Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.

'Shindig'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


billytea - Feb 28, 2010 10:28:21 am PST #11973 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Kangaroo proof fence?

It's like a rabbit proof fence, only four metres tall. (And, I like to think, made entirely out of rubber. BOIIIIINGG!)


megan walker - Feb 28, 2010 10:28:30 am PST #11974 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I know. Why show that live everywhere and nothing else?


DavidS - Feb 28, 2010 10:51:54 am PST #11975 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Back to Death and children, I Tivoed The River Cottage Treatment because I wanted Emmett to see it. (He did not want to watch it however.)

But I played it anyway and Matilda watched. When they got to the part where they were butchering rabbits she yelped, "Those are cats!"

Me: "No, those aren't cats. Those are rabbits."
Matilda: "We don't eat animals!"
Emmett and I together (perhaps too enthusiastically): "Yes, we do!
Matilda: "No, no no. I only eat ham and meat."
Us: "Welllll....."
::show focuses on lambs gamboling about on farm as narrator talks about lamb burgers::
Matilda: "We don't eat sheep. Sheep are fluffy. They're too fluffy."


Sue - Feb 28, 2010 10:57:14 am PST #11976 of 30001
hip deep in pie

I used to watch my mom clean rabbits as a kid and I was fascinated by it. Especially all the guts. For a while I had rabbit foot that my mother cut off the bunny, complete with bone sticking out, for luck. It was only when I got older, about 10, that I started to get grossed out by the annual arrival of rabbit.


billytea - Feb 28, 2010 11:09:37 am PST #11977 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Larry Hagman told the story of his eighth birthday, where his mother had got him a special surprise. He followed this piece of string all round the house and then out to the back yard, where it was tied to a rabbit tethered to the ground. Unfortunately, a neighbourhood dog had got there first, and it was no longer such promising pet material as it might once have been.


Hil R. - Feb 28, 2010 11:45:49 am PST #11978 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

USA is showing one of the eco-terrorism episodes of SVU. Sigh. I shouldn't watch this, because it just annoys me. It also makes me wonder if I've ever run into any FBI informants at a potluck. [link]


Stephanie - Feb 28, 2010 11:52:53 am PST #11979 of 30001
Trust my rage

I thought the game was live for everyone? I could have sworn I saw this big lost of start times based on time zones? We are just waiting forthe beginning of the third period which seems to fity Twitter stream.


javachik - Feb 28, 2010 11:56:24 am PST #11980 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

It's live here (CA) Stephanie. Also, sekret super question: did you receive my PP?


javachik - Feb 28, 2010 12:01:02 pm PST #11981 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I've got an incredibly simple rule about what I eat. If I couldn't look into its eyes and slash its throat (or, with fish, take a hammer to its head), I don't eat it. It makes it very simple.

I've told this to cattle ranchers in San Antonio and they totally said they respected it, and I've never had anyone question my sanity or call me a Pinko Commie Slut (which, was def. my worry when I went on that business trip to TX!).

It has nothing to do with it just being a job I don't want to do, like cleaning sewers or being a garbage man. It's got everything to do with my comfort factor in taking a life in order to eat. I have fished and eaten the fish and that's pretty much where my comfort level is. I don't ask anyone else to be the same way; it's very personal and I talk about it so infrequently and make such a little deal out of it that often my friends don't even know I am a pescaterian.

Further, family farmers who have chores around the animals and know exactly where the meat comes from? Have all of my respect. It's possible that if all animals were humanely treated before they became dinner, I would have different views about eating meat. The same with hunting. I have absolutely no problem with people hunting for their food and having venison (or whatever) all Winter long. Just don't call it a sport, and be trained in a one-bullet kill, and I'm fine with it. These views put me squarely at odds with many vegetarians and vegans.

I also think leather is recycling. I joke that if we could recycle human parts to use, I'd wear shoes made of that, too. I am not picky with what happens with carcasses. I am only picky about what happens with the living.


megan walker - Feb 28, 2010 12:02:25 pm PST #11982 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Yes, it's live everywhere. My point was that's what NBC should have done for every event.