Stop feeding my attention seeking behaviour then. Isn’t that the obvious thing to do? Go on, be off with with you!
But I have my own attention-seeking needs to fill and you provide me so many opportunities to indulge my sarcasm that it would be inefficient for me to move on just yet.
Glad to be of service, Bryan. Things a bit slow at your end too?
You know, ivan, I can’t say I feel sorry for you, but the potential might be there. It looks to me like you’ve got quite a bit of pent-up hostility that you like to disguise as smirking tomfoolery. Maybe you’ve got a bit of masochism too, as you enjoy receiving the abuse and hostility you engender in others in this thread. And now, I’m reading your recent thread about how your dog is dying, which probably goes a long way toward explaining your otherwise inexplicable behavior on this topic. And the inordinate amount of time you seem to be spending on this board clues me in that you probably don’t have anybody else to talk to, no friends.
All I can say is, if you are the lonely, angry guy I now picture you to be, you’re not doing yourself any favors by shitting on this community. It’s a great place to spend time for lighthearted topics and for support when one is going through major challenges in life. But before you can partake in it, you’ve really got to try to start taking some baby steps toward being a socially functional human being.
With that, I wash my hands of you. If I still see your name around the boards a year or two down the line I might be open to reading your posts again, but until you reach that milestone, you’re persona non grata in my book. Goodbye.
Moving on…
You say all that like it’s a bad thing!
If it wasn’t for lonely, dysfunctional males, there probably wouldn’t be an internet for you to carry out your amateur psychiatric analysis on. Or maybe you are one of the professionals on the board, Koxinga?
I agree. If that’s the truth, then every one of his posts after the first supposed “misunderstanding” is pure asshattery.
Sorry for my absence. I was out killing and eating all the puppies I could find.
- I don’t know.
- Why do people eat pigs when they can eat cows? Because they fucking feel like it. People like different things.
- Value is relative. We don’t care that you think Fido is your second child. We respect that you do, and therefore don’t flaunt our dog-eating habits in your face.
I see your POV, ivan. Like Argent, I like dogs (and cats), and wouldn’t go out of my way to eat one myself. However, I also understand that this particular POV is heavily influenced by my upbringing, not by any sort of logic. Something you have failed to wrap your tiny brain around, apparently.
And this is my last post in this thread.
Oh, I think I’ve got him pegged as a couple of things.
And I have to agree with Ale, too. Except for the little Foo Foos that are doted on by some of the wealthier families, dogs are treated miserably in many if not most parts of the world.
Yep, I think we found the chink in his armor. 
D&R
That’s just your slant on things.
That is how it’s coming across, yes.
What about the cute little bunnies many Westerners eat? Why is that acceptable, but dog not? Bunnies make lovely pets, and I’ve known more than one person with a close emotional attachment to their pet rabbits. Yet rabbit-eating isn’t taboo around here.
I’ve eaten horse sausage (that’s a taboo I don’t quite get, either. What’s so special about horse?) and would try dog in a heartbeat given the chance. If I condemn dog-eating, then I feel I should be consistent and condemn all meat-eating. There’s nothing, for me, that makes a dog particularly special versus a pig, a cow, a horse, a fuzzy little bunny rabbit, etc.
edit: Whoa, I didn’t see there’s four pages in this thread. Please ignore if all this has been already gone over.
All by themselves, these four words are funnier than ivan’s collected posting history.
So I’m kind of confused now. Is Ivan for eating dog, or against it?
Anyway, if you’re still against it, Ivan, or at least taking a devil’s advocate position, I wonder if you would answer this: would it be OK for people to eat wild dogs? Coyotes, wolves, dingos, etc.?
Or for the more cultured, deep fried chocolate coated chihuahuas.
Yeah! THAT’LL show the yappy little bastards.
It’s not like they’re real dogs anyway.
See, here’s my thing about that. Once you’ve taken the trouble to stop a chihuahua’s annoying yelp for long enough to coat it in chocolate and toss it in the fryolater, does it really even taste like chihuahua anymore? Not that there’s enough meat on those foolish little dogs to constitute any sort of meal anyway…
Can I patent my new invention “Chihuahua Helper”?
FML
I ate dog one day with my colleagues from IBM in Ha Noi. I didn’t think of them (or myself) as primitives. We were even wearing ties! (And loin cloths of course.)
Once was enough though. I didn’t like it, and the restaurant owners kept an evil-looking pet cat that ate the scraps. That just freaked me the fuck out!
Here’s another angle.(pardon the pun.)
So is it okay to try and encourage the Japanese to try and change their diets…or at least those ‘old timers’ who are stuck in their ways?
Here’s someone from among that community who has accepted the error of his ways.
Why is it acceptable to protect dolphins from ending up on someone’s plate, but not dogs, anyone?