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crispix posted:i'm really worried that i've still not seen a ladybird since i realised i hadn't seen a ladybird in years a fair while ago Have a picture of one that said hello to me a couple of summers ago: 
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crispix posted:i'm really worried that i've still not seen a ladybird since i realised i hadn't seen a ladybird in years a fair while ago I moved into a new flat at the start of the year and for the first few weeks it was rammed with them. So that's where they've been, my flat.
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i'd never be forced into buying a toilet from a barista
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Sep 17, 2022 01:27
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OwlFancier posted:Have a picture of one that said hello to me a couple of summers ago: cute little buggers aren't they until you see them on their backs, anyway
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Sep 17, 2022 01:29
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crispix posted:cute little buggers aren't they It's trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, crispix?
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Sep 17, 2022 01:43
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i always help beasties if i can rescued a daddy longlegs stuck in an abandoned cobweb last week was making a noise like pfpfpfpfppfpfpfpffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff like them things you used to put in bike spokes, to make an exciting noise
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I made myself a 1m volcano vaporiser bag this week, and it's the perfect size to take with me when I venture into town: https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1570367236346466304 The only person who said anything to me was a well dressed tory looking pensioner outside the chippy. When I mentioned that it was cannabis, followed quickly with 'don't worry, it's legal, it's prescribed', she then asked me 'does it help?'. It then turned out that she suffered badly with chronic pain from her lupus, and confided in me that she heavily used cannabis when she spent a few years as a hippy in the 60's... I left her with the details on how to sign up with Sapphire Medical Clinics with the full knowledge that she'll easily be accepted. Not gonna lie... it feels good being able to potentially change peoples lives for the better in this way. My 1m volcano bag will be a fixture for every trip outside now.
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Sep 17, 2022 02:14
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Johnny Appleweed.
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Sep 17, 2022 02:16
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It felt good doing this too. Nobody's so far taken offence about vaping hindu kush for her royal deadness https://twitter.com/stuwyatt/status/1569667126419660802
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Even someone moving her in a wheelbarrow could clear that in an hour. Obviously more people might show up if you did this, but that would easily be solved by having the coffin just do loops around like Hyde Park or something. I'm getting a sudden inspiration concerning those big costumes for ITS A KNOCKOUT we have mothballed somewhere.
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 SOMEONE HAS TOUCHED THE COFFIN
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crispix posted:rescued a mouse too from two fat, spoiled kitties who were going to kill it for fun Back in 2020, I had this huge infestation of mice into my attic. I started using humane traps to catch and release them into the wild*. I started naming them with individual letters of the alphabet and ended up looping around to AO, so there was 42 of them caught by the end. I even took to recording them and putting it online since it was the Pandemic and we were all a bit bored/mad. My experience with caught mice is they are terrified of everything and just want to find something to stress eat and/or escape. *= It also made me realize it's pointless to use kill traps on mice.
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The Question IRL posted:Back in 2020, I had this huge infestation of mice into my attic. I started using humane traps to catch and release them into the wild*. I started naming them with individual letters of the alphabet and ended up looping around to AO Must have been an emotional day when you said goodbye to Aoife
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I consider it training for what it will be like in the future when I have to kick my grown up children out of my house and make them get jobs. (But excellent pun.)
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The Question IRL posted:*= It also made me realize it's pointless to use kill traps on mice. Elaborate? They've always seemed to work for me
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Mice have never, ever fallen for any of the humane traps I've tried. The ones in my flat are crafty bastards.
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Sep 17, 2022 09:20
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Have you tried killing their Queen? Then you can booby trap the tiny little coffin
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-62925746quote:A former BBC radio presenter found guilty of stalking four people including broadcaster Jeremy Vine has been jailed for five and a half years.
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Sep 17, 2022 09:38
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Just had a look at his youtube channel, dude seems like a bit of a nutcase.
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I'm vaguely aware of this, get the impression he was an anti-vax qanon style nutter
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He was still making youtube videos about the case whilst it was ongoing having a go at everyone involved and how they were all in on it so I doubt the veracity of his solicitors claims that he is now very sorry about it all.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:He was still making youtube videos about the case whilst it was ongoing having a go at everyone involved and how they were all in on it so I doubt the veracity of his solicitors claims that he is now very sorry about it all. The fact that the judge also decided to rule against him on several civil counts at the same time as the criminal sentencing does suggest that he really went out of his way to piss off a judge.
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fuctifino posted:It felt good doing this too. Nobody's so far taken offence about vaping hindu kush for her royal deadness Okay but imagine if you had a full one and you snagged the bag and it ripped 
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Failed Imagineer posted:Elaborate? They've always seemed to work for me Okay so, it's 2020 and I find mice running around my attict. I set up some humane traps. Clear looking plastic ones that look like a prison you would put Magneto in. I use a variety of bait, but mostly Peanut Butter in paper cupcake molds (so the peanut butter doesn't get on the inside of the trap.) put at the back of the trap. The reason is the peanut butter is so sticky, the mouse can't just grab it and run. They spend ages trying to pull the stuff and set off the trap. I also put some small pieces of paper along the tube of the trap so the mouse has to navigate the trap to get to the food and it helps improve the traps success ratio. So I am setting these traps and checking them every day. I catch a mouse, then I take the mouse out to the field on the farm we live and let them go. Next day there is another mouse. I am wondering if it's the same mouse coming back in and would I be best off using kill traps. Then I have an idea. I take some of my wife's (old) Nail polish and apply it to the claws of the mice I catch. It's bright red and very easily viewable on a caught mouse. I then decide to dump the mice in fields about a five minute drive from my house. (Still within the 5KM range we were allowed go at this stage in the Pandemic.) What I notice is the mice I catch don't have the red claw marks. The only time I catch a mouse with Nail Polish on it's claws was the one time it was raining and I released it in the back field. Eventually after catching and releasing some 40 odd mice, the mice infestation stops after I found and filled a number of holes in the attic. So my conclusion. 1) If the mice I was catching and releasing were the same ones getting back into the house, a Kill Trap would have been an effective method of stopping them. 2) If the mice I was catching and releasing were different mice, a Kill Trap wouldn't have been an effective method of stopping them since it is different mice every time. 3) By marking them (even not withstanding that the mice could have chewed off the nail polish) and then releasing them a very good distance away, I could be reasonably sure it was different mice getting inside my attic and not the same mice over and over again. 4) Releasing the mice very far away and dealing with the root cause of how they were getting into my house was a better solution to the problem than killing the mice. Post Script: We have two cats and one dog. In all their time here the dog has killed one mouse that got into the kitchen. The cats have killed a few mice, but mostly they were ones they killed outside and brought into the house. Traps and filler is the way to go. And Nail Polish too, I suppose.
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crispix posted:i'm really worried that i've still not seen a ladybird since i realised i hadn't seen a ladybird in years a fair while ago a ladybird landed on my trouser leg just last week it came home with me eventually I put him out via the window, but he seemed really insistent about hanging out for awhile
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Aipsh posted:Okay but imagine if you had a full one and you snagged the bag and it ripped That's why I always carry this in the side pannier of the wheelchair: an emergency Dynavap, induction heater, 3 strains of meds and a way to decap and debowl the dynavap.  
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OwlFancier posted:Johnny Appleweed. lol
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The Question IRL posted:
Dogs that are mousers tend to be better at destroying nests that dealing with individual mice. Their instinct is to dig out the nest and kill all the babies, so unless you find the nest they tend to be a bit passive and useless with adult mice.
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Also dugs can turn up a nest of mice without writing a blog post about about how the human ability to plough a field consigns us to eternal misery.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Dogs that are mousers tend to be better at destroying nests that dealing with individual mice. Their instinct is to dig out the nest and kill all the babies, so unless you find the nest they tend to be a bit passive and useless with adult mice. Our dog is a boarder collie mix.(so a medium sized dog.) We aren't sure what the rest of the breed is but I suspect it is some smaller breed like Jack Russle or Terrier. So she does try and do the mouser thing of sticking her snout in holes and exhaling to scare prey out. I haven't seen it work, but I did see her jump on a rat and kill it in the field once.
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Guavanaut posted:Also dugs can turn up a nest of mice without writing a blog post about about how the human ability to plough a field consigns us to eternal misery. Hey The Secret of NIMH owns
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... majware? https://twitter.com/Albion_2000_LDN/status/1569926557271040000
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fuctifino posted:... Lovely job. 
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Our dog is a Yorkie/JRT mix and the sweetest possible girl. She's also pushing 15 and needs help jumping up on furniture and such now. A couple months ago mum was sitting in the garden and saw a blur, heard a squeak, and the dog had absolutely murdered a rat that was trying to sneak along one of the flowerbeds. Just shot across, one shake, done. And then we had to spend half an hour trying to comfort the dog that no, in this specific instance, biting is okay and fine. She was sure she'd been bad.  This is her, just before a haircut, attempting to get my attention at 2am from my doorway. She can't come in here, you see, because the cat is a tyrant. 
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HopperUK posted:Our dog is a Yorkie/JRT mix and the sweetest possible girl. She's also pushing 15 and needs help jumping up on furniture and such now. My aunt had a Yorkie that lived to 21... blind and balding but very much cared for. ----- Alex Belfield watched his vids years ago; a self centered, pompous grifter if i ever saw one.
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This is how they queue on the continent in comparison https://twitter.com/zdfbayern/status/1571035609539694592?s=46&t=K8pE3FH-58QTjMIfhvkiZg
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Honj Steak posted:This is how they queue on the continent in comparison I’m not surprised to hear that the German Kawasaki is already operational
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