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Re: living with rats

Tony Radford — Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:12 am

Author: Tony Radford

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:12 am

I find the best way to get rid of rats is death by firing squad, or you could always eat them like i do. They are great cooked in goose fat and smothered in pigs blood, bloody lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If anyone wants the recipe let me know.

Bye

Re: living with rats

ZiggyMarley — Tue May 23, 2006 7:40 pm

Author: ZiggyMarley

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:40 pm

Oktober wrote:

ZiggyMarley wrote:

SimonM wrote:

ZiggyMarley wrote:

Do rats have any purpose? Are a small number of them essential for the food chain/running of the planet? Or could we actually kill them all and not cause any bad effects?

I've wondered what would happen if you replaced all the wasps in the world with bees, which are far more amiable but still usefully cross-pollinate flowers.

Assuming there's no bad reaction like more honey => more bears => more children getting mauled, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that wasps are proof that there is no god. Or if there is one, he's unnecessarily mean. I mean, wasps? Dude.

Wait, what were we talking about again?

Wasps stop picnicking families from getting sunburnt. If these pesky insects did not buzz around pissing people off then people would stay outside too long and get burnt. Thats my theory anyway

No, ants can do wreck picnics just fine, wasps just hang about the rubish bins at picnic site and then try and land on your ice lolly.

Incidently, ants have invaded by flat. I keep catching the little bastards crawling across my desk.

Ah ha then wasps are teaching us not to throw stuff away. We should not use all this packaging stuff. If wasps did not exist bins would overflow (more than they do) in the summer and other small animals would get trapped in the rubbish and die.

Re: living with rats

Oktober — Tue May 23, 2006 5:05 am

Author: Oktober

Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 5:05 am

ZiggyMarley wrote:

SimonM wrote:

ZiggyMarley wrote:

Do rats have any purpose? Are a small number of them essential for the food chain/running of the planet? Or could we actually kill them all and not cause any bad effects?

Wasps stop picnicking families from getting sunburnt. If these pesky insects did not buzz around pissing people off then people would stay outside too long and get burnt. Thats my theory anyway

Re: living with rats

steven — Mon May 22, 2006 11:38 pm

Author: steven

Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 11:38 pm

We had a slug in our house. They're not as speedy as rats, but this one wasn't far off. I've decided to start posting crap on the Radish again now that I'm free from revision. Absolute crap.

Re: living with rats

ZiggyMarley — Sun May 21, 2006 3:49 pm

Author: ZiggyMarley

Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 3:49 pm

SimonM wrote:

ZiggyMarley wrote:

Do rats have any purpose? Are a small number of them essential for the food chain/running of the planet? Or could we actually kill them all and not cause any bad effects?

Wasps stop picnicking families from getting sunburnt. If these pesky insects did not buzz around pissing people off then people would stay outside too long and get burnt. Thats my theory anyway

Re: living with rats

SimonM — Sun May 21, 2006 3:29 pm

Author: SimonM

Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 3:29 pm

ZiggyMarley wrote:

Do rats have any purpose? Are a small number of them essential for the food chain/running of the planet? Or could we actually kill them all and not cause any bad effects?

Re: living with rats

ZiggyMarley — Sun May 21, 2006 2:53 pm

Author: ZiggyMarley

Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:53 pm

Do rats have any purpose? Are a small number of them essential for the food chain/running of the planet? Or could we actually kill them all and not cause any bad effects?

Re: living with rats

Oktober — Fri May 19, 2006 11:24 pm

Author: Oktober

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:24 pm

It's not my idea, it was proposed by someone before rat-human equilibrium day, they calculated the date that rat-human equilibrium day would fall on and suggested it be designated as national kill-a-rat day as that would be the last chance there was of getting all the rats by that method. We are too late now though because we are now significantly outnumbered by rats. If we tryed it now, they would kick our arses, they are getting smarter you know.

Re: living with rats

higuy — Fri May 19, 2006 9:57 pm

Author: higuy

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:57 pm

So theres actually 60 million rats in the UK?

Your idea of everyone going out and killing rats does remind me of a particularly funny episode of The Simpsons.

Re: living with rats

Oktober — Fri May 19, 2006 6:53 pm

Author: Oktober

Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:53 pm

I remember some time the year before last, they estimated the rat population overtook the human population, and said that if everyone in the country went out on that day and killed 1 rat each, then we could wipe out rats in this country.

Re: living with rats

theanonymousgeographer — Thu May 18, 2006 3:05 pm

Author: theanonymousgeographer

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:05 pm

Oktober wrote:

naivehottie wrote:

higuy wrote:

Well they say in London you are never more then 5 meters from a rat. I suppose they live under the ground so you wouldnt see them anyway.

That's not actually true, it's an urban myth

If you think about it, if you 2 storys up, then its more than 5 metres to the ground, so it would require rats to be on at least every other floor to keep a rat within range. plus its more than 5 metres from the sewers in the middle of the roads to peoples houses plus most houses would fit a 5 metre radius inside them, so the rats would need to actually be in your house to be within 5 metres.

Lol. Thats well worked out. I imagine how they worked it out though was estimate the number of rats and compare it to the size of London. Which means on average no more than 5 metres. But i'm not sure thats how they did it but its a guess.

Re: living with rats

Oktober — Thu May 18, 2006 10:49 am

Author: Oktober

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:49 am

naivehottie wrote:

higuy wrote:

Well they say in London you are never more then 5 meters from a rat. I suppose they live under the ground so you wouldnt see them anyway.

That's not actually true, it's an urban myth

Re: living with rats

hannoir — Thu May 18, 2006 9:59 am

Author: hannoir

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:59 am

I lived with a chav last year, what is going to be done about living with chavs?

Re: living with rats

naivehottie — Thu May 18, 2006 9:42 am

Author: naivehottie

Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 9:42 am

higuy wrote:

Well they say in London you are never more then 5 meters from a rat. I suppose they live under the ground so you wouldnt see them anyway.

That's not actually true, it's an urban myth

Re: living with rats

higuy — Wed May 17, 2006 6:49 pm

Author: higuy

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 6:49 pm

Well they say in London you are never more then 5 meters from a rat. I suppose they live under the ground so you wouldnt see them anyway.