21 Sep 2006, 5:55 am
24 Sep 2006, 7:55 pm
I just want to post to do some bragging as a proud "father" - thought some here may understand.
My "baby" GSP took a line and completed blind retrieves yesterday. 
(no big deal for my lab, but a big step forward for my girl who previously would only point dead and not pick up).
25 Sep 2006, 1:24 am
My "baby" GSP took a line and completed blind retrieves yesterday.
(no big deal for my lab, but a big step forward for my girl who previously would only point dead and not pick up).GSP? Is that a dog breed? And can I assume that said retrieved items were ducks, and that said ducks made a nice meal?
25 Sep 2006, 1:38 am
GSP is German Shorthaired Pointer, and she retreived a plastic dummy at first. Pointers tend to get bored with plastic quickly (labs will retreive the same thing all day everyday).
I then used a duck stored in the frezer from last season, kept for this purpose, to the horror of all greenies sticky-beaking at this piece of secret men's business.
"taking a line" is deliberately going in the direction you want her to. A "blind retrieve" is one where she couldn't see where the dummy was hidden, so is "going blind" not knowing if there is anything to retrieve, other than trust in her "boss".
25 Sep 2006, 3:58 am
Ah. Did you have Peking Duck afterwards? Or was it covered in too much slobber? 
25 Sep 2006, 5:12 am
OFF TOPIC!! ! 
25 Sep 2006, 5:52 am
Boo hoo.
25 Sep 2006, 7:38 am
What? Off topic? Me? I know nothing about that. 
25 Sep 2006, 5:49 pm
25 Sep 2006, 7:12 pm
Its been said here that States in the US with concealed carry laws (ie have a permit to carry a concealed weapon/pistol) have lower crime rates than States that do not.
Does anyone know if that's true? Is it due to good citizens being potentially armed, or is it just that those States have less crime to start with? 
My uncle lived in Jo'burg in the 70's - 80's and he usually carried a pistol - not becuaes he felt threatened, but because he could. I think now in Jo'burg you would need it for protection. 
25 Sep 2006, 7:37 pm
Does anyone know if that's true? Is it due to good citizens being potentially armed, or is it just that those States have less crime to start with?
My uncle lived in Jo'burg in the 70's - 80's and he usually carried a pistol - not becuaes he felt threatened, but because he could. I think now in Jo'burg you would need it for protection.
Johannesburg, right? I never heard it called Jo'burg. You know which two countries Chopper Read (staunch gun advocate, BTW) think are the most right-wing? Israel and South Africa.
Oh yeah, and does anyone know that it is actually legal to use lethal anti-car theft devices (I kid you not) in one's car? I read about it in "The Darwin Awards" (although the guy involved only got an honourable mention, as he didn't kill himself, although he was trapped by a near-homicidal anti-theft airbag).
I'd actually be more scared of a concealed weapons permit law. Leave that up to the cops and the military.
It's obvious from responses that we do need some sort of gun control, but what that is left up to debate from the masses.
$5000 a bullet!
Or maybe we should bring back duelling?
25 Sep 2006, 7:39 pm
Does anyone know if that's true? Is it due to good citizens being potentially armed, or is it just that those States have less crime to start with?
My uncle lived in Jo'burg in the 70's - 80's and he usually carried a pistol - not becuaes he felt threatened, but because he could. I think now in Jo'burg you would need it for protection.
I think that statistic was mainly pushed by Dr. John Lott. Some of his research has come into question, therefore I can't say it's confirmed.
The only statistic which is consistantly associated with a drop in crime is an increase in abortions.
26 Sep 2006, 3:59 am
I'd actually be more scared of a concealed weapons permit law. Leave that up to the cops and the military.
It's obvious from responses that we do need some sort of gun control, but what that is left up to debate from the masses.
$5000 a bullet!
Or maybe we should bring back duelling?
You're really something. You trust the cops and military to take the side of the good, but, my friend, I'm sorry to inform you that most of the time the cops and the military take orders of the one who is in charge, especially in so called civilised countries like Australia and Sweden. So if the priar minister of your or my country would feel like he would become a dictator, the cops and military would gladly support him.
Free guns are the only possibility that the citizens would have the slightest chance to fight the oppressor, if that really happened.
26 Sep 2006, 5:19 am
I'd actually be more scared of a concealed weapons permit law. Leave that up to the cops and the military.
It's obvious from responses that we do need some sort of gun control, but what that is left up to debate from the masses.
$5000 a bullet!
Or maybe we should bring back duelling?
You're really something. You trust the cops and military to take the side of the good, but, my friend, I'm sorry to inform you that most of the time the cops and the military take orders of the one who is in charge, especially in so called civilised countries like Australia and Sweden. So if the priar minister of your or my country would feel like he would become a dictator, the cops and military would gladly support him.
Free guns are the only possibility that the citizens would have the slightest chance to fight the oppressor, if that really happened.
Ooooooh. I love the emphasis on "so-called civilised countries". And I've just thought of a good retort to that.
Okay, you listening?
What if said government, in a country that has a second-amendment like law, orders the removal of guns, even legalising the removal of guns by force, eh? WILL the citizens resist it? Or will they be able to resist a government, even with their guns?
Do me a ****ing lemon.
And there are more things usable to destroy an oppressive government. They may be able to ban guns, but they cannot ban the only two things one needs to do so, because they are needed in areas outside the military.
Can you tell me what that is, children?
Boys and girls come out to play,
on the busy moterway!
Let me iiiinnnnnn,
Jersey wants to finger your entrails!
26 Sep 2006, 8:18 am
26 Sep 2006, 9:41 am
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