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[Jopax]

People here, the money grubbing kind.

See, there's this rather big pilgrimage site nearby, Christian one (Međugorje if anyone's wondering), and it usual gets by by selling cheap trinkets, oils, some wine and food and mostly statuettes of the Virgin Mary (of Chinese origin funnily enough). But as of recent, they started selling turtles, and it seems the tourists are quite hot for turtles.

Now the rage inducing part is that those turtles are endemic and somewhat endangered, and nobody is giving a single shit about it. So fuck people for their shortsightednss and sheer idiocy, because if I ever get any kind of power they will be flying into chains faster than you can say "Look a turtle!"

[scriver]

Are this site connected to turtles in any way? I mean... Why would a holy site be selling turtles?

[Yoink]

Read that book by Carl Hiaasen and all will become clear. I... Can't remember which book.

[Jopax]

Because people are willing to buy them. It's quite sickening really, because it was a very small village twenty years ago, with no utilities and living off of farming mostly (wine, tobacco, sheep, etc.). After the alleged visitations it started to grow, and not in a natural, planned way a small village should grow, this is more like violent development where buildings are being build without any thought about the consequences, and these are mostly apartments for rent, hell, I'm not sure if there's a sewage connection in most of the houses or are they still dumping it into the local river and septic tanks (which seem to be connected to a network of natural caves, which in turn are connected with most sources of water in the area).

Worst of all I don't think this will stop anytime soon, reaching an abrupt end in the future where the whole thing will collapse on itself leaving a large number of people with no real source of income and a rather ruined countryside.

[Yoink]

Apparently the book is 'Lucky You', by Carl Hiaasen.

But yeah, that kind of shit makes me angry. Not much more to say, really.

[Shinotsa]

Because people are willing to buy them. It's quite sickening really, because it was a very small village twenty years ago, with no utilities and living off of farming mostly (wine, tobacco, sheep, etc.). After the alleged visitations it started to grow, and not in a natural, planned way a small village should grow, this is more like violent development where buildings are being build without any thought about the consequences, and these are mostly apartments for rent, hell, I'm not sure if there's a sewage connection in most of the houses or are they still dumping it into the local river and septic tanks (which seem to be connected to a network of natural caves, which in turn are connected with most sources of water in the area).

Worst of all I don't think this will stop anytime soon, reaching an abrupt end in the future where the whole thing will collapse on itself leaving a large number of people with no real source of income and a rather ruined countryside.

It's times like these when I want to disappear to a foreign country and go turtle-hunter hunting. The damn things have been virtually unchanged for millions of years and now they're going extinct due to assholes. But shit, I can't even work up the drive to write a blog about it... though a save-the-turtles blog would be pretty neat.

Not that the rest of the ecosystem being ruined isn't rage-inducing as well but... y'know... turtles.

[miauw62]

Turtles are just so awesome that having them go extinct would be the biggest sad ever.
Lil' bros are cute as hell.

I live in a would-be Christian pelgrimage that lost to Scherpenheuvel.
The story here is that there was a Holy Virgin statue coming trough our (small) river by boat, they took a break in my town/village and when they would go further the statue basically had gone all non-verbal "fuck you" and made the boat immobile, so the statue stayed here.

Guess what my village is called.

[Shinotsa]

Boatstatue? Statueboats? Statueabbeys? Turtlemurdered? 

[miauw62]

Nope, try again.

[Sinistar]

Because people are willing to buy them. It's quite sickening really, because it was a very small village twenty years ago, with no utilities and living off of farming mostly (wine, tobacco, sheep, etc.). After the alleged visitations it started to grow, and not in a natural, planned way a small village should grow, this is more like violent development where buildings are being build without any thought about the consequences, and these are mostly apartments for rent, hell, I'm not sure if there's a sewage connection in most of the houses or are they still dumping it into the local river and septic tanks (which seem to be connected to a network of natural caves, which in turn are connected with most sources of water in the area).

Worst of all I don't think this will stop anytime soon, reaching an abrupt end in the future where the whole thing will collapse on itself leaving a large number of people with no real source of income and a rather ruined countryside.

...and to top it all, after tourists (from countries far from yours) get bored of them, they will in best case scenario dump them in local river/pond where they may or may not survive. And if for former, poor little foreign fuckers will start to tear apart the local ecosystem, be introduced as invasive species, declared dangerous and put on "kill-on-sight" list.

Something like this happened in my country...though it did not go to such extremes. But yeah, THAT would be even more rage worthy.

[Shinotsa]

I don't think turtles can even BE an invasive species. I mean hell, even if they were I wouldn't mind. To quote Mitch Hedberg: "It would be the cutest infestation EVER!" even though he was referring to Koala bears. But yes, I am fully aware what happens to turtles when they get big and kids don't think they're cute anymore. I have a nearly 30 year old red-eared slider, and three Redfoot Tortoises, both of which are supposed to be incredibly easy to take care of. The red-eared slider we rescued from a co-worker of my mother's who had been feeding it wet cat food and hadn't changed it's water in a year. Poor Josephine came to us with shell rot so bad we literally had to scrub it off with a toothbrush and iodine so the new one would grow back. The three Redfoots (Redfeet? =p) are actually difficult to care for, requiring a great deal of space (to be happy) and a minimum temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  My parents finally built an addition to the house with heated tile flooring and potted banana trees for the little bastards. I can't imagine what terrible conditions other people's are kept in.

Also, I give up at guessing. When dorf fortress names fail me I don't know where to turn.

[The Fool]

Started a Life Advice thread about a few days ago. I posted what I needed to and got some helpful advice. Someone posts something that isn't advice. Someone else comments. Thread derails. I tell them to stop discussing it in the thread while updating how the situation is going. Three posts later it continues, and grows. I lock thread before concluding the problem I posted about.

We someone tells you to stop discussing something in a Life Advice thread, don't continue! LA is not the board for sociological discussion when it's a tangent to what the OP is asking about!

[Johuotar]

Missed End of nations beta weekend because of sickness, but cant rage too much or I'll start coughing again.

[Sinistar]

I don't think turtles can even BE an invasive species.

Sadly, they can be. Sadly, invasive as "foreign turtles threatening actual domestic types of turtles with extinction". Yeah, a turtle-eat-turtle situation. But I think that got normalized in my country? I hope at least. Haven't heard anything in years about that topic, and even before just a word-to-mouth.
But then again, maybe this should go to sad thread.

[Loud Whispers]

For some reason my " key and the @ key have swapped functions when the shift key is pressed. Just those two keys.

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