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"Fur Children"
« on: April 28, 2011, 09:39:03 PM »
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The Straight Story  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-28-11 09:55 PM
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Calling animals 'pets' is insulting, academics claim
 Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be rebranded as “companion animals” while owners should be known as “human carers”, they insist.

Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as “free-living”, the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.

The call comes from the editors of then Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.

It is edited by the Revd Professor Andrew Linzey, a theologian and director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, who once received an honorary degree from the Archbishop of Canterbury for his work promoting the rights of “God’s sentient creatures”.

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1. mine are my fur kids n/t

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2011, 09:46:35 PM »
Call them fur fetuses and you can siphon their brains out with moral impunity.
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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2011, 09:52:10 PM »
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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2011, 09:55:28 PM »
Anyone care to wager how many million dollars of tax money went into that load of puke publication and how much those "academics" get paid each year.


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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2011, 09:56:07 PM »
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Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as “free-living”
This sounds just like that long DUmp discussion of what to call all the different flavors of sex perverts without insulting them.

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 09:57:00 PM »
It occurs to me that part of the requirement for any verbal phrase to be considered offensive, is that the target is capable of being offended by said words. I cannot remember the last time an untamed critter was upset because I referred to it as a 'wild animal' in passing.

As a matter of fact -- I bet any of you with a dog can string a bunch of insults together, and as long as you use your 'Such a good dog !' voice, your pooch will wag its tail just as joyfully as if you were heaping on genuine praise. Go ahead... Do it- You'll see.  

Anyway, this is almost as stupid as PETA's campaign against seafood by re-branding fish as 'sea kittens'....because, you wouldn't eat a kitty, would you ? ( insert big doe-eyed fish graphic here )

'Save the Sea Kittens' ? -- more like 'Savor the Sea Kittens'

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 10:01:55 PM »
... 

Anyway, this is almost as stupid as PETA's campaign against seafood by re-branding fish as 'sea kittens'....because, you wouldn't eat a kitty, would you ? ( insert big doe-eyed fish graphic here )
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Would and have.  :-)


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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2011, 10:03:37 PM »
It occurs to me...
Yes, but you aren't an over-educated moron.

And neither are most other people. The libs will sign-on to this because it comes from people in ivory tower and since they want to be smart like them they will agree so they too can live in the ivory tower even if only vicarious means.

Normal people, however, see this farce for what it is and these idiots will continue to marginalized by their own words.
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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2011, 10:04:23 PM »
I never even saw that, miskie. Holy crap. Consider my eyes as big as dinner plates as I smack my forehead.

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2011, 10:09:56 PM »
Would and have.  :-)


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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2011, 10:52:49 PM »
I hear they taste like chicken, but I don't want to find out... :mental:

Speaking of meat though, while I was working last night, I had some awesome medium rare prime rib from the buffet at Petro for lunch. (Which, until one of the hot waitresses reminded me workers weren't supposed to have, I honestly forgot since the last time I worked there.)

MAN, do the cooks in the back do a great job with that stuff. You barely have to cut it.

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2011, 10:59:47 PM »
My cat doesn't seem to care what I call her as long as I feed and care for her. She isn't insulted if I call her a pet or whatever.

My fish don't have fur.
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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2011, 12:26:54 AM »
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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2011, 12:46:05 AM »
Purrfection!

Did you just creat that, or was it just a great find?

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2011, 12:56:07 AM »
Purrfection!

Did you just creat that, or was it just a great find?

I made it.
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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2011, 01:03:11 AM »


Nothing like a custom lolcat when you're half drunk from watching a hockey game.

You can get drunk while watching hockey?!?!

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2011, 01:09:34 AM »
You can get drunk while watching hockey?!?!

Some asshole owes me abuzz...

When the game was as boring as that one... Good guys dominated everywhere and won, but one goal in 3 periods? Boring.
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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2011, 01:26:14 AM »
When the game was as boring as that one... Good guys dominated everywhere and won, but one goal in 3 periods? Boring.
Thus the question becomes, why even try.

Beer is cheap...getting your teeth kicked out for one point, is not.

Priorities anyone?  :-) :-) :-)

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #18 on: April 29, 2011, 04:31:07 AM »


Nothing like a custom lolcat when you're half drunk from watching a hockey game.


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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2011, 06:59:06 AM »
As a matter of fact -- I bet any of you with a dog can string a bunch of insults together, and as long as you use your 'Such a good dog !' voice, your pooch will wag its tail just as joyfully as if you were heaping on genuine praise. Go ahead... Do it- You'll see. 

I just called my dog a shitheel - to his face!  He looked up at me, wiggled around in a circle and licked my hand.

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2011, 07:52:39 AM »
I just called my dog a shitheel - to his face!  He looked up at me, wiggled around in a circle and licked my hand.

My dog's nickname is buttface.  NOT coined by me, but after 8 years it stuck.  If you call him buttface he is as happy as happy can be.  He isn't insulted, and he is a democrat.   :mental:  Sits at home all day waiting for me to go out and earn money to feed and house him.
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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2011, 08:51:29 AM »
...you wouldn't eat a kitty, would you?

Ummm...not exactly...

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« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2011, 09:54:04 AM »
I once had a masculine, tough, no-nonsense German Shepherd.  Handsome devil.  His nickname was "bunny."  He loved the name, of course. 

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #23 on: April 29, 2011, 12:09:48 PM »
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Calling animals 'pets' is insulting, academics claim

Domestic dogs, cats, hamsters or budgerigars should be rebranded as “companion animals” while owners should be known as “human carers”, they insist.

Even terms such as wildlife are dismissed as insulting to the animals concerned – who should instead be known as “free-living”, the academics including an Oxford professor suggest.

The call comes from the editors of then Journal of Animal Ethics, a new academic publication devoted to the issue.

I'll refrain from observing that these guys sound dumb as a rock, lest the editors of Mineral Ethics have a cow.

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Re: "Fur Children"
« Reply #24 on: April 29, 2011, 12:14:17 PM »
I suppose the PC term is 'domesticated non-human lifestyle partner'.  Or is 'non-human' too traumatizing for an animal that licks its own ass and drinks out of the toilet?

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