Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[RED-DOG]

I'd guess you got yours bright and shiny and effective Red.

Ahem! You might say that.....

[RED-DOG]

A great yarn Tom. In the 70's I lived right by the canal and we used to go down there ratting or just target shooting. Some times we used to go on to a farmers land with a friends brother who had a shotgun. He used to shoot rabbits or pigeons that the farmer saw as pests. I had a brand new Webley and Scott Hawk, this beauty had interchangeable .177 and .22 barrels which was handy sometimes if you ran out of one calibre you could change it and scrounge the other of a mate. My mate Dave had an old meteor with a slightly bowed barrel when you looked down it and he was a crack shot with it. The days of jumpers for goalposts were truly magical.

And yes one beautiful woman is enough Tom.

"days of jumpers for goalposts"

Evocative prose there Kev. Almost a book title.....

[Geo the Sarge]

I'd guess you got yours bright and shiny and effective Red.

Ahem! You might say that.....

So you had a battered sausage too then Tom 

Geo

[RED-DOG]

I'd guess you got yours bright and shiny and effective Red.

Ahem! You might say that.....

So you had a battered sausage too then Tom 

Geo

Let's just say the next chapter should be called "Don't try this at home"

[lazaroonie]

i had a 22 air pistol which i used to shoot a guy in the testicles from about 10 inches away. He had stolen my golf club. it got confiscated after that. it was almost worth it to see him withing in agony though....

i did see him a couple of years back pushing a pram, so it cant have done him too much lasting damage,

[Colchester Kev]

I had an air pistol ... used to put Action men in the trees at the bottom of our garden and take pot shots at them from the top.


Great fun... til the old man in the house that backed onto ours came round to complain at all the air pellets that were embedded in his shed !! LOL


GG air pistol, you had a great run.

[Jon MW]

I've got a Diana G2 Air Pistol

I suppose it's unlikely that they're really rare and worth a lot to collectors?

[Karabiner]

I've got a Diana G2 Air Pistol

I suppose it's unlikely that they're really rare and worth a lot to collectors?

I can just picture you with your cowboy hat on practising your fast draw..........

[bobAlike]

Thanks Tom this has stirred up some great memories for me.

In my youth I had a Webley and Scott .22 air rifle.
The one day I was out in the back garden and set up a target on the back fence. I fired 1 shot and heard a window break. Thinking what shall I do, I ran to the fence to have a peak at the damage.
As I placed my eye next to the pellet hole I had a clear view of the house behind and to my surprise there were no broken windows. So after a long hard sigh of relief I packed the air rifle away for the day counting my blessings.

The next day deciding on leaving the air rifle in the wardrobe I thought I'd secure a new CB Diapole to the Pear tree in the back garden. Whilst up in the tree the neighbour from the house behind starts asking whether I owned an air rifle as his bedroom window was broken and he found the offendiing pellet on his bed. When I initially looked through the fence I only looked at the ground floor windows, it never ocurred to me that it may have taken an upwards deflection.
"No" I shouted down to him and he promptly accused the twin boys from next door.
all's well that ends well.

[RED-DOG]

Thanks Tom this has stirred up some great memories for me.

In my youth I had a Webley and Scott .22 air rifle.
The one day I was out in the back garden and set up a target on the back fence. I fired 1 shot and heard a window break. Thinking what shall I do, I ran to the fence to have a peak at the damage.
As I placed my eye next to the pellet hole I had a clear view of the house behind and to my surprise there were no broken windows. So after a long hard sigh of relief I packed the air rifle away for the day counting my blessings.

The next day deciding on leaving the air rifle in the wardrobe I thought I'd secure a new CB Diapole to the Pear tree in the back garden. Whilst up in the tree the neighbour from the house behind starts asking whether I owned an air rifle as his bedroom window was broken and he found the offendiing pellet on his bed. When I initially looked through the fence I only looked at the ground floor windows, it never ocurred to me that it may have taken an upwards deflection.
"No" I shouted down to him and he promptly accused the twin boys from next door.
all's well that ends well.

Great story.

Don't get me started on CB's. "C'mon...."

Or amateur radio. CQDX..CQDX....This is G6GEB.....

[kinboshi]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/polls/poll.html?pollId=1011506

WTF?  Just WTF?

[rex008]

[ ] Good job there was a link to the story behind that poll on the page.
The poll is now 91% in favour. Bad luck Mail, you've been turned over by Blonde .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1194046/LITTLEJOHN-Fast-tracking-Tarmacing-community-NHS.html

lyttlejohn's (see what I did there? ) venomous bile erupts again. Tosspot.

Then again, the bit halfway down the page about Martin McGuinness' hypocrisy is pretty spot on. Sigh.

[kinboshi]

Rex - I actually found out about that poll via a friend who emailed it to me.  It looks like there's a bit of a campaign going on to make sure the Mail gets it in its eye.

I find the blatant racism and typical daily mail bias revolting. 

[Rod Paradise]

[ ] Good job there was a link to the story behind that poll on the page.
The poll is now 91% in favour. Bad luck Mail, you've been turned over by Blonde .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1194046/LITTLEJOHN-Fast-tracking-Tarmacing-community-NHS.html

lyttlejohn's (see what I did there? ) venomous bile erupts again. Tosspot.

Then again, the bit halfway down the page about Martin McGuinness' hypocrisy is pretty spot on. Sigh.

And the demonisation of the opposition by Britain has another success, sigh. Can a country that firebombed a whole city afford to be sanctimoniuos?

[rex008]

[ ] Good job there was a link to the story behind that poll on the page.
The poll is now 91% in favour. Bad luck Mail, you've been turned over by Blonde .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1194046/LITTLEJOHN-Fast-tracking-Tarmacing-community-NHS.html

lyttlejohn's (see what I did there? ) venomous bile erupts again. Tosspot.

Then again, the bit halfway down the page about Martin McGuinness' hypocrisy is pretty spot on. Sigh.

And the demonisation of the opposition by Britain has another success, sigh. Can a country that firebombed a whole city afford to be sanctimoniuos?

I wouldn't know. I'm not a country. Although I could probably be expressed as a measurable percentage of, say, Vatican City.

And unlike Martin McGuinness, I wasn't personally involved with a group that used to kneecap/murder people because of their political or religious affiliations. So I can say the persecution of the Romanians is hideous without being a hypocrite.