First-World Problems...

Remember the hanging plant that was half dead? Well, in the interest of frugality I tried to revive it by putting it into a bit more sun. That required it to be on the ground...out from under the porch roof.

And the neighborhood deer were quite happy with that! The little bastards ate the damned thing! And its previously healthy twin on the other side of the porch that I also put on the ground in the sun.

Granted, this is a First World problem, but it also exposes a serious problem in NJ (and other blue states). We have plenty of deer, very few predators, and incredibly restrictive hunting regulations. So the deer population explodes; they expand into the suburbs, eating their way through expensive gardens and wandering onto our streets and highways where they are killed, and also cause property damage and occasionally injuries and death.

The only upside to this is that some of those gardens and landscaping being destroyed are owned by whiny Karens who think that guns are icky, hunting is evil, and cannot conceive of the connection between that and the proliferation of deer.

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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1 Hi all

Posted by: Ciampino - Gutter Union legal rep. at July 31, 2022 02:01 PM (qfLjt)

2 That is a problem

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2022 02:01 PM (k8B25)

3 Mother Nature always wins.

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2022 02:01 PM (AMIL/)

4 My neighborhood karens actually feed the deer

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 02:02 PM (ONvIw)

5 There is a herd roaming around here lead by I think a 8 point or more buck

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2022 02:02 PM (k8B25)

6 "just cut it back"<--- My aunt's response to any horticultural disaster

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut IN at July 31, 2022 02:03 PM (mZOHK)

7 Got a great picture of a 10-point buck strolling down our street this past week....

-SLV in a Blue State

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at July 31, 2022 02:03 PM (SEa82)

8 Now, I have helping coyotes. Seem to like tender venison and rabbits too

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 02:04 PM (ONvIw)

9 You shot my mother, and you expect me to GAS?

Posted by: Bambi at July 31, 2022 02:05 PM (/NCI4)

10 the grocer had iceberg lettuce this week-
side by side comparison with organic iceberg lettuce-
organic = softball; regular = bowling ball

all is not lost

Posted by: DB at July 31, 2022 02:06 PM (geLO8)

11 I had about 6 deer in my backyard yesterday

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 31, 2022 02:06 PM (Irn0L)

12 This is a First World problem:
What they did was despicable...I should never have changed gender at 16: Brave young woman reveals her story after damning report finally forced the closure of the controversial Tavistock clinic
https://mol.im/a/11065005

Posted by: Ciampino - Brave but stupid at July 31, 2022 02:07 PM (qfLjt)

13 4 My neighborhood karens actually feed the deer

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 02:02 PM (ONvIw)

Six weeks ago my Homeowners Organization sent a postcard to everyone telling, not asking, everyone to STOP feeding the squirrels. I do not know if the Karens here will obey. Unlikely.

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2022 02:07 PM (AMIL/)

14 >>> 4 My neighborhood karens actually feed the deer
Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 02:02 PM (ONvIw)

If there are Burning Times in the near future, you can shoot the deer and feed the karens to hogs.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2022 02:08 PM (llON8)

15 my other FWP is the locust tree in front of my townhouse-
I think it is nearing the end of its service life. Parts of it fall off on a regular basis. Anybody know anything about trees?

Posted by: DB at July 31, 2022 02:08 PM (geLO8)

16 Coyotes are fond of cats and small dogs too.

Posted by: Ciampino - Babies: Are coyotes liable to do a dingo? at July 31, 2022 02:09 PM (qfLjt)

17 Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2022 02:07 PM (AMIL/)

I have a large container of peanut butter that was recalled a few months ago. That means I have more than enough bait with which to mix rat poison for my squirrel problem.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 02:09 PM (XIJ/X)

18 >>> 15 my other FWP is the locust tree in front of my townhouse-
I think it is nearing the end of its service life. Parts of it fall off on a regular basis. Anybody know anything about trees?
Posted by: DB at July 31, 2022 02:08 PM (geLO

Yeah, all you need to do is put the seed in some dirt and water it.

Posted by: Mike Bloomberg at July 31, 2022 02:09 PM (llON8)

19 16. I am always happy to see a torn apart fawn carcass being completed by turkey vultures.

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 02:12 PM (ONvIw)

20 Anyone know yet what, if anything, is going on in Kosovo?

I just assume that WW3 begins in that neighborhood.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 31, 2022 02:13 PM (bwQt7)

21 Alas, I live in rural central Texas and my FWP with deer is no better. Granted I live in a small subdivision where there's no hunting, but there are areas all around us where you can hunt. In reality, the local roadways do a MUCH better job of controlling the deer than the hunters do.

Nonetheless, the deer eat almost everything in our yard. And not just what's in pots or flower beds. They will come up the steps to my front entry and eat the plants in the pots by the door. They will chow down on plants labeled as "deer resistant." There are about five plants that we've found that they don't eat.

It took me five years to finally accept that unless you have a deer fence, actual gardening is out of the question. But the deer are pretty to watch.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 31, 2022 02:13 PM (fTtFy)

22 15 We lost oaks to bacterial leaf scorch.

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 02:13 PM (ONvIw)

23 I do not need deer to kill the hanging plants. I can do that all by myself. My FWP is what to do with all these plastic buckets!!??

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:13 PM (anj39)

24 Some time ago I had some lovely begonias that started doing poorly. I looked at them out the window early one morning, and was a squirrel, chowing down. I thought " begonias? Really ??? Are you f'in kidding me???

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 31, 2022 02:14 PM (q3gwH)

25 FWP - Even though I'm nowhere near Florida, a dang lizard keeps eating all the flowers off my now huge bell pepper plant. He doesn't touch the cherry tomatoes til they are bright red, so I can just pull them off orange, but it's annoying. Apparently, lizards are not scared by cats like the birds are...

Posted by: Nova local at July 31, 2022 02:14 PM (exHjb)

26 Ciampino have read a number of them, Neo has put up a few, they are heartbreaking.

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2022 02:15 PM (k8B25)

27 15 my other FWP is the locust tree in front of my townhouse-
I think it is nearing the end of its service life. Parts of it fall off on a regular basis. Anybody know anything about trees?

Posted by: DB at July 31, 2022 02:08 PM (geLO

1. They are necessary for art
2. The chainsaw is your friend
3. Plant a nice oak tree.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut IN at July 31, 2022 02:18 PM (mZOHK)

28 Squirrels - a cautionary tale:

https://youtu.be/MziwbQv9zQ0

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2022 02:19 PM (QyWX+)

29 Damn squirrels are eating my tomatoes.

One took a bite of a jalapeño and left the rest sitting on a lava rock nearby.

Hope the little bastard has a flaming butthole.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:19 PM (EENFi)

30 As for deer, screw the rules.
Get a feeder. Grains and corn. Fatten them up.
Then, at night, crossbow or compound, your choice.
Haul to nearest vacant field to dress it.
Return to garage to hang.
Voila! Problem solved.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:19 PM (anj39)

31 27 Depends where you are. NJ is experiencing a lot of oak loss. I'm going with a nice sycamore and a few apple trees.

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 02:20 PM (ONvIw)

32 Bugs. Not the eating kind. The flying and biting kind. They've finally appeared here in the Bluegrass since we've had several days of rain. And they don't give a shit what you use to keep them away.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 02:20 PM (BFigT)

33 Make sure The Karens who took Jif off the shelves know that deer spread:
Q fever, chlamydiosis, leptospirosis, campylobacterosis, salmonellosis, cryptosporidiosis, and giardiasis
Besides the angst of landscape predation.

Posted by: epador at July 31, 2022 02:21 PM (ns4uC)

34 For all of the Karen's opposed to deer hunting for "humanitarian" reasons:

Do you remember your old dog that you provided excellent hospice care to for the final two years of its life, before its pain became so great that you finally had to have the vet peacefully euthanize the dog?

THAT is how old deer die in nature - minus you providing food, comfort, and pain medications. AND no peaceful euthanization at the very end.

I don't listen to "science" from people who's only interaction with nature is watching "Bambi" and Patagonia commercials.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 02:22 PM (tkyK5)

35 Deer are pretty lame. They really are a bad garden and farm pest. They cause accidents. They rut like rabbits, overpopulate in residential/non-hunting areas, and then get diseases and rot in the woods and lawns. I respect elk for being large and loud and belligerent and beautiful, but their cousins the deer are a kind of a low-rent, basic bitch animal. And in the West, they don't even taste that good, because of the sagebrush.

PA used to have license-free bowhunts in residential areas. I think they're also the state that fed venison to prisoners as a cost-saving/population control thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2022 02:22 PM (IXpV7)

36 And they don't give a shit what you use to keep them away.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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That's why I make my own.

Daughter makes her own also, and they live in a heavily wooded area.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:23 PM (EENFi)

37 My neighborhood karens actually feed the deer

Posted by: CN

Six weeks ago my Homeowners Organization sent a postcard to everyone telling, not asking, everyone to STOP feeding the squirrels. I do not know if the Karens here will obey. Unlikely.
Posted by: Gref

HA! My Nextdoor Karens were feeding the coyotes (for a short time) but long enough for the coyotes to learn - Hey! It's easy pickens around here! It took the Karens forever to understand why their unleashed cats and little dogs were disappearing.

The Game Wardens were unimpressed with their kvetching.

"Uh Lady, the coyotes belong here. We ain't doing 'nuffin."

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2022 02:23 PM (Msys3)

38 First tomatoes are barely coming in 1 at a time, but while nothing this year thought it was a chipmunk nibbling at mine last year as it was always the bottom tomatoes

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2022 02:24 PM (k8B25)

39 33 Don't forget Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:24 PM (ONvIw)

40 t took the Karens forever to understand why their unleashed cats and little dogs were disappearing.
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Figures.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:25 PM (EENFi)

41 To add to the bugs, there is a deer, singularly, who's been munching on the zucchini blooms in the garden. Doesn't touch the yellow squash, just the zucchini.

Deer is asshoe

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 02:25 PM (BFigT)

42 I had that happen one year when I planted some annuals in two stone planters in our front yard. They grew and were absolutely beautiful, a riot of color, etc.

One day I was getting into the car and I thought wait, something is different. I turned around and the deer had mowed those planters like they were their personal salad buffet. I left everything as it was, and the plants grew back and flowered again.

And the damn deer ate them again.

Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:25 PM (aeePL)

43 32 Bugs. Not the eating kind. The flying and biting kind. They've finally appeared here in the Bluegrass since we've had several days of rain. And they don't give a shit what you use to keep them away.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 02:20 PM

Yep!

I went out to the farm yesterday to work because we finally had a cool day. I did not know that the deer flies were now out in force.

It took about 3 minutes for my blissful ignorance to be painfully jarred into reality!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 02:26 PM (tkyK5)

44 37. The karens here are up at arms about coyotes eating rabbits and fawns. I laugh at their tears!

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:26 PM (ONvIw)

45 I don't listen to "science" from people who's only interaction with nature is watching "Bambi" and Patagonia commercials.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 02:22 PM (tkyK5)

Exactly. And for every deer that is hit and killed on the highways around here, I am sure there are some that are injured and run off to die in agony.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 02:26 PM (XIJ/X)

46 First tomatoes are barely coming in 1 at a time, but while nothing this year thought it was a chipmunk nibbling at mine last year as it was always the bottom tomatoes
Posted by: Skip
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That's pretty much the case here also.

Purchased a motion-activated ultrasound repellent and will see how that works.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:26 PM (EENFi)

47 Re: 7 by SLV

I have a great picture of an 8 point squatting whilst eliminating in a liberal neighbor’s backyard. Karma.

Yeah, and this was in a Blue State, too.

Posted by: epador at July 31, 2022 02:27 PM (ns4uC)

48 The only upside to this is that some of those gardens and landscaping being destroyed are owned by whiny Karens who think that guns are icky, hunting is evil, and cannot conceive of the connection between that and the proliferation of deer.

Another upside is that when the burning times come, you'll be able to blow the deer away from your front porch until they catch wise.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 31, 2022 02:27 PM (QYM8G)

49 First tomatoes are barely coming in 1 at a time, but while nothing this year thought it was a chipmunk nibbling at mine last year as it was always the bottom tomatoes
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2022 02:24 PM (k8B25)
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Skip, my dad would always find box turtles eating his tomatoes.

When I used to try to grow them, the squirrels would take them when they were still green, take one bite, and leave them on top of the wooden fence.

Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:27 PM (aeePL)

50 I think we need to commission a book about this issue.

A Biolography of the suburban deer!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 02:28 PM (XIJ/X)

51 Some of the karens actually named some of the deer. One asked me why she doesn't see "Harriet's" fawn. I said Wiley had to feed the babies. She looked stunned, I hummed "circle of life'

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:28 PM (ONvIw)

52 Coyotes have to eat too. Better that they eat the rabbits than run off with your pets or small children.

Posted by: huerfano at July 31, 2022 02:28 PM (dTFZY)

53 >>> 35 Deer are pretty lame. They really are a bad garden and farm pest. They cause accidents. They rut like rabbits, overpopulate in residential/non-hunting areas, and then get diseases and rot in the woods and lawns. I respect elk for being large and loud and belligerent and beautiful, but their cousins the deer are a kind of a low-rent, basic bitch animal. And in the West, they don't even taste that good, because of the sagebrush.

PA used to have license-free bowhunts in residential areas. I think they're also the state that fed venison to prisoners as a cost-saving/population control thing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2022 02:22 PM (IXpV7)

I've seen more than one person call them "hooved rats".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2022 02:29 PM (llON8)

54 52. I never let my doggo out unattended

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:29 PM (ONvIw)

55 I think we need to commission a book about this issue.

A Biolography of the suburban deer!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 02:28 PM (XIJ/X)
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Fabulous idea. Remember, I get 95% off the royalties.

Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:29 PM (aeePL)

56 Of, not off

Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:30 PM (aeePL)

57 Wow, just got back from my daily walk (4 miles, changes in elevation) and ran into an old pal, hadn't seen him in a decade or so. He recognized me, I wish I could say the same for him, but I didn't. He had gained at least 50 lbs and had long curly gray hair past his shoulders, and a beard.
A damn shame.
I just got a new DMV picture taken (after 20 years), I look pretty much like the last one...

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 60 and foggy at July 31, 2022 02:30 PM (jTmQV)

58 Elitist!

In the land of tiny lawns, high white vinyl fencing, and at least one dog in every house, we have no deer. In fact, I've never (in decades) seen even one in the township, though they're often grazing nearby in the lovely, highly political democratic stronghold of walkable Swarthmore where they're fed and cherished.

In the alternative, we have an abundance of dog crap as owners do not seem to comprehend 'curb your dog' and/or 'pick up after your dog' and also some truly lovely & interesting dogs - though their owners are sh*t.

Posted by: Lola at July 31, 2022 02:30 PM (NIYa7)

59 >>> 29 Damn squirrels are eating my tomatoes.

One took a bite of a jalapeño and left the rest sitting on a lava rock nearby.

Hope the little bastard has a flaming butthole.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:19 PM (EENFi)

Stupid tree rats. I want to put a fence around my garden and I'm seriously considering a couple electric strands to keep climbing animals out.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2022 02:31 PM (llON8)

60 My two dwarf (approx 7" tall) apple trees were loaded with fruit earlier this year. Then the fruit started slowly disappearing until only a few apples were left near the top. One rainy morning I saw cloven-hooved prints in the soil around the trees, so I concluded the apple rustlers were either deer or the devil. Not much difference in the two if you ask me.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 31, 2022 02:31 PM (d9Cw3)

61 > That's why I make my own.

Daughter makes her own also, and they live in a heavily wooded area.
Posted by: SMH
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Recipe? (I've tried some home grown stuff before but it only seems to work on one type of bug... never the mosquitos.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 02:31 PM (BFigT)

62 You shot my mother, and you expect me to GAS?
Posted by: Bambi at July 31, 2022 02:05 PM

*raises stompy foot*

Posted by: Gojira at July 31, 2022 02:31 PM (xfev0)

63 And the damn deer ate them again.
Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:25 PM (aeePL)

Hmmmm. So. Who trained whom?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:31 PM (anj39)

64 Ugh. Deer. They used to be cute. Then they started devastating all the green stuff.

Posted by: Emmie at July 31, 2022 02:31 PM (t62xj)

65 Exactly. And for every deer that is hit and killed on the highways around here, I am sure there are some that are injured and run off to die in agony.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 02:26 PM

My daughter hit a 12-point buck in a Toyota Corolla. She caught it on the driver-side headlight. She said it spun just past her face and hit a second time in the driver's door. (The car wasn't quite totaled.)

If that huge deer had been clipped is a slightly different manner, then he would have gone straight through the windshield and I would have been on the AOS prayer list for losing a daughter.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 02:31 PM (tkyK5)

66 52 Coyotes have to eat too. Better that they eat the rabbits than run off with your pets or small children.
Posted by: huerfano at July 31, 2022 02:28 PM (dTFZY)

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Not too sure we shouldn't let them eat the Karenlets.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2022 02:32 PM (QyWX+)

67 When I used to try to grow them, the squirrels would take them when they were still green, take one bite, and leave them on top of the wooden fence.
Posted by: bluebell
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Squirrels her like to perch themselves on the lava rocks while they chow down on the green tomatoes and leave the scraps. Pisses me off.
Seeing the jalapeño sitting there with one bite outta it made me laugh, though.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:32 PM (EENFi)

68 59. Foxes and hawks love tasty squirrel. My grandson was a bit sad when he saw one get snatched and carried off. Now he doesn't mind. We do shoo hawks away from cardinals and chickadees when we are able

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:33 PM (ONvIw)

69 Some booby traps among the flora? Procure some rat traps. Drill holes where the wire bail hits the wooden base. Insert .22 caliber blank cartridges in the holes, so when the trap is tripped, the wire slams the rims of the cartridges, and sets them off. Place one or two of the prepared traps in vulnerable flower beds, with strings leading to the traps' triggers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2022 02:33 PM (bOyUs)

70 23 I do not need deer to kill the hanging plants. I can do that all by myself. My FWP is what to do with all these plastic buckets!!??
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:13 PM

Unclip the hanging part. Plant succulents in the soil. Or just put a layer of fallen succulent "leaves" on the soil and wait for them to develop roots.

Voilà! You are back to First-World.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 31, 2022 02:34 PM (/+bwe)

71 PA used to have license-free bowhunts in residential areas. I think they're also the state that fed venison to prisoners as a cost-saving/population control thing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 31, 2022 02:22 PM (IXpV7)

I've seen more than one person call them "hooved rats".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2022 02:29 PM

I have planted 200 trees at our farm.

My two jobs are: 1. Water them during the drought periods. 2. Keep the deer from eating the d*mn trees.

I have most of the trees in 5' tall tree tubes. I have game camera photos of deer balancing on their hind legs to eat the new growth out of the top of the tube!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 02:35 PM (tkyK5)

72 Not too sure we shouldn't let them eat the Karenlets.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 31, 2022 02:32 PM (QyWX+)

It's the circle of life!!!!!!

Krens here are always parading around with signs saying "they were here first" with crudely drawn deer.

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:35 PM (ONvIw)

73 When drove through southern Colorado a lot, I saw many dead elk along the sides of the highways. I wouldn't want one of those to land in my lap.

Posted by: huerfano at July 31, 2022 02:36 PM (dTFZY)

74 Hmmmm. So. Who trained whom?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:31 PM (anj39)
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Well, I wasn't going to pull out the plants because they were still alive, but I will say that I have never planted annuals in there again.

Now I have lavender in them which isn't doing too great because they could use more sun, but I have them right at the base of the steps leading to my porch to make it more difficult for the deer. They haven't bothered it in two years.

Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:36 PM (aeePL)

75 Fabulous idea. Remember, I get 95% of the royalties.

Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:29 PM

No way are you going to get 95% of the royalties.

The Big Guy gets 10% right off the top. Any sharing of the pie after that only gets to split up the remaining 90%.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 02:38 PM (tkyK5)

76 A guy here who grazes his small cow herd on a 1/4 or 1/2 section lost multiple just born calves to the coyotes this spring. Coyotes can't take on a cow, but when mom is sidelined while calf is being born she can't protect the calf.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at July 31, 2022 02:38 PM (3cGpq)

77 Recipe? (I've tried some home grown stuff before but it only seems to work on one type of bug... never the mosquitos.)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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14 Best Homemade Mosquito Repellents That Really Work

https://tinyurl.com/mt2kap6n

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:38 PM (EENFi)

78 That would make a good kill scene in a fugitive survivalist type of movie.

Survivalist protagonist with limited resources traps a deer, sets up an ambush site near a road and releases the deer just as the target vehicle is coming by, causing the vehicle to hit the deer and crash.

Protagonist emerges from the woods in full camouflage and slits the throat of the bad guy who is still stunned from the wreck, then hustles off back to the woods.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 31, 2022 02:38 PM (QYM8G)

79 Unclip the hanging part. Plant succulents in the soil. Or just put a layer of fallen succulent "leaves" on the soil and wait for them to develop roots.

Voilà! You are back to First-World.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 31, 2022 02:34 PM (/+bwe)

So, you're saying just tossing it over by the fence and letting moss take over isn't the same?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:38 PM (anj39)

80 76. No cows near me. Coyotes can eat all the fawns they want. If I could find a way to assist them, I would.

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:39 PM (ONvIw)

81 I have to pluck the biggest tomato off the branch in a few hours. It's getting yellowish-green, which means it's too enticing to survive the night.

My FWP is too childish to mention.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 31, 2022 02:40 PM (/+bwe)

82 Seeing the jalapeño sitting there with one bite outta it made me laugh, though.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:32 PM (EENFi)
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Supposedly red pepper flakes will keep them away. They like to dig in the planters on my deck when I plant my herb seeds or seedlings, which kills them or prevents them from sprouting. This year I dumped a layer of red pepper flakes on the soil and they didn't bother them.

Don't know how your could keep them on the tomatoes though.

Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:40 PM (aeePL)

83
My animus toward denizens that have overstayed their welcome is headed by White-Tailed Deer and Canada Geese.

Feed the homeless!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 31, 2022 02:41 PM (ZvxPV)

84 First world problem last night was $44 for a 1/4 pound of fajitas at El Tiempo restaurant in Houston. It was a dinner party so I couldn't leave or complain. I can get an 8 oz filet with salad and bake potato at The Outback for $28 tax title and license . .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 31, 2022 02:41 PM (HlgoT)

85 Anticipating the burning times, husband is wondering if we could bow hunt the dozens of deer in our neighborhood. While we were househunting out here, one of the owners suggested hunting them with crossbows since she had neighbors and guns weren't safe. No really.

I told him he could bring up crossbows here at his own risk.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at July 31, 2022 02:42 PM (fTtFy)

86 14 Best Homemade Mosquito Repellents That Really Work

https://tinyurl.com/mt2kap6n
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:38 PM (EENFi)

Muskol FTW. 100% DEET, in an aerosol can.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2022 02:42 PM (bOyUs)

87 My latest FWP involved dreadful phone charger cords that had fraying and a replacement cost of 35.00. I found a package of three 10ft cords for 10.95 and am content.

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:43 PM (ONvIw)

88 Insufficient culling of deer leads to Lyme Disease. That was actually the trigger for the disease in Lyme, Conn.

Posted by: Regular joe at July 31, 2022 02:43 PM (nnp+f)

89 Don't know how your could keep them on the tomatoes though.
Posted by: bluebell
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I've made a spray out of cayenne pepper and geranium soap, but though effective on the plants, not so much on the maters.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:43 PM (EENFi)

90 In the PNW and Canada there is a movement to make house cats "invasive species" that decimate the bird population. People are told they cannot allow their cats outside without a leash and there will be fines if they are caught roaming freely.

Now, Lucy is not a free range cat. But if I didn't live on a busy street and there weren't coyotes and owls and eagles in the neighborhood, she would be.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2022 02:44 PM (U2p+3)

91 Muskol FTW. 100% DEET, in an aerosol can.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
___

To each his own.

I have no problem with that, but it's cheaper just to make a bunch.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:44 PM (EENFi)

92 First world problem last night was $44 for a 1/4 pound of fajitas at El Tiempo restaurant in Houston. It was a dinner party so I couldn't leave or complain. I can get an 8 oz filet with salad and bake potato at The Outback for $28 tax title and license . .
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Breakfast at a place my son, visiting from out of town picked out - Kid's meal (pancakes). $17

Adding OJ would have been $5 more.

I wanted to go berserk on them - I must be getting old and cranky.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2022 02:44 PM (Msys3)

93 So, you're saying just tossing it over by the fence and letting moss take over isn't the same?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:38 PM

You mean the dirt? If you meant the actual plastic buckets, you need to meet my neighbor (wherever he is now). Since part of the fence fell, I can see his pile of plastic buckets and empty liquor bottles.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 31, 2022 02:45 PM (/+bwe)

94 Now, Lucy is not a free range cat. But if I didn't live on a busy street and there weren't coyotes and owls and eagles in the neighborhood, she would be.

Posted by: nurse ratched
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Same here, which is why Momi and Noni are strictly indoors.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:45 PM (EENFi)

95 I bought some 100% deet once. I wonder if it has evaporated now. I never had any problem with Off but the 100% stuff was irritating my skin.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at July 31, 2022 02:46 PM (3cGpq)

96 My cousin showed me this fake Mercedes EV commercial last night. It's good

https://youtu.be/3AlndKQSs6Q

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 31, 2022 02:46 PM (9WSy4)

97 When I grew a garden I was willing to give half to the animals, no big deal to plant a little more. Not all of it though, every stinking veggie chewed up and spit all over the yard including pots. No more of that, lead pellet feed now. At least my rifle skills have chance to get better.

Posted by: dartist at July 31, 2022 02:46 PM (+ya+t)

98 88 The locals fight culls citing "nature and habitat loss" . They're quieter about the coyotes, but I haven't seen unattended dogs outside and cats are overwhelmingly indoors now.

I want to go outside and see a pack take down the semi-pet "Harriet".

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:46 PM (ONvIw)

99 I have no problem with that, but it's cheaper just to make a bunch.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:44 PM (EENFi)

Do you really think that Big Chemical would have done decades of research to find and test DEET, if they could just pack lemon oil in a spray can?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2022 02:47 PM (bOyUs)

100 Sorry it was a 1/2 pound of fajitas. Still a problem 😀

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 31, 2022 02:47 PM (HlgoT)

101 Deer are precious and cute.
Wolves are trapped and killed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2022 02:47 PM (U2p+3)

102 So, you're saying just tossing it over by the fence and letting moss take over isn't the same?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:38 PM

You mean the dirt? If you meant the actual plastic buckets, you need to meet my neighbor (wherever he is now). Since part of the fence fell, I can see his pile of plastic buckets and empty liquor bottles.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 31, 2022 02:45 PM (/+bwe)
***

Well, hell.
Guess its time to fix that damn fence.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:47 PM (anj39)

103 RPI Bill Russel at 88.

https://tinyurl.com/26n4y5d4

Posted by: vic /s at July 31, 2022 02:48 PM (mZwKe)

104 Deer are mother-fuckers. Hooray for the helping coyotes!

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:48 PM (ONvIw)

105 Thanks SMH... I'll take a look at those. Some of them I've tried, with no success. Others I've not heard of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 02:48 PM (BFigT)

106 88 Insufficient culling of deer leads to Lyme Disease. That was actually the trigger for the disease in Lyme, Conn.
Posted by: Regular joe at July 31, 2022 02:43 PM (nnp+f)

Ahhh, our subterfuge worked...

Posted by: The Plum Island Mad Scientists at July 31, 2022 02:48 PM (BgMrQ)

107 For some of our flower beds, we string up fishing line at about shoulder height. Believe it or not, it works amazingly well to make the deer go munch other places. But yeah, unprotected beds here get munched down to the ground.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2022 02:48 PM (Msys3)

108 Do you really think that Big Chemical would have done decades of research to find and test DEET, if they could just pack lemon oil in a spray can?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I have no problem with DEET. Have a couple of cans around. I especially like OFF.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:49 PM (EENFi)

109 First world problem last night was $44 for a 1/4 pound of fajitas at El Tiempo restaurant in Houston.

Ouch.

That would've been a "I'm not feeling well" moment for me while explaining why I wasn't ordering anything.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 31, 2022 02:49 PM (QYM8G)

110 Not sure what is going on in Kosovo and Serbia, but you can be sure its a grievance from 800 years ago.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2022 02:49 PM (8GBH4)

111 CBD, you do know that deer is made out of meat?

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2022 02:49 PM (0OP+5)

112 Looks like Biden now has a "rebound" case of covid. This can't be a first world problem because this is no longer the first world. Plus, is it really a problem?

Posted by: InCali at July 31, 2022 02:50 PM (eFvmN)

113 I got a list of first world problems while being in Espana this week - tiny toilet paper that you aren't supposed to flush, milk that comes in litre sized "juice boxes", buying gas by the litre, tiny European swim suits. First world plusses- tiny European swimsuits (ladies editon), beer by the litre, inexpensive wine, bidets. It's not quite so bad here, but I do miss home.

Posted by: Mishdog at July 31, 2022 02:50 PM (xGVrX)

114 Posted by: bluebell at July 31, 2022 02:36 PM (aeePL)

I love lavender and just planted some in full sun.

It is already dead.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 02:50 PM (XIJ/X)

115 My cousin showed me this fake Mercedes EV commercial last night. It's good

https://youtu.be/3AlndKQSs6Q
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 31, 2022 02:46 PM (9WSy4)

LOL.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2022 02:51 PM (bOyUs)

116 Too many of either deer or coyotes are a problem. Idiot tree huggers who say "just let mother nature balance populations" have no clue how vicious ma nature can be. Species get overpopulated in a good year, then a bunch of them get to starve to death next year. Maybe nature will send in a disease to speed the dying up by a little bit.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at July 31, 2022 02:51 PM (3cGpq)

117 I wanted to go berserk on them - I must be getting old and cranky.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2022 02:44 PM

Not to rub salt in the wound, but yesterday I took one of my brothers on a trip to the Thumb of Michigan. It was like a time-warp. Gas below $4. Filling breakfast for less than $20.

Now I'm making my weekly menu and trying to decide whether to "feed the freezer" with meat.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 31, 2022 02:51 PM (/+bwe)

118 I was driving home late one night and saw a pack of coyotes playing baseball in the street. I heard one of them yell "car" as I was approaching. I passed by and in the rear view mirror I saw them all go back to their positions.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 31, 2022 02:52 PM (AiZBA)

119
I have no problem with DEET. Have a couple of cans around. I especially like OFF.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:49 PM (EENFi)

Got a face full of Off with a lot of DEET once on the golf course. Damn! What a rush!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:52 PM (anj39)

120 Wolves are shot from helicopters. They are poisoned. Because ranchers let their cattle roam on federal lands.
Why do the cattle get to roam and the wolves don't.
And why do deer get to roam and wreak havoc?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2022 02:53 PM (U2p+3)

121 CBD,

Lavender prefers partial shade.

I had two lavender plants in pots, one in the full sun, one partially shaded by a pillar.

One in full sun died.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:53 PM (EENFi)

122 RPI Bill Russel at 88.

https://tinyurl.com/26n4y5d4
Posted by: vic /s at July 31, 2022 02:48 PM (mZwKe)

Seems like famous basketball players either die relatively young or live into their 80's.

On that note , Bob Cousy still kicking at 93.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 31, 2022 02:53 PM (HlgoT)

123 My FWP was the wasps. I knew the nest was close for all of them buzzing around the porch, took forever to find the little hideway that bitch queen set up. She was smart, it was a good pick for a home, now she's dead.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2022 02:54 PM (8GBH4)

124 Coyotes have been scarce around here this year. I saw one run across the road last evening when I drove home from Pizza Night at Rowley, but that was 20 miles away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2022 02:54 PM (bOyUs)

125 Deer need culling, especially here in NJ. They should not be walking down Nassau street with people smiling and saying "awwww". We don't have wolves, only helping coyotes, for whom I am grateful.

Posted by: CN, the deer-hater at July 31, 2022 02:56 PM (ONvIw)

126 Canada Geese overpopulate golf courses and parks, presenting a genuine nuisance. There's almost no socially acceptable way to get rid of them. A nice golf course here proposed a plan that made eminently good sense.

They would sell tags to allow hunters to shoot geese on their course. Hunters could keep their geese or donate them to the club. The club committed to use the tag receipts to process the geese then donate them to non-profits like food banks and homeless shelters.

The Karen outrage was deafening, so the idea was abandoned.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 31, 2022 02:56 PM (sWM8x)

127 111 CBD, you do know that deer is made out of meat?

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2022 02:49 PM

Uh oh!

Venison sous vide post incoming this fall!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 02:56 PM (tkyK5)

128
RPI Bill Russel at 88

Hey, LeBaron, Bill read PAST the Table of Contents when he read books.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 31, 2022 02:56 PM (ZvxPV)

129 >>> 120 Wolves are shot from helicopters. They are poisoned. Because ranchers let their cattle roam on federal lands.
Why do the cattle get to roam and the wolves don't.
And why do deer get to roam and wreak havoc?
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2022 02:53 PM (U2p+3)

Cows taste better.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2022 02:56 PM (llON8)

130 Do you really think that Big Chemical would have done decades of research to find and test DEET, if they could just pack lemon oil in a spray can?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2022 02:47 PM (bOyUs)

Hmmmm. This scenario sounds vaguely familiar. Something about a $0.06 pill being downplayed and vilified in favor of a $35 pill.

Posted by: Emmie at July 31, 2022 02:56 PM (t62xj)

131 There's a Lavender Festival out here in Sequim, WA in the early summer.

I love everything lavender. Lavender shortbread and lemonade and tea.
In my
Old place I had four different kinds growing, along with a huge rosemary bush. The hummingbirds and the honeybees loved me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 31, 2022 02:57 PM (U2p+3)

132 Well, I'll be getting my pressure canner Wednesday, and I will be trying my hand at canning meat.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:57 PM (EENFi)

133 Permethrin works on clothing for bug repellent, but it's not suitable for, say, treating your deck. I spray my clothes with it before spending a lot of time out in the yard. You're supposed to let it dry completely before wearing or using whatever you've sprayed with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 02:57 PM (BFigT)

134 We have successfully used deer spray on certain plants to reduce the grazing in our yard. The deer seem to prefer hydrangeas and roses so those get the spray, but they leave the rhododendrons, lilies and dahlias alone, which saves on spray and work.

A few years ago they started targeting our edible crops, but we built some raised beds with fencing and that has worked well. They won't jump into the enclosed area even though the surrounding fence is less than four feet tall.

Also, allegedly they don't like lavender (supposedly if they get it on themselves it makes it easier for predators to smell them), so we are going to start planting that next year in strategically located areas around the yard, to see if it helps.

Finally, I have an air pistol and will occasionally plink at them. Not powerful enough to break the skin, but enough to sting. In any case just the noise makes them bound away.

Posted by: HTL at July 31, 2022 02:57 PM (meAg6)

135 Deer can be taken with the silent bow and arrow.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 31, 2022 02:58 PM (m7R0k)

136
The Karen outrage was deafening, so the idea was abandoned.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist

A flourishing "catch 'em and release 'em in Karens' yards" program might have changed their hearts and minds.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 31, 2022 02:58 PM (ZvxPV)

137 RPI Bill Russel at 88.

https://tinyurl.com/26n4y5d4
Posted by: vic /s at July 31, 2022 02:48 PM

Thanks, vic.

6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, my BIL's sister is married to Bill's son Jacob. Nice folks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (xfev0)

138 Finally, I have an air pistol and will occasionally plink at them. Not powerful enough to break the skin, but enough to sting. In any case just the noise makes them bound away.
Posted by: HTL at July 31, 2022 02:57 PM (meAg6)

You should get a paint gun and keep track of your hits and repeat offenders. Color code them. 😀

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (HlgoT)

139 They would sell tags to allow hunters to shoot geese on their course. Hunters could keep their geese or donate them to the club. The club committed to use the tag receipts to process the geese then donate them to non-profits like food banks and homeless shelters.

The Karen outrage was deafening, so the idea was abandoned.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 31, 2022 02:56 PM (sWM8x)

Wait until their little kidlets get swimmers itch from the local lakes. They may change their tune.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (anj39)

140 Paint ball gun of course.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (HlgoT)

141 I have citronella plants around my porch, which helps keep the mosquitoes at bay.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (EENFi)

142 I do not need deer to kill the hanging plants. I can do that all by myself. My FWP is what to do with all these plastic buckets!!??
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 02:13 PM

They can now be used as deer feeding stations.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (StBu4)

143 >>133 Permethrin works ...

It does but, *CAUTION* it is deadly to felines.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (m7R0k)

144 Best I've used for skeeters is OFF Backyard. Hook it up to the hose and spray the grass and vegetation and it lasts if it doesn't rain much. Not a single skeeter here but I'm further north than a lot of people in here.

Posted by: dartist at July 31, 2022 03:00 PM (+ya+t)

145 CBD, you do know that deer is made out of meat?

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2022 02:49 PM (0OP+5)

Quite delicious meat too, but these deer eat ornamental plants and probably taste like shit compared to the nice fat deer that I am used to.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 03:01 PM (XIJ/X)

146 The only upside to this is that some of those gardens and landscaping being destroyed are owned by whiny Karens who think that guns are icky, hunting is evil, and cannot conceive of the connection between that and the proliferation of deer.

29 years ago one could bow hunt the local foothills, till a game animal dropped dead in a city councilman's wife's backyard. Sudden legislation!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at July 31, 2022 03:01 PM (MDJ/M)

147
I would also like to talk about the world-wide epidemic of "it's always in the last place you look!"

We need an awareness ribbon!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2022 03:02 PM (8GBH4)

148 Loudoun County, VA has the largest deer harvest in the state. It still doesn't make a dent in the numbers. Hunters are getting old and are fewer in numbers. Some years I can't find anyone I trust to hunt my place with me.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 31, 2022 03:02 PM (dKgOu)

149 They can now be used as deer feeding stations.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (StBu4)

Brilliant!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 03:02 PM (anj39)

150 133 Permethrin works on clothing for bug repellent, but it's not suitable for, say, treating your deck. I spray my clothes with it before spending a lot of time out in the yard. You're supposed to let it dry completely before wearing or using whatever you've sprayed with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 02:57 PM

+1 on Permethrin for clothing.

We have legions of ticks on our farm from April through July. If I didn't wear my Permethrin clothes for working in the heavy cover, then the ticks would have sucked so much blood from me that I would look like desiccated Nancy Pelosi. (Except for the botoxed and enhanced bits.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 03:03 PM (tkyK5)

151 Been so cussed dry here that skeeters have not been a problem. Wasps, though. Friggin' wasps.

One smacked my ear and stung me when it flew in my window while I was driving to work one morning.

Good thing I ain't allergic. Also a good thing I didn't panic and run off the road.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, A Pox on Your Minkey at July 31, 2022 03:03 PM (x8Wzq)

152 They have similar cat restrictions in Hawaii for decades. If you want to take your cat there permanently you have to apply for permission, plus they quarantine your cat for weeks. No free roaming cats, they prey on the birds.
Mongoose, no problem, tho'

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 60 and foggy at July 31, 2022 03:03 PM (jTmQV)

153 +1 on Permethrin for clothing.

We have legions of ticks on our farm from April through July. If I didn't wear my Permethrin clothes for working in the heavy cover, then the ticks would have sucked so much blood from me that I would look like desiccated Nancy Pelosi. (Except for the botoxed and enhanced bits.)
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 31, 2022 03:03 PM

Truth. We used to treat our BDUs with that stuff. No bug problems at all.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 31, 2022 03:05 PM (xfev0)

154 You should get a paint gun and keep track of your hits and repeat offenders. Color code them. 😀

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at July 31, 2022 02:59 PM (HlgoT)

That sounds like a good idea. Of course, if I missed too often my yard would wind up looking like, um, an explosion in a Sherwin Williams factory?

Posted by: HTL at July 31, 2022 03:05 PM (meAg6)

155 I shoot little rocks at the deer with my wrist rocket. A hit doesn't even make them move, but if I hit the fence the noise makes them scurry away.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 31, 2022 03:05 PM (8GBH4)

156 Does it work on chiggers?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 31, 2022 03:06 PM (dKgOu)

157 Good thing I ain't allergic. Also a good thing I didn't panic and run off the road.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, A Pox on Your Minkey at July 31, 2022 03:03 PM

Wasps are asshoe. This is a Known Thing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 31, 2022 03:06 PM (xfev0)

158 Cut the back strap out and grind the rest of the deer into hamburger. Make chili and be sure to add carrots.

Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 31, 2022 03:06 PM (P4Pk9)

159 Loudoun County, VA has the largest deer harvest in the state. It still doesn't make a dent in the numbers. Hunters are getting old and are fewer in numbers. Some years I can't find anyone I trust to hunt my place with me.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 31, 2022 03:02 PM (dKgOu)

In the years I used to drive on Algonkian drivers seemed to average about a dozen a season. Disappointed the county didn't police up the carcasses.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2022 03:06 PM (anj39)

160 Hmmmm. This scenario sounds vaguely familiar. Something about a $0.06 pill being downplayed and vilified in favor of a $35 pill.
Posted by: Emmie at July 31, 2022 02:56 PM (t62xj)

Except DEET is not expensive, and it is effective. I used a lot of when I worked in the bush in northern Canada, where insect repellents are essential. I think the US Army helped fund repellent research.

If the "home remedies" were truly effective, I expect the Army would have adopted one or more of them.

I have a spray can of Muskol in the garage. If the bugs get annoying, I will spray some on me. End of problem.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2022 03:06 PM (bOyUs)

161 I like the idea of wolves and wolfpacks. I also understand that Man is the dominant species on the planet and likes raising cattle for food. So we should keep wolves in the remote wildernesses and not on the edges of human populations.

Canada geese would be better off going extinct. I hate those dirty noisy shitting-everywhere MFers.

Posted by: DB at July 31, 2022 03:07 PM (geLO8)

162 Does it work on chiggers?
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 31, 2022 03:06 PM (dKgOu)

If it does, I want it

Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 31, 2022 03:07 PM (P4Pk9)

163 The bit about the Karens and the loathing of guns is hilarious. They want the problem solved but refuse to admit the best solution is to harvest the deer. Shame you can't teach the vermin to target their lawns only.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 31, 2022 03:07 PM (Ajt8v)

164 133 Permethrin works on clothing for bug repellent, but it's not suitable for, say, treating your deck. I spray my clothes with it before spending a lot of time out in the yard. You're supposed to let it dry completely before wearing or using whatever you've sprayed with it.
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I use the Army's method on my fishing clothes and it works great. Soak clothes in permethrin solution, then wring out and air dry. The Army claims the treatment is effective through six washings, but I can't attest to that.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 31, 2022 03:08 PM (sWM8x)

165 >>>And the neighborhood deer were quite happy with that!

Aww. So nice of you, CBD!

Posted by: m at July 31, 2022 03:09 PM (QPyqx)

166 The only upside to this is that some of those gardens and landscaping being destroyed are owned by whiny Karens who think that guns are icky, hunting is evil
______________

Solution: hunt the Karens.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:09 PM (l9bFg)

167 shoulda pissed on the basket

deer hate human pee pee

Posted by: REDACTED at July 31, 2022 03:10 PM (us2H3)

168 I forgot to mention that I apply DEET to exposed skin. The combination works great for me.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 31, 2022 03:10 PM (sWM8x)

169 Solution: hunt the Karens.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Limits - one per day and three in the freezer?

What?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2022 03:10 PM (Msys3)

170 When I first moved into this neighborhood we had a pack of wild dogs congregated down at the end of the road. When they started to come around to where the houses are I started shooting them. They disappeared after that.

Posted by: vic /s at July 31, 2022 03:11 PM (mZwKe)

171 The Army claims the treatment is effective through six washings, but I can't attest to that.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 31, 2022 03:08 PM

I can. It will last through a good six to eight industrial washings. I love that stuff.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 31, 2022 03:11 PM (xfev0)

172 >>>whiny Karens who think that guns are icky, hunting is evil, and cannot conceive

If only.

Posted by: m at July 31, 2022 03:12 PM (QPyqx)

173 Canada geese would be better off going extinct. I hate those dirty noisy shitting-everywhere MFers.
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Those filthy birds fill school yards with turds around here, kids everywhere. Remedy? wolf dummies stuck in the ground everywhere. Probably takes about a day for the birds to realize they're fake.

Posted by: dartist at July 31, 2022 03:13 PM (+ya+t)

174 No dear around here, but did see a baby bear in the back yard before it was all built up.

Posted by: Infidel at July 31, 2022 03:14 PM (mn1Pi)

175 Can hear ice cream truck, remember use to go running with change in hand after them as a kid

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2022 03:14 PM (k8B25)

176 deer. geez.

Posted by: Infidel at July 31, 2022 03:14 PM (mn1Pi)

177 Post "Found" posters by taking the "Lost" ones down and stapling the scat with dog and cat fur that is embedded, and crossing out "Lost".

Posted by: foo at July 31, 2022 03:14 PM (CSuJq)

178 SMH,

Homestead Heart is a good reference for canning. She's got a good system.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 31, 2022 03:14 PM (9WSy4)

179 Coyote are the most well adapted urban predator.
Deer are second and over-whelming some areas.
My home town in the Far North of Normal posts a limited number of bow-licenses to be used in the city limits.
They sell out it seconds online every year.

Its still not enough, but it makes the deer wary and disappear in fall...

Posted by: foo at July 31, 2022 03:16 PM (CSuJq)

180 I have a large container of peanut butter that was recalled a few months ago. That means I have more than enough bait with which to mix rat poison for my squirrel problem.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 02:09 PM (XIJ/X)
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I'm tempted to declare victory in my battle against the tree rats. After killing almost 40 of them, I haven't seen any evidence of them in our backyard for a year now.

Apparently an owl taking up station at night on a nearby lamp post, and a hawk who sometimes literally perches on our fence during the day may have been offering a helping ~~hand~~ wing.

That, plus the neighbor's orange tree that provided so many yummy oranges to them (which ended up half-eaten, in our yard) is obviously dying, in fact, almost dead.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:16 PM (l9bFg)

181 Coyote are the most well adapted urban predator.
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Next to the vagrants that abound here in SoCal.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:18 PM (l9bFg)

182 Except DEET is not expensive, and it is effective. I used a lot of when I worked in the bush in northern Canada, where insect repellents are essential. I think the US Army helped fund repellent research.

If the "home remedies" were truly effective, I expect the Army would have adopted one or more of them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2022 03:06 PM (bOyUs)

I see; my mistake. I'm just a wee bit more cynical these days than I used to be.

Posted by: Emmie at July 31, 2022 03:18 PM (t62xj)

183 Canada geese would be better off going extinct. I hate those dirty noisy shitting-everywhere MFers.
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Those filthy birds fill school yards with turds around here, kids everywhere. Remedy? wolf dummies stuck in the ground everywhere. Probably takes about a day for the birds to realize they're fake.
Posted by: dartist at July 31, 2022 03:13 PM (+ya+t)
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And yet, inexplicably, they're Federally-protected.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:19 PM (l9bFg)

184 We have killed 20 whistle pigs so far this year. Soybeans are still taking a hit.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 31, 2022 03:19 PM (dKgOu)

185 If one has any friends who are cops, they should be able to get you some Police Grade cayenne pepper paint balls.

Smack a deer with some extreme heat, and they likely won't wanna come back again for more. And one good shot would completely ruin a squirrel's entire week!

Might need Weasel to review some sniper-grade paintball markers?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 31, 2022 03:19 PM (tkOps)

186 This is why you can't have anything nice in Jersey.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 31, 2022 03:20 PM (EZebt)

187 Solution: hunt the Karens.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Limits - one per day and three in the freezer?

What?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2022 03:10 PM (Msys3)
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No limits on hunting varmints. It's open season all year round, too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:21 PM (l9bFg)

188 181 Coyote are the most well adapted urban predator.
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NYC weekender a close second

Posted by: REDACTED at July 31, 2022 03:21 PM (us2H3)

189 Nice plant.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2022 03:21 PM (guGkK)

190 169 wasn't the NYT advocating cannibalism?

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:21 PM (ONvIw)

191 The bit about the Karens and the loathing of guns is hilarious. They want the problem solved but refuse to admit the best solution is to harvest the deer. Shame you can't teach the vermin to target their lawns only.
Posted by: NR Pax at July 31, 2022 03:07 PM (Ajt8v)
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No. The shame is that we let them vote.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:22 PM (l9bFg)

192 I'm a master hanging plant killer.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 31, 2022 03:22 PM (VdGjU)

193 >>> 166 The only upside to this is that some of those gardens and landscaping being destroyed are owned by whiny Karens who think that guns are icky, hunting is evil
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Solution: hunt the Karens.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:09 PM (l9bFg)

Why does that make me think of this?
https://is.gd/q6f1Ee

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2022 03:22 PM (llON8)

194 184. I thought WhistlePig was whiskey?

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:24 PM (ONvIw)

195 If we arm the deer and the Karens make them miserable, maybe the deer will shoot themselves.

Win-win

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2022 03:25 PM (guGkK)

196 It's Kawen Season!

Goose Season!

*blam! blam!*

Arrrggghh, ya buncha loose eared low down no account carrot eatin' varmints, it's ALL OF 'EM season! *blam! blamblamblamblamblam!*

/yosemitesam

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 31, 2022 03:25 PM (tkOps)

197 Effective % of DEET: https://is.gd/P8h7vT

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 31, 2022 03:26 PM (StBu4)

198 There was a golf course who had a dude with a trained dog show up a couple times a year to "chase off" the geese.

The geese showed up every day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 03:26 PM (BFigT)

199 194 184. I thought WhistlePig was whiskey?
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I thought a Whistle Pig was a ground hog.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 31, 2022 03:26 PM (sWM8x)

200 I'm tempted to declare victory in my battle against the tree rats. After killing almost 40 of them, I haven't seen any evidence of them in our backyard for a year now.

Apparently an owl taking up station at night on a nearby lamp post, and a hawk who sometimes literally perches on our fence during the day may have been offering a helping hand wing.

That, plus the neighbor's orange tree that provided so many yummy oranges to them (which ended up half-eaten, in our yard) is obviously dying, in fact, almost dead.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:16 PM (l9bFg)

Owls and hawks for the win. Last summer an owl nested in a tree close to my place. I only knew because of the hooting at 3 AM every night. No squirrels in sight for several months. Several years ago a hawk flew low over the treetops once or twice a week, 30 minutes after sunrise, looking like a Japanese torpedo bomber. I saw few squirrels that year.

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2022 03:26 PM (AMIL/)

201 They have similar cat restrictions in Hawaii for decades. If you want to take your cat there permanently you have to apply for permission, plus they quarantine your cat for weeks. No free roaming cats, they prey on the birds.
Mongoose, no problem, tho'
Posted by: gourmand du jour, 60 and foggy at July 31, 2022 03:03 PM (jTmQV)
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When we moved there many years ago they put dogs in quarantine for SIX MONTHS. We had a Norwegian elkhound who was kept in a cage, exposed to the elements for that time. She got rained on regularly, so her fur - adapted to snow, not rain - never really dried out. She barely survived the ordeal.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:27 PM (l9bFg)

202 199. Groundhogs? The helping coyotes like those too. God bless them

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:27 PM (ONvIw)

203 ..I'm a master hanging plant killer. Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 31, 2022 03:22 PM (VdGjU)

I'm not even that skilled. I'm such a "brown thumb", my plants hang themselves out of sheer despair.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 31, 2022 03:28 PM (tkOps)

204 That means I have more than enough bait with which to mix rat poison for my squirrel problem.
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How do you set it up so everything in the yard doesn't eat it too? I need a nice snack for raccoons on my roof too.

Posted by: dartist at July 31, 2022 03:28 PM (+ya+t)

205 That's funny, the Third World doesn't have a too-many-deer problem, I wonder why that is?

Posted by: Socratease at July 31, 2022 03:29 PM (oqnjT)

206 A New York church hosted a Sunday service featuring drag queens called "Worship is a Drag" in honor of pride month

https://bit.ly/3bgYCHW

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 31, 2022 03:29 PM (Do5/p)

207 206. And this is a surprise?

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:29 PM (ONvIw)

208 206 I got this tweet has been deleted

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:31 PM (ONvIw)

209 "She barely survived the ordeal."
That sounds horrible.
Hawaii has some pretty strange laws, likely those have kept me from moving there.
You can own a boat in Hawaii, you can own a ship, a yacht, but better not sleep on it at night. Illegal.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 60 and foggy at July 31, 2022 03:31 PM (jTmQV)

210 A New York church hosted a Sunday service featuring drag queens called "Worship is a Drag" in honor of pride month

https://bit.ly/3bgYCHW
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 31, 2022 03:29 PM (Do5/p)
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Drag queens need all the AIDS they can get.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:31 PM (l9bFg)

211 I would never subject my dog to quarantine, fuck Hawaii

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:33 PM (ONvIw)

212 132 Well, I'll be getting my pressure canner Wednesday, and I will be trying my hand at canning meat.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 31, 2022 02:57 PM (EENFi)
Mrs. E canned about 25% of the last deer she shot. It's really good as stew meat, spaghetti sauce, or in lasagna.

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2022 03:33 PM (0OP+5)

213 How do you set it up so everything in the yard doesn't eat it too? I need a nice snack for raccoons on my roof too.
Posted by: dartist

Bait at proper height for intended animal.

If you're thinking about warfarin (rat poison) you have to get the dosage right for the weight of the animal.
The reason we use warfarin as a blood thinner is because a guy tried to suicide with it and went to the ER bleeding from everywhere; but, they controlled. The medicos figured out that if you couldn't suicide with warfarin they could regulate it. It is not fun figuring dosage for warfarin in people.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 31, 2022 03:33 PM (StBu4)

214 206 A New York church hosted a Sunday service featuring drag queens called "Worship is a Drag" in honor of pride month

https://bit.ly/3bgYCHW
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 31, 2022 03:29 PM (

I'm praying about changing churches for a number of reasons. I'm slightly afraid of stumbling into a rainbow church. It wouldn't kill me but it would irritate me.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 31, 2022 03:33 PM (VdGjU)

215 A New York church hosted a Sunday service featuring drag queens called "Worship is a Drag" in honor of pride month

https://bit.ly/3bgYCHW

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 31, 2022 03:29 PM

Getting a "this page does not exist" error on that link.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 31, 2022 03:34 PM (bVYXr)

216 I thought WhistlePig was whiskey?

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:24 PM (ONvIw)

Rye Whiskey made in Vermont, and damned fine (with a price to match).

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 03:34 PM (XIJ/X)

217 Drag queens need all the AIDS they can get.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

...Buttpox they can get...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 31, 2022 03:34 PM (StBu4)

218 >>> 214 206 A New York church hosted a Sunday service featuring drag queens called "Worship is a Drag" in honor of pride month

https://bit.ly/3bgYCHW
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 31, 2022 03:29 PM (

I'm praying about changing churches for a number of reasons. I'm slightly afraid of stumbling into a rainbow church. It wouldn't kill me but it would irritate me.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 31, 2022 03:33 PM (VdGjU)

They seem to be quite unsubtle about it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2022 03:35 PM (llON8)

219 I would never subject my dog to quarantine, fuck Hawaii
Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:33 PM (ONvIw)
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Well, we didn't know about the quarantine until we got there, and we had no choice about moving to Hawaii, as my father (USMC) was transferred there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:35 PM (l9bFg)

220 Relatives live on a wooded lakefront lot, so they have more of everything when it comes to wildlife. Their dogs attacked their BMW and tore off several pieces of plastic trim, chewed up the bumper, etc. They took it to the dealer for repair and found out squirrels had chewed up a lot of wiring in the engine compartment. So that's what the dogs were after.

$3500 bill.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 31, 2022 03:35 PM (sWM8x)

221 RIP Nichelle Nichols, aka Lt. Uhuru.

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2022 03:36 PM (AMIL/)

222 I'm going out on a limb and calling BS on 'the deer did it' excuse.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 31, 2022 03:36 PM (buTO7)

223 Drag queens need all the AIDS they can get.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

...Buttpox they can get...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 31, 2022 03:34 PM (StBu4)
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Notice how all kinds of crappy diseases seem to start and spread almost exclusively among our shirtlifting friends? Funny, that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:36 PM (l9bFg)

224 219. I understand. But as I now know, I would never move there or any other shithole that subjected pets to that .

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:37 PM (ONvIw)

225 How do you set it up so everything in the yard doesn't eat it too? I need a nice snack for raccoons on my roof too.

Posted by: dartist at July 31, 2022 03:28 PM (+ya+t)

I bait the middle of a long piece of PVC pipe. That way no dog can get his tongue far enough in to lick the poisoned peanut butter. I have also tucked the baited PVC into the crooks of trees so it is high enough off the ground to keep dogs from reaching it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 03:37 PM (XIJ/X)

226 225. Well done!

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:38 PM (ONvIw)

227 Eerie coincidence department from reading today's Book Thread: I'm watching a UK Antiques Roadshow and a Chinese painting brought in was done on "pith paper", paper made from the pith of the plant, also called "rice paper"! ["Newby Hall 1" episode.]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 31, 2022 03:39 PM (yikp0)

228 216. A neighbor is a great fan.

Posted by: CN at July 31, 2022 03:39 PM (ONvIw)

229 my other FWP is the locust tree in front of my townhouse-
I think it is nearing the end of its service life. Parts of it fall off on a regular basis. Anybody know anything about trees?
Posted by: DB at July 31, 2022 02:08 PM

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It's pretty typical for mature locust trees to drop branches. I have a couple that do the same thing. As the tree expands some lower branches don't get enough sun to thrive and the tree decides they are expendable. This "self-pruning" is a nuisance but doesn't necessarily mean the tree is dying. If you like the tree, it's worth having an arborist take a look at it.

Posted by: Bigsmith at July 31, 2022 03:39 PM (/bGHd)

230 BTW, pith on you!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 31, 2022 03:39 PM (yikp0)

231 That fallen hanging plant looks like a dead monster spider.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 31, 2022 03:39 PM (VdGjU)

232 That was fake Gref who called Lt. Uhura 'Uhuru'

(Geez, I need to watch more Star Trek TOS reruns.)

Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2022 03:39 PM (AMIL/)

233

Whistle Pig is a hooker with a rectovaginal fistula...

Posted by: Dr Nick Riviera at July 31, 2022 03:40 PM (dZcNK)

234 Did see blog article of like 244 Buttpox cases in NY
it's 244 males to 0 females.
Odd how that is happening

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2022 03:41 PM (k8B25)

235 Whistle Pig is Groundhog in this case. I won't let my dogs near rye whiskey.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 31, 2022 03:42 PM (dKgOu)

236 2nd FWP = Moving an empty 5 shelf bookcase from the main floor to the basement is a royal PITA. Even worse is when I wasn't supposed to list a finger, but I am doing 80% of the book moving and organzing (I think I've done 30 sets of steps today)...

Posted by: Nova local at July 31, 2022 03:42 PM (exHjb)

237 My grandfather (the disreputable one) called skunks "pole cats."

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 31, 2022 03:43 PM (sWM8x)

238 Whistle Pig is also a Bourbon... pricey too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 03:43 PM (BFigT)

239 Speaking of news with little fanfare, Taiwan has mysteriously been dropped from Speaker Pelosi's itinerary.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 60 and foggy at July 31, 2022 03:46 PM (jTmQV)

240 Speaking of news with little fanfare, Taiwan has mysteriously been dropped from Speaker Pelosi's itinerary.
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A major loss of ~~boob~~ face lift.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 31, 2022 03:47 PM (yikp0)

241 Whistle Pig sounds like a British Pub.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 31, 2022 03:48 PM (VdGjU)

242 Speaking of news with little fanfare, Taiwan has mysteriously been dropped from Speaker Pelosi's itinerary.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, 60 and foggy at July 31, 2022 03:46 PM (jTmQV)

Brave Sir Pelosi ran away
Bravely ran away away.
When danger reared it's ugly head,
She bravely turned her tail and fled.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 31, 2022 03:49 PM (guGkK)

243 Getting a "this page does not exist" error on that link.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 31, 2022 03:34 PM

Strange, I get the same now. But I see LibsOfTikTok has more posts on this here:

https://bit.ly/3OGTbzO
https://bit.ly/3ONOILu

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 31, 2022 03:49 PM (Do5/p)

244 Speaking of news with little fanfare, Taiwan has mysteriously been dropped from Speaker Pelosi's itinerary.
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Just as it was mysteriously added previously.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 31, 2022 03:51 PM (l9bFg)

245 For the record; Taiwan was never officially on Pelosi's itinerary. Japan, South Korea, Malaysia are.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 03:52 PM (BFigT)

246 Trial balloon?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2022 03:53 PM (63Dwl)

247 RIP Lt. Uhura, BTW

I had a crush on her, many years ago....

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut IN at July 31, 2022 03:55 PM (mZOHK)

248 Have you guys seen this?

ATF knocks on door, ask to sees guy's guns.
Guy says ok, closes door, calls cops
Hilarity ensues

https://twitter.com/anogy/status/
1553225233670307840

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 31, 2022 03:55 PM (gbzeC)

249 In Nebraska, deer are called "long legged rats". They are a minor problem over most of the state, but the problem is acute in Bellevue, a suburb to the south of Omaha, home of StratCom. Along the Missouri is a very popular recreational area called Fontenelle Hills. It's big, it's woody, it's over crowded with deer, and there are people living all around the edges. After years of people shrieking " You can't kill Bambi!", Bellevue put it's foot down. Fontenelle closes for two weeks every fall; one week for the bow hunters, one week for the gun hunters.

I've driven close to Fontene!!e in the evening and it is crazy. Deer wandering all over the place, eating everything in sight, clogging the road.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 31, 2022 03:56 PM (H31K8)

250

Nicole Nichols, although she banged Rodenbury for the part, was a raging dyke, and always had a couple of pieces of blonde ass in her trailer on set...

Posted by: Hans Brix at July 31, 2022 03:57 PM (dZcNK)

251 Deer should be on the hoof meat storage solutions. Populations are out of control nationally.

We try to do our part locally.

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 31, 2022 03:59 PM (Jzz++)

252 One of the challenges in looking for a church is the fact clear statements of faith seem oddly hard to find.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 31, 2022 03:59 PM (VdGjU)

253 198 There was a golf course who had a dude with a trained dog show up a couple times a year to "chase off" the geese.

The geese showed up every day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2022 03:26 PM (BFigT)

During nesting season, our grounds super would go around to all the nests and dip the eggs in oil.

No next generation....smothered them in the egg.

And this was allowed in Canada; not sure about now though.

Posted by: The Plum Island Mad Scientists at July 31, 2022 03:59 PM (BgMrQ)

254 /off Plum Island sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 31, 2022 04:00 PM (BgMrQ)

255 RINGS DINNER BELLLLLLLL

Posted by: Skip nood advisor at July 31, 2022 04:01 PM (k8B25)

256 Have you guys seen this?

ATF knocks on door, ask to sees guy's guns.
Guy says ok, closes door, calls cops
Hilarity ensues

https://twitter.com/anogy/status/
1553225233670307840
Posted by: vmom

Excellent outcome for an illegal search by the ATF.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 31, 2022 04:13 PM (StBu4)

257 VMOM!

that video was incredible! made my day!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 31, 2022 04:16 PM (w0NJk)

258 248 Have you guys seen this?

ATF knocks on door, ask to sees guy's guns.
Guy says ok, closes door, calls cops
Hilarity ensues

https://twitter.com/anogy/status/
1553225233670307840
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 31, 2022 03:55 PM (gbzeC)

Lovely.

Posted by: m at July 31, 2022 04:21 PM (QPyqx)

259 Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) from Star Trek has passed at age 89. That leaves only The Shat and the Oh My! fag.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 31, 2022 04:27 PM (m7R0k)

260 RIP Nichelle Nichols, aka Lt. Uhuru.
Posted by: Gref at July 31, 2022 03:36 PM (AMIL/)

Gone to join James Doohan and Jeff Goldblum. She will be missed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2022 04:29 PM (yQpMk)

261 Have you guys seen this?

ATF knocks on door, ask to sees guy's guns.
Guy says ok, closes door, calls cops
Hilarity ensues

Excellent outcome for an illegal search by the ATF.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 31, 2022 04:13 PM

Sooner or later one of these atf agents that are now going around harassing gun owners is going to get shot for trespassing and refusing to leave when told to do so. And I suspect that is what biden wants to happen. I do notice none of this is happening in Texas or other red states.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 31, 2022 04:34 PM (bVYXr)

262 Missed the book thread, but just wanted to say there is a fascinating utube video about Colossus created at Bletchley Park to decode a different type of code the Nazis had in 1943.
Don't have the link handy, but the guy was talking about info finally released around 2000.

Sad about Uhura.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 31, 2022 04:34 PM (ufFY8)

263 https://youtu.be/g2tMcMQqSbA

The Colossus video.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 31, 2022 04:36 PM (ufFY8)

264 The Forbin Project?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 31, 2022 04:38 PM (yQpMk)

265 That "atf" asshoe needed to be tased about twenty more times.
What an arrogant douchebag.
Just do what the cops say, and shit would get straightened out pronto.

Fucking arrogant Feds.
THIS is the problem.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 31, 2022 04:46 PM (ufFY8)

266 I have a large container of peanut butter that was recalled a few months ago. That means I have more than enough bait with which to mix rat poison for my squirrel problem.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2022 02:09 PM (XIJ/X)

Was it Jif?
Probably the salmonella problem at the plant in Lexington.
Probably an okay jar, since they recall all lots between the time the problem was discovered back to the last good QC check. (The abundance of caution thing ).

Still, best to use it to kill the rats.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 31, 2022 04:51 PM (ufFY8)

267 Squirrels, rather.

Rats with bushy tails.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 31, 2022 04:52 PM (ufFY8)

268 Lost me when you mentioned you live in NJ. Even this dummy knows not to live in NJ.

Whenever I enter NJ to visit relatives living in NJ or NY, I change and become a different person. In the vernacular, I transition into an A-Hole.

Why? To fit in.

Posted by: Just a dummy at July 31, 2022 05:00 PM (SjKfn)

269 248 Have you guys seen this?

ATF knocks on door, ask to sees guy's guns.
Guy says ok, closes door, calls cops
Hilarity ensues

https://twitter.com/anogy/status/
1553225233670307840
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 31, 2022 03:55 PM (gbzeC)

===============
that might be the greatest video of 2022.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 31, 2022 05:51 PM (wsJPE)

270 Whenever I enter NJ to visit relatives living in NJ or NY, I change and become a different person. In the vernacular, I transition into an A-Hole.

Why? To fit in.
Posted by: Just a dummy at July 31, 2022 05:00 PM (SjKfn)
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Probably a very easy transition for you.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 31, 2022 05:52 PM (wsJPE)

271 The explosion in deer population also harms the deer because they run out of food, causing a worse death by starvation and disease.

Posted by: eclectic in Marshall at July 31, 2022 06:06 PM (SPa+2)

272 I get paid over $85 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless.
Here's what I've been doing... http://www.salarycash1.com

Posted by: Sarah at July 31, 2022 08:39 PM (zTGnI)

273 Guy says ok, closes door, calls cops
Hilarity ensues

More of this, please. And if there had been a crime committed by the homeowner, why show up with only one agent?

Posted by: NR Pax at July 31, 2022 09:02 PM (Ajt8v)

274 the official position today in PC America is that all wild things have a right to life, above and beyond our own, and especially above our pets, because we "stole their land."

This is not going to end well.

Posted by: Ultra pj at July 31, 2022 09:06 PM (G1dq6)

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