to think that giant pandas are rubbish and deserve extinction.

[TeggieCampbeggBlegg]

they only eat one food that is nutritionally crap and are no good at breedinh.

Admittedly they look cute but as a spieces they are completely rubbish.

The thing with other bears like grizzlies and polars is though they look cuddley they'd have your head off as soon as look at you.
While pandas would probably cuddle you back and want to play.

can't we mate them up with polar bears, to get some aggression into them?

Poor SadCrapGiantPanda

This thread reminds me of my favourite ever Viz Reader's letter in Letterbocks:

'Does anyone know someone who wants to buy some giant panda cubs?

'I have an adult male and female pair that I keep as pets and they're breeding like nobody's business. I've already had to drown several in a bucket since Christmas'

Reg Sausages, Purley

Talc

I don't think I'd trust a panda to give me a nice cuddle.

They look big enough to crush me to death without even meaning to.

Yes UnChartered, a few blobs of black paint on a polar bear and I reckon we'll fool them.

i bet Taggie wouldn't want a cuddle off one either, it'd try to have her socks

ok, polar + grizzly = panda?

and we could breed the fussy out of them too

Yep I agree, survival of the fittest and all that. The amount of money given to helping pandas could be better spent on species that have a chance.

Talc.
I love Viz for the reader's letters alone.
And the top tips.

It will be called a Polandra and will eat fish with a side of bamboo shoots.

Oh dear! Crying with laughter at the Viz letter.

Panda bears are a bit of an oddity. Like an evolutionary mistake or something. Maybe we should let them die out naturally?

and hunny?

:( You have made this panda cry. I hope you are pleased with yourself.

I shall now report this thread. You're so mean. :(

LBE - there was a panda Top Tip too:

'Pretend you're a giant panda by giving yourself two black eyes, eating nothing but bamboo shoots and refusing to have sex with the missus'

I went to see them at Edinburgh zoo, they were pretty shit.

In the mood?! You must be joking. Feck off.

Can I just vote to be nicer to animals that love us? There are animals that adapt well, love us, want to live with us, are very evolutionary successful... Rats; mice; bedbugs; fleas. But no one wants them very sad.

YABU

After reading Douglas Adam's "Last Chance to See", I felt the same about the Kakapo. It's a large, green, flightless, ground-dwelling parrot, with courting rituals that seem designed to actively prevent couples meeting.

However I am very glad to see that, since Douglas wrote, the Kakapo recovery scheme seems to be working well and numbers have been steadily increasing. Long may it continue.

see, grumpy un-sexty and abusive

and fussy-pants when it comes to eating

i bet if we just left a panda with a plate of cabbage and didn't make anything else until it was finished it would eat it

it works on the weaning threads

Talc SadGiantPanda Oh god this thread has really cheered me up I really needed that today. Thank you Teggie for being a pandaist.

I was given one of those dodo eggs once.

It was a bit stale but it made a cracking omelette.