Oh for goodness sakes....

**Big Dave** · 11th May 2006, 14:18

Aha - This I will engage!
(Just not life and death on a phosphor screen).

You're stuck in the myth of Harley unreliability.
14,000km and hasn't missed a beat on the Tractor and the T'bird has done the last 100,000km with nothing more than Oil, filters and a bad coil.

It's yer Alitalia making a forced landing old bean.

**sAsLEX** · 11th May 2006, 14:22

How would the greens solve any problems in the real world.

See possums are a threat to our clean green image, but they are not willing to reduce this threat as all options to kill them are viewed as not green.

**Finn** · 11th May 2006, 14:24

Originally Posted by Big Dave

It's yer Alitalia making a forced landing old bean.

Ah. I forgot about that. I better be quiet.

**Big Dave** · 11th May 2006, 14:32

AND I would have said: "Oh struth mate, fair crack of the wip, by jingoes, don't come the raw prawn, stone the crows, by crikey, bugger me, fair dinkum, bonza, cobber, matie."

**Pixie** · 11th May 2006, 14:43

Originally Posted by Damon

I've seen a pair of dogs tear a possum apart, they dont give a shit about being inhumane, thats nature, what the differince from a couple of kids with a hammer? appart from the whinging hippies who feel guilty about it.

What would have happened if it had been hit by a car and crawled to the side of the road with it's guts hanging out bleeding to death? somehow i think the hammer would have been quicker, it's not like they strung it up on an old spring bed and feed it 50000 volts

Dogs can't be humane by definition.
They're dogs

**Motu** · 11th May 2006, 14:47

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Finn - if that's your attituide - I'll contribute towards your plane ticket out of here. .

It's all talk,he'll never leave...this is a paradise for wingers and moaners,Finn will be out of his comfort zone in the real world.

We have ourselves to blame for the possum plague of course,and this goes beyond Goverments as the bounty plan was ongoing through party changes.There was such good money to be made from possums that the hunters were catching and rereleasing,regenerating their cash cow....

**Damon** · 11th May 2006, 14:53

Originally Posted by Pixie

Dogs can't be humane by definition.
They're dogs

Well aren't you the smartie, what i was saying is humans are the only animal to care about their opponents welfare when trying to kill it

**Pixie** · 11th May 2006, 14:54

Originally Posted by Goblin

Yes....and you wouldnt want to move to a country you couldn't milk now would you.

Did it ever occur to you that greedy people who "milk" the system might be in some way responsible for the way things are going.

milking the system is the New Zealand way.
It's why we vote socialist

**James Deuce** · 11th May 2006, 14:57

Originally Posted by SimJen

Yep, all schools should teach the art of shooting....probably be more useful in some countries

So you'd teach kids to shoot, with decent disciplined weapons handling I hope, including maintaining their weapons, but you won't let them kill a possum with a hammer?

Pardon me, but weapons are for.... I know, Killing! Crikey.

**Big Dave** · 11th May 2006, 15:04

Originally Posted by Pixie

Dogs can't be humane by definition.
They're dogs

Ever see that foo fighters clip - 'dogs are the best people?'
Outstanding.

**Pixie** · 11th May 2006, 15:06

The whole "Humane" thing is a load of shit,from a physiological viewpoint.
Generally,severe injury,such as being torn apart by wild animals is painless.As long as the victim dies of the injuries within 10 minutes or so.
People who have been shot report the feeling to be like a dull impact .
The same for being stabbed.
I have had a leg crushed between a car and a bike,and the pain ,initially was not that bad.
Pain is a message to remove a creature from the cause of that pain.
If the damage is so severe that getting away is pointless, the brain doesn't process the messages.

**Big Dave** · 11th May 2006, 15:12

Originally Posted by Motu

It's all talk,he'll never leave...this is a paradise for wingers and moaners,Finn will be out of his comfort zone in the real world.

We have ourselves to blame for the possum plague of course,and this goes beyond Goverments as the bounty plan was ongoing through party changes.There was such good money to be made from possums that the hunters were catching and rereleasing,regenerating their cash cow....

Wow - evolution must be bitchin' here!
It would take millions of years for a possum to evolve into a cow back home.

There must be some sort of biological control. Look at the koala bear - it faced/faces extinction because it has a strain of clamidia (sp?) effecting the entire species.

I know there are some shockers in the history of biological control, (prickly pear and the cane toad eg) but surely science can give 'em all the clap or something?

**Big Dave** · 11th May 2006, 15:16

Originally Posted by Jim2

So you'd teach kids to shoot, with decent disciplined weapons handling I hope, including maintaining their weapons, but you won't let them kill a possum with a hammer?

Pardon me, but weapons are for.... I know, Killing! Crikey.

I guess it also depends on how much 'Lord of the Flies' was involved?