The Coffee Roaster's Club (No De-Caff Allowed) and Random Discussion for TPBM (28)

Skrim17 wrote in post #8435792
pretty sure I posted this before, my bro is on the left (not kneeling). world record great white caught off Montauk with ROD and REEL\

I think we're going to need a bigger boat...

short5 wrote in post #8436171
No one does but them.


I don't think anyone is offended, taking sides, nor is there an issue. I was just putting my thoughts on the topic and pointing out why I did not agree with the concept that all trophy hunters are bad human beings.
I see stuff from different perspectives, and enjoy looking at stuff different ways. Not everything is cut and dry. I was just trying to make people think. It was not directed at anybody in specific.

Yes, from closer to the ground.
That aside, you know I always love to hear your perspective. You have a much better way of saying what I usually think.

poppie guy wrote in post #8436220
How fun! We haven't had a good thunder storm yet this summer.

That one we had just over a week ago was the wildest I have seen in many years.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #8436339
Yes, from closer to the ground.

Who ordered a smart ass Canadian?:p

poppie guy wrote in post #8436220
How fun! We haven't had a good thunder storm yet this summer.

We have had one so far. Bunch of storms with thunder but those aren't real thunderstorms.

misspix wrote in post #8436224
I, for one, am going to go hunt some chocolate for the mere pleasure of stalking my prey

And for what it is worth, I think the fondue pot is overkill

MMMmmm... chocolate. I love hunting chocolate bunnies. I eat them too.

misspix wrote in post #8436239
I will say that thunder storms over here are a completely different beast, Sid. Intense. I can feel it in my bones, and in my blood. Makes me want to to run barefoot with Mother Nature just to see if I could keep up.

THat's not a thunderstorm but a storm with thunder. There is a subtle difference. A thunderstorm will have you running for the basement as the winds kick up to 70+, hail pours down snapping tree twigs, leaves, and decimating gardens, and lawn furniture left out will be flying through the air.

short5 wrote in post #8436370
Who ordered a smart ass Canadian?:p

Just something the cat dragged in.

gjl711 wrote in post #8436386
We have had one so far. Bunch of storms with thunder but those aren't real thunderstorms.

MMMmmm... chocolate. I love hunting chocolate bunnies. I eat them too.

THat's not a thunderstorm but a storm with thunder. There is a subtle difference. A thunderstorm will have you running for the basement as the winds kick up to 70+, hail pours down snapping tree twigs, leaves, and decimating gardens, and lawn furniture left out will be flying through the air.

Yes, we have at least three, tree down, calls I have heard from the boomers that just rolled through.
http://www.wusa9.com …/doppler_beltwa​yloop.aspx

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #8436391
Just something the cat dragged in.

Cat is here??!

short5 wrote in post #8436436
Cat is here??!

Nope, we can't blame her.

gjl711 wrote in post #8436386
THat's not a thunderstorm but a storm with thunder. There is a subtle difference. A thunderstorm will have you running for the basement as the winds kick up to 70+, hail pours down snapping tree twigs, leaves, and decimating gardens, and lawn furniture left out will be flying through the air.

Huh, weird. We call that November.

CrazieCricket wrote in post #8435578
That's excellent!

Skrim17 wrote in post #8435590
Wonderful news John!!

sevillafox wrote in post #8435678
John, good news on the cholesterol

gjl711 wrote in post #8436119
That's good news. I'm assuming that it didn't start at 100.

It started at 239 back in March and it's down to 144 (actually 95 points.) It's the result of good drugs... I've been on a statin for the last five months.

short5 wrote in post #8435995
I don't trophy hunt, and have no desire to, but will throw food for thought in. If a piece of property or wild area is managed for game and hunting, the game population is managed to keep a healthy population of animals. To do this, without natural predators, a certain number of animals need to be killed each year. If a person, who essentially is acting as a predator, kills an animal and removes it from the ecosystem, whether they hang it on a wall, or eat it makes no difference other than emotional feeling. The animal is dead either way, it's removal was planned and figured into it's ecological effect. How we as people feel about it comes down to emotion. Does consuming the animal make it right? We don't need to eat it, food is plentiful in our society. Wouldn't leaving it to the wild be ecologically better? It would feed scavengers and bugs. If a person pays all the associated monies that go with hunting, funds that help the economy, and in this country go largely to conservation. If they follow the rules to ensure safety and humane practices, and the final outcome , like hunting is in this country, results in overall benefit to the species, the eating of the animal is a mute point. That said, if your not going to eat the game, donate it to the hungry. We have a good program that does that in Maryland.
Don't get me wrong, I see the ugliness in killing just for pleasure. I just see things from different perspectives and thought I would throw that in for us all to go "WTH is Zane saying now?"

The Wild Animal Park got involved in a similar situation several years ago. The government of Swaziland in Africa was going to cull a number of elephants from one of their national parks because of overcrowding. The WAP and several other zoos in the US offered to take the animals and add them to their herds. The animal rights activists got involved and were opposed to the elepahnts coming here, even though the alternative was that they would be killed.

Thanks goodness logic won out and the animals came to the park. There is now a thriving herd that has had several births in the last three years.

short5 wrote in post #8436271
You guys miss out in that regard. I think I have mentioned before, our weather pattern is conducive to storms every afternoon in summer. Warm moist air moves east and is pushed up as it comes over the mountains to our west. The air rises and cools then meets our saturated warm wet air and dumps. It is not uncommon to have thunderstorms bubble up every afternoon.

When we get the flow of the humid air from the south, this is what happens over our mountains. None of it ever gets far enough west to affect us where we live.

JWright wrote in post #8436488
It started at 239 back in March and it's down to 144 (actually 95 points.) It's the result of good drugs... I've been on a statin for the last five months.

Oooh... Statin. OK, that makes more sense. I've been using Cheddar for a while not and it hasn't done a good thing for my cholesterol.

puddlepirate44 wrote in post #8436503
Oooh... Statin. OK, that makes more sense. I've been using Cheddar for a while not and it hasn't done a good thing for my cholesterol.

I think some bacon might balance that out a wee bit.

BearLeeAlive wrote in post #8436517
I think some bacon might balance that out a wee bit.

Candi made bacon this morning. I was on the computer and could smell it.... mmm so delicious. After awhile I asked her where the bacon was. She said, 'I ate it, why, did you want some?'

Bacon and cheddar statins are even more effective.

poppie guy wrote in post #8436557
Candi made bacon this morning. I was on the computer and could smell it.... mmm so delicious. After awhile I asked her where the bacon was. She said, 'I ate it, why, did you want some?'

Ooo....Never thought she had that kind of mean streak in her.