You dirty rat

[Dorcus]

One of the reasons I don't have a bird table is that the food is too easily accessible to rats. Unbelievably 'my' rat stuck its snout through our squirrel-proof nut feeder and was chomping away.

I use sapphire grain rat poison that comes in plastic sachets that are put out unopened. As the rat climbed a tree to get at the nuts, I put the poison on a lower part of the trunk that was inaccessible to hedgehogs. Seems to have worked and I hope it took it back to its family to all have a munch on.

I do find it more than a bit mildly irritating when neighbours put bird seed down without thinking of the consequences for other of their neighbours.

[William Treseder]

I do find it more than a bit mildly irritating when neighbours put bird seed down without thinking of the consequences for other of their neighbours.

What comes after “mildly irritating” ? 😁

[William Treseder]

I identify as someone who understands exactly what GN was saying and who hates the kind of tossers he was referring to.

As it happens, I'm a quarter Indian by birth and my adopted grandparents were refugees. I'm the kind of person Farage and Tommy Ten Names pretend not to like while they're taking stacks of money from the stupid and the gullible.

That’s a nice story, but I’m sure if Neville had said young brown men who come over on boats and dinghy’s commit sex crimes and theft, he’d have got into a spot of bother.
Anyway this is the football forum, so you can have your usual last word and we’ll leave it at that.

[The Lone Gunman]

That’s a nice story, but I’m sure if Neville had said young brown men who come over on boats and dinghy’s commit sex crimes and theft, he’d have got into a spot of bother.

That would have been a really weird thing to say considering the rest of his observations, but thankfully Neville is a decent human being whose brain is bigger than a weasel's wedding tackle, so that's not what he said. His comment was an opinion, but it was also undoubtedly the truth. The fact that some of the very people he was describing got so triggered by his words was unsurprising, but comical all the same.

[Ninian1962]

https://www.theguardian.com/football...football-match

Cardiff City have defended their pest control policy after a rat halted play during the second half of Wales’s World Cup qualifier against Belgium.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made an unsuccessful attempt to catch the rodent during Belgium’s 4-2 win on Monday night before the Wales substitute Brennan Johnson ushered the rat off the Cardiff City Stadium pitch. The rat then slipped past a ball boy and disappeared behind the referee review monitor and was not seen again.

“It’s something I’ve not seen in my 36 years at Cardiff City,” said Wayne Nash, the club’s head of operations who also works as a security manager for the Football Association of Wales and Uefa. “We’ve had a stray dog on the pitch but this was something new, a freak of nature.

“The stadium is close to allotments and railway sidings and we know rats can be problematic. The railway bankings can be infested with rats. We know they are in the area and we do have the odd sighting of them. But we work closely with our pest control partners and do everything we can to keep them away.”

Rat bait stations are in operation at the stadium and the club say stringent cleaning policies are followed. Nash said: “We pick up litter and food like half-eaten burgers straight after games. Everything is put away.

“They say you are never too far from a rat, especially in cities, and this one managed to get in. People have seen a rat on the pitch as quite funny, but it does have serious undertones. If I was the ball boy or Brennan Johnson I would have run a mile.”

At the recent Fans Parliament meeting at the club, I happened to speak to the head of media as a Trust member had raised a query about the quality of tannoy announcements during games. The reason given for the problem was a bit surprising.
Apparently a number of new speakers have been installed , especially at the front of the Ninian Stand to try and deal with the problem. However, there is a recurring problem of rats frequently chewing through the connecting cables leading to an ongoing frquent need for repairs and replacements

[splott parker]

That would have been a really weird thing to say considering the rest of his observations, but thankfully Neville is a decent human being whose brain is bigger than a weasel's wedding tackle, so that's not what he said. His comment was an opinion, but it was also undoubtedly the truth. The fact that some of the very people he was describing got so triggered by his words was unsurprising, but comical all the same.

We need more celebs like Neville to ridicule the likes of Farridge & Yaxley-Lennon, their rantings are appealing to the many idiots in this country. A bit more ridiculing of them is desperately required.

[splott parker]

At the recent Fans Parliament meeting at the club, I happened to speak to the head of media as a Trust member had raised a query about the quality of tannoy announcements during games. The reason given for the problem was a bit surprising.
Apparently a number of new speakers have been installed , especially at the front of the Ninian Stand to try and deal with the problem. However, there is a recurring problem of rats frequently chewing through the connecting cables leading to an ongoing frquent need for repairs and replacements

Been having a go at the managers of late as well, have they?

[The Bloop]

At the recent Fans Parliament meeting at the club, I happened to speak to the head of media as a Trust member had raised a query about the quality of tannoy announcements during games. The reason given for the problem was a bit surprising.
Apparently a number of new speakers have been installed , especially at the front of the Ninian Stand to try and deal with the problem. However, there is a recurring problem of rats frequently chewing through the connecting cables leading to an ongoing frquent need for repairs and replacements

My first thought last night as the rat left the pitch was wishing that it would chew through the cables to the portable VAR screen.

[ToTaL ITK]

Has swansea signed the culprit yet?