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Tremblay Super Member
Joined: Oct 08, 2007 Posts: 2649 Location: Malta, Montana
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 10:08 pm Post subject: Here from there |
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About right
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dhc4ever Super Member
Joined: May 26, 2011 Posts: 2944 Location: Ipswich, Queensland Australia
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 12:08 am Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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Oh I am so going to steal that.
Thanks trembles
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Elvis Super Member
Joined: Jul 27, 2008 Posts: 9253 Location: south island New Zealand
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 1:23 am Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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oh so true....
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Loke Member
Joined: May 13, 2013 Posts: 207
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 8:51 am Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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A little to late for my hometown.
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DallanC Site Admin
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 3572 Location: Utah
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 11:24 am Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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Loke wrote: |
A little to late for my hometown. |
Abso-fricken-lootly.
Me and Loke are from the same hometown... it got "discovered" in the early 80s and has been a magnet ever since for rich yuppy, california transplants.
Had a guy come to my door a couple years ago running for city council. He went on and on about how he "knows" what the town needs, what "needs" to change etc etc.
I let him give his elevator speech then I asked "So how long has it been since you moved here from California?" ... he immediately responded with "2 years". He didn't catch that I totally guessed his origin, or that I said it deprecatingly. I bluntly told him he has no idea what made this town cool, and people like him were destroying it.
We had an old Farmer that passed away not long ago. He loved his 1950s tractor and drove it all around town. I heard more than a few neighbors mock him and wonder why it was allowed, why didn't he just move to a cheaper area, mock him for not being able to buy a nice new tractor etc etc. What those neighbors did not realize, was that some of the major new subdivision developments with $1,000,000 per 1 acre lots... all came from ground he sold. The guy was stupendously wealthy subdividing up some of his 100 acre fruit orchards.
He lived a simple lifestyle that he loved... and absolutely loved that old Massy Tractor. I miss those days. Oh and shooting robins out of the cherry trees... holy moley that was fun times for kids.
-DallanC
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15715 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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pete4d Super Member
Joined: Nov 27, 2011 Posts: 957 Location: Dixie , Alabama , & Louisiana
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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Dallanc,,,,, that story could be said about my old stomping grounds ,
they moved out of towns and cities to be in the country ,,and a better school,,, now it's as bad as any big city with all the drugs and stealing ,
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slimjim Super Member
Joined: May 16, 2009 Posts: 8314 Location: Fort Worth TX
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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DallanC wrote: |
I miss those days. Oh and shooting robins out of the cherry trees... holy moley that was fun times for kids. |
shooting robins, Dallan, say it isn't so?!?!?!
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Loke Member
Joined: May 13, 2013 Posts: 207
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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The local fruit farmers paid a bounty for magpies. A nickel for an egg, a quarter per bird. I figured out that if you wait until they are almost big enough to fly, you can get the whole nest at the bird rate without firing a shot. The #0 leg hold trap gets mamma when she comes back to the nest. Magpies and Coke bottles found on the side of the road or at Steve Myers' house bought quite a few 22 shells down at Burgess' Market.
Imagine an 8 or 9 year old kid buying ammunition today. We live in a different world.
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dhc4ever Super Member
Joined: May 26, 2011 Posts: 2944 Location: Ipswich, Queensland Australia
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:49 pm Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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Vince wrote: |
dhc4ever wrote: |
Oh I am so going to steal that.
Thanks trembles |
Great minds think alike Pete. How are you travelling mate...any problems surfacing? |
You talking the easy stuff like recovery from surgery?
If so , things are on track, less painfull more movement, so good.
If its the marriage thing, ....... about as well as a 5 day corpse in the hot sun.
House is now on the market.
Not happy at all. Yet.
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dhc4ever Super Member
Joined: May 26, 2011 Posts: 2944 Location: Ipswich, Queensland Australia
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:55 pm Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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Loke wrote: |
The local fruit farmers paid a bounty for magpies. A nickel for an egg, a quarter per bird. I figured out that if you wait until they are almost big enough to fly, you can get the whole nest at the bird rate without firing a shot. The #0 leg hold trap gets mamma when she comes back to the nest. Magpies and Coke bottles found on the side of the road or at Steve Myers' house bought quite a few 22 shells down at Burgess' Market.
Imagine an 8 or 9 year old kid buying ammunition today. We live in a different world. |
When I lived in the states late 60's early 70's a friend and I would wander up through our estate on foot with a crossman 760 airgun in plain view to the woods behind the school and thin out the starling population, we even got passed by the local police with no issues.
Nowadays a pink plastic gun is likely to panic the sheeple and get you shot.
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Vince Site Admin
Joined: May 25, 2005 Posts: 15715 Location: Brisbane AUSTRALIA
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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dhc4ever wrote: |
Vince wrote: |
dhc4ever wrote: |
Oh I am so going to steal that.
Thanks trembles |
Great minds think alike Pete. How are you travelling mate...any problems surfacing? |
You talking the easy stuff like recovery from surgery?
If so , things are on track, less painfull more movement, so good.
If its the marriage thing, ....... about as well as a 5 day corpse in the hot sun.
House is now on the market.
Not happy at all. Yet. |
That’s a mix of good news and bad news mate. Hang in there...time will sort both things out mate.
It’s funny, when I was in school, it was not uncommon to see young guys walking from their home to the nearest bush, in the outer suburbs of the city, with a pea rifle (.22 rimfire) to thin out the starling and minor bird populations and nobody battered an eyelid. I bought my first rifle, my Krio .22, in 1969 and travelled all over the State of NSW by train with it in a carry bag, staying in hotels and motels, including in our nation’s capital Canberra, without any problems. Try doing that today...the Police would go crazy with panic and I’d be locked up instantly for a long time.
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Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
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inthedark Super Member
Joined: Jan 31, 2011 Posts: 913 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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I can remember riding down the street on my bike, .22 rifle in hand going out to the edge of the city to shoot gophers. Ride to the gun show to buy ammo .22 in hand no problem. How far have we fallen.
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War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach - Pindar 518-438 BC
Be Copy now of Men of Grosser Blood and TEACH THEM HOW TO WAR |
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English Mike Super Member
Joined: Jan 08, 2007 Posts: 1709 Location: Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK
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Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 9:40 pm Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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Tremblay wrote: |
About right |
I wish someone would tell the "refugees" who come to the UK that & also wish they'd accept it.
Instead, they repay our generosity by demanding WE change to suit their beliefs & do their best to turn the UK into the same kind of third world shit hole they've just escaped from.
No doubt I'm some kinda Neanderthal racist for daring to think that.
2,000 years go there was a saying, intended to advise those arriving in a foreign land: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" & those who wrote it knew what they were on about.
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dhc4ever Super Member
Joined: May 26, 2011 Posts: 2944 Location: Ipswich, Queensland Australia
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Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: Here from there |
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Well the Romans had a way of making annoyances disappear, so that was very good advice.
_________________ Pete
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