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TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #105 on:** March 28, 2005, 09:12:16 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
So you have no problem with anyone enjoying killing so long as it is useful to you?

lazs

Ah lazs.. gee man.. I cannot control what other people 'enjoy'.. I use what I need to survive.. There is a natural order to things as well as an unnatural. Some things are breed to be slaughtered, some things are not..

Personnally I do not eat much meat.. I plant a garden and I tend it.. I typically can at the end of the season.. Do I enjoy picking the fruits of my labor? yes I do..

moot · « **Reply #106 on:** March 28, 2005, 10:14:34 AM »

anthropomorphic.

lazs2 · « **Reply #107 on:** March 28, 2005, 03:04:39 PM »

but you still enjoy meat and you still enjoy fruits and grains and veggies that other people have killed to get to you. The natural order of things.

I guess I am just havbing a hard time with you being so upset with people making a sport of a chore that needs to be done. It seems so.... dishonest and hypocritical.

lazs

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #108 on:** March 28, 2005, 03:19:46 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
but you still enjoy meat and you still enjoy fruits and grains and veggies that other people have killed to get to you. The natural order of things.

I guess I am just havbing a hard time with you being so upset with people making a sport of a chore that needs to be done. It seems so.... dishonest and hypocritical.

lazs

Well, one thing to get straight.. I offered very little view in this thread.. Then you post and call me foolish and/or hypocritical about killing for fun and then went on and on and on how the world would end unless we kill all the vermin.. Which is false.. The example you gave of vermin causing food prices to rise is false (at least in todays farming market).. Then you gave a 'save the children' example.. Then you missrepresent me and say I am criticizing people for their work, which was false.. How many different ways can you twist this lazs?

I can't understand how you don't see a difference.. I can.. Obviously there are times when things for whatever reason have to be killed/slaughtered.. This to me is nature or natural. But this thread was not started under these natural happenings..

So, I dont really know what it is you believe I am so upset about.. I have said throughout this thread and still maintain that I do not agree with killing for 'fun' . I do not know how to explain it any better lazs..

Lizking · « **Reply #109 on:** March 28, 2005, 06:07:33 PM »

One man's fun is another man's work.

My termite guy loves killing those little ****ers, and I thank him for doing so. Hell, I even PAY him to massacre the blind, helpless little wood-maggots.

lazs2 · « **Reply #110 on:** March 29, 2005, 08:42:49 AM »

exactly liz... I just think that dude want's to be PC and smug about the whole thing when he should be thanking the exterminators and slaughterhouse workers and butchers.

but nash... I think we got off track.. do you have any firearms training at all? were you ever taught safe gun handling and are you familiar with the guns being used? You do know that you need ear and eye protection to right?

Be safe... have fun.

lazs

Skydancer · « **Reply #111 on:** March 29, 2005, 08:56:52 AM »

Guns again:lol

Nash · « **Reply #112 on:** March 29, 2005, 09:02:31 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
"...but nash... I think we got off track.. do you have any firearms training at all? were you ever taught safe gun handling and are you familiar with the guns being used? You do know that you need ear and eye protection to right?" - lazs

Ya know... That's a really good question. Didn't even occur to me. I guess I just sort of reckoned he's gonna show me how when we get there. Along those lines... am I even allowed to do this?

eskimo2 · « **Reply #113 on:** March 29, 2005, 09:30:35 AM »

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Originally posted by Nash
Ya know... That's a really good question. Didn't even occur to me. I guess I just sort of reckoned he's gonna show me how when we get there. Along those lines... am I even allowed to do this?

Find out if you need a hunting license; you probably do. Gets some gun safety training if you never have had any before. Ask him how many beers he is planning on bringing; if it is more than two I would either decline to go or insist that there not be any drinking.

eskimo

Airhead · « **Reply #114 on:** March 29, 2005, 10:01:08 AM »

You don't need no stinkin hunting license to shoot something there's not a bag limit on. You also don't need no training either- just keep the business end of the gun away from your face.

Eye protection is a good idea in case the gophers start throwing rocks back at you, but hearing protection isn't necessary, especially if you have a wife at home who's going to nag you about wasting an afternoon shooting varmits. Who needs to hear that. right?

Ask him how many beers he's bringing; if it's less than a six pack you might want to bring your own, and maybe a pint of Crown Royal to calm your nerves and steady your aim.

Now go have fun, pilgrim, and shoot them gophers. Do it for the Vegans and the cows.

DoctorYO · « **Reply #115 on:** March 29, 2005, 10:38:22 AM »

"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote."

"I got to get into this dude's pelt and crawl around for a few days. Who's the gopher's ally. His friends. The harmless squirrel and the friendly rabbit. "

Go get em fearless hunters..

DoctorYo

TheDudeDVant · « **Reply #116 on:** March 29, 2005, 12:30:44 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
exactly liz... I just think that dude want's to be PC and smug about the whole thing when he should be thanking the exterminators and slaughterhouse workers and butchers.

lazs

lol lazs.. thanks for the advice.. But how thick is your head?? Or is it trouble with reading? Or do you just like referring to me in your post??

I couldn't give a single watermelon for PC.. What you describe here is different from my original point in this thread.. But that really doesn't matter to you does it....

Or wait, was I suppose to say save the termites?? lol Ya know, I have a termite/pest contract on my house and my rental.. But I dont let them spray poision.. I pay extra for termite relocation.. For the ants I place ant food in the lot next door to attract the ants away from my area.. If they happen to make it in my house, I will place extra food in hopes they get their food stock for the winter and dont return to my kitchen.. lol

LoL Just trying to do my part and fit the picture you enjoy drawing of me.. 8)

lazs2 · « **Reply #117 on:** March 29, 2005, 02:26:11 PM »

ok dude... so you have no problem at all with people killing vemin and enjoying doing it? You are sending mixed signals. It appears that you find it distateful that anyone would kill gophers and it also appears that you take great joy in getting all PC about the whole thing.

nash.. get some kind of ear protection that allows you to hear sounds that are low but shut down loud noises like guns that will most certainly damage your hearing. safety glasses, shooting glases... even good sunglasses are better than nothing. If the guy knows you are not a firearms kinda guy and he isn't getting all teachy about gun safety... probly he isn't who you want to be out there with. minimum... point the gun in a sfe direction and keep your finger off the trigger till you intend to shoot.

I have no idea what you need for shooting in your area but can't imagine you need any kind of licence to kill gophers.

lazs

DoctorYO · « **Reply #118 on:** March 29, 2005, 08:14:40 PM »

Im qouting Bill Murray from Caddy Shack...

"Relax Francis"

DoctorYo

Airhead · « **Reply #119 on:** March 29, 2005, 09:14:00 PM »

Hmmmm....Methinks The Dude is a fancy lad.