Mudplugger

In my experience committees work fine at a regional level but when you are dealing with a national pastime all sorts of regional problems develop and inevitably someone disagrees with one of the committee so they go off and set up their own splinter group and so on and so forth. (just look at any car club) I am in favour of some kind of formal "rules" in order to give T & J and others a standpoint when representing us on various issues but this route is fraught with problems if not handled properly. Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

I would go along with what MCL has stated above ..... I can't help feeling if this had been a poll with a simple Yes/No/Don't Care answer the T&J thread probably wouldn't have appeared which is a shame but perhaps a lesson for the future..... Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

quote: Warning.. It is one thing speaking your mind but to openly accuse people of acts that they can not even defend agains is a deplorable act and has no place on this Forum Mudplugger This is officially a warning.. the first one ever handed out on the UK forum, so congratulations on being the first. You have mannaged to show those on here what a total idiot you really are.. You may have opened Geocaching.com to legal action for Lible/Slander. Either you keep your post within the bounds of decency or I will have no alternative but to contact your ISP with a view to having your access removed Nothing which has been removed can be classified as abusive or a lie and the post was meant in good humour. Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

I would actully prefer it if we were to dissassociate ourselves from any program such as this which wishes to run an article on geocaching. I can accept the moderators point of view regarding the fact that they will find someone on the web willing to co-operate and we may be misrepresented but how can we be sure that this will not happen anyway. I cannot believe that the program makers will not want to bring in people who are opposed to the hobby and have an on air discussion about the pro's and cons of Geocaching. I would support the advertisement of our hobby in serious programs or magazines but feel that regardless of how good the intentions the Richard and Judy show is not a place for us to be represented. Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

Richard is a *************** (allegedly) Judy ******************************************. Sorry couldn't resist............ Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue ! [EDITED out most of Mudpluggers post to avoid possible legal action Tim & June] [This message was edited by Tim & June on March 25, 2003 at 06:48 AM.]

W quote: I have to say Mudplugger (or should that be ?) What should I substitute for the ? I'm sorry I don't know what you are trying to infer here...... I was only saying that the only people who have supported the TV program have been the moderators all other people are opposed. Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

looks like the moderators have already decided it's a good idea (perish the thought it's because they want to appear on the telly) so the rest of us may as well keep our thoughts to ourselves. Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

quote:I am really keen to hear from any regular geocachers as it is an area I would be keen to feature on our show. It seems a fascinating hobby that I'm sure very few of our viewers will currently be aware of. Sorry slytherin it appears they are currently only considering! doing a spot on the show should we not take the opportunity to point out the possible problems this may cause? Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

Without meaning to offend anyone ...is the Richard and Judy viewer really the type of person we should be looking at introducing into the sport. I mean surely carefully targeted advertising to outdoor organisations etc. as has been mentioned previously would be a better way forward. I would rather doubt there would be a great influx of newbies as a result of a spot on this show or the audiences interest in such a piece. Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

Hi Hornet I wonder what browser version you are using again it is best to use the latest which is IE6 freely downloadable from MS I can't gaurantee this will fix it but I if it is working in older browsers other people here can verify it. Hope this helps Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

Just a thought about the problems people are having with this. Is it possible the latest flash runtime may need to be installed to view this correctly ? this is freely downloadable from Macromedia and is probably worth a try for those of you having difficulties. Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

I bought my GPS III about a week ago and payed £170 which I have to be honest I thought wasn't bad. I have downloaded the easyGPS software and found this site particularly useful when trying to identify my possible first cache. http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/united_kingdom.shtml I am just waiting for my in car charger and PC Transfer cable and thats it I'll be off.... reckon the first one might be Texas Connection as my son(5) would go for the Hary Potter owl big time. Somedays you are a pigeon and others you are a statue !

I live in the SW of Scotland in a nice town by the sea called Irvine. There are four caches within 15mls then it jumps to 20mls + for the rest and from the feedback on some of these I don't think they are suitable for kids. I will take on bord the comments by Pharisee etc about ensuring the quality of container/goods in any cache I post and look forward to joining in the fun. Incidentally I have a Garmin GPS 3 so any tips on usuage much appreciatted....

I appreciate the sentiment here but as a complete newbie ie still learning how to operate the GPS only had it a short while....and want to be able to work it properly prior to taking the kids out. A brief search on the site shows I am in one of the cache deserts which are dotted around the UK. When I do start I would imagine it would be of benefit to the local caching community if I started leaving them after logging only a couple of finds.