Reply to: Whats the big deal?

[bobspud]

Now you're getting mixed up, the Russkies don't eat swans, they **** squirrels

[Bunk]

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.

Now you're getting mixed up, the Russkies don't eat swans, they **** squirrels

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[BrilloPad]

You want to let the Queen eat commoners and lords?

Does she like that sort of thing?

Well Fergie ate a commoner.

[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?

[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.

[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?

[suityou01]

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

You saying they need to "Swan up"?

[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.

[bobspud]

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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....
The locals were leaving them alone. The other immigrant populations settling near by had successfully walked past them and indeed shared the fun of feeding them over the years, so I wonder what changed?

[Ticktock]

...all of a sudden they seemed to vanish...

about the same sort of time as the EU opened its borders.

Maybe they all decided to live in Poland with their new found freedoms...

More likely they ended up in a fridge.

I never really understood why certain animals avoid the plate on personality merits but at the same time its sad to see an empty pond just because our visitors don't care to fit in with our culture.

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And finally, alleged swan-poaching: The Sun, that venerable old British tabloid, claimed in 2003 that police had arrested asylum seekers who were poaching and roasting swans. After several complaints about the authenticity "“ and indeed, the subtle racism "“ of the story, The Sun admitted that no such arrests had taken place, but maintained that the word on the street was that Eastern European refugees were snatching and eating the birds. These stories bear a striking resemblance to stories (read: urban legends) from other immigrant rich parts of the world, in which the bumpkin newcomers, seeing no reason not to, trap and eat ornamental birds like ducks and geese.

[bobspud]

Snaresbrook pond used to have hundreds of swans nesting there. I used to enjoy an afternoon sat by the ponds feeding them, then all of a sudden they seemed to vanish...

about the same sort of time as the EU opened its borders.

Maybe they all decided to live in Poland with their new found freedoms...

More likely they ended up in a fridge.

I never really understood why certain animals avoid the plate on personality merits but at the same time its sad to see an empty pond just because our visitors don't care to fit in with our culture.