When you put it like that...

[Eleanor_zhDarjel]

2 peple hitting each other on the street and you have the police to intervene, 2 people hitting each other with gloves an wearing nothing more than brightly collored shorts on a podium and you got lot's of people cheering.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Taking a mother's children away from her, killing them for their tender meat, and then drinking her milk instead.

 

[RoJoHen]

Taking a mother's children away from her, killing them for their tender meat, and then drinking her milk instead.

When you put it like that...

 

[Eleanor_zhDarjel]

Farms where beeings are raised so you can kill them, take their skin and feed the rest to beeings of the same race so that one day you can get their skin.

 

[RoJoHen]

*beings.

"Beeings" makes it sound like we're farming bees.

 

[Eleanor_zhDarjel]

*beings.

"Beeings" makes it sound like we're farming bees.

Now that would get complicated with the skin, would it not? Bee-skin purses, o my.

My mistake. Being

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Spreading the partially digested regurgitations of insects on buttered toast and thinking it's delicious.

 

[Gepard]

Pouring tree blood on flat cakes made of the ground up reproductive parts of plants for breakfast.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Spending hundreds of billions of dollars to put barely evolved apes into tin cans and launching them into orbit.

 

[Omnius]

Realizing that when you are playing with your dog and she licks you in your face that she's probably licked her genitals and other stuff today.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Realizing that when you are playing with your dog and she licks you in your face that she's probably licked her genitals and other stuff today.

Beware of Toxocariasis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxocariasis

Many present-day royalty and the landed aristocracy are descended from the medieval equivalent of the Mafia.

 

[Eleanor_zhDarjel]

Wait for perfectly good food to rot before you eat it. Or let it mildew,

 

[Omnius]

Realizing that when you are playing with your dog and she licks you in your face that she's probably licked her genitals and other stuff today.

Beware of Toxocariasis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxocariasis

It's why my dogs get anti-worm medication annually.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Example: flower arranging requires the chopping off of the reproductive parts of plants and placng them in a tasteful display for appreciation by others. Yes, let's all admire the colourful sexual organs of another species.

When Plantkind rises and takes over the world, they'd only gladly do the same thing to us too.

It's us or them, man. Us. Or. Them.

 

[Jadzia]

You sit in a metal box that moves you to a small patch of rock somewhat distant from that which you normally crawl around on. You sustain yourself at that new location until the rock completes 14 rotations, and then you move back to where you started.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

This thread almost, almost, reminds me of the lyrics to this song:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C70QRbawN8[/yt]

 

[ITL]

Heat a receptacle containing two combustible gases in the form of a liquid that can extinguish fires in which its component gases may be combusted. When said liquid is hot enough to bubble and transform into a vapour, add one undeveloped bird embryo.

When enough time has passed for the white contents of the undeveloped bird embryo to solidify while the yellow part remains liquid but hot (trial and error needs to be employed to determine the desired duration of heating), remove from liquid. Cease applying heat to liquid. Throw liquid away. Break open undeveloped bird embryo. Remove contents with metallic implement. Ingest.

Yum yum.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

2 peple hitting each other on the street and you have the police to intervene, 2 people hitting each other with gloves an wearing nothing more than brightly collored shorts on a podium and you got lot's of people cheering.

Reminds me of a line from a film I just saw today:

"If you make money from war, you're scum. If you can't make money from bounty hunting, you're an idiot."

 

[trekkiedane]

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night with the sudden realisation that something that is perfectly socially acceptable is, when looked at another way, kind of weird.

Not for a long time -I suppose I have grown up the perfect cynic

Flattening living portions of our ecosystem to replace it with long ribbons of tar and gravel. On these strips, we move around in big, metal boxes at high speed, powered by lots of tiny explosions derived from dead dinosaurs.

Indeed:

The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another - particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish.

Inventing the finest mass-communication system likely to ever be made and then using it to push useless stuff like frozen pizza, perfume, cars, elevator music and haemorrhoid cream and to spread political propaganda as 'news'...

Growing produce, dipping it in poison and packing it in plastic, putting it in a truck, then driving it thousands of kilometers in order for it to be sold to people that have plenty of land to grow their own produce...

Owning an artefact that is capable of letting you take pictures, browse on-line (and send e-mails), organize your day/week/life, function as an alarm-clock (and more) -then using it for receiving telephone calls only...

Creating a society where everything we tell the kids about lying, cheating, fighting and stealing is the opposite of what is rewarded in that society...

 

[Nardpuncher]

Ohoh...this thread is just turning into a common room at college now. Too much cynicism acting like wisdom.