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  1. Made a new stock

    in Airgunners

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    That's superb. I got my 11 year old lad an HW35 last year and he can shoot 1" groups at 25 yards already. If they are into it they pick it up so quickly.

    Have a look on the air arms forum AAOC and search around for "Geordie stocks". The guy is a total genius. All the engineers and craftsmen on here will love what he does. Personally my greatest accomplishment was being able to whittle a tent peg!!

    GG

  4. How would you want to go After you've gone?

    in Off Topic

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    I want to be cast in bronze stark naked with a huge erection with a few extra inches of added 'artistic license' then placed on Hornsea sea front with my bits turned into one of those pay to view telescopes. I'd be looking down from the clouds listening to people saying "Yes, but is it art?" And when it rained that would be me ******* myself.

     

    Not that I've already given it much thought or anything...

     

    Failing that... bait for crab pots. I love crab and it only seems fair to let them have something back.

     

    GG

  5. Catweazle is Dead

    in Off Topic

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    I remember it too. Took years of therapy to get over that scary geezer. Don't know why really, just something about him. Worzel Gummidge had the same effect too. I was so glad when puberty started to kick in and I discovered the delights of Sally James on TISWAS. Now that really was a "telling bone".

     

    I'll get my coat.

    GG

  6. Road Kills

    in Off Topic

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    Old dear in my village feeds her staffie entirely on roadkill. Fattest dog for miles. This week between Driffield and Beverley which is about 10 miles we've had a roe, a badger, 2 foxes and countless pheasants but all seem to be cocks. Any rabbits seem to get cleaned up by the corvids almost immediately and with the good weather all the haylage has been cut so they are everywhere.

    GG

  7. A blister of snails.

    in Off Topic

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    They are cyclical hermaphrodites and stop being male around December and move into a female phase. Then around May they find a suitable place and start to lay eggs which is what this group could be doing.

     

    Or maybe they are having a massive but really slow ruck. Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

  9. Losing weight

    in Off Topic

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    This was my weight loss plan... Fighting as a kid and rugby league > broken nose > snoring > angry wife > visit to GP > referral to ENT specialist > UPPP surgery (google it!) > massive pain > massive pain relief tablets > out of it for 2 weeks > unable to eat anything for 16 days > 19 pounds lost and happy wife.

     

    Here's a surgery free option- make the nice food and a few drinks you already have your reward for being more active. Check with your GP to see if you are ok to run and if you are, do it!

    Forget fancy kit, just run as far away from home as you can. Do all the spitting swearing and feeling sick on your own then walk back. One day on two days off. Don't tell anyone at first as all the encouragement can start to be annoying. 3 weeks and you will start to feel much better as your endorphin levels rise and you realise your not going to die.

     

    Plan B - as above but on a bike. Peddle like Wiggo away from home til you're knackered then peddle home like grandad.

     

    Beware of gyms, as they only work for certain people and the same goes for exercise machines at home. Most people end up drying the washing on them.

     

    Good luck and let us know how you get on. You never know, this thread could become like Viking's Land Rover build, my daughter is revising for GCSE English Literature and I'm sure that's on the list of texts she has to read!!

     

    GG

  12. Silver pigeon 20G stock or youth shotgun.

    in Wanted

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    Still after a silver pigeon 20G stock to cut down for my 10 year old but failing that, a youth shotgun. I'm no expert so any advice is welcome but he really seems to be taking to it so i think it's time to get him sorted out rather than just hiring a gun every time we go to the clay ground.

    As before, what's out there?

    Regards

    GG

  19. trump puts his pen where his mouth is

    in Off Topic

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    Please tell me you tried to be this funny, my face actually hurts you sound so angry!

    Add some upward inflection to the end of my line about the Earth tilting and it takes on a different meaning to the way you seem to have interpreted it. The point I was making was that maybe the reason why the Vikings were able to farm in Greenland was because of the seasonal variations in temperatures rather than the global temperature being so much different to today.

    You're right though, I do like to think I do a good job of being condescending but believe me, I save it for here. If I tried that at work, the kids would have me on toast!

     

    I actually think Wanderingstar is a hero for raising his head above the parapet in the first place and playing along with the rest of us for so long.

     

    Enjoy.

  20. trump puts his pen where his mouth is

    in Off Topic

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    You sounded good until you said 'Ill ask the kids' YOU are the teacher, YOU should know the answer.

    But unfortunately I dont think you have a clue what you're talking about.

    The planet tilted around the first millennium?

    If it did (unproven) move enough to make Greenland a viable farming settlement ( assuming todays temperatures) it would have needed to tilt 3-4 lines of longitude.

    Around 1000 miles, which would have put Britain in the same climes as Southern Spain!

    And the Antarctic land mass would'nt be at the South Pole any more.

    Good job its bunkum really, as we are constantly told what will happen when the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps melt !

    Ever heard of the Romans growing grapes in Northumbria?

    Ever heard of Admiral Zhengs voyage to the (non existent ) Arctic ice cap?

     

    I would hope my teenagers don't end up with such a condescending, cynical teacher as the likes of you.

    Whats a good greenhouse gas?

    You are producing it right now,and its not coming out your mouth.

  21. trump puts his pen where his mouth is

    in Off Topic

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    You sounded so good until the bit about the Vikings! Didn't the planet tilt in the last millennium ? (That's 1,000 years)

     

    What's a "particularly strong greenhouse gas"? I'll ask the kids tomorrow.

     

    I'm good for another 10 minutes then I'm going to bed so if there's any more pseudo science you heard down the pub that you want me to put to my teenagers to clarify for you then let me know

  22. trump puts his pen where his mouth is

    in Off Topic

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    I'm afraid you've bought in to the alarmist propaganda from the likes of Al Gore peck. He of course has made billions from the carbon credits scam!

     

    Try this: How exactly do you think it was possible for the Vikings to set up a farming colony on Greenland around a thousand years ago? Answer: The climate then was far warmer then than the worst predictions of the GW alarmist brigade for the next hundred years but there were no mass extinctions or mass starvation. People suffered much more a few hundred years later in the mini ice age. (Look it up, you might learn something)

     

    Each millenium (1,000 years) for the last 10 has been cooler than the one before. We are on the downward slope of the inter-glacial period following the last ice age. The current warming cycle is comparatively short term and has nothing to do with carbon dioxide which isn't even a particular strong greenhouse gas. By volume, there's about 20 times as much water vapour in the atmosphere than CO2 and water vapour is about 10 times stronger as a greenhouse gas. Nevertheless, the next ice age is coming because the climate is always changing; always has, always will.

  25. trump puts his pen where his mouth is

    in Off Topic

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    Wow! I'm going to show this lot to 9Sc1 tomorrow morning, they'll be falling off their chairs!

     

    Fortunately, the future of the planet is in the hands of intelligent young people who know "How Science Works " and can gather data, understand reliability and bias and evaluate evidence.

     

    Be nice to them and look after their planet because in 10 or 20 years time they will be the ones looking after you, protecting you, keeping you well, producing your food and mending the things you break and don't understand how to mend yourself.

     

    Donald Trump will be dead.

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