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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/21/scottish.beavers/index.html

I didn't know you had an actual shortage of beaver, given the plethora of young women I saw walking around, but I guess it's true.

If it weren't for the initial order given by Colonel Angus in the 18th century to outfit his men with tall hats made from beaver... well, I guess we wouldn't have had all those desperate Englishmen trotting off to the Americas in search of free-range beaver...

Good job....



Fools...little do they realize that all those beavers are Canadian sleeper agents, everything is going according to plan...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImshz4FHoE

:D

, given the plethora of young women I saw walking around

You've never visited any of the countries in Britain have you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImshz4FHoE

:D
I was going to say

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/NiceBeaver.jpg

Now I don't know whether to be honored or scared to think along the lines of LG. Probably both. :tongue:

Well I'll be dammed

I bet you can't say the name of the Op ten times fast!

Question:
How did the beavers return to the UK in the first place?

The Atlantic is a hell of a long swim for a beaver I'd imagine. Same goes with the English Channel and the North Sea.

They became extinct 'cos we ate them all in the middle ages. :p

I have a feeling we will soon find out why we drove them to extinction :(

I was going to say

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/NiceBeaver.jpg

Now I don't know whether to be honored or scared to think along the lines of LG. Probably both. :tongue:

You should be honorably scared. :D

You should be honorably scared. :D

I thought the same thing too, but i'm not scared. Is that a problem?

I thought the same thing too, but i'm not scared. Is that a problem?

Don't worry; the fear will come in time. :D

Don't worry; the fear will come in time. :D

Nope... still not feeling... OMG AHHH! :eek:

You should be honorably scared. :D
So it shall be! *nods*

I believe it ain't a bad thing to share some traits of lunatic goofballsyness.
It might even keep me sane - in a crazy sort of way. :)
I thought the same thing too, but i'm not scared. Is that a problem?
You will be. http://64.207.137.124/forums/images/smilies/star_wars/yoda_star_wars.gif You will be.

Edit: Note to self - post quicker.

You've never visited any of the countries in Britain have you?

London was very, very sweet.

I ran from Hull.

Does that satisfy you?

I bet this will go horribly wrong.

I bet this will go horribly wrong.

owls will save us! (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/Owls/)

Not if we have wolves to keep the beaver population under control.

Not if we have wolves to keep the beaver population under control.

too bad we have panthers keeping the wolves under control:wink:

too bad we have panthers keeping the wolves under control:wink:

Then we'll get the gorillas to take care of the panthers.

Then we need bears to control the panthers

London was very, very sweet.

I ran from Hull.

Does that satisfy you?

No, doesn't prove anything. I could say Harare was very sweet and I ran from Bulawayo, but that doesn't mean I've been to Zimbabwe.

No, doesn't prove anything. I could say Harare was very sweet and I ran from Bulawayo, but that doesn't mean I've been to Zimbabwe.
You want a proper itinerary of where he was and names and addresses of at least three different people he met in each location or something? :p

Anyways, I think it's a stupid idea to reintroduce beavers back into the UK, primarily because I imagine the environment has got on quite well without them in the last four hundred years, and putting the little buggers back in is going to cause more hassle than not introducing them again. I'd like to know some decent reasons for their reintroduction, rather than "because they were here four hundred years ago". Fuck it, if that's true, we ought to work out how to bring dinosaurs or mammoths back and have them running around, because they used to be in the British Isles.

Bah, bloody enviro people. Most of the animals we drove out were lost for a reason. Bird's of Pray, kill game birds. Wolf's, kill livestock. Beavers make good hats. But they will also disrupt the order of things if they start damming our streams again. There removal may have helped any other amount of species.

Beavers create wetlands that help absorb heavy rainfall and so prevent flooding.