Born Hunter
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Governments don't even really need to get involved. If tomorrow every consumer in the West avoided plastic packaging and environmentally damaging products then industry itself would RAPIDLY adapt. The question is how much more would it cost to get the environmentally friendly option over the plastic one and do consumers care enough to even look for it?
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Depressing ain't it. Got to raise their standard of living so they themselves want to have clean beaches, rivers and oceans. That takes a long time though. Short term solutions could be supporting business that prioritise the environment. Like how wildlife in Africa can be profitable and therefore is in the interest of businessmen to protect maybe there are options there in these Asian rubbish tips. Tourism for instance. No one wants to snorkel through nappies and bin bags...
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Westerners need to start giving a shit for a start. By that I mean we need to make this a political and economic priority. It needs to be an election issue and it needs to be a profit margin issue. Once national governments consider it a threat to their power then it will escalate to international politics and once business considers it a threat to their profits they will look for more environmental options. Most folks don't want to take responsibility for it, too happy to blame others and expect others to fix it. I'm absolutely as guilty as anyone. Even when people do force these changes
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I thought so. No macho bollocks, just thoroughly entertaining reading. This bit had me in bits.
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Mackem found it.
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It's tragic what we are destroying tbh. The following hit me as significant in the solution though. Just 10 rivers carry 90% of plastic polluting the oceans
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Yeah, good to share as there are some very decent fieldsports articles out there. I'm particularly interested in rough shooting (wild bird hunting) articles at the moment. Anything on working dogs after woodcock, snipe, duck etc. Be really interesting if there are some Irish stuff in that same vein. Ireland seems a heartland of that sot of shooting that I love. There was an Eddie Chapman article I read on one of those sites on his experience of terrierwork (I use the term loosely here) in Africa. f***ing pissed myself laughing. By the end I didn't care what was fiction and fact, just a go
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Thought it'd be a good idea to share any sites we know of that have free fieldsports article/stories. I'm after any new ones so add em please! shootinguk fieldsportsmagazine earthdog-runningdog africahunting There was a good gundog one too that I can't seem to find now.
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One more for the thread. He tried bless him
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Small syndicates generally require dogs to do every job going. On paper spaniels are the best suited imo but in reality most folks seem to find a lab easier to handle. Personally I find a lack of spaniels a real pain in the arse on ours. There's a lot of cover that just needs a spaniel to work it. Why do you say it ruins them? If you want a lab then I'd say get one. They can do both jobs. What they can't do though is properly work bramble and thorns, that's generally their limit. PS I'd love to see some spaniel x labs work.
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Sgt Vulpes.... In another life maybe
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Government should be entirely abolished and everything privatised. Don't need the useless annoying c**ts then.
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And that's why conspiracies are bollocks. Governments are f***ing inept. LOL
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Seriously? Fuuuuuuuuuuuck that's some sneaky 2nd world shit. I mean we know they work their angle for their own agenda but that's way too blatant for a 1st world democratic government. I love it!
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I find it remarkable really that it's not policy for young people to get an annual thorough health check to mitigate potential disease later in life. I have no idea if it would save the NHS money (guarantee that calculation has been done) but it would surely be better for us all as individuals than to be treated when shit starts breaking later in life. Even if it is more costly...
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If he's not a mate then f**k him, you've no loyalty to this other fella. Ya do the job or lose the job. Matey is gonna lose his permission, whether it's to you or someone else.
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Mate, there are males walking around officially accepted to be females. There are kids being prosecuted for hate crimes because they quoted song lyrics in a social media tribute to a dead friend. There's literally a law that makes it illegal to hurt a loved ones feelings! I honestly wouldn't be surprised.
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I want to try this this season. Any advice mate? Is it best to avoid popping at pigeons etc?
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I'm amazed he has any support from servicemen and servicewomen after what he said to McCain in the election campaign. Shows how up against a wall some folks felt I guess?
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Nope, done. Good day, sir.
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In 95 the rabbit bag index was what 0.7. In 1905 it was like over 0.9. So you're definitely wrong there. Also, clearly 95 is an outlier. Hence statistics. Also, that IS an interpretation. Because what the data actually says is the rabbit bag. We're assuming that correlates with population. Now I really am done. f**k. Lol
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LOL, I'm not disagreeing with the graph. The graph is a collection of data points. I believe them. I'm disagreeing with your interpretation of them. Because I interpret statistical data, statistically. Because I don't just consider 2 data points. Now I'm bored. We can disagree. The graph is there for everyone to see and draw there own conclusions. No matter how many times you want to type in capitals that I'm disagreeing with the data. I just don't care enough to argue with a f***ing stranger on the internet. Lol
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Guess work, lol. I said probably needs correcting because the correlation is suspicious. No guessing. A war time effect is not representative of population pressures during normal non war time. So it is suspicious in an analysis. Ignoring that completely though. Look at all the pre myxi data! Conclusion is the same.
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So we just gonna ignore statistics still and keep focusing on single data points? I accept that the modern rabbit bag recovered to the 1953 level. I dont consider that conclusive 're my original statement, because it's only a small dataset. You have to look at all of it. I'm not arguing with you about this decker. Believe what you will. The other folks on here can do the same.
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Mate, youre not considering the data statistically and are only looking at two points. You can't do that in an analysis, it's completely flawed. This sort of data is statistical and as such relying on any one point to draw a conclusion is misleading. This data is an indirect and non clinical measure of rabbit population annually. For those reasons you have to treat it statistically. You can't consider small chunks of data valid alone. For example, there's clearly a strong correlation of reduced population with the onset of the war. Thats probably not real and needs correcting for and is a
