Letters to the Editor.

[kambuckta]

May I quote you a letter that was published in a daily tabloid in Australia this morning:

I love your photo of the cheetahs playing with the impala [cutesy photo in the paper last week]. It helps break down the ignorant notion that nature is intrinsically cruel, a pseudo-justification for our own killing of about 50 billion animals a year

I dunno whether to laugh or cry. :eek:

[penultima_thule]

Kambuckta puts up a brick.
Must save from eternal embarrassment.

Oops, too late!

[badbadrubberpiggy]

They should watch some footage of orcas “playing” with baby sea lions.

[Isamu]

"A snake and a chicken goin’… buck wiiiiiiillld!!

[kambuckta]

@penultima_thule

Kambuckta puts up a brick.
Must save from eternal embarrassment.

Oops, too late!

Well, well, well. Look what the cat dragged in.

Nice to see you round these parts again oh Sheepish One, even if you are still a bit of a shithead.

[appleciders]

Wow. That’s… frighteningly naive. I wonder if the writer owns cats?

[Paul_in_Qatar]

I’m telling you, if we could solve the copyright issue, a book of letters to the editor would be bust-your-gut funny.

My favorite was the one complaining of secret government planes seeding the clouds at night. On Saturday night, the writer heard a four-engined plane over his house.

How can you hear four engines?

[Machine_Elf]

Wow. Someone should tell her about the oh-so-cute"Murder bears."

She might also be educated by this piece. Excerpt:

@Eric Raymond

In reality, Nature is a violent arena of intra- and inter-species competition in which murder for gain is an everyday event and ecological fluctuations commonly lead to mass death. Human societies, outside of wartime, are almost miraculously stable and nonviolent by contrast.

I wonder if she has thought about how prey animals die if they somehow happen to not get targeted by a predator. It’s pretty much either starvation or disease, baby. Elephants, for example, typically die when their teeth wear out and they can’t eat anymore. There’s no hospice care, no pain management medications, no euthanasia; you simply suffer until your body can’t go on. Viewed in those terms, predation at the end of a long and healthy life may be a mercy.

Mother Nature is a bitch; there’s no two ways about it.

[Isamu]

@Isamu

"A snake and a chicken goin’… buck wiiiiiiillld!!

I should have posted a link, but I was at work

Buck Wild!

[Nametag]

Ah, yes, the “state of nature”:

In such condition, there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

[Oslo_Ostragoth]

@Paul_in_Qatar

I’m telling you, if we could solve the copyright issue, a book of letters to the editor would be bust-your-gut funny.

Screw copyright issues. I’m gonna start saving them up for a future thread here. The people around here are gold, man.

@Joe Frickin Friday

Wow. Someone should tell her about the oh-so-cute"Murder bears."

What is the context of that? Is that a seal, or another polar bear?

[Derleth]

@Oslo_Ostragoth

What is the context of that? Is that a seal, or another polar bear?

It’s pretty obviously a seal, making the filename completely wrong: It isn’t murder, it’s a meal. In nature, polar bears and seals have a very well-defined relationship, and that image shows the defining aspect of said relationship. ‘Bambifying’ either is incoherent.