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  1. Catriona Grace

    Catriona Grace Mind the thorns Contributor Contest Winner 2022

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    My son has been a serious hunter and all-around outdoorsman his entire life. He says a cow moose with a calf at her side is one of the most dangerous entitites around.
     
  2. Homer Potvin

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    Decapitation on a motorcycle is fairly common too. Happened to an uncle of a good friend of mine.
     
  3. Catriona Grace

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    Decapitation with or without a moose involved? (I'm not being flip; I'm really not sure what you mean.) When riding a motorcycle through Yellowstone, one has to be especially cautious approaching areas where wildlife spotting cars are blocking the get away route.
     
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    Thanks for the recommendation. I just joined. I read over a few threads, and I have to say, based on what I have seen, our Debate Room was more intellectual. :)
     
  5. big soft moose

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    Given the state of our debate room they must be an absolute bar fight
     
  6. big soft moose

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    I've heard theres an issue with grizzlies attacking motorcycles because they look like a fleeing deer rather than anything human... a bit like orcas attacking wetsuit clad surfers thinking they are seals
     
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    I've seen a lot of fleeing deer and a lot of motorcycles, but not much resemblance between the species. It makes about as much sense, right or wrong, to say grizzlies confuse loud, large motorcycles with other bears ready to fight for territory or a fair lady bear's hand.

    Grizzlies, like many predators, are programmed to chase whatever flees from them, including humans. As far as they're are concerned, we're just nice cuts of meat wrapped in colorful, easy to remove packaging.
     
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    More like a underground fight club. Lol.
     
  9. Homer Potvin

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    With a moose. Body and bike ended up a hundred yards further down the Kancamagus Highway. Or so I heard. I didn't press the family for details.

    They'll take your head off in a car too. The moose body is perfect height to sheer off everything above the hood.

    According to Google, there were 68 moose collisions in NH in 2023. I didn't see any fatality information, but it said the numbers are dropping because the Moose population is significantly less than it was in the 1990s when they started the Break for Moose: It could Save Your Life campaign.
     
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    Same thing with camels in Saudi . A number of people every year die in a collision with camels
     
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    So I joined Debate Politics, made my post in the Introduction thread, and then went to make my first real post in the forums and I got banned as spam!! It happened as soon as I hit "Post reply"

    I had a link in the post, but if I wasn't allowed to post a link then why enable that function?

    Got a message that if the ban was in error to contact an Administrator, but when I tried the "contact us" function it doesn't work for me - because I'm banned!

    I tried replying to the email they sent to confirm my email but it's been several hours and still no response.
     
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    that's all very unfortunate but functions under the banner of 'not our problem'. we in no way endorse debate politics, it was just mentioned as an example of places that have debate as their raison detre, other options include politicsforum.org , houseofpolitics.com, politicalforum.com and many others that you can find using google or the search engine of your choice
     
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    I know - I was just blowing off steam. Sorry. I didn't think it was your problem. I just thought it was a funny story. :)

    I am checking out politicsforum.org and their discussion seems a higher calibre
     
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    With apologies for being in poor taste.
     
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    I was thinking about posting the "moose" credits from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but they are actually quite long and possibly not relevant. ;)
     
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    That's pretty funny. I've never heard of the show, but that one guy seems to be doing a Little Richard impression.
     
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    Red Dwarf is great. I read the book and saw a few episodes of the show when my cable company ran it ten-fifteen years ago. I'll have to track it down and catch the rest. Utter absurdity at its finest.
     
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    My company used to do conventions, and one of my employees has met most of the stars (I haven't, I was always too busy on the stand). She tells me Chris Barrie (Rimmer) and Danny John-Jules (Cat) are really nice people. She's got a great picture where she's tried to get Barrie in that background, and he's noticed her doing it and is making a face in her direction.

    However, Craig Charles (Lister) is a dick.
     
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    Well he spent 30 years high and pickled, crashing, or in rehab. Until a couple years ago you could see him in my home town running nights as a DJ, and he would always be obviously glassy eyed and off his noggin. I gather he finally got clean.

    So I imagine how much of a dick he was at any given time depended on how far along a particular cycle of self-destruction he was at the time. Probably goes for a lot of us.
     
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    Red Dwarf is awesome - the absurd monsters and stories are great at one level, but the whole futility of being the last human in the entire universe is also very poignant. I used to watch it with my (then) eleven year old son shortly after his mum and I separated, and it really resonated with him.

    The theme tune is sung by a best friend's daughter. She wasn't going to do it as she had a stinking cold, but her agent persuaded her because it was "only twenty minutes work". After 13(?) series using the same song, syndicated all around the globe when she gets royalties every time it's played, it must be one of the most lucrative gigs of her career!
     
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    It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere. I'm all alone, more or less.
    That song? That's so cool !
     
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    That's the baby.

    Jenna's appeared in UK situation comedies and soap-operas, in West-End and Broadway stage productions, and won awards, but I suspect more people know that song than any other single element of her career...
     
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    Let me fly far away from here!
    Fun, fun, fun
    in the sun, sun, sun ...

    :)
     
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    I never had the guts to poke my nose into it.
     
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