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Pink should talk to Toni Collette. Also, Pink should be boycotted by all Australians.
UPDATE. Peter Costello doesn’t think much of Pink.
I’d just be happy to see her replaced as the singer on the Sunday Night Football theme song on NBC.
Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 12 19 at 10:09 PM • permalinkWhat i find incredibly amazing about htese artists that PETA regualry recruits is that they do not think to go out and find out the other side of the story before they shoot their mouths off. It’s like it never occurs to them that they might be being told a few porkies by an unhinged lobby group.
No need to resort to violence, Infidel Tiger, just drop a fly blown lamb on Pimk’s stilletos. Seeing (and smelling, a smell that permanently accretes to your olfactory nerve) poor little lambsie as the maggots eat it alive would put the issue in perspective.I guess I’m not “with it”, ‘cuz I never heard of this “Pink” until now.
Having Googled her, I’m not impressed terribly impressed. And less so, having read the linked article.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 19 at 10:50 PM • permalinkYou’re being too harsh- Stinky Pinky has a long history of advocacy for defenceless critters.
When’s Stinky Pinkey going in to bat for the exploited minkey?
Her voice sounds like a methed up phone sex worker who’s pulled a 105 hour shift entertaining prison inmates.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 19 at 11:00 PM • permalinkAs a counter to the pink twit, I offer this bit of o/t:
Open Season by Stuck Mojo.
I thought I hated rap but this group gets it. Caution, may not be work safe due to some harshness in images and lyrics.
Here’s what the Rich Ward of the band has to say:
This is a post by Rich Ward regarding “Open Season” and the mistaken interpretations of its meaning that some people have expressed. This was originally on page 3 of another thread but I thought it needed more exposure. So here you go:
(Original Response Post from Rich “The Duke” Ward)
1)The Open Season video is not an animated feature where we are using propaganda to make extreme Islam look bad.
2)The images were not staged for dramatic purposes.
3)We used these images because they tell a story that most of us pass off as something that will work it’s way out and then go back to our football games and Playstations.
Call me me an alarmist, but this is not about Iraq or the so called “War On Terrorism”, this is about a worldwide movement that is compelled by spiritual teachings to convert us or kill us. It’s not about Israel or America, if it was then why is this virus present in Algeria, Sudan, Somalia, Indonesia, the former Soviet Union, the Philippines, India, France, Spain and 1.5 million dead in Darfur. But I thought this whole thing was about Israel and America. Then why are Buddhist and Hindu temples set on fire and the followers of these peaceful religions attacked?
Right now, a civil war being waged within Islam. Take a look at what is taking place in Lebanon and in Iraq. You investigate it, it’s all there for those who don’t live with their heads in the sand to see.
We can argue about percentages of peaceful Muslims vs. non-peaceful Muslims, but that will get us no further than trying to determine how many Germans actually supported Hitler during the late 1930’s. The threat is growing and understanding why Hitler wanted to destroy the Jewish people, did not stop it from happening. So how will understanding the leaders of Iran, who have publically called for the destruction of Isreal and the Jewish people, keep them from following through with what they believe they are compelled to do by God.
Why is it a news story for MONTHS when a Catholic Priest molests a child. NO ONE is afraid of offending Catholics by suggesting that the Catholic church was coordinating an effort to protect these morally deviant Priest. But God forbid we discuss the fact that NOT ALL Muslims are terrorists, but that ALMOST ALL terrorists ARE Muslim. Under Sharia law (look it up), women are stoned to death for being in a relationship with a Christian or for leaving the Islamic faith. If a woman is raped, under Sharia law she has to produce have FOUR witnesses to the rape that will testify on her behalf or no charges can be made. Under Sharia law, homosexuals are stoned to death. Say it out LOUD! Under Sharia law, HOMOSEXUALS ARE STONED TO DEATH! Gotta love that religion of tolerance and peace!
This video is NOT attacking Islam. This video is NOT lumping all followers of Islam in with the terrorists. No one in the Stuck Mojo organization is a racist or a bigot, but I refuse to ignore these events so as to keep from offending anyone.
If you don’t like what I have to say, don’t buy my album.
Respectfully, Rich Ward
House of Ward, forum for Stuck Mojo is the source for the above quote.
I think I’m gonna buy that album.
Hmmm...upset about the live export trade?
Rather than protest to Australia, it’d probably be better to protest at the source - ie, the Islamic faith’s religious requirement for cruel deaths to sheep at Ramadan and other times.
Course, it’s far easier to criticise white guys.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 12 19 at 11:22 PM • permalinkA farmer is going to spend days up to his elbows in blood and skin mulesing just for the fun of it ???
The farmers I know HATE mulesing but it’s just one of those messy animal husbandry jobs that’s got to be done.
If PINK / PETA can come up with a better and equally effective alternative I’m sure everyone will be happy to hang up their shears.
Perhaps they just prefer clothing made out of Tree’s and Crude Oil?
Pink has a large number of tattoos - something like 17 of them. Getting inked is a long, bloody and painful process (never had it done personally, but I have watched it being done).
Getting the skin around your bum cut off is pretty painful too - never wielded the shears myself, but I’ve loaded a few thousand lambs into the cradle and watched it happen repeatedly from a few feet away. Not a job for the squeamish.
A good muelser though will have the skin off in a few seconds. It’s a short, sharp and nasty process, but it beats dying slowly and painfully from flystrike.
Tattooing is a long, slow and nasty process. It has no obvious life saving benefits. If PETA wants to complain about people causing pain to dumb animals, they should have culled anyone that was into undergoing long, painful masochistic non-surgical procedures themselves. If Pink is willing to repeatedly suffer a lot of pain with no medical benefits, why should she complain about a once-off process that has proven benefits?
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 19 at 11:23 PM • permalink#19- cruel? how can it be cruel when they say a little prayer for ewe?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 19 at 11:31 PM • permalink#7 I think a little entropy has infested your keyboard, entropy.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 12 19 at 11:35 PM • permalinkI like animals too, Pink. I eat their flesh and wear their skin ...mmm, warm and tastey.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 12 19 at 11:40 PM • permalinkyeah sorry- worse than my high school french teacher
no more puns i promise
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 19 at 11:43 PM • permalinkWhenever some damn fool celeb signs up with PETA, they’re done as far as I’m concerned.
Kee-rist!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 19 at 11:57 PM • permalinkUmmm I like a good lamb roast as much as the next man. Well more perhaps, being a NZer, but let’s not go OT just yet (looks meaningfully at #16).
And I’ve edited a farming newspaper for a good few years so I know the inevitability of mulesing and the unpleasant alternative of leaving sheep fly-struck.
But I do have a problem with the live sheep trade. Sitting on a beautiful Perth beach on Sunday I was suddenly accosted by a sickening smell. Tearing my attenion away from the
bikini clad womeninteresting shells I’d been studying, I barely made out the shape of a live sheep ship on the far horizon.If the odour is that bad from that far away, I can’t imagine what it’d be like for the animals on board, not to mention the other hardships they endure.
It’s no good asking the looneys to cease demanding these barbaric practises, #19. Better to tell them that if they want to partake of our lamb chops they can bloody well have them delivered pre-butchered and frozen like everyone else, or we’ll eat ‘em ourselves thanks.
I’d give it about a month before the cries of “Imperialist infidels!” were drowned out by rumbling stomachs. A few airdrops of freshly BBQed chops (hey, an airborne party!) to seal the deal and we’d have more abbatoir jobs, more profit, and a more humane industry.
RexW But I do have a problem with the live sheep trade.
Same here. I was on a ferry on the Swan in Perth a few years back and we caught up to and drew alongside a live-sheep export vessel headed for the ME.I could see the individual sheep, their faces - packed tighter than sardines, how they were watered and fed on the journey not readily apparent. And yes, it stank!
When they get top their destination they have their throats cut and left to bleed to death. Lovely.
And yes, I love BBQ’d chops as well. It’s the cruelty and the ghastly fate of the export sheep that bothers me.
On Collette. One of the chaps i was on a course with for the last couple of weeks mentioned he had the job of driving her around on the minesite for 3 days while the filming of “japanese story” was taking place.
A stuck up bitch whos shit wouldnt stink was his opinion. Wouldnt lower herself to associating with the “plebs” as he put it.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 12 20 at 12:19 AM • permalinkI’m confused.
Having sung songs all afternoon at the Gabba referencing the locals’ penchant for sheep shagging, we were ‘politely’ informed that it’s the Kiwis who partake in such activities.
So were we right all along?
Is it the shagging that Pink objects to?
Posted by pommygranate on 2006 12 20 at 12:24 AM • permalinkAm I the only one who noticed the head-tilt?.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 12 20 at 12:29 AM • permalinkOne presumes that the ninnies that support PETA know about how many animals they kill which is about the same percentage as other animal shelters find new homes for.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 12 20 at 12:36 AM • permalinkAnyone want to give me odds on the curtains matching the carpet btw?
Posted by lex luthor on 2006 12 20 at 12:40 AM • permalinkGiven that mulesing happens around the bum, are PETA now People for the Ethical Treatment of Arseholes?
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 20 at 12:41 AM • permalinkYeah, there’s also some Seppo actor having his restaurant chain boycott Canadian seafood to protest the seal hunt. Leading this [#23] being on topic for this forum.
http://tinyurl.com/t96dbPosted by andycanuck on 2006 12 20 at 12:48 AM • permalinkAs I am too busy to attend a press conference please circulate this release to all news channels: I am totally against the cruelty inflicted on humanity by pop singers, male and female. The inhumanity of the breed can no longer be ignored. Damage to the workings of the ear aside, how many accidents are caused by drivers wearing sun glasses at night wanting to make people think they are Bono? How many tv’s have been thrown into hotel pools causing massive head trauma to the next pool user who dives in unaware?
It can’t go on any longer and I intend to make the issue public on my tour. I demand an audience with John Howard. I demand that we increase troop levels in Afghanistan and Iraq. Kofi Annan..oh no don’t get me started.
Bugger. I was going to buy Pink’s latest, too. I’ve not spent money on her before, but have always liked her.
Um, no, sorry, darl, no can do. Not with that petarded attitude of yours.
I did catch a soundbite of Peter Costello having fun at her expense on the radio on the way home, too.
For the record, I do not own a fur coat - real or not.
Also for the record, I badly want to own a real fur coat. I reckon we’ve got enough foxes to make a shopful of them.
Incidentally, has anyone ever been arrested for assault and harrassment when caught throwing paint and crap over the wearers of fur?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 12 20 at 01:04 AM • permalinkRe. #43, actually the chowder-head is Jimmy Buffet and his Margaritaville Cafés chain.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 12 20 at 01:07 AM • permalink>The title of this item reminds me of a rather off-colour Walter Lindrum/kneeling naked prostitute joke.
Hate to be pernickety, but my late Billiards-loving father would say that the greatest cueman EVER could only have gone after a red or a white ball - and he would have done it after giving his opponents a 7,000 point head start!
Posted by Apparatchik on 2006 12 20 at 01:10 AM • permalinkThe live export trade is a win/win situation for seller and buyer.
We get to off load sheep even a kiwi wouldn’t root for top $$$. The desert dwelling death bots get to kill them in their special way.
If you don’t like it, piss off and die you animal hugging commies.
Having spent a few months one summer loading the horrible buggers, let me tell you - There is no other market for them.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 20 at 01:11 AM • permalinkA mate of mine who is living in the middle east told me a while ago that they don’t actually eat most of the sheep - they just slaughter them for one ritual or another. The family will take their sheep out to the roadside, slit its throat in the appropriate manner and then leave the body behind.
The equivalent of the Main Roads Dept then has a busy time running around with a truck picking up all the bloated bodies.
If we don’t sell them sheep, they’ll just buy hampsters from the Peruvians and slit their chubby little throats instead.
ps - my vegetarian, non-leather wearing partner has just visited the freezer and removed two racks of lamb for dinner.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 20 at 01:24 AM • permalinkI knew a guy who worked years ago at the burke meatworks who was telling me about exporting goat meat to the ME,they use to employ a muslim halal thingy guy to bless the goat then stick it,i don’t know why they can’t do that with the sheep instead of live exports,Funny story,he was working the electric prod to knock out the goat the the halal guy would say a prayer then kill it ,he was working for hours and got a bit bored and lost concentration and zapped this goat just as the halal guy grabbed the goat,he sut down the prodution line for the day because he fried the shit out of halal thingy guy who spent the day in hospital yelling to allah.
#50- alright, I admit it. It was really an Eddie Charleton gag, but no-one outside the Aust/UK nexus would have ever heard of him.
BTW, here’s some infantile rhymy sheepy thingies.
Another funny story: There is a halal abattoir in Katanning, WA which naturally employs a fair few muslims. The town also has quite a large muslim community. A girl I work with and busloads from her church have been spending every weekend up there recently converting them to Christianity. A huge Christmas feast is planned with the recruits and potentials.
Bloody crusaders!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 20 at 01:33 AM • permalinkps - my vegetarian, non-leather wearing partner has just visited the freezer and removed two racks of lamb for dinner.
Shouldn’t be a problem for Mr. Creosote to finish the lamb. The non-leather wearing thing must limit you in the boudoir though.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 20 at 01:37 AM • permalink#53 - you missed the point about the live sheep trade. They don’t want to eat them, they just want something live and woolly to kill.
I guess they give them pet names before slitting their throats - “Crusader pig”, “George Woolly Bush”, “Small woolly satan”, “Woolly Blair”, etc etc.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 20 at 01:39 AM • permalinkLike most discerning diners, Middle Eastern people prefer their meat freshly slaughtered, not with the flavour deep-frozen out of it. Same as Asians like to choose their seafood while it’s stll alive in tanks.
Also, sheep and goats are sacrificed during the Id festivals - something about Abraham, who features in Islam, being prepared to sacrifice his son, I think. Their throats are slit, as prayers are said. I have seen whole streets awash in blood in Turkey, as animals are sacrificed left, right and centre, for Id-Al fitr. Not a pretty sight, but that’s the culture. I assumed they were eaten afterwards.
Bugger. Should have made that “Tony Baa-aaa”.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 20 at 01:42 AM • permalink#60 - You can see the same thing anywhere in the world.
Luckily we advance types have removed the need for animals to die and are able to grow meat on polystyrene petri dishes.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 20 at 01:43 AM • permalink#60 - it’s worth remembering where the phrase “bloody shambles” originates from. I have walked down the street called The Shambles in York. More info on it here.
Yes, we used to slaughter and butcher our food in a rather horrible and unsanitary fashion, but we seemed to get over it a hundred or so years ago.
That being said, they were still chopping up animals in the open air at markets when I was in Greece 15 years ago. The flies were something else.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 20 at 01:54 AM • permalinkYou should see an open air market in Africa. If you think a boatload of Kiwi woolly whores smells bad, try looking at and sniffing the delectable aroma of alfresco heads of camels being wheeled down the street in wheelbarrows. Almost enough to put me off the hot, juicy pork chops with apple sauce I’m having for dinner.
Almost.# 65 - CB where do you live and what wine do you want me to bring?
Posted by surfmaster on 2006 12 20 at 02:33 AM • permalinkWhat fascinates me is what if this campaign was fabulously succssful? What do PETA think would happen to all those surplus merino’s, they’d get fostered out to Zoos for the rest of their natural lives?
How big is your backyard Pink?Posted by the nailgun on 2006 12 20 at 02:41 AM • permalinkBilly was at school this morning in the outback and the teacher asked all the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came out, fireman, policeman, salesman, chippy, captain of industry etc, but Billy was being uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him about his father.
“My father is an exotic dancer in a gay club and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes if the offer is really good, he’ll go out with a man, rent a cheap hotel room and let them sleep with him.”
The teacher quickly set the other children some work and took little Billy aside to ask him if that was really true.
“No” said Billy, “He plays cricket for England but I was just too embarrassed to say.”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 20 at 02:45 AM • permalinkI used to work in the local slaughteryards in my hometown (it wasn’t big enough to call an abattoir, just three men working), I hated it, but I needed a job after school, and in a small town they can be hard to come by. It was pretty primitive, get a beast in the chute, hang over the gate with a .22 and lights out. Then my boss got a load of sheep from Julia Creek, and I realised how much I hated that job. Never liked hurting animals. Got no problem with it per se, but when the little bugger is looking at you, the boss doesn’t want to waste ammo, which means you have to cut it’s throat, it’s not a fun day. I most definitely prefer someone else to do the killing, if I can help it. Pink is just another ‘celeb’ who has probably never even seen a sheep station, but knows everything about them.
How come she’s not campaigning about the treatment of scandanavian pigs?
You heartless, vile thugs. Think about the poor sheep. How would you like having your bum cut up by some farmer in the middle of a field somewhere. And I’ll bet it is totally unhygenic. And spare me your ‘a splash of Dettol and it’s fine’ nonsense.
I for one am going to support Pink’s call to action as best I can. I will avoid wool products (easy since I live in the tropics and wool is just itchy here) and I will not support the live sheep trade (as any appearance by me in the Middle East will be over my dead body, so I won’t be hungry).
Furthermore, I’m willing to take this a step beyond what even Pink is calling for: I’m going to do my bit by ensuring that I personally prevent as much mulesing as possible. I intend to do this by eating an awful lot of lamb.
So there. Top that, you animal hating bastards.
#68-they will let them roam free,there is quite a few roaming free on the stuart highway between Adelaide and Alice Springs,I was running a 7 day 4wd backpaker tour when i turned onto the highway to head north and came across a roadtrain that hit one,it bounced of the trucks front guard and hit the drivers side windscreen,the driver lost it and rolled over the last two trailers which were full of beer.We pulled up and cried as we watched pallets of beer being bulldozed into a hole and smashed.One very tender dead sheep and lots and lots of beer....Oh the humanity
Celebrities, Riters and Actors Party
Press ReleaseIt is an exciting day in Australia’s political history. Today, we announce the formation of the Celebrities, Riters and Actors Party.
This party has been formed as it has become abundantly apparent that social progress can only be left in the hands of the artistic and creative.
We believe that with great talent comes great responsibility.
We believe that the universe has made us more vibrant and special than everyday people for a divine purpose. Our gifts are intended for the benefit of all person and animal kind.
We believe that only those who have the ability to publicly display their compassion and sharpened sense of social justice on mass, can effect any real change.
Using the same intuition that allows us to easily entertain a crowd, we intuitively understand issues and problems without the need to study the issues and weigh evidence objectively. It should be obvious even to the talentless dolt that that ability on it’s own will greatly speed decision making.
Vote for us and utopia is just around the corner.
We will replace meritocracy with celebtocracy.
Our opposition spokespeople so far are:
Party Leader - whomever currently holds the Gold Logie
Defence - Michael Leunig
Treasury - Bob Ellis
Arts - Crikey where do we start?Thank you - vote CRAP
P.S. We will not have Toni Collette as a member as we have always found her ...a little ..well.. telently.
Typical anti-Howard bias by the Age.
Costello didn’t “see red” at all. He couldn’t care less. A better headline: “Costello doesn’t give a shit about unqualified opinions of celebrities.”
Maybe if Bono had said it…
Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen Costello do the Peter Garret dance...
Actually, I will clarify my comment.
Australia is the main wool producing country in the world. The wool is actually fine and not scratchy, unlike the scottish crap europeans sell to unsuspecting yank tourists. We use that type of wool for carpets. The merino produces apparel quality wool. Unfortunately, the merino also has wrinkly skin, which stays moist, particulary about the bum in spring when the sheep gets loose on new grass. Blowflies really, really love this, and fornicate away in the wet wool. The subsequent maggots burrow into the skin and start eating the flesh. The worst case I ever saw was a ewe where the maggots had eaten under the skin up along the backbone and over the top of the skull into the jaw and eyeball. You could see them swimming around in the vitreous fluid. It also stunk like nothing else on earth, worse even than Bob Ellis’ toe fungus. This smell has the amazing ability to hang about in your nose for weeks after you come across it. Anyway, this ewe was in the middle of a 10,000 acre paddock and the only thing I could find to put her out of her misery was a rock not much bigger than my hand. I do not want to ever have to do something like that again.So what mulesing does is it cuts away the loose folds of skin around the sheep’s bum. I am sure it stings, rather like when you rip all the skin off your knee, (although when you have spent a lot of time around sheep, you develop a lot of respect for their high threshold of pain - the things they are prepared to do to themselves has to be seen to be sometimes believed. So when the skin grows back, it is all nice and smooth, and the flies have nothing to colonise. Hence preventing flystrike.
The PETA solution is for graziers to hire shepards to look after small mobs of sheep. That’s right, every ten ewes or so are expected to generate enough income to pay for a shepherd, who will be prepared to wander the outback following his ewes. You may be tempted to laugh, but these people get media attention.
PETA - Precious Entertainers Talking out of their Arse.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 20 at 05:04 AM • permalinkPerhaps an American importer of Australian wool could go to the Supreme Court and have PETA declared an illegal non-tarriff barrier to trade.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 20 at 05:22 AM • permalinkI suggest that Pink should follow up her song “I don’t want to be a Stupid Girl” with a cover of the Rolling Stones, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 20 at 06:22 AM • permalinkSo what is PETA’s view on the muslim habit of celebrating Eid el Fitri by cutting the throat of a sheep in your houseyard?
I seem to have missed any celebrities calling for a boycott of all things muslim produced.....
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2006 12 20 at 06:24 AM • permalink#91
Maybe we could get a protest started on behalf of PETA…
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 20 at 06:27 AM • permalinkI may need an agronomist to correct me, but I always thought that the sheep that we shipped were totally clapped out- essentially inedible to most Australians. So old and decrepit, we couldn’t even ship them to NZ as mail order brides. So stringy and tough, not even Somalis with stick babies would boil them up.
The sheep that John West rejects.
So if we don’t dump them on the Arabs, what do we do with them? Turn them into clag (a form of glue)? Take them out to the back paddock and give them a 9 cent lead aspirin?
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 20 at 06:33 AM • permalink#93
I believe the sheep are marketable in Australia, although our middle eastern customers have been known to complain about their age.
More to the point, the biggest threat to animal welfare in Australia is drought, and with prices at pitiable lows, it makes it scarcely worth taking them to domestic markets. The export trade is probably a better fate than a lingering death in the paddock. If Australia’s highly regulated trade didn’t fill this market, then an unregulated supplier from South America or China would - and you can guess what conditions are like on those ships.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 20 at 06:44 AM • permalinkWell, I wonder if Ms. Pink has a position on her label’s extensive production in China - a nation with a pretty shitty record when it comes to the treatment of human beings? I guess we don’t want fair pay and conditions reducing her take-home, do we?
Posted by Craig Ranapia (OtherPundit) on 2006 12 20 at 06:46 AM • permalink#51 & #93 - sorry, but whether the appetite is for meat or just for barbaric killing practises in the name of Allah, I don’t see why we should lower ourselves.
Basic standards of animal welfare have always seemed to me to be one of the indicators of a civilised society. We’re not so poor that we need sacrifice that for a few shekels.
Freshly slaughtered meat doesn’t taste best, as anyone who’s ever eaten properly butchered and hung meat will tell you. If someone wants the “fun” of slitting an animal’s throat they’re satisfying some sort of appetite - but not for good food.
If these sheep are so old and stringy, then butcher them while they’re still young, in Australia and according to our standards, and then maybe I wouldn’t have to pay $18 for a small tray of chops (of which the poor bloody farmer would be lucky to see $1). More lamb roasts, cheaper, for the rest of us - mmmmmmmmmm.
I can understand how Pink might empathise with a sheep’s arse.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 20 at 07:03 AM • permalinkSorry, I might have got those links mixed up.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 12 20 at 07:05 AM • permalink#99 - personally, I think that buying something so that you can kill it for kicks is pretty sick. Not fully sick - just sick.
However, if the choice is between me standing in a paddock slitting throats for nothing because there is no feed left for the poor buggers, or selling them off to some sick puppy and letting him do the dirty work and saving me getting RSI in my slitting arm, then I’ll just bury my morality for a while and take the cash.
When I was a youngster, I worked on a sheep station in WA for a few weeks. It was the middle of a drought, and the sheep were dying left, right and centre. If they died out in the paddock, nobody cared much. If they died near the homestead and the shearing shed etc, then we had to get rid of them. I chucked dozens and dozens of dead sheep onto bonfires, and I can tell you, half rotten sheep really stink when you burn them. Some were quite rotten - normally one of us would grab the back legs and the other the front legs and you’d do the old one-two-three-heave trick, but occasionally you’d be left holding a pair of legs and guts and stuff would be everywhere.
I am amazed that I can still eat lamb. The rack of lamb that I had tonight was quite delicious.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 20 at 08:27 AM • permalinkWhat amazes me about this story is the fact that Toni Colletti, who’s an archetypal ranting leftard, actually talked with people who had some real-world knowledge of the problem, and based on what she learned was willing to change her mind! That thumping sound you heard was my jaw hitting the floor.
This is so rare that I think it rates an AOSHQ flaming skull.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 12 20 at 08:38 AM • permalinkThis is so rare that I think it rates an AOSHQ flaming skull.
Or it would if I could remember what blog I’m reading. Sorry!
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 12 20 at 08:40 AM • permalinkI always consult with celebrities before voting in elections and making consumer choices, because I admire their great wisdom and moral authority.
Right now, I’m making plans to join the Valentines Day March to Mecca with David Geffen, Bono, Rossie O’Donnell, Bill Maher, Arianna Huffington, and other celebrities supporting the Society for the Prevention of Arab Gay Oppression (SPAGO).
I’m sure that Pink, Pamela Anderson, and the Dixie Chicks will lend their great moral authority and join our “gay brothers and sisters for an international march to the holiest of holy cities, Mecca, the capital city of Saudi Arabia’s beautiful Makkah province.”
Whether gay or straight, we all CAN make a difference!
See you in Mecca, and enjoy the local entertainment!
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 12 20 at 09:24 AM • permalinkso why is this U.S. performer singling out Australian farmers?
Oh, for cryin’ out loud! First Mike Hudson and then this “Pink” abomination. Are you sure they’re both Americans? Really? Man, am I embarrassed. My heart-felt apologies to all you wallaby-eating sheepherders (or was it sheep-eating wallaby-herders?). Head tilt implied.
the pop star asks that the consumer not buy it because of Australia’s treatment of sheep.
this thread is a pretty good example of how cruelly we deal with (celebrity) sheep
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 20 at 10:03 AM • permalinkEntropy, thanks for that informative post at #85; you sure packed a lot into two paragraphs.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 12 20 at 10:45 AM • permalink#23 -
I prefer Garbage’s Stupid Girl, myself.
I’ll leave it to those of the male persuasion to decide between Alecia Moore and Shirley Manson. (Just for aco).
I don’t know Pink but I think Toni Collette’s a darn fine little actress. With any luck she’ll realize she doesn’t understand the complexities of a good many things and take the necessary corrective steps. Some conservatives are born, but many more are made.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 20 at 03:00 PM • permalink#112: Whoa! Now appearing in the Brimstone Room at the Hotel Beelzebub!
Actually, though, I prefer my basic femme fatale to be put together more along these lines .
#114 get yourself some ugg boots (they transform themselves almost like magic into eeurgh boots after only a few months of use)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 21 at 12:28 AM • permalink"Pink should talk...”
Actually, I think the world would be a better place if she didn’t.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 21 at 12:36 AM • permalinkkills me to side with the PETA freaks, and don’t even get me started on pink, but....here i go.
no matter how you dress it up, the issue is skinning - to one extent or another - skinning the animal alive. no anesthesia; no band-aids. if you did this to dogs or cats, for whatever “humanitarian” reason claimed, they’d toss your arse in jail; and rightfully so. if you did it to dogs/cats as a routine, systematized matter of course, they’d take you out and shoot you. again, rightfully so.
fellow earlier said something to the effect of “i’m sure it stings a little, but....”. “stings”? yeah, i expect it does. imagine your dismay at having the skin stripped off your ass. remember: no anesthesia! no bandaids! it’ll hurt just a tad more than a sting, i’ll bet big bucks. you’d be in stunning, appalling pain. now, look: i’m not trying to humanize the sheep here. i’m not giving them adorable names; i’m not writing about their ‘souls’.
but if it was being done to a child, or a dog, or a cat.....it wouldn’t be allowed. it would be unthinkable, in fact. why? too much pain. too cruel to do to a mammal. well.....you’re a mammal. as are cats & dogs.
as are sheep.
FIND ANOTHER FREAKIN’ WAY. shots; food additives; dips...i don’t know what. i don’t raise sheep. if it raises the price, so be it. we could make cars cheaper if we used death-camp slaves, yet we don’t. “morality”, & all that.
as i understand it, sheep aren’t native to that continent: maybe the ‘blowfly’ thing is one reason why. if there’s no way to raise sheep in ozzland except to abuse them in hideous ways, then MAYBE the ozzies shouldn’t be raising sheep. switch over to pigs. learn to make kangaroo wool. something. anything. and until that happens, i stand with *sigh* the idiot pink & the idiot PETA’ns in my boycott of australian wool, and urge everyone in the world to join us. (there. that oughta piss ‘em off....)
Posted by jimmy quest on 2006 12 22 at 06:34 PM • permalink
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Just for that its lamb chops for dinner. I’ll wear my ugg boots whilst I’m scoffing em down. Thanks for the idea
skankpink!