Petrol driven bike ?????

[Gravity Aided]

You need a fishing license in the US, and as a license holder you are permitted a certain number of poles in use at any one time. I think in Illinois it's two. There are also site specific regulations as to the fish you can take, and what size they may be. Each state maintains hatcheries and fish stocks, and regulates sport fishing. If you want trout or salmon, you have to have a federal stamp. Hunting requires a gun, for which you need a firearms owner identification card, or FOID. A person may have have as many guns as wished, but must also have a FOID card to buy ammunition, etc. You can't have a machine gun, but a fellow near me has a modified AK-47 that only fires in semi-automatic. Asian Carp have taken over many of the rivers in the inland watershed, and there is a Redneck Fishing Tournament in Bath, Illinois, that involves using power boats to make the fish jump out of the water, whence they are landed in nets. Epic tomfoolery.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...691C38285C3572AE51F6691C38285C357&FORM=VRDGAR

 

[rebelpeter]

You need a fishing license in the US, and as a license holder you are permitted a certain number of poles in use at any one time. I think in Illinois it's two. There are also site specific regulations as to the fish you can take, and what size they may be. Each state maintains hatcheries and fish stocks, and regulates sport fishing. If you want trout or salmon, you have to have a federal stamp. Hunting requires a gun, for which you need a firearms owner identification card, or FOID. A person may have have as many guns as wished, but must also have a FOID card to buy ammunition, etc. You can't have a machine gun, but a fellow near me has a modified AK-47 that only fires in semi-automatic. Asian Carp have taken over many of the rivers in the inland watershed, and there is a Redneck Fishing Tournament in Bath, Illinois, that involves using power boats to make the fish jump out of the water, whence they are landed in nets. Epic tomfoolery.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...691C38285C3572AE51F6691C38285C357&FORM=VRDGAR

Seems theres much u can do here theres.little u can do

And even less as it rains often daily

 

[Gravity Aided]

America, too.

 

[Nibor]

beeches beechbabes. .

I think you generalise too much and there are huge numbers of US citizens who have seen neither a beach or a beach babe.

 

[Ian H]

Back to the subject (nothing new under the sun).

 

[Drago]

Many Uk citys are also violent evenings with the thousands of binge drinkers. yes us is paradise.
Id b very happy to have a lifetime in the sunshine rather than wet windy cloudy dreary and pricey uk...

Name a city in the UK where the midwives bring along a bodyguard, who in turn packs a Beretta M9? Even leaving aside the shooter I bet you cant find a UK based midwife with a bodyguard. Even in the grittiest parts of London, Manchester or Chipping Norton you won't find one.

And the weather is a matter of taste and perspective. I spent my childhood and adolescence in Shetland, so i'm used to constant wind, guaranteed Winter snow, hurricane force winds, 19 hour long Winter nights, and I like it. I like weather that feels like weather, that reminds me of the power of nature, of my mighty endurance but also of my insignificance. Having also been treated for malignant melanoma in the past is another reason for me to actively avoid sunny climes. If you like the homogenised, low-cal, pre-packed boring life out of a Hoseasons brochure then you go for it.

 

[Pale Rider]

Name a city in the UK where the midwives bring along a bodyguard, who in turn packs a Beretta M9?

Some American newborns must have a helluva attitude problem.

 

[Drago]

Some American newborns must have a helluva attitude problem.

Not when I was on the job they bloody didn't!

 

[Gravity Aided]

I think you generalise too much and there are huge numbers of US citizens who have seen neither a beach or a beach babe.

That's sad.

 

[sidevalve]

To get vaguely back to the OP - these things were sold here in the UK in the fifties. Sometimes known as 'clipons' they were a cheap way of getting 150-200mpg at a time when fuel was still rationed. They were at best a poor idea then and they're a poor idea now. [and yes as said they are illegal on the road or almost anywhere else for that matter.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Name a city in the UK where the midwives bring along a bodyguard, who in turn packs a Beretta M9? Even leaving aside the shooter I bet you cant find a UK based midwife with a bodyguard. Even in the grittiest parts of London, Manchester or Chipping Norton you won't find one.

And the weather is a matter of taste and perspective. I spent my childhood and adolescence in Shetland, so i'm used to constant wind, guaranteed Winter snow, hurricane force winds, 19 hour long Winter nights, and I like it. I like weather that feels like weather, that reminds me of the power of nature, of my mighty endurance but also of my insignificance. Having also been treated for malignant melanoma in the past is another reason for me to actively avoid sunny climes. If you like the homogenised, low-cal, pre-packed boring life out of a Hoseasons brochure then you go for it.

Here's one for the Hoseasons Brochure, @Drago . This fell during the straight line thunderstorms that preceded the 70 mile per hour winds and nearby tornado.

Rotating supercell thunderstorm produced so much rain and hail that it flooded the fields with water, on top of which the 2 inches of hail accumulation floated, creating this fog in the 90 degree F weather.

Sure, throw in a tornado as well. In for a penny, in for a pound.. That green in front of it is huge hailstones. The white in the foreground are accumulated hailstones.

 

[Drago]

Yeah, would occasionally get heavy weather when I was in Penn. To be fair they do manage a good storm in the US, even if 100,000 of their citizens are admitted to hospital each year with toothpick injuries.

 

[Pale Rider]

Yeah, would occasionally get heavy weather when I was in Penn. To be fair they do manage a good storm in the US, even if 100,000 of their citizens are admitted to hospital each year with toothpick injuries.

One hundred thousand Americans can afford to admit themselves to hospital?

Another myth shattered.

 

[Drago]

It may be the same one, but 100,000 times. Memory is hazy.

 

[Pale Rider]

It may be the same one, but 100,000 times. Memory is hazy.

That would be 274 admissions a day, which sounds unlikely.

Although we had a loony around here who was making hundreds of three nines calls a month until official displeasure caught up with him.