"I hate it here."

[Guynemer]

--Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan, as written by Warren Ellis


All day long, after unending hype, all one sees on the ****ing news is some rich kid of absolutely zero consequence marrying some hot chick, half a world away. And the ****ing moron zombies of this nation, and many others, lap it up and ask for more.


I'm just about ready for my isolated shack out in the wilderness.

[Al B. Sure!]

--Spider Jerusalem, Transmetropolitan, as written by Warren Ellis


All day long, after unending hype, all one sees on the ****ing news is some rich kid of absolutely zero consequence marrying some hot chick, half a world away. And the ****ing moron zombies of this nation, and many others, lap it up and ask for more.


I'm just about ready for my isolated shack out in the wilderness.

Are you talking about the British royal wedding?

I wasn't aware anyone really cared about it.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Origins of a Guynibomber

[Al B. Sure!]

Origins of a Guynibomber

If being a Lions fan didn't push him over the edge already, I don't think some wedding will.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

OTOH you could be exposed to more sane news from across the pond (coauthored by a professor at Penn State, Reason # 1589 for my refusal to give alumni donations)

The researchers say 'pet' is demeaning
By John Bingham 8:30AM BST 28 Apr 2011 647 Comments

Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be rebranded as “companion animals” while owners should be known as “human carers”, they insist.

Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as “free-living”, the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.

The call comes from the editors of then Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.

It is edited by the Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, a theologian and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, who once received an honorary degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury for his work promoting the rights of “God’s sentient creatures”.

In its first editorial, the journal – jointly published by Prof Linzey’s centre and the University of Illinois in the US – condemns the use of terms such as ”critters” and “beasts”.

It argues that “derogatory” language about animals can affect the way that they are treated.

“Despite its prevalence, ‘pets’ is surely a derogatory term both of the animals concerned and their human carers,” the editorial claims.

“Again the word ‘owners’, whilst technically correct in law, harks back to a previous age when animals were regarded as just that: property, machines or things to use without moral constraint.”

It goes on: “We invite authors to use the words ‘free-living’, ‘free-ranging’ or ‘free-roaming’ rather than ‘wild animals’

“For most, ‘wildness’ is synonymous with uncivilised, unrestrained, barbarous existence.

“There is an obvious prejudgment here that should be avoided.”

Prof Linzey and his co-editor Professor Priscilla Cohn, of Penn State University in the US, also hope to see some of the more colourful terms in the English language stamped out.

Phrases such as “sly as a fox, “eat like a pig” or “drunk as a skunk” are all unfair to animals, they claim.

“We shall not be able to think clearly unless we discipline ourselves to use less than partial adjectives in our exploration of animals and our moral relations with them," they say.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ics-claim.html

[MrFun]

I'm just about ready for my isolated shack out in the wilderness.

Problem is though, you'd still be living the country that you hate.


For record: I'm one of few Americans who have had zero interest in the royal wedding over there.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Guynemer would be 'free-living’, ‘free-ranging’ or ‘free-roaming’ rather than living in the wilderness.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

You went to war to get rid of this arsery. Any American caring about it is mental.

[MrFun]

He could move to Antarctica - I hear that real estate down there is still at a very good, economical price.

[The Mad Monk]

You went to war to get rid of this arsery. Any American caring about it is mental.

We weren't against monarchy per se (we nearly made Washington king, after all), but against the injustices it foisted upon us.*

*: Milage varies by patriot; John Adams would have been happy sinking the entire godforsaken island.

[giblets]

You went to war to get rid of this arsery. Any American caring about it is mental.

[Flubber]

--All day long, after unending hype, all one sees on the ****ing news is some rich kid of absolutely zero consequence marrying some hot chick, half a world away. And the ****ing moron zombies of this nation, and many others, lap it up and ask for more.


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I woke with a start at 4 a.m. to realize I was alone and sleepily went out to find Mrs Flubber watching and among the moron zombies. I went back to bed and at 6:30 when I got up, she was still out there. As I passed by going down for breakfast she said something about having to wait to see the kiss. My eyes glazed over and I escaped to the safety of my car where Sports radio managed to not mention the whole thing once

[Supr49er]

Yeah, my mom and wife watched it too. No guy I know cared at all about it.

[duke o' york]

I wish I had Sport radio in my car.

Every bloody station had coverage of the nonsense over here, although I have to tip my hat to Radio 1 for playing Kings of Leon's Sex on Fire "for the happy couple".

[-Jrabbit]

I've been avoiding all non-sports media all week, even Stewart/Colbert.
Thank heavens it's over. By Monday, the media should be back to normal levels of normal crap.