Monday, June 29, 2009
no country for ferrets. old men welcome.
The Duke Spirit
Let it be known I love this album, by the way.
As you can see, our team has expanded, and I'm joined by Biccy, a lass with attitude and admin priviliges.
She can actually speak French. >_>
In other news!
In yet more disgusting Jackson controversy, his ex-wife and mother of his two children has spoken out and admitted he is not their biological father and their marriage was an absolute sham.
Can anyone really say they're surprised?
Also, how fucking awesome is this?
A bear broke into a fridge and ate a shitload of chocolate. Muahahaha.
Apparently we've also found a saint, and science agrees? Or corroborates, or was bought out. The arms of the Catholic Church reach far. Though, what would they have to gain?
It's ridiculous.
Now, I have to express my sadface at something that happened to me recently. I love ferrets. I think they are wonderful and lovely little bundles of vicious joy and fuzz. They are illegal in the NT and QLD, the former of which happens to be where I live and seem to be stuck. After research of ownership, communities, and doing "d'awwwwwww!" over google images, I wrote a letter of appeal to the council for any exceptions to the legislation banning domesticated ferrets.
To whom it may concern,
I am a young Territory citizen enquiring about any possible exceptions to the legislation banning domesticated ferrets in the Northern Territory.
To the best of my knowledge, the current legislation is in place to prevent the breeding and ensuing pest problem.
I understand this is a serious issue, and the potential repercussions of granting this loaded request, were it to go awry, are far from preferable. With full knowledge of that, I, with all due respect, must ask how far I can push the envelope here. I am very passionate about ferrets, but have been in Darwin for most of my life.
That said, I know the precautions I would have to take to ensure my ferret was well confined and desexed, as well as the lengths I would have to go through to import a desexed kit from interstate, and the no doubt extensive process of registering it.
I would gladly accept liability for my ferret’s care and consequences of its presence. This is an earnest appeal from a Territorian for some correspondence, and hopefully, permission and a permit. I do understand if you remain immovable on the subject, but would appreciate your reasoning, and if I may, to attempt to further plead my case and clear up any misnomers.
Thank you for your time.
Yours sincerely,
That said, after waiting a day or so and being forwarded around departments, I got a PDFFULL OF BULLSHIT
which, suffice to say, was rather upsetting.
Graham Phelps, the executive director of Parks and Wildlife, can suck my fucking cock.
There was in excess of a page offering completely irrelevant examples of feral rodents, and okay I know I'm just going to sound like a dick if I continue this rant, I know it's not his fault, and his stance is valid, but come on. Fucking robots. At least he doesn't sound as backwards as most of our politicians. But he's my scapegoat for now. I just wish I hadn't had to read through all the bullshit and formal nonsense (in place to quash any chance for a retaliation maybe. No holes to exploit, no argument to be had. That said, it wasn't exactly a sound piece, but it's the thought that counts) and took the last paragraph to say "oh no exceptions GTFO"
Motherfucker. >_>
xx
Nyn
French word and/or phrases used by English speakers of the day!
avant garde (pl. avant-gardes)
- applied to cutting-edge or radically innovative movements in art, music and literature; figuratively "on the edge", literally, a military term, meaning "vanguard" (which is the deformation of avant-garde) or "advance guard", in other words, "first to attack" (antonym of arrière-garde).
