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[challenge entry] Think I''ll just wait for the movie...
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:25, archived)
# :)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:29, archived)
# Nice!


And Can't find the other movie poster , so have this.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:34, archived)
# There'll be no sequel.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:34, archived)
# NEIN, I am not ze Hitler
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:10, archived)
# *checks*


nope, you're not on the list
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:13, archived)
# ...
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:15, archived)
# un cul des vaches!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:17, archived)
# WTF Peter beardsley is not a hitler
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:15, archived)
# the list don't lie!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:18, archived)
# Venn diagram needed
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:21, archived)
# Ha-ha!
Nice.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:28, archived)
# Arf!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:33, archived)
# hahahaha
Calamari Hitler FTW
edit:...ALL ACE
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:43, archived)
# I'm inclined to print this and take with me at all times
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:46, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:16, archived)
# Punkin' instigator!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:18, archived)
# the head guy at Ferrero Rocher has died in an undisclosed accident in South Africa
and I can't think of a joke.
I'm going to go and make my dinner, you'd better come up with some funnies by the time I get back B3ta.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:24, archived)
# A pun about the death of the Ferrero Rocher man? Your'e really spoiling us...
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:25, archived)
# Auto-erotic asphyxiation?
Or something else embarrassing.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:27, archived)
# with this ferrero rocher you're really chocking us
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:52, archived)
# at least he get buried in a fancy box
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:54, archived)
#
The Ambassador's Reception Wake
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:56, archived)
# Hitler on board every day
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 21:16, archived)
# Tea time!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:46, archived)
# Ha ha!

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:50, archived)
# :D

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:54, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:56, archived)
# hahaha
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:08, archived)
# hahaha
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:16, archived)
# 8D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:19, archived)
# hahaha
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:35, archived)
#

(, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 10:09, archived)
# Beautiful
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:57, archived)
# \o/
Excellent.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:16, archived)
# Sigh
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:32, archived)
# Skarty politics.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:45, archived)
# Don't cross the streams!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:17, archived)
# Fez's are cool.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:13, archived)
# They are indeed.
As is this.

Edit: I had lunch with Nick Briggs once - he was completely lovely!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:16, archived)
# and this:
50c
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:18, archived)
# Is that on the Fiona Richmond scale?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:20, archived)
# mmm, Fiona
Yes, yes it is
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:25, archived)
# I still love fahrenheit
*old currency kinda guy
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:29, archived)
# I like how they change the scale depending on hot or cold
..."blimey - it's -3 out there!

...phew - what a scorcher - 98degrees!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:42, archived)
# HAHAHA......it's ALWAYS SENSATIONAL!!!!!!!!!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:44, archived)
# and soaraway
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:46, archived)
# Thanks, beautiful.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:30, archived)
# That's ok, darling
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:44, archived)
# How sweet
Board needs more of this sort of thing.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:40, archived)
# Indeed they are - I own two.
Love the image as well.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:22, archived)
# Indeed

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:24, archived)
# Alan?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:25, archived)
# You dropped this...
'Lily'
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:35, archived)
# Yes indeed, I did.
Down a very deep well.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:45, archived)
# Oy!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:49, archived)
# ^ Ha ha ha...

EDIT: Who are you?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:50, archived)
# i'm presuming that it is lily allen.
perhaps we should leak it to the tabloids that she takes part in a purile digital arts forum?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:28, archived)
# I say, would you mind shoving it up your clunge, when you have a moment?
If it's not too much bother, that is.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:04, archived)
# Yes, I got one for Christmas
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:36, archived)
# Is there any significance in the eagle looking to the right?
the presidential seal etc. has the eagle facing left, and it seems very 'deliberate' to focus on the eagle
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:38, archived)
# ooh, didn't notice that
alt-universe, maybe?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:39, archived)
# It's odd, as the seal on the floor has it facing left,
yet the eagle figure is facing right, and is deliberately focused on.

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:41, archived)
# It's possible it's for "copyright" issues (or whatever the relevant law would be)
maybe they reversed the shot, or someone screwed up in props
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:14, archived)
# I'm still intrigued by the first trailer for Series 6.
It shows Rory aboard the previous Doctor's Tardis, apparently watching a regeneration while shitting his pants..

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:48, archived)
# Hm
I am now also intrigued
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:55, archived)
# I'm always hoping they'll chuck a previous incarnation in.
I got quite choked when David Tennant met Peter Davison, despite the fact it was just a 5 minute sketch for Children In Need..
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:00, archived)
# see also: 'Lone Centurion' Rory and Cybermen
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:05, archived)
# Man, I love this show. Even when it went a bit rubbish in the 80's..
*narrows eyes at Colin Baker*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:09, archived)
# This is really rather nice
is there a bigger by any chance?
(, Thu 21 Apr 2011, 7:40, archived)
# 4eva
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:01, archived)
# I can't believe you skewered that pussy with the railing!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:05, archived)
# Ignore the child abuse.
THIS is why I'm glad they killed him in that car crash with Diana.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:06, archived)
# in the Thames?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:40, archived)
# Fatcat died that day.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:07, archived)
# wiv da angles
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:10, archived)
# da baby too
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:12, archived)
# I'm fighting the urge to put the audi sign behind him with the window as a door
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:15, archived)
# I like that one you did of the guy running away from the billboard.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:17, archived)
# that one?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:20, archived)
# YEAH!...Sums up the last 4 days perfectly.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:22, archived)
# Doesn't it just
but it needs more links
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:25, archived)
# that poor creature, they should have put it down long ago.
And the cat doesnt look very healthy either.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:08, archived)
# Hahaha! He's doing it again!

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:09, archived)
# AHAHAHHAHAHA
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:11, archived)
# :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:11, archived)
# hahaha...love this:D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:13, archived)
# ha ha ha!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:25, archived)
# your user name looks like that audi billboard
are you having some kind of laugh?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:58, archived)
# ^ This

ß((►◄))ß
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:03, archived)
# this will never get old :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:25, archived)
# Fuck yes!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:29, archived)
# Ha-ha!
Classic.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:15, archived)
# ^This
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:55, archived)
# click
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:50, archived)
# haha
brilliant
(, Tue 19 Apr 2011, 2:17, archived)
# heems bee chubby
^___^
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:11, archived)
# Pffft!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:50, archived)
# Hahaha!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:58, archived)
# He didn`t hold him very long, though.
TJ: I just noticed I`m wearing shoes from different pairs, models, brands and sizes. What do I do to avoid looking like a retard with them?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:54, archived)
# stick a sign on the odd one saying STRESS TESTING ONLY
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:56, archived)
# "My other shoe is a Porsche"
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:04, archived)
# Hahahahaha!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:05, archived)
# Hahahahaha
I say go full retard. Can you get a cycle helmet from somewhere?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:57, archived)
# That could be arranged
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:04, archived)
# Those weedy arms will never hold Fatcat.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:29, archived)
# :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:54, archived)
# TIGER
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:59, archived)
# Looking at the shoe and landscape, i'm going to go with Korean Tiger?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:07, archived)
# Hmmm. That sounds like "college boy" talk to me.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:07, archived)
# I need an eye doctor just to look at this.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:07, archived)
# shouldn't it be "this is an eating tiger"?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:13, archived)
# Violent fuck can be violent.
You can tell by his facial expression.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:25, archived)
# Come to Kenya!

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:40, archived)
# Maybe he's on holiday..
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:41, archived)
# I would'nt have started a new thread, because it's a bit crap
because it's a bit crap
..but it took me ages to do

Ah sorry atomic yours wasn't there a minute ago
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:45, archived)
# Fuck my clocks wrong again
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:50, archived)
# ^ Fuckclocks!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:57, archived)
# almost midnight for me
it's gay time almost 24/7 for me
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:57, archived)
# gay times and gayshift are different :P
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:59, archived)
# true
still doesn't alter the fact that it's always gay :P
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:03, archived)
# Oh I agree b3ta is as gay as a brush it's always camp o clock
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:06, archived)
#

...no need to apologize.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:51, archived)
# Keeping Busey, I see
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:52, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:53, archived)
# that's made me laugh a little more than it should.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:54, archived)
# Question
If Luke was a bit too short to be a stormtrooper, how come the armour fitted him so well?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:51, archived)
# because it's a film :P
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:53, archived)
# No
it's real I tell you,.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:57, archived)
# he wasn't there man.
he wasn't there
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:59, archived)
# GAME OVER MAN
fucking game over
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:11, archived)
[challenge entry] In that case, and since this is a bit 'toap'y
and since this is a bit 'toap'yI won't start a new thread either but I'll just wedge this in here...

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:54, archived)
# That's not TOAP!
The is no picture?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:58, archived)
# snowscape, in a white out?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:59, archived)
# Oh Icy
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:06, archived)
# Stystem!?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 20:47, archived)
# Shit.
I hoped no-one would notice that...
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 22:10, archived)
# But Atomics was there three minutes ago?
PS: You shouldn't have started a new thread, because it's a bit crap.

lol
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:56, archived)
# but, but, then i'll never be allowed to start a new thread
edit - it wasn't there man
it wasn't there!

oh ps, i looked to see when the last thread was created and it was 08.30, so i figured it didn't seem to matter if it dropped off the bottom
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:01, archived)
# Calm down!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:01, archived)
# PS you shouldn't
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:07, archived)
# Pssst...
YOU CAN FUCK RIGHT OFF
Thank you for you're helps, I av know updateded it's
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:19, archived)
# Thanks now there is coffee on my keyboard
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:21, archived)
# :)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:27, archived)
# That's very well done.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:34, archived)
# I don't care what you smell!
worth the wait!
(, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 3:36, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:42, archived)
# Spangly!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:50, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:55, archived)
# A song in your honour sir.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:02, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:06, archived)
# *ahem*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:27, archived)
# :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:04, archived)
# Step aside!
What a beautiful explosion!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:40, archived)
# Did this a while back


I fucking hate Jack Vettriano
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 19:49, archived)
# ^applauds sentiment about JV^
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 20:09, archived)
# That's a keeper!
:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 20:25, archived)
# Glitter can survive a direct hit from a bazooka.
Fucking stuff lives forever.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:15, archived)
[challenge entry] Not done one of these in ages

B3tans and gentlemen I give you Optimus Prime
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:24, archived)
# Looks like a scarab doing an X-Wing impression
(nice:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:25, archived)
# He is a bit...beetley isn't he?
I might have a crack at Megatron in a bit
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:32, archived)
[challenge entry] ...and Megatron!


bah 15x13 pixels doesn't quite capture his great evil :(
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:55, archived)
# Awesome.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:29, archived)
# Very nice...
but what is it?

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:32, archived)
# He's meant to look a bit like this
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:35, archived)
# What a helmet!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:45, archived)
# wants
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:36, archived)
# happy candles
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:40, archived)
# taa
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:41, archived)
# Happy b3taday!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:41, archived)
# :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:43, archived)
# Hey!
Candles!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:42, archived)
# He haz candle!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:45, archived)
# Happy b3taday!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:47, archived)
# cheers doc
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:51, archived)
# *waits for it to transform*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:43, archived)
# Bumface will show no mercy.
I'm kidding - it's lully.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:35, archived)
[challenge entry] First past the post is a much simpler system. Everyone wants tofu.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:53, archived)
# BOLLOCKS
Bacon is the king of foods

*see post below
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:54, archived)
# THIS! ^
it's the only food that can be a snack, part of a meal and can be eaten anytime of day, without someone thinking there's something weird about it
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:42, archived)
# This is nonsense
marinaded in gibberish, and served on a bed of balderdash.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:55, archived)
# I think that's what I had
Last time I ate at a restaurant in London.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:58, archived)
# Was that the Soho branch of 'Poppycock'?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:02, archived)
# That's for dessert.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:03, archived)
# The Folderol with Raspberry Coulis
is supposed to be stunning.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:05, archived)
# as I recall it didn't actually have a legible 'name' it had a symbol instead.... (pint-sized-musico-Prince-stylee)
I think that should have warned me from the start.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:04, archived)
# It's never a good sign, is it?
no pun intended
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:06, archived)
# Tofu is
the scrapings from beneath the Devil's larger toenail.

Foie Gras FTW!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:56, archived)
# I really wish I'd never tried foie gras.
It's much easier to be ethically repelled by something if you don't know how delicious it is.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:58, archived)
# Very true.
It's kidneys for me. *shudders*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:59, archived)
# I have no moral objection to kidneys.
I refuse to eat them simply because they're boagin'.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:05, archived)
# Oh, I have no moral issue,
Like you, I just find them repellent. See also Broad Beans.

*bokes*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:08, archived)
# They're just baby kidneys.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:09, archived)
# I thought that was kidney beans?
Also *boke*

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:12, archived)
# here. that's braw. Do you mind if I use the Scottish version?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:20, archived)
# hahahahaa
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:21, archived)
# Nicely!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:28, archived)
# :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:30, archived)
# This explains it!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:12, archived)
# I aint tried it... I am quite willing to try balut though.. so I may give foi gras a turn
if some one buys it for me to try.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:06, archived)
# That's the second time in a couple of days that I've heard balut mentioned.
It sounds truly revolting.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:10, archived)
# yup.. this is why hopefully I will never end up in china
so my mouth never gets any trousers.. or something like that.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:22, archived)
# It's OK.
Other foodstuffs are available.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:25, archived)
# I mean I've said I would eat it
so I'm now hoping I never get into a situation where I will find it available to eat.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:29, archived)
# Hmmmm.
Not sure I could go to that.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:14, archived)
# mmm the sumptuousness of deliberately diseased livers.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:05, archived)
# That's the one!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:07, archived)
# Don't forget the cruelty.
The tasty, tasty cruelty.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:11, archived)
# There are far too many Ham Touchers
and what the hell is Tofu made of anyway!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:59, archived)
# cock cheese and phlegm
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:00, archived)
# bean curd, made by coagulating soy milk
all of those words just spell delicious :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:01, archived)
# Yum yum get in my tum!
that sounds so much better than a bacon sandwich with crispy lettuce and tomato.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:05, archived)
# only because of the conditioning your brain has been through to accept "bacon"
read this if you have time:
www.animalsandsociety.org/assets/462_mitchellsa.pdf
fascinating stuff about how the brain accepts things like animal farming in the same way people did the holocaust.
Genuinely great read for anyone interested in how the brain works.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:08, archived)
# 21 pages probably don;t have time since I should be setting off to work in 10minutes or so
I suppose if you were brought on tofu and such then you'd be used to it.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:11, archived)
# I don't think the jews were as tasty as bacon
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:13, archived)
# Jews are almost 100% bacon free
so they are the healthier choice.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:19, archived)
# The free range ones
are far too expensive.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:22, archived)
# I'm against the battery farm variety
they suffer so much.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:24, archived)
# That's outrageous I can't believe you said that!
:P
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:35, archived)
# *skim-reads*
Well, that looks like nonsense. It utterly ignored the differences between persons and non-persons - comparing animal husbandry to the holocaust is only going to be plausible if you think that farm-animals are persons, or Jews non-persons. Both of these would be false.

The language is loaded, therefore question-begging.

Also, this paper ignores all the important philosophical work that's been done on animal welfare in the last 40 years - it doesn't even cite Singer or Rachels, who would be plausible allies, let alone give a hearing to those who think that nonhumans are of little to no moral importance.

How does stuff like this pass peer-review, grumble grumble.

Right: I'm off to spend an afternoon doing real philosophy. Dispassionately. With arguments.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:24, archived)
# that's some impressive skin reading, you seem to have missed all the points and taken it to be about something that it isn't
the holocaust comment I made is a very tiny comparison made almost as an aside, its not what the blokes paper is about.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:28, archived)
# I imagine the rationale is the same for most things people consider unpleasant.
So long as it's not going on under your nose and there's offical sanction, it's okay, even when it's not. That said, pigs aren't animals and they're very tasty, whereas jewish people aren't tasty and complain more
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:37, archived)
# I'm reading it in a bit more detail at the moment.
There's a lot of highly morally loaded language in there, and precious little argument to support it. And there remains a big, big, big problem along the lines that comparing treatments of different kinds of animal in this way is only ever going to be more than empty formalism if there is some serious sense in which the animals are morally comparable. That doesn't seem to be established here.

I simply don't buy the argument - not least because the important bits are left out.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:37, archived)
# I skimmed your comments
and they sound like, "I like meat, they're animals, shut up".
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:47, archived)
# Pigs have a lot to answer for
I mean, pork chops are vile.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:50, archived)
# I skimmed your post
It sounded like 'comments..sound..meat'. Coincidentally the new album by Nine Inch Nails.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:51, archived)
# I skimmed my stone across your pond
and now we're caught in a sexual allegory :(
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:53, archived)
# is that business or pleassure?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:43, archived)
# As a counterpoint:
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:02, archived)
# Hahahaha
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:50, archived)
# This person sounds terribly naïve
"Whenever and wherever possible, it is important that nonhuman farming be portrayed as abusive in its essential character, even in its supposedly more benign forms such as “free range,” “traditional,” or “grass fed.” It needs to be apprehended by the public as a system in which nonhumans are held captive, mutilated, controlled, impregnated, castrated, and killed."

...what did they think happened on farms?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:06, archived)
# Those few lines
are enought to tell me there is no point me reading the article.

I do hope everyone's high horses are being treated ethically though!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:39, archived)
# My inlaws have farms
I a few days in December as a hand on a farm for pigs and cattle - sorry, I mean an institution for the abuse of nonhumans.

Mmmm, tasty, tasty nonhumans.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:48, archived)
# but that's the point, the masses don't think that happens
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:17, archived)
# 0_o
You see ^This^ is whay I hate the fact the internet is text based... I simply can't tell if people are being sarcastic or genuine. I really hope you don't mean that :(
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:09, archived)
# Of course I'm being sarcastic - I love BLTs
as for Tofu I've never ventured to try it but my brain immediately tells me as I've tasted soya milk before then Tofu isn't going to be a pleasant experience.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:14, archived)
# it's almost tasteless
with the texture of sheep brains
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:15, archived)
# Now I'm really hungry
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:17, archived)
# Tofu
is ok as a 'carrier' of flavour. I had a nice sweet and sour tofu once, but it was the sauce, not the tofu that made it.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:17, archived)
# Yeah I figured that was the case. Still not tempted though.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:20, archived)
# My mate got handed some tofu
at the end of a long day touring a factory in China. He'd never had it before and thought it would be like cheese. The taste was so weird he immediately brought up his lunch in front of half a dozen horrified chinese businessmen and his chortling workmates.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:03, archived)
# In some countries that's a sign of a delicious meal!
or is that diarrhea?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:06, archived)
# :D
it's like cream cheese cross bred with rubber with all the flavour removed
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:06, archived)
# That's a fair description.
The Chinese had got it into their heads that every meal should be a banquet for their wonderful English customers who were buying all their stuff. After 2 days of glistening meat and rich, oily sauces something had to give.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:14, archived)
# When I was a kid,
I used to confuse the word "tofu" with the word "futon".

I can remember which is which now. One is tasteless and chewy; the other's a kind of sofa-bed.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:07, archived)
# If any party brought bacon to my doorstep whilst canvassing, I would vote for them.
At the last election, when the Conservative bloke rolled up on our street, I said I'd vote for him if he gave me £20. Apparently this is illegal, even though I promised I wouldn't tell anyone.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:59, archived)
# Much as I can only barely stomach tofu
I'd vote for it if it meant an end to pig farming :(
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:05, archived)
# But surely
an end to pig farming would mean an end to pigs?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:07, archived)
# as a farmed commodity yes
but there's no reason to kill the entire species in spite
Although I imagine a lot of farmers would
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:10, archived)
# to stop the uprising the farmers would need to go like Saddam Hussain and gas the herds
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:12, archived)
# Ooooof!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:13, archived)
# I doubt
there is much natural environment for them now in this country, and the wild ones would soon be killed illegally. Like the wild boar.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:12, archived)
# no, absolutely, same with cows
but there's nothing stopping people continuing to keep them as pets!
We created the problem, it's now clearly a major cause of damage to both our environment and health, so it kind of makes sense that we should find a solution
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:17, archived)
# I have this odd feeling you don't live in a flat.
Edit: because, obviously keeping them as pets in an urban environment is so clearly not practical.
I'd like to point out that I'm going on a pig-rearing course for a few days next month, in order to get a proper handle on when I have some outside space and decide to start keeping my own pigs.
I'm not being flip with you at all, I'm just intrigued by your somewhat didactic approach.

Edit Edit: Realises, all too late that he's got me on ignore anyway. Hey ho.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:20, archived)
# if it's any consollation I enjoyed this comments reasonableness
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:33, archived)
# I've never
used the ignore button, even on that bloke who really hated me on here.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:36, archived)
# Well, once again, Ms Lunch
You show us all a better way.

*hugs*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:41, archived)
# *hugs back*
Well, life's too short.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:47, archived)
# snap :D
I like being easy going.

EDIT: actually that's a lie... I ignored myself once to see what would happen.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:44, archived)
# What did happen?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:48, archived)
# all my posts vanished from the board
and then I had a mild flap about how to undo it. :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:52, archived)
# me? I haven't got anyone on ignore, I was just outside trying to fix a bit of fence
Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as didactic, this seems to happen a lot which is odd as all I think I'm doing is having a pleasant conversation.
Sorry again
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:52, archived)
# Hey Toasty,
No bother whatsoever, I was only wondering as you seemed very clear on your point. ....and then it all went quiet.

*firm handshakes*

Contrary to my normal 'let's all eat revolting foods' cant that I put on the board; Animal welfare is something I truly believe in and actively campaign for, but I guess I couch it more in terms of also providing as humane a means of food supply as possible to those who choose to eat meat.

I'm completely with where you're coming from from, though. My only caveat, I guess, would be that link to the South African academic's piece, which I'm finding a little too 'right on' to be practicable.
All in all, not an easily solved problem.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:55, archived)
# yep, I only said that it was a good read
I'm fascinated about how the brain works. Especially how posting a document that I thought was a good read makes people think I'm making a political or ethical statement :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:14, archived)
# I suspect the solution will probably end up being
some new hyper level of intensive farming.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:21, archived)
# if there's more money to be made then yes, I'm sure it will be
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:22, archived)
# You are being cynical today Toasty.
I think demand is the main driver for bacon production, not profit, although naturally that plays a huge part.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:27, archived)
# Bacon is good for my health!
Just the smell of it makes me happy.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:21, archived)
# Absolutely right!
Similarly, people who are afeared of rats should stop generating so much waste for them to live in
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:22, archived)
# There's good eating on a rat
if you clean them and cook them thoroughly. Just watch out for them heavy metals...
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:34, archived)
# You can't milk them either.
If only bacon wasn't so delicious.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:19, archived)
# if we stop the oppression they will rise up in an orwellian nightmare and seize control of the farm
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:10, archived)
# All pig farming?
Or the evil Danish Intensive manner of production?

Edit: Actually, there's a clue right there. 'Production' as opposed to 'Farming'.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:12, archived)
# They all feed at the public trough
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:17, archived)
# Tofu toucher
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:22, archived)
# Bacon!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:52, archived)
# BACON
King of foods
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:55, archived)
# ha ha, does it cure baldness?
love it as usual.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:56, archived)
# It causes it
but it`s bacon!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:03, archived)
# ^ this
Undeniably this.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:56, archived)
# Bacon:
Worshipped by anencephalics everywhere!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:56, archived)
# They love it, though they can only imagine the smell.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:01, archived)
# :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:03, archived)
# hehe
lovely, plus odd as there seems to be a few bacon references in my world atm, have i missed some international bacon news?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:00, archived)
# Baconologists recently discovered the deliciousness gene
and are hoping to genesplice it into muffins, bananas and insects.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:24, archived)
# i had two bagels today
each with 4 crispy bacons and a fried egg
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:04, archived)
# I had a BLTC (Bacon Lettuce Tomato and Cheese)
on Sunday morning on toasted bread with a bit of Reggae Reggae sauce. Cor. *salivates*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:07, archived)
# sounds nice, apart fromt he tomato
REGGAE RAGGAE SAUCE MON!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:09, archived)
# sweet sweet baykins
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:04, archived)
# Having just been reading the conversation in the thread above
Seeing this on scrolling down caused me to vibrate with pleasure!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:39, archived)
# Indeed, a weird coincidence that two similarly themed posts
appear at once. Or is it?

(It isn't.)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:48, archived)
# could be worse
could be hams...
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:51, archived)
# a small fluff monster
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:49, archived)
# I just want to hit it with a club. It's so cute.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:49, archived)
# its so fluffy!
:)

**Said in the despicable me type way! :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:53, archived)
# awww
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:46, archived)
# this needs more love
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:31, archived)
# :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:14, archived)
# Eagleheart (It's a bit like Walker Texas Ranger)
Are you watching Eagleheart yet? You should be...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=atsYN4hOokQ&NR=1

Each episode is only 11 minutes, they're all on YourTubes.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:21, archived)
# Awfully sorry, but it's obligatory.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:23, archived)
# shit, wrong reply
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:28, archived)
# I liked it.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:29, archived)
# that's ok, i put it down there v
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:31, archived)
# oohhhhhhhh crap....
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:28, archived)
# Ha ha!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:29, archived)
# go and sit in the naughty corner
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:32, archived)
# Sphincter tightening realisation response
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:36, archived)
# :)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:40, archived)
# Holy Mother!
*fears massively*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:42, archived)
# It's just a clown!
Clowns are funny, right?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:48, archived)
# *cowers under desk*
Well, sometimes.... I guess...*

* No! Never - they are the very stuff of nightmare!!!

*runs away screaming*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:50, archived)
# Clowns live under desks.
don't hide there!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:51, archived)
# Darn It....
Foiled Again!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:54, archived)
# *Sphincter loosening fear response*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:44, archived)
# 0_o

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:50, archived)
# o_O
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:56, archived)
# GaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAH!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:57, archived)
# Keep calm and carry on
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:58, archived)
# find a happy place..
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:03, archived)
# best gif ever
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:05, archived)
# BAPTAZIA!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:12, archived)
# EDDIE MUUUUURPH-Y
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:37, archived)
# Lordy he got tha spirit.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:20, archived)
# Holy fuck!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:05, archived)
# are a very muchly awesome band
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:48, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:58, archived)
# You wan buy dvd?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:34, archived)
# what he said^^
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:29, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:36, archived)
# Naughty Elvis.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:36, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:37, archived)
# well that's fucking odd
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:39, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:45, archived)
# would...wouldn't...would...etc
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:46, archived)
# have haven't have haven't
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:53, archived)
# Pete
Burns is looking well.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:40, archived)
# david walliams
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:56, archived)
# is audi having a joke
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:39, archived)
# I say, old chap,
This might be something those coves over at links may want a gander at. Just a thought, you understand.

More Port?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:44, archived)
# Come on
you know better than this, I'm disappointed
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:55, archived)
# How to hide an elephant, you say?

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:09, archived)
#
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:48, archived)
# elephant in a jar! :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:34, archived)
# but how does it smell
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:36, archived)
# Jamaica?
:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:37, archived)
# *calls RSPCA*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:39, archived)
# you know
ive seen these kittens in jars - someone should do something about that :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:42, archived)
# *wheely-bins*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:42, archived)
# JAIL FOR GEOFFY BALE!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:44, archived)
# bit late for the how to hide an elephant compo aren't you?
it finished a year and 3 months ago.




EDIT: that elephant just got lighter!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:39, archived)
# i'm just a bit slow
:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:42, archived)
# yes I know.. I've seen your facebook statuses...
:O!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:48, archived)
# git
:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:23, archived)
# at your service :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:39, archived)
# Hahaha!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:43, archived)
# That was one of the most fun compos.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:50, archived)
# Yeah I really enjoyed it, too :)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:53, archived)
# heh heh!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:33, archived)
# Bonsai Elephants - the next big thing (literally)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:43, archived)
# haha
:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:43, archived)
# mindpiss :P
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:13, archived)
# Holy Jeebus!
That's both disturbing and excellent.

*is conflicted*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:46, archived)
# hehe
ta:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:23, archived)
# NICE!
* Is he hiding from a mouse?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:47, archived)
# haaha
maybe :)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:24, archived)
# Ha ha!
Looks more like a Cthulhu in a jar.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:49, archived)
# new to from yoyco
:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:24, archived)
# ah, and that will be how you fit 4 of them into a mini
top shop :)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:50, archived)
# 2 in the front 2 in the back
a bit like sex :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:55, archived)
#
Woo
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 18:15, archived)
# That's illogical webhead
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:33, archived)
# Ha ha!
Ace!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:34, archived)
# hehehe
ace! :D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:34, archived)
# hahahahahaha
spocktor octavious
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:36, archived)
# the colour reflectiness in the metal is rather splendid
top woo!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:38, archived)
# Yay
great stuff
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:40, archived)
# Dr Spoktopus
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:44, archived)
# Mr Spock
he was never a doctor.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 15:06, archived)
# Woo!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:04, archived)
# yay!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:50, archived)
# Spock Oc
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:52, archived)
# Woo, yay, etc.
8D
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 16:17, archived)
# Mathematics House Night
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:17, archived)
# hahaha this is all the win and none of the lose
*click*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:20, archived)
# The loos are through the door on the left...
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:26, archived)
# Thanks I was burstin'
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:34, archived)
# I like this harder than I should.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:23, archived)
# this = marvellous
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:24, archived)
# this is the pictoral equivilent to charlie sheen.
and by that i mean WINNING! not of his head mental and knobbing two young girls.

actually, i'm not sure which one it is.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:24, archived)
# I only don't get the henri poincaré one
as I have never heard of him.

massive dollops of awesome with a light sprinkling of talent envy.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:31, archived)
# Euclid throws some shapes, I hear.
Woo!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:33, archived)
# This needs an expansion
because this is awesome.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:56, archived)
# Lovely!
*click*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:05, archived)
# This made my whole day better
brilliant
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:19, archived)
# Haha, hard sums and fat beats
just cheered me up no end!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:26, archived)
# yay!
splendid
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:51, archived)
# Yes yes yes and yes
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:26, archived)
# Infinitely WOO
Upon further inflection, I believe they have the logarhythm.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 17:30, archived)
[challenge entry] Any voting system that expects someone to be able to count to 5 is doomed.


The Binary choice was confusing enough for many.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:13, archived)
# ^ Lily Allen?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:14, archived)
# Alien Llyn
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:17, archived)
# Did you know that Token Woo was one of the Lily Allens on here?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:59, archived)
# No..
* That is all
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 14:11, archived)
# ^ needs more 'ironic' racism, bigotry, puerile stereotyping, stolen punchlines, shoddy dialog, general shitness *has embolism*
/rant over
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:16, archived)
# Nurse!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:16, archived)
# I really am sorry,
but I despise the axis of Lucas/Wailliams for the majority of their TV secretions*

Format Pitch: 'Come Fly With Me'
Well, it's sort of Little Britain in an airline, we based it on Airport, but we'd thought we'd add in some more lazily drawn charicatures and stereotypes.
Now, how much will you pay us?

* as in anal
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:21, archived)
# Totally agree with you
Massively lame effort
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:28, archived)
# ... And that's just Nigel Farage
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:17, archived)
# Well, there is that...
:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:23, archived)
# I'm not the biggest fan of ironic racism
but I do quite enjoy saying "it's funny because it's true" after saying something grossly offensive.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:18, archived)
# On the other hand,
I quite enjoy saying 'I hope they both die in a freak yachting accident'.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:22, archived)
# There is a lot of ironic racism/bigotry about and it's hard to tell just how ironic it's meant to be
or how much of this so-called "irony" is just a thinly veiled disguise for actual racism/bigotry.

But that's probably thinking too much about the problem and not enough of not giving a toss and moving on to more fun stuff.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:24, archived)
# ^ this
Couldn't agree more!

Now prepare to feel the power of the Dark Side off switch!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:26, archived)
# It's my opinion and I'm entitled to it
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:26, archived)
# *checks rules*
No you're not!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:27, archived)
# That's a matter of opinion ;)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:33, archived)
# I have mildly conflicting views about this
but I do think offence is caused by the person who's been offended. If you're not offended it's not offensive... so they're more to blame than the construct of tubular vibrations, tongue slaps and mouth contortions that make up language.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:35, archived)
# So what you are actually saying is that if someone is offended by the way they are treated or talked to
then it is their own fault for taking offense and nothing to do with the way they are being talked to?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:38, archived)
# i may be being deliberately obtuse.. but pretty much.
I'll phrase it this way.

My friends take the piss out of me... I laugh along and find it funny

Someone else takes the piss out of me... I get upset and think the world is a terrible place filled with shits.

The words can be the same but it's how i'm interpreting it that's causing me upset.

(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:44, archived)
# The difference is that you know your friend is just taking the piss and is at the end of the day still YOUR friend.
Someone off the street talks to you like that who you've never seen before you have the perfect right to be upset.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:47, archived)
# yeah I agree that you have the right to be upset if you want to be
but equally it is possible to not give a shit and get on with your day.

I've always thought the world would be a nicer place if everyone took themselves less seriously.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:51, archived)
# HOW DARE YOU
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:56, archived)
# I know... I know.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:00, archived)
# Then we would have a world of trolls
where everybody would be complete shits to everybody and should anybody dare to get offended then that's the perfect excuse to step it up a notch a be even more mean and vindictive. The problem with society at the moment is the lack of basic respect for people and their individuality people do not want to be talked to like the way you are suggesting they want their day to go as smoothly as possible.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:58, archived)
# that's the opposite of what I think we'd get.
if you don't take offence trolling can't happen... a troll is trying to deliberately wind you up... don't get wound up and the troll has nothing to feed on.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:03, archived)
# So for example a bloke might have a bigger than average nose let's say
he goes to work and his work colleagues start with "Hey you big nosed bastard, how's thing?" - "Hey I'm fine and you know what I do have a bigger than average nose and I'm totally fine with you defining this as a main attribute to who I am!" and so his day go along.

Come on think about what you are saying - it's simplistic to think to nobody is ever going to be offended which would work out fine if you were "perfect" and nobody said anything insulting to you but us less than perfect people would be food for the trolls regardless of how we reacted.

Trolls happen whether we ignore them or not - they just become more embolden and seek further ways to annoy, that's why trolls who persist are banned from forums such as b3ta.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:08, archived)
# Speaking as a ginger(hahahahaha), I've had a lot of shit thrown my way
I don't mind ginger jokes as long as they are funny... someone pointing out the obvious (big nose, skin colour, etc.) isn't offensive it's just tedious.

I think we have a fundamentally different opinion on human psychology. Life takes place inside our minds. What mood you are in will effect how you see the world outside. Life, to me, is all a matter of perspective... and I think I'm the one in control of that perspective so if my view of what is happening upsets me I think at some level I should take some of the blame for that.

I'm gonna stop there as I'm verging a bit to close to Charlie Sheen "I just blinked and cured my brain" territory.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:23, archived)
# I'd just finish by saying life doesn't exist solely in the mind it exists in our environment as well
it's a symbiotic/dynamic relationship between the two. We are as much a product of our environment as our environment is a product of us and what we think cannot be taken with the exclusion of our environment nor can we change our environment without fundmentally changing ourselves and the way we think too.

I too was born a "ginger" but I refused to be defined as such and therefore got the respect that I fought for - and that meant taking offense to non-gingers taking the piss.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:32, archived)
# I started taking the piss better than they could.
I could explain more thoroughly where my thought process comes from but it would require me to go on about being bi-polar which I cannot really be arsed with.

I'm going to take a guess and say that if you took a locust of control test you're result would come out as external. Where as I'm more of an internal.. hence this difference of opinion.

EDIT: as this a debate on an internet forum: "You know where people took offence? Nazi Germany that's where!"
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:38, archived)
# so to follow that
do you think a person who would normally be offended should just suck it up, or is it acceptable and just to take offence?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:44, archived)
# You leave my fecking fence where it is
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:45, archived)
# I think they should do what they want to do.
as long as they don't want to cause actual physical harm over something that is intangible and essentially imaginary.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:57, archived)
# Damn.
Does the 'yatching accident' count?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:41, archived)
# Not if the accidental payoff to my off shore bank account doesn't bounce
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:53, archived)
# I thought I'd give series 2 (or possibly 3) of little Britain a go
One of the first sketches was a sad old man character who'd bought a Thai bride.
It was so gut-wrenchingly embarrassingly awful that I stopped watching and have never bothered since.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:38, archived)
# Nothing to do with their sense of humour but more down to the fact they are just so fucking unfunny
which puts me off Little Britian altogether the only saving grace of the series is Tom Baker but I think he too is being exploited by 2 unfunny twats. Just my opinion and therefore as my opinion cannot be interpreted as being in anyway offensive* ;)

(* Irony)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:43, archived)
# It's all about big glowy balls (Blender 3D)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:10, archived)
# ooh
I bet they make a buzzy noise
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:12, archived)
# They vibrate too
this is the future of mobile phones a big glowy ball held to the ear playing music and making phone calls is what every young trendy thing will be doing!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:14, archived)
# That's a link
one wouldn't normally choose to click ;-)

Nicely!
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:14, archived)
# The yellow one looks really sad...
:(
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:15, archived)
# He knows what the other two are planning to do with him.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:16, archived)
# O_O
O
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:16, archived)
# Unhappy balls are unhappy
Edit: Mindpiss ^
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:16, archived)
# fantastic
:)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:36, archived)
# Cheers Simon
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:34, archived)
# Having liked this,
I clicked 'I like this'.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:14, archived)
# Having stated that you liked my render and therefore clicked that you like it, I thank you
;)
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 13:16, archived)
# zOMG! Radioactive Audi-driving aliens who like Goastse!


Board has been told, I may now relax.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 11:57, archived)
# No offence but I'm sick of it - SICK OF IT, I TELL YOU!
Or maybe just sick.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:12, archived)
# I'm not coming in to work today as I'm sick.
How sick?
Well, I'm in bed with my sister. That do for a start?
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:14, archived)
# Pfft!
I'm actually just hungover but am remedying it with lunch.
I bought an 'organic meze boost box' from tesco and it has:
falafels, cous-cous salad, feta, olives, tomato, gherkins, houmous & spinach leaves.
All for £2.50 *credit-crunched Geoff*
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:21, archived)
# I can't say I like the ingredients,
but that's a bargain.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:23, archived)
# It was pretty meh in the end
Not enough falafel, too much cous-cous. It was more medicinal than anything else.
I think I'll have booze.
(, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 12:41, archived)

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