Sweet-toothed sheep are hampering attempts to defrost icy roads - by eating the sugar-based grit.
Flocks of sheep have been spotted licking the roads on Halkyn mountain, Flintshire, since the council began using a sugar base to help grit stick.
Local resident Elfed Evans said the animals were refusing to move for traffic as they tucked in to the treat.
Flintshire council said sheep were also attracted to salt grits, which are more corrosive than the new sugar variety.
The new type of grit is made from sugar, starch and cereal.
Resident Elfed Evans said he had spotted dozens of sheep licking the grit off the road during the recent cold snap.
He added: “As soon as the gritter goes past they converge on the road licking off the grit.
“The sheep seem to be addicted to the sweet salt and refuse to move when cars approach.”
Cost-effective
A spokesman for Flintshire council said they were aware of the situation.
He added: “The environmental advantages of using this product is that it is less corrosive to vehicles and the road infrastructure generally.
Since joggers and dog walkers tend not to snooze in flower beds, and because employees at the glittering office towers around Lake Eola don’t scrub laundry in park sinks, it’s clear, says Monique Vargas, at whom the notices are targeted.
“They’re talking to us, to the homeless,” says Vargas, 28, who says she has lived on the streets, in parks or under overpasses, since age 16. “It’s a way of saying, ‘Your kind isn’t wanted in our city.’”
it’s clearly a way of saying.......
DO NOT LIE OR OTHERWISE BE IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION ON A PARK BENCH ... DO NOT SLEEP OR REMAIN IN ANY BUSHES, SHRUBS OR FOLIAGE ... per city code sec. 18A.09 (a) and (o).
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BATHING AND/OR SHAVING IN RESTROOM IS PROHIBITED ... per city code 18A.09 (p) ... LAUNDERING CLOTHES IN LAKE EOLA PARK IS NOT PERMITTED.
Just for fun, let’s imagine I was one of those MPs, confronted by the media mob.
Media mob: “Mr. Goldstein, do you believe that increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing global warming?”
Me: “I beg your pardon?”
Media mob: “You heard the question, do you believe it?”
Me: “You’re not serious.”
Media mob: “You better believe we are.”
Me (Sigh): “Okay, get your tapes rolling. Ready? Here we go ...
The implementation of any anti-global warming “standards” lies in the premise that everyone until the end of time [ when will it ever end????] will adhere to the protocols forever.....and ever......and ever....with no one ever cheating.
[bwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahah]
And who ever came up with the idea of Kyoto Kuntry Kredits.......
A diplomatic gaffe marred Saturday’s inauguration of a China-financed stadium on this Caribbean island when a band performed the national anthem of Chinese rival Taiwan.
Chinese Ambassador Qian Hongshan and scores of blue-uniformed Chinese laborers who built the $40 million Queen’s Park stadium as a gift were visibly uncomfortable as Taiwan’s anthem echoed inside the 20,000-seat venue.
Just a quick refresher course lest we forget what has happened to many “friends”of the Clintons.
“I feel more an integral part of the community due to this symbolic action,”
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A Chief constable was accused of ‘madness’ last night after refusing to release pictures of two escaped murderers amid fears it might breach their human rights.
Derbyshire’s top policeman David Coleman claimed the killers posed ‘no risk’ to locals, while the force said it had to consider the Human Rights Act and data protection laws when asked to publish ‘wanted’ photographs of the two men.
they’re growing sacks!!!!!!!!!!
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said Friday that his party would unite to block Senate debate next week on a bipartisan resolution opposing President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq unless the Democrats allowed votes on at least two Republican alternatives.
Mr. McConnell said even Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who is the chief author of the bipartisan proposal, and other Republicans backing his plan had agreed to prevent the resolution from reaching the floor Monday if Democrats did not agree to that demand.
“We’re in a position to insist on a procedure for considering these matters that we think is fair to us,” said Mr. McConnell, who has been negotiating the framework of the debate with Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader. “We can’t dictate the outcome necessarily, but we’re insistent upon a process that we are comfortable with.”
Hoof Arted?????
*THUDDA*THUDDA*THUDDA*THUDDA*THUDDA*
Iranian health minister Kamran Baqeri Lankarani announced on Saturday that Iran’s scientists have produced a herbal medicine to boost the human body’s immune system against HIV/Aids.
“The herbal-based medication, called Imod, serves to control the Aids virus and increases the body’s immunity,” Baqeri Lankarani was quoted as saying on state radio by the official news agency IRNA.
Intravenous drug use is believed to be the main cause of HIV/Aids infection at 62.3%, followed by “unknown causes” at 27.9% [fucking goats] and sexual contact at 7.4%.
“Now look, my diction isn’t all that good,” Bush told the 200 lawmakers who wrapped up two days away from Washington with family and aides. “I have been accused of occasionally mangling the English language. And so I appreciate you inviting the head of the Republic Party.”
This BaraK Obama rock-star phenomenon is rather creeping me out.
Yannow that packed-in-oil spicy giardiniera? Save the oil and use it for cooking and making your own dressings and marinades.
Spicy, tangy oil. Yum!
what’s your favorite insult?
Connor’s doing AOK. Here’s he’s demonstrating how cold it is and what he thinks of Punxsutawney Al’s Inconvenient Nonsense.
Window sign at Dillard’s BBQ in Suwanee, GA.
BTW - It’s owned and operated by colored people.
We ate lunch there today while doing a little recon trip on the new “neighborhood.” Not bad. The pulled pork sammiches were so-so. Would have been much better without being pre-sauced. Homemade fries with the skin on - very, very yummy. Delightful Brunswick stew. Fantastic and cheerful service.
Rumor has it the ribs are very good. Need to try that next time.
Overall grade - B.
Everyone needs a soundtrack - even politicians.
The presidential candidates who addressed the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting Friday got to choose their tunes, and it was an eclectic mix that reflected personal favorites and not-so-subtle messages.
Some candidates requested two songs, one that blared as they approached the stage and another that played as they left the podium.
The selections:
_John Edwards: “This Is Our Country” by John Mellencamp.
_Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut: “Get Ready (Cause Here I Come)” by the Temptations and “Reach Out,” also by the Temptations.
_Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York: “Right Here, Right Now,” by Jesus Jones and “Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
_Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio: “America the Beautiful”
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois decided against using any music in keeping with the somber tone he sought to convey. Wesley Clark, who hasn’t indicated whether he will run, entered to Johnny Cash’s “I Won’t Back Down.”
Boazo
A new initiative is turning heads around the state as the gay-marriage debate heats up again.
Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed has accepted Iinitiative 957, a response by gay rights activists to a State Supreme Court ruling last summer.
The Washington Supreme Court ruled that the state could prevent gay and lesbian couples from marrying because the state has a legitimate interest in preserving marriage for procreation.
In response, the Washington Defense of Marriage Alliance filed the Initiative.
I-957 has five clauses that would have to be met for a legal marriage.
It would allow only couples capable of having kids to marry, and that they file “proof of procreation” within three years of the marriage. If not, the marriage would be annulled.
And the gay marriage proponents wonder why their cause has lost any support they may have once had.
Thanks to SeattleGuy in comments for reiterating exactly why we don’t take this shit seriously :D
I have been recycling long before it was cool because I simply HATE wasting ANYthing.
I even weaned my punk goddess waist-length mohawk from Aqua Net in the pink and white can back in the day to reduce 20% of the flourocarbons I was contributing to the environment. Type-A about oil changes and maintenence on our vehicles, my yard/gardens are almost completely organic and I’ve more vegatation on my property than most of the neighborhood combined if you don’t count their lawns. We don’t do lawn.
Shut off lights when they’re not in use, re-use the water from the dogs’ waterbowls when I refresh them to water to water houseplants and even use cooking water to water my greenhouse, don’t use many harsh solvents, including on our roof that we keep clean by simply blowing it off more often.
I recycle probably 75% of our trash.
....much of the “recycling” goes straight to the landfill. My effort, the subsidy (aw c’mon, you know the government must have to be subsidizing this somehow) and the “recyclable” itself with respect to closing the loop here....
Wasted.
‘cept I get a discount on my refuse bill for recycling so I make out like an eco-bandit!
So get off my fucking back Laurie.
ANnnnnnnnnD we transfer our food from the upright into the chest freezer as the less efficient upright empties out for the year....
...that are in the unheated garage on a FRICKEN COLD AS SHIT wet Saturday afternoon...........
Elvis has two wieners....and they. are. specTACular!
You guys crack me up! And you make my Daddy bust out laughing at odd moments!
Little Liberal Lass la-la-la
the Hobbits, the Borrowers....
Dear Swedish Academy:I think Claire should get the Nobel Peace Prize. So I hereby nominate her.
Thanks, and have a nice day.
Sincerely,
TBK
That’s all it takes to get someone nominated for a Nobel of *any* sort (hey Claire! Want a nom for the physics prize?) since consideration for a Nobel Prize is not subject to nominations.
Hey! Claire! Can I get a shoutout nomination for the chemistry prize?!?
Hail yeah!
And I hereby nominate the Loverly Headmistress for the Nobel Prize for Shooooooooooooze!
Anyone else got one?
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