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No complaints yet from sheep: dept
news.com.au ^ | 26th May 2015

Posted on 05/26/2015 2:25:53 PM PDT by naturalman1975

AGRICULTURE officials have yet to hear from sheep reportedly upset they've been sworn at.

AN extraordinary complaint, in which animal activists reported shearers at a NSW property for abuse because they were upsetting the herd with abusive language, generated global headlines last week.

While the case has been dropped, the issue came up at a Senate estimates hearing on Tuesday with Nationals senator John Williams demanding to know if department officials had received any formal complaints - from the sheep themselves.

"Not yet senator," policy official Fran Freeman said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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NSW = New South Wales, Australia
1 posted on 05/26/2015 2:25:53 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

We are all waiting for the sheeple to rise up and demand justice, but I’m not holding my breath.


2 posted on 05/26/2015 2:30:30 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: naturalman1975
Wooly Sheep Photograph

Baaaah...words don't bother me.
TONE of voice, that's a different story.
I do NOT like to be yelled at.

3 posted on 05/26/2015 2:30:50 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: naturalman1975

I would like the sheep to be sworn in. :)


4 posted on 05/26/2015 2:30:51 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: naturalman1975

When I live in a small town Devens, Massachusetts, an entrepreneur built a manufacturing facility. The people on Old Mill Road in Harvard just a few hundred yards from the facility on the former Army post began to complain that noises from the facility were making their dogs and horses paranoid. Testing revealed NO noise levels from the facility but did note that the largest noise producer on at the Harvard line were insects, mainly crickets!

The animal rights crowd tends to speak both to and for their pets. Both those actions were considered crazy and very crazy when I was growing up.


5 posted on 05/26/2015 2:33:30 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: naturalman1975
Wooly Sheep Photograph

Baaaah...like I've never used the F-bomb before?
Give me a break.

6 posted on 05/26/2015 2:33:54 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: naturalman1975

I saw a movie a while back titled “The Edge of the World”. It was filmed on the small Scottish Island of Foula.

In one scene they showed sheep being shorn by women. They were not using knives or shears but were just pulling the wool off with their fingers. The sheep didn’t seem to mind.


7 posted on 05/26/2015 2:37:18 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: naturalman1975

Maybe the sheep are just too baaah-shful to complain.


8 posted on 05/26/2015 2:37:31 PM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: naturalman1975

This is a joke thread, right? If not, then tell me when the sheep started hunting the wolves.

5.56mm


9 posted on 05/26/2015 2:44:38 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Slings and Arrows

Not a ping.


10 posted on 05/26/2015 2:54:06 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: yarddog

Was it with their bare hands? I remember seeing at one of those “historical reenactment” places they used to have gloves with like a metal brush on the palms that they could use to pull the wool out.


11 posted on 05/26/2015 2:58:56 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It was just their bare hands.

That island btw was very isolated. The film was about the island of St. Kilda but the owner would not allow filming there so they used Foula which was just about a twin in every way.

The actors had to literally build there own accommodations. I believe it was shot in the 1930s.


12 posted on 05/26/2015 3:03:56 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

I should mention that there were maybe 50 people living on Foula and they used them all as extras.

The women doing the sheep shearing were clearly natives.


13 posted on 05/26/2015 3:07:31 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Squawk 8888; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
No complaints yet from sheep:

They still think that Obama is just wonderful.


14 posted on 05/26/2015 5:56:49 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Nimue" - https://youtu.be/NHq7CtM9QMA | Facebook ID: Hopalong Q Ginsberg)
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15 posted on 05/26/2015 6:11:20 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: M Kehoe

Bleating and babbling, we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home and do as you’re told
Get out of the road if you wanna grow old...


16 posted on 05/26/2015 6:29:01 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Nothing is sometimes the right thing to do, and always a wise thing to say.)
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To: Daffynition

How sweet! A jihadi brought his wife!


17 posted on 05/26/2015 7:23:15 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Nimue" - https://youtu.be/NHq7CtM9QMA | Facebook ID: Hopalong Q Ginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows
....and the *faithful* followers


18 posted on 05/26/2015 7:34:49 PM PDT by Daffynition ("We Are Not Descended From Fearful Men")
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To: Daffynition

“Allahu Ack-baaaaaaa!”


19 posted on 05/26/2015 9:06:08 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Nimue" - https://youtu.be/NHq7CtM9QMA | Facebook ID: Hopalong Q Ginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Come on, baby, give Daddy some lovin’.”
“Baaaaa....”


20 posted on 05/26/2015 11:05:20 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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