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There's a touch of truth in it, insofar as fowl use grit in the gullet as an aid to digestion - but that's not why they get run over. They get run over because basically they are thick. Crows don't get run over because they are clever.Winter Hill White wrote:I'm sure I read somewhere that pheasants need grit to help them digest, so they spend a long time on roads where they can get said grit. Or something like that. Don't know if there's any truth in that.Bruce Rioja wrote: Ah, fair do's. I've never known how come pheasants have absolutely zero road sense, yet those wily old crows at the side of the motorway never ever get run over.
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No idea about the lack of road sense, but this one was pottering around the hard shoulder and then diverted, walking straight into the inside lane as I passed. As I said, couldn't believe the damage it did.
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Did it live ??
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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It would have been okay - I believe you are supposed to hang pheasant for some three weeks until it is 'gamey'.jimbo wrote:Sadly not. I was on the way to the airport for a few days in Budapest when it happened. It would have been a bit smelly when I got back.Bruce Rioja wrote:I hope you ate it.jimbo wrote:Hit a pheasant on the motorway the other day. Nothing I could do about it. Was quite sad at the time - loss of life and all that, but when I got to my destination discovered the bastard bird still sticking out of the giant hole it had ripped in the front bumper![]()
Now got to shop round for a new one or blow my £400 excess on my insurance.
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Haven feckin' Holidays. Just seen an advert on TV and they've used some anodyne watered down version of Echo Beach as the soundtrack. Hope they go bust.
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The exhaust on my car dropping off....
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wrap some rope around it and tie it off around your rear window wiper.. bound to get past the MOTAnnoyed Grunt wrote:The exhaust on my car dropping off....
(I saw a car where the driver had done just that today!)
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Rope less house.....may have to use old ties, booked into Kwik Fit for Saturday....these a couple of hundred gonethebish wrote:wrap some rope around it and tie it off around your rear window wiper.. bound to get past the MOTAnnoyed Grunt wrote:The exhaust on my car dropping off....
(I saw a car where the driver had done just that today!)

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surely it wouldn't take more than 3 ties??? how many do you have??Annoyed Grunt wrote:Rope less house.....may have to use old ties, booked into Kwik Fit for Saturday....these a couple of hundred gonethebish wrote:wrap some rope around it and tie it off around your rear window wiper.. bound to get past the MOTAnnoyed Grunt wrote:The exhaust on my car dropping off....
(I saw a car where the driver had done just that today!)

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312.......tie fetishthebish wrote:surely it wouldn't take more than 3 ties??? how many do you have??Annoyed Grunt wrote:Rope less house.....may have to use old ties, booked into Kwik Fit for Saturday....these a couple of hundred gonethebish wrote:wrap some rope around it and tie it off around your rear window wiper.. bound to get past the MOTAnnoyed Grunt wrote:The exhaust on my car dropping off....
(I saw a car where the driver had done just that today!)

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The ties are working......so far...
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F-ing trains!
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cool!!Annoyed Grunt wrote:The ties are working......so far...

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Ice.
Slipped on a patch this morning, comedy fall, gave myself 6.5 for the landing but lost points for my legs being apart. Passing schoolkids found it highly amusing, i just pretended like i meant to do it cos im that fcking cool, and carried on walking.
Slipped on a patch this morning, comedy fall, gave myself 6.5 for the landing but lost points for my legs being apart. Passing schoolkids found it highly amusing, i just pretended like i meant to do it cos im that fcking cool, and carried on walking.
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ohjimmyjimmy wrote:Ice.
Slipped on a patch this morning, comedy fall, gave myself 6.5 for the landing but lost points for my legs being apart. Passing schoolkids found it highly amusing, i just pretended like i meant to do it cos im that fcking cool, and carried on walking.

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Kinda like when you trip on the pavement and break into a little jog...but with icethebish wrote:ohjimmyjimmy wrote:Ice.
Slipped on a patch this morning, comedy fall, gave myself 6.5 for the landing but lost points for my legs being apart. Passing schoolkids found it highly amusing, i just pretended like i meant to do it cos im that fcking cool, and carried on walking.

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Call it dancing on iceohjimmyjimmy wrote:Kinda like when you trip on the pavement and break into a little jog...but with icethebish wrote:ohjimmyjimmy wrote:Ice.
Slipped on a patch this morning, comedy fall, gave myself 6.5 for the landing but lost points for my legs being apart. Passing schoolkids found it highly amusing, i just pretended like i meant to do it cos im that fcking cool, and carried on walking.

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Well done for not landing flat on your back. When you do a Dick Emery over the edge of a flagstone, do you go back a pace and glare at it like "WTF are you doing there?" Yes, I've done that.ohjimmyjimmy wrote:Ice.
Slipped on a patch this morning, comedy fall, gave myself 6.5 for the landing but lost points for my legs being apart. Passing schoolkids found it highly amusing, i just pretended like i meant to do it cos im that fcking cool, and carried on walking.

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On the trip you have a chance of saving yourself with the jog and arm waving. Ice on the other hand is deadly stuff. I, who walk on it three months a year, know this. Some falls appear to defy the law of gravity and throw you up before the big crash. It is unpleasant stuff to land on - wet, cold and extremely hard. One moment you are walking along enjoying the brisk fresh air and the next second you've taken the pearler of a lifetime, with no memory of how you got from one state to the next. So take out there all of you.ohjimmyjimmy wrote:Kinda like when you trip on the pavement and break into a little jog...but with icethebish wrote:ohjimmyjimmy wrote:Ice.
Slipped on a patch this morning, comedy fall, gave myself 6.5 for the landing but lost points for my legs being apart. Passing schoolkids found it highly amusing, i just pretended like i meant to do it cos im that fcking cool, and carried on walking.
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Ooh, ooh! Sir! Sir! Monty did an eggcorn, Sir!Montreal Wanderer wrote:One moment you are walking along enjoying the brisk fresh air and the next second you've taken the pearler of a lifetime, with no memory of how you got from one state to the next.
For once, Green minor, we should all turn a blind eye. The poor lad may still have a touch of concussion.
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