Today I'm angry about.....

[malcd1]

A trip to your local golf/bowling club might have sorted that for you, Malc.

Unfortunately I am not a member of either. It was a pet food manufacturer so they probably wouldn't have noticed anyway.

[Bijou Bob]

I very, very rarely use the 'C' word, but the killer of Cecil the Lion, some half wit psycho from the US, is indeed a c*** of the first order. It seems an Internet witch hunt is underway, which is some small comfort.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Today I'm angry, not because they're putting petrol up by by around 25% on Saturday, but because every petrol station in the country (there's not enough of them) is going to have massive queues until then and the tank will need some before then

[thebish]

I very, very rarely use the 'C' word, but the killer of Cecil the Lion, some half wit psycho from the US, is indeed a c*** of the first order. It seems an Internet witch hunt is underway, which is some small comfort.

bob on there..

[bobo the clown]

I very, very rarely use the 'C' word, but the killer of Cecil the Lion, some half wit psycho from the US, is indeed a c*** of the first order. It seems an Internet witch hunt is underway, which is some small comfort.

bob on there..

Apparently today "he's sorry".

I hope he is ... & continues to have reason to be.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I very, very rarely use the 'C' word, but the killer of Cecil the Lion, some half wit psycho from the US, is indeed a c*** of the first order. It seems an Internet witch hunt is underway, which is some small comfort.

bob on there..

Apparently today "he's sorry".

I hope he is ... & continues to have reason to be.

His newly appointed PR company told him to say sorry. He's a massive cvnt of the highest order.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Today I'm angry, not because they're putting petrol up by by around 25% on Saturday, but because every petrol station in the country (there's not enough of them) is going to have massive queues until then and the tank will need some before then

All the way up to $1.00 a gallon then?

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Today I'm angry, not because they're putting petrol up by by around 25% on Saturday, but because every petrol station in the country (there's not enough of them) is going to have massive queues until then and the tank will need some before then

All the way up to $1.00 a gallon then?

From 30p a litre to 37p. Bloomin expensive compared to our neighbours!

[Bruce Rioja]

I very, very rarely use the 'C' word, but the killer of Cecil the Lion, some half wit psycho from the US, is indeed a c*** of the first order. It seems an Internet witch hunt is underway, which is some small comfort.

bob on there..

Apparently today "he's sorry".

I hope he is ... & continues to have reason to be.

He's actually come out with this, like it makes the murdering of your average animal in the name of 'fun' quite alright. The total c*nt."I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt".

But anyone that goes on these trips should be hounded. Every fecking one of them.

[bobo the clown]

I'm not an especial animal lover but I also can't get why someone feels they get a kick from this or has the right to do it. Apparently paid $35,000 to hunt it, let alone the travel and hotels.

There are photos of him having killed leopards & huge moose and bears. So this is how he gets his rocjs off. What a tit.

He's only sorry that the fuss has arisen, not for doing it.

[StaffsTrotter]

I'm not an especial animal lover but I also can't get why someone feels they get a kick from this or has the right to do it. Apparently paid $35,000 to hunt it, let alone the travel and hotels.

There are photos of him having killed leopards & huge moose and bears. So this is how he gets his rocjs off. What a tit.

He's only sorry that the fuss has arisen, not for doing it.

Think theres a couple of depressing things about this. One as you say is that people want to do it and will pay big money. The second is that its big business and as no doubt will be trotted out at some stage, these animals wouldn't be allowed to survive unless they had the economic value for the hunt

[Montreal Wanderer]

I'm not an especial animal lover but I also can't get why someone feels they get a kick from this or has the right to do it. Apparently paid $35,000 to hunt it, let alone the travel and hotels.

There are photos of him having killed leopards & huge moose and bears. So this is how he gets his rocjs off. What a tit.

He's only sorry that the fuss has arisen, not for doing it.

Think theres a couple of depressing things about this. One as you say is that people want to do it and will pay big money. The second is that its big business and as no doubt will be trotted out at some stage, these animals wouldn't be allowed to survive unless they had the economic value for the hunt

It was a collared animal in a national park - they are allowed to survive there and are (theoretically) protected. We haven't heard the end of this one.

[Dujon]

What a cretin! I haven't read the full story on his evil deed but how could anyone do what he did?

On another angry tack, this morning I attended the rooms of a local ophthalmologist following a reference from my optometrist. Four hours later I arrived home $210 lighter in the wallet and knowing little more than I did from the optometrist's original report. Fortunately I have found a local community bus which caters for idiots like me who find it impossible to access public transport and undertake the necessary walking at each end of such travel.

So, next week it's back again for an angio-somethingorother - which involves injecting some sort of vegetable dye into a vein and then watching it as it percolates through the eye's blood vessels. The specialist warned that some people have an allergic reaction to this; sometimes severe, sometimes fatal. Good grief! After that it's probably laser work on the back of the eye. Eeek! I wasn't game to ask the cost of all this, but I bet it's bloomin' expensive.

I'm getting in copious amounts of Scotch to get me through to Friday week.

[Worthy4England]

How much are hunting licenses for Minnesotan Dentists? I think I might have actually found a use for the Hunger Games. Cvnts the lot of them.

[StaffsTrotter]

I'm not an especial animal lover but I also can't get why someone feels they get a kick from this or has the right to do it. Apparently paid $35,000 to hunt it, let alone the travel and hotels.

There are photos of him having killed leopards & huge moose and bears. So this is how he gets his rocjs off. What a tit.

He's only sorry that the fuss has arisen, not for doing it.

Think theres a couple of depressing things about this. One as you say is that people want to do it and will pay big money. The second is that its big business and as no doubt will be trotted out at some stage, these animals wouldn't be allowed to survive unless they had the economic value for the hunt

It was a collared animal in a national park - they are allowed to survive there and are (theoretically) protected. We haven't heard the end of this one.

Except hunting permits are issued and 'game management' occurs within the park, as well as the more obvious illegal poaching. By all accounts the lion was killed on private land adjoining the park, so not illegal in that respect but part of the case is whether it was lured there by bait. I'm still not sure what this furore is about - I'd hope it was about the big issues of our relationship with animals and the planet, but suspect its more because the lion had a name, or because he was a dentist and an american to boot. There certainly seems something within our human nature and our social standing relationships that drives the trophy hunt, particularly by our rich and powerful
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[bobo the clown]

I can understand culling and the need to keep numbers controlled. I can understand the economic argument for selling g licences. I can even understand (real) hunting. I can't see why a grown man would get his rocks off shooting a beast like this with a gun and sights which would make missing quite an achievement.

[StaffsTrotter]

I can understand culling and the need to keep numbers controlled. I can understand the economic argument for selling g licences. I can even understand (real) hunting. I can't see why a grown man would get his rocks off shooting a beast like this with a gun and sights which would make missing quite an achievement.

but didnt he use a crossbow which I assume would take more skill to kill 'efficiently' and presumably requires the hunter to get closer to the quarry. These may give an understandable rationale, but IMO not agreeable. Unfortunately in this instance, it only led to the animal taking a couple of days to die, so he was a shit shot as well

[Hoboh]

I can understand culling and the need to keep numbers controlled. I can understand the economic argument for selling g licences. I can even understand (real) hunting. I can't see why a grown man would get his rocks off shooting a beast like this with a gun and sights which would make missing quite an achievement.

but didnt he use a crossbow which I assume would take more skill to kill 'efficiently' and presumably requires the hunter to get closer to the quarry. These may give an understandable rationale, but IMO not agreeable. Unfortunately in this instance, it only led to the animal taking a couple of days to die, so he was a shit shot as well

Chuck the prick in the middle of the desert and let someone like Seal team 6 hunt him!

[TANGODANCER]

Chuck the prick in the middle of the desert and let someone like Seal team 6 hunt him!

Why go to that bother? Just take his crossbow away and leave him to the lions.

[KeyserSoze]

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