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  1. 22 hours ago, Wymondley said:

    What happened to personal responsibility?

    How many in receipt of benefits smoke, have smart phones, big TV, bag of weed in the cupboard?

    Kids that go hungry because the parents have spent all their benefits on alcohol and drugs?

    Single mum, kids by different dads that don't pay a penny?

    I'm fed up of hearing about "poverty" when most of it is poor life choices and fecklessness!

    There's no shortage of work available for those that can drag themselves off the sofa and go.

    But as always, it's someone else's fault (Tory scum probably).

    Go on, tell me I'm heartless. 

    I don't care, I'm going back to the beer I earned with 12 hours of graft today.

     

     

     

     

    This.

    the definition of poverty is farcical…5 children so “need” a six bed house so they all have their room? Nonsense. If you don’t have room, don’t have children and don’t expect taxpayers to fund your choices. 

  2. 1 hour ago, paul1966 said:

    we are going out tomorrow looking at wood burners, our budget is about 1K could go a little bit more. Are the any makes we should avoid or are they all pretty much the same? any features we should look for? We are going to a local place that's been recommended by a few people to see what they have.

    I just noticed where you are, if the right side have a look here, that who I used

    https://www.arpeetstoves.co.uk/home/
     

  3. 25 minutes ago, Flashman said:

    Latin is a useful gateway subject to aid learning other European languages and the Classics. 

    Many of the posts here seem to be about:

    1. Don’t like Boris - and it’s his, and only his, decision. 
    2. Class war. 
    3. Projecting the poster’s own comprehensive system learning experience. 

    Offer the subject - and let it wither in the vine if children don’t take it. From what I read about it in the papers, it won’t divert much in the way of resources from other subjects. Who knows, it may replace Gender Issues and Knitting from the National Curriculum. 

    /\ this. 
     

    Not liking Boris and an incorrect assumtption that Latin is useless are the main reasons for the posts. 
     

    Latin is very useful in some areas, as said foreign languages can be better and more easily understood even if you haven’t been taught them and biological / medical terms also all based on Latin. 

  4. The programme should be an embarrassment to Beefy. 
     

    Ghillies who probably know about game fishing but without the first clue about pike, not using traces until bitten off so there were two lures at least left in pike. 
     

    it paints fishing in a really bad light in my view. 

  5. I have owned a CRV and currently still have an old RAV4 D4D. I would certainly consider a Rav. Capable off road where needed and 50mpg running costs with bombproof Toyota reliability. CRV good too, more car like and not quite as solidly built but still good. 

  6. 2 hours ago, Fatcatsplat said:

    They are an ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS amount of money, but if you're feeling flush, take a look at the Yeti ones. I got some promo ones from a very good client and they are brilliant. An iced drink next to the bed at night still has ice in it in the morning

    I have a freebie yeti one, it’s brilliant. Coffee too hot if use the lid but I use it daily for my morning coffee and like you say, great for a g&t too 

  7. 18 hours ago, chrisjpainter said:

    I love my pike fishing, although for me it's all about the lures. The big debate isn't so much wire vs mono, it's wire vs fluorocarbon. Fluoro is supposed to have the same refractive qualities as water, make it almost invisible, but I'm not convinced it's worth the change. It will still cut through and you have to go so thick that I'm sure it's more visible than wire. It's even more critical with dead baiting, because the pike will have access to the bait longer before the strike, so definitely go wire.

    Tope fishing is slightly different because of the use of circle hooks. the fish takes the bait and moves off, and you don't strike, you tighten down on the fish, which drags the hook out of the mouth and sticks in the scissors, meaning the trace is much less likely to come into contact with the bitey sharp bits. Pike fishing works differently, where the trace is actually inside the pike's mouth, particularly with dead baiting, so, it's a wire trace for me.

    Your rod, rig and tactics sound spot on if you're dead baiting. A big ol' landing net and an unhooking mat, and back yourself up with some long nosed forceps. Watch a lot of videos of unhooking in the meantime, but the bigger the fish, the easier they are to unhook, so go big or go home   If you have a mate who's experienced, take them along for the ride.

    This. 
     

    Forget flourocarbon, to have a chance of being as resistant to teeth as wire it needs to be 0.6mm and higher and then it’s so stiff it offers poorer presentation and is still more likely to get bitten off. I use really heavy flourocarbon for sharks abroad as they won’t bite with heavy wire but they often bite through it. 

    I have experimented with circles for pike but can’t get good presentation, they are good for zander with small baits but for pike small barbless trebles are the best  

    pike as very fragile - get someone who knows what they are doing to show you how to handle them. 
     

    Don’t fish deadbaits until the autumn - pike are too active at the moment and will become deeply hooked and likely die. Lure fishing is much more enjoyable anyway, especially on surface lures - not much more exciting than seeing a pike explode below a lure. 

  8. Imagine training for years and dedicating your life to becoming good enough to represent your country at the Olympics to then find out basically you cannot get gold because a bloke has decided he can’t beat other blokes, puts a dress on and says he’s a woman so he can win gold…a complete insult the the dedication of true sportswomen. 
     

    It really is time the (western) world opened their eyes to this nonsense, ok, you can be whatever you want to be, you can identify as a daffodil as far as I’m concerned but don’t expect normal people to pander to your silly ideas / weirdness or accept your views…the world doesn’t need to change to accommodate you, even if the professional trans nazis of Twitter think it should…

  9. 17 minutes ago, ordnance said:

    What if he is wearing a bomb vest, could a heart shot not set it of. 

    Not in so many words, but follow the logic forced to made a split second so don't question their actions or criticise them.  

    Qualified / experienced people can question their actions, the general public with no experience (or understanding or explosives according to this thread) should not be criticising them. Police officers get paid very little to put their lives on the line far too frequently and deserve a much greater level of respect than the public affords them. 

  10. Wow, this thread has the most utter nonsense and drivel I have seen on PW for a long time. Keyboard warriors who think they have the foggiest clue about taking a human life to protect others and claim to know better than trained firearms officers who are forced to make split second decisions in the full knowledge that idiots with plenty of time will pick apart their decisions. It’s like the school playground. 

  11. 7/8 6 piece 11ft switch plus the matching Shakespeare switch line 

     

    hardly used, not suitable to where I fish now having relocated. Rod in perfect condition, a couple of marks on the line perhaps. With original sectioned hard rod tube. 

     

    Goture CNC machined reel, (not die cast) loaded with the Shakespeare line plus a spare spool loaded with a max catch catch shooting head and running line. Reel and spools and shooting line in perfect condition. 

     

    I will also include a maxcatch switch line to match the rod (Not on a reel). 

     

    photos to follow. 

     

    £150 posted or collection welcome.

     

    A cheap well thought of little set up as a spare perhaps? 

     

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