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[Pow-Lo]

A brace of pheasant

Get them shot and breasted man, season has just started

Some guy made the mistake of stopping my mum in the local Tesco and asked if she was the lady that lived in the house backing on to the Taff. When she raised an eyebrow, he qualified his question by saying he'd seen the pheasants in her garden and then went on to say that there was a place nearby that breeds them for shooting and those ones must've escaped. He suggested they'd make a nice Sunday roast. Big mistake.

Ma P and me are old hippies and we're all about the environment, maaaaaan. The only reason she's not a vegan is she won't do without milk and cheese and she refuses to wear plastic shoes. I just enjoy meat too much. Anyhoo, she didn't tell me what she said to him in response but he legged it so fast he forgot to look before crossing the road and almost got himself hit by a car.

 

[ogr1]

Rang United utilities, basically moaned about the crap job they did on my collapsed shared drain.
They replaced the fecked drains and then
covered the joint and in between the two pipes with cement.
Now there's a hole in the cement were
the waste pisses out?
Pretty sure they've bust the gully or trap?
Sending an engineer out....Oh and will ask
them to take the dug out crap with them
seeing as it's their property.

 

[Cougar377]

Went to see Ma P over the weekend and her garden was as busy as usual. Mrs Pheasant and one of her sons in the foreground, a moorhen and a duck in the background. Actually, there was a whole mob of ducks but I couldn’t get them all without moving and the moorhen would’ve done a runner. A gang of squirrels were pissing about somewhere, too.
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Are they on standby in case the much predicted winter shortage includes turkey....?

 

[slim63]

Some guy made the mistake of stopping my mum in the local Tesco and asked if she was the lady that lived in the house backing on to the Taff. When she raised an eyebrow, he qualified his question by saying he'd seen the pheasants in her garden and then went on to say that there was a place nearby that breeds them for shooting and those ones must've escaped. He suggested they'd make a nice Sunday roast. Big mistake.

Ma P and me are old hippies and we're all about the environment, maaaaaan. The only reason she's not a vegan is she won't do without milk and cheese and she refuses to wear plastic shoes. I just enjoy meat too much. Anyhoo, she didn't tell me what she said to him in response but he legged it so fast he forgot to look before crossing the road and almost got himself hit by a car.

I don't see a difference between meat on the hoof and meat prepacked in a shop apart from its fresher and healthier but can see killing and preparing their own feed isn't for everyone

 

[Pow-Lo]

I don't see a difference between meat on the hoof and meat prepacked in a shop apart from its fresher and healthier but can see killing and preparing their own feed isn't for everyone

Yep, that makes sense to me. As much as I love meat, I couldn’t kill anything to eat unless we were in an apocalyptic world where it was a choice between killing to eat or starve to death.

Ma P hates blood sports with a passion but, like me, she recognises that they’ve been going on for centuries. What she took exception about with this clown is that he seemed to enjoy the fact that the pheasants were bred purely to used as moving targets. I’m not ok with that either. To put it in a little bit of perspective, I have a deer skin on the sitting room floor which I picked up in Alaska a few years back. Ma P hates it but, like I explained to her, it was killed for food and not just for shiggles. Every part of the dead animal is used by the native Americans for some purpose or another. Nothing goes to waste and the skin is just a by-product, same as leather for shoes. If the deer was shot just for its skin then I wouldn’t have it, same reason as I wouldn’t have a bear skin.

 

[derek kelly]

Few years back a colleague asked if anyone wanted a goose shooting for Christmas, one of our female colleagues called him all the bastards going, the following weekend I was working a landing with her & we got talking about horses, she let slip that she was going fox hunting at the weekend, after telling her what I thought I let my shooting colleague know what she said, he ripped into her.

 

[slim63]

Yep, that makes sense to me. As much as I love meat, I couldn’t kill anything to eat unless we were in an apocalyptic world where it was a choice between killing to eat or starve to death.

Ma P hates blood sports with a passion but, like me, she recognises that they’ve been going on for centuries. What she took exception about with this clown is that he seemed to enjoy the fact that the pheasants were bred purely to used as moving targets. I’m not ok with that either. To put it in a little bit of perspective, I have a deer skin on the sitting room floor which I picked up in Alaska a few years back. Ma P hates it but, like I explained to her, it was killed for food and not just for shiggles. Every part of the dead animal is used by the native Americans for some purpose or another. Nothing goes to waste and the skin is just a by-product, same as leather for shoes. If the deer was shot just for its skin then I wouldn’t have it, same reason as I wouldn’t have a bear skin.

I am with you mate I have killed for food or to remove vermin many times but never for fun, admittedly I probably didn't NEED to kill to eat but where I was bought up it was the norm and every little helps.
I no longer hunt as my accuracy is a little off for that kind of thing due to the knackered shoulder, stopping was purely out of respect for the quarry, nothing worse than causing injury rather than killing cleanly in my book

I also have similar feelings about some blood sports and breeding animals for just skin or fur eg hare coursing and fox hunting is cruel so is breeding mink just for some tarts coat collar, veal production is another one that I abhor with a passion, fucking Halal makes me so angry I could happily do serious damage to the butchers

No need for any animal to suffer in this day and age and it makes me spitting mad when it happens, I try to avoid cheap meat where possible as I don't want to line the pockets of the less responsible producers

 

[Cougar377]

I am with you mate I have killed for food or to remove vermin many times but never for fun, admittedly I probably didn't NEED to kill to eat but where I was bought up it was the norm and every little helps.
I no longer hunt as my accuracy is a little off for that kind of thing due to the knackered shoulder, stopping was purely out of respect for the quarry, nothing worse than causing injury rather than killing cleanly in my book

I also have similar feelings about some blood sports and breeding animals for just skin or fur eg hare coursing and fox hunting is cruel so is breeding mink just for some tarts coat collar, veal production is another one that I abhor with a passion, fucking Halal makes me so angry I could happily do serious damage to the butchers

No need for any animal to suffer in this day and age and it makes me spitting mad when it happens, I try to avoid cheap meat where possible as I don't want to line the pockets of the less responsible producers

My granddad taught me how to hunt and fish and how to gut and clean your kill.
His philosophy was simple and it's what he taught me... you only kill an animal for 3 reasons...

To eat it
Because it's a pest
To put it out of it's misery

 

[andyBeaker]

. If the deer was shot just for its skin then I wouldn’t have it, same reason as I wouldn’t have a bear skin.

plus there would be a hole in it.

 

[Pow-Lo]

plus there would be a hole in it.

Not if it was shot up the kazoo.

 

[Pow-Lo]

Just booked another cruise for September next year. I wonder if this one will actually go.

 

[ogr1]

Just booked another cruise for September next year. I wonder if this one will actually go without me?

Probably.

 

[Squag1]

Bought a circlip pliers.

 

[andyBeaker]

Bought a circlip pliers.

Why did the circlip need pliers?

 

[Squag1]

Why did the circlip need pliers?

Because it wasn't compliant

 

[Minkey]

walk with a friend and her dog up to a coffee shop at local pub


phoned up BT ref broadband, cheaper than last year and engineer coming Friday to install new hub

mowed lawn

watched BTCC

chilling

 

[derek kelly]

Got the results of my X-ray, degenerative disc disease & moderate to severe osteoarthritis.

 

[andyBeaker]

Booked a drive through PCR test

 

[andyBeaker]

And had a drive through PCR test, back home within an hour of booking it including twenty minutes drive each way.

BIg praise for the numerous volunteers who continue to work on various aspects of the pandemic.

 

[Malone]

Sat at a tyre company finally getting my new hoops fitted

can I also add it is very sunny and very hot