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Thu 11/06/25 02:07 AM

That is why I put the Roku also, it says parts of Europe. I had to look up your profile to see where you were at...For some reason I was thinking you were in the UK...lol

Nope, I love the UK but I'm a Dutchie.

Roku... I think I have tried that in the past but never worked for me. Not certain but I believe it required sign up and I'm not keen on that.
Tubi does work provided I use a US IP via VPN. I like watching the episodes there as they're good quality :)

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Wed 11/05/25 04:16 PM

"Tubi is available in the US, Canada, Mexico, LATAM, United Kingdom and Australia." Pick one...lol

Or Roku might be available to you over there "Roku streaming devices are used by millions of consumers in North America, Latin America, and parts of Europe."

I got it to work on Tubi alright, but with VPN. My country is not being served by them, haha (The Netherlands).

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Wed 11/05/25 04:13 PM

True Love is Fleeting.
It is likened unto the Delicate Wild Flowers
of the Fields.
They Bloom in All Their Glory, Until the Afternoon Sun Withers Them Away.

What bleak a belief!
Thank goodness wildflowers are very resilient :)
They don't just wither but keep flowering and flowering and flowering.

They do of course need healthy soil ( = foundation) and nourishment ( = Tender Loving Care).
And they cannot be GM, they've got to be authentic and healthy, then they'll last.

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Wed 11/05/25 07:14 AM
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 :)

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Wed 11/05/25 05:51 AM

We just had a off year election here in the US… The dems just elected a communist for mayor of NYC.. ( unbelievable).. apparently the dems like it when we have high crime, high taxes, illegal aliens running the streets. This commie says he’s gonna make life affordable in NYC . If you can’t afford to live in NYC , you shouldn’t. It’s a expensive city. Two years under this guys rules, they will be ready to vote for success not failure.

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.

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Wed 11/05/25 03:45 AM
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.

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Wed 11/05/25 03:31 AM
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.

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Tue 11/04/25 04:37 PM
Edited by SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž on Tue 11/04/25 04:40 PM

That has definitely nothing to do with Racism. Racists will always be racists no matter what happens. I am not taking them into account since they had been a minority before the 2015 migration wave.
What I really care and am worried about is the average European citizen who has since then changed his views about diversity and migration because of the unusual and unpleasant changes to their "Stadtbild" (I'm aware of the controversy of this word, but I agree with it). I certainly don't wanna see an image of the European cities where more Salafist beards and black Niqabs are spreading like mushrooms. It's not about the appearance, it's about the ideology behind this appearance that governments should worry about.
That's why I don't agree with the silly campaigns that try to picture the whole thing as a racist reaction to immigration... No! I know plenty of Germans who welcomed refugees in 2015 and are now ready to vote even for the AFD if the CDU doesn't come up with a real plan to control the situation!

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).

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Tue 11/04/25 04:15 PM
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.

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Tue 11/04/25 04:10 PM
Hi MsAva!

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

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Tue 11/04/25 06:07 AM


That's your opinion, and I have to accept it.

But for me, fascism starts when people are classified just by the colour of their skin, their religion or their sexual preferences. In 1933, the same happened in Germany, and we all know what happened to Europe after that :pensive:

At the end of the day, there is good and bad in all races or countries for sure.


What I say now may sound weird since I come from this background and immigrated during the same period of time, so I basically benefited from this (chaotic immigration). But, and that's a big but, what she says is 100% accurate. I won't live in neighborhoods with a high population of Middle Eastern immigrants.. I have been to some of these places and it's not a place where you want to live if you're not one of them. and by being one of them I am not referring to the race! I am referring to the mentality. A Syrian friend of mine who lives in Sweden was attacked brutally by a group of Middle Easterns who live in the same neighborhood and left bleeding just because he's openly Atheist. I don't see your comparison accurate because the Jewish population in Europe didn't impose a cultural threat to the European communities. Nazis just wanted a racial enemy to fuel their populism, Jews fit well since immigrant communities didn't exist back then. Fascists will always find an enemy or even invent one... Muslim communities in Europe on the other hand are growing rapidly and may change the demographic situation in Europe. 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! Fascists / neo Nazis are always happy to find new enemies to increase their popularity. But to prevent them from doing so you should try to solve the root of the problem. I totally understand the concerns and even fear of the average European citizen. I myself have more concerns in this regard!

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 :) flowerforyou

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Tue 11/04/25 02:18 AM
Feeling okay.

Sun is shining which is great :)

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Tue 11/04/25 02:12 AM
Edited by SparklingCrystal πŸ’–πŸ’Ž on Tue 11/04/25 02:16 AM
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

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Mon 11/03/25 09:16 AM
Feeling a wee bit narked as I want my after dinner cigarette with my coffee. grumble

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Mon 11/03/25 09:12 AM
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).

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Mon 11/03/25 05:05 AM
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 :)

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Sun 11/02/25 04:27 PM
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.

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Sun 11/02/25 01:57 AM
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.

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Sun 11/02/25 01:42 AM

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 watched a couple of them last night, I will say that the ones on tubi, I do not think they are in order. By looking at the wiki site for the show, it says the first season is only 24 minute shows and season 2-7 are 46 minute shows...all the ones on tubi look to be the 46 minute shows. And the show they list as Season one, Episode one, one of the guys on it talks about watching the show for a while...lol
Season 7 should be an easy one to spot also, it will have Chad Savage Lenz as the mantracker instead of the Terry Grant you like...

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.


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Sat 11/01/25 07:47 AM
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...

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