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Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Furball on September 15, 2004, 12:59:37 PM
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13222483,00.html

Gotta ask who the real animals are, the hunters or the hunted ;) :D
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: GRUNHERZ on September 15, 2004, 01:06:27 PM
No more fox hunts in england???  Whats next, no more Royal Navy??

:rolleyes:
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Furball on September 15, 2004, 01:11:19 PM
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
No more fox hunts in england???  Whats next, no more Royal Navy??

:rolleyes:


that went a long time ago.  our navy is now an imposter living under a great name. (bit like the country really).
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: GRUNHERZ on September 15, 2004, 01:12:29 PM
Aye, on both counts..  :(
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Post by: Chortle on September 15, 2004, 02:08:06 PM
Not just the RN but Merchant shipping too. Only 260 ships registered and owned in the UK. If we had to go to the Falklands again it'd be partly under a flag of convenience.



The Hunters are a subjected minority who are having their liberty to get squiffy on Pimms erroded by the facists in the mother of all Parliaments.
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Post by: lazs2 on September 15, 2004, 02:18:05 PM
hunting and firearms are too important to allow anyone but the ruling class to own in england.

lazs
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: ra on September 15, 2004, 02:32:40 PM
Pretty soon they'll outlaw smoking.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Ripsnort on September 15, 2004, 02:35:41 PM
Those poor, poor foxes! They are more important than humans!
(http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1240560.jpg)
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Curval on September 15, 2004, 02:45:50 PM
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Originally posted by lazs2
hunting and firearms are too important to allow anyone but the ruling class to own in england.

lazs


Lazs, you realise that those hunters stormed House of Commons right?  The gentry would NEVER storm anything man.  It just "isn't cricket" old chap....far too Plebian an act.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: GRUNHERZ on September 15, 2004, 02:49:54 PM
Maybe they should name a holiday for these guys, or is that only if you try to blow up parlinment?
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Curval on September 15, 2004, 03:04:52 PM
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Maybe they should name a holiday for these guys, or is that only if you try to blow up parlinment?


Guy Fawkes was never a holiday when I was in the UK.  Just an excuse to light a big bonfire and burn an effigy of the leader of the group who tried to blow up Parliament.

Maybe they do have a holiday now...but I doubt it.  

Furball?
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Ack-Ack on September 15, 2004, 03:16:18 PM
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Originally posted by Furball
that went a long time ago.  our navy is now an imposter living under a great name. (bit like the country really).




I heard the day the Royal Navy died was the day they got rid of the brandy.  At least that's what my neighbor says, a Brit-expatriot that served in the Royal Navy for a couple of decades.



ack-ack
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: gofaster on September 15, 2004, 03:18:07 PM
Do they still publish Page Three?

If so, then all is not yet lost!
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Furball on September 15, 2004, 03:40:44 PM
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
I heard the day the Royal Navy died was the day they got rid of the brandy.  At least that's what my neighbor says, a Brit-expatriot that served in the Royal Navy for a couple of decades.



ack-ack


ya mean rum.

my grandfather was RN in wwii, used to get empty rum bottles, piss in em and sell them to americans.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Furball on September 15, 2004, 03:41:43 PM
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Originally posted by Curval
Guy Fawkes was never a holiday when I was in the UK.  Just an excuse to light a big bonfire and burn an effigy of the leader of the group who tried to blow up Parliament.

Maybe they do have a holiday now...but I doubt it.  

Furball?


just fireworks night, not a public holiday.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Furball on September 15, 2004, 03:49:24 PM
hey skuzzy... wanna buy some rum?
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: GRUNHERZ on September 15, 2004, 03:52:42 PM
And the royal navy bought all its rum from the Americas... :D
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Chortle on September 15, 2004, 04:11:51 PM
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Originally posted by ra
Pretty soon they'll outlaw smoking.
They'll have to pry them from my cold, nicotine stained fingers. Ireland has banned it in public buildings, no more guiness and a smoke.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: ra on September 15, 2004, 04:12:23 PM
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Originally posted by Furball
ya mean rum.

reconsidered
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Furball on September 15, 2004, 04:14:37 PM
Thankyou ra, thats good of you to change it.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: AWMac on September 15, 2004, 04:17:34 PM
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Originally posted by Furball
hey skuzzy... wanna buy some rum?



:rofl
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: cpxxx on September 15, 2004, 04:50:23 PM
Apparently this was the first time the Commons was invaded since Charles the first did it in 16 something or other.  That led to a civil war.  A warning from history.

I have no view on hunting foxhunting one way or the other. But I really cannot understand the amount of time, effort, money and hot air spent on trying to protect foxes from the redcoated hordes of faux country gentry.  Is it really a burning issue among the British people? Or just a bunch of cranks using parliament to get their particular view across?  I have some sympathy for the hunting fraternity.

At the end of the day most of the foxes will be shot as the 'varmints' they are. I suppose they'll ban shooting next. Someone already wants to ban fishing because it's 'cruel to fish'.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: GRUNHERZ on September 15, 2004, 04:55:04 PM
Dont kill the little fox animals, they are soooo cute on the Discovery channel shows here as they rummage though your cities at night..  :D
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: medicboy on September 15, 2004, 05:33:23 PM
I put a 45gr hollow point through a fox's head last week at about 3900fps.  Pretty impressive results.  Little bastage was chasing my cat.    By the way I just got my full shoulder mount prong horn from the taxidermist, came out great, can't even see the bullet hole between the eyes any more.....:D
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Ripsnort on September 15, 2004, 06:50:09 PM
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Originally posted by medicboy
By the way I just got my full shoulder mount prong horn from the taxidermist, came out great, can't even see the bullet hole between the eyes any more.....:D


T.P.I.W.W.P.!
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Chortle on September 15, 2004, 07:57:44 PM
I've some sympathy for them, but portraying themselves as an oppressed minority is a bit, excuse the pun, rich. Plus it makes a nice change to see the middle class getting clubbed by the police.

Medicboy, cats and foxes tend to stay out of each others way around here, local vet reckons a cat would probably see off a fox if they ever squared off. Yours must be a bit of a pusssy ;)
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: medicboy on September 15, 2004, 08:20:37 PM
Lol, rip you are going to have to speak english, I have hydrocodone and beer in my system and things are a bit foggy.  (back pain, and I'm a light weight).

Chortle, yes my cat is a 14lb wimp, but this fox is fairly big for a red fox.  He has killed all my neighbors chickens and has been cruising the hills here for the last 6 months, mangy nast looking sucker.  He was chasing my cat around on the hill behind my house and when I ran up there to scare him away he turned and barked (sounded more like a screach).  I thought he was going to square off with me, he ran into my upper pasture, sat down and stared at me.  I went inside, got my 22-250 and came back out, he was back down by the house going for my cat again, sooo night night foxy at about 40 yards.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Ripsnort on September 15, 2004, 08:21:44 PM
"This Post Is Worthless Without Pictures!"
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Ripsnort on September 15, 2004, 08:22:27 PM
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Originally posted by medicboy
Lol, rip you are going to have to speak english, I have hydrocodone and beer in my system and things are a bit foggy.  (back pain, and I'm a light weight).

Chortle, yes my cat is a 14lb wimp, but this fox is fairly big for a red fox.  He has killed all my neighbors chickens and has been cruising the hills here for the last 6 months, mangy nast looking sucker.  He was chasing my cat around on the hill behind my house and when I ran up there to scare him away he turned and barked (sounded more like a screach).  I thought he was going to square off with me, he ran into my upper pasture, sat down and stared at me.  I went inside, got my 22-250 and came back out, he was back down by the house going for my cat again, sooo night night foxy at about 40 yards.


Did you skin him? I love fox furs.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: medicboy on September 15, 2004, 08:27:13 PM
Not this time of year, thats why I was waiting to shoot him.  The summer coat is mangy, smelly, nasty.  The winter coat is just down right beautiful.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Ripsnort on September 15, 2004, 08:35:00 PM
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Originally posted by medicboy
Not this time of year, thats why I was waiting to shoot him.  The summer coat is mangy, smelly, nasty.  The winter coat is just down right beautiful.
Ah yes. They would be quite stanky this time of year.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: Chortle on September 15, 2004, 08:37:39 PM
CC medicboy, reckon foxy had it coming specially after the warning ;)

You ever hear them screwing each other? Sounds freaking weird, like a baby screaming or something being butchered.
Title: Hunter's are violent and dangerous....
Post by: medicboy on September 15, 2004, 08:43:30 PM
I can't find my digital camera right now, my mother in law borrowed it....  SO here is the "real" thing, some of you might have seen this one before.

(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/155_1095298895_medicantelope.jpg)