(October 7, 2019 at 8:22 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(October 7, 2019 at 8:17 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Lee Marvin died from complications of a respiratory fungal infection, not cancer as I was led to believe at the time of his death. 

But you can confirm that he's still dead, yes?

He was my role model.

I thought he was a great actor too. I saw most of his films and many of his TV appearances.

He was always intense, even when he was being funny.

(October 7, 2019 at 8:05 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The really weird thing is I was getting paid by the taxpayers while I was fishing.

The best kind of fishing.  I carried a rod and a sack of bread balls in my ruck back in the day.  I'd dump juice from mre meat slices in the sack.  Caught a bunch of big cats.

I gave up fishing after a £200 fine for no rod licence! My float had just hit the water when the bailiff appeared from some bushes.. He was lucky he didn't end up swimming that day.

Paid a 1200USD fine once.... for smashing a small group of deer with a 25mm cannon.

Now, over here, you can't joke about a game warden's health and wellbeing. Expanded search powers and an edgier work environment. The majority of the interactions they have are with well armed people. Makes you wonder wtf is going on with our cops. There aren't a whole lot of civil rights suits against fish and game.

Hey, heres a q. Say you get a permit to hunt or fish, where you're at...where do the fees go?

(October 7, 2019 at 9:07 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Paid a 1200USD fine once.... for smashing a small group of deer with a 25mm cannon.  

Now, over here, you can't joke about a game warden's health and wellbeing.  Expanded search powers and an edgier work environment.  The majority of the interactions they have are with well armed people.  Makes you wonder wtf is going on with our cops.  There aren't a whole lot of civil rights suits against fish and game.

Hey, heres a q.  Say you get a permit to hunt or fish, where you're at...where do the fees go?

The fees for the rod licences go to the canal and river trust over here, permits to fish are purchased from angling associations or private fisheries.. To be fair I should have known better.. The money goes towards the upkeep of our waterways which is fair enough.

Edit: Fisheries trust, not canal and river Duh.

(October 7, 2019 at 8:05 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(October 7, 2019 at 6:46 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: I know that you can catch a 40 inch, 18 1/2 pound musky in a 10 foot wide storm drain.

Back in the day I caught a five foot, eight inch shark off the back of a Navy tug in the waters around St. Croix.

The really weird thing is I was getting paid by the taxpayers while I was fishing.

My dad was a had a Ph.D in marine biology and got paid to fish by California fish and game, and then by the local utility as a consultant after he retired. Gotta measure the effects of dams on fish, yes? His entire career was based on being paid to fish.

(October 7, 2019 at 9:10 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(October 7, 2019 at 8:05 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Back in the day I caught a five foot, eight inch shark off the back of a Navy tug in the waters around St. Croix.

The really weird thing is I was getting paid by the taxpayers while I was fishing.

My dad was a had a Ph.D in marine biology and got paid to fish by California fish and game, and then by the local utility as a consultant after he retired.  Gotta measure the effects of dams on fish, yes?  His entire career was based on being paid to fish.

I am sorry.  Fishing for a living will cause me the ensure I arrive early at my grave.

Today, I found out that not only was Larry Nassar's reign of terror over the U.S. Gymnastic team evil, it was diabolically ingenious: take a medical procedure, legitimate enough that you can tell people about it and convince them you're just doing something a normal doctor would do, but obscure enough that people aren't likely to hear your excuses and think "wait a minute, that doesn't work the way you're talking about," (like, for instance, its being performed by a specialist [who is invariably female for reasons that should be all too obvious] specifically to treat severe pelvic injuries like Nassar doesn't treat, always with informed consent, and always with a chaperone to make sure there's no funny business) and twist it to your own perverted and depraved ends, and if anyone objects, you can just play the "I'm a doctor, I know what I'm doing" card and gaslight them into accepting it. And then, you can Milgram your way into getting away with sexual assault for a quarter of a century. Alarmingly ingenious.

Two things to say. First, Well played, you nonce. Second, may all the pain you visited upon these women come back to you 500-fold.

(October 7, 2019 at 9:10 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(October 7, 2019 at 8:05 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Back in the day I caught a five foot, eight inch shark off the back of a Navy tug in the waters around St. Croix.

The really weird thing is I was getting paid by the taxpayers while I was fishing.

My dad was a had a Ph.D in marine biology and got paid to fish by California fish and game, and then by the local utility as a consultant after he retired.  Gotta measure the effects of dams on fish, yes?  His entire career was based on being paid to fish.

When I was in the Navy I used to do volunteer work at Scripps. I had skills they needed and got days off when I worked there.