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Azza Bamboo posted:If the noise is the problem then use glue instead of poison. Don't use glue traps, they'll gnaw off their own legs then go bleed out in an insulation space and stink
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We have mice occasionally, but I don't like the idea of killing them, they just run around and squeak at things.
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We had a severe mouse infestation when I first moved in here. It had been shared accommodation for about 20 years so nobody was keeping pets. Elderly poison traps all over the place, going completely ignored. Adopted a half-starved stray kitten shortly after we had our first baby. About 2 months after that the mice hosed right off and stayed gone. Mouse-free for 5 years 
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Tesseraction posted:At uni once I opened the cupboard the bread is stored in and pulled it by the bag only to find it was just the crust hollowed out from the back of the cupboard by a motherfucking mouse who was still there and looking at me with what felt like a hint of smugness before fleeing. Reminds me of when I was a waiter. Talking to a fellow worker and walking backwards into one of our food storage cupboards I saw his eyes widen in shock and I felt a CRUNCH beneath my shoe. He said he saw the mouse look at him from a lower shelf, then shot under my shoe. Poor wee bugger
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Maugrim posted:Elderly poison traps
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So, story about mice and traps. I live in a converted farm house, so mice are really common. Even with two cats, a dog and my parents have a cat*, mice are plentiful. In early 2020 the mice started getting into my attic in numbers that were very loud and notable. I decided to deploy traps but my wife insisted on only using humane traps. I agreed to this. My first attempt was to take a bucket trap (basically a very deep bucket with wooden ramps built onto the side and a qualplex pipe that ran across the top.) and remove the water from it so they wouldn't drown. I covered the pipe with peanut butter so it acted like an event from Gladiators. It ended up catching about three mice (who were all released into the fields outside alive) before it stopped working. I think the peanut butter on the pipe got too sticky and the mice could use that for purchase. My next trick was to get these humane mouse traps from Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Old-Tjikko...1091669&sr=8-12 These worked really well and had the plus side of looking like a prison you would put the mouse leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in. So what I did was got a bunch of these traps and baited them with either grated cheese, Peanut Butter or Peanut Butter mixed with Nutella. It worked a treat. What I started doing was tagging the mice with Nail Varnish on their toes so I could check any mice that were caught again to confirm that they weren't the same mice getting back into the house. I would then release the mice into either the nearby fields, before starting to drive further down the road to release them in fields in the middle of the countryside. Basically I caught and released about 40-50 mice using this method. In all the time I did it, only one mouse came back with Nail Varnish on their toes and that was one who was released in a nearby field instead of the one from down the road. The impression I got was, killing the mice would have been pointless because new mice were getting in all the time. I eventually found a few holes in the insulation of the attic that I filled with expanding foam and that seemed to stop them. In the last few months, more mice have shown up, but these ones aren't getting trapped in the humane mouse trap. I don't know if it's because they smell too much of other mice ( I have washed them thoroughly) they don't like the peanut butter inside them or if their ancestors told them tales of the cruel human wizard with their force traps. * = And this cat is an Apex Predator/Great White Hunter. Mice, Birds, Moore Hens, Ducklings, Rabbits? He's hunted and killed them all. I haven't ever seen him catch a bat, but my smaller cat did it once, so I think he probably could do it.
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May 15, 2021 16:29
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happyhippy posted:CRUNCH ...barefoot 
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May 15, 2021 16:30
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You can get plugs that emit high pitched noises to gently caress off mice and rats.
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May 15, 2021 16:30
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Just burn your house down. No house, no mouse.
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May 15, 2021 16:36
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Oops wrong thread. I choose to believe that everyone keeps that one pair of jeans that they're now too fat for but won't throw away because "it's gonna fit me in a couple of months once I've lost this weight".
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/15/david-miliband-charity-unpaid-internships-international-rescue-committee NewLabour for the masses...
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/15/david-miliband-charity-unpaid-internships-international-rescue-committee Jesus christ.
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May 15, 2021 17:07
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Have you considered hiring Lee Evans and Nathan Lane to get ride of the mice
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International Rescue? To be fair, the spacehips don't come cheap
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blunt posted:I choose to believe that everyone keeps that one pair of jeans that they're now too fat for but won't throw away because "it's gonna fit me in a couple of months once I've lost this weight". Just the one pair? I have about 5 pairs I can't get into now. And my work suits from my corporate days. I did one time manage not only to get into a pair that were from my slimmer days but ALSO they got too big! I remember those days - when I was thin for a week or two. (Well it was a bit longer than that, but I'm allowing for poetic licence.)
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Borrovan posted:Jfc we learned we had a mouse problem when we moved into this place when I went down to the kitchen in the dark. Heard the crunch. My cats a hunter, soon after the lad was born, I came down to find a dead mouse on the kitchen floor. Eh. I checked it was dead then binned it. Later on, kid woke, I went upstairs got him and brought him down. got to the bottom of the stairs and stepped on the floo.... Second mouse of the day. Humane mouse traps bated with peanut butter or chocolate spread. (Nuttella does both) will bring you much success. Mice go nuts for both of them.
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sassassin posted:I can't find the hole the mice are getting into my attic and I had to sleep downstairs last night because they were apparently playing with the blocks of poison I put up there, causing an even worse racket than usual. I was looking into mouse poisons recently. Been using the most common type which is this slowly acting blood anti-coagulant whatchacallit; there are many variants but for these London mice the most effective seems to be these grains of wheat laced with it. The mice love it, if you keep some around in boxes, any visiting mouse will eat that instead of trying to get into your actual food. But recently the mice had a nest somewhere near, probably next door, so there were several and they just kept coming back, the poison takes "4-10 days" or some poo poo to kill them so it wasn't optimal. Complete pain in the neck to try to find and patch up whatever holes they were using. I tried a different poison which they say should kill them in under 24 hours, puts them in a coma apparently... but the problem is that the mice will simply not eat that stuff. They ignore it. Oh well! These mice are also smart enough that they simply won't go into any traps. I've tried traditional mouse traps and also a fancy electric trap, but no. I don't know how exactly they detect the traps, maybe they can tell from the traps having metal and moving parts? That could be why the glue traps will work since they don't have either, but yeah just don't use those horrible things. Mice are a hilariously difficult problem to solve since how can you even find the holes, and how can you persuade them to either go into (non-horrible) traps or eat a fast-acting poison. (Also, I'm allergic to cats)
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happyhippy posted:You can get plugs that emit high pitched noises to gently caress off mice and rats. I've got one it doesn't do anything.
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Oh no. I can't imagine putting down something that kills in days. It feels unsporting.
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jaete posted:I was looking into mouse poisons recently. 
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May 15, 2021 17:51
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Tesseraction posted:A lot of international charities have really high salaries to pull in people with political connections or celebrity status. Kinda speaks to the hollowness of certain charities but I guess it's unavoidable in our current economic system. They like saying it's really important but it always read to me as an excuse for the management to make out like theives. There's no way David alone brings in more than 700 grand worth of value to the charity.
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We had trouble with rats coming into the pharmacy upstairs from the shop next door, and the guy who came out put down glue traps. loving brutal. It did make them leave but gently caress.
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HopperUK posted:We had trouble with rats coming into the pharmacy upstairs from the shop next door, and the guy who came out put down glue traps. loving brutal. It did make them leave but gently caress. Not a fan of glue for rats, will admit to that.
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For reference, the average pay for a charity CEO is around £70-80k. Which is still way too high but David definitely isn't worth 10 times that.
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Vaccine Get! Partner went for her second (she's immunosuppressed) and mentioned I was still waiting and got a letter to book with GP since I live with her. They told me that if I got there quick they'd jab me and they did
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https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/liverpool-constituency-becomes-first-to-vote-through-no-confidence-motion-in-starmer-269495/ Liverpool constituency becomes first to vote through no-confidence motion in Starmer "Instead of attacking the Tories, Keir Starmer has spent more time attacking grassroots members" quote:A constituency in Liverpool has become the first to vote through a no-confidence motion in Sir Keir Starmer following heavy losses in the local elections.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/liverpool-constituency-becomes-first-to-vote-through-no-confidence-motion-in-starmer-269495/  Of course it's Liverpool
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To my knowledge, anybody who's done that previously has been suspended for antisemitism for
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Pablo Bluth posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/15/david-miliband-charity-unpaid-internships-international-rescue-committee "A spokesperson for IRC UK said: “IRC UK does not use unpaid interns and is a separate legal entity from the IRC’s global headquarters in the United States.”" Oh well, that's ok then  --- Working in London's old theatres, you get used to mice zooming across the auditorium floor while you're working. And good at remembering to keep your Pret bag on the desk.
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Liverpool Wavertree specifically have had multiple members suspended for antisemitism so they might bring that back up. IIRC it was where Chris Williamson gave the speech that got him booted out of the party. As an aside I saw more actual anti semitism from people defending him than at any other time from Labour members.
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il_cornuto posted:For reference, the average pay for a charity CEO is around £70-80k. Which is still way too high but David definitely isn't worth 10 times that. That's what some quite average software engineers get paid as well, with zero responsibilities. It's one of those tricky ones, if they got paid less who would do it other than idealists who are often not that well suited to the task.
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Josef bugman posted:Not a fan of glue for rats, will admit to that. We could hear as we were leaving at 6:30pm that there was obviously one stuck and it was already all locked up and none of us are exactly the type to be able to brain a rat, so the poor fucker had to wait for the morning. I'll never use glue traps in my drat house. I'd rather just live with the rats. ...we did have rats in our attic a few years back and a guy from the council came and put down poison and they left. I woulda been okay leaving them up there if it hadn't been for the racket they made running around all night.
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Poisons aren't great for animals in your house because of the smell, yeah. They are best used for outdoors animals like pigeons and squirrels in your local park.
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GlyphGryph posted:Poisons aren't great for animals in your house because of the smell, yeah. They are best used for outdoors animals like pigeons and squirrels in your local park. Okay Tom
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So remember those two guys held in Glasgow? Looks like they were legally entitled to be in the country. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/immigration-raid-home-office-glasgow-b1848079.html Might be a case for unlawful imprisonment. As well as Defamation of their character.
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Aramoro posted:That's what some quite average software engineers get paid as well, with zero responsibilities. It's one of those tricky ones, if they got paid less who would do it other than idealists who are often not that well suited to the task. Yes far better to get people who couldn't give a gently caress who are unsuited for the task.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Yes far better to get people who couldn't give a gently caress who are unsuited for the task. Are most Charity CEO's unsuited to the task? I guess it comes down to what you think is a reasonable wage for a Charity CEO.
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Aramoro posted:Are most Charity CEO's unsuited to the task? I guess it comes down to what you think is a reasonable wage for a Charity CEO. In my experience, Yes.
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