Wenr downstairs about 6 pm yesterday, and in the cat's litterbox was a big frickin' MOLE, trying to climb out. I helped him climb out, took the vermin outside, and bashed his head in with a shovel. What I don't understand is how it even got inside in the first place. The only way it could have gotten in was thru the sump pit, which is deep enough and slippery enough (plastic) that it could never have climbed out before drowning. There are no other ways to access the basement unless it climbed up the washer standpipe, which is blocked at the top and much too small for it to squeeze through.
And no, one of the cats didn't bring it in....!!! What baffles me is just why the mole would even dig down six or seven feet below grade level and then somehow get thru the plastic drain tile in the first place....glad I saw the vermin first because my wife would have had a screaming fit had she spotted it, it was a BIG mole.
This thread starter has un-desirable text content that I don't like having to explain to my grand kids.
In the title - HTF
In the text box - frickin'
To me it indicates poor language skills and above all - poor taste -
'Frickin' is bad? OY VEH! Why'd you even click on the thread if the HTF set you off to begin with? WTF?
Poor judgement on your part, IMHO. :smile:
This thread starter has un-desirable text content that I don't like having to explain to my grand kids.
In the title - HTF
In the text box - frickin'
To me it indicates poor language skills and above all - poor taste -
Unless all your inside cats are "inside only" - I'd still bet that it was a "present" from one of them. :biggrin: They have a way of getting things inside past their HUMANS ! :laughing: You would be surprised how small a space a mole (even a BIG one) can get itself past !![]()
BK, that was my first thought too, but none of the cats had been outdoors in the two days prior to my find. And beleive me, when they get back in they are always closely supervised, usually carried in, so I would have noticed had they had a present for me. That mole was about 8X bigger than the mouse seen in the attachment, believe me, when one of my guys catches a mouse, they run AWAY from the house, not toward it. :laughing:
Good to see them "earn thier keep" so to speak.
Is that "cat pride" I see in his eyes. His buddy looks jealous:licking:.
By the by, the dog got another possum Tuesday night. this one was huge, weighed more than the dog, estiimated 25#, dog weighs 17#.
This thread starter has un-desirable text content that I don't like having to explain to my grand kids.
In the title - HTF
In the text box - frickin'
To me it indicates poor language skills and above all - poor taste -
I can agree as to the undesirable text content for this forum. They do have smilie faces available for those words and seeing that the faces are not available here on this forum I would gather the administration doesn't think they are appropriate either along with the undesirable text. :smile:
So, it is apparently okay for the spammers and advertisers to do their thing here on LMF, but let a long term member use expressions much less profane than are currently featured on TV these days, and the flipping member-censors want to gripe, when they never seem to say a word about the freaking spammers and advertisers? WTF ???? :laughing::laughing::laughing:
[blah blah blah].......and you'll have too excuse me but I didn't know being a Long Term Member gave you any special rights for anything.:confused3:
.......[blah blah blah]
Exactly - just cause a kid asks a question, doesn't mean you HAVE to answer it. It's letters, for crying out loud. It's self-censorship, as are dashes. It's hardly defecating all over the forum.
I am not about to start sayin stuff like "gosh, Wally......that sure was sumthin'......".
When using a word like '*******' is too risque, it's really sad. Then three letters make someone mad and it's just freakin PATHETIC. Just people huffin around rubbing all our noses in their 'moral superiority'.
Poor language skills are when you can't use an adjective or an adverb to emphasize your point. To use profanity, or to reference it, is appropriate in some cases. To use HTF in a sentance, or *** as a thought all by itself, is a pretty efficient way to express one's complete confusion - without resorting to $100 words only the elitist language snobs know the meaning of anyway. Or, I think it conveys the true emotion of the moment better than: "land o' goshen, how in tarnation this here critter dun get in the house here now?" Now THAT'S offensive. It would also make more than one person exclaim: "***?" :smile:
I get real sick and tired of so many people prancing around looking for stuff to get offended at, and then making a mountain out of a molehill - everywhere in society. No one ever said you HAD to click on the thread. No one said you HAD to read it. No one said you HAD to explain what anything means to anyone. Grow a little thicker skin, why don't you....
To heck with them, gosh darn it!
Oh, stool - I did it again. :biggrin:
well stated.........Ok, you got me with the youth minister line. No one's outwardly cursing or swearing on this forum, just good old plain talking. If the kids can't handle it, they should leave the site. Their internet activities should also be monitored by an adult, especially if they're 8 years old. Sorry, but I'm of the mind, "If you can't stand the heat...". I'm quite tired of my every move being monitored, evaluated, and commented on simply for political correctness. This is a friendly, informal forum.
In a word, get over it.
Since this is the way every post I make, whether it be a newspaper or other site, ends up, I'm outta here. No more posts. Bookmark deleted. See ya. It was fun and informative while it lasted.
Seems like you could have given him a meal and a Tylenol P.M. first. Not very humane JD, after all there are children reading this.Wenr downstairs about 6 pm yesterday, and in the cat's litterbox was a big *******' MOLE, trying to climb out. I helped him climb out, took the vermin outside, and bashed his head in with a shovel.
You got in there didn't you?What I don't understand is how it even got inside in the first place.
If that's the only way it could have gotten in then why are you speculating?The only way it could have gotten in was thru the sump pit, which is deep enough and slippery enough (plastic) that it could never have climbed out before drowning.
I thought we covered this, see aboveThere are no other ways to access the basement unless it climbed up the washer standpipe, which is blocked at the top and much too small for it to squeeze through.
Did I misss something? Nobody asked about your cats culpabilty...did they? Just because your cat is pictured killing a defenseless mouse for no reason other than it's own entertainment, does not mean It's a blood thirsty killer........well.....I guess it....anyway:licking:And no, one of the cats didn't bring it in....!!!
Yaawwwn, are we still talking about this mole? I mean who gives a moles *****.What baffles me is just why the mole would even dig down six or seven feet below grade level and then somehow get thru the plastic drain tile in the first place....glad I saw the vermin first because my wife would have had a screaming fit had she spotted it, it was a BIG mole.
So MORON mower maniac makes one post here on LMF and takes offense with my entire thread? Nobody made you read it, and if you decide to leave after making ONE frickin' post here believe me, NOBODY is gonna miss you. Good Riddance !! Have not been on LMF much this week but now I see what Twall was upset about--morons seem to abound here on LMF these days.
Newbies here on LMF get no bonus points for injecting sarcasm and/or satire into the threads ZERO ZIP NONE and I am in no way entertained by the inclusion of inane, moronic links. If I see any more of those mole vermin around my place they will get the same treatment a shovel atop their ugly heads. BTW isn't the word "a---s" considered profanity here too? HTF did THAT make it past the censors and I sure hope it didn't offend Ric the P---- and his cronies.
Oh, lighten up, you grumpy old fart - I thought it was cute.....:laughing:
Thank you
JD is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily on LMF,to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone on this site.
Lying to the kids, I guess that really shows them how to be an adult :confused2:
You said Well, the thread stood, and is still standing so......Apparently, admin doesn't have a problem with it. I was following another thread here that the same type of language was being used and now it seems to be gone so apparently the admin does have a problem with it.
I don't think anyone is showing their 'moral superiority' here, I think all they're asking for is too show some respect for the women and kids that visit or that are here on the forum.
As I said they do have smilie faces available for those words and seeing that the faces are not available here on this forum I would gather the administration doesn't think they are appropriate either along with the undesirable text.
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I think this thread is better than the "getting off track from our job at hand" thread.......even better than my own thread!
Ha haaha... I've got to agree... How did I let this thread slip by...? I have to click "Today's Posts" more often...
This has been fun. AND right to the point. :smile:KennyV
hey JD maybe he went through a Wormhole and wound up on the other side in your basement...russ
AND HTF.....????? :biggrin:
Neither sarcasm nor butt kissing gives you any brownie points here, newbie. Members here need at least 500 posts before I even consider them as belonging to LMF and the elite membership. And by the time many of you reach 500, my standards will require 1,000. Everybody got that?
Sarcasm, well placed, in my book is WORTH 500 posts - so MM is good in my book! Continue......
If sarcasm is worth 500 posts, you and I must be close to a quarter million by now....
One of my English Springers came in from out side one day with what I thought was a bit of a twig coming out of her mouth just under her nose, a little closer examination proved it was not a twig but the last third of a mouse's tail, the mouse was still alive btw. When I pulled it out and threw it back out in the back yard it ran for the bushes in a blurrrrrr!:licking:
Let's end this debate once and for all, JD.
Since your home is obviously Ft. Knox, and your diligence in it's defense is impeccable, the only explanation can be this:
A wrinkle in the fabric of the time-space continuum. Apparenly, this critter existed in a place and time when your house was not there. Then, by some natural belch of the multiverse, he managed to materialize in YOUR house, in a cat's toilet. Only to be freed from that prison and get his widdle head bashed in.
You think YOU were wondering "HTF"??????
Widdle head bashed in brings to mind..." Little rabbit Foo Foo running through the forest, scooping up the field mice , bash them on the head......" I used to sing that with my kids when they were young:biggrin: I hope that did not scar them for life, wtf do you think it did?
Hey Twall, I was gonna let the thread go and then you decided to add another story...
But hey, can you think of any other threads here on LMF that have created as much controversy and interesting discussions?
BTW I finally figgered out HTF that mole appeared, most likely a flea bit one of the moles outside, and when one of my cats was out, the flea hitch hiked back inside on the cat, ending up in the litter box, where it deposited flea eggs with mole DNA, which hatched into a baby mole, and as the cats used the litterbox, the poop provided nutrition for the mole, and because the litter boxes are large and deep, it was quite content to remain hidden from sight and dig all it's little mole heart wanted, until it finally got frustrated with the "same old, same old" and decided to make a break for better places....and being the good person I am, I rescued it from the confines of the litterbox.
And that mole was so happy when this mean old fart took it outside, because the expanse of ground it saw once once freed from the basement was beyond any of it's wildest dreams, and it tried to give me a slobbery smooch, and THAT'S why I bashed it's head in with a shovel.
EVERYBODY GOT THAT???? :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Oh thank goodness !!!!! that wormhole theory had me worried about the time, space continuum and ..how was I gonna get back to the future if all wasn`t right with the universe
EVERYBODY GOT THAT???? :laughing::laughing::laughing:
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/site-discussion/5041-lawnmowerforum-com-rules.html
You got that...Grinch:biggrin:
http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/site-discussion/5041-lawnmowerforum-com-rules.html
You got that...Grinch:biggrin:
I find it odd all four posts are in this thread, aimed at YOU.
Something's fishy here.......
Anybody who thinks Dixie Chopper is the best obviously knows nothing about mowers....
I don't buy the flea theory,:confused2: I think you have a kinky cats that had an inter-animal encounter and the cat gave birth to a mole-cat.:laughing::laughing:Hey Twall, I was gonna let the thread go and then you decided to add another story...
But hey, can you think of any other threads here on LMF that have created as much controversy and interesting discussions?
BTW I finally figgered out HTF that mole appeared, most likely a flea bit one of the moles outside, and when one of my cats was out, the flea hitch hiked back inside on the cat, ending up in the litter box, where it deposited flea eggs with mole DNA, which hatched into a baby mole, and as the cats used the litterbox, the poop provided nutrition for the mole, and because the litter boxes are large and deep, it was quite content to remain hidden from sight and dig all it's little mole heart wanted, until it finally got frustrated with the "same old, same old" and decided to make a break for better places....and being the good person I am, I rescued it from the confines of the litterbox.
And that mole was so happy when this mean old fart took it outside, because the expanse of ground it saw once once freed from the basement was beyond any of it's wildest dreams, and it tried to give me a slobbery smooch, and THAT'S why I bashed it's head in with a shovel.
EVERYBODY GOT THAT???? :laughing::laughing::laughing:
I don't buy the flea theory,:confused2: I think you have a kinky cats that had an inter-animal encounter and the cat gave birth to a mole-cat.:laughing::laughing:
Our cats are all guys and fixed, so that isn't a possibility. I think one of those turds, er, excuse me, TROLLS here on LMF had the inter-animal encounter with a mole....:laughing::laughing:
If drama is a BAD thing, then why does this thread:
- have close to 1,000 views (as of this post 985)
- have over 65 replies
- and have seven pages?
Seems SOMEONE enjoys it! :biggrin: Even those who HATE it can't seem to stay away!
This forum was getting a little lagging and I was fading away from it, but this thread has brought some life back into LMF.:thumbsup:If drama is a BAD thing, then why does this thread:
- have close to 1,000 views (as of this post 985)
- have over 65 replies
- and have seven pages?
Seems SOMEONE enjoys it! :biggrin: Even those who HATE it can't seem to stay away!
This forum was getting a little lagging and I was fading away from it, but this thread has brought some life back into LMF.:thumbsup:
THERE YOU HAVE IT, FOLKS!!!!!
:clapping:
Well said!!
CRY-SAKE....up to 1060 views now. Just imagine how many views and posts it would have had not the self-important, trollish, vindictive member-censors tried to meddle with it. You dumbos know who you are, don't you?
You should have started the original post off with the word Chronicles and then maybe it would have went viral.:thumbsup::laughing::laughing:
CRY-SAKE....up to 1060 views now. Just imagine how many views and posts it would have had not the self-important, trollish, vindictive member-censors tried to meddle with it. You dumbos know who you are, don't you?
Why did you kill it ? Couldn't you have just let it out ? :thumbdown:
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH DAMAGE ONE LOUSY MOLE CAN DO TO A YARD OR GARDEN????
NOBODY I KNOW catches a mole and lets them live. NOBODY.
There are a lot of teenagers around where I live that have got into peoples gardens and vandalised them, but I've never killed one.DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH DAMAGE ONE LOUSY MOLE CAN DO TO A YARD OR GARDEN????
NOBODY I KNOW catches a mole and lets them live. NOBODY.
There are a lot of teenagers around where I live that have got into peoples gardens and vandalised them, but I've never killed one.
There are a lot of teenagers around where I live that have got into peoples gardens and vandalised them, but I've never killed one.
If you didn't kill the teenagers, I hoped you caught them and took them to the woods and set them free.:thumbsup::laughing: Hopefully that way the won't find their way back to damage your garden again.:wink::laughing:
No, I think the point was, if it's illegal to bash in the heads of teens with a shovel, it should likewise be illegal to kill anything.
Like swatting a fly will net you 3 years in the pen - instead of catching it with chopsticks and putting it outside. :biggrin: Odd how people who hate flies will step on a spider with the same malice, when you have a common enemy. If it's illegal to kill the fly, put it next to a spider's web - HE'LL be glad to kill it for you........
Better to kill them then set them free or they will just immigrate to Canada and we have enough here already.:biggrin::laughing:
If all immigrants would just do that. Why don't they come from Mexico, then immigrate to the Maple Leaf country? Ya know, just bypass the USA part? You can deal with it then. I propose a huge campaign promoting the virtues of Canada........and do it in Spanish. :biggrin:
There are a lot of teenagers around where I live that have got into peoples gardens and vandalised them, but I've never killed one.
I would certainly hope you would not kill a teenager for random vandalism, but ain't you a teenager yourself?
Better to kill some old fart like.me...murder a senior, save a mole.....