I'm having lion steaks: BBC News - Six Longleat Safari Park lions destroyed due to violence
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Having a giraffe
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“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.” -
"Visitors, including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was dissected and fed to the lions"

Crazy decision - completely inhumane.Comment
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Still makes me laugh at the moniker associated with the eccentric and self-confessed “polygamist” Marquesses of Bath: The Loins of Longleat.Originally posted by darmstadt View PostI'm having lion steaks: BBC News - Six Longleat Safari Park lions destroyed due to violence
If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.Comment
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There used to be a lunchtime programme about Longleat in which he often featured - seems quite a character. Think BIL (a cabinet maker) did some work for him.Originally posted by hyperD View PostStill makes me laugh at the moniker associated with the eccentric and self-confessed “polygamist” Marquesses of Bath: The Loins of Longleat.
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Funny creatures these human beings. They sign petitions and cry over a giraffe killed in a zoo but they don't give a sugar about the thousands of humans killed every day in Syria, Congo, Sudan, etc, etc, as long as the refugees don't come into their own garden!<Insert idea here> will never be adopted because the politicians are in the pockets of the banks!Comment
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These danish lions sound a lazy lot if they can't even be arsed to peel their own giraffe for tea.Originally posted by AtW View Post"Visitors, including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was dissected and fed to the lions"Comment
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This precedent is going to frighten the beejezus out of the inhabitants of most of Zummerzet if the article ever appears in their copies of The Sun!!Originally posted by KentPhilip View PostOK so there is a story of a perfectly healthy giraffe in a zoo in Copenhagen that is due to be killed by his zookeepers due to the "risk" of his causing "inbreeding" due to a "surplus"
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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I don't think it will scare those in Morfolk because the Zoo don't want their animals affected by inbreeding.Originally posted by KentPhilip View PostAnd east angular!Comment
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