Mo1959
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The Retirement Thread
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Drago
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When I was about 8 my Dad caught me arsing about with bullets, putting them in the vice in the shed and lighting them off with a hammer. Once his thermonuclear rage had subsided he realised that hed never stop me messing about with stuff like that if he simply tried to put his foot down, so he taught me to shoot and bough me an air rifle, and by God did he instill safety into me. When I was about 14 I graduated to rimfire .22, and got some good practice in with that.
When I joined the Army I was the only spud on our intake to qualify as marksman at the first try, so was wearing the crossed rifles badge before I'd even finished basic training. Would have loved a chance to get to the sniper school at Deal, but the chance never arose.
Ex Mrs D had an irrational fear of guns, so I kept my airguns but was never allowed a shotgun in the house. The new improved Mrs D is much more chilled, and having worked in Roads Policing was used to being around armed bobbies, so never batted an eyelid when I raised getting a shotgun. I bought the safe, installed it, jumped through the hoops and got my ticket, and she bought me a Beretta Silver Pigeon Sporter for Christmas. Theres a farm about 300 metres from here that does both competitions and casual clay shooting, and another about 300 metres in the opposite direction which does field trials, so in season I'm spoiled for choice.
Next village, about 2 miles away, there's an air gun club, some there most Sundays throwing lead about the landscape. Pretty good, £50 a year and shoot as much as I like on their rifle and pistol ranges. There's also a range in Northampton, and about once a month I meet my fellow rednecks there.
When I joined the Army I was the only spud on our intake to qualify as marksman at the first try, so was wearing the crossed rifles badge before I'd even finished basic training. Would have loved a chance to get to the sniper school at Deal, but the chance never arose.
Ex Mrs D had an irrational fear of guns, so I kept my airguns but was never allowed a shotgun in the house. The new improved Mrs D is much more chilled, and having worked in Roads Policing was used to being around armed bobbies, so never batted an eyelid when I raised getting a shotgun. I bought the safe, installed it, jumped through the hoops and got my ticket, and she bought me a Beretta Silver Pigeon Sporter for Christmas. Theres a farm about 300 metres from here that does both competitions and casual clay shooting, and another about 300 metres in the opposite direction which does field trials, so in season I'm spoiled for choice.
Next village, about 2 miles away, there's an air gun club, some there most Sundays throwing lead about the landscape. Pretty good, £50 a year and shoot as much as I like on their rifle and pistol ranges. There's also a range in Northampton, and about once a month I meet my fellow rednecks there.
classic33
Leg End Member
Looks like they are - news to me. Looks like it was worth getting up today after all.
https://spicyquest.com/are-chilies-fruits-or-vegetables/
There's gonna have to be a few further changes in the veg isles in some shops.
Tomatoes and Italian banana's were bad enough.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Mr WD.and his friends used to find bullets on the bomb sites.they used to hit them with stones ETC.
Yep - same as Tomatoes.
Drago
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Chillis are the same as tomatoes?
Same family. I think they are all related to Deadly Nightshade.
Drago
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What, like brothers?
They are the fruit of the plant, ie it needs its flowers to be pollinated for the fruit to grow like apples and blackberries. Unlike a vegetable.
Cousins, once removed.
classic33
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Wouldn't that be a bit dangerous, and hard to explain if you've to answer the door?
Drago
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It might indeed take some explaining to the magistrate.
172traindriver
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gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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- North Wales
After the trip to the zoo, nothing special planned today except a driving lesson ( as an ex driving instructor) with another grandchild, grown up this time. Weather is rather dull with more rain expected so no biking today.
PaulSB
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Yes they are along with many other vegetables which are wrongly defined from a botanical view.
Botanically a fruit is a structure which bears seed and develops from the ovary of a flower. The main functions of fruits are to protect the seed and/or aid there distribution.
Tomato, cucumber, peas, sweetcorn, courgette for example are fruits.
A vegetable is a stem, root, leaf, etc. Potato, brassicas, asparagus are all vegetables.
There is a long list of vegetables which are fruits. Why we started doing this I don't know. It was probably defined by how we eat something.
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