Preparedness for when

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NUATHA a friends husband is part of a local shoot, and we often get a brace of pheasant in the feather during the season. He says that the shoot only allow so many brace to be taken per person and they end up with such a surplus that they take them to the city incinnerator for disposal by the thousand. That's what the 'business' shoots do for game, it's a crying shame. Either use what you kill or don't kill it at all, and if the purpose of the 'business' shoot is just killing for pleasure I think it is totally unacceptable. Particularly if they don't limit the number of kills allowed per gun per shoot, total madness!!! Lyn xxx.

GreyQueen

That's just wicked, Lyn.

Wastefulness in any form should be abhorrent, but to raise pheasant in coops, let them run around the woods for a few weeks so you can kid yourself that they're wild, then drive them up in the air before the guns is sad and bad.

Far better to do what a pal of mine still winces about; intra-company PAINTBALLING. You really get to know what your colleagues are like when they get a chance to go Rambo on your hide with paintball gear.

I'd be up for a go but the only people I know who get to team-build work in the commercial sector. We build our team by sharing baked goods and occasionally whingeing together in a weatherspoons after work. Cheesy chips, anyone?

westcoastscot

I hate when people shoot for sport - idiots! why not just shoot clays? it's not as though the birds are wild anyway is it? We used to get a regular supply of birds as all the kids on the island served time as beaters in exchange for a good feed in season and shooting lessons out of season!

GQ we have a community woodland here and the army cadets painball - apparently anyone can join in if they wish? Shall I sign you up? (can measure you up for your doublet and hose while you're here)

WCS

GreyQueen

westcoastscot wrote: »

I hate when people shoot for sport - idiots! why not just shoot clays? it's not as though the birds are wild anyway is it? We used to get a regular supply of birds as all the kids on the island served time as beaters in exchange for a good feed in season and shooting lessons out of season!

GQ we have a community woodland here and the army cadets painball - apparently anyone can join in if they wish? Shall I sign you up? (can measure you up for your doublet and hose while you're here)

WCS

I'd be tempted. I once took my birthday posse on one of those indoor laser shoot thingies.

It was enormous fun to charge about in the dark ambushing each other, hearing grown men and women in their thirties and forties laughing and playing with the unselfconscious glee of children.

My pal who got to go paintballing was made to do it as part of his job - he's more a lover than a fighter. He found out on arrival the The Other Dept were hardcore and even had their own paintballing gear. Never a good sign. He was "killed" with a shot to the mouth and said getting the orange paint off his teeth and tongue was a total nightmare.

I'd be up for a go if the opportunity presents itself but expect to be bruised by the paintballs even if you have protective gear.

It'd take me most of a day's travel to get to your neck of the woods, unfortunately. I take a 20 in doublet and hose, with extra length on the arms and legs, pls.

BessieBooBoo

metherer wrote: »

Thanks Bessie, a v useful list. Am about to put a Mr T order in, so will add some extras

You are welcome. So many people contribute on here, and it's helped me, so I like to contribute too...

BBB

GreyQueen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbAl__y6mJw

This is a brilliant talk. If you haven't time for the whole 15 mins, enter at 6.15 and hear about how "your" money in your "own" bank accounts isn't "yours" at all. This guy has a brilliant speaking voice, so low that my desk is vibrating.

Listen and be very afraid. Why the heck don't they teach this in schools? Oh wait, that'd be because we'd never trust them as far as we could spit a rat if we knew the truth.

Just been talking to ma muvva who has spent the afternoon nose-deep in the Observer which is going on about Quantitive Easing in the USA. I think she thought I'd gone off into the far reaches of Tin Hat Country when I keep banging on about this - bygorry, I think that she starts to get it.............

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

nuatha

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

NUATHA a friends husband is part of a local shoot, and we often get a brace of pheasant in the feather during the season. He says that the shoot only allow so many brace to be taken per person and they end up with such a surplus that they take them to the city incinnerator for disposal by the thousand. That's what the 'business' shoots do for game, it's a crying shame. Either use what you kill or don't kill it at all, and if the purpose of the 'business' shoot is just killing for pleasure I think it is totally unacceptable. Particularly if they don't limit the number of kills allowed per gun per shoot, total madness!!! Lyn xxx.

Fully agree, I like the idea that the beaters get their brace, but don't see the point of killing more than can be used. Thankfully the shoots I'm aware of in this neck of the country aren't that large.
I'd have more respect for the process if the guns had to butcher and prepare and eat their kills. Standing in a blind isn't team building in my opinion, though the rest could be.

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Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

We bought a Bioethanol stove today for the dining room

Do you mean a cooking stove, or a fireplace?

Perplexed_Pineapple

Wow what a lot of posts this weekend, havne't read them all yet so apologies if this has already been touched on. I think a very good time to have cash in hand and food in the pantry is right now. I've had a very strong impression from what I've read over the last few months that news about the Eurozone crisis was being damped down, pending the election in Germany (the eurocrats didn't want to upset the German taxpayers pre-polling). The polls were this weekend, it looks as though Angela Merkel is re-elected, and we may well see more bad news coming out of Greece in the next fortnight.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10326978/Eurozone-tensions-bubble-as-Merkel-storms-to-victory.html
On a different matter entirely, I found a proper tin hat in a junk shop today - a WWII ARP warden's helmet. They wanted 25 squids for it though so no go but I was very tempted :rotfl::rotfl:

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GreyQueen wrote: »

ETA city pigeons flying into the windows at Shoebox Towers and dropping down dead is a fairly common occurrence.

Just hope one doesn't fly through the window, while you are in the dentist chair.