Hi Chelsea !........FOX TOSSING ! How imaginative !
A bit like FOX HUNTING but without the hounds and horses ! And probably for the same reason !
Eradication of a rotten predator of their livestock and a spreader of contagion to their farm dogs !
Have YOU ever seen the devastation caused by a fox in a "chook-run" [ or a "hen-house" ] or the torn-apart , yet still living , new-born lambs and their helpless mothers with torn-out-throats and other horrible wounds , inflicted , not for food , but FOR FUN by "playful" foxes and wild dogs ?
During a lambing season , unless the foxes are controlled by trapping , poisoning or shooting , the sheep farmers lose many animals and lots of their "hoped for" profit ! However , if the fox is feeding it's kits it MAY be understandable if they "take" one small lamb.........but.......they don't !
They kill as many lambs as they can and quite often depart WITHOUT a single lamb for food !
They just seem to enjoy the slaughter and maiming and all the gore ! They really deserve to die painfully and badly ! I went out with farmers at night "spotlight shooting" on several occasions and quite enjoyed dispatching a fox or two , along with the occasional rabbit and 'roo [ the latter being cooked up for dog food ]. I had been on the 'receiving end' of a foxes visit to my bird aviaries and "chook run" and I would happily eradicate every last one of the foxes and wild cats !
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"So what changed? Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker believes humanity became more compassionate as the spread of literacy, education and reason led people to consider the perspectives of others, expanding humanity’s “circle of empathy” and eventually extending compassion even to animals, while dramatically reducing violence in many different areas of life."
NO....MISLED........not compassionate ! Totally deceived and misinformed !
AND I BLAME WALT DISNEY and those silly soppy writers of romance novels !
Incidentally , Romance comes from Roman, and first meant a story translated into French from Latin (the common language of old Rome), usually about the amorous adventures of chivalrous knights.....who were usually on a RESCUE MISSION to save a "damsel in distress" and to KILL A BLOODY DRAGON !!! .......which , funnily enough , used to be considered a commendable action !
[ Still...NOW....in this age of strong , independent , self-sufficient women......it is a bit "old hat" !??] .
No........DISNEY et al....... ANTHROPOMORPHISED cartoon animals .....and made them "loveable" !!
Like Wily Coyote , Bugs Bunny , Tweetie Bird , The Road Runner , Heckle & Jeckle , The Three Little Pigs , Donald and Daisy Duck and the 3 nephews etc........all speaking ENGLISH better than most humans .....while The Wolf in Red-Riding-Hood , even though malevolent , was easily dispatched !
Even authors gave snakes , lions ,tigers and bears "loveable" human characteristics....it's little wonder that some people think that the WORST THING ON THE PLANET is a HUMAN !
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"humanity tossed “fox tossing” aside in favor of more innocent amusements."
Really Steven ???? You mean like WATCHING FILMS like Gladiator , Predator , Alien , and every police and crime show on TV......enjoying ALL THOSE innocent and gratuitous killing scenes ?????
Innocent amusements that inspire people to take shots at 'Candidate Donald Trump' and the late and great Charlie Kirk .......and innocent school-kids and postal-workers !!! Yeah !
Like tearing-apart someone's life and reputation on Social Media ???
No ! I think FOX TOSSING is the least of human foibles and failings !
While I do agree with you.......humans.......and everything else on this planet is improving.......mostly because of human inventions , innovations and interventions .....there is much room for improvement....BUT......I don'r think "innocent" misrepresentation of the world is helpful.
FOXES and other predatory feral animals should be minimised......by whatever it takes !
Humans [and their domestic animals and pets ] are the TOP PRIORITY.
You say : "IDF sport is sniping Palestinians" , and , although I am no expert or authority on the subject .............IF they are sniping AT YOU , then it's probably O.K. to snipe back !
Personally , I hope that the "so called Palestinians' , the Gaza inhabitants , get enough courage and determination to force HAMAS to surrender the remaining hostages , disarm
HAMAS and end the bloodshed soon. Since that is all it would take to end the conflict you would hope that reason and common-sense would prevail....if not......then I guess it is up to the IDF to force HAMAS to surrender , surrender the hostages , disarm and end the bloodshed ! If HAMAS is disbanded and destroyed then Gaza can return to the civilised world .....and many people would assist it to do so !
I totally agree that Hamas is Suicidally Stupid . They continue to provide excuse for the Zionist decimation . I had just seen this :
" Der Spiegel and ZDF found that 2 snipers serving in the Israeli military killed 4 members of the same Palestinian family in Gaza. One of the snipers is from the Chicago suburbs, and the other is from Munich, Germany. "
Getting completely away from Hannah's topic....BUT.........
The "best sniper" on record was a Finn , Simo Hayha , who shot and killed at least 500 Russian soldiers during the "Winter War " [Finnish War of Independence]
just prior to WW2..... Arguably , the "best snipers" , other than that Finn , were the Russians who trained both men and women and who were incredibly effective against the invading German forces in WW2.......... The Germans then responded by training an excellent team of their own expert snipers. The numbers killed by enemy snipers were disastrously high on both sides.....and the soviet women were equally as deadly as their male counterparts !
[ Note : The 'best shot' in the local rifle club was Janet Ingram !!!]
Since there were many "Jews" in both Russia and Germany it logically follows that many of them would have been trained as snipers and that many of the survivors would have made their way to the newly-proclaimed State of Israel in 1948 , probably just in time to be involved in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-1949 !
I am sure that those skills would have been passed-on to the modern IDF too !
Some things never change ! They are still fighting for their very survival !
ISRAEL means "He who struggles with God" and it seems that you can also
put in "He who struggles with Arabs" in the modern context !
Strangely enough , the Arabs within Israel get along well with the other Israelis !
It's a pity that the external Arabs can't , or won't , do the same !!
Australia is so fortunate to NOT be surrounded by 200 million periodically hostile neighbours ! ....... But , there is no reason to be as complacent as we are !!!!
Hi Chelsea !........FOX TOSSING ! How imaginative !
A bit like FOX HUNTING but without the hounds and horses ! And probably for the same reason !
Eradication of a rotten predator of their livestock and a spreader of contagion to their farm dogs !
Have YOU ever seen the devastation caused by a fox in a "chook-run" [ or a "hen-house" ] or the torn-apart , yet still living , new-born lambs and their helpless mothers with torn-out-throats and other horrible wounds , inflicted , not for food , but FOR FUN by "playful" foxes and wild dogs ?
During a lambing season , unless the foxes are controlled by trapping , poisoning or shooting , the sheep farmers lose many animals and lots of their "hoped for" profit ! However , if the fox is feeding it's kits it MAY be understandable if they "take" one small lamb.........but.......they don't !
They kill as many lambs as they can and quite often depart WITHOUT a single lamb for food !
They just seem to enjoy the slaughter and maiming and all the gore ! They really deserve to die painfully and badly ! I went out with farmers at night "spotlight shooting" on several occasions and quite enjoyed dispatching a fox or two , along with the occasional rabbit and 'roo [ the latter being cooked up for dog food ]. I had been on the 'receiving end' of a foxes visit to my bird aviaries and "chook run" and I would happily eradicate every last one of the foxes and wild cats !
.
"So what changed? Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker believes humanity became more compassionate as the spread of literacy, education and reason led people to consider the perspectives of others, expanding humanity’s “circle of empathy” and eventually extending compassion even to animals, while dramatically reducing violence in many different areas of life."
NO....MISLED........not compassionate ! Totally deceived and misinformed !
AND I BLAME WALT DISNEY and those silly soppy writers of romance novels !
Incidentally , Romance comes from Roman, and first meant a story translated into French from Latin (the common language of old Rome), usually about the amorous adventures of chivalrous knights.....who were usually on a RESCUE MISSION to save a "damsel in distress" and to KILL A BLOODY DRAGON !!! .......which , funnily enough , used to be considered a commendable action !
[ Still...NOW....in this age of strong , independent , self-sufficient women......it is a bit "old hat" !??] .
No........DISNEY et al....... ANTHROPOMORPHISED cartoon animals .....and made them "loveable" !!
Like Wily Coyote , Bugs Bunny , Tweetie Bird , The Road Runner , Heckle & Jeckle , The Three Little Pigs , Donald and Daisy Duck and the 3 nephews etc........all speaking ENGLISH better than most humans .....while The Wolf in Red-Riding-Hood , even though malevolent , was easily dispatched !
Even authors gave snakes , lions ,tigers and bears "loveable" human characteristics....it's little wonder that some people think that the WORST THING ON THE PLANET is a HUMAN !
.
"humanity tossed “fox tossing” aside in favor of more innocent amusements."
Really Steven ???? You mean like WATCHING FILMS like Gladiator , Predator , Alien , and every police and crime show on TV......enjoying ALL THOSE innocent and gratuitous killing scenes ?????
Innocent amusements that inspire people to take shots at 'Candidate Donald Trump' and the late and great Charlie Kirk .......and innocent school-kids and postal-workers !!! Yeah !
Like tearing-apart someone's life and reputation on Social Media ???
No ! I think FOX TOSSING is the least of human foibles and failings !
While I do agree with you.......humans.......and everything else on this planet is improving.......mostly because of human inventions , innovations and interventions .....there is much room for improvement....BUT......I don'r think "innocent" misrepresentation of the world is helpful.
FOXES and other predatory feral animals should be minimised......by whatever it takes !
Humans [and their domestic animals and pets ] are the TOP PRIORITY.
Nowdays , IDF sport is sniping Palestinians .
Well Bob ,
You say : "IDF sport is sniping Palestinians" , and , although I am no expert or authority on the subject .............IF they are sniping AT YOU , then it's probably O.K. to snipe back !
Personally , I hope that the "so called Palestinians' , the Gaza inhabitants , get enough courage and determination to force HAMAS to surrender the remaining hostages , disarm
HAMAS and end the bloodshed soon. Since that is all it would take to end the conflict you would hope that reason and common-sense would prevail....if not......then I guess it is up to the IDF to force HAMAS to surrender , surrender the hostages , disarm and end the bloodshed ! If HAMAS is disbanded and destroyed then Gaza can return to the civilised world .....and many people would assist it to do so !
I totally agree that Hamas is Suicidally Stupid . They continue to provide excuse for the Zionist decimation . I had just seen this :
" Der Spiegel and ZDF found that 2 snipers serving in the Israeli military killed 4 members of the same Palestinian family in Gaza. One of the snipers is from the Chicago suburbs, and the other is from Munich, Germany. "
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7372084814138482688/ .
Getting completely away from Hannah's topic....BUT.........
The "best sniper" on record was a Finn , Simo Hayha , who shot and killed at least 500 Russian soldiers during the "Winter War " [Finnish War of Independence]
just prior to WW2..... Arguably , the "best snipers" , other than that Finn , were the Russians who trained both men and women and who were incredibly effective against the invading German forces in WW2.......... The Germans then responded by training an excellent team of their own expert snipers. The numbers killed by enemy snipers were disastrously high on both sides.....and the soviet women were equally as deadly as their male counterparts !
[ Note : The 'best shot' in the local rifle club was Janet Ingram !!!]
Since there were many "Jews" in both Russia and Germany it logically follows that many of them would have been trained as snipers and that many of the survivors would have made their way to the newly-proclaimed State of Israel in 1948 , probably just in time to be involved in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-1949 !
I am sure that those skills would have been passed-on to the modern IDF too !
Some things never change ! They are still fighting for their very survival !
ISRAEL means "He who struggles with God" and it seems that you can also
put in "He who struggles with Arabs" in the modern context !
Strangely enough , the Arabs within Israel get along well with the other Israelis !
It's a pity that the external Arabs can't , or won't , do the same !!
Australia is so fortunate to NOT be surrounded by 200 million periodically hostile neighbours ! ....... But , there is no reason to be as complacent as we are !!!!