Feeling... hungry! But I got to wait a little bit longer. Too early to have dinner.
Half an hour will do it. Sipping coffee for now :)

No idea, I generally don't follow US politics.
But from how you write, what you say, it is clear you're an extremist. I don't like extremists regardless what they stand for or what colour of skin or which religion and/or political beliefs.
One can have very strong preference and beliefs but with extremism it comes hand in hand with hate and tunnel vision. Such people are beyond reason.
I'm not keen on that.

Oh wow, thank you!
I'll try to watch them on there if I can get Tubi to work. Should do with VPN set to a US server.

Thinking... gotta open the 2 catdoors in the garden before I get into the shower.

The catdoors are openings at the bottom of the fencing that I close off at night and open up again during the day. Small openings, large enough for cats though :)
Helps to keep neighbour cats out of my garden.

All this stuff has been going on for decades, but at different levels and with different things.
When I was 19ish I had a temp job at a gov agency that did child support and pensioners wages.
Clients could come by during certain hours with questions etc. and my manager usually did that. The man had become a nervous wreck because of the flak that was thrown at him at daily basis, generally not by the Dutch but by people from Muslim countries.
Talking 1984-1985 here!
It regularly happened that a man claimed to have 15 or 18 children back in his home country so he got child support for all of them (!!!).
This money was sent to the bank in said country, the bank sent it back as they didn't even know that man, our government sent it back again as the man was entitled to the money, bank sent it back again, and so forth and so on.

I was still young, didn't judge, felt for people etc. etc. but that job made clear how we were being abused and sucked dry.
And even that wasn't new as the whole refuge thing began somewhere after WW2 if not mistaken.

In the early 70s I saw women in typical Muslim outfits for the first time. I was some 9 years old back then, was kind of shocking. These were Yugoslavian people btw.

It just goes on and on, a never ending story.
And I get it if people truly need refuge, but there are millions more in similar countries. It's impossible to fit them all into Western EU countries and cover all their expenses.
There wouldn't be anyone left in those countries and we would all go bankrupt, lose our entire Western way of living and culture and what you correctly said that many men & women fought for, and so on.
No more well-fare, decent schooling, healthcare and so on.

You know, I've never been scared. The backwater area I live in was always safe, few refugees and so on. But that is rapidly changing.
And I read last week about girls in my area being pulled of their bicycles at night by foreign men with knives, she got threatened and so on.
Knowing that this stuff now happens over here as well has affected me.
I had to cycle to the supermarket just after 5 today, meaning it's as good as dark this time a year. I didn't feel comfortable while that was never even on my mind.
In Amsterdam or Rotterdam, yes, not here.
Unfortunately that time is over.

And I'm not a racist or fascist. It's just too much and has been going on for too long (half a century at least).

Interesting! I may look into those shows.
So far I haven't been able to find season 6 episodes of Mantracker which is odd.
You'd expect the latest season to be the easiest available. But who knows, I may still find it.

Watching an episode every now and then is probably a good idea. Keeps it fresh.

Hi MsAva!

OT ---- feeling very sleepy. Time to brush teeth and crawl under the duvet :)

Thank you so much for your contribution, Cyrax!
As always very eloquent, extremely well substantiated and showing a lot of insight.
I greatly appreciate it!

And especially this what you said, which is exactly what's at the heart of it all!
And guess what, this change isn't for the favor of the Western values and civil rights that women and men fought decades to achieve!

It has nothing whatsoever to do with fascism nor racism.
(People these days are so quick to accuse you of the latter as well.)

Again, thank you! Reading it in other words from another person's view, a man at that, might shed some better light at what I meant :)

Feeling okay.

Sun is shining which is great :)

It must indeed have been tricky to shoot. But Terry said in interview he never captured nor saw prey because of the camera crew.
These were highly experienced outdoors people who used camouflage and whatnot and weren't that close to the prey. I believe they also made false track every now and then.
They indeed went back to do certain shots later on.
Can't have been easy to do all that.

I found a whole lot of episodes that I hadn't seen yet and am still watching.
Yesterday watched 2 good ones from season 4. One was with 2 blond sisters who went running off in very short skirts and bare legs.
The cameraman must've had a field day, haha.
Then 1, who also did pole-dancing, scratched her leg and whined about that. Yeah, deuuuhh!! What do you expect when you go off in the wilderness like that? LOL

Another episode was with 2 citidiots, one quite fat and big mouthed. He was having a hard time, at some point thought he was getting a heart attack.
Unbelievable that such unfit overweight people even sign up for it.
At some point he was saying stuff like hitting mantracker with a stick and cutting the horse's Achille's heel with his knife? WTF?
Was a good watch as you cannot wait for mantracker to chase such nasty people down, at the very least.
I think I found that the best episode yet, haha.

So I'm not done with the series yet :D

Feeling a wee bit narked as I want my after dinner cigarette with my coffee.

I had a few fries, minced beef Bretons, and a nice salad with all kinds of things in it (cheese, nuts, raisins, tiny bacon pieces etc).

I prefer the full length episodes.

I did notice at some point the editing was weird a couple of times. For instance Terry saying they were going to tether the horses to go check something out concerning the prey.
You then see them tie the horses to a tree. But the very next scene both Terry and his sidekick are riding their horses again?
I was like, "Did I doze off???"
I was curious what Terry had planned to do but never got to see it.

Oh well, I've seen most episodes by now, so it's okay to get a bit bored with it, hihi.
I have enjoyed it though. Some episodes were really good.

You know, I'm not certain but I think maybe in season 3 the area they were in was more equal in chances for both tracker and prey. In other episodes it was mostly in favour of the prey, always having opportunity to get up or down a high slope or something.
That's what was p*ssing the tracker of, but me as well. Takes the fun out of it when you know the prey do that each and every time. Makes it too predictable.

Time for something new :)

Having watched quite a lot of them now, close to all of 'em, I feel the first ones I watched were the best. I believe those were all season 3 episodes.
After those I kind of feel the same as you.
But maybe that's also because I binge them. Often when you watch a show on and on it starts to wear thin.
Whereas if you watch 1 a week they remain exciting and fresh for a long time.

I do agree with that, but that's not what's going on here at all. So the fascism label isn't applicable at all.
You can be okay with religions and other cultures but doesn't mean they fit into your own country.
Skin colour is irrelevant.
The way it is we are being discriminated, have less rights and get less and pay more for the same services.
And many refugees aren't even refugees but fortune seekers.
And they pose a serious threat to us -esp girls and women- based on their religion and cultural beliefs.
Maybe you're okay with all that, I'm not.
We too have rights and being safe in your own country is certainly one of them.

And I know this is the same in all western EU countries, including Germany.

That immediately sets aside Ukrainian people who are real refugees, and generally very well behaved. They also blend into our culture more easily. They're also very grateful for what they get.
That's how it should be.

I've come across the shorter ones on YT as well.
And I read about the replacement tracker. Only one season so I gather he wasn't liked as much.
A daft move of production. You can't simply replace a main character, not even on a docu. They should've given Terry the pay-rise he wanted. Better lose a bit of money than to lose the entire show and all your income of it.

Since you mention finding the first 4 seasons on Tubi...
I haven't come across a single episode beyond season 4 on YouTube either?
And there have been 7 seasons...

I've always believed in it, found it too but it didn't last.
I still believe in it, but what I do see a helluva lot with men my age is that they demand way too many things.
The image they have of a partner is too detailed, totally filled in. It leaves little room for... anything really.

For instance, they play golf and expect & demand you play it too, or you have to learn it.

They ride a motor bike and expect you to as well, or you will have to learn it.

It's all 'must do this' and 'must have that' and must be this'.

In the end you get something that no person can live up to.
And why can't men simply keep an open mind and curiosity about who someone is and what they're like?


Then there's a vast group that never had children. Their lifestyle isn't compatible as all they do is go to parties, festivals, concerts, hiking, sky-diving, more parties & festivals and so on.

Geert Wilders is not a fascist! He's the one who wants to stop our country from being exploited. Which has happened for decades and has bled us dry.
It needs to stop.

Women and young girls aren't even safe anymore, get attacked, pulled off bicycles, threatened, harassed and so on.
We have become prisoners in our own country.

Aside from that, our own population numbers are declining, yet the number of inhabitants has increased a helluva lot!
This is caused by the vast amount of refugees we have to take on.
And most of them are from cultures that do not gel with ours.

It's gotten out of hand and has to stop.

It's utterly ridiculous that the majority of our people voted for Geert Wilders in 2023, yet he didn't become our PM because other politicians were pestering him and refused to form a coalition with him?
But... we are a democracy?! Meaning we get the PM & leadership we choose!
It clearly doesn't work that way.

That is fascism. Not him and what he wants. What he wants is what would revive our country, something we direly need.

Yes, check it out! I think it's a good show. Just something different to watch.

What I do find shocking is that the 'prey' sometimes use barely visible tripwire. That I find ridiculous as it could serious hurt the tracker and/or his horse.
So I guess their backpacks aren't checked before the start.
At some point a woman threated the tracker with a slingshot?

The interesting thing to observe is that almost all underestimate the primal fear of being capture/killed. They brag about their physical strength and bladibla.
Yet often, when it's all over, they all say it feels like being chased by a real (serial) killer.
The primal fear gets triggered which they clearly had no knowledge of.
Except when they had 2 military vets that were trained for exactly that.

It does make me wonder how many of them have recurring nightmares afterwards, hihi. I'd never participate myself. F that!
But to watch it on the screen... good entertainment!