In reply to Post #74
It's only my boat
It says it's a hidden photo
Probably why it doesn't link lol
I'll have a look at how to unhide it
Uploadit.org premium is what I used to use until it disappeared with all my images and killed my web site.
It's only my boat
It says it's a hidden photo
Probably why it doesn't link lol
I'll have a look at how to unhide it
Uploadit.org premium is what I used to use until it disappeared with all my images and killed my web site.
In reply to Post #75
Quote... Carp fishing hall of fame = mutual masturbation.
Nail on the head.
It's all so cringeworthy when they are doing it themselves. But it sort of shows the mentality of the people involved. "Let's come up with a carp fishing hall of fame". "We will vote ourselves in for services to carp fishing". PMSL. Just have a mutual five knuckle shuffle with a group hug and be done with it.
At one of the first carp shows, a major figure from within the industry stood in front of a crowd of people upstairs... Looking down on the crowds of carp anglers below, he declared... "You see all this, I created all of this". They literally think that they invented carp fishing. That's the mentality. They all slap each other on the back constantly. Bunch of absolutely clueless nods in reality. Just with an immense sense of great self importance. Their own skewed media & patting each other on the back for years created all that. It's so cringeworthy that it defies belief.
Quote... Carp fishing hall of fame = mutual masturbation.
Nail on the head.
It's all so cringeworthy when they are doing it themselves. But it sort of shows the mentality of the people involved. "Let's come up with a carp fishing hall of fame". "We will vote ourselves in for services to carp fishing". PMSL. Just have a mutual five knuckle shuffle with a group hug and be done with it.
At one of the first carp shows, a major figure from within the industry stood in front of a crowd of people upstairs... Looking down on the crowds of carp anglers below, he declared... "You see all this, I created all of this". They literally think that they invented carp fishing. That's the mentality. They all slap each other on the back constantly. Bunch of absolutely clueless nods in reality. Just with an immense sense of great self importance. Their own skewed media & patting each other on the back for years created all that. It's so cringeworthy that it defies belief.
In reply to Post #76
https://www.carpforum.co.uk/images/shb/K9Odx9q.jpg
Make your account non private. That above is a direct link from Imgur Framey. You, or anyone else this is how I post photos. When using the mobile app (as I'm guessing you are), if you click on the photo itself it will give you the option to directly copy the link. Do not do that. Open the little share arrow in the bottom right hand corner when you click on your Imgur photo, & click 'copy post link' when the options to share pop up.
Then simply insert that into what is below here. You need to add a hyphen < to the start of that. If I do it here it tries to create a link & you cannot see it.
img src= YOUR LINK HERE width=600>
So inserting that top Imgur link I posted at top of page will then produce this.
Removing the link hyphens from start and end so you can see whole lot without. If I add the two < > to start and finish of that it will post the photo above.
img src= https://www.carpforum.co.uk/images/shb/K9Odx9q.jpg width=600
https://www.carpforum.co.uk/images/shb/K9Odx9q.jpg
Make your account non private. That above is a direct link from Imgur Framey. You, or anyone else this is how I post photos. When using the mobile app (as I'm guessing you are), if you click on the photo itself it will give you the option to directly copy the link. Do not do that. Open the little share arrow in the bottom right hand corner when you click on your Imgur photo, & click 'copy post link' when the options to share pop up.
Then simply insert that into what is below here. You need to add a hyphen < to the start of that. If I do it here it tries to create a link & you cannot see it.
img src= YOUR LINK HERE width=600>
So inserting that top Imgur link I posted at top of page will then produce this.
Removing the link hyphens from start and end so you can see whole lot without. If I add the two < > to start and finish of that it will post the photo above.
img src= https://www.carpforum.co.uk/images/shb/K9Odx9q.jpg width=600
In reply to Post #66
So true
I also wonder how many REALLY enjoy it, thrashing their mind to catch a fish to stay in the "frame"
Still I suppose its about choices, if it really ticks your box crack on, but my advise to the youth would be. expect **** all out of life if so £
So true
I also wonder how many REALLY enjoy it, thrashing their mind to catch a fish to stay in the "frame"
Still I suppose its about choices, if it really ticks your box crack on, but my advise to the youth would be. expect **** all out of life if so £
In reply to Post #78
At one of the first carp shows, a major figure from within the industry stood in front of a crowd of people upstairs... Looking down on the crowds of carp anglers below, he declared... "You see all this, I created all of this"
Cringefest, was he pissed, or just believing his own overhyped ego.
Any clues to who this was... sounds like the 2nd coming of the Lord.
At one of the first carp shows, a major figure from within the industry stood in front of a crowd of people upstairs... Looking down on the crowds of carp anglers below, he declared... "You see all this, I created all of this"
Cringefest, was he pissed, or just believing his own overhyped ego.
Any clues to who this was... sounds like the 2nd coming of the Lord.
In reply to Post #80
Quote.... Still I suppose its about choices, if it really ticks your box crack on, but my advise to the youth would be. expect **** all out of life if so.
My advice to the youth would be this... Get yourself a good job... Go out and get your end away as often as is humanly possible whilst you are young enough. Carp fishing will always be there.
You don't want to be sitting on the bank at 50 festering, with not a pot to piss in.... Looking back wishing you had treated the ex missus better, or shagged a few birds instead of sitting in a bivvy pulling yourself off constantly.
It's no life.
Carp fishing media has a lot to answer for. Selling young blokes dreams that are not in anyway real or based on reality. None of their hero's sitting on the bank earn much money. But they 'think' that they all do. Who in their right mind never wants a woman in their entire life? Certainly not me. If you wish to aspire to that, more power to your elbow. But you will end up a very sad & lonely old person with very serious mental health issues. No amount of adulation from a few hairy arsed blokes on social media will ever compensate for that.
As human beings, we all go to school, then we all go out to work. A man does this to provide for his family. These things are what form us all socially. If you never go to work your whole life, it makes you into a certain type of very selfish person. Socially defunct pretty much. Without the morals most of the time that everyone else has. No amount of photos of big carp or adulation on social media can ever replace real life.
Don't waste your life sitting on the bank kids. There has to be a balance.
Quote.... Still I suppose its about choices, if it really ticks your box crack on, but my advise to the youth would be. expect **** all out of life if so.
My advice to the youth would be this... Get yourself a good job... Go out and get your end away as often as is humanly possible whilst you are young enough. Carp fishing will always be there.
You don't want to be sitting on the bank at 50 festering, with not a pot to piss in.... Looking back wishing you had treated the ex missus better, or shagged a few birds instead of sitting in a bivvy pulling yourself off constantly.
It's no life.
Carp fishing media has a lot to answer for. Selling young blokes dreams that are not in anyway real or based on reality. None of their hero's sitting on the bank earn much money. But they 'think' that they all do. Who in their right mind never wants a woman in their entire life? Certainly not me. If you wish to aspire to that, more power to your elbow. But you will end up a very sad & lonely old person with very serious mental health issues. No amount of adulation from a few hairy arsed blokes on social media will ever compensate for that.
As human beings, we all go to school, then we all go out to work. A man does this to provide for his family. These things are what form us all socially. If you never go to work your whole life, it makes you into a certain type of very selfish person. Socially defunct pretty much. Without the morals most of the time that everyone else has. No amount of photos of big carp or adulation on social media can ever replace real life.
Don't waste your life sitting on the bank kids. There has to be a balance.
In reply to Post #81
No comment....
I was not there. Plenty of others were though. All with the same story.
The clue is here in this thread though
No comment....
I was not there. Plenty of others were though. All with the same story.
The clue is here in this thread though
In reply to Post #83
I'm going with TP
I'm going with TP
Here's a full timer story from the the bank.
I once sat in a swim I was fishing, with a young carper who had popped in for a chat. Lad was twenty two, or twenty three, his own gardening business, a very young family. Well known full timer arrives. Likely mid fifties. We all sit there drinking tea chatting. Full timer starts telling us how he married this girl who's parents were absolutely minted... Because the parents were buying them a house if they got married. Had a kid with her, then divorced her, taking half the money from the house. Went back fishing for years off of the proceeds. All planned.
Bragging about it to us, like we would be somehow impressed at what he was telling us.
Full timer departs. Young bloke turned to me and said, "I would literally kill myself if I ever became that person". "What sort of sick **** brags about that".
That sort of mentality comes from a life of never working. Not living in the real world. A lifetime of having smoke blown up his arris & doing whatever he can just to sit on the bank permanently. The reality is a very sad, waste of a life. Morals simply do not exist.
I once sat in a swim I was fishing, with a young carper who had popped in for a chat. Lad was twenty two, or twenty three, his own gardening business, a very young family. Well known full timer arrives. Likely mid fifties. We all sit there drinking tea chatting. Full timer starts telling us how he married this girl who's parents were absolutely minted... Because the parents were buying them a house if they got married. Had a kid with her, then divorced her, taking half the money from the house. Went back fishing for years off of the proceeds. All planned.
Bragging about it to us, like we would be somehow impressed at what he was telling us.
Full timer departs. Young bloke turned to me and said, "I would literally kill myself if I ever became that person". "What sort of sick **** brags about that".
That sort of mentality comes from a life of never working. Not living in the real world. A lifetime of having smoke blown up his arris & doing whatever he can just to sit on the bank permanently. The reality is a very sad, waste of a life. Morals simply do not exist.
In reply to Post #84
No. The clue is in the very title of the thread.
No. The clue is in the very title of the thread.
In reply to Post #83
I was going to say Maddocks.. but could easily be Nashy. All full of the same self importance..
This reminded me of a story once. A mate of mine worked in quite a well known tackleshop for the time in the late 80's. Mr Maddocks was having a business meeting or something with the shop owner. He made all the shop workers line up and Mr Maddocks on arrival went down the line shaking hands with everyone. Like you were being introduced to Royalty or something..
I was going to say Maddocks.. but could easily be Nashy. All full of the same self importance..
This reminded me of a story once. A mate of mine worked in quite a well known tackleshop for the time in the late 80's. Mr Maddocks was having a business meeting or something with the shop owner. He made all the shop workers line up and Mr Maddocks on arrival went down the line shaking hands with everyone. Like you were being introduced to Royalty or something..
In reply to Post #67
I think you need to educate yourself on what Oli Davies does now and has done in the past before gobbing off on here and proving your ignorance.
And without being too specific, not too long ago, mental health was taking such a massive toll that suicide was being seriously considered.
Imagine being put right back in that place by reading on here that you're basically not worthy of your job.
Do better ffs.
I think you need to educate yourself on what Oli Davies does now and has done in the past before gobbing off on here and proving your ignorance.
And without being too specific, not too long ago, mental health was taking such a massive toll that suicide was being seriously considered.
Imagine being put right back in that place by reading on here that you're basically not worthy of your job.
Do better ffs.
In reply to Post #88
What the same Oli Davis that laughed in my face online as he blew the Thames to pieces for his pal the pest? A deliberate ploy too. I'm very well educated thanks. You should educate yourself.
The weekend after he did what he did for his Instagram likes, 50 Nash kids walked up that stretch, the fish was dead within months. I'm not the only one they have done that too. Sheeping the **** out of me was one thing, what came instantly afterwards was another. Oli chose to get himself involved in that.
Tell Oli Davis to come laugh in my face now. Because the mug does not seem to want to interact with me no more suddenly. He's an internet fluffer. Nothing more, nothing less. I would not piss on him if he was on fire. He's just been at the helm of a thirty year old bait company going bust. I am meant to care about someone who did not give a single solitary **** about my mental health? All he had was excuses of how the second Thames fish that idiot friend of his had caught had saved his sad life. Pretty much **** me..... Nah **** him. I'll laugh at him as much as I want. I've told him online to his face that he's an absolute nod. I pretty much gave up carp fishing, certainly publicly after all of that. I did not fish the river I'd fished my entire life for many, many years. Oli had never fished it. He just revelled in destroying it for some likes. You really expect me to care about him?
I had previously always got on well with Oli before that, for many years. The Thames diary that went on our work page caused all of this. Out right deliberate savagery from absolute mugs connected to other bait firms. You expect me to give two ****s about his mental health now? Do me a favour. His poor me act now can go **** itself as far as I'm concerned
What the same Oli Davis that laughed in my face online as he blew the Thames to pieces for his pal the pest? A deliberate ploy too. I'm very well educated thanks. You should educate yourself.
The weekend after he did what he did for his Instagram likes, 50 Nash kids walked up that stretch, the fish was dead within months. I'm not the only one they have done that too. Sheeping the **** out of me was one thing, what came instantly afterwards was another. Oli chose to get himself involved in that.
Tell Oli Davis to come laugh in my face now. Because the mug does not seem to want to interact with me no more suddenly. He's an internet fluffer. Nothing more, nothing less. I would not piss on him if he was on fire. He's just been at the helm of a thirty year old bait company going bust. I am meant to care about someone who did not give a single solitary **** about my mental health? All he had was excuses of how the second Thames fish that idiot friend of his had caught had saved his sad life. Pretty much **** me..... Nah **** him. I'll laugh at him as much as I want. I've told him online to his face that he's an absolute nod. I pretty much gave up carp fishing, certainly publicly after all of that. I did not fish the river I'd fished my entire life for many, many years. Oli had never fished it. He just revelled in destroying it for some likes. You really expect me to care about him?
I had previously always got on well with Oli before that, for many years. The Thames diary that went on our work page caused all of this. Out right deliberate savagery from absolute mugs connected to other bait firms. You expect me to give two ****s about his mental health now? Do me a favour. His poor me act now can go **** itself as far as I'm concerned
In reply to Post #88
Tell you what.... Tell your pal Oli to apologise to me for what he did. I'll shake his hand and it will all be water under the bridge. It will never get mentioned again.
The last time I spoke to the pest, all he could do was say sorry for sheeping me up and instantly lucking that fish. Swore blind to me (I did not ask), that because of him catching that fish under those circumstances, he would hold it back for a while & would not go public. I thanked him.
The following day, Oli Davis was the public spokesman to blow that area and the entire Thames to bits. Very deliberately so. Drone videos of the whole stretch, the entire lot. When I asked Oli why he was doing this.... All I got was tales about the pests mental health (bit like you now), how it had saved his life. They did not need to do any of that. They WANTED to do all of that.
Then they went off to fish other areas, to catch a few fish for the stupid videos you all watched. All total bull****. He'd caught a solitary fish donkeys years before when Terry Hearn had taken him.... They had fallen out at this point, or so I was being told. That biggun was his second Thames carp since one trip many years before when Terry took him. Now go watch all the bull**** videos again.
Oli decided to get himself involved in all that, he was the one who blew it all completely to bits online for the pest. The public spokesman for his pal. You tell Oli to apologise to me for that, I'll shake his hand and it will never get mentioned ever again. Until that day, I care as much about him, as he did about me.
Tell you what.... Tell your pal Oli to apologise to me for what he did. I'll shake his hand and it will all be water under the bridge. It will never get mentioned again.
The last time I spoke to the pest, all he could do was say sorry for sheeping me up and instantly lucking that fish. Swore blind to me (I did not ask), that because of him catching that fish under those circumstances, he would hold it back for a while & would not go public. I thanked him.
The following day, Oli Davis was the public spokesman to blow that area and the entire Thames to bits. Very deliberately so. Drone videos of the whole stretch, the entire lot. When I asked Oli why he was doing this.... All I got was tales about the pests mental health (bit like you now), how it had saved his life. They did not need to do any of that. They WANTED to do all of that.
Then they went off to fish other areas, to catch a few fish for the stupid videos you all watched. All total bull****. He'd caught a solitary fish donkeys years before when Terry Hearn had taken him.... They had fallen out at this point, or so I was being told. That biggun was his second Thames carp since one trip many years before when Terry took him. Now go watch all the bull**** videos again.
Oli decided to get himself involved in all that, he was the one who blew it all completely to bits online for the pest. The public spokesman for his pal. You tell Oli to apologise to me for that, I'll shake his hand and it will never get mentioned ever again. Until that day, I care as much about him, as he did about me.
In reply to Post #89
“I've told him online to his face that he's an absolute nod.”
How does that work then?
“I've told him online to his face that he's an absolute nod.”
How does that work then?