"Oh fa Christ sake!. The're bloody pigeons, rats of the sky. Who gives a &#1^."

It's sarcastic wit and is used as poetic license. A style of writing you're obviously not familiar with.

I grew up in the country at a Slaughter Yards. let's see just what have I killed in my 62 years;
Innumerable cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, chooks & ducks. A few possoms, wallabies, birds & snakes, Oh, and just for shock value two & a half humans.

I do value life dispite your thinking otherwise.

A bit of hard reality. Nothing in nature, except humans, dies naturally. Almost everything gets torn to pieces & eaten.

Fact of life.

Jayb: << Oh, and just for shock value two & a half humans. >>

Well, that makes you a liar, murderer or idiot - or some permutation thereof. Please specify which.

Oh, silly me - that was more of your "sarcastic wit", wasn't it?

So, do tell: how many of the " Innumerable cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, chooks & ducks. A few possoms, wallabies, birds & snakes " that you claim to have killed gave you pleasure (or indeed a bonding experience) when you did so?

Jayb, with your proud record of slaughtering "innumerable" animals, I would hate to come across someone who doesn't value life. And there is nothing "poetic" about that language, either. I'd suggest you have a bit of growing up to do (even if you are 62). That Catholic education was certainly a long time ago.

CJ Morgan, although this was in America, and I totally agree with you, Australia doesn't have such a proud record either, when you consider "sporting shooters"; duck hunters, for example, and some of the brutal means used to destroy animals determined to be "pests".

Cheers
Nicky