[Racer57]

What I care about right now is that ground squirrels will soon be taking over California. Will the world be next?   
https://patch.com/california/pacifica/s/iy2d1/ground-squirrels-invading-ca-after-poison-ban-exterminator-says

Give the people that are hungry slingshots !!

[Adrian II]

Would you care to do some practical research on behalf of your fellow Californians? You may have a new FREE delicacy waiting to be exploited.

To misquote Van Morrison covering the Shirelles:

My marmot told me, there'd be days like this.

 

A.

[Richard230]

Would you care to do some practical research on behalf of your fellow Californians? You may have a new FREE delicacy waiting to be exploited.

To misquote Van Morrison covering the Shirelles:
 

A.

I think I will wait to do that until the new crop has arrived next year when the banned poison is out of their systems.   

[Richard230]

This was news to me. Squirrels and Rattlesnakes are at war:  https://medium.com/@snakeymama_14731/squirrel-vs-rattlesnake-949a93ddb287

[AzCal Retred]

Great link! Once again, the world isn't Disneyland and all your problems won't be solved by Monsanto. This is a lesson lost on most city folks and not a few country ones.

Meat is meat - if you are hungry you'll eat. Years back when I lived in Rancho Cucamonga there was a Hmong family relocated to the foothill area. After a couple months the neighbors started complaining to the PD about shooting from that house into the abuting brushland. The PD roll up and ask the Hmong father if he knew anything about some shooting going on. "Yes" he says, "that's me." PD ask "What are you shooting at?" "I show you" says dad. He leads them into the garage, where the PD find a freezer full of frozen ground squirrel carcasses and hundreds of tiny skin stretching frames made from scavenged brush wood covered with tiny pelts. The PD, faced with a fellow feeding his family, clearing up a brush fire hazard and solving an area ground squirrel plague tell him "We really need you to get a pellet gun..."

[Richard230]

Great link! Once again, the world isn't Disneyland and all your problems won't be solved by Monsanto. This is a lesson lost on most city folks and not a few country ones.

Meat is meat - if you are hungry you'll eat. Years back when I lived in Rancho Cucamonga there was a Hmong family relocated to the foothill area. After a couple months the neighbors started complaining to the PD about shooting from that house into the abuting brushland. The PD roll up and ask the Hmong father if he knew anything about some shooting going on. "Yes" he says, "that's me." PD ask "What are you shooting at?" "I show you" says dad. He leads them into the garage, where the PD find a freezer full of frozen ground squirrel carcasses and hundreds of tiny skin stretching frames made from scavenged brush wood covered with tiny pelts. The PD, faced with a fellow feeding his family, clearing up a brush fire hazard and solving an area ground squirrel plague tell him "We really need you to get a pellet gun..."

That wouldn't fly very well in California. The poor guy would likely get arrested for shooting a defenseless squirrel with a pellet gun, much less with a 22.   

[him a layin]

  come to north carolina.

[AzCal Retred]

It was in Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino County, California ...about 1985.
Cops had a hard time finding fault with a guy feeding his family, not bothering anyone else and achieving badly needed pest removal.

https://www.airgundepot.com/diana-two-fifty-breakbarrel-rifle.html

https://www.airgundepot.com/diana-rws-460-magnum.html

[Leofric]

Well if you mean the Empire and all that, they lost Australia after Churchill behaved like a total arse with John Curtin during WWII.   I cannot see India coming back and Canada and NZ have been ferociously independent for years and Fiji has swung strongly into the China camp. The Irish Free State has left the Commonwealth and is unlikely to ever want to be back as part of the Empire. Gambia is a mess, South Africa is run by the African national Congress who were never a fan of the Empire, Singapore is shaping up to compete with London as a world financial center, Zimbabwe is also a mess, Pitcairn is too small to count, Gibraltar is being locked out of the Shengen zone as we speak and let us not even talk about Iraq.

So a renewed post-Brexit British Empire based around Bermuda, Falklands and the Isle of Mann ... did I forget anything ?

Yes, you forgot my comment was a joke ! 

[GlennF]

Yes, but there were people at the time of Brexit who somehow forgot the mess Britain was in the 60's and 70's pre-EU, and somehow thought Brexit would bring back the glory days of Empire and presumably also bring back the Raj and Tea Clippers and England ruling the waves.  Not many admittedly, but they were around.

The saddest thing about Brexit is that Britain was a strong moderating voice keeping the more radical aspects of proposed EU policy under some semblance of control.  Now without the UK input there is no real moderating voice with any power in the EU and Britain as an external trade partner just has to accept any new regulations, or not trade in that particular area with the EU at all. Britain lost any say in what regulations apply to British exports into the EU.

[Leofric]

'Yes, but there were people at the time of Brexit who somehow forgot the mess Britain was in the 60's and 70's pre-EU, and somehow thought Brexit would bring back the glory days of Empire and presumably also bring back the Raj and Tea Clippers and England ruling the waves. '

I wouldn't go as far as to say that - I don't think even Farage believed that !
I just think we would have been better off without Brexit .

[GlennF]

I wouldn't go as far as to say that - I don't think even Farage believed that !
I just think we would have been better off without Brexit .

Well maybe not.

But there definitely seemed an idea kicking around that once Britain detached from those "undesirable EU countries" there would be a return to the very favourable trade conditions that Commonwealth countries tended to offer Britain back in the day.

[Adrian II]

One of the angles being pitched in the Brexit campaign, apart from the high level of corruption in the EU, was its increasing control-freakery, i.e. national sovereignty was being eroded faster than the Norfolk coast line! I do subscribe to the notion that we don't need the extra levels of European politicians and bureaucrats to cock things up for us when our own have been proving that they can successfully cock things up with no outside assistance whatsoever.

A.

[Richard230]

One of the angles being pitched in the Brexit campaign, apart from the high level of corruption in the EU, was its increasing control-freakery, i.e. national sovereignty was being eroded faster than the Norfolk coast line! I do subscribe to the notion that we don't need the extra levels of European politicians and bureaucrats to cock things up for us when our own have been proving that they can successfully cock things up with no outside assistance whatsoever.

A.

Very true! But then, we in the U.S. are hanging with the "lets go back to the good old days" crowd, too. 

[him a layin]

BACK! back to the stone age! when the biggest, meanest brute in the cave got whatever he wanted, screw (if s/he swings that way) the rest of you guys, whether you like it or not. go find your own cave.


only problem is, he's got to sleep sometime. maybe share the leftovers with a couple of henchmen, just so long as they're not too ambitiousd....