Things that piss you off...

Tigers sympathize with JonoNewton

The welfare of animals at London zoo is being put at risk by drunken visitors at its Friday night parties, including one incident in which a man poured beer over a tiger before being thrown out by staff.

Another incident this month saw a man strip off and attempt to enter the penguin pool, forcing staff to intervene. There are also unconfirmed reports that a drunken woman tried to enter the lion enclosure in June.

Sources at the zoo have raised serious concerns about the impact on animals’ sleep and stress levels from the lucrative Zoo Lates sessions, which are advertised as an “after party with the animals”.

The world’s oldest zoo has been hosting sessions on Friday night for several years to attract a younger demographic, generating £800,000 a year to fund its prestigious and pioneering conservation work.

Sources told the Guardian that staff concerns about the events have been raised with management. “If an animal escaped [on a Zoo Late], it would be catastrophic,” said one person with knowledge of the zoo’s workings. “During the day, welfare and conservation is of the utmost priority. In the evening, that seems to go out of the window, and the animals become a commodity. That’s not what zoos are about, but there’s a lot of money in it.”

London zoo confirmed the tiger and penguin incidents, but said there was no record of the story of a woman trying to enter the lion enclosure. The zoo also said that two years ago, snakes had to be moved from a glass enclosure after the glass was cracked by a group on a night out. The snakes did not escape.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/18...

London Zoo really knows how to treat it's Tigers. If they are not letting cubs drown in ponds they are letting idiots chuck beer at them. The real tragedy  is that the zoo has to pull this sh*t to fund it's conservation projects.

So where did the tiger go afterwards?  A bit hard as it seems the tiger did nothing wrong?

Any village idiot doing shit like that deserves what the animal does back. Climbing into a Lions den. FFS. "Here Kitty" wont work.

"Comrade"  Putin ....(sub-human individual supporting terrorists !!!)

This shitty weather in Wellington

Hoping like hell for a warmer and sunnier Saturday.

Idiots of the day award.

1) Running along noticed a guy driving his car, mug, (a proper mug not one of these coffee holders), in one hand and he was bent over looking for something in his glove box or trying to put on the heating, etc. Not looking where he was going at all driving in the middle of the road. 

2) A bunch of runners about 6 running along the Pukerua Bay side of Airlie,  taking up half the road. All in dark clothes not one with a head light. It was still really dark. Cars come around really quickly on the blind corners just stupid.

7 idiots all before 07:00am.

When any "scandal" breaks some twerp adding gate to the end of it, ie Gerry Brownlees "Airport Gate"

Watergate was not a scandal about 'water'

long boring Fridays at work

At least you can forum i spose.

Yeah, that's something at least. On my phone though, which annoys me with it's little touch screen when I try to type things or scroll down pages and accidentally click on links etc

Something that pissed me off was the rugby mad NZ Herald having a headline 'where are the fans" (read - sneer at football) when 20,000 turn out to Eden Park on a cold mid-week winter's night to watch a Wellington A League side play a struggling EPL team.

I understand the Blues often get well below that attendance, despite all the hype and publicity. And they're planning on moving the local rugby cup competition out of Eden Park because they're only averaging crowds of about 4,000.

The Herald is notorious for its rugby focus so I guess they couldn't resist having a dig at football.

I hate this too, but actually laughed at "Airport Gate" 

It's been going on for waaaay too long, see Aunty Helen's Corngate, Speedgate & Paintergate.

Pissyouoffgate? But I know what you mean and you both are soooooooo right about it.

Typical thugby, racing and beer twats that still think "soccer is for poofters" type of idiots. Iveseen the blues on TV where there's appeared to be more players than fans in the ground and recently as the last two years on occassions. I'd love to know how many travelling faitful went up to the midweek game in Auckland, probably match the usual Saturday crowd for a thugby match alone.

Discovering while you back is turned that your 3 year old gets his favourite matchbox car and drives it over your meant to be out of reach 55 inch LED tv adding scratch marks to the screen after he grabs a chair to assist himself. Well this has certainly put a dampner on my day and good mood.

My old man would have been reaching for the jug cord pronto.

Where I come from you felt the back end of a Flamberge or Morning Star flail - how times have changed.

Well with Dad it was that or the headsman's axe, I knew what I preferred...

JV with the 'dude'' comment you sound like someone out of a John Wayne movie. lol

Oh f*cksticks. My two besties are getting it on...

I have no beef with Times

I didn't mean "getting it on" THAT way!

(the other  way if you know what I mean squire)

This is scandalous! I think we should call it Gate-Gate!

People taking sides in the Israeli / Palestinian conflict like they're two football teams and not two factions that have been at war for decades.

Supporting either side, especially if you haven't done any research on it and are just being led by the media, is ridiculous.

It would be nice to receive an intelligent non biased piece on this issue but sadly, I believe it may never happen. Everyone is a victim. Gotta feel for the Lebonese, their country is being used as the playing field for every idiot with a gun.

8 weeks since playing a game of football. 

Looking like rain all week, so a cancellation would make it 9 weeks.

Cheers for that, I like reading up about the world and such things.

Interesting. I have been to Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. When you are surrounded by countries that want to wipe you off the face of the earth you have to be tough. Yes some Israelis are arrogant, but so are some Kiwis, Poms etc.

The problem is that there are extremists on both sides and it is the majority of people that suffer.

Mmmmm I think it is the common denominator not some. I do know they have to be that way to survive but saying all that leggy you far preferred the Syrians and as human beings didn't you?

I take people on face value, not where they come from, although we do tend to put nationalities into groups etc.

Men's wallets 

The way they spray credit, store cards etc everywhere if you a) open them without due care and attention or b) leave them in the bottom of a bag.

Bring back those long wallets my dad used to have in the 1970's. Proper wallets them.

Spilled tomato-based pasta sauce all over my shirt and tie while I was eating lunch and reading these forums on my phone.

Just head down to the laundrette and do a Nick Kamen quick wash.