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My bahamian friends want to take me to a new wreck.....this one according to there own research was sunk in a running battle with a british man o war with 3000 gold pieces. These guys are often wrong with there research but I will definitely go with them to see whats what. I'll be going to a place called platter bay also......named for the large silver platters found there. Head of the archeology department wants to take me to 2 wreck sites to search for the strong boxes from these wrecks.....thinks they should still be there. These guys pump me up every year and then get scared to take me to these spots. Well see!!! I've been hearing about these strong boxes for 3 years now !! In the mean time I'll sneak off at low tide today to a couple new spots.....fishing is canceled today due to weather....so I should get time to hunt my own treasure spots !! Other than that I've been working and fishing everyday. The boys have found a great new bottle diving spot.....its producing some great early torpedoes and black glass.....they were kind enough to show me the exact location. I've got to have a partner for these free dives as it's an industrial port. At low tide the ships stir the bottom and unbury the bottles !!
 

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The wahoo fishing has been great we've caught 11 so far !! Lost a giant yellowfin right at the boat yesterday after fighting the beast for 30 mins......man that hurts....you see him there 10 feet down and before you can gaff him ....hes gone !!
 

Years ago, I used to work with a lady called Ruby West, and her son was a guy known as ‘Banjo’ West… a diver who was part of the team that recovered 431 (of 465) gold bars from the wreck of HMS Edinburgh in 1981.

Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea in 1942 by one of her own escorts (having been crippled by German torpedoes and gunfire) to prevent the Germans getting their hands on the gold. The bullion was on its way from Russia to Britain as payment for war supplies from the allies, valued at £1.5 million (equating to £70 million today).

She told me that during a spell of inactivity, her son and some of the other team members relieved their boredom by tossing explosives overboard to create waterspouts, prompting the Russian observers on board to go into panic mode. Apparently the salvage operation was being closely monitored by a Russian submarine.

Hers son’s share of the spoils wasn’t huge, but she had a priceless picture of him on her desk, sitting on the deck of the salvage vessel with one of the gold bars in his lap.
 

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Way ta go bart. Looks like the fish are biting. :icon_thumright:
 

bill from lachine said:
SanMan,

Here's a real life scenario that when I see cases like this it literally drives me nuts....:laughing7::laughing7::laughing7:

Pretty much every morning I do a hour to hour and a half walk.

Well the coffee break I take midway is a local supermarket that has a little table section. There's a guy there who's late 60's....divorced and has 2 adult children living with him.

The son is late 20's and has asperger's which is a mild form of functional autism and is on social disability pension, the daughter suffers from depression, panic attacks, etc and also receives social assistance.

Dad was on welfare before retirement because he had a hard time holding down a job because he also had panic attacks, etc....

So pretty dysfunctional situation.

So when he mentioned awhile back that his daughter had the depression problems I went out of my way to print up material off of the internet with clinical proof that excercise in the fresh air such as walking was pretty much the best solution rather than anti depressants, etc....well guess what her response was walking is boring so she's still on meds and depressed.

He complained awhile back that most of the medical resources for people with asperger's was put aside for kids rather than adult sufferer's so his son was on a 10 year wait list to get counselling I snooped around and found someone on youtube who also had asperger's and was a former Nasa engineer and had self help videos that might be useful. Zero feedback so doubtful his son check them out or tried any of the steps that might help.

He complained about the high cost of food so I suggested the best way to go was do your own cooking from scratch since it was healthier and cheaper. So what does he do does a potato and cabbage casserole using pre schredded cabbage at $2.50 lb versus 99cents for the whole cabbage and 4 oz of garlic butter at $2.49 rather buying actual butter and adding either chopped garlic or garlic powder.

On pension I make more revenue that the 3 of them combined and still we cook most of our food from scratch....I also play the stock market and my wife has a few sidelines both to keep busy and make a bit of extra money for luxuries.
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bill,...... you see all that above?



You hit the nail on the head,......

I was in a forum conversation about cheap chinese tools,.....

the subject was people that make a living struggling with them, instead of buying quality tools.

Back and forth we went,.... cost, gets the job done, extra time to deal with a coarse finish,
what's the better buy in the long run, good used tools from ebay or swapmeet,..etc,


When one guy says,.........

"I was talking to a guy that had a cigarette in one hand, a beer in the other, and was saying he didn't have the money for rent"


Around in one big circle,.....
 

Simon1 said:
Hey Rook and Sanman, looks like Victoria Secrets is still going to be around :hello2:

I can still use that gift certificate Tom sent me for Christmas :laughing7:
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I for one was worried,.... I saw a spike in the prices for their catalogs on ebay,..... bad sign.


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worldtalker said:
It amazes me how the advertising world USES women to sell products and NO ONE says anything about it.
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In the Victoria Secret case it makes perfect sense,.......

A company that makes garments for women, uses women in it's advertising.


Now, when it's John Deere,... well actually I couldn't find any John Deere ads with women,.......

Ok, like Snap-On tools,........look,....

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What does a woman in high heels have to do with tools?
 

Chris & SanMan,

I asked an advertising big shot one time about all the risque ads involving women for various products which in some cases weren't even relevant to the product or service.

His simple explanation was you guessed it.....sex sells.
 

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This recipe is simple enough that even people challenged in the kitchen should be able to manage it.....:laughing7::laughing7::laughing7:

 

worldtalker said:
It amazes me how the advertising world USES women to sell products and NO ONE says anything about it.

That just PROVES males(not MEN)think with the wrong head!
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Eh, Chris, you and I both know there’s much more to it than that which we can not get into here.
As for me, I’m good. I’m just living in my temporary home.
 

Got some cheap cabbage at our discount fruit and veggie shop 59 cents per lb. Will be starting up some sauerkraut tomorrow should be able to make 2 quarts of sauerkraut with it.

 

worldtalker said:
It amazes me how the advertising world USES women to sell products and NO ONE says anything about it.

That just PROVES males(not MEN)think with the wrong head!
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It's ingenious. The guy sees the girl, also inadvertently sees the ad. Bingo.

By the way, were these women "forced" to do the ad? Nope. They volunteered. If they were offended, they would be in the photo shoot. Do I agree with it? Yes and no. I say keep some clothes on for sure, but if the models are willing to pose, so be it. It's up to us to look or not.
 

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