Born Hunter
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There was a woman he saved that day, she’s done a podcast too, and written a book. Next long drive I’ll listen to that. CC is on thin ice with ‘His majesty’s Government’ so didn’t talk much about it.
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I don’t particularly like Shawn tbh CC has an interesting story, and it was the first time I ever heard he had done a podcast.
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For some reason that guy and another yank, Shawn Ryan, have popped up on my social media a bit recently. Anyway, Shawn did a podcast with Christian Craighead (alias) that I listened to on a long drive. I found it very interesting, particularly the guys faith and sense of purpose.
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National Gamebag Census - Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust WWW.GWCT.ORG.UK
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I begeth your f***ing pardon!
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He lives there doesn’t he?
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About as much substance to their statement as me saying it tbh. Anyone can state they are considering it. It’s another thing to say it’s a goal/objective. It’s entirely different to then actually fund it with a sensible delivery plan and achieve it. The space game is full of wishful thinking and ambitious ‘intentions’.
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British pike record goes at chew valley Ames near Bristol
Born Hunter replied to Greyman's topic in General Talk
He’s got some brass neck giving me grief for being a boring b*****d! -
NFH…
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Only today I was trying to get my mate to release wild boar in a wood in Leicestershire Ill tell him not to bother!
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What does your man at Hereford have to say on it?
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lol, because you’ve always thought so highly of soldiers! You'll literally use anything in your argument when it suits.
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Picking up etiquette. Here in the midlands and I think the south pickers up only put there dogs on runners mid-drive. Up north they pick everything during the drive.
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On the OP I suppose the first question I would need to know is who’s the ‘enemy’ and what are their goals and motives? I suspect even the most modern-Britain hating commenters on this thread would fight for what we have if the enemy was a giant Muslim caliphate looking to rape their way from Dover to Dundee!
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I’m the ying to wilfs Yang!
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You’re bias has affected your conclusion. An equally valid alternative conclusion would be that public school education places a higher value on military service and therefore leads to disproportionate representation. Which I suspect your bias would have led you too if the subject group was one you naturally view more favourably. In fact due to this disproportionate representation Eton alumni were disproportionately represented in death stats in WWI iirc. That privilege too?
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We have all our production in the UK too currently. All boards batteries and tooled parts are made in China from our designs though. As our products become globally recognised over the next 12-24 months I can see production being moved there too. I deal a lot with third party products that we integrate with our ecosystem from various others, Lithuania, Australia, the Netherlands. But again a lot of their boards will be sourced from the east. Everyone does.
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That constitute proof to you? Lol Directed energy weapons have been a thing for at least ten years! Re world war doom mongering, there’s at least one a year.
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Absolutely, I just think it’s nuanced. Neither extreme is true. My only comment re oil was the D’Arcy oil company was exploiting Persian reserves hard and fast way back when. Strategically important supply chains and skills should be protected, you won’t find an argument from me there. But so what if we make a bobble hat in Bangladesh! To make it here would mean shitty wages to remain competitive, an expensive product to maintain high wages or a tax subsidised product. Certain countries we won’t want to do business with for moral or geopolitical reasons. Again no argument. But doing
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Oh and there was another night of air strikes on Monday night. US SEALs missing after a ship boarding too.
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I feel that that sort of statement lumps everything together. We were sourcing stuff from cheap foreign places well before any of the events you talk about took place. We’ve been utilising global trade and capitalism for about 400 years. It’s literally what made Britain histories greatest empire. This is far more nuanced than all that. Of course certain supply chains and industries are of strategic importance. But does that mean we shouldn’t utilise cheap foreign supply or resources for anything ever? We’d have done nothing historically if that was the case. My only point on this top
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I didn’t say most UK companies don’t. Of course you partly pay for a brand but you’re also paying R&D. The point is that cheap one wouldn’t exist if the expensive one didn’t. It’s not just a case of buying Chinese and stamping a flag on it. Manufacturing is the final stage of the process, not the whole process.
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Manufacturing is often outsourced to China but its not a case of rebranding a Chinese design. Industry in the West has transitioned from being a manufacturing base to being a tech and service base. Tech companies design world leading products and then simply leverage superior Chinese manufacturing. It’s not even just a price thing anymore, often the quality is better than Western options. Does that have complex geopolitical and social consequences, probably yeah, but it’s not fair to say that all we do these days is buy foreign and stamp a Union Jack on it.
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The opium wars all over again!
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Nah you’re right. Maybe wouldn’t hurt to sharpen folks up a bit early on, just to let them know where you stand on things broadly and to keep anything dissenting to themselves or maybe this shoot ain’t the one for them. Call it a baptism. Over the years I’ve fallen out with keepers, land owners, guns, beaters, public etc etc. And I’m a f***ing delight. It just goes with the scene imo. A lot of money and passion makes for emotional times. Going through similar political bullshittery now.
