Hunting debate.....nb

Re: aha! there you are

Corse, one way of continuing the debate (if we must) is to discuss whether or not foxes are now (as a result of red-jacketed types and other novel ways of looking after the countryside) an urban pest rather than a rural one. I'd bet there are more living in leafy surburbia than near farms. This would mean that fox 'control' issues become much more of a UK wide debate rather than the rather tired 'its our culture, see' argument used by non-urbanites. I'm not sure I fancy the thought of Sunday mornings being disturbed as dozens of loony people charge down Muswell Hill with a pack of semi-wild dogs, sorry hounds. That would of course be completely daft. Somehow, because it's in the countryside currently, we accept such bonkers behavoiur and call it a tradition, worth protecting.....

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Re: (Nearly!)

problem is, can't be done on here as very crappy & slow sattelite system i.e 10Mbps, whatever that means, but very narrow bandwidth. Besides, some of us have to work too. /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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Re: aha! there you are

We've a chap who lives down the road who feeds the local fox population. They're a friggin pain in the butt. Also the place stinks after he's done his "good" deed.
The foxes know when people put the rubbish out for collection, so on a monday morn the place a rubbish littered everywhere. Well I think its the foxes, it may be the bin men. I'm never up early enough to see.
See loads of them in the evening running the guantlet everytime a car comes along. I had one run out in front of me and I had to swerve a number of times before I hit it!

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Re: nimby

not very very bonkers, and there's no real "protection" of it? Anyway, yerv all got massive 4x4 cars and i think it would be quite spectacle. Also, the bus lanes hardly get used so they could whoop up and down there tooting their horns, but not too loudly or early?

oh alright, what about if hunting with dogs is banned from London N and NW postals? I think you should be okay with that ammendment, no?

I just don't like banning things, and a bit of a waste if loads off police are gonna try and stop a hunt instead of erm, well, whatever all the thousand of police do ...oh yes - bomb up and down muswell hill with sirens blaring...

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I think you should also add

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...in view of tcm's views on the subject of anchored superyachts in the South of France, how their crew can avoid unfortunate close encounters with well marked clusters of rock outside agreeable coastal resorts, and how he would have done it better.

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Oops; I seem to have extended this pointless, worthless etc. thread by adding further meaningless drivel to it. /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif

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Re: nimby

Tempted by your amendment to my proposal since everywhere other than N or NW districts are either countryside, and therefore a sort of theme park, historical experience, or 'badlands' where few outsiders would venture, including sensible foxes.

No, instead of sending Police down Muswell Hill, pulling them away from essential Gatso admin duties, they could contruct a massive funnel at the bottom to collect all the horn blowing lardydars and canines and make sausages out of 'em to sell for deserving causes at (Real) Farmers markets. There would of course have to be an escape hatch to ensure the escape of Mr foxy loxy. Otherwise it would just be cruel, natch.

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F#ckin\' squirrels

I find squirrels a real pest cos they eat my nuts, I'm going to train a pack of Thai kickboxing Orang Otangs to chase the little rodents and rip 'em apart .. what do you think .. and I'll dress up as spiderman whilst supervising the proceedings

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Re: F#ckin\' squirrels

I think you'll find they don't actually eat them 'in situ' but collect yours and others nuts and bury them for a rainy day. I suggest you take a little more care and try not to attract them. Have you tried brushing your nuts with honey? I've found this works, though bees can bit a bit of a problem. As a free thinking libertarian, I feel you should feel comfortable dressing up howsoever you wish though I would be cautious of doing so around arachnophobes. Hope this helps and let us know how you get on.

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Re: F#ckin\' squirrels

All very intersting and informative, but what has jimi's nuts got to do with people who are scared of spiders. My wife is scared of spiders and all she does is stamp on them with her stilletto's!

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Re: F#ckin\' squirrels

Now you're talking; I hate tree rats. We had a problem with our chimney a few years back, caused by a blockage. When the Sweep came out, it became evident that it was caused by a cache of nuts in the cowling at the top - at which point, we remembered seeing a lot of squirrels scampering across the roof of our house heading from our hazelnut tree towards the chimney. I'm thus in the uncomfortable position of having had somebody pinch my nuts and stuff them up my flue.

Never tried honey on my nuts; SWMBO is allergic to it; she comes out in hives............

I'll get me coat.

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pest and vermin

Good thing for a boat in a salt water environment is that we're almost free of bugs,muscitos and crawly spiders. Only problem left seems to be the shytehawks. Perhaps for all the poor, soon to be unemployed hunters, not possible to hunt a few of them around? Goold be a problem for the horses and hounds... although I can imagine a complete new industry teaching dogs to fly......

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