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Pastey

I think it's more a case that they were doing fine until humans started clearing their habitats, and then poking and prodding them, if not hunting them for groundless medicines.

If anything, I think we owe it to them.


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Post 15362

swl

Pandas having difficulty getting pregnant? Have they considered putting them on Welfare Benefits?


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Pastey

Considering the majority of people on benefits produce less offspring than pandas, I'm not sure that's a good idea. smiley - erm


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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

smiley - bigeyes
Breaking News from the US Postal Service;

"..a recent decision.. to scrap its 'Let's Move' campaign.
Each stamp in the series features a child engaged in various outdoor
activities, like playing soccer, skipping rope and skateboarding. The
promotion was designed to inspire kids (and their parents) to get active
-- but the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition put the kibosh
on the series, because three of the fifteen stamps in the package raised
safety concerns."

https://postalnews.com/postalnewsblog/2013/10/07/usps-to-destroy-just-move-stamps-over-safety-concerns/

smiley - nursesmiley - dragon

smiley - simpostsmiley - peacedove
~jwf~


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Post 15365

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>>Considering the majority of people on benefits produce less offspring than pandas,

How many pandas do these people produce?


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Post 15366

Gingersnapper+Keeper of the Cookie Jar and Stuff and Nonsense

For some very odd reason this previous post brought this to mind. It has been a busy long day and now smiley - zzz . .. ...
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?


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Post 15367

Icy North

Someone once answered the woodchuck dilemma and won an Ignobel Prize.


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Post 15368

Peanut

A branding Fukuppy

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/fukuppy-fukushima-industries-new-mascot-is-branding-disaster-8881883.html


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Post 15369

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

The NHL (National Hockey League of Canada) has issued the following
list of items now banned from ice-rinks when games are in play:

- Aerosol or spray cans
- Alcohol or illegal substances
- Apparel or signage displaying profane or abusive language
- Audio recording equipment
- All Bags (including purses)
- Balloons
- Banners, flags and flagpoles
- All Bottles (including all types of water bottles)
- Brooms, poles or tripods
- Containers of any kind (including cans, thermoses and open containers)
- Coolers
- Fireworks
- Firearms, knives or other weapons
- Flasks
- Food of any kind
- Laser Pointers
- Nets
- Noisemakers
- Professional cameras/lenses (lenses longer than 6”)
- Projectile toys (including footballs, Frisbees and beach balls)
- Seat backs
- Strollers
- Video/movie cameras
- Umbrellas

smiley - yikes
No balloons!
smiley - bigeyes
~jwf~


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Post 15370

Icy North

I hope they don't stop them beating the bejesus out of each other with those long sticks.


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Post 15371

Rod

Ah well, at last the teams can be left alone to sort themselves out


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Post 15372

Ancient Brit

Pillars of society.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24580222


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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

smiley - erm
Last night on BBC Whirled News they showed a clip of the Congressional
recording secretary being led away after she had what appears to have
been a nervous breakdown upon recording the final vote of the bill
to temporarily re-open the US Govt. She was yelling about God
and Freemasons...

This was never shown or mentioned on any of the US networks
and today I can't find it anywhere on BBC news pages.

Obviously it is being considered a personal tragedy and her rights to
privacy are being honoured by suppressing the story but on a much
broader scale it shows just how insane US politics has become.

smiley - cheers
~jwf~


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Post 15374

HonestIago

>>Pillars of society.<<

Yeah, they are. Teachers are only allowed to strike due to pay and conditions (cheers Mrs Thatcher) so these strikes have been wrapped up in that but really it's about Gove and how genuinely dangerous he is.

We all want teaching to be of the highest standard possible so when Gove makes it much easier for non-trained "teachers" to be employed, we should support the teachers in their industrial action. When Gove is conniving with the exam boards to cause a drop in grades, we want to support the teachers in their industrial action, and when we've got Gove encouraging schools that institute segregation and nepotism we want to support teachers in their industrial action.

We want to support teachers in their industrial action because *they are doing it for all of us*


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Post 15375

swl

Private schools have always employed supposedly "non-trained teachers". They seem to do fine.


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HonestIago

They also have smaller class sizes, far higher resources per kid and generally kids from wealthy, successful families.

Having gone to a private school the difference between the teachers and the ex-sportsmen in suits was very noticeable.


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U14993989

Wholesale prices are not going up in the energy industry, according to the head of a small energy firm, despite British Gas following SSE's rises with a 9.2% increase in its dual-fuel bill price.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, MD and founder of Ovo Energy, said he had not seen wholesale prices rise for about two years.

"If they're buying more expensive gas, more expensive electricity, in a large part we think this is because they're selling it to themselves".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24606614


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U14993989

"Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again. ...

The US firm now believes its users should be free to watch and condemn, but not celebrate, such videos."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499

About time too - it's a breach of our human rights not to see people getting murdered if they make one of them videos of it & then we can all show our condemnation by going around the local place of prayer with a can of gasoline or something and supporting the War of Terror.

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U14993989

This is something taught at agricultural college about 25 years ago (according to someone I know) - Badger culls spread TB faster while vaccinations seem to work - as soon as you start to kill the blighters those left on their lonesome etc will move off - a scorched earth policy is needed. The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Patterson, the former sales and managing director of British Leather, with a degree in History should have known this - or maybe not.

"Badgers with TB spread the infection more easily to other badgers and to cattle when social groups are disturbed, a new study confirms.

Vaccination has the potential to reduce the spread of infection without disturbing local populations, scientists report in Current Biology.

The findings help explain why culling badgers can cause TB infection in cattle to rise, as infected badgers roam into new territory, they say."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24587975


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Post 15380

U14993989

Isn't Art wonderful - the way it challenges our preconceptions etc:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24607870


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