Am I right to be annoyed

GrumpyGel said:

They are all covered by their list.

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Not strictly true...as @Turboman quite rightly is fond of reminding peeps about the pre Defender 90/ 110's..LOL

Cheers

neilly said:

Not strictly true...as @Turboman quite rightly is fond of reminding peeps about the pre Defender 90/ 110's..LOL

Cheers

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Nothing wrong with being a pedantic peasant.

Model specific Clubs are nothing new, I used to be in the Series 3, Ninety and One Ten Club.
And Series One and Two also have their own owners clubs, IIRC.

Sounds like a great Opportunity for @GrumpyGel to found the Freelander Owners Club of New Zealand, or something similar.

Can't wait for the pics from their annual hog roast!

Turboman said:

Nothing wrong with being a pedantic peasant.

Model specific Clubs are nothing new, I used to be in the Series 3, Ninety and One Ten Club.
And Series One and Two also have their own owners clubs, IIRC.

Sounds like a great Opportunity for @GrumpyGel to found the Freelander Owners Club of New Zealand, or something similar.

Can't wait for the pics from their annual hog roast!

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Call yourselves the Freelander Owners of New Zealand - FONZ!

Turboman said:

Freelander Owners Club of New Zealand, or something similar.

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They can have a few pictures taken of their favourite models on the cars.

Picking and choosing - does it say more about them or you?

Trench Rat said:

They can have a few pictures taken of their favourite models on the cars.

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..and actors/actresses. Google "Black Sheep"...

Sheep-fearing Henry (Nathan Meister) returns to his brother's (Peter Feeney) New Zealand farm, hoping his sibling will buy out his share of the property. However, what he finds are genetically altered sheep that prey on humans and turn their victims into undead, woolly killers. Shear madness ensues as Henry, an animal-rights activist (Danielle Mason) and a farmhand (Tammy Davis) set out to stop the rampaging animals.

Only the best cinematography is produced in the Land Of The Long White Cloud.

GrumpyGel said:

..and actors/actresses. Google "Black Sheep"...

Sheep-fearing Henry (Nathan Meister) returns to his brother's (Peter Feeney) New Zealand farm, hoping his sibling will buy out his share of the property. However, what he finds are genetically altered sheep that prey on humans and turn their victims into undead, woolly killers. Shear madness ensues as Henry, an animal-rights activist (Danielle Mason) and a farmhand (Tammy Davis) set out to stop the rampaging animals.

Only the best cinematography is produced in the Land Of The Long White Cloud.

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By all means, i've seen Black Sheep. Absolutely amazing.

Frenchdame said:

Picking and choosing - does it say more about them or you?

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Trench Rat said:

By all means, i've seen Black Sheep. Absolutely amazing.

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Yeh, but they even use a Series Landie in that film as well - not a Freelander to be seen anywhere!

GrumpyGel said:

Yeh, but they even use a Series Landie in that film as well - not a Freelander to be seen anywhere!

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because they're gorgeous

Trench Rat said:

because they're gorgeous

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Series, or sheep?

Turboman said:

Series, or sheep?

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Series, I'm too southern and have too many teeth to be into sheep. We're more into Deer and Seagulls.

Trench Rat said:

Series, I'm too southern and have too many teeth to be into sheep. We're more into Deer and Seagulls.

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I am Southern, very few teeth. But I love sheep.

Not quite a much as I love cattle, but they are a great creature.

Turboman said:

I am Southern, very few teeth. But I love sheep.

Not quite a much as I love cattle, but they are a great creature.

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Is your display pic your latest catch? Meet her at the village fete?

Trench Rat said:

Is your display pic your latest catch? Meet her at the village fete?

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It is a bull I bred many years ago. He won a lot of prizes, and sired many calves. Sadly, he is now dead, slaughtered as a result of TB culling, although I doubt if he had TB.
It always surprises me that townies can't tell the difference between a bull and a cow. The ring in the nose, and the massive neck, are a giveaway, even to an idiot.

Turboman said:

It is a bull I bred many years ago. He won a lot of prizes, and sired many calves. Sadly, he is now dead, slaughtered as a result of TB culling, although I doubt if he had TB.
It always surprises me that townies can't tell the difference between a bull and a cow. The ring in the nose, and the massive neck, are a giveaway, even to an idiot.

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Shame. Yeah i didn't open the image, just looked at the thumbnail. It's a shame, same happened to my nans cattle when foot and mouth came round.

Turboman said:

It is a bull I bred many years ago. He won a lot of prizes, and sired many calves. Sadly, he is now dead, slaughtered as a result of TB culling, although I doubt if he had TB.
It always surprises me that townies can't tell the difference between a bull and a cow. The ring in the nose, and the massive neck, are a giveaway, even to an idiot.

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Poor old bugger. I guess his carcass came back as NVL/culture negative?

Re: townies - I wouldn’t like to help calve a ‘cow’ that looked like him! Also, the number of times I have explain that it’s hay, not straw, or vice versa...

Trench Rat said:

Shame. Yeah i didn't open the image, just looked at the thumbnail. It's a shame, same happened to my nans cattle when foot and mouth came round.

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I had a lot of trouble with FMD too. The actual disease did not come within 70 miles, but the movement ban stuffed our business all year, and the surrounding bad publicity was unhelpful.

guineafowl21 said:

Poor old bugger. I guess his carcass came back as NVL/culture negative?

Re: townies - I wouldn’t like to help calve a ‘cow’ that looked like him! Also, the number of times I have explain that it’s hay, not straw, or vice versa...

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I had sold him by that time, and he was in a suckler herd. 8 years old, but still moving well and getting all the cows in calf.
All the cows went through fine, he was doubtful twice on skin test. Because West Cornwall was a hotspot the interpretation was very strict.
No lesions after slaughter, another good animal wasted!

Turboman said:

I had a lot of trouble with FMD too. The actual disease did not come within 70 miles, but the movement ban stuffed our business all year, and the surrounding pad publicity was unhelpful.

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Same here, wasn't close at all but i remember "nan getting rid of her cattle because of foot and mouth". Wasn't very old. Was there a general culling? Just in case? As that would explain it.

Trench Rat said:

Same here, wasn't close at all but i remember "nan getting rid of her cattle because of foot and mouth". Wasn't very old. Was there a general culling? Just in case? As that would explain it.

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Hundreds of thousands of cattle that tested positive were culled. All the cattle that were in the same herds were culled. There was what was called a contiguous cull, whereby herds adjacent were culled out, even if they didn't have the disease.
All cattle in Britain were put on movement hold, so no-one could sell animals, or bring them back to the farm from outlying pasture.
You couldn't send dead stock to the knackers, I had to burn a dead calf in the yard, which is not easy or pleasant.
I am a tough cookie, and well funded. Some farmers killed themselves from the stress and worry.

It was the closest thing to ethnic cleansing of the rural people I have ever experienced, and I will never forgive Blair for his incompetence and disinterest in handling it.

You should read up about it on the net, very interesting, but I don't want to go into it any more.