Politically Correct, or just plain stupid?

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Gato_Solo

Out-freaking-standing OTC member
City officials in a town in Northern Italy have passed animal rights legislation that essentially bans the boiling of live lobsters as "useless torture," reports the Daily Telegraph.

The new law, passed in the town of Reggio Emilia near Bologna, also requires "sociable" birds to be kept in pairs, regulates the size of bird cages, makes it illegal to keep a goldfish in a round glass bowl and requires owners to ensure that each pet sharing a meal gets an equal portion.

Some city residents were obviously caught off guard by legislation.

"I'd like someone on the council to explain how people are supposed to determine that a bird is 'sociable,'" said resident Davide Nitrosi. "Also, how am I supposed to kill a lobster before cooking it? Hit it on the head?"
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Or how about this one...

The Los Angeles Times has a rule that the phrase "pro-life" will not appear on its pages because it might offend the pro-abortion crowd, reports Reuters, something a witless opera reviewer found out the hard way.

A music critic for the paper wrote that a Richard Strauss opera was "pro-life," intending to mean that it was a celebration of life. But he had his story changed by a copy editor to read "anti-abortion."

"It's about children who aren't born yet screaming to be born — not abortion," said the critic, Mark Swed. "Somebody who didn't quite get it got a little bit too politically correct ... and we had a little breakdown in communications."

The ban apparently doesn't extend to the phrase "pro-choice."
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Both are from the same source...
 
um...if you cook lobster, crawfish, or crab after they've died you can get sick...but i guess it's not the humans that are important :rolleyes:
 
"Pioneering New Frontiers," should be reconsidered because it might offend American Indians,
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oh, and if you want to arrest me for torturing a lobster, be my guest...look, it's alive & the water is boiling..hehe...here we go...plop (help me, help me, help blurb, blurb, blurp)....mmmmm-it's soup
 
Gonz said:
:rofl2:


oh, and if you want to arrest me for torturing a lobster, be my guest...look, it's alive & the water is boiling..hehe...here we go...plop (help me, help me, help blurb, blurb, blurp)....mmmmm-it's soup
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would that make a crawfish boil mass murder? little crawfish concentration camps?
 
Oh hell, I forgot about crawdad's....mmmm, mass murder on a tasty scale - Just call me Jefferey.
 
What about mussels, clams, and scallops? I'm sure they don't want to be left out of the equation...;)
 
Gato_Solo said:
What about mussels, clams, and scallops? I'm sure they don't want to be left out of the equation...;)
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oh god! mussels and clams? i must have some! i must!!!!!
 
Gato_Solo said:
How much are mussels in LA? I'm paying out the wazoo for them here in SC...
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you're lucky to find them in LA...but i'm not in LA...i believe i saw them behind the seafood counter...hafta check out the prices next time i'm at the store.
 
tonks said:
you're lucky to find them in LA...but i'm not in LA...i believe i saw them behind the seafood counter...hafta check out the prices next time i'm at the store.
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I thought you were in Louisiana... :confused:
 
i left the backassward state of louisiana on the 23rd of february. :) sure miss the crawfish...and the boudin...but mostly, i miss the HEAT!!!
 
Wouldn't (or shouldn't) pro-choice people get offended being called "pro-abortion"?

Being pro-choice isn't about always getting abortions, it's about choice!

Saying someone is pro-abortion is the same as saying pro-DEATH

My brother is pro-choice and he gets very passionate about this issue.

there are three possible sides to this issue.

Pro-Life
Pro-Choice
Pro-Abortion (Pro-Death)
 
Wouldn't (or shouldn't) pro-choice people get offended being called "pro-abortion"?
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yes but many pro-lifers do not take that into account and feel that because we are for choice we are for death
 
freako104 said:
yes but many pro-lifers do not take that into account and feel that because we are for choice we are for death
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Yeah, it really gets to me when people think that way.

BTW, is it true that lobsters scream when put them in the boiling water? :tardbang:
 
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