Whats the big deal?

[Mich the Tester]

They're vicious buggers. I had to smack one in the head with an oar once when rowing down the Avon and one attacked. That did seem to piss it off even more though.

Perhaps if the Windsor swans were a bit more vicious they wouldn't have been eaten.

[suityou01]

Perhaps if the Windsor swans were a bit more vicious they wouldn't have been eaten.

You saying they need to "Swan up"?

[BrilloPad]

If the Queen ordered it, then now problem. I understand killing swans is illegal, and one of the few remaining laws to come under treason.

Why should only the queen be allowed to eat swan? Why can't it be extended to commoners - like the LOrds?

[bobspud]

You saying they need to "Swan up"?

Short of carrying a submachine gun I really don't know what else they could do to be more aggressive. They are generally a grumpy species even when you are feeding them.

[Mich the Tester]

Why should only the queen be allowed to eat swan? Why can't it be extended to commoners - like the LOrds?

You want to let the Queen eat commoners and lords?

Does she like that sort of thing?

[BrilloPad]

You want to let the Queen eat commoners and lords?

Does she like that sort of thing?

Well Fergie ate a commoner.

[Ticktock]

If the Queen ordered it, then now problem. I understand killing swans is illegal, and one of the few remaining laws to come under treason.

I don't think it is treason, just criminal damage.

It's basically the same as if someone went and smashed up SasGuru's new Japanese car.





Except the swans actually exist.

[Bunk]

Thanks hadn't read that far down

Regardless of yet another racist tussle it seems very odd that the pond was full of Swans for the previous 20 years but all of a sudden a border several thousand miles away opens up and the swans vanish almost overnight....

Yet you still have no problem connecting the two, as it suits what you want to believe.

[sasguru]

I don't think it is treason, just criminal damage.

It's basically the same as if someone went and smashed up SasGuru's new Japanese car.





Except the swans actually exist.

It's not new anymore, its a few months old.

[bobspud]

Yet you still have no problem connecting the two, as it suits what you want to believe.

No to me it seems pretty far fetched that anyone would travel several thousand miles to eat a bunch of swans but the anecdotal evidence seems to coincide with the sudden and rapid influx of eastern europeans and just because it's an uncomfortable point it doesn't mean that it isn't the cause...

If you were to do some amazing sleuth work that came up with a better reason why the swan population seemed to almost vanish overnight than the "Ruskies ate them!!!" then I am more than content to hear it on its merits.