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Post by Cartman on Sept 24, 2021 8:58:32 GMT
2) Daily Mail (but great for getting the bonfire lit)
Now and again, when we find a discarded wallet in the gutter, we visit Waitrose who have an offer of a free Daily Mail when you spend over a tenner. The Mail is great for lighting the fire but we never read it. I've been tempted to buy a top shelf jazzmag to wrap around it to save embarrassment if anyone sees it in the trolley. Reminds me of a scene in a Woody Allen film where he is buying a mucky mag so he tries to do it subtly and hides it under something like the Washington Post. When he gets to the till, the bloke scanning can't find the price so he shouts across the shop to his mate "How much is Orgasm?" Holding it up for all to see, " yeah, Orgasm, this guy here wants to buy a copy! " An old lady next to him in the queue looks at him, disgustedly!😁
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 25, 2021 14:25:22 GMT
Keeping certain animals as pets is something I probably won't do again. Someone at school gave me a common lizard for some reason, the problems began when he brought it into school in a lunch box, I was in a class & people started asking to see it, I opened the lid & it escaped, the teacher arrived & told me how cruel I was. Then I got it home & kept it in an empty glass jar that used to hold Roses chocolates, I think I fed it on worms from the garden. It didn't live long.
Years later I got a small tropical fish tank, quite enjoyed that until the fish started getting ill, they laid eggs that didn't hatch, one got stuck behind the water filter & died, another leapt out of the tank as I was cleaning it & got trapped in a box where it was impossible to save it. I also started to look at the fish as prisoners confined in a small tank.
One thing I'll never understand is keeping birds in a cage, particularly if they're solitary. How can anyone derive any pleasure from watching or listening to a single bird confined like that?
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Post by Sparky on Sept 25, 2021 14:46:58 GMT
Keeping certain animals as pets is something I probably won't do again. Someone at school gave me a common lizard for some reason, the problems began when he brought it into school in a lunch box, I was in a class & people started asking to see it, I opened the lid & it escaped, the teacher arrived & told me how cruel I was. Then I got it home & kept it in an empty glass jar that used to hold Roses chocolates, I think I fed it on worms from the garden. It didn't live long.
Years later I got a small tropical fish tank, quite enjoyed that until the fish started getting ill, they laid eggs that didn't hatch, one got stuck behind the water filter & died, another leapt out of the tank as I was cleaning it & got trapped in a box where it was impossible to save it. I also started to look at the fish as prisoners confined in a small tank.
One thing I'll never understand is keeping birds in a cage, particularly if they're solitary. How can anyone derive any pleasure from watching or listening to a single bird confined like that?
Crikey - a lizard!
I saw a BBC1 morning finger wagging type programme a couple of years back, this following a local council housing department. One episode showed them visiting a house with the RSCPA to recover a baby alligator that was being kept in a bath......
Who the hell would keep an Alligator as a pet? In a Bath?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 25, 2021 16:19:38 GMT
It was very small, about 10cm long. A very boring pet, from memory it didn't do much at all, I think I kept checking it was still alive by prodding it with a pencil as it moved so little
When Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was popular a lot of kids got terrapins, there were many reports of them colonising lakes & ponds after kids got bored of them & were dumped. I think a large park near me has some.
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Post by Sparky on Sept 25, 2021 18:48:44 GMT
It was very small, about 10cm long. A very boring pet, from memory it didn't do much at all, I think I kept checking it was still alive by prodding it with a pencil as it moved so little
When Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was popular a lot of kids got terrapins, there were many reports of them colonising lakes & ponds after kids got bored of them & were dumped. I think a large park near me has some.
Funny you mention about Turtles - I remember all that very well. My brother was well in to TMN Turtles - but to at the lengths he was wanting them as pets.
Last year when the lockdown went on, there was a surge in people buying Dogs (even stealing them) so they could use them as an excuse to get out of the house. 18 months on, and the RSPCA kennels are full with abandoned dogs.
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Post by Vienna on Sept 25, 2021 18:51:07 GMT
One thing I'll never understand is keeping birds in a cage, particularly if they're solitary. How can anyone derive any pleasure from watching or listening to a single bird confined like that?
I totally agree, Arthur. It seems very cruel to keep birds in cages when they need plenty of room to fly around, although I suppose in certain situations they get a bit of protection from us moggies who often want to kill them! Vi
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Post by Sam Tyler on Sept 26, 2021 10:26:36 GMT
I saw a BBC1 morning finger wagging type programme a couple of years back, this following a local council housing department. One episode showed them visiting a house with the RSCPA to recover a baby alligator that was being kept in a bath...... Who the hell would keep an Alligator as a pet? In a Bath? It also raises the question of their personal hygiene: if the alligator is in the bath all the time where do the owners bathe? "Hygiene?" "Hello Guv!" Sam.
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Post by Three Litre on Sept 26, 2021 11:19:23 GMT
It was very small, about 10cm long. A very boring pet, from memory it didn't do much at all, I think I kept checking it was still alive by prodding it with a pencil as it moved so little
When Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was popular a lot of kids got terrapins, there were many reports of them colonising lakes & ponds after kids got bored of them & were dumped. I think a large park near me has some.
Funny you mention about Turtles - I remember all that very well. My brother was well in to TMN Turtles - but to at the lengths he was wanting them as pets.
Last year when the lockdown went on, there was a surge in people buying Dogs (even stealing them) so they could use them as an excuse to get out of the house. 18 months on, and the RSPCA kennels are full with abandoned dogs.
So is the RSPCA full of abandoned alligators?
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Post by Batgirl on Sept 26, 2021 11:41:44 GMT
Such an original idea for a thread.
Marriage (Not being bitter; I know it may have sounded it, I just think the big show of a wedding is really best to be done once, particularly when you're young, after that just be in a relationship). I know Elizabeth Taylor would never have agreed with me!
Fish that looks like a fish when you eat it
Carnival rides that have you hanging upside down
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Post by Sparky on Sept 26, 2021 12:19:36 GMT
Funny you mention about Turtles - I remember all that very well. My brother was well in to TMN Turtles - but to at the lengths he was wanting them as pets.
Last year when the lockdown went on, there was a surge in people buying Dogs (even stealing them) so they could use them as an excuse to get out of the house. 18 months on, and the RSPCA kennels are full with abandoned dogs.
So is the RSPCA full of abandoned alligators? And Crocodiles....
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