Trout

Sun 7 Dec, 19:08

No misunderstanding and no need to back down now. The thread was created from a singular recommendation for the new shop for you and your friends to continue your sarcasm and smart remarks about, it’s simple as that really, you can duck and weave all you like but that’s how it is and I think most people following the comments & thread can see that. 

Sun 7 Dec, 15:16

Agreed, Chris.

Also I could not help noticing that the correspondent referred to "your precious Charlbury", so maybe they do not even live here! If that is the case, I am not quite sure why our Charlbury is relevant to them. Perhaps too much Bitter and Tonic! 😜

Sun 7 Dec, 15:05

I agree with Rod. 

And I doubt if many long term residents would say Charlbury is “intolerant of change”, or “intolerant of differing views”. But rather Charlbury has a good way of exchanging and discussing different views, sometimes quite robustly. I for one would say we should  protect this “precious Charlbury”.

Sun 7 Dec, 13:55 (last edited on Sun 7 Dec, 14:07)

Whoa there Joshua, some serious misunderstanding here!!  The perils of posting....

Can assure you there's no 'group' thing going on here, we each post separately and I'm pretty sure Richard (sorry, Richard!!) hived this off from the one about the proposed new shop only in order to keep that on track and not see it descend - no-one, least of all me, is setting out to make fun of anybody.

As I've said before, both here and at Chloe's meeting, both personally and as a director of the Deli & Cafe, I welcome the arrival (or would do if they'd just get on with it!) of a food shop capable of handling a much wider range of stuff than either the D&C or the Co-op can.  But that brings other challenges and I don't envy Chloe the task of pricing it right, hence my quip.  Overall though it can only help to revive the town centre - and we are already seeing beneficial changes in the Corner House, making it more useful and accessible to everyone.

So I'm sorry Joshua has taken this so personally, not my intention at all.  I don't though apologise for calling out marketing hype when I see it - you might even say, rising like a trout to the fly....

Sun 7 Dec, 12:30

So basically what you have done here is all group together, create a separate thread aimed at one particular persons comment and start singling that person out? It’s a very bizarre way to behave and I expect better from mature senior adults like yourselves who are supposed to set examples in the community. Most decent people here know exactly what you are, you’re intolerant, intolerant of change, intolerant of differing views, and intolerant of anyone proposing change in your precious Charlbury. I’m really glad you created this separate thread to make fun of me. Alls you have done here is look like school children. 

Many thanks and have a wonderful Sunday folks! :D 

Fri 5 Dec, 22:33

Maybe the bank shop should take a leaf out of Monty Python and sell Chocolate-covered Crunchy Frog?

And Joshua, I don’t know where you learned to drink, but Tonic with Bitter is just … WEIRD.

Fri 5 Dec, 21:19

Old trouts please assemble here

Fri 5 Dec, 18:28

Rod, I am in total agreement. I grew up next to what is arguably the most famous chalk stream in the world; the family company for whom my father worked owned several miles of fishing along it. And back then they were all brown trout, as far as I recall. But then the accountants took over! Many folk nowadays do not care what kind of trout they get ... it's almost as if any trout is itself a "status symbol"! But those of us lucky enough to have eaten brown trout would not trade twenty "rainbows" fed on cr@p for one brown trout allowed to breed naturally! Also it takes patience to catch a brown trout, a commodity sadly lacking these days...!

Fri 5 Dec, 16:40 (last edited on Fri 5 Dec, 16:43)

I’ll leave you to your bitter Tonic Rod. Enjoy. 

Fri 5 Dec, 16:40 (last edited on Fri 5 Dec, 16:42)

🥱 

Fri 5 Dec, 14:47 (last edited on Fri 5 Dec, 14:52)

So sort of Daylesford – and at their prices??  I'll leave Chloe to work that one out!

What I can say is that 'chalk stream trout' simply means trout (and predominantly non-native Rainbows) reared in ponds fed by water that otherwise would flow unimpeded  down the rivers - as at Bibury and the river Coln (which isn't a chalk stream).  The fish though are probably fed on the same pellets as anywhere else and will never have actually been in the river - it's just marketing hype.  And don’t get me started on the damage done by salmon farming…