Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
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Go on, give out about life that annoys you (clean and friendly though)
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Seeing as you started it, why don't you start it and get the ball rolling
I hate it when someone comes back with that suggestion.


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Management Companies......them anonymous people who dictate how you should live in your "own" home and we pay them several thousand for that pleasure.
(By Order: The Management Company)
Car Clamping Companies.
Big Brother expecting you to have photo ID for this that and the other.
(just for starters.....yummy mummies in 4x4 on the mobile phone with 4 kids in the back seat: your time will come as well)
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Hate people who don't indicate or know how to use a round about either, jez it's not that difficult!
Also hate the pharmacist in boots who wouldn't serve me a packet of Solpadeine at the weekend!! Jez what a joke, felt like i was 16 again trying to buy booze!! If i want to take 200 tablets i should be able to. The government or whoever brought in this silly rule are more so to blame for this.
The government could be metioned a lot in the topic. Bunch of muppets
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If ever I made a 'tongue-in-cheek' post that was it!
Now - I HATE people who drive using their under-bumper FOG lamps as a supplementary light source!
They are meant solely to be used in FOG - actually I think their use is technically illegal in other than Fog or Snow. This should be enforced since the only purpose they serve in normal night time conditions is to dazzle oncoming drivers!!!
Likewise with the rear Fog warning lamps - but then they merely dazzle drivers behind, instead.
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Almost as bad are those people who don't know how - or cannot be bothered - to dip their lights to avoid dazzling oncoming drivers...and it's even worse at night time!
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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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It's a long way to Tipperary.
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diving in football, i don't mind the dive it's the theatrics after that bugs me. you see them rolling around in "agony" and then just run it off. i fractured my ankle in a match and finished the game. cry babies

wow now you have me on a roll, gonna stop or i'll be in a mood for the rest of the day

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and when You reply they shout "each"
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I asked one pharmacist if the new regulations n Neurofen Plus means that it will be illegal for me to be happy or laugh (to allow my brain to produce what is the tablets) or to eat a strong vindahloo curry.
Luckily I was not asked for Photo ID else that would have led me onto a pet hate.
Photo ID....now there is something I detest. I do not need photo ID to live, so why did my employer want photo ID so that I could get my Photo ID card, and to talk to the bank is so annoying that they ask for Photo ID. I'm not a 16 year old trying to buy booze....I'm a grandad and look like one as well.
I feel another one coming one (just before I switch on the TV)......sports commentators saying "this is the game everyone is waiting for".....well I am sick of them lying about me: I'm not waiting for the game, and so that means not everyone is waiting (or don't I count because I do not have Photo ID?)
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Not indicating,especially on roundabouts.
Indicating on roundabouts when not needed,eg going stright through,these eejits indicate right,then left WTF??
Turning right at a roundabout,from the left lane.
Illegal narcotics and their users.
The way kids are bought up these days,lack of discipline/manners/respect.
The lack of an efficient criminal justice system.
Criminals.
Not having enough money
I better stop now
always on the lookout for interesting corys.pm me if you know off any!
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