h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Mala.

Reference 'A Question of Time'

As Bob says, I am new to this game, and trying t get things right first time. I failed with you miserably. No offence whatsoever was intended. If I offended you, I apologise without reservation, and hoe we can remain hootoo friends....

Sorry...


GT

Oh, no, I wasn't offended (even if you were being sexist )

I just really don't care about football.

So little that when we were performing at one of the big-screen viewing areas during the last World Cup, I went home to shower and sleep before the game started

GT

I don't enjoy watching any sport, really.

Well, except ones involving horses, because you get to look at horses

Agraid to tell you we may fall out here, Mala..........................Show Jumping, Dressage, point to point, Foxhunting.......................It drives me mad!! Can't stand it!!

And I HATE Foxhunting with a passion. As Oscar Wilde said "The unspeakable in full persute of the uneatable"

(Just a min. I can post that elsewhere too!)


Sorry, but no, no, no, NO!!!!




GT

I agree - fox hunting is terrible (and has been banned in Germany since the 1930s). As is professional show jumping, because of inhumane training methods and ridiculously high jumps that damage the horses' joints.

A well-ridden quadrille, though, is a thing of beauty.

Foxhunting now banned in UK, though it still carries on clandestinely. The 'Men in Red' are hoping that a future Tory Government will repeal the banning law




GT

That's ridiculous.

I live in the country. I am aware that sometimes, it's necessary to hunt a fox. (We had a problem with a rabid one recently ) But in these cases, the neighbours' son, the local gamekeeper, goes out on foot with his single terrier and a gun and simply shoots it. The most humane way to do it; it's dead instantly...

OK mala, I agree with that. Rabid and 'rogue' foxes need to be controlled. And yes, I agree with shooting them. Instant death.

Being ripped apart by a pack of hounds surrounded by a crowd of laughing 'oiks' is unthinkable.



GT

Yes - how anyone can call that a "sport" is beyond me. If they want to go jump some horses over hedges, fine - a nice ride across the fields is fun. But it doesn't justify killing something merely because it's traditional...

If you ar interested, mala, in my previous life on hootoo, I did an entry on Foxhunting.

My tag then was 'Gandalf (Got my own Comp now - Still redundant)

It is on the Flea Market, and the link is A412624...

Have a look if you like...It is up for grabs!!



GT

Thanks - but it's rather UK-centric; I'd have to do far too much research

Aaw!

Coward!!

You could amend it though for your part of the World..........Deutchesland, ja??




GT

Nah - it's not much of a problem here, not much to amend. They still ride hunts here, they simply don't involve foxes - just a trail laid by a human, if at all.

GT