nature Reserve" ?

Mind you, they do seem to be too stupid to have figured out the "Retire to a safe distance" bit..

Ah the good old days of home made fireworks and pipe bombs..... I used to love making home made bangers with half a teaspoon of weedkiller and sugar mixture, a shotgun primer and a twist of tissue paper. Great fun but not too safe. I've had to dig several bits of metal out of my legs after a night with home made bangers. As for the pipe bombs (and "bangers" made with a small co2 cylinder and the contents of a couple of shotgun cartridges), building these things is now quite likely to result in a one way trip to Guantanamo Bay. My brother was reminising about some of the stupid (but impressive) things we used to blow up a couple of weeks ago. His comment....These days, the terrorists have all the fun".

Yep, a discrace. Everyone knows you need to use a wire leader for sharks. Joking aside, I have grave doubts about the authenticity of these photo's.

Following the ban on decent bangers and airbombs, I wonder how long it will be before there is a serious accident in the tunnel or on a ferry as someone tries to bring a van load of loud fireworks over from France a about a quater of the price of the equivelent firepower if brought over here.

What do we think about this ? Personally, I'm in the "No" camp. Less than 5% of the country is actually in Europe. Their human rights record sucks - especially in the East. The EU would suddenly have land boarders with Syria, Iran and Iraq and the potential for sliding into a future large scale conflict is considerable.

Try http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/03318.html This has everything you asked for as well as your local weather.

One of Elton's sponsors is currently flogging Fenwick Iron Tread at very reasonable prices. It's been arround for a while (as has Power Pro) but I've never tried it. Does anyone have any experience of this line ? Specifically, is it any good ?

"Pike, being the prehistoric monster that it is, has a relatively poor oxygen exchange system." Hold on, we are talking about a fish with a circum global ditribution in the Northern Hemishpere and a range from Southern Europe to the Arctic Circle. It's so sucessfull that it has barely been changed by evolution in millions of years and it remains the apex predator across it's entire range. If there was anything substandard about it's makeup, it wouldn't be here. I'm inclined to agree that the so called "pike season" is simply a hangover from the days of old when the gamekeeper would be prepared to allow the oinks onto the river to remove pike when the salmon and trout weren't in season. If people want to define their own seasons and choose to target specific species at certain times of the year, that's fine but please don't try to impose rules on the rest of us. If pike welfare was really the driving force behind these suggestions, we'd see a ban on pike fishing during February and March when the fish are spawn-laden an likely to be injured if handled without the water supporting their weight.

3D interspecies gay animal porn a reality.

I can just see the PETA logic. There's a story that may or may not be true. Get Bardot to condem the practice and hit the press. Hey, this is making the news, we need evidence ! Think... Think... Think... OK, so if we get a dog and insert some big scary hooks under local anathetic, it's not going to feel any pain. There's no pain so there's no cruelty and the dog is one of thousands that we kill (err.. sory, oh, what's the word.... euthanise, that's it) I mean euthanise every year in any case. Stupid animal doesn't even look scared so we'll pull back the scalp for the still shots to make it look as if it's in anony - or at least a little suprised. Great ! Fantastic ! Hey, everyone's a winner - except the dog.

They both laughed at the obvious joke and as the husband coughed, he looked up at his wife and said "You know, there's something I need to tell you. In all the years that we've been married, I've remained faithfull to you until last fall when I fell for the charms of Rodger Murphy's daughter Megan. She took me on a ride of pure erotic delight and I've been wracked with guilt ever since" "I know about that" said his wife. "You do?" said the husband. "Yes, why do you think I poisoned you ?" "Mind you, I didn't expect to have to come in here for 8 weeks and sit with my chair on your Oxygen line to finnish you off"

My girlfriend has an XP PC and for some reason, she has played and played with the settings (at one point, there were no icons and no start button on the screen on startup) and has constantly had to get various people to play with it to try to make it work - at which point she starts playing again. Is there any relativly simple way of taking the whole thing back to factory settings and starting over ? Errasing all of her saved files isn't really a problem because I can burn them to CD's before going for it.

And now this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-paci...fic/4292426.stm

Try phoning the EA and requesting a full copy of the angling bye-laws for your region in Serbian - see how far you get. Studid advice frome someone desperatly trying to be PC.

If you're looking for a geological answer for the general trend, there are two. 1. After the ice sheets melted, the land that had litereally been pushed down into the eaths mantle by the weight of 2Km of ice, started to slowly rise. As the country was only glaciated north of the line between Bristol and the Wash, the North is rising and the south sinking. 2. The Severn is the major river in the country. it flows south. There isn't enough water left over for a significant (other than the Trentb - which you seem happy to disregard) river to flow anywhere else.

Take this thread to Cuba. Is bin hyjaked.

How about the Huntspill, the Yeo etc in the south west, the Stour in Kent or the Great Ouse in EA ? My dad used to come out with this "all English rivers flow south" nonsence. 30 seconds with an atles disproves it. [ 29. September 2005, 08:15 AM: Message edited by: Ken L ]