Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

The individuals who hunt foxes do so for simple sadistic, gleeful pleasure from torturing and killing another animal ....They have found something that they feel superior to .... Fox hunting does little to reduce the number of marauding foxes but does satisfy the whims and basic needs of hunts.
you have empiric evidence to support that statement i take it, or is it just your jaundiced classist view again?

trapping implies bait and/or poison, and again its effectivenesss is not supported by evidence - unless you have some that no one else knows about

That applies to nappies, but I would have thought Hays should be out of them by now.
and that is just a pathetic and childish comment! .... even the daily mail can do better

hays - what evidence do you have that badgers are a pest? ..... that they should be culled rather than a bovine vaccine developed and administered to prevent the spread of bovine tb seems to be pretty debatable

FFS, trust Haystack to start a bloody war!

The point I was making (post 30525) ..... I am certain that IF (massive if at moment) the Conservatives were to win with a clear majority, repealing the hunting ban would not be an immediate priority. Agreed? Next!

It is a scientific decision. I am convinced by the evidence that I have seen to think that testing culling in a controlled environment is worthwhile. Badgers are very attractive and this is always an important factor in their support. Baby seals etc evoke that same ooos and aaas but need culling also. If people were presented with an ugly animal that needed culling such as malaria fleas then there would be less fuss. We don,'t mind eating cows, but dogs are a step too far. It is a cultural thing. It may be that badgers would appear to be ugly to some population and they would be pleased to cull them.

I am sure repealing the hunting act would not be a priority, but hopefully they would get around to it at least in their second term. There are are far more pressing problems such as more austerity.

The tories should like rats.

Think how many there are in the con party.

&-)

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You are talking rubbish.

Poisoning can be relative humane compare with dogs chasing down and tearing a fox apart.

Unless of course that is your Sunday morning enjoyment.

DYOH homework and look at the efficacy of various methods killing vermin.

As I said correct methods of Food and Waste disposable would reduce the amount of vermin.

Not feeding or feeding gardent birds appropriately would reduce rats and mice for starters.

Whatever. My immediate concern on a friday night is whether Citeh will stuff Everton tomorrow and how I'm going to play the new winter course down the Links. Or whether to just go the pub (don't have BT Sport) to watch the match and sack the golf :O)

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/10/04/syrian-refugees-demand-entry-uk-from-calais_n_4044465.html

poisoning foxes would also poison a multitude of other wildlife + dogs and cats and goodness what else .... any more sensible suggestions to come from you?

I saw that story. It just shows what a reputation the UK has as a soft touch.

More votes for UKIP

Cynic,

In passing.

"classist" remark.

I thought many members involved with this form of barbaric sport from even the lowest stratosphere of country society.

Are you suffering from introjection due to exposure.

I was being descriptive of its supporters and many would agree with me.

I hope!

Some uncomfortable reading here: http://www.snouts-in-the-trough.com/

I see gf forgot to mention this today

Update: Labour lead at 3
by YouGov in Politics
Fri October 4, 6 a.m. BST

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 3rd October - Con 35%, Lab 38%, LD 9%, UKIP 10%;

MK.

Interesting page/

For Hays and Cynic.

for once, it's rather witty, though it can be applied to all strata of society across all countries throughout the world as well you know

given the implied corporal punishment of the cartoon, perhaps it was written for Saudi or the Indian sub-continent or a number of other regions where such is still permitted - even for husbands to inflict on their wives

Who makes the software that drives cloud computing, is it many or one? micro chips ect this could make the readers of talk to youreselve a lot of money ends

Labour still on course for an overall majority. Up 2% from last week.


electionista‏@electionista21h
UK - Populus poll: CON 33%, LAB 38%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 10%

We will hit the like of Haystack very hard us SOCIALISTS instead of foxes we'l have Haystack drenched in a foxy smell and give him a 30 min start and then set the hunt off.

If the dogs dont get his ass the big gay huntsmen on the horses surely will.

(ps, nothing against gays)

Cynic,

Is this more to your liking?