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Guavanaut posted:Except the SF MPs, squirrels are piss scared of Gaelic. God I remember we were openly encouraged to kill black and grey squirrels here in Norn Iron. Which to be fair seems to have worked compared to whatever the gently caress they attempted in England and Wales. ... Although now that I think of it someone did once tell me that the reintroduction of the Pine Martin to Ireland did most of the work, rather than the stones I hucked at the wee skitters. edit: loving goddamnit
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Nilbop posted:Which to be fair seems to have worked compared to whatever the gently caress they attempted in England and Wales.
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Just remembered that Blair's cabinet's response (and this sounds like it ought to be a stupid joke like the above, but I have to stress that it was not, or if it was then it was one that made it into law) was to make it a criminal offence to buy and sell grey squirrels. Because that's obviously where squirrels come from, the free market and insufficient people having criminal records.
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A few pages back but saw this in the replies and loving hell https://twitter.com/canarynorwich/status/1616020075873443841
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In 1972. E: lmao the guy looks like the NORF FC guy came to life. 
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Appears he cannot do basic maths, which is why it all totals up correctly for him.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1616073420474572800?s=19
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bessantj posted:A few pages back but saw this in the replies and loving hell It's bollox anyway because: Income: YTS £50 + Housing benefit £22 = £72 Outgoings: Bedsit £32 Travel £10 Food £10 Leaving £20 to live on and party 4x a week with. In London in the mid 80s for me: income from full time secretarial job: £135pw (having had the audacity to graduate in 1981 when there were gently caress all jobs and when jobs opened up again, employers not interested in those who had been graduated more than a year or so because we had become 'cynical' instead of pliable). Rent £48pw Travel to work (East Finchley to Euston Sq) £30pw Quarterly bills in shared house with 7 other people - my share averaged over a week: £30pw (our phone bill was a whopping £300 pq sometimes because SOME people made long distance calls and didn't write them down in the book). This was before mobile phones. And don't talk to me about heating being left on 24/7 and big fights over turning it off & on - me taking fuses out of heaters, others putting them back in. Leaving just £27 pw for food, clothes, entertainment, college fees (I did evening post-grad degrees) and SFA for 'savings'. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jan 19, 2023 |
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it was either going to be loaded parents or expert shoplifter
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or drug dealer
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Purebred squirrel breeder.
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Guavanaut posted:Purebred squirrel breeder. Squirrels are illegal to own as a dangerous wild animal now, they're also a mandatory-euthanise species for vets. We called my lil guy leninald because he was a refugee from the law and also dench af
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If you capture an injury grey squiggle it's also against the law to release it, you must take it to a vets to be destroyed, or destroy it in a humane manner.
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thrown in asbo jail for one thousand years for squirrel treason E: apropos of nothing except my supper, why does clotted cream get more runny the more you poke it? I can't think of any other substances that work that way and it's a peculiar property of the stuff.
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Grey squiggles are actually really damaging to nesting birds and trees in general. They breed like rabbits and are difficult to keep under control. Squirrel jerky tastes great though.
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Salisbury Snape posted:Grey squiggles are actually really damaging to nesting birds and trees in general. They breed like rabbits and are difficult to keep under control. Squirrel jerky tastes great though. OK swinson
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Salisbury Snape posted:They breed like rabbits and are difficult to keep under control. Squirrel jerky tastes great though. So we just need to release lots of Salisbury Snapes 
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OwlFancier posted:E: apropos of nothing except my supper, why does clotted cream get more runny the more you poke it? I can't think of any other substances that work that way and it's a peculiar property of the stuff. It's a proper chemical phenomenon http://soft-matter.seas.harvard.edu/index.php/Shear_thinning Same principle for shaking a bottle to get ketchup out So glad I got a MSc in biochemical engineering, this is the most useful I've felt since knowing what lyophilisation is during a pub quiz
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Marmaduke! posted:It's a proper chemical phenomenon I thought that was just to chuck the ketchup from the bottom to the opening, learn something every day.
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I'm not sure but I think someone is accusing Jacinda Ardern of being Hitler. https://twitter.com/_tbond/status/1616167712065204224
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I'm a grey squirrel sitting in the bushes watching rabbits, figuring it out.
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Guavanaut posted:you get arrested and thrown in jail, these days. There are some weird rules about what animal parts you can be found in possession of. My road-kill badger skull and claws are legally dubious. The human bones I have are even more so - scored what are probably a Victorian student doctor's reference set from a antique/junk shop for £25 in '82 but they've tightened up the rules a lot since then. I once found a road-kill otter. Being me I phoned up the National Museum in Edinburgh and asked them if they'd like it for taxidermy. They said yes so I took it up. On delivery the guy who received it made a point of telling me he could have me arrested just for handling it. There's gratitude. Talking of badger parts, a friend of mine was training to be a mammal bone specialist and was building her own reference collection of skeletal material. She'd picked up a fresh road-kill badger carcass, and temporarily stored it in a freezer in the flat she was living in. Can't remember the specifics but the police came round to the flat one night and started poking around. Something straight out of an Ealing comedy followed, various flatmates distracting the policemen while she extracted the corpse, hastily tried to disguise what it was and then lugged it out to the waiting boot of her boyfriends car to make a quick getaway. Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'm not sure but I think someone is accusing Jacinda Ardern of being Hitler.
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EmptyVessel posted:There are some weird rules about what animal parts you can be found in possession of. A while back, a friend had to figure out how to deal with a dead whale that had washed up on the beach. In between people excitedly sending her videos of exploding whales, it turns out that this is an insanely complicated mess of regulations with overlapping jurisdictions and she was on the phone to various agencies for ages trying to find out what you were meant to do, who needed to know about it, and what things would get you into trouble if you did or did not do them. Delays in dealing with a deal whale does not make the situation more pleasant, it seems.
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Tesseraction posted:it is rather funny to me that I have managed to forget her name and remember her only for the squirrel killing memes Skarsnik posted:OK swinson god loving drat it skarnik
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Spangly A posted:You can take a squirrel to the vet but either they're going to kill it or [redacted] and then I'll have another squirrel James Herriot, Reanimator
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Tesseraction posted:god loving drat it skarnik Don't worry you only got half the name E: unless her first name is OK. I can't be certain it isn't
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Microplastics posted:Don't worry you only got half the name it's extremely close: it's Jo so swap the letters and reduce k by 1 letter of the alphabet
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Tesseraction posted:so swap the letters and reduce k by 1 letter of the alphabet Instructions unclear, squirrel catapulted into the stratosphere
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Danger - Octopus! posted:A while back, a friend had to figure out how to deal with a dead whale that had washed up on the beach. In between people excitedly sending her videos of exploding whales, it turns out that this is an insanely complicated mess of regulations with overlapping jurisdictions and she was on the phone to various agencies for ages trying to find out what you were meant to do, who needed to know about it, and what things would get you into trouble if you did or did not do them. Delays in dealing with a deal whale does not make the situation more pleasant, it seems. Oh dear god, the smell! Cold water marine mammals' blubber takes ages to rot and is rank. I once buried a young seal for bones and then foolishly dug it up far too soon... The smell (or molecules carrying it I guess) got trapped in my nasal cavity and I could smell it for about a week. I did not go back for it. Reminds me. When I was working in Gibraltar (Neanderthal hunting in sea-level caves) we came in one morning to find a dead dolphin or porpoise bobbing in the waves next to one of them. It had started to rot internally and consequently was blown up like a balloon. One of the directors bravely waded into the surf to push it further out so it could be carried away from us. The rest of us all watched with bated breath, low-key hoping it would pop and explode all over him. The site entrance would have smelled terrible but... would have been worth it. He was a decent guy but the humour potential overrode everything else. His hands stank afterwards. Pro tip - if you need to clean that sort of rancid fat type smell off your skin orange juice is your friend.
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You admit to being part of the Big Archeology conspiracy to hunt neanderthals so people don't find out they're still alive!
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OwlFancier posted:You admit to being part of the Big Archeology conspiracy to hunt neanderthals so people don't find out they're still alive! To quote Wolverine, "I said huntin' honeybunch, I said nothin' about killin'."  I'd be delighted to find living Neanderthals, I think they rule. Wouldn't want to argue with one though, they had very dense bones so their muscles could be incredibly strong. As Erik Trinkaus once said, " Picture peak Arnold Schwarzenegger, that's a below average Neanderthal physique." Our puny modern bones would snap if we had their muscles. I actually think that, just like the Australian Dream-time stories have detailed descriptions of mega fauna that have been extinct for tens of thousands of years, European folk tales about trolls and ogres are memories of Neanderthals. To reassure you we didn't find any bits of Neanderthal, just a bunch of tools and most excitingly a preserved Neander-turd! P.S. Archeology? What are you, American? E: Correcting Wolverine quote. Uncanny X-Men 109 p.9. Please picture this in a yellow box. EmptyVessel fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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