I have been using our council's online library access for magazines until it stopped working recently. As they had just changed the supplier I assumed the problem had to do with that and would soon get sorted. It didn't so I finally contacted the Digital Library Support Team to find out what was wrong.
Apparently my digital access has been deleted because I haven't visited an actual library in the last 2 years! No mention of libraries rarely being open due to Covid for the past 15 months. Now I have to apply all over again as it appears to be impossible to simply undelete my access. As my nearest library is 10 miles away in a town I rarely visit I will have to go through this farce every couple of years.
I think the poor alpaca ended up far worse off - with all those people dragging it off, it must have been terrified. Had the owner just accepted it, the animal in question would still have been dead but without all the stress.Â
Exactly my thoughts when I watched the debacle on the news. The owner was well aware that she had lost her case and her Alpaca was to be destroyed. Had she handled the animal herself and led it into the trailer and settled it down, the stress would have been far less. To have all that commotion with the number of people around - even Police ??? - can only have added to the animal's distress She may well be proved right but neither she nor the other protesters involved showed much sensibility or knowledge on this particular occasion.
A friend had grown up in a farming family, now 60 there's no farm as she never took it on. There was however a pet cow or two that she'd nursed as a calf and was now knocking on. She was not allowed to move it because as a pet it had lived too long to be dealt with. Something about my moving it. DEFRA basically told her she had to put her pet down. It came to you when you called its name. She consulted a lawyer but was told she not win. So the cow got slaughtered on the remaining fields she owned. Wasn't nice for her and get family. Her young grandkids grew up at toddlers and beyond running around in the same field. Running up to the cow and hugging it like they'd hug a pet labrador for example. They were crying over it.Â
However tb decimate herds so they have to have rules to manage it. The owner should have accepted it in the end and made it as easy b as possible to prevent suffering.Â
Just so I'm clear on this: In Texas now someone can rape a minor, get them pregnant and then sue anyone who helps her try to get an abortion and be awarded $10k each time? People would rather see pregnant 13 year olds than allow women to have rights? I'm sure I must be reading this wrongÂ
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Wild edges, that’s certainly how I’d interpret it too. Didn’t realise about the reward, though. The more I read about what goes on over in the US, the more my mind boggles. They may look like us, dress like us and sort of speak the same language, but a lot of them are less alike us in the UK than we can possibly imagine. Ok, that’s a huge generalisation, but that’s how it seems to me when I read about things like their gun laws, race relations, police training ( or lack of it )
I think you need to consider USA to be made up of a few different species. Texans are potentially wonderful people but it's another world or species out there.
For example, everywhere understands gun control even if they don't agree with it. In Texas they don't even understand it. I've spent half an hour explaining it to a Texan customer once and I am certain he still didn't get it. I am not joking, I mean 100% didn't understand.Â
It's basically a redneck state.
For example number 2, customer company in Texas has regular issues with nature coming into the work site. Solution is every few months have a company BBQ. Everyone turns up with their truck or trailer BBQs, alcohol and guns. You got the picture? Yes, drunk men lining up with pump actions and rifles. Walking from the site into scrub shooting at anything that moves!Â
They had a skunk family move under a trailer office outside. Big merv got his big gun! A big, pump action shot gun and with his gun held low he let lose until empty. No skunks and no smell as it happened too quick for them.
A few of our guys went out there a lot, staying for several weeks. One guy got taken hunting in a swamp near there. Think trees, water and both at the same time. Boats, beer and guns. What could possibly be wrong with that?!!!! Nothing in Texas but elsewhere you'd think redneck day out.
But it's more than that. Texans don't think they're the best but they know it. They're doing things right. You're doing things wrong.
BTW there's going to be many more repressive laws in highly red states. There's already voter suppression laws in some red states that some have likened to the Crow laws of the past.Â
I grew up proud of my American ancestry, grandad was American but lived most his life over here. Never got up residency or nationality because he was American. I was proud growing up but more and more I am not.Â
BTW I decided decade ago that as much as I want to visit America and the lands linked to my ancestry (very early settlers plus later immigration too) I would not go there because of too many issues with the country. Personal choice but there's things from death penalty to gun culture to health system I oppose. Makes no difference to them obviously but its not about protest but a kind of feeling of self preservation. I don't feel USA is a safe country. There's just too much wrong there that's wired into the nation and how it was created.
Just so I'm clear on this: In Texas now someone can rape a minor, get them pregnant and then sue anyone who helps her try to get an abortion and be awarded $10k each time? People would rather see pregnant 13 year olds than allow women to have rights? I'm sure I must be reading this wrongÂ
Yes. It seems that child rape is fine but protecting the raped child from the medical risk of pregnancy and an obviously unwanted child is not. There is no minimum age for owning a gun in Texas but you can't drink until you are 21 - probably just as well in the circumstances.
Wild edges, that’s certainly how I’d interpret it too. Didn’t realise about the reward, though.
A website has been set up for whistleblowers to snitch on anyone they suspect of helping someone have an abortion. If you have money you can drive in your own car to one of the civilised states to have the procedure done but anyone who needs help of any kind to get to that kind of service puts the person or people helping at risk of being sued for a minimum of $10k. Can't give or loan someone money, can't lend them a car, can't drive them, technically even a public transport provider can be sued.
You can imagine cases where women will have to prove they had a miscarriage, or even prove they weren't pregnant to start with. People are already calling Texans "Y'all Qaeda"
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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However tb decimate herds so they have to have rules to manage it. The owner should have accepted it in the end and made it as easy b as possible to prevent suffering.Â
For example, everywhere understands gun control even if they don't agree with it. In Texas they don't even understand it. I've spent half an hour explaining it to a Texan customer once and I am certain he still didn't get it. I am not joking, I mean 100% didn't understand.Â
It's basically a redneck state.
For example number 2, customer company in Texas has regular issues with nature coming into the work site. Solution is every few months have a company BBQ. Everyone turns up with their truck or trailer BBQs, alcohol and guns. You got the picture? Yes, drunk men lining up with pump actions and rifles. Walking from the site into scrub shooting at anything that moves!Â
They had a skunk family move under a trailer office outside. Big merv got his big gun! A big, pump action shot gun and with his gun held low he let lose until empty. No skunks and no smell as it happened too quick for them.
A few of our guys went out there a lot, staying for several weeks. One guy got taken hunting in a swamp near there. Think trees, water and both at the same time. Boats, beer and guns. What could possibly be wrong with that?!!!! Nothing in Texas but elsewhere you'd think redneck day out.
But it's more than that. Texans don't think they're the best but they know it. They're doing things right. You're doing things wrong.
I grew up proud of my American ancestry, grandad was American but lived most his life over here. Never got up residency or nationality because he was American. I was proud growing up but more and more I am not.Â
BTW I decided decade ago that as much as I want to visit America and the lands linked to my ancestry (very early settlers plus later immigration too) I would not go there because of too many issues with the country. Personal choice but there's things from death penalty to gun culture to health system I oppose. Makes no difference to them obviously but its not about protest but a kind of feeling of self preservation. I don't feel USA is a safe country. There's just too much wrong there that's wired into the nation and how it was created.
Yes. It seems that child rape is fine but protecting the raped child from the medical risk of pregnancy and an obviously unwanted child is not. There is no minimum age for owning a gun in Texas but you can't drink until you are 21 - probably just as well in the circumstances.