Quote: Timbo @ January 6 2012, 10:14 AM GMTchronic fatigue and mental fog
Isn't that just life?
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I was beginning to think so.
I've returned from my jaunt to the store. While I wait for the antihistamine to kick in, I'll describe the things I saw in my neighborhood:
1) 10 deer jumped in front of my car during the 2-mile drive. They really are stupid creatures and I feel less guilty about eating them.
2) Two cars were in the McDonald's drive-thru. I had no idea that it was open 24 hours. Who eats fast food at that time of day?
3) A freshly killed opossum; its guts were still steaming. 
Quote: DaButt @ January 6 2012, 10:27 AM GMT1) 10 deer jumped in front of my car during the 2-mile drive. They really are stupid creatures and I feel less guilty about eating them.
Why would you feel guilty, are they scarce? We've got too many here. Or is it the whole Bambi thing?
Quote: Nogget @ January 6 2012, 10:29 AM GMTWe've got too many here.
The ecology is out of balance. To control numbers we should introduce wolves. Or possibly Americans.
Quote: Nogget @ January 6 2012, 10:29 AM GMTWhy would you feel guilty, are they scarce?
Not at all. I don't hunt but I've gone along on hunts and helped skin and gut them and felt just a little sorry for them.
Quote: Timbo @ January 6 2012, 10:32 AM GMTThe ecology is out of balance. To control numbers we should introduce wolves. Or possibly Americans.
Is deer hunting allowed in the UK?
I've never heard of anyone doing it.
You should feel guilty when you're in close proximity to a living thing being killed. It shows you're human!
Quote: DaButt @ January 6 2012, 10:37 AM GMTIs deer hunting allowed in the UK?
Quote wiki >_<
"UK deer stalkers, if supplying venison for public consumption, are required to hold a DSC1 (Deer Stalking Certificate 1) which incorporates meat handling and hygiene together with disease identification. Mainly a theory based course it does also test the stalkers deer identification and shooting ability. The more difficult DSC2 is the practical to the DSC1 requiring three kills, a post-mortem "gralloch" including examination of the animal's lymphatic system and a check for notifiable diseases. The stalker must put together a comprehensive portfolio of each stalk signed off by an "Approved Witness".[4]
While "deer stalking" is widely used among British and Irish sportsmen to signify almost all forms of sporting deer shooting, the term is replaced in North American sporting usage by "deer hunting" - an expression that in Britain and Ireland has historically been reserved exclusively for the sporting pursuit of deer with scent-seeking hounds, with unarmed followers typically on horseback."
Most of the shooting in the UK is either farmers shooting the odd rabbit, or poshies shooting the odd pheasant. Shooting stuff just isn't that big a thing over here.
(Apart from drug dealers shooting each other in chav city).
Quote: zooo @ January 6 2012, 10:45 AM GMTYou should feel guilty when you're in close proximity to a living thing being killed. It shows you're human!
It's not guilt, just a slight twinge of sadness.
Quote: DaButt @ January 6 2012, 10:27 AM GMT1) 10 deer jumped in front of my car during the 2-mile drive. They really are stupid creatures and I feel less guilty about eating them.
2) Two cars were in the McDonald's drive-thru. I had no idea that it was open 24 hours. Who eats fast food at that time of day?
*puts two together*
Obviously deer like to get their fast food share before the hoomans arise each day.
Quote: DaButt @ January 6 2012, 10:51 AM GMTIt's not guilt, just a slight twinge of sadness.
What you sad about, Randy?
Quote: DaButt @ January 6 2012, 10:51 AM GMTIt's not guilt, just a slight twinge of sadness.
Well either is good.
The drugs are working so I'm going to try for another 3 or 4 hours of sleep. Hasta la pasta, babies.
Watching latest Dylan Moran DVD. If I have to stay in on a Friday night, may as well have a good laugh.
Quote: Timbo @ January 6 2012, 10:14 AM GMTThe quack has ascribed my chronic fatigue and mental fog to recurring sinus infection; he has put me on antibiotics and given me instruction on how to keep the passages clear. Feeling hopeful.
Highly possible. I had a stinking cold over Christmas which developed into toothache. (Long story. Go with it.) Blocked sinuses were part of it. Dentist put me on antibios and my brain now feels like its working as normal speed rather than slomo. I was told to take decongestants with the antibios. Check in case yours are different.