A fatal beating
Around Christmas time Prince Edward was in the news for beating one of his dogs whilst out pheasant shooting. It was nothing story really, just the tabloids doing their normal Edward-bashing, but for some reason my Mom took the bait and decided to get upset about it. Never mind the human suffering in the world, some posh bloke hitting his dog is the thing to focus on.

Unsurprisingly when this came up one mid-Christmas mealtime my sister pointed out that hitting a dog with a stick wasn’t much of a story really.

“They’re only dogs. As long as he didn’t really lay into them that’s OK. Dogs need discipline.”

Mom shakes her head and says you can’t beat discipline into dogs.

“He might have been separating two dogs fighting,” says my sister.

Mom disagrees again, insisting you can’t fight violence with violence.

“We don’t know all the details. Without the facts we shouldn’t judge him” tries my sister a third time.

Mom continues the argument, saying that the fact he hit his dogs isn’t disputed and that is always cruel.

Having had quite enough of all this nonsense I stood up with a flourish and said, “For goodness’ sake Mom, you used to smack us when we were little. That was to discipline us, to stop us from fighting, and you did it without finding out what was going on half the time. Was that worse than hitting a dog?”

I love my Mom, and I think my parents did a great job bringing us up, but I had to shoot her down there, didn’t I?
( GarbageFan didn't know what to have as a board sig on, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 22:01, 3 replies)

Yes,
yes you did have to. Just don't beat your own kids. Send them to b3ta - that will do all the hard work for you.
(Elephantine Galoot is on the M62 heading east at, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 22:13, closed)

Yeah, but Prince Edward *is* a cunt though isn't he.
( sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 23:11, closed)

^^ yes!
Although if he just "came out" I'd feel happier about the pointless parasite...
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Tue 24 Feb 2009, 11:04, closed)