Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
Mar 28th 2011 | 4:52 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
I feel sorry for all the poor amphibians who aren't even cane toads but still get the golf club treatment just because they were spotted hopping somewhere by some drunk bogan!
I got called unaustralian once for not taking part in the bashing of an alleged cane toad...it was my finest hour!
I got called unaustralian once for not taking part in the bashing of an alleged cane toad...it was my finest hour!
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:01 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
What amuses me is that all the Aussies complain about the Indian Minah bird, and how it should be killed off. "It's an introduced bird species" they say "It just comes in here and pushes out the native ones..."
Strange really. It sounds like it should be on the coat of arms...
S
Strange really. It sounds like it should be on the coat of arms...
S
Yes!! I even know a chap who sprays Asian geckos with bleach for being non-indigenous..god forbid a 'muslim'/asian gecko is discovered. The level of cruelty designed to annihilate the non-indigenous species seems limitless. On that note I'd like to smash K Mart to a pulp as it's American.
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:07 pm
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Yes!! I even know a chap who sprays Asian geckos with bleach for being non-indigenous..god forbid a 'muslim'/asian gecko is discovered. The level of cruelty designed to annihilate the non-indigenous species seems limitless. On that note I'd like to smash K Mart to a pulp as it's American.
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:08 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
They sure do like a good 'culling' over here don't they?
'There's kangaroos on the golf course!' - kill 'em!
'There's noisy Corella's in WA!' - kill 'em!
'Lorikeets are rats in the air!' - kill 'em!
'Sharks have taken a surfer!' - kill 'em!
'Snakes are poisonous!' - kill 'em!
'There's foxes here!' - kill 'em!
'There's too many camels' - kill 'em!
'There's too many wild horses!' - kill 'em!
'RABBITS!!!!' - kill 'em!!!
'WHALES!!!!!!' - kill 'em...oh no wait....evil bastard Japanese!!!!
'There's kangaroos on the golf course!' - kill 'em!
'There's noisy Corella's in WA!' - kill 'em!
'Lorikeets are rats in the air!' - kill 'em!
'Sharks have taken a surfer!' - kill 'em!
'Snakes are poisonous!' - kill 'em!
'There's foxes here!' - kill 'em!
'There's too many camels' - kill 'em!
'There's too many wild horses!' - kill 'em!
'RABBITS!!!!' - kill 'em!!!
'WHALES!!!!!!' - kill 'em...oh no wait....evil bastard Japanese!!!!
I'm going to be killing me a Kangaroo if I ever catch the f**ker that keeps eating my Cape Pear trees
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:12 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:21 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
They sure do like a good 'culling' over here don't they?
'There's kangaroos on the golf course!' - kill 'em!
'There's noisy Corella's in WA!' - kill 'em!
'Lorikeets are rats in the air!' - kill 'em!
'Sharks have taken a surfer!' - kill 'em!
'Snakes are poisonous!' - kill 'em!
'There's foxes here!' - kill 'em!
'There's too many camels' - kill 'em!
'There's too many wild horses!' - kill 'em!
'RABBITS!!!!' - kill 'em!!!
'WHALES!!!!!!' - kill 'em...oh no wait....evil bastard Japanese!!!!
'There's kangaroos on the golf course!' - kill 'em!
'There's noisy Corella's in WA!' - kill 'em!
'Lorikeets are rats in the air!' - kill 'em!
'Sharks have taken a surfer!' - kill 'em!
'Snakes are poisonous!' - kill 'em!
'There's foxes here!' - kill 'em!
'There's too many camels' - kill 'em!
'There's too many wild horses!' - kill 'em!
'RABBITS!!!!' - kill 'em!!!
'WHALES!!!!!!' - kill 'em...oh no wait....evil bastard Japanese!!!!
Googling found :
Badgers carrying TB - kill' em!
Scottish Grey Seals eating all our fish - kill 'em!
Mountain Hares - kill 'em!
Pigeons, rats with wings - kill 'em!
Pheasants - kill 'em!
Foxes - kill 'em!
Magpies, flying ******s - kill 'em!
Hen Harriers, f**kers - kill 'em!
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:22 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
Where do you draw the lines as to what is and isn't indigenous?
Oh, and you know why Europe 'doesn't have much wildlife left'? Hunting.
Wolves, boars, bears etc - all gone through the human need to go out and kill (and not always for food).
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:23 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
Well the extermination attempt at non native stuff ain't going too well... Geckos all over, tonnes of cane toads, myna birds outnumber everything else...what's wrong with a globalisation of the species? Isn't it just Darwinism if one wipes out another? If not, then we seriously need to consider culling ourselves.
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:29 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
Well the extermination attempt at non native stuff ain't going too well... Geckos all over, tonnes of cane toads, myna birds outnumber everything else...what's wrong with a globalisation of the species? Isn't it just Darwinism if one wipes out another? If not, then we seriously need to consider culling ourselves.
That was the point I was trying to make. A bunch of Australians, not originally indigenous to the land, having in the past killed off or displaced most of those who were, decide to complain about an invading bird species, not originally indigenous to the land, having killed off or displaced most of those that were.
S
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:36 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
Many of you lack basic knowledge of ecosystem requirements.
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:39 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
I failed my A Level Physics too, I've not only let my family down, I've let myself down.
On the cane toad thing, I have come around to the 'terminate with extreme prejudice' way of thinking, never mind all that freezing nonsense.
Bloody pests they are, I need wider tyres so I can line 'em up on the drive home.
On the cane toad thing, I have come around to the 'terminate with extreme prejudice' way of thinking, never mind all that freezing nonsense.
Bloody pests they are, I need wider tyres so I can line 'em up on the drive home.
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:41 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
I failed my A Level Physics too, I've not only let my family down, I've let myself down.
On the cane toad thing, I have come around to the 'terminate with extreme prejudice' way of thinking, never mind all that freezing nonsense.
Bloody pests they are, I need wider tyres so I can line 'em up on the drive home.
On the cane toad thing, I have come around to the 'terminate with extreme prejudice' way of thinking, never mind all that freezing nonsense.
Bloody pests they are, I need wider tyres so I can line 'em up on the drive home.
I recently took my folks to a show at the Australian Reptile Museum. They were saying that there is currently a plan on the table to introduce a natural predator of the Cane Toads to try and cull their numbers down.
Hmmm...
S
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:44 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
Mar 28th 2011 | 5:44 pm
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Re: Australia - they like to kill stuff here...
Oh really! Are you removing the impact of man from the Eco system of which say, a quoll is part? The fact is, removing non Indigenous wildlife just can't be done anyway - however many unpleasant pissed up bogans get a hard on for sending their canine equivalents after a sow and her piglets.
