Genghis

Some people on this site are getting a tad obsessed with ‘wokeism’.

From a selfish point of view, I hope that you’re right. Biggest downside last year was how busy it was.

Bupa appears more attractive every day.

I went last year. I entered every competition they had going and ended up winning a £500 air rifle, which I immediately sold as I don’t shoot air rifles. I ended up making 10x my ticket price back. I thought the food was fairly good.

China are forecast to surpass even the United States economically sometimes between 2030-2035. This will be the first time since the 1890’s that America have been knocked off the top spot. From the Chinese government perspective, why start a war when they already have the infrastructure to achieve dominance economically? Unlike the west, they don’t have ludicrous policies like net zero holding back their growth either.

There is a MMA forum that I am a member of that has a ‘rants’ section - basically a section of the site where the normal forum rules do not apply, only outright illegal activity and explicit media are banned. It’s mostly used to insult other members. I do wonder how much longer sites like that will last.

And Reddit.

Currently you can view the entire forum as a guest. Changing that would likely reduce the number of new members as most people to join a forum do so because they have read a topic as a guest and want to post. However, it might be worth considering if there is a need to be more discreet. This still being a fully independent forum going into 2025 is somewhat unique - in a good way. Most similar forums have been bought out and are owned by various corporations. Shotgun World is owned by VerticalScope. I’m not sure who owns airgunforums and thestalkingdirectory but they both use the same template from XenForo for their forums - identical layout just a different colour palette. shootclayforum is independent but is constantly asking for donations to keep going.

Falls under the same principle as staff refusing to serve alcohol to drunk customers. It’s not that they particularly care, it’s just that they don’t want to be liable on the rare occasion that someone is purchasing to harm themselves.

You can access a capture of the site, dated from 30th September with the below link. https://web.archive.org/web/20240930191822/https://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/ A lot of the topics won’t have been captured so you won’t be able to access, but some of the older threads should be fine.

Be careful, some of these foot launchers appear to be defective.

He didn’t engage in questionable things, he participated in a legal activity.

Still none of the FA’s business. Cringy or not.

If the blurb about walking around with just a sock on his bits is true, then that is inappropriate behaviour that would get you fired from nearly any workplace past or present. The question that should be asked of anyone here is if he did that in front of your wife/daughter then would you be happy about it. If the answer is no then it’s obviously unacceptable for a workplace. Don’t think that’s exactly ‘woke’.

They don’t let you know by default, but if you send an email asking for confirmation of receipt of your application then they should respond to that.