Why should food fall outside of the standard ethics rules of society? In that sense, not eating dog is akin to wearing clothes when you go outside. There's nothing inherently dangerous about not wearing clothes--or eating dog meat--but society deems it incorrect, so nobody does it.

I still think it's actually entirely the same argument.

it's the opposite arguement, it's like christians who believe shit without questioning it.

why would you blindly accept it, just cause it the norm?

you have pet chickens?

We are all pears....

If that's the case, websites like myspace and facebook would be pear-to-pear networks. hoho

these are my favourite two posts on gw.

EW you're all gross! wash your hands, dammit. use soap, and scrub for as long as it takes to sing the alphabet.
please stop wetting your dirty dick hands and counting that as washing.

This is a dumb argument. Just because we eat meat doesn't mean cultural standards don't apply to us. This is the exact same argument some christians make against atheists when they accuse them of having no ethics.

ah this is super late, but

it's not the same argument at all.

i honestly want to know what the difference is to people. if it's simply SOCIETY ACCEPTS POULTRY CONSUMPTION, BUT NOT DOG, then that is a bad reason imo.

i have pet chickens who have names. i take care of them, pet them, cuddle with them even! to me there is no difference between eating a dog and eating a chicken.

you're considering a job chopping down xmas trees?

bu... but the thread you just made on activism...

I am moving to Texas for 90 days to live with my girlfriend.

Considering I usually complain about the 3 days of moderate heat the UK gets per year, it will be interesting to live through 90 days of Texan death.

Gonna be fun.

sorry to hear this.

question for meat-eaters: would you eat a dog?

if no, what is the difference between dog and other animals?

what kind of fruit?

do you have big hands? if yes, maybe you could be a watermelon picker.

you don't have to buy like $8 soy burgers, you could buy a can of chick peas which is a tonne of protein for like... 60 cents.

also, a lot of my friends are vegan activists. they are always inviting me to come out to demos, but i really don't agree with them. the majority of people who see them will just be annoyed and probably go home and eat a steak out of spite.

it's probably cheaper to eat vegetarian actually...

also, jamie, even if you don't respect the choices of meat-eaters, you should probably try to just accept that people eat meat. i mean... otherwise you'll just go around hating like 98 percent of people you meat.

youth in asia.

yeah, but say he works at sears at 8.50/hour, 40 hours a week. that's 340 per week. now let's say his shifts are 8 hours long. that's 5 shifts per day. now if he takes the bus to get there and back, it'd take 2.75 each way, so 10 x 2.75 is $27.5 on the commute. now maybe he drives instead and gas only costs 1.70 to get there and back and an average of 36 cents per trip on average repairs. that adds to $2.06 if he drives so $20.60/week. now since we don't know which one he'll take, let's round between the two. that means. $24.05 per week on transport. now assume he hits a small woodland creature once every 3 weeks and has to pay for clean up, that's $25/3 = $8.33 so in total $32.38. let's say he gets a discount on the clothes at sears and buys rnough shirts to provide 2.5 rags per week in the long run, that is 1.2 more rags than he would accumulate if he were teaching guitar. in addition, he would improve his guitaring abilities 2.6% more than he would playing air guitar to the elevator music at sears. however. his soul would slowly be sucked from working for a large company and he would feel 17 times less significant than he would teaching guitar. to make up for this lack of spirits, he would have to spend 1.3 hours a week volunteering at the local soup kitchen. this would in turn increase the risk of an unknown elbow infection, raising medical bills for subsequent years by $5.30 annually. on the other hand, teaching guitar aroudn unexperienced musicians raises the chances of a freak guitar string fatality. this could increase the cost of life insurance by $2.50. now if he plans to go into a career that requires sales, he might be further ahead if he works at sears. in this case, he could find a job closer to home requiring him to walk 5.2 miles less on average per day. this will lead to 0.07 - 0.1 gram of dirt collected by his nostrils during the walk (depending on location). this leads to a high chance of deafening snoring. in this case, hearing will be weakened. walking will in turn become more difficult and guitar playing nearly inpossible. however, without the ability to play guitar, he will be more inclined to take up a new hobby to benefit those with similar disabilities. in the end, it's really up to what he values: world peace or tuna sandwiches.

an artificial leg would be the dumbest idea

but... strapping a twoonie-   

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i think your dealing with a more serious issue abotu the centre of gravity here.

without a 4th leg, the centre of gravity will actually change the cat's trajectory considerably.

appylin to sears. keep ya fingers crossed

what the... you'd rather work at sears for like 8 bucks per hour than teach guitar at like... 10 bucks a lesson / 20 bucks an hour???

enough weight to counter balance a third of it's body is like three $2 coins. and yeah it's leaning against my hand, i don't see your differentiation, though iirc her stub moves

if it's helped by leaning on your hand, putting a weight no it would only make it worse... it needs to lean on something, not be pulled further down... 

dude. if you already have experience teaching music, just keep trying to get more students. this is probably the best job you could possibly have in highschool. just focus on ways to get students and keep them coming back instead of trying to get some shitty fast food job where you'll get paid like 2 cents for every 800 coffees you serve or something.

what!? hahah, what kind of weight do you plan on using? like canned soup? and how are you planning on attaching it? i think this sounds like a good idea for humour purposes alone.

it probably walks more easily when you press on the missing leg area because it's still shifting it's weight aroudn the way it's used to. are you sure it's not leaning on your hand when you press it there instead of leaning on what would be a leg?

yes ive tried teaching but it was nearly impossible getting students. i put up ads on craigslist and in the local music store but at most i had like 2 students at a time

really?? you didn't get more through word of mouth? just charge very little and put like a LOT of effort into the lessons to make sure the students enjoy / get something out of them. make lesson plans at first even.

do you drive? people seem to love it when you go to their hosue to teach instead of them going to yours.  ​

Insanitarium is a movie. Yup, that about sums it up.

NO NO NO NO, will not do one line posts. Bad Mamamack!

Insanitarium casts some folks including someone from Desperate Housewives and the chick from Attack of the Show. The premise is this: Sister tries to kill herself and gets committed, brother fakes his way into insane lock-up to find his sister, discovers (from a conveniently placed neurotic geek) that the doctor of the funny farm is conducting experiments on his patients, attempts to break sister free and succeeds but only after about a hundred people get eaten by the doctor's 'patients' who are hyped up on some drug that makes them want to eat people. Oh yeah, and their eyes turn white. And Quark is there, too. Did I mention the chick from Attack of the Show?

Anyway, this movie was, at best, decent. The longer it got, though, the cheesier it became. OK, we get it, the patients are cannibals. The doctor is crazier than the people he's taking care of. Quark is creepy even without his Ferengi make-up. Eye candy comes in the form of the dude from Desperate Housewives and the chick from Attack of the Show, but that's about all this movie has going for it. With a bit more script work and a bit more time, this could have been a good movie. As it stands now, it's a 'meh.' Decent enough to recommend a rental, but don't waste your money buying it.

hm... this sounded good until you said it was decent at best... i'll probably watch it still aynways

i just watched naked lunch. it was awesome

i also watched one of the qatsi trilogy movies this weekend. was aewsome. phillip glass is my hero.