I’ve said it before: if it were strictly about keeping the numbers down they wouldn’t dress up for it.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 15:32,
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i don't like dirt biking
it's super loud, probably scares the shit out of the wildlife, damages the trails, can be dangerous if you're walking and they come hooning around the corner, and frankly I don't like most of the revheads who do it as they also tend to camp in big parties playing shit music blaring through the bush. But, it's impact is tiny compared scale of logging or landclearing. They can't do it everywhere. And they enjoy it. so like a lot of things, its about impact and competing rights. just because it competes with my rights to the trails as a walker, I can still walk and theres heaps of places where they cant dirtbike, or the the wildlifes rights to be left in peace, theres a way we can share competing rights with minimal impact so we all get a fair shake. The anti fox hunting brigade are simply, "I don't like it, so you should ban them", without reference to the rights of fox hunters to play dressup with their mates and chase things through the hedgerows, or the minimal impact it causes. and everything has an some impact. cars and roads kill way more foxes. it's fascism to force your preference on others when it's not impacting you much.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 29 Jan 2023, 22:17,
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I don’t like dirt biking either.
However the scrotes who do it round here do it on public footpaths which, like hunting with dogs is a crime. If they did it where no one else was at risk I wouldn’t have a problem with it; in fact I’m quite in favour of the council buying a field and letting them have at it.
If fox hunters want to dress up and ride about that’s one thing but there’s no such thing as the right to be cruel to animals, otherwise bear-baiting and cock fighting would still exist. Like I said, if it were simply a case of necessary culling they could do it with a rifle or poisoned chicken carcasses but they don’t, they dress it up as some kind of “sport”.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 30 Jan 2023, 10:55,
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of course theres a right to be cruel to animals, don't be naive
you can shoot them for sport, your whole royal family does it, blasting away to your hearts content. keep big animals in little cages and some in tiny cages all their lives, feeding them whatever slop is cheapest. you can put collars around their neck and drag them around the neighbourhood on a rope and think you're their friend instead of their slave owner. take pack animals and force them to be alone all day in some apartment or backyard while they bark in desperation and lonliness. put them in public cages for people to gawk at. send them off to industrial killing places at six months of age for an animal that normally lives to be 20, to be slaughtered and it's muscles wrapped in plastic for us to eat. we can destroy every last bit of natural habitat for our farms and roads and houses. as far as I could tell the only areas of semi-wilderness left like the new forest were only there because they were the nobles private hunting grounds. lay poison baits for them
And this is all fine and legal. you can even get subsidies to do it.
But kill a couple of dozen of one the few animals that's doing well in Britain a year in pretty much the same way foxes kill other animals and they'll be millions taking to the streets protesting at this intolerable cruelty and the thought of other people having fun. because, as I said, people have fucked priorities
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 30 Jan 2023, 20:40,
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This is a long way from Caravaggio
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 31 Jan 2023, 8:45,
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I'm going to tie it all together, just be patient
Reubens' "Wolf and Fox Hunt" is hung at the Met in their European Section along with Caravaggio's Denial of St Peter. Omar Sharif played St Peter in a 2005 telly movie. Omar Sharif was in Funny girl with barbara streisand who was in Nuts with Richard Dreyfus, who was in the Milagro Beanfield War with Daniel Stern, who was in Diner with Kevin Bacon
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 31 Jan 2023, 9:57,
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