this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
90 points (95.0% liked)

Not The Onion

18900 readers
2062 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/56438780

How UK of you...

top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago

I love the fact there's such a thing as a beaver licence.

Oi mate, you got a loicence for that beaver?

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bond. James Bond. Licensed to beaver.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

With how promiscuous he is in the films, that would make sense.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 9 points 4 days ago

Just stating the obvious... License to keep beavers in captivity. Its written right there.

[–] Maven@piefed.zip 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] stinerman@feddit.online 1 points 3 days ago

Lacock loves beavers.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Excuuuse me Mr. Beaver, but did you get a license for your existance?!?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

I can just imagine how Canadian beavers would react to something like that….

They’d probably take down the enclosure and re-use the materials to help them reinforce a new dam.

[–] wieson@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

I can get why Ottery St Mary would be pressed

[–] callmemagnus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

fenced

beaver

Have these people never encountered wild beavers?

[–] Bot@sub.community 2 points 3 days ago

Unlicensed Beaver and uninsured either.