Chose your preferred answer on these two smug individuals
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Two very rich, very shrewd businessmen (with zero medical qualifications)
Two of the most evil men alive today
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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
Two puppets doing their master's bidding. Neither of them attained their station in life by their own efforts.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 Interesting! Very much a cultural matter.
I have visited Norway a few times with a group of friends, to go walking in the hills. We became friends with a resident on one village, where his home was a menagerie of stuffed animals.
Though not a Sami, he was licensed to shoot up to, I think, three, elk a year; these are edible and indeed he did once cook us a delicious casserole of meat from one he had shot.
What we did not like so much, but were polite enough not to comment, was the rest of the creatures, all inedible, from a beautiful European Lynx down to of all things, an owl with a lemming in its talons. He also showed us a photograph of a large Brown Bear he had shot; but I don't know if that was defensive or purely for the sake of shooting it.
That was shooting for the sake of it, not for food or in culling a species too numerous for its own and everyone else' good, not even in self-defence.
I think he realised we did not really agree with such "sport". We also saw him fishing one day, in a small lake. He was not catching them to eat and we didn't know if they were an edible species anyway. He just left them in the grass.
I have visited Norway a few times with a group of friends, to go walking in the hills. We became friends with a resident on one village, where his home was a menagerie of stuffed animals.
Though not a Sami, he was licensed to shoot up to, I think, three, elk a year; these are edible and indeed he did once cook us a delicious casserole of meat from one he had shot.
What we did not like so much, but were polite enough not to comment, was the rest of the creatures, all inedible, from a beautiful European Lynx down to of all things, an owl with a lemming in its talons. He also showed us a photograph of a large Brown Bear he had shot; but I don't know if that was defensive or purely for the sake of shooting it.
That was shooting for the sake of it, not for food or in culling a species too numerous for its own and everyone else' good, not even in self-defence.
I think he realised we did not really agree with such "sport". We also saw him fishing one day, in a small lake. He was not catching them to eat and we didn't know if they were an edible species anyway. He just left them in the grass.
hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
@ArishMell Yeah we have the same problem with many of our native people. They can be very destructive even as they claim to be stewards of the land.
I went to visit an older lady one day when I noticed she had a grizzly bear pelt on the floor under her table. The head and paws were intact which showed just how big an animal it was. She told me how she got it. A bear was killing her cattle, she had a small farm on the edge of the forest reserve along the foothills, She decided to do something about the bear since she really couldn't afford the loss of any more cows. She and her dad got on their horses and headed west. About a mile out they spotted what they were certain was the culprit bear. They lassoed the bear and tied it between two trees. She rode home and got the old Enfield .303 came back and shot the bear. She also had a mountain lion pelt from a mountain lion that was raiding her hen house. Tough lady with a heart of gold. She raised two daughters and a son from the money she made farming.
I went to visit an older lady one day when I noticed she had a grizzly bear pelt on the floor under her table. The head and paws were intact which showed just how big an animal it was. She told me how she got it. A bear was killing her cattle, she had a small farm on the edge of the forest reserve along the foothills, She decided to do something about the bear since she really couldn't afford the loss of any more cows. She and her dad got on their horses and headed west. About a mile out they spotted what they were certain was the culprit bear. They lassoed the bear and tied it between two trees. She rode home and got the old Enfield .303 came back and shot the bear. She also had a mountain lion pelt from a mountain lion that was raiding her hen house. Tough lady with a heart of gold. She raised two daughters and a son from the money she made farming.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@hippyjoe1955 I can understand shooting animals that are killing your livestock but there are too many who shoot for the sake of it.
Some of the worst in Europe is or was along the French-Spanish border on the Pyrenees, where they just blast migrating birds out of the sky.
Some of the worst in Europe is or was along the French-Spanish border on the Pyrenees, where they just blast migrating birds out of the sky.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Who are they?
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@WalterF If your claimed credentials are real that makes your behavior even more inexcusable.
WalterF · 70-79, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Really! Wow, you are certainly one pompous self-important dude.
I do wish you well, though.
I do wish you well, though.
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
@WalterF Not my fault you blindly believe things that have no basis in science or fact. The fact you should know better just makes it worse.
smiler2012 · 56-60
{@walterf] 🤔the first description sound very familiar 🤔is this somebody who lost something very precious and then spat out there dummy over it 😆
PhoenixPhail · M
That's a tough choice.
If I could, I'd vote on both.
If I could, I'd vote on both.
PhoenixPhail · M
@WalterF There's an option to vote on multiple items.
calicuz · 51-55, M
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M
