How much disrespect is alllowed on Computer Audiophile?

[mansr]

1 hour ago, semente said:

Is it the Pie Minister? That's my favourite.

No, it's called Piecaramba. This is their second location.

[AudioDoctor]

2 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

 

 

Did you wrestle it yourself?  Rub the belly until it went to sleep?

 

I did, they don't call me Crocodile Dundee for nothing.  That wasn't so much a movie as it was a Documentary about my life.

[Blake]

To keggers n' tunes (the OP's) original question, I would personally draw the line at "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"?

 

Finland!

[acg]

23 hours ago, sandyk said:

 

I am not a vegetarian, but I hate the thought of fattening up animals just to eat them at a later time.

 

 

Oh I could not be more different Alex!  The kids know well in advance which animals we are going to eat and are always around when they are slaughtered and butchered.  If we have some meat left over from the previous beast when the new one is done we always tell the kids which one we are eating at each meal.  Mollie the sheep or Frank the steer or Porky the pig are easily remembered and greatly enjoyed for many months until the we run low next time.  You would be surprised how easily they get over childish emotional connections to animals when they are aware of their purpose on the earth, but it does not stop them loving and caring for them beforehand.  The whole life/death/sustenance/providence cycles are one of the few things city kids are too sheltered from in comparison to their country cousins, in my opinion of course.

[mansr]

8 minutes ago, Blake said:

To keggers n' tunes (the OP's) original question, I would personally draw the line at "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"?

So "I fart in your general direction" is OK?

[acg]

23 hours ago, rando said:

Tell me, people of Oz.  Have you ever watched "The Katering Show" and if so what were your thoughts on the episode they cooked roo?    What did the kangaroo do?  

 

NSFW offensive humor and language probable.  

 

 

 

 

Nah, never heard of that pair and did not bother to watch the clip, but there are an awful lot of roos out there though.  They are generally a pest and their population control/culling is regulated and even if we wanted to I doubt they could ever be made extinct such is the vast open spaces they inhabit and the unbelievable efficiency of their reproduction. 

 

I was explaining to a friend from the Netherlands a while back that the local government area (a Shire) that my wife was born and raised in is larger than his entire country but the population is 5,000 or so.  Most of northern and western Australia is like that...more room than you know what to do with.

[sandyk]

2 minutes ago, acg said:

The whole life/death/sustenance/providence cycles are one of the few things city kids are too sheltered from in comparison to their country cousins, in my opinion of course.

 

 I guess that is the case for many people who have never lived on the land.

 It would be nice though if all animals, including humans, were born as vegetarians.

[mansr]

1 minute ago, sandyk said:

It would be nice though if all animals, including humans, were born as vegetarians.

Even tigers?

[Ralf11]

it wouldn't last - predation would evolve

 

you'd also have a lot of unhappy plants the herbivores ate them, not to mention lots more parasites

 

but you can eat low on the IQ chain

[rando]

3 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

 I guess that is the case for many people who have never lived on the land.

 It would be nice though if all animals, including humans, were born as vegetarians.

 

Life is life.  Give that a piece of thought next time you pull a plant out of the ground for the purpose of your own survival.  

[rando]

I don't eat Turkey or Chicken.  The internet is full of photos and stories that fully explain humane practice, such as @acg promotes, and the inhumane actions portrayed by commercial bird farms.

[sandyk]

1 minute ago, rando said:

I don't eat Turkey or Chicken.  The internet is full of photos and stories that fully explain humane practice, such as @acg promotes, and the inhumane actions portrayed by commercial bird farms.

 

 We had a case in Australia recently where a company was caught out throwing live chickens into boiling water.

[acg]

2 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

 We had a case in Australia recently where a company was caught out throwing live chickens into boiling water.

 

That's just not cricket.

 

It's not acceptable anywhere in any circumstances.

[mav52]

5 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

 We had a case in Australia recently where a company was caught out throwing live chickens into boiling water.

 

Oh NO, we still throw lobster in boiling water , but in Switzerland, they must ensure the Lobster is comfortably numb

[acg]

4 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

 We had a case in Australia recently where a company was caught out throwing live chickens into boiling water.

 

 

And that is something that was evidently seen to occur.  What about the feral cat and dog problem and their devastation of native mammals in this country?  The boffins reckon cats kill millions of small animals each night but cats are cute and cuddly and whenever a cat cull is mentioned the cityfolk get all righteous because of the moggie they had when they were a kid or the one they have now that they let out at night and it gets a bird or two and maybe a lizard before coming back in the morning for its Whiskers and a saucer of milk.

 

Australia has no native cats.  One native dog.  But millions of feral cats and dogs.  The cats are interesting.  They are like Darwins evolution in action because in 200 years since their introduction the feral variants are starting to get much, much larger than their domesticated brethren.

 

 

[acg]

2 minutes ago, mav52 said:

 

Oh NO, we still throw lobster in boiling water , but in Switzerland, they must ensure the Lobster is comfortably numb

 

Is it done with Pink Floyd at 130dB?

[botrytis]

2 minutes ago, mav52 said:

 

Oh NO, we still throw lobster in boiling water , but in Switzerland, they must ensure the Lobster is comfortably numb

 

What, the Swiss torture lobsters with Pink Floyd? THAT REALLY IS TORTURE.

[Ralf11]

uh oh

[sandyk]

7 minutes ago, acg said:

The boffins reckon cats kill millions of small animals each night but cats are cute and cuddly and whenever a cat cull is mentioned the cityfolk get all righteous because of the moggie they had when they were a kid or the one they have now that they let out at night and it gets a bird or two and maybe a lizard before coming back in the morning for its Whiskers and a saucer of milk.

 

Responsible cat owners keep their cats inside at night.

[beancounter]

45 minutes ago, mansr said:

Even tigers?

 

Only in Africa

[acg]

11 minutes ago, sandyk said:

 

Responsible cat owners keep their cats inside at night.

 

They do.

 

But that horse has already bolted.

 

I do have a feral cat story that some may find a little interesting.  The feed shed at the farm holds lots of grain and hay and other commodities and just to the south of it are two big silage pads.  Rats and mice love this area.  Snakes love the rats and mice.  We usually have lots of rodents and snakes around that area and in times past we have spent lots of money and time on chemicals and deterrents that ultimately did not work.

 

So one day, instead of culling all of the feral cats we identified a ginger tortoiseshell looking one that had taken up residence in the roof of one of the sheds and let her be.  She has proven to be very predictable because she always has her litter in the same place in that roof and the kittens are easy to dispose of when it comes time to manage the population.  What that cat and her selected progeny do is control the population of the rats and mice like no chemicals were ever able to achieve.  She also keeps the snakes under control by raiding their nests in the vicinity and by removing the reptiles primary food source.  

 

Sometimes, when the rodents get a bit thin on the ground she and her tiny crew start killing birds and as soon as that starts we put a little dried cat food in the big shed and that controls the situation.  If/when birds are still being taken we reduce the cat population accordingly and the status quo returns.  The system works brilliantly.  Nature gets its way, we use zero chemicals to kill the rodents, the snakes nest further away from where we are, and the native birds are not decimated by the cats.  Win-win-win-win.

 

Those feral kittens are the funniest tiny things.  They hiss and spit and scratch you right from when their eyes are open:  there has never been a pliant or calm kitten in all these years and my kids no longer bother to try to pat them if they see them.  It has not taken many generations for the domesticated to become truly feral again!

[tmtomh]

43 minutes ago, beancounter said:

 

Only in Africa

 

Asia.

[mav52]

1 hour ago, acg said:

 

Is it done with Pink Floyd at 130dB?

Oh its interesting  have a read.  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-lobster/lobsters-must-be-comfortably-numb-before-cooking-swiss-government-idUSKBN1EZ1GK

[rando]

UMMAGUMMA?

 

Several species of small aquatic animals gathered together in a pot and stewing together with a broth

[wgscott]

I think I would rather live in harmony with nature and eat meat than live as I do now, boycotting the evil of factory farming.  I don't have a big problem with the idea of the food chain, but I don't think it is ever justifiable to torture a sentient animal.