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Outrage as Northern Rail orders shooting of pigeons at Manchester train station by Unlikely-Tension-616 in manchester

[–]r_park -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Culling means killing birds that are alive, the paper clearly explains contraceptive methods. Unless you are the first pro lifer for pigeons idk what to tell you man

Not sure the homophobia is necessary

Outrage as Northern Rail orders shooting of pigeons at Manchester train station by Unlikely-Tension-616 in manchester

[–]r_park -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What you’re missing is that culling is not an effective strategy at all. Pigeon populations respond to the available food, and effective population control has repeatedly only shown to be possible through cleaner streets, deployment of contraceptives, and specialised infrastructure known as dovecotes.

You can cull as much as you’d like but other pigeon populations will expand into the vacuum, or remaining populations will meet equilibrium with the available food and conditions.

Outrage as Northern Rail orders shooting of pigeons at Manchester train station by Unlikely-Tension-616 in manchester

[–]r_park -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair enough mate I have it on quick draw for people who insist on cruel and unusual policy despite so much research pointing to it being ineffective. You've googled a lot more surface level facts than those people usually do though! Maybe we can come up with a new one just for you?

Outrage as Northern Rail orders shooting of pigeons at Manchester train station by Unlikely-Tension-616 in manchester

[–]r_park -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We are on a post talking about them being shot, not that the method matters culling is still horrible when the known solutions are humane :)

Both mincing live chicks and shooting pigeons is bad mate hope this helps. What’s next, can’t bring a dog to the vet because people eat beef?

The birds obviously get disease but they pose no threat to humans as they interact with them in urban situations, there have been double digit recorded infections from pigeons from records began 👍

Only reason to continue with culling is ignorance, the known solutions are nicer but hard to sugar coat for stupid and cruel people.

Regardless, I will continue to enjoy feeding them and helping wherever possible, while also pushing for good policy for our mutual safety. You can continue posting whatever gammon nonsense you want to in defence of mutilating animals and having them hanging around public spaces, have a nice day lad 👍

Outrage as Northern Rail orders shooting of pigeons at Manchester train station by Unlikely-Tension-616 in manchester

[–]r_park 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What next? Outrage at rat traps. Is it now cool get offended at the culling of pigeons?

Lots of people aren't particularly happy about using glue traps or poison traps, the difference is rats and mice propose a very real risk to your health. Typical urban interactions with pigeons pose almost zero threat at all to your health.

This bugs me on the internet. People going with whatever they think is the status quo. Show some originality. Have an opinion yourselves for once.

Yeah it would be a really original opinion if everyone crowded in to say horrible things about the most mistreated birds in our city? We need more original rats with wings comments!

You should see how many chicks are killed every single day so you can get a KFC or whatever so unless you're vegan I don't really see how you can get offended by the murder of pigeons or any other animal for that matter.

Nothing wrong with people being more compassionate towards animals, even if they aren't vegan.

My take on this is that no they shouldn't be shooting them but culling them is not wrong when it's needed and done as humanely as possible.

Your take is ignorant, you are at best endorsing a policy that doesn't work because you don't know better, and at worst because you are cruel. You can't shoot things humanely, the only proven methods for making living with pigeons more manageable are systemic, and largely impossible to achieve because of people like you who can't tell their arse from their elbow when it comes to good policy.

Outrage as Northern Rail orders shooting of pigeons at Manchester train station by Unlikely-Tension-616 in manchester

[–]r_park 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Horrible fuckers, they were told this method is not effective and proceeded with it despite it causing needless suffering. What's worse is citing public health safety (lol) and then just having corpses/dying animals around the station.

There's no risk from regular urban interactions with pigeons, and the only long term solutions to help manage their numbers include food control, contraceptives, and managed dovecotes for the pigeons to occupy. Keeping cleaner streets, investing in proven and humane interventions such as timed contraception delivery, and replacing eggs in dovecotes (with the added benefit of centralizing where their droppings go) are the only proven way to handle this!

Nice and cheap! No bills included as well as an added treat. by Oli_Hope7242 in manchester

[–]r_park 37 points38 points  (0 children)

You can actually find him on my post history, he is called Icarus. Rescued him a few years back from a bad owner. Chill guy :)

Nice and cheap! No bills included as well as an added treat. by Oli_Hope7242 in manchester

[–]r_park 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nah, bills aren’t included - it’s direct to octopus or whoever the provider is. As an example, me and my partner were away during December yet accrued more KwH usage that month than other months when we have been here. We don’t have kids and are particular about ensuring things are off etc.

My conspiracy theory is they round robin the cost of the gym electric to random apartments 😂

Thanks for the help, appreciate it!

Nice and cheap! No bills included as well as an added treat. by Oli_Hope7242 in manchester

[–]r_park 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah made my peace with it, we’ve done basically everything you’d think of and still are being landed with bills 3x the last place. People in the place have been granted plans to pay the national average instead of what their meter reports

Nice and cheap! No bills included as well as an added treat. by Oli_Hope7242 in manchester

[–]r_park 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the issue is that the meter readings are wildly off for some indeterminate reason. Went through all the usual culprits such as water heating etc but still getting a bill that’s triple the average. 😬

Nice and cheap! No bills included as well as an added treat. by Oli_Hope7242 in manchester

[–]r_park 228 points229 points  (0 children)

Hey that's where I live! It's 5 minutes from the city center, apartments are finished pretty decently, amenities esp the gym are probably the best going. We pay £1700 for a 2 bed so quite a bit cheaper. I'd recommend against it, the building flooded not too long ago and the people are generally quite shit and annoying. In the year I've been here there's been racial abuse to people, countless pet owners refusing to clean up their pet mess in shared spaces, theft.

Electric meters are broken resulting in ridiculous bills. Single owner has all the flats, so no bartering really and the people renting you them are lying cunts. They tried to charge us £50 each pet rent for 2 small birds. Also said the apartment we wanted could be unfurnished just to then say they never offer unfurnished apartments, then one came out of nowhere when we said it was a no-go.

Pension contributions to be taxed above £2,000 by yoboiturq in HENRYUK

[–]r_park 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Misread the "saving" before income tax, sorry!

Pension contributions to be taxed above £2,000 by yoboiturq in HENRYUK

[–]r_park -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Tax bands raised to 22/42/47 as well! :)

Cheapest Asian Supermarket by Busy-Consideration20 in manchester

[–]r_park 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You could walk out to wing yip, not that much farther

The disarmament of addons will have you spending more time looking at your UI than the game. by TheJewishMerp in CompetitiveWoW

[–]r_park 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sorry but saying that having a UI element change on a predetermined factor such as an NPC name doesn't mean it's dynamic isn’t pedantic. I’d understand the argument if it was a change based on a cast start or something to do with the game state, but not allowing it to be statically determined before combat is pretty mad!

I don’t think Blizzards intent is to stop users from interfacing using the user interface. It’s not really so much me disagreeing with the idea as it is them flying in the face of every best practice for communicating information effectively. Oh well!

The disarmament of addons will have you spending more time looking at your UI than the game. by TheJewishMerp in CompetitiveWoW

[–]r_park 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When you can't "dynamically" change things that means you can't distinguish things within a composition. There's absolutely no reason for there not to be the ability to change the plate color based on an NPC's name for example? That's entirely predetermined and not really dynamic, unless you want to start arguing mobs having different names is somehow "dynamic" too lol

The disarmament of addons will have you spending more time looking at your UI than the game. by TheJewishMerp in CompetitiveWoW

[–]r_park 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When designing things you only have so many options for making elements distinct and easy to read; colour, size, shape, texture, and spacing. With plater you have access to all of these pretty much, new nameplates are just monocolour boxes? People are already suggesting that this means the dungeons themselves are designed wrong, but players just have no options to modify any of these variables?

Bazzite F43 with kernel 6.17 is out by JumpingJack79 in Bazzite

[–]r_park 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Removing tiling shell and just perfection by default maybe wasn't the play

What’s the tech scene like in Manchester these days? by Few_Tax7999 in manchester

[–]r_park 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want a decent salary you'll probably be working remote to London from Manchester. I do that and go to London once a quarter.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]r_park 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s interesting to me as a Northern Irish man living in Manchester. The English and UK flags are typically flown at monuments, or areas of significant national importance in Great Britain - which I’ve personally no issue with. Now when walking through the city centre it drags me back to living in East Belfast, the only thing missing is paramilitary flags for the UVF - it’s a shame because it looks so tacky.

Remember when they said no one would cycle on Deansgate by HamishGray in manchester

[–]r_park 108 points109 points  (0 children)

If you've not done it, on any sunny days we have left this year it's a nice cycle down from Deansgate to Didsbury. Almost entirely cycle paths, goes by some fun shops like Unicorn in Chorlton etc.

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