Maverick!

ultraholland: Maverick!

Kaneda!

I'll fire when I'm goddamn good and ready!

Skipper?

The Canadian geese around here are out of control.
They walk (yes, walk) around in huge gangs and don't care about cars, humans, or anything else.
They block traffic (especially when they inevitably get hit), crap everywhere, and are clearly overpopulated.

MorrisBird: Duck!

Goose has a gamey beef-like taste. It's not bad but I'd rather have other meats.

IgG4: Growing rice in the middle of the desert is the most idiotic use of (taxpayer subsidized) water on the face of the earth.


Stop giving them water, problem solved.

Send them U-Hauls instead?

How's the meat of the goose in question, anyway? Fatty? Tender? Tasty? Turn it into fast food and they'll be gone in a decade.

/if the plural of "goose" is "geese," why isn't the plural of "moose" "meese"?

Duck? I'm insure of it.

Huck And Molly Ziegler: How's the meat of the goose in question, anyway? Fatty? Tender? Tasty?

Think Milorganite sandwich.

Begoggle: The Canadian geese around here are out of control.
They walk (yes, walk) around in huge gangs and don't care about cars, humans, or anything else.
They block traffic (especially when they inevitably get hit), crap everywhere, and are clearly overpopulated.

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Haven't you heard of the:
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" 1001 Ways To Cook Your Goose"
Cook Book by Betty Crotcher?

Begoggle: The Canadian geese around here are out of control.
They walk (yes, walk) around in huge gangs and don't care about cars, humans, or anything else.
They block traffic (especially when they inevitably get hit), crap everywhere, and are clearly overpopulated.

I don't even slow down for them. Fark them. One made a nest in our work parking lot. I would terrorize and chase the female everyday. The eggs never hatched. Ha. I see people sitting there waiting for them to get out the way for minutes. Some won't even flinch when you blow the horn. If I became governor, I would offer people $1 for every dead goose they brought in.

I did a one year and a couple of six month gigs in Atlanta. The non-migratory Canadian geese are like a pestilance there. Especially on golf courses. Nothing like putting with a rooster tail of goose shiat flying off the ball. Damn things are worse than pigeons.

Rendered goose fat is maybe one of the best things there is on this earth. Goose meat is a little wanting; it kind of like duck but not as good. But then, nothing is as good as duck.

bluenovaman: Goose has a gamey beef-like taste. It's not bad but I'd rather have other meats.

What the fark kind of messed-up goose did you have, that tastes like beef?

/bloody delicious Hong Kong-style

Stop it! That tickles!

Huck And Molly Ziegler: /if the plural of "goose" is "geese," why isn't the plural of "moose" "meese"?

i luv meeses to peeces

bluenovaman: Goose has a gamey beef-like taste. It's not bad but I'd rather have other meats.

Do they even sell it in stores? I seem to recall Alton Brown doing a special where he was going to cook a Christmas goose but he had to use duck instead because he couldn't find it anywhere.

Gyrfalcon: Nothing makes me happier than the result of do-gooder unintended consequences.

Joggers eaten by resurgent populations of mountain lions? Yapping doggies munched by huge packs of coyotes? Power plants and croplands inundated by rampaging hordes of protected waterfowl?

Yay! Go Mother Nature!

Sure, just wait until the geese have their own oscillation overthruster, and come for you, then let's see the brave gyrfalcon laugh at the monkey boys.

RoyBatty: Gyrfalcon: Nothing makes me happier than the result of do-gooder unintended consequences.

Joggers eaten by resurgent populations of mountain lions? Yapping doggies munched by huge packs of coyotes? Power plants and croplands inundated by rampaging hordes of protected waterfowl?

Yay! Go Mother Nature!

Sure, just wait until the geese have their own oscillation overthruster, and come for you, then let's see the brave gyrfalcon laugh at the monkey boys.

John Big Balls likes Eddy Grant.

fusillade762: bluenovaman: Goose has a gamey beef-like taste. It's not bad but I'd rather have other meats.

Do they even sell it in stores? I seem to recall Alton Brown doing a special where he was going to cook a Christmas goose but he had to use duck instead because he couldn't find it anywhere.

yup - goose in stores. is a real greasy bird to cook though. duck much better grease and flavor wise

Sounds like it is time to start culling the population.

\grabs shotgun and turns on oven

aerojockey: But then, nothing is as good as duck rabbit.

/ftfy

Geese: Nature's Jerks

If you want to keep geese away, get some of the chemical they use to give grape-flavored things the grape flavor and spread it on the grass where they eat. Geese detest it and will avoid it like the plague.

puffy999: aerojockey: But then, nothing is as good as duck rabbit duck.

/ftfy

Keizer_Ghidorah: duck rabbit duck rabbit.

Meh...

I had at least a thousand of those farkers in my cornfield this week. Happens every year. Birds do what they do.

I blasted 2 of them, and damn are they good eatin'

Geese were once heavily hunted, often with 8-gauge shotguns. Might be time to revive the tradition. I'd happily get beat by the recoil of an 8-bore to see geese tumbling to the turf. Vile birds. Inedible, unduly aggressive, shiat everywhere, and unlike ducks, they leave logs the size of dog turds. Fark 'em. Kill them all.

Apparently they make a better burger than beef. So, have at em.

The fear is that, just as recreating some marshes may have favored snow geese over other migratory birds, human action to undo the results may have unintended consequences for other wildlife.

Besides, the snow goose has an enthusiastic following, at least here near Chico. On the water-covered rice fields of towns like Durham, Glenn and Willows at the northern end of California's Central Valley, the geese draw onlookers from all over when they congregate by the thousands in December and January.

Rice farmers at places like Rancho Esquon, a 7,000-acre property that has set aside 900 acres as waterfowl habitat, some of it in partnership with Ducks Unlimited, find their conservation efforts take the edge off environmental objections to the amount of water they use on their crop.

The farmers have adopted other environmentally friendly practices. For many years, they burned the remaining rice stubble at the end of the crop season, darkening the air as far away as Sacramento, 75 miles to the southeast. Today, many of the farmers cover the fields with water instead so that the stubble of the previous crop will decompose, making way for new plants in the spring.

Underlining the region's enduring balancing act, environmentalists worry that the decomposition process produces methane, a highly potent heat-trapping gas. The Environmental Defense Fund is working on a protocol to award marketable credits to rice farmers who shift to practices like baling and selling rice straw for erosion control or animal bedding, which involves less greenhouse emissions.

But the group is loath to interfere with wildfowl conservation. "Ideally, we all would say, What is the optimal benefit for this region, and how can we put these things in place to achieve it?" said Belinda Morris, the California regional director for the group's conservation incentives. "We don't want to have an impact on other environmental benefits."

For the moment, wildfowl seems to trump other conservation priorities.

I think I found the problem: California environmentalists. Open up hunting season on them and this goose problem is going to take care of itself in under a year.

For fark's sake, most California environmentalism is a collection of animal lovers who don't understand shiat about science, but like the geese, they exist in such a number they influence public policy.

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Would pull 4 Gs for that
/inverted, naturally

FTA: Underlining the region's enduring balancing act, environmentalists worry that the decomposition process produces methane, a highly potent heat-trapping gas.

I would enjoy seeing someone actually being quoted having that worry, because actual environmentalists are generally smarter than this.

How did they figure plants were going to turn into fertilizer, by releasing transmuted gold?