I could eat M&Ms for the rest of my life. I rarely eat junk food, thats the closest ill get to it and I could do it every day for the rest of my llfe
I could definitely watch Groundhog Day every day for the rest of my life.
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Mariah Carey Xmas Cd, and Ill be a happy camper
How specific does the food need to be in this scenario?
For example, if I said stew, there are so many variants of stew that I could never have the exact same dish twice.
you do realise no one would actually make you do this for real, right? itās just for conversation
Gosh, I guess what annoys me kinda annoys you guys.
Should Mrs Wimm be nervous?
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seeing wimm try to follow instructions #meta
People who merge onto a freeway at 70 when the traffic is clearly doing 100.
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Not sure where to post this but this will do. Reckon you love owls Victoria, eh? How much then?
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Hi devastating news this week,
Scientists have released the findings of a study into the cause of death of Masked Owls collected across Perth.
All 13 birds from the south-west and three from metropolitan Perth, had been exposed to long-lasting āsecond generationā anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs), commonly known as āone-dose killsā poisons available in common household brands.
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) is currently seeking submissions on the proposed regulation of dangerous rat poisons that kill wildlife. Join us in calling for all SGARs to be removed from public sale, to protect our wildlife into the future.
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Left: Dead Masked Owls all tested high rat poison exposure. Credit Karen Majer.
Right: Dr Boyd Wykes and Assoc. Prof. Rob Davis with owls showing high levels of rat poison. Credit Nathan Yaschenko
These poisons donāt cause rodents to die instantly. They act slowly. After feeding, poisoned rodents can remain active for weeks before dying, moving through gardens, parks and bushland. During that time, they are easily caught by predators like owls.
When a Masked Owl eats a poisoned rat, the toxin accumulates in its liver. The owl may not die immediately. Instead, it can become weak, disoriented, and more vulnerable to secondary causes of death, including vehicle strike, starvation or infection.
Many of the owls examined in this study were found after being hit by cars, a common outcome for wildlife suffering from rodenticide poisoning.
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Credit Karen Majer. Dr Boyd Wykes and Assoc. Prof. Rob Davis with owls showing high levels of rat poison
This new research adds to the overwhelming and consistent body of evidence already supplied to the regulator that these baits are killing our wildlife at completely unacceptable levels. We need your help today, tell the regulator to act now.
Many of the owls examined in this study were found after being hit by cars, a common outcome for wildlife suffering from rodenticide poisoning. Lead researcher Dr Rob Davis described the findings as āshockingā.
āWhile this sample may over-represent injured birds, if these levels were true for all Masked Owls in the southāwest, we would not have a population.ā ā Dr Rob Davis, Edith Cowan University.
And itās not just owls.
These long-lasting poisons move through the food chain. Exposure is increasingly being documented in reptiles, frogs, fish and threatened marsupials such as quolls and Tasmanian devils.
Yet the reforms currently proposed by the APVMA would still allow these products to be sold widely to the public. This widespread availability will utterly fail to prevent the death of birds, from powerful owls and magpies to the beloved tawny frogmouth.
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Photo: Dr Boyd Wykes with dead owls by Nathan Yaschenko.
Shoppers should be able to walk into a store with the confidence that products for pest control wonāt also kill native animals. But right now, they canāt.
āThe evidence is clear, and the choice is clear. Rat bait that kills owls must be banned from public sale. Safer alternatives already exist, and many countries globally have already banned public sale of SGARs. While there may be limited circumstances where tightly regulated use by licensed professionals is necessary, routine public sale of these highly persistent poisons is causing ongoing and preventable wildlife harm. Widespread continued use of SGARs also risks the evolution of resistance by rodents, which would undermine emergency uses of SGARs such as island eradication programs to save endangered species.
This Masked Owl research was conducted independently by Edith Cowan University and our friends at Owl Friendly Margaret River.
Written submissions to the APVMA close March 16, so please tell the regulator to remove SGARs from supermarket shelves and ensure that only licensed pest control operators can access these highly toxic, long-lasting products that are killing our wildlife.
The APVMA must act decisively. With your support we can ensure an end to public sale of long-lasting second-generation rodenticides.
Thank you for standing up for Australiaās birds.
Yours sincerely,
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Holly Parsons
Manager Priority Sites
BirdLife Australia
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And yes weāve had rats in the roof and it is blloody annoying, BUT there are alternatives to killing off native wildlife with poison. Never thought it would work, and it took a while, but we use the electromagnetic and ultrasonic plugs from Bunnings, who also sell the evil shitt my Better Half covers with graffiti, and mercifully we are currently rat free.
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Some people, I swear toā¦
A visitorās phone needs charging. Fine, fine, fine. We get enough chargers left behind here to sink a ship, and weāre happy to do that.
But this womanā¦Seems to think itās my/our fault that her phone is low on battery.
Also, she insists on using her own lead which, guess what, is a piece of garbage. Just by looking at it you can see itās a piece of garbage.
Itās not charging her phone.
āAre you sure itās plugged in at the wall?ā
Very much so.
āThereās another phone attached to the charger, thatās probably why mineās not charging.ā
I donāt think thatās how that works.
āAre you arguing with me? I know a lot about electricity.ā
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Thereās a pretty understandable response to thatā¦
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Putting people on speaker is the height of rudeness and itās high time we stopped pretending otherwise.
You wanna make it difficult for me to hear because itās too inconvenient or youāre too slack to hold the phone to your ear? Fark off
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Type louder, I canāt read you
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1 hour parking out front of coffee shops etc in Country/semi rural small towns. FFS, 1 hour! Can we have 2 if we want time to relax and enjoy a chat? No competition for spots just a council doung its best to turn a coffee into a BBQ. Shunts.
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Come to Horsham. Theyāve taken their parking meters to the tip.
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This was one of my pleasures visiting Adelaide in January. Go to country/coastal areas and no parking meters and very few in the metroplitan area. Its the complete opposite to melbourne.
Yep, Vic has gone to the dogs
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It is so annoying when you think you are clever and it all goes to crap.
At great expense some years ago Mrs Fox got a man in to build an automatic watering system for all our garden which are vast, front, back and one side of house and the driveway on the other side. Took the man weeks to do including digging trenches everywhere through my lawn and a complex electronic control system. I took little interest and it has just hummed away feeding water at some controlled manner to plants and trees and my lawn.
All good until today when I found area of lawn underwater, with a leak out of a popup sprinkler. So I turned the system off, but it did not stop the flow, so clever me took the sprinkler head off and capped it. Feeling pleased with myself I had lunch.
Alas all I did was transfer the leak to the next sprinkler head in the system, so if I cap it, the leak will just move ! So I assumed then that a valve had failed to the lawn section of the system, so I found the box in the ground where these electric operated valves are. Except of course nothing is numbered , there are 12 seperate watering stations and no idea which control whats.
The man who installed it has disappeared off the face of the earth and I cannot work out where there is a valve to cut water completely. So if I turn off the mains then the house has no water. I guess I should have paid attention at the time.
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In Japan, itās a social faux pas to talk on public transport. Itās said that it ādisrupts the publicās peace.ā
Why donāt we do that?
Shut tf up you morons and let me get to where Iām going without having to tolerate you and your dkhead mates carrying on like a pack of galahs
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