I’m rather surprised that there haven’t been any reports about service animals. Judging from Bull’s attitude in various threads though, he probably thinks the use of service animals takes valuable jobs away from people. I wonder if Bull is related to the young lady in one of my labs last year who, upon seeing another student with a guide dog in training, remarked “What’s that bitch doing with that dog?”
Normally, I feel that profanity is a crutch for vocabulary-impaired people. In this particular case, I’d like to make an exception and note that Unregistered Bull is a flaming asshole.
Sure, he’s got a point that people are more important than animals, but PinkFreud’s husband is doing good things and UB was rude, obnoxious, mean, and just plain out-of-line in criticizing him for not doing more and for having different priorities than UB has.
Still reading the thread, Unregistered Bull? Congrats! You’ve not only pissed off the tree-huggers, but just about every other compassionate person on the boards. Your logic stinks, your attitude stinks, and you have as much place in polite society as a loud cabbage-roll fart.
Is there any reason why YOU can’t get in YOUR car RIGHT NOW, drive to New Orleans, pick up a few humans, and bring them back?
Thanks, looks like fun.
Though I’m not the person to whom you directed that question, I’ll answer it anyway. Personally I’m on a fixed income, but I gave all I could – $100 – distributed thusly:
$25 to American Red Cross
$25 to United Jewish Communities
$20 to United Methodist Committee on Relief
$10 to the Humane Society of the US
$10 to Noah’s Wish
$10 to Alley Cat Allies - in memory of my sister’s wonderful cat Tessie, who died this week.
But you know what? None of us owes anyone an explanation of what we do with our money or efforts. IMHO anyone who asks such a question, or who complains incessantly the way Unmitigated Gall did, had damn well better supply their own charitable credentials.
(Indeed, ain’t it amusing how throughout all this, the jackass at the center of this controversy never did share his own invaluable contributions to the relief effort? Too modest, I’m sure.)
Yep. Two days ago. 
Thank you elmwood, very well said.
Caring for those that we have made dependent on us is one of the things that makes us human.
PF’s husband is doing what he can help. In the best way he can.
PF is sick, she can’t go. Her husband is volunteering to go off into this void.
Unregistered Bull. You shit all over the original thread. UB, you’re so low that if you sat on the edge of a piece of toilet paper, your feet would not reach the ground.
Can’t drive. Wouldn’t have a car to do it in if I could. And PA is a whole lot further away from the disaster zone than OK if you haven’t seen a map lately. But I am going through my clothes and picking out stuff to send down, doing the same with my books (yes, I know books are even less essential than pets but my writing group is organizing it and I have books to spare), and plan to make a blood donation on Sunday.
And for all the people saying UB is an asshole, let’s compare these two quotes:
Like I said, I’m willing to give pinkfreud’s husband the benefit of the doubt because it seems like he’s doing the dropoff/pickup in an area that isn’t much affected (meaning the humans that are there are not in danger and/or can be picked up easily), but the vitriol of some of the animal lovers on this thread is astounding. And I LIKE animals.
Nice selective comparison. I mean, Unregistered Bull certainly wouldn’t say such things as:
Or:
Yeah, he’s just been a paragon of civility compared to those crazies. :rolleyes:
I haven’t read the thread in question, but this is an all-too-common scenario on this board: A poster with a strong opinion takes a dump in a thread not really meant for debate but support for people of a differing viewpoint. It’s not necessarily against the rules, though I have seen mods slap people for it, but it’s uncouth, rude, and unwanted, no matter what opinion it is the thread-shitter might hold. That’s the real issue, not necessarily that Unregistered Bull has very sharply defined priorities.
Whenever I see Bully Boy start ripping on you, I think, “How can you hate LHoD? Isn’t that like kicking puppies?” And then it all becomes clear.
As for you, Bully Boy, you silly little bundle of mucus and methane, I find it quite amusing that you’ve decided to identify yourself with a bull, a creature notorious for thinking with its dick, when it thinks at all. You’re exactly like a young bull, just discovering heifers for the first time. You snort, your nostrils quiver, spittle flies from your lips as you bellow at the sky and finally bolt towards your single desire, only to discover you have no idea what the fuck you’re doing. Your beady little eyes bulge in frustration and you resort to charging and bellering incoherently; perhaps if you shout hard enough, she’ll do the work for you. As Snakescatlady said, they don’t register the scrubs because they aren’t worth shit. Sweetie, honey britches, dumpling-head, sugar teats, you really should have thought harder before naming yourself if you thought you were being a maverick. Instead, you just look ignorant and like a shitty lover. Eager, no doubt, but your passion is sadly misguided to an issue that does not exist. Honey, you’re fucking air.
Even so, I’d save your sorry ass, but I’d make you carry the puppy.
PF’s husband is doing something that he can do. He is a volunteer at an animal shelter, not a people shelter.
IT’S SOMETHING THAT HE CAN DO TO HELP. It all has to be done. You don’t just pick up people in a bus and drop them off in the nearest 7-11.
They are in small bus for crying out loud, I’m sure they hope to get the water and supplies as close as they can to relieve human suffering, and then visit local animal shelters and do what they can to help.
They can’t just drive into NO and ask if anyone needs a ride.
UB shit all over the original thread. He shit on a person trying to help. He diserves all the shit he’s getting in this pitting. That’s where the vitirol is coming from.
And like I said, it seems like it’s all he can do, so it’s good he’s doing anything at all. Better to bring back animals than an empty bus. All I was saying is that if it was POSSIBLE to bring back people and he didn’t, then that would be wrong. But it seems like it isn’t, so yeah, good on him.
But why can’t someone drive into NO and pick up people? Harry Connick Jr made it there okay.
To play devil’s advocate a bit, I don’t think you can just say “you can’t pick C because the volunteer chose not to.” By that reasoning, you can’t choose choice B either, since the volunteer has also chosen not to take that course of action. I took Bull’s comments to mean that rescuing stranded humans rather than stranded pets should be the priority. Frankly, phrased that way, I’d agree; I’d rather see a few more people live through this than a few more pets. People may love their pets, but I imagine a stranded human’s friends and relatives love him or her a whole lot more. Does that mean that I value a human’s life over a pet’s? Yep. Given the choice of saving the inhabitants of a flooding prison or a flooding kennel … well, I’d probably save the pets for irrational reasons, but I’d recognize that saving the human convicts is, to me, the moral course of action. Of course, if a particular volunteer is someone for whom only A and B are possible choices, I’d much rather that they choose option A. I’d certainly wonder why they won’t consider choice C, but I won’t disrespect the fact that they’re still helping by bringing supplies.
If I may continue to play devil’s advocate, I would say that retorting with “well, what have you done?” is simply an ad hominem attack and refutes nothing. I don’t run for public office, but that doesn’t make my ideas about how government shold govern invalid.
Now that that’s out of the way, Bull, you’re a dick. You make a habit of shitting in threads for no apparent reason besides angering others and maybe deflating some good moods. I’d swear I’ve seen your handle hanging over a disproportionate number of priggish posts, but damned if I’m going to sift through your posting history.
Go fuck yourself.
I’d say that UB was practicing animal abuse in this very thread, by beating on his dead horse.
You’re a sweetie!
I read this thread before bed last night (I just had a really hard time stopping with the rhyming), and I dreamt about my brother and me getting in a really big fight. Hopefully reading this comment right before bed means I’ll have more pleasant dreams.
Daniel
Likely because if you aren’t National Guard, Regular Army, Coast Guard, Red Cross, Army Core of Engineers, or some other other agency of FEMA, you are not going to get near the disaster.
There is a good reason for this. The first order of rescue personel is to not become a victim. Someone else that needs to be rescued.
Harry Connick Jr got in there for the sound bites. The media got him in there. Not a bad thing at all. People need to know.
John Q Public can’t get in there because he may very well need to be rescued.
Exactly. The reason the animals can be taken away more easily is precisely that they are less valuable. And animals are not given a say in where they end up.
I think UB has a point. You have $100 to give. That’s great. By your count, you give $70 to people and $30 to animals. But wouldn’t it be a better use of limited resources to give all $100 to people?
I’m not criticizing you, btw, just trying to understand your position.
Whether his point is valid or not isn’t the issue, the issue is that he’s a sodden mote of twatpack for shitting all over (several) unrelated threads. That and his conversation has become tiresome.