First they let the damn rage infected chimp out in 28 Days Later which wipes out England, now they want to drive away Santa by having kids give him shitty tasting soy milk. Don’t these people ever learn?!?!?!
I drink plenty of milk. I use it in cooking pretty much every day. It occasionally gives me a bit of a tummy ache if I drink too much of it, but my wang’s still working fine as far as I can tell.
Those PETA nutjobs are seriously fucked up. Not “coming”? Ho, ho ho. As puns go, that one ranks just slightly above the level of “Piers Anthony book”.
Well, it’s funny that you say that… I’m vegetarian and I include very little dairy in my diet, but every time I read a PETA advert or hear another story about them I get this burning urge to go out to the nearest Burger King and get a whopper with a nice big milkshake to wash it down.
(Ok, if I were actually to do that then my stomach would be punishing me for hours after, but the temptation is there.)
I’m surprised people still react to PETA’s stunts. Don’t you know that every thing they do is SUPPOSED to make you all outraged. It’s a very common thing these days: publicity = GOOD. If people are “talking” about what you did, you “made them think.” It doesn’t matter if what they are SAYING is that you are an asshole. I have seen this attitude from leftist groups and right wing groups, so it’s a pan-political opinion. Whether it’s an animal rights guy suspending himself from a light pole upside down or a terrible cartoonist drawing racist caricatures on the walls, their defense is the same: “I’m making people think. I’m getting people to talk. I’m shaking things up.” It is, of course, complete horse shit, but it is nothing new to mistake motion for action.
Yeah, but eli… everything they do isn’t supposed to make us outraged at them. They want the people on their side, even if they have to beat them over the head with ill-conceived and possibly false advertising.
I’m not saying it’s logical, but I assure you they know they will excite outrage. I’ve been to meetings of groups like that. I decided that the real motivation is to get attention, even if it is negative. They have rhetoric that argues how they need to be outrageous to get in the news (which may be true), but one gets the sense there is a neglected child “acting out” behavior to it… we need attention! But I think that feeling is pervasive across all sorts of activism, whatever the political bent. It’s just assumed at this point that getting attention is what you do when you have a cause. You perform stunts, you whine, you demand that other people change.
I say, if you love animals, take in a homeless cat and quit eating meat and quietly do your part. Millions of people do just that, and represent the majority and the genuine spirit of animal lovers.
Um, I’m sorry if this is for anal-retentive PETA-haters only, but…I found the link really, really funny. And I’m not usually one for come jokes.
I think it was the expectation of seeing more Holocaust pictures, and seeing something so…well… benign just sent me into hysterics. Right before a member arrives for a meeting. Thanks a lot, Avalonian.