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  1. What a wonderfully unbiased and historically acurate account of French military history that list is. Whatever floats your boat. Funny how some people seem to forget the importance of Russia in helping to win the war too. As for today's pupils not studying WW1 and WW2... When were you last at school?! That is practically all they're taught in history classes these days! ------------------------------ quote: PC exists to balance out the bigots. Britain is obsessed with political correctness. Now, before you nod enthusiastically in agreement and start dusting off the hilarious rubber gollywog hidden away in your loft, I'm not referring to the necessary and useful corrections to prejudice that have been made in the name of PC over the years. What I mean is: Britain is obsessed with the idea that PC is a conspiracy, a hurricane of embittered, lefty oppression determined to strip us all of the right to speak as we find. It has resulted in a terrible, cultural black hole in which only Marks Thomas and Steele are funny, goes the argument, and to make up for decades of imperialism, all white Britons should leap over the cliffsof Dover in a futile but poignant lemming-style suicide/apology. And yet, not everything that happens to us that we don't like is because political correctness has gone mad. Some of it is because things need changing. Brace yourself - but some of the old ideas that we call "traditions" are rubbish. The clearer, better, computer-generated BBC weather reports are not a PC trick. Neither is the fact that both Julian Clary and Graham Norton are on BBC1 on the same night (it's a mistake, but PC it ain't). Some gays and Asians and Muslims and disabled people pay the licence fee too, so would the straight, white, able-bodied, Christian, PC-phobic majority just shut up for a bit? (Don't worry, another ethnically cleansed Only Fools and Horses or EastEnders will be along in moment or two.) Accusations of politically correct thought control have become a pathetic and transparent excuse for lazy racists, sexists and Islamophobes the land over. Challenging PC has become a game of chicken for bigots - daring each other to run out into the busy PC motorway and say something stupid before dashing back for cover. Who will dare to go the furthest without actually invading Poland? The Tories? Ukip? The Daily Mail? An excellent comic by the name of Chris Addison has said, "You can tell people who read the Daily Mail because they follow every stupid thing they say with the phrase '... but I suppose that's not politically correct', and think that makes it OK to say whatever they want." Thus the Mail's coverage yesterday of the war crimes trial of the British army Colonel Jorge Mendonca suggested that he has been "dragged into a politically correct witchhunt". Tssk. Typical of the PC brigade - one Iraqi man gets beaten to death and they are down on you like a ton of righteous liberal bricks! The chap wasn't even English! (I should point out that Mendonca was allegedly only in charge of a group of British soldiers who beat a civilian to death, he didn't actually beat a civilian to death himself.) The magazine the Week has a column called PC Watch, which this week bemoans the fact that the National Trust has stopped allowing children to collect eggs and feed goats at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, in case they pick up germs. That's not PC, that's parasitic "no win, no fee" litigation companies continuing to put a price on every stubbed toe, achy neck or wet fart they can get their hands on. It's greedy insurance companies hiking the premiums every time the lawyers get a win and a fee. Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important. PC exists to balance out the loudest voices, who assume that the things they are used to are somehow sacred or (God forbid) "traditional", just because no one's had the sense or the balls to change them.
  2. Why don't the EA give the bar code readers that the they apparently use (I'm not sure, I've never been checked ) to all fishery managers/baliffs? That way when you pay for your day ticket you can get your licence checked too? Would it work? Too expensive?
  3. Don't worry mate. I've never caught anything either by lure fishing. But then again, I've never been lure fishing.
  4. You might catch a Monk fish too....... Never fished the Wensum but... it features a bit on the free John Wilson DVD that came with this months Improve Your Course Fishing. Nice little DVD. 65 minutes long. He fishes 4 rivers in search of chub.
  5. Oh yeah! Well spotted!
  6. 8lbs? I think that's a bit light, personally. At least a double, surely? 11/12lbs? Difficult to tell.
  7. So that's what happened to my holiday snaps. I meant to tell you guys about a big fish I caught whilst in Thailand.
  8. quote: Edit note: this was in reply to Nutshell's question about how many rods and the bait/tactics I used. [/QB] Hi Steve. Thanks a lot for that. Sorry I deleted my question! After I posted the question I re-read the thread and noticed that you had given some more information in the post with the photo. Therefore, I went back and deleted my question! Anyway, many thanks for taking the time to answer. I really appreciate it (and I'm sure many others do too.)
  9. Cracking tench! [ 30. June 2005, 10:03 AM: Message edited by: Nutshell ]
  10. quote: got an absolute discharge. That sounds painful! -------------------------- No, it's not a hanging offence. Which is why he wasn't hung! Harsh............ but fair imo. It clearly states that the licence is only for 2 rods
  11. Nutshell

    US Tench

    Urgh! Have you seen the Sea Lamprey attatched to that fish further up the page? Horrible. ghost
  12. 9 lbs?!?! That is enormous. What's the UK record? I mentioned in another thread that I caught my first eel last week and I definately have a lot of respect for them. It fought like a real beast. God knows what a 9lb eel fights like. Scary.
  13. Nutshell

    Cudmore

    I just spotted this in another thread... quote: Fished Makins a few times years ago and used to like it. Gone off commercial fisheries altogether- Tried Cudmore a couple of times and it does nothing for me at all - the water absolutely stinks and looks stagnant!
  14. I think Leeds makes a very good point. Passion for Angling is SO good that it is hard to match, imo. Just look at the places they got to fish, the fish they caught, the fun they had etc. It managed to capture all of the very best eliments of fishing. Sometimes I feel the same as Leeds. I get to a local fishery and all is going well.............. then a group of blokes come along to fish the same lake, they talk non-stop and spend their time shouting to each other and making crap jokes, their mobiles go off and then they speak loadly on the phone etc etc etc. It wasn't like that on PFA! I'm not some old purist either! I'm only 23! Now it's not always like that but it does happen far too much for my liking. Where else is there to fish? I've got out the Ordanance Survey maps out and looked for the little blue patches. Their aren't any 'undiscovered' quiet waters near me. It's commercials or nothing for me. I can fish the river Culm (that runs alongside the M5 motorway and the London-Penzance railway line) or the Exeter Canal (that has the M5 motorway roaring away above me) or the River Exe (massive electricity pylons, bulls(!), railways, concrete river banks). Like I said, it wasn't like that in PFA! (Apart from the two pike in the Kennet ) However! I'm really enjoying my fishing. It really is best just to keep things simple and 'go with the flow'. Don't worry about how it could be in an ideal world. Just focus on what you have in front of you. There's still a hell of a lot of fun and enjoyment to be had. Or, you could just grow a beard... santa
  15. I found this on the web. Not sure if it's correct though! quote: When you get a bite the float will rise upwards. This is because when the carp sucks in the bait he lifts the weights so the float is not counterbalanced (simple physics) The beauty of this method is that the carp feels no weight or resistance as the float helps to lift the weight. Also its easy to tell between a line bite (knock) and a real bite (lift) This method is superb on stillwater and lakes but is difficult to set up on fast moving rivers. Float fishing is fun but can be hard work and is restricted to close range fishing . http://www.carp.net/bobber.htm
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