Just...................whatever [2]

It was always really suss- the drunk driver, the missing white car for the collision, the 'problems' with the tunnel cctv footage, the Al Fayed/Aristocracy/MI5 thing and just the possibility the mother of the heir to the throne would produce muslim half brothers with a claim to the throne.
Whole thing was fishier smelling than a Sunday Morning Herring market in Fjordia.  

I agree Petty !  

Just saw the Chicago Symphony Orchestra play the score to Two Towers with a live playing of the film! I tried to get a video but I got yelled at and shooed away But it was really good! The female voice in Evenstar was astounding, but the kid singing during March of the Ents clearly was going through puberty.

Nothing better than a live orchestra- they can be playing pretty much anything, hell them tuning up sounds amazing when its live.

omg, you went to that!?!?!!!!!!! u have no idea how much i want to go to that D: like classical music + film score + THE LORD OF THE RINGS!! *jealous*

 

Best use of that gif ever

The hens in the backgarden have their first chicks! Two of them so far but she's still sitting on a clutch of five.



I reckon I'll need at least four of them for a kebab stick.  

they're adorable

And with any luck tasty too.  

  they are so lovely ! how is it that men find it easier to joke about eating cuties than I can ? Is there even a woman working in an abattoir or as a butcher ? I cant kill ! especially if I saw it born & watched it grow !

especially if I saw it born & watched it grow - Azriel

But thats the best way to know the quality of the food you eat- you get to see how its been raised, what its been fed, how its been cared for.
Surely thats better than trusting some corporation to the task?

Yeah, I get your point, if your a farmer. Of course its better that the animal has some degree of life, is cared for (vets) & is fed decent food with none of this god awful shit thats put in our food ! I see that ! but, if its in a small holding, like if you have a big enough garden or a plot of land, then, well, no sorry, I cant do it ! My granddaughter goes to a school that has its own animals for the older children to help with, they have 2 big fat pigs, half a doz chickens, geese, goats & every now & then, one of the animals is missing monday morning, served up tuesday dinner time. The kids are learning about food & where it comes from, care, additives etc but, I find it hard ! I bloody well get to dam attached !! Im trying to eat food that I hope an animal hasnt been killed for ? obviously thats difficult, animal by products are in just about everything ! but, I eat Quorn & ( I fooking hope it is ?) Veggie food. Its my conscience Im stuck with !  

The trick is you dont treat them like pets- you dont spend time with them, give them names- you just look after their well being-  they are just there, so you dont form attachments.
Otherwise it will be very hard indeed to kill and eat them.

I try off and on to be a vegetarian. Figure if I can't stomach killing it myself I have no right to eat it, but I'm morally weak. The aroma of nicely cooked meat is too hard to resist.

Mmmm, I know, BACON ! GAMMON !  
I can smell it now ! Thanks Halfy, Im hungry now !

It's supposed to be morally difficult.
We always named our cattle, and continued to refer to them by name as we ate the beef. When you respect the animal like that, you don't let a bit of it go to waste.

I dislike killing animals, but what truly disgusts me is to watch people take a large helping of meat onto their plate, take a few bites and then scrape it into the garbage with no thought of the animal it once was.

I agree David that raising your animals to eat makes you respect the fact you are taking a life to continue your own life (this incidentally is my God's a Cheeky Bastard theory of the Universe- which is the fact if there is a God he created a universe in which living things have to kill and consume the life of other living things or die themselves and then He comes along and says 'Thou shalt not kill'- what a cheeky bastard!)

yes, true. I know parents tell their kids to think of the children in africa when they don't eat up, but what david says is much more realistic for a little kid to actually grasp the concept off. the animal named Berta has died so that u can eat and be healthy and live on, now don't waste that life.

Problem there is that kids tend not to value life as much. If you ask directly then maybe yes, but really they haven't quite understood the whole life/death concept very well yet as well as cause and effect.

I think the life/death thing is still difficult for most people in adulthood but at least we know that when someone dies then they are at the very least gone from this existence (reincarnation and ghosts aside). Kids just dont get the forever bit.... or even that an animal was once walking round enjoying life before it got chopped up.

depends on the age. Around 5 or 6 you get it.

Edit: I was referring to death as forever. animals getting chopped up I don't think they'd get until they've seen it.

I think Lance a lot of that comes down to how you are raised.
My neighbours kids help in the planting of the veggie patch, they gather in the berries in summer and help make jam, the clean out the chickens coup and gather the eggs, and if an animal dies they are there to see the that and the result.
They are very aware not only of where food comes from, what it was before it got to the shop shelves, but also surprisingly aware of the differences in quality between home grown and mass produced.

If however you were raised on an estate in the city and have never so much as seen a live chicken or cow your life then its hardly surprising kids dont have any real understanding.

yes living in surburbia Nature is just something David Attenborough does in Africa, or when they step in dog poo in the local park, you miss the Seasons changing and the sometimes cruel reality of Nature, kids brought up on a farm understand this balance