Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

There's an advert that keeps repeatedly appearing on telly. It's about getting cancer from smoking.

I think I can cope with the terrible acting. It's slightly annoying just how often it's on. But the biggy is the statistical claim. Upto 2 in 3 smokers die from smoking. Up to 2 in 3. So somewhere between 0 and 2 in 3. Surely they have better data than that by now.

 

But, as said it is/was only this site. Not had any issue today, so assume fix is good

 

Thank you, @Fat Controller!

 

From our village community FB page, a woman came across this young dear on the road. She didn't know what to do to help it bar waving at other cars to go slow as the normal speedy cars were using the back lane as a 'rat run' and terrorising the poor thing. Plus no one stopped to help.

She asked for help via the FB page in her panic, where some of the comments were quite a bit thought provoking, such as if you phoned the RSPCA they'd put it down, as would the local vets. In the end she called the local police who apparently arrived with a gun to shoot it. She wanted to calm it to help lower it's stress but wasn't allowed.

The whole episode shows how we're really ill equipped to deal with such things. I'm sure the police acted correctly, including stopping her from 'comforting' the dear and no doubt stressing it more, plus no doubt the RSPCA and the vets would (probably) be right to euthanise it (I don't really know what to think).

Don't know if it's true but if a muntjac is injured, automatically they're euthanised as they are an invasive non-native species (don't think in this case, this isn't a muntjac though).

Life can be so depressing at times.

 

The country is becoming overrun with Deer, they need controlling, they are the main reason why new forest can't establish.
We live on the periphery of Sheffield and I now see Deer almost every night, coming into the village. They should be up on the moors, but there are so many now they are migrating into the towns.
Great way to get cheap, healthy meat, if only a proper culling system was organised.

 

why do people walk so slow and get in the way on a small pavement, by biggest pet peeve

 

Cos I guess people have the right to stroll as people have the right to power walk, we just need to respect each other when we share a pathway.

 

I thought I regularly have when driving about kind of relates to this.

Why do we place different levels of value on different categories of life. Gods forbid, but if a young child was laid there injured, it would be a major incident. A hit and run. The kid would rightly be raced off to hospital, the parents found and taken there, the police would send an accident investigation team to the scene, while other police start searching for the driver, and so on.

If it's someone's pet dog or cat, a few people will be upset, some might try to help. Some might try to locate the owner or call a vet or the RSPCA.

If it's a wild rabbit or a pheasant, it's just a slightly sad mess on the road.

And if it's a thousand flying insects, the only concern is how to clean them off the car before they dry on and ruin the paintwork.

I'm not judging anyone by the way. I'm exactly the same as pretty much everyone else on this. But I do sometimes wonder why it is this way.

 

There's a limit to how much empathy you can have and that limit tends not to extend to wild animals. Theres a good reason for it, we wouldn't function if we were emotionally invested in everything we came across.

Having said that, I do think the country has become more selfish, more segregated, there is less taboo in looking after onesself first and foremost and having less responsibility to your community, if that community even really exists any more.

Lots of groups of people doing brilliant things, on a local scale, but there seems to be no obligation to make life easier for others. Its mostly voluntary. Individual rights come first.

 

I understand that. But that's not really the angle I was looking at it from.

Consider the annual pheasant holocaust. Young pheasants raised in captivity so no sense of outside the farm, until they are released in preparation for the shooting season. Quite a lot of them don't make it as far as being shot, having got splattered en masse on the roads first. Nobody cares. It's not about being emotionally invested in the life of each bird. It's that nobody seems to ever ask if we should drive slower at certain times of year to give the pheasants a fair chance of surviving long enough to do their duty of providing entertainment for some wealthy dude.

Like I said, I'm not judging. I just tend to think about these things cos I'm weird like that.