This Can't be Right
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Oliveoyl
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Giant rabbits, genetically engineered tomatoes which taste of cardboard, horrid Belgian BBB cattle which can't calve other then by caesarian... the list of non-real food goes on. This mega rabbit is just a minor incident...
Giant rabbits, genetically engineered tomatoes which taste of cardboard, horrid Belgian BBB cattle which can't calve other then by caesarian... the list of non-real food goes on. This mega rabbit is just a minor incident...
Sheff
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They've just imported their own version of the plague...... as soon as a breeding pair escapes and they breed like, er, well...... rabbits!! There won't be any greens left to accompany the meat /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
They've just imported their own version of the plague...... as soon as a breeding pair escapes and they breed like, er, well...... rabbits!! There won't be any greens left to accompany the meat /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Poignard
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It's not the giant rabbits that worry me but the giant ferrets and foxes we'll need to keep them under control.
It's not the giant rabbits that worry me but the giant ferrets and foxes we'll need to keep them under control.
sarabande
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Foxes ? GIANT Foxes ? We'll need giant hounds and giant horses, then. Armour piercing 12 bore shotguns, traps the size of small cars. Tarra !
(Joking, folks, honest ! Genetic engineering on this scale feels more than instinctively wrong.)
Foxes ? GIANT Foxes ? We'll need giant hounds and giant horses, then. Armour piercing 12 bore shotguns, traps the size of small cars. Tarra !
(Joking, folks, honest ! Genetic engineering on this scale feels more than instinctively wrong.)
Magic
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This has been a source of amusment all week at work.
I personally am still opting for the Ubber Bunnies taking over the earth theory.
This has been a source of amusment all week at work.
I personally am still opting for the Ubber Bunnies taking over the earth theory.
Saguday
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Didn't The Goodies foretell that this would happen??
Didn't The Goodies foretell that this would happen??
deep denial
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surely the lounge is the right placd for non-sailing related posts? I only ask!
surely the lounge is the right placd for non-sailing related posts? I only ask!
bilbobaggins
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Wallace and Gromit have the answer to the Were-Rabbit...
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Wallace and Gromit have the answer to the Were-Rabbit...
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Lakesailor
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Seems to be a pattern emerging
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and the sailing connection is....? (Kevin_Mac)
Dogwatch replied last time
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I personally try to avoid the lounge nowadays as it is a cross between the third Reich and woman's own.
In fact I am going to make a point from now on of posting none marine posts to the boat sections. It is mid winter, there is only so many summer recollections and where is it posts the scuts can take.
Plus.
None boaty posts also seem to pull out a lurker or two from the woodwork (see, a boaty connection) to whine about the subject matter. If we all left the forum to lurkers who want to keep the posting strict to 100% moderated boating posts then the forum would die a death.
If you don't believe me, have a look at themultihull.com which is moderated by someone with an attitude like Kevin's, in fact, it actually does appear to have died. Is that what you would like?
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seems reasonable
Seems to be a pattern emerging
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and the sailing connection is....? (Kevin_Mac)
Dogwatch replied last time
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I personally try to avoid the lounge nowadays as it is a cross between the third Reich and woman's own.
In fact I am going to make a point from now on of posting none marine posts to the boat sections. It is mid winter, there is only so many summer recollections and where is it posts the scuts can take.
Plus.
None boaty posts also seem to pull out a lurker or two from the woodwork (see, a boaty connection) to whine about the subject matter. If we all left the forum to lurkers who want to keep the posting strict to 100% moderated boating posts then the forum would die a death.
If you don't believe me, have a look at themultihull.com which is moderated by someone with an attitude like Kevin's, in fact, it actually does appear to have died. Is that what you would like?
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seems reasonable
ValleyForge
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There's an old b&w film called 'Attack of the Killer Rabbit' or something like it. Awful, so bad I must search amazon etc & find a copy. Said rabbit as big as a house, ate lots of folk, and met a grizzly end when it went across a railway line (which had a power line attached to it). As it moved it made a funny sort of flopity flopity sound. Well it would I suppose wouldn't it. Boaty stuff ? too wet & awful to think about at the mo.
There's an old b&w film called 'Attack of the Killer Rabbit' or something like it. Awful, so bad I must search amazon etc & find a copy. Said rabbit as big as a house, ate lots of folk, and met a grizzly end when it went across a railway line (which had a power line attached to it). As it moved it made a funny sort of flopity flopity sound. Well it would I suppose wouldn't it. Boaty stuff ? too wet & awful to think about at the mo.
Lakesailor
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Went to see "Miss Potter" last night. Hmmm.
Went to see "Miss Potter" last night. Hmmm.
Poignard
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Miss Potter film - any good?
Miss Potter film - any good?
Lakesailor
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That's what the "Hmmmm" was for.
It depends what you're looking for and the director was in a cleft stick. If he followed the facts closely it could be a boring film. If he embelished it, he would attract mucho criticism from Potter fans.
They seemed to concentrate too much on the early part of her life, but there again I wanted to learn about her relationship with the Lake District so I would think that.
It all ended a bit abruptly, there was more to tell (in fact they used titles over the end of the film to fill us in on the later parts of her life).
Very good cinematography, too much reliance on animated drawings, far too much music in the background (at one point I couldn't hear what the characters walking on the fells were saying) which was not contributing to the story or the ambience of the film.
Renee was her usual simpering self, which is at variance with what is known about Beatrix Potter who became a quite stern and feared local farmer.
Also, I am not sure they got the social etiquette right for the period (very early 1900s). But there again I am an uncouth Northerner.
I wouldn't rush to see it again, although if you haven't been to the Lake District before (or haven't seen much of it) the scenery was very well chosen and photographed and will blow your socks off.
That's what the "Hmmmm" was for.
It depends what you're looking for and the director was in a cleft stick. If he followed the facts closely it could be a boring film. If he embelished it, he would attract mucho criticism from Potter fans.
They seemed to concentrate too much on the early part of her life, but there again I wanted to learn about her relationship with the Lake District so I would think that.
It all ended a bit abruptly, there was more to tell (in fact they used titles over the end of the film to fill us in on the later parts of her life).
Very good cinematography, too much reliance on animated drawings, far too much music in the background (at one point I couldn't hear what the characters walking on the fells were saying) which was not contributing to the story or the ambience of the film.
Renee was her usual simpering self, which is at variance with what is known about Beatrix Potter who became a quite stern and feared local farmer.
Also, I am not sure they got the social etiquette right for the period (very early 1900s). But there again I am an uncouth Northerner.
I wouldn't rush to see it again, although if you haven't been to the Lake District before (or haven't seen much of it) the scenery was very well chosen and photographed and will blow your socks off.
gandy
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Would they survive and thrive in the wild? I'd guess that the size is only maintained by selective breeding, and they'd soon revert back to normal size. I mean their descendents, of course. Or they would simply not survive. They'd need bloody big rabbit holes.
I wonder if they can be shot with a 12fp air rifle?
Would they survive and thrive in the wild? I'd guess that the size is only maintained by selective breeding, and they'd soon revert back to normal size. I mean their descendents, of course. Or they would simply not survive. They'd need bloody big rabbit holes.
I wonder if they can be shot with a 12fp air rifle?
Cornishman
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Don't come down here and refer to those creatures by that name if you go to sea. You will get dealt with in a most unpleasant way. If you must talk about them they are underground pheasants!
Don't come down here and refer to those creatures by that name if you go to sea. You will get dealt with in a most unpleasant way. If you must talk about them they are underground pheasants!
peterb
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Don't come down here and refer to those creatures by that name if you go to sea. You will get dealt with in a most unpleasant way. If you must talk about them they are underground pheasants!
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That's right! The underground pheasant comes out of the hole, goes round the tree, then ....
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Don't come down here and refer to those creatures by that name if you go to sea. You will get dealt with in a most unpleasant way. If you must talk about them they are underground pheasants!
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That's right! The underground pheasant comes out of the hole, goes round the tree, then ....
Lakesailor
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Pay him no heed. He's in a different century. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Pay him no heed. He's in a different century. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Cornishman
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'Zackly!
'Zackly!
Cornishman
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Delete 'century'
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Delete 'century'
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