Cultural Differences - Hunting
Nov 12th 2010, 10:24 pm
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
My grandparents live just outside of Ledbury, Herefordshire.
The ban on foxhunting in the UK, imposed by the recently deposed limp wristed PC obsessed Labour Government, will be lifted by the new Coalition Government in due course.....they have a lot on their plate right now.
Boxing Day (26 December) each year sees the Ledbury Hunt go into action after they have knocked back their stirrup cup outside the mediaeval black and white timbered former coaching inn the Feathers Hotel in Ledbury High Street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuur-...eature=related
The ban on foxhunting in the UK, imposed by the recently deposed limp wristed PC obsessed Labour Government, will be lifted by the new Coalition Government in due course.....they have a lot on their plate right now.
Boxing Day (26 December) each year sees the Ledbury Hunt go into action after they have knocked back their stirrup cup outside the mediaeval black and white timbered former coaching inn the Feathers Hotel in Ledbury High Street.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuur-...eature=related
Nov 15th 2010, 12:05 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
There are a few special moments in every mans life, The first time he's with a girl, the birth of his first child, and the first time he kills an animal, and that hasn't changed since the stone age.
Nov 15th 2010, 12:08 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
Ha...Thats not hunting. I don't know what the hell that is, animal torture maybe
Nov 15th 2010, 12:25 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
Freud also believed that a significant part of your psychological development was controlled by your anus. Weird guy. He often came to good conclusions with faulty theory. But, at the end of the day, not everything is about sex. Guns don't necessarily always have to represent phallus.
Nov 15th 2010, 12:49 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
There was a story the other day - in the Telegraph, I believe - about how things have changed for foxes in the UK. They were the emblem of animal lovers, and beneficiaries of the cynical class warfare townie/country ban on hunting.
Everything was going right for them.
And then things took a turn. They started eating babies and biting sleeping people.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/out...of-Mr-Fox.html
People in the UK have also been conditioned to fear guns, indeed any weapons, which are used in hunting. As Freud brilliantly observed, "a fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity".
I point you to that incident the other week where the cadets were prohibited from marching with rifles during the Rememberance Day services because it "glamorises weapons".
My God, what happened to my former countrymen?
Everything was going right for them.
And then things took a turn. They started eating babies and biting sleeping people.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/out...of-Mr-Fox.html
People in the UK have also been conditioned to fear guns, indeed any weapons, which are used in hunting. As Freud brilliantly observed, "a fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity".
I point you to that incident the other week where the cadets were prohibited from marching with rifles during the Rememberance Day services because it "glamorises weapons".
My God, what happened to my former countrymen?
Second. Most of the men in my generation carried a rifle, sometimes into battle. Funny thing, not many wanted to own guns when they got back to civvy street, so you can stuff your cheap psychology digs. People in the UK have been conditioned to fear people with weapons, one assumes they have weapons because they are predisposed to use them. Clearly the unarmed person is much less likely to shoot us. We are especially leery of foreign libertarian survivalists hiding out in the mountains of Colorado.
Third, I'll grant you, there are too many nannies in charge in the UK.
Nov 15th 2010, 2:38 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
Freud also believed that a significant part of your psychological development was controlled by your anus. Weird guy. He often came to good conclusions with faulty theory. But, at the end of the day, not everything is about sex. Guns don't necessarily always have to represent phallus.
Nov 15th 2010, 2:45 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
First, are you equating chasing a fox with a pack of dogs so they can tear it apart, so you can "blood" the youngest child present, with, shooting and quickly finishing the kill for table meat?
Second. Most of the men in my generation carried a rifle, sometimes into battle. Funny thing, not many wanted to own guns when they got back to civvy street, so you can stuff your cheap psychology digs. People in the UK have been conditioned to fear people with weapons, one assumes they have weapons because they are predisposed to use them. Clearly the unarmed person is much less likely to shoot us. We are especially leery of foreign libertarian survivalists hiding out in the mountains of Colorado.
Third, I'll grant you, there are too many nannies in charge in the UK.
Second. Most of the men in my generation carried a rifle, sometimes into battle. Funny thing, not many wanted to own guns when they got back to civvy street, so you can stuff your cheap psychology digs. People in the UK have been conditioned to fear people with weapons, one assumes they have weapons because they are predisposed to use them. Clearly the unarmed person is much less likely to shoot us. We are especially leery of foreign libertarian survivalists hiding out in the mountains of Colorado.
Third, I'll grant you, there are too many nannies in charge in the UK.
And that the only people who should have weapons are the ruling elite, their bodyguards, and the agents of the security state. That's working out really well, isn't it?
I guess that's why people get shanked and slit and beaten up at the drop of the hat in the UK on a nightout, too.
Foreign libertarian survivalists in the mountains in my Colorado? Thank heavens for that.
Nov 15th 2010, 2:48 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
So, people have been conditioned to become pussies, is what you're saying?
And that the only people who should have weapons are the ruling elite, their bodyguards, and the agents of the security state. That's working out really well, isn't it?
I guess that's why people get shanked and slit and beaten up at the drop of the hat in the UK on a nightout, too.
Foreign libertarian survivalists in the mountains in my Colorado? Thank heavens for that.
And that the only people who should have weapons are the ruling elite, their bodyguards, and the agents of the security state. That's working out really well, isn't it?
I guess that's why people get shanked and slit and beaten up at the drop of the hat in the UK on a nightout, too.
Foreign libertarian survivalists in the mountains in my Colorado? Thank heavens for that.
Nov 15th 2010, 3:17 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
Men...Has your wife ever asked you to stop by the store and pick up something on your way home?..And don't ya always buy all kinds of extra stuff? And don't ya love bringing it home and showing the clan what you got? I do..Thats instincts. Thats bringing food back to the cave.
It doesn't replace actually hunting, but it's good
It doesn't replace actually hunting, but it's good
Nov 15th 2010, 3:22 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
Men...Has your wife ever asked you to stop by the store and pick up something on your way home?..And don't ya always buy all kinds of extra stuff? And don't ya love bringing it home and showing the clan what you got? I do..Thats instincts. Thats bringing food back to the cave.
It doesn't replace actually hunting, but it's good
It doesn't replace actually hunting, but it's good
I fail to see what your analogy has to do with hunting, and to be honest, I still fail to see the necessity for hunting at all in this day and age, History Channel end times wank aside.
To be perfectly honest, the only post that made any sense at all was ABY's post regarding his connection with nature, which is as good a reason for doing it as I've seen in this entire thread! Everything else was a bunch of pseudo psycological wank if we were being honest with ourselves.
Not knocking it as a pastime for those that do enjoy it, but why read anything more into it? Kind of takes away the magic for those that do it to over-analyse it (which really applies to anything if you think about it).
Nov 15th 2010, 3:24 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
I never spend any more time (and therefore money) in the shop than absolutely necessary. I get in, get what I need and bugger off out of there, which is why my wife sends me, cause I'm a tight arse and don't spend if I don't need to
I fail to see what your analogy has to do with hunting, and to be honest, I still fail to see the necessity for hunting at all in this day and age, History Channel end times wank aside.
I fail to see what your analogy has to do with hunting, and to be honest, I still fail to see the necessity for hunting at all in this day and age, History Channel end times wank aside.
Nov 15th 2010, 3:27 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
No. I'm quite well aware where the meat in my dinner comes from, and I'm more than happy to let others do the needful to get it to my fridge or freezer.
I've tried to make it clear all along that I'm not knocking hunting, or anyone who does it. I just don't see the point in trying to make more of it that it is, that's all.
I've tried to make it clear all along that I'm not knocking hunting, or anyone who does it. I just don't see the point in trying to make more of it that it is, that's all.
Nov 15th 2010, 3:41 am
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Re: Cultural Differences - Hunting
No. I'm quite well aware where the meat in my dinner comes from, and I'm more than happy to let others do the needful to get it to my fridge or freezer.
I've tried to make it clear all along that I'm not knocking hunting, or anyone who does it. I just don't see the point in trying to make more of it that it is, that's all.
I've tried to make it clear all along that I'm not knocking hunting, or anyone who does it. I just don't see the point in trying to make more of it that it is, that's all.