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View Poll Results: Which pest would you rid our world of?
Aphids/Blackfly/Greenfly 2 5.88%
Cats 1 2.94%
Caterpillars 1 2.94%
Slugs/Snails 23 67.65%
Mice/Voles 0 0%
Pigeons 3 8.82%
Earwigs 1 2.94%
Lilly Beetles 1 2.94%
Vine Weevils 0 0%
Wasps 2 5.88%
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Old 21-07-2008, 12:37 PM
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Default Which pest would you rid the world of?

You have super powers which allow you to rid the world of one of the most detested garden pest - which would you choose?
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wow, unnanomous so far
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I have superpowers!?! Really?

*goes to test*
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Old 21-07-2008, 01:57 PM
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Cats!!!

Everything else I'm allowed to snuff out anyway, but when someone's precious tiddles digs up my borders and scatters my seedlings all over, then dumps all over the raised beds, it's all "Oh, they're semi-wild you know, we can't be held responsible" and "He never does it in my garden." Yes, well, that's because he's doing it in mine and if he's semi flipping wild he should only be classed as a semi-pet, that is, a pet in your garden and able to be legally shot, poisoned or generally murdered to death by some horrible, imaginative means in mine!

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You didn't include viruses and fungi
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and you didn't include people that want to be mean to cats
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Kids button!! Where's the Kids button??????
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Wasps probably have a place in the food chain somewhere, but why do they always home in on me and sting me????????? Get rid of the b******s
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Nope, I'll pass on this one! There's enough animals being forced into extinction each year without me adding another one to the list!
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You wipe out one pest, then you've altered the balance and you don't know what may fill the void.
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squirrels!
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Why not go for broke Pigeons, Magpies, and Grey Squirrels in any order jacob marley
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If we've got free licence can we include ineffective, incompetent NHS Managers regardless of background or shall we just ship them off to some remote unpopulated island with all the other pests we've "rid" the world of and leave them all to it for 10 years.

Hmmm could be an interesting scientific experiment but wouldn't pass any ethics committee. (Damn!)
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If we've got free licence can we include ineffective, incompetent NHS Managers regardless of background or shall we just ship them off to some remote unpopulated island with all the other pests we've "rid" the world of and leave them all to it for 10 years.

Hmmm could be an interesting scientific experiment but wouldn't pass any ethics committee. (Damn!)
Why not include the ethics committee???
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Pulled up cabbage to find slugs under it. Bloody things.
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