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[JimB]

So the adults reckon that starving people shouldn't eat any food they can find?

So how un-hungry do you need to be before consuming pickled birds?

I am sure it would not be a problem for you if I was a cannibal and ate human flesh, it's just those poor innocent little creatures that you worry about!

Have you heard yourself?

You've got the gall to pass comment on the needs of the 'starving people' whilst sitting at your computer which is hooked up to the internet.

What would you know?

I've worked in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Malawi and Tanzania, I could tell you real tales of human suffering.

Are you seriously likening Cyprus to a third world country?

Are you saying that the social service's system has failed it's people to the point where they have to resort to eating illegally trapped birds in order to survive?

Your not making any rational argument at all in the defense of this practice.

Name calling?

I think not.

Your a selfish idiot who can't see the implications of their own folly and I pity you.

[webbo]

So the adults reckon that starving people shouldn't eat any food they can find?

So how un-hungry do you need to be before consuming pickled birds?

I am sure it would not be a problem for you if I was a cannibal and ate human flesh, it's just those poor innocent little creatures that you worry about!

No it's the fact that many critically endangered species of bird are being needlessly slaughtered every year by the indiscriminate methods of slaughter being employed to trap your tasty treat.

Personally, I'd like future generations to be able to enjoy the sight of a kestrel soaring on the thermals.

And WTF are you going on about cannibalism for?

Your an idiot.

There is no need culinary or otherwise for killing little birds that have virtually no meat on them. It is a very cruel practice and I do hope that one day soon the Cypriots will not tolerate such practice.
I have been here in Limassol since Friday , flying out tomorrow early morning.
I have discovered at Melis ButcherS a delectable meze , the packet described the contents as Lambs Balls !!!
I tell you they are absolutely delicious on the BBQ along with lambs liver , I therefore strongly urge those who still eat little birds to try some archidia !!

Missed you again Milt! Hope you had a good time. How is Yianakis? (That had better be correct - little Yiannis?!) You will be posting us some pictures of him soon I hope (or did I miss them on my recent trip home?)


Take care

Bubbles x

[CBBB]

Balls to you and definitely to JimB who is the only one that knows what he is talking about (according to him).

What about those poor fluffy little lambs, isn't it a crime.

My mother-in-law bred guinea pigs for food purposes, is that a crime? Unfortunately I missed out on them, but I do enjoy a nice rabbit now and then.

[CBBB]

I used to have a watch like Jimb, wind it up a couple of times and it it would go on for ever!

[JimB]

Balls to you and definitely to JimB who is the only one that knows what he is talking about (according to him).

What about those poor fluffy little lambs, isn't it a crime.

My mother-in-law bred guinea pigs for food purposes, is that a crime? Unfortunately I missed out on them, but I do enjoy a nice rabbit now and then.

Lost the plot completely CBBB????

I don't think your going to find much support for your antiquated, out-dated and socially irresponsible views.

I'm not taking the credit for the change in local and international law which has made it illegal to indiscriminately trap these birds. If you took the time to read the article you'd have noticed that this was the view of 45 nations (including Cyprus).

'This was adopted by 45 nations in response to a case that the RSPB and BirdLife Cyprus took to the Bern Convention regarding the governments of Cyprus and the UK (the latter in relation to the Sovereign Base Areas).'

Read your earlier posts and noted with interest that you said you were going to die at the hands of birds in New York - poetic justice or what!


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[CBBB]

But not pickled ones, or perhaps they will be"

[JimB]

Must be almost your bedtime CBBB - you finished that drawing yet?

[CBBB]

Your humour and intelligence overwhelm me, I will leave you to carry on your pathetic attempt to appear as if you know what you are talking about to yourself.

[Oracle]

Excuse me for butting in, but I went out with a Cambridge Zoology Ph.D. who's thesis was amassing the high number of British Isles extinctions that had occurred over the last few Centuries as well as cataloguing those under threat.

As I recall the UK was one of the worst offenders at causing extinctions ... let me see .. there were bears, wolves, beavers, ospreys, capercalies, some variety of newt, enormous numbers of wild flowers (used as food by birds and insects) ... the list was huge ... some have been re-introduced but because of habitat extinctions (such as wetlands) many birds are threatened to this day, especially the curlew, and still many mammals are on the endangered list (red squirrel).

The last extinction on Cyprus was the Pygmy Hippopotamus several thousand years ago ...

Worry not!

[purdey]

We have lost many species of animal and bird in the UK due to over hunting, housing projects, reclamation of wetlands and intensive farming.
The red squirrel is under threat from the grey squirrel, not man, the curlew is under threat because of farming and public rights of way.
I make no bones about the fact I shoot, hunt and fish. I eat birds in Cyprus as well as in the UK, I eat furry little squirrels, but I also put hours into conservation, wetland habitats, marshland.
My land borders a well known bird reserve, we work hand in hand in the preservation of hundreds of species of wildlife.
If interested Google "Leighton Moss" Silverdale.