More Dhimmitude - Now toy pigs are banned

[lord of the mark]

"Pigs are Friends, Not Food!

Pigs are amazing, sensitive, intelligent animals who are playful and affectionate— they even like to play video games. Did you know that pigs are as smart as dogs and 3-year-old children? Well, they are! So if you wouldn’t eat your dog, don’t eat pigs either.

During “national pork month,” celebrate the fabulousness of pigs by not eating them! Grab a copy of Charlotte’s Web or invite your best buds over to watch Babe. Get more info about going veg, and spread the word by sending this great postcard, featuring none other than Babe himself, to all of your friends."


from Peta, of course.

[Kontiki]

Yeah, but bacon from 3 year old children just isn't as tasty.

[Immortal Wombat]

I'd eat dog.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by BlackCat


Your negations give me trouble. Do you mean that they have a right to be offended ? In current case, about something quite natural.

I used what I believe is a standard formulation. The point is, that someone finds something offensive is not sufficient grounds to ban that something.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

2 alcohol-drinking Muslims

I ended up puking in a Muslim girl's toilet last friday. The embarassing thing is that she drank more than me and did not end up puking.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


God doesn't want you to eat pigs so he can eat more bacon himself.

So then why did she create so few Jews, and so many gentiles, who according to Judaism are allowed to eat pork? Ah, but she gave us Islam, to convince a third of the gentiles that they shouldnt eat pork, despite Torah not banning it for them


So the expansion of Islam is Gods why of keeping the pork to herself? And who says God doesnt have a sense of humo(u)r?

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


I ate bacon as a kid - my parents were Reform.

Now I eat Morningstar farms veggie strips, and theyre just about as good as i remember bacon being.

Some of my best friends are pig eating jews - some others wouldnt be able to eat in my house, cause my kashrut isnt all that strict.

One of my best friends in college was what you'd call a jewish re-convert ... or something like that. Her grandmother was adopted by christians (mormons I think, in Utah anyway) but then her mother converted back to Judaism along with her around 10 years old or so.

She's reform or something close to that, and still eats cheeseburgers due to the fact that she really likes them ... but won't eat bacon cheeseburgers (even turkey bacon, oddly enough) because she feels like she should give something up she likes

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by snoopy369


One of my best friends in college was what you'd call a jewish re-convert ... or something like that. Her grandmother was adopted by christians (mormons I think, in Utah anyway) but then her mother converted back to Judaism along with her around 10 years old or so.

She's reform or something close to that, and still eats cheeseburgers due to the fact that she really likes them ... but won't eat bacon cheeseburgers (even turkey bacon, oddly enough) because she feels like she should give something up she likes

Me, I like turkey bacon.

Also turkey and chicken sausage.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
I used what I believe is a standard formulation. The point is, that someone finds something offensive is not sufficient grounds to ban that something.

I guessed that it was what you meant, though, I'm not sure that the scandinavic abuse of double negations is widespread amongst english speakers - even worse with those who neither speaks scandinavic languages or english as first.

Besides that I fully agree

[lord of the mark]

' A linguistics professor was lecturing her class one day on double negatives. "In English," she said, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

A student in the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right." '

[BlackCat]

Quite right - though LC's statement was supposed to give a negative, wich depending on context is possible, at least in danish - in others it gives a positive. And please don't ask for an example - I'm too drunk

[Last Conformist]

I didn't use a double negative in the normal sense of the word, since the negations applied to different clauses.

[GePap]

On the issue: one of those small examples of stupidity that abound everywhere. I might care when its somewhere large or important doing it.

On pigs, they aren't nice, they are very smart, vicious critters.
At least going on from what I saw on the discovery channel, pigs are the only domesticated animals that will go feral again. You let out a pig into the wild and they will within a few months behave just like wild pigs, and will begin to regrow their long coats.

So essentially, pigs are the least domesticated of the domesticated animals we have. You just know they are planning a revolution.

[Theben]

Were the toy piggies sent specifically for the Ramadan festival? That could be seen as offensive.

Otherwise the whole thing's stupid.

[Whaleboy]

How utterly stupid! This kinda crap is what happens when the religious are allowed influence in society