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Pete, I'm tolerant of revisionist spelling but a stickler for strict constructionist phoneticism. I think everyone says AL u MIN i um unless they spelt a LUM i NUM or AL u MIN i MUM or a LUN i MUN in which case I think that's what they must have spelt to say. It's important to remember that all the birds on the Galopagos are still birds.

Ta!

Spent "the Summer of Love" (1968) hitchhiking around the British Isles with my bride. Stayed in homes recommended by the local fuzz (mainly their old mums and aunties) and in "commercial travelers'" hotels.

I'm not entirely sure that I actually met an "English" person, in all that time, although I met folks with roots in Man, Orkney, Ulster, Malta, Jamaica, Poland, and others I've forgotten.

We DID run across some people who were so polite and mumbled so softly that we were never actually able to identify them....Possibly natives of the Islas Malvinas taking a break from their flocks?

I remember the beer as not worth much, but then we were used to the well-named "frozen gnat piss" that passed for US beer in them days. The cider you could get in any pub was more like it. I spent a lot of time walking backward with my thumb draggin the air, and the cider seemed to help that orientation. It also helped me stay on the correct side of the road, which no normal person can actually do "clean and sober."

In general we were treated like rather strange and dim-witted relatives who had dropped in from a far county and needed to be fed up and coddled. The commercial travelers had lots of mouldy jokes about Yanks left over from The Big One which they generously shared at breakfast (actually quite hilarious to someone who missed It).

I saw lots of doubles and LOTS OF GAME, which quite surprised me.

Then we got to Ireland and the first thing I heard was some old cat cussing me out about US Vietnam policy in an entirely audible volume. "Back to reality" says I.

I have never understood the English passion for eating animal's internal organs...or external if you include "spotted dick". Sounds like a diseased one for sure.

But worst of all is that "soccer" game which is truely the most BORING game EVER! Now you should add sticks to it and give every player the right of a free foul in each half and if played on ice might be partially acceptable.

As far as your socialist leader, we have them already and we shall KEEP our guns as they shall be needed soon enough, I fear.

The thing is with the Brits, you never get a straight answer here as to what rifles they can actually keep in their home. Do rifles need to stored at the local police station when not in use, does the amount of acres dictate the power of rifle and so on. What I've read on UK rec. shooting, and what is told here - are sometimes two different stories!

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Lowell,
No it is not as bad as people will have you believe here in the UK.Shotguns are no problem to have and to own and use for game and clays.
Rifles as with shotguns you have to give good reason to have one and that is really all there is to it.Large calibre rifles are no problem to own if you are a target shooter.If you are a hunter you have to prove you have suitable land to fire that size of calibre on, easily done if you buy a days hunting on an estate or get written permission to shoot over someones land either farm or moor.

Salopian, what about semi-auto shotguns and pumps. Are you allowed to possess these, or just doubles?..Geo


I presume handguns are out of the question???

Salopian,
the impression i get from reading "Sporting Gun" (the only gun rag i'll even pick up now) is that the UK has some outstanding wing shooting, exceeding what the bag limits here allow and we should be envious of, that people can own firearms and use them. but there does seem to be a considerable pain in the a$$ factor associated with the shooting sports that exists solely to generate tax and fee revenues at every step of the process. i.e. things aren't necessarily illegal but the number of desks you have to cross with money to be allowed to own guns and shoot is way out of hand.

roger

Salopian, so what is the deal with storing guns at the popo station??? Do you really have to do that with any of your guns or rifles or handguns or butterknifes and so on???

Tim

fnb25, you know, your impression of the owner's lot in the UK sounds remarkably like life in California....