[Livia]

Originally Posted by Salman!

i had a big argument about it on twitter with these random rednecks, they kept stalking my tweets and mocking me though so I stopped replying

this was the last response



some people just aren't worth your time

There's probably not much else to do on his trailer park.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Kyle

I'd argue it's almost cowardly. Your relying on a weapon that puts you at such a significant advantage you might as well be shooting tins of beans off a wall. it's no more dangerous.

If you seriously want to have any sort of legitimacy as a 'hunter' go out and fashion a spear out of whatever materials you can find out in the wild and take them on like the earlier hominids had to.

It's not really supposed to be that dangerous though is it? It's more about the skill of the shot and the 'thrill' of the chase then putting yourself at risk

Also just because they keep the trophies doesn't mean that's all they've hunted for, most of the time they will put the meat to use as well if they can. I don't hunt, never have and neither have any of my family. Though I know quite a lot of country folk who do, one of my friend's dad is big into his hunting and does have some 'trophies' up but he also has a motto that 'never shoot what you won't eat'

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Livia

There's probably not much else to do on his trailer park.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by MTVN

It's not really supposed to be that dangerous though is it? It's more about the skill of the shot and the 'thrill' of the chase then putting yourself at risk

Also just because they keep the trophies doesn't mean that's all they've hunted for, most of the time they will put the meat to use as well if they can. I don't hunt, never have and neither have any of my family. Though I know quite a lot of country folk who do, one of my friend's dad is big into his hunting and does have some 'trophies' up but he also has a motto that 'never shoot what you won't eat'

Personally I feel it should be the rule for hunters.

Although I worry for people who get a "thrill" from shooting a beautiful, sentient being from long range.

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by MTVN

It's not really supposed to be that dangerous though is it? It's more about the skill of the shot and the 'thrill' of the chase then putting yourself at risk

Also just because they keep the trophies doesn't mean that's all they've hunted for, most of the time they will put the meat to use as well if they can. I don't hunt, never have and neither have any of my family. Though I know quite a lot of country folk who do, one of my friend's dad is big into his hunting and does have some 'trophies' up but he also has a motto that 'never shoot what you won't eat'

And if it isn't dangerous then I don't see it as legitimate. The only possible understandable reason I can think of someone possibly wanting to go out and kill an animal and take it's carcass as a trophy is to take it on in combat where the risk/reward ratio is at least semi balanced.

I have a 1.77 rifle and a Recurve bow so I'm aware of the thrill of lining up shots and hitting targets etc but I wouldn't turn them on animals unless I had to. I just don't agree with taking out a weapon that makes hunting essentially redundant. It's just wanton bloodletting to me.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Livia

Where's the sport in shooting something from hundreds of metres away with a high-powered rifle and massive scope? I think the worst thing for me are the places in Africa where they tether an animal to a tree and let some dickless, gutless excuse for a human being shoot it at close range. I don't want to go into details... but I watched a programme about it on telly and the sound the animal made as it was wounded a couple of times before it was killed haunts me still.

Oh don't Livia,makes me sad just to think about that.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

Oh don't Livia,makes me sad just to think about that.

Actually, you're the reason I didn't say exactly what it was. I know how it'd upset you.

As horrible as stuff like that is, I think people should try to watch it because then the protest can be taken up.

[InOne]

I'm against it. And the fact they're usually so smug and proud about what they do infuriates me more.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Livia

Actually, you're the reason I didn't say exactly what it was. I know how it'd upset you.

As horrible as stuff like that is, I think people should try to watch it because then the protest can be taken up.

I remember years ago reading and article in one of the Sunday papers about a bull in Spain that had been hung from a crane by its horns and the description of it bellowing and the picture has stayed with me ever since , I could cry thinking about it,I do get very emotional over animals,I just don't get how anyone could hurt one maliciously,I am going to look a fool now,but I don't even like flies killed.i do agree ,people should try and watch as it maybe would make them take note,we do bury our heads a lot I know,but it's so heart breaking sometimes.

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

It was all going so well

It's still gone well Kaz.


According to my professionally conducted poll 8.33% of Tibb users and therefore the world confirm what we've known all along that it's all Josy's fault.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Kyle

It's still gone well Kaz.


According to my professionally conducted poll 8.33% of Tibb users and therefore the world confirm what we've known all along that it's all Josy's fault.

lol,I cant be doing with spam,just pink,fatty and yuk!

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

lol,I cant be doing with spam,just pink,fatty and yuk!

Get out of my thread with this blasphemy!


I will not tolerate spam bashing!

[Brother Leon]

If someone wants to do it then it got nothing to do with me.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Brother Leon

If someone wants to do it then it got nothing to do with me.

But if we all thought like that Leon,people would be running riot ,sometimes we need to stop being apathetic and do something.

[Z]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

But if we all thought like that Leon,people would be running riot ,sometimes we need to stop being apathetic and do something.

That's true and it does make me feel bad for not really paying it much thought. One of my friends has worked as a grouse beater a few times and it's almost treated as a novelty among our group of friends rather than thinking about the reality of what that means. I guess I think trophy hunting is wrong - seeing stags' heads mounted on walls is a bit gruesome when you think about it; as a city dweller for my whole life I suppose it's just never really figured into my daily life as something I've ever had to think about.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Z

That's true and it does make me feel bad for not really paying it much thought. One of my friends has worked as a grouse beater a few times and it's almost treated as a novelty among our group of friends rather than thinking about the reality of what that means. I guess I think trophy hunting is wrong - seeing stags' heads mounted on walls is a bit gruesome when you think about it; as a city dweller for my whole life I suppose it's just never really figured into my daily life as something I've ever had to think about.

I think a lot of us are guilty of putting it out of our heads Z,I think if we saw the reality behind some of these things we'de never sleep.

[MTVN]

There's probably a lot more dodgy practices and murkiness in meat farming than there is hunting though

Edit - in this country I mean, no doubt its not so in big game hunting in some places in Africa where there will be very little regulation

[Kizzy]

I get the feeling foxhunting is being snuck back in..... that really infuriates me. The ridiculous pomp and ceremony of it...... disgusting.

[smeagol]

i would happily have there head on a stick instead is what i think .
sad little men who dont deserve to live is my view

[Kyle]

Originally Posted by smeagol

i would happily have there head on a stick instead is what i think .
sad little men who dont deserve to live is my view

Filthy hobbitses.

We've had bats and goblinses but we've never tried hobbitses.

[Zincubus]

Trophy hunting / fox and stag hunting are all disgustingly barbaric . I can understand people like farmers appearing to be somewhat uncaring due to their relationship with their animals BUT for so called normal people ????

I read the other day that Stags pair up for life and are inseparable ...... then these scumbags decide that they want a trophy and chase a male down for hours on end until they drop dead through sheer exhaustion. !?
Sick !

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

I think I am unable to get truly angry with people who hunt the odd animal for sport whilst we slaughter millions upon millions of animals everyday under the moral legitimacy of needing meat for food to survive.

Really ?