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spendius wrote:

She must be eating all the wrong things if she's fat.

Breathing doesn't make a person fat. Scoffing shite is required.

Indeed. Guilty.

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spendius wrote:

Steve-

You sound to me like you're beginning along the first turns of the spiral which goes down and down at a faster and faster rate.

You should bear your headache. It is a message from your body. Your pills are a "shoot the messenger" strategy. That is a dangerous thing to do. Your body will eventually say that it has had enough if you continue to use artificial mufflings to its voice.

The cricketers use ice baths in a similar fashion. The fools.

What on earth do you think we were given pain for? How would evolution select in pain if it wasn't necessary. Evolution wastes nothing. Any need for no pain zones are catered for as with a horse's hoof. It can run on ground that big cats and dogpacks can't without risk.

Listen to your body. It doesn't lie. It can't- it's stupid.

thanks spendi, sensible advice.

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Spendi might have gone fishing in Cheshire with Mac.

I don't like fishing myself, it seems a ridiculous past-time. It's much better to drive to Fleetwood and buy it fresh, right off the trawlers most times.

I mean, imagine having a strong desire for some Plaice, you won't catch one of them in the Bridgewater Canal or Pickmere Lake. If you went out in a sea fishing boat with all that ridiculous clothing on and a life-jacket, you could fish all day, maybe get a catch or two but there are millions of fish in the Irish sea, your not tied to catching a plaice either.

It's not really sport either, is it? Not a lot of skill required either, baiting up a fancy little hook and dangling it all in the water from a fancy expensive pole, where's the sense or reasoning in such a foolish and rather pathetically boring scenario?

I think I'd sooner go for a long walk or spend a couple of hours in the gym
that seems more beneficial than angling, or lying on a big couch like puddled brains does.

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Spendi might have gone fishing in Cheshire with Mac.

I don't like fishing myself, it seems a ridiculous past-time. It's much better to drive to Fleetwood and buy it fresh, right off the trawlers most times.

I mean, imagine having a strong desire for some Plaice, you won't catch one of them in the Bridgewater Canal or Pickmere Lake. If you went out in a sea fishing boat with all that ridiculous clothing on and a life-jacket, you could fish all day, maybe get a catch or two but there are millions of fish in the Irish sea, your not tied to catching a plaice either.

It's not really sport either, is it? Not a lot of skill required either, baiting up a fancy little hook and dangling it all in the water from a fancy expensive pole, where's the sense or reasoning in such a foolish and rather pathetically boring scenario?

I think I'd sooner go for a long walk or spend a couple of hours in the gym
that seems more beneficial than angling, or lying on a big couch like puddled brains does.

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I caught three rainbow trout.

Since by the rules of the water we were allowed to keep only two fish (not for the goldfish bowl, Smorgs, for the kitchen) I killed the first two I caught and as luck would have it the third one was the best, around five or six pounds, a bonnie fush.

So that was released and will be able to see the New Year in underwater.
Unless it meets with any more mishaps.

The two I kept were 2.5 lb and 3.5 lb, nice fish. I gave the bigger one to my pal and I've just finished gutting and cleaning the other.

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The common trout here is the brown trout - rainbow trouts are (mostly) only to be found in "fishing ponds". (MIL's partner fishes about a dozen/day there.)

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Mathos-

You used the word "either" three times within fifteen words. That's careless and shows that you underestimate your readers which is something to be deplored.

And I couldn't possibly imagine have a strong desire for plaice. There are many more fascinating things that a dead plaice.

I noticed earlier that you were intending taking to the air. I hope you do it before the Britain Green week starts on Jan 8. You have insulted 18 million viewers and Her Majesty with your remarks on a national insitution which earns foreign exchange in order to buy back the pounds you spend on your trip, no doubt a lot, and now you are insulting the Britain Green campaign before it has even been launched and, moreover, on Monteverdian brass instruments. I hope you will refrain from boring us all with the details of the daily incidents which take place on your travels.

You seem a little out of step with the common man. Why don't you go to live out there seeing as how we are something to get away from so much that you spend real money to do it? Not to mention all the trouble and shite involved.

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spendius wrote:

Listen to your body. It doesn't lie. It can't- it's stupid.

oi. Are you calling me thick? Only from certain angles in bad light. Just the same a Dorothy...probably.

Well done McT. Where did you go? (Its ok I probably know the gamekeeper).

Why didnt you keep all the fish you caught for the day in a net, then kill the two biggest?

And who was it who said fishing is a game of skill, a worm on one end and a fool on the other?

Anyway enjoy the trout. (exceedingly jealous actually)

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The largest fish ever caught by rod and line in this wonderful country of ours was hooked by a lady.

This has been explained as being due to the fish being able to detect ladies on the bank by some hidden sense.

The biggest fish would be the boss who sent the other two on ahead to sniff out the lie of the land in this regard. When they didn't return it must have thought the attraction magnetic and I'm surprised it didn't leap into your net.

Four letter words lack style but hey- when did anglers ever have any of that?

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Like, "fish," "hook," "line," "pole." and "boat."

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Good fish Mac. fly fishing or bait? There are Some good trout streams around here but not usually anything that size.

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dadpad wrote:

Good fish Mac. fly fishing or bait? There are Some good trout streams around here but not usually anything that size.

Fly fishing, sunk fly for this time of year.

Our native brown trout are smaller too, as suggested by Walter. Rainbows are artificially introduced, an alien to these parts.

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Hi all. Haven't been notified of replies hence I've not looked in for a couple of weeks.

I've read the last few pages and I'm an ardent viewer of Corrie - as well as being a devotee of Shakespeare. (I must have skimmed through some of the posts as I can't remember now whether I'm proving or disproving the point! Embarrassed

)

Hope you all had a good Xmas.

I may be a bit quiet next couple of weeks as Friday I'm off to visit daughter in Florida.

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Tough luck Tarah. But I suppose duty calls and all that.

I have no daughters myself for which I am very grateful.

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Boxing day test your still losing but The Army are singing up a storm.

Every where we go-oo
people want to know-o
who we are-r
where we come from.

sooo we we tell them
were from England.
we are the Army
Barmy barmy Army

Barmy army Barmy army Barmy army BarmyarmyBarmyarmyBarmyarmyBarmyarmyBarmyarmyBarmyarmy

Love it!

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You might have let the England camp know that the lbw rule had been suspended due to economic factors associated with an inability to produce a proper test match pitch.

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I'm a little concerned about that meself spendi (the LBW's). I counted 3 or 4 that were probable, even from my side of the game.

You wouldnt know a decent pitch if you fell over one

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Monty Pannasar is becoming something of a cult figure over here.

Along the lines of the melon heads.

Fans are showing up at the ground in beard (false) and head scarf.

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spendius wrote:

Tough luck Tarah. But I suppose duty calls and all that.

I have no daughters myself for which I am very grateful.

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Well I hope you have a lovely time in Florida Tarah, dont let that nasty Mr Spendy upset you.

Regarding cricket pitches, why are they so poor?

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