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UK security? Where?

Jon_in_london said:
There is a ligitimate problem with foxes. They have no natural predators anymore and they cause havoc on farms and also eat any other remnants of our wildlife they come across.
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Hunting is NOT an effective way of controlling fox numbers, they simply don't kill enough foxes.
 
Quite right. I live in a rural area of Scotland, surrounded by sheep and with neighbours who keep chickens. Hunting has been banned in Scotland for two years, but foxes are no problem whatsoever; the chicken-keeping neighbours only have problems with rats and weasels, and the sheep-farmers regularly go out rough-shooting, aiming for any vermin. There's actually never been any organised fox-hunting here - simply no need for it, even though this place should be perfect territory for foxes, with forests and moorland aplenty.
The only foxes I see are the ones that get squished on the roads.

ETA: Glad I never bought any Roxy Music records; which meant I never contributed to sending that Ferry oik to Eton. Private education evidently didn't do much for him - once he got into the Commons Chamber, with the cameras on him and the world watching, all he could think of saying was "This isn't democracy!" Couldn't he dig up a decent classical quote?
 
Originally posted by Hutch:
Mostly (as the Yankee sees it) foxes and hounds have always been seen as an Upper Crust diversion, after all it does cost a bit to own and outfit horses, dogs, and wear that bloody ugly red jacket. So the "lower levels" of society have always found it a good way to poke fun at the "snobs"
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Fox hunting thrives in Ireland, despite this nation's innate antipathy towards Anglo-Saxon Upper Crust types. In spite of native Papist potato snapping types have enthusiastically got in on the act. The Irish Nouveau Riche have taken to wearing ugly red jackets and galloping in pursuit of an sionnach (that's the Irish for fox), despite the fact that their ancestors hadn't a pot to dump into because whatever few shillings they had went in rent to the local upper crust type, who probably spent it on an ugly red jacket and bugle. By all means people who go fox hunting out of a sense of tradition ought ot be allowed to, but only if people like me can put hoods on our head, burn their houses down, and shoot them, purely for old times sake.

Foxes don't require extensive tree cover to thrive, btw.

So one of Bryan Ferry's young lad's got caught up in this hullabaloo. I've actually got every Roxy Music album, but I'm satisfied that this kept Bryan in Grecian 2000 for a spell, instead of paying for his son's education.
 
Shane Costello said:

So one of Bryan Ferry's young lad's got caught up in this hullabaloo. I've actually got every Roxy Music album, but I'm satisfied that this kept Bryan in Grecian 2000 for a spell, instead of paying for his son's education.
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Oh a "celebrity" truncheoning.

I miss all the good bits.
 
Oh it just gets worse and worse.

"Fake bomb smuggled into commons"

The chamber's potty I tell you! There's no commons sense!

What next? "Man disguised as clown smuggles in toy nuke"? I mean it would certainly be a disguise that would blend in perfectly with the other people there. The blame is being shuffled to the men in tights who are supposed to provide security within the commons. I wasn't actually aware that the police can only enter by invitation. The gentleman of the press was apparently accepted for the job as waiter two days after his face was on the front of the biggest circulation newspaper in the UK as the journo who had exposed massive security loop holes at Birmingham airport, his references were fictitious restaurants and his contacts were other journos. Bloody amazingly poor performance yet again.
 
Reginald said:
Oh it just gets worse and worse.

"Fake bomb smuggled into commons"

The chamber's potty I tell you! There's no commons sense!
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Oh good grief! Im sick of idiot hacks taking an alarm clock, a sandwich box and some blutack into a restricted zone and saying "Loook!!! I got a bomb in here!!!!" No you didnt you ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ wnaker!!! you took in an alarm clock, a sandwhich box and some blutack!!!! Gaaaarrrggghhh!!! ITS NOT A BOMB!!! ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO A BOMB! CLOCK. SANDWICH BOX. BLUTACK!!!

/pulls hair out!
 
Originally posted by Mr. Manifesto:
I'll bet it's pronounced 'fox', too, right? I know all about you misleading-spelling-Gaellic-types.
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It's pronounced "Shunnock". An alternative is "madra rua", or red dog.

Mas e do thoil e (please) tell me how you were mislead by some crafty Gaelic types? You didn't have an embarrasing episode in a public lavatory by any chance? ;)
 
No, I had a flatmate named 'Orla' (spelt Oryliahgh), who had a sister named 'Etna' (spelt Eightnieiaannaihehghya) and another sister named 'Ornya' (spelt 'Qqyqoufjamnlnlntalhochghghlathalkclclocahht').

Spellings exaggerated for the purposes of humour.
 
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