Making the news today....

[peds]

3 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

There may or may not be an element of truth in that….

 

I only keep it long so it's more believable on the odd occasion I wear a dress.

[Stubby]

15 minutes ago, peds said:

 

I only keep it long so it's more believable on the odd occasion I wear a dress.

That only works if you get your nails done as well , er so I have heard ..

[peds]

17 minutes ago, Stubby said:

That only works if you get your nails done as well , er so I have heard ..

 

Ah, I bite mine, they wouldn't be worth the effort. 

[Johnsond]

Suspect in New Orleans truck attack named as FBI probe 'act of terrorism'

APPLE.NEWS

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Improvised explosive devices were also found after the attacker was killed in a shoot-out with police.

 

[Steven P]

Not jealous - looks a great run but I can live without the bear hiding behind the rocks.

[peds]

31 minutes ago, Steven P said:

Not jealous - looks a great run but I can live without the bear hiding behind the rocks.

 

Honestly, flipping terrifying. We went to a bear sanctuary a few days afterwards, there was a treetop walkway and a central lookout building with big glass windows for easy observation, big scratching posts up against the glass to encourage the bears to stretch out nice and tall for our titillation... and a tape measure with corresponding weights marked against the heights. They had some big chonky fellas there, a couple over 600kg... it's just not a fight you'd win.

I'd confidently say the tiny one I saw out in the wild was only about 400kg, but that was big enough for me at the time! 

[Steven P]

Only 400kg...

[sime42]

6 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Nope 42 he misses absolutely zero. 
On topic, quite frankly with the amount of hi tech affordable night vision and thermal imaging equipment available nowadays, and the sheer quantity of foxes shot per annum “80-100k mainly at night or dusk” I’d say it’s garbage for a quiet news day and nothing more. 

 

 

Thanks for the corroboration boyo!

 

 

[Johnsond]

3 hours ago, sime42 said:

 

Thanks for the corroboration boyo!

 

 

Any time 😌. 
mind you Mark did mention first hand experience which would be interesting to hear about. 
My own experiences when out old school lamping is the countryside has plenty going on. It can be quite a shock for people not used to it to  see the number of eyes the lamp picks up. Modern thermal/night vision kit is just brutally effective at what it’s supposed to do. To reduce numbers it takes some beating. 

[Doug Tait]

Great story Peds.

Reminds me of an incident way out when I was just a cub. Not long away from my mother, I couldn't have been more than 400kg back then.

 

Anyway, I'd taken to my usual day of wandering over the hill, berries and stuff, the sun was shining as I took my morning dump in the customary place, it's a habit that lets incomers know I'm here and tends to save any embarrassing encounters.

All was well as I made my way down, munching, checking stuff out, scratching and pissing on things, happy knowing that when I got to the hot pools at the bottom I could chill for the rest of the day.

 

Well bugger me, I went round the corner and if I hadn't have gone already I'd literally have shit myself!

Right in front of me was a skinny, incredibly smelly little white runt of a thing, with really pretty hair.

 

I turned and ran but he chased me all the way back up the hill, I know because I could hear his attack bell the whole time. Eventually it got dark and I hid til he went but the worst thing is, when I got down to my spa pool the next day the little git had been there and pee'd in it!

 

Ever since then when I see one, they're just getting nailed.

You ain't pissing in my pool shorty.