Mundane Observations Thread
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When your daughter becomes a mother, your mother becomes a great-grandmother. And you become a granddad. Unless you're a woman.0
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passout wrote:passout wrote:'Manage a badger' - what do you E-mail them to say that they must attend a stakeholder meeting ..................or do you 'cull' them? You're a badger killer aren't you? This is an outrage - that's not mundane at all!
Sorry - I was just baiting you.
The civil engineers would quite like to kill the badgers....but I am the badgers' friend. 8)
I work within licenses granted by Natural England - they do sometimes allow culling but I wouldn't want to be involved in that - by installing little one way doors you can force the badgers to move to another sett. Then once I've proved to NE's satisfaction that the sett is empty we'll be able to fill it in with concrete.
The other thing I'm going to be looking at is badger proof fencing to keep the little critters out for good.
We find quite a few of them dead on the tracks unfortunately - so it'll be entirely in their interest if we can stop them getting onto the underground.0 -
Porgy wrote:passout wrote:passout wrote:'Manage a badger' - what do you E-mail them to say that they must attend a stakeholder meeting ..................or do you 'cull' them? You're a badger killer aren't you? This is an outrage - that's not mundane at all!
Sorry - I was just baiting you.
The civil engineers would quite like to kill the badgers....but I am the badgers' friend. 8)
I work within licenses granted by Natural England - they do sometimes allow culling but I wouldn't want to be involved in that - by installing little one way doors you can force the badgers to move to another sett. Then once I've proved to NE's satisfaction that the sett is empty we'll be able to fill it in with concrete.
The other thing I'm going to be looking at is badger proof fencing to keep the little critters out for good.
We find quite a few of them dead on the tracks unfortunately - so it'll be entirely in their interest if we can stop them getting onto the underground.
I'm surprised badgers can afford to get on the Underground, considering the cost of Oyster cards. :shock:Cycling weakly0 -
Porgy wrote:passout wrote:passout wrote:'Manage a badger' - what do you E-mail them to say that they must attend a stakeholder meeting ..................or do you 'cull' them? You're a badger killer aren't you? This is an outrage - that's not mundane at all!
Sorry - I was just baiting you.
The civil engineers would quite like to kill the badgers....but I am the badgers' friend. 8)
I work within licenses granted by Natural England - they do sometimes allow culling but I wouldn't want to be involved in that - by installing little one way doors you can force the badgers to move to another sett. Then once I've proved to NE's satisfaction that the sett is empty we'll be able to fill it in with concrete.
The other thing I'm going to be looking at is badger proof fencing to keep the little critters out for good.
We find quite a few of them dead on the tracks unfortunately - so it'll be entirely in their interest if we can stop them getting onto the underground.
I stand corrected, that really is quite mundane. I find it quite interesting though, which I guess makes me mundane. Out of interest how much does it cost 'not to kill' badgers?'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.0 -
Nothing to do with badgers could ever be described as mundane. Cute, stripey, snuffly, but never mundane.
Had one trot across the road in front of me a couple of nights ago. Like a great big shambling doormat. Luckily I was just cresting a hill so there was no danger of me running it over.0 -
passout wrote:I stand corrected, that really is quite mundane. I find it quite interesting though, which I guess makes me mundane. Out of interest how much does it cost 'not to kill' badgers?
In the old Metronet days this was dealt with by one of our business partners who would survey and bring in an ecologist - and it would be a fairly expensive process.
But I'm doing this in-house now so it's a whole lot cheaper. English Nature supply an ecologist free of charge and we use our own staff, and so far it's cost us nothing - though the civil engineering aspect of having to repair embankments and p-ways damaged by badgers might run into a few tens of thousands - and the badger proof fencing hasn't been costed yet.0 -
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Can you badger a Badger?"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."0
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can a flounder flounder?
Can a whale wail?
If a squirrel squirrels something away can a ferret ferret it out again?
Can a three-toed toad be towed?
Can you pander to a panda?0 -
Two Liverpool "fans" have just denounced their football team in front of me and looked at me as if I might understand their plight.
Should have supported teams for a proper reason and not because they were doing well when you were a kid then. We came 15th ish a few years ago, I went to at least 10 home games that season and would still go if we were relegated.
I used to hate the Pool and Utd fans that live in London and have no connection to "their" clubs but declare their "undying" loyalty to them but you can keep the 2 bob mugs :P .0 -
Does a horse get hoarse?
And what does a frog get in its throat?0 -
I can''t bear bears.'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.0
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Try to ferret out a ferret.
or rat on a rat.0 -
i hope it doesn't rain tomorrow.0
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I still think about chocolate tools.0
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crumbschief wrote:I still think about chocolate tools.
you've got me started now you daft b*****d!! :evil:0 -
Fun innit,lol0
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I'm off to bed, got to take my daughter swimming at 5.15am. Night, night."There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."0
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Night night.
God this gets more like Twitter every day. :?0 -
When you can see high tide from your kitchen window, you know that nearly every ride is going to start with an uphill bit.0
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deptfordmarmoset wrote:When you can see high tide from your kitchen window, you know that nearly every ride is going to start with an uphill bit.
...this would be a disturbing sight if you lived in Birmingham. :shock:Cycling weakly0 -
skyd0g wrote:deptfordmarmoset wrote:When you can see high tide from your kitchen window, you know that nearly every ride is going to start with an uphill bit.
...this would be a disturbing sight if you lived in Birmingham. :shock:
And it would be completely untrue if you lived on top of any mountain from which you can see the sea!0 -
rhext wrote:skyd0g wrote:deptfordmarmoset wrote:When you can see high tide from your kitchen window, you know that nearly every ride is going to start with an uphill bit.
...this would be a disturbing sight if you lived in Birmingham. :shock:
And it would be completely untrue if you lived on top of any mountain from which you can see the sea!
Hmmm, I think I may have to reconsider my position...0 -
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That last post is not mundane.0
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An anagram of the word 'mundane' is "nude man".0
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Abba is spelt the same back to front.0
