X
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 09:41 AM
I knew you were some Kind activist LaMa!!! |
X
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 09:48 AM
Insect Fetish: One of the worst practices ever imaginable. Insect sexual fetish involving men watching women crush insects under their feet. This has GOT to stop! |
X
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 09:48 AM
Flea Circuses: We at the IRA believe that insects were not put on this earth to entertain us. Cruel treatment of these poor beings are being documented everyday. Glued to small wagons, bicycles, or other paraphenalia, they are made to pull these contraptions around with their agonized attempts to flea...errr flee. Want to see an example? Check out the ACME flea circus page and help to free Midge and Madge the performing fleas. |
David B.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 09:55 AM
bugs are living, feeling creatures too
Just the hemiptera? What about the rest of the insects then?
clutching their young to their breasts
Well admittedly it sounds better than "clutching their young to their thoraces", but it's inaccurate. Parental care is pretty rare in insects anyhow.
Actually, I don't even swat flies, wasps, etc. If they don't actually feed on me I just evict them rather than eviscerate them. After all, they outnumber us a billion-to-one, it makes sense to stay on their good side. |
Snowy
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 02:40 PM
Here ya go, Guys:
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Warning! This site is a PARODY. A parody is defined as: A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way, or: humorous or satirical mimicry. In plain English, this site makes fun of extremists whether they are animal rights activists, right to lifers, religious zealots, or in fact any person or group who take a good thing (or a bad thing) too far. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 02:59 PM
Snowy, I think they know that... |
David B.
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 05:05 PM
Aww, give him a break Boo, he typed that really well for a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin">little white dog</a>. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 05:15 PM
Oh, I loved the Snowy in Tintin. Him and Captain Haddock.
And this Snowy's a 'she', by the way. |
Snowy
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 | 06:53 PM
I was Wondering when someone would comment on my name!
yeah, I did take the name from the Tintin. my brother had almost every single one, when we were kids.
Boo, I was just clarifying. You know the types you get on here. I can just see it now:
THis iz a rreal site!!!!!!! My brothr iss a menber of it!!!!!!!!!
😊 |
Boo
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 02:38 AM
:lol:
True, Snowy, but you should remember that they never read anyone else's posts! |
David B.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 02:55 AM
Rats, I thought we had a celebrity poster!
I had a lovely mental image of a white fox terrier stood on a wheelie-chair slowly typing out a message then nudging the mouse to the right position with his nose.
All gone now. :down: |
Snowy
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 09:57 AM
BEGIN OFf TOPIC-NESS:
Well, David, if you can find me an avatar of Snowy (the Terrier), then I will certainly use it. Currently, I am useing one of his somewhat larger cousins.
Boo- I found the Perfect avatar for you. go to
http://www.avatarity.com/search.php?sch=hand&oper=or
It is the 2nd one down.
END OFF TOPIC-NESS
And Boo, You're right-I didn't think of that.
:lol: |
Charybdis
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 10:15 AM
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/lion/110/snowy.gif
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/lion/110/snowy.gif |
Charybdis
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 10:23 AM
Actually Snowy, Boo did use that avi for a short while. She's pretty odd that way. 😊 |
WaveOfMutilation
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 10:57 AM
But thank you for the thought!
Odd? Chary, what do you mean? |
Boo
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 10:58 AM
Bugger.
That was me.
Sorry.
Again I forget that Matt was on last at home.
*sigh* |
Charybdis
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 11:06 AM
I meant odd in a cute kinda way.
Ray Bradbury. |
reti
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 03:39 PM
I once knew a woman who'd done her masters work on some variety of fruit fly behaviour. She told me that when she went to the school's lab building there were often animal right's protestors. As she approached the building, they would approach her. When she told them she worked with fruit flies they would let her pass without harassing her.
I've always thought that was hypocritical. If I were to support animal rights (lol) then fruit flies would be included. They aren't minerals or plants! |
Snowy
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 05:02 PM
Humm- Chary, He looks a bit squashed...but it's ok. |
Boo
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 05:11 PM
Awwww, the cuteness!
*ahem* sorry.
Ray Bradbury. |
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 07:50 PM
I knew a ardent animal rights campaigner who regular picketed the animal house at my University. Inside the animal house an eminent professor was vivisecting hamsters, carefully operating on their skulls to reveal their cochlear, working out how to tap penetrate the inner ear without damaging its ability to perceive sound, wiring up the animals' auditory nerves. Gruesome stuff.
The work had pioneered the introduction of cochlear implants for the deaf.
Like the one in my campaigning friend.
Hmmm. |
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 11:19 PM
reti, I will go you one better than that; During my mispent youth earning a bachelors degree in biology and attempting a masterate in same, I settled upon an experiment in size dominance among certain animals using a simple humane design involving caged populations, observations and weighings of the test specimens. I was chosen at random by the Univeristy Ethics committee, which by law was and still is made up of people with NO science background whatsoever ( Basically, Literature, humanities, and economics faculty members earning a quick buck, er, monthly stipend ) who gave me a three-quarter hour rundown on the ethics guidelines of the treatment of animals - Including the law based on British precedent, that all experimental animals MUST be euthanised after any experiment even if not physically changed to "prevent long-term psychological suffering from being involved in the procedure".
Then at the endm, they asked what animals I would be studying.
Cockroaches, I replied.
Next came a half-hour lecture about how scientists always waste the time of decent people like themselves with our pointless experiments, and that the Ethics Committee wouldn't have cared if I pounded the damn bugs with hammers. |
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 | 11:22 PM
Guess Who, many of the aurally unovercompensated ( Newspaek for deaf) consider cochlear implants to be identical with the proceedings at Auschwitz: The destruction of a rich culture by technological means. So maybe there was some point to your acquaintance's protest; Though I admit it looks very hypocritical. |
Snowy
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 11:05 AM
Oh, Dear.
It seems that I have begun an epidemic of off-topicness. If we're not more careful, Maegan will be down on our heads like the proverbial ton of rectangular building things. |
reti
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 01:24 PM
DFS -- very believable, while being hard to believe. I especially like that they would spend a goodly amount of time telling you that you were taking up too much of their time.
I fall into the same sort of trap. For the last several years I've usually had a roach colony or two, currently I have Blaptica dubia. I recently found some german roaches (Blattella germanica) in the colony. I was, and am still, horrified! How could these nasty roaches have gotten in with my, uhm, nice roaches? |
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 10:06 PM
reti, the truth is often the hardest thing to believe; As someone once said "Fiction is under the constraint of having to be credible, while life is not."
And what is wrong with Blattela germanica? I found them charming creatures and perfectly fine test subjects, with a fresh woody scent to their body wax. Mind you, you needed two signatures and a guard to get some from the breeding cages at my alma mater, compared to only verbal permission for cyanide at the biochem labs, so some people share your view. |
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 | 10:10 PM
A Synchronicity here: I just bought a collectors edition of ANALOG magazine from the 1970s during the arguments in both fact and fiction articles about the morality of killing disease organisms, and whether advanced alien cultures might avoid us until we are 'enlightened' enough to grant germs civil rights.
And here we are today, joking about insect rights while protests go on against rendering Smallpox extinct. |
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 01:09 AM
If you want to know my precious opinion, i say smash thoses insects with tha boot and exterminate them like in starship troopers. 14/88. |
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 01:12 AM
Heil Insecticide ! |
Winona
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 09:56 AM
re: French Canadians 14/88...
4/30/45, 9mm. The better final solution. 😊 |
Winona
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 09:59 AM
oops, 9mm, should have been 7.65mm. Much better. |
Snowy
in aeternum
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 11:05 AM
Oh, Lard
Well, our friend FC has shown up, and life will shortly be heading down the drain.
:roll: |
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 11:21 AM
Hm, well I don't know about taking it that far, but I try not to kill bugs. For instance, if there's a bug in my house, I'll take it out in a cup instead of squishing it, even if it's creepy looking.
If it's on me, that's a different story, though. I reflexively swat. I'm so ashamed! *Hangs head* :( |
Rochelle
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 12:56 PM
Snowy--Was that supposed to be an insect pun? Like flushing a spider down the drain? Probably not, but I took it that way. lol |
Abashed
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 | 10:08 PM
I never post, but I felt that I needed to post this:
A bug just landed on my monitor ONTOP of the topic link and I smacked him down with a righteous palm. Then... I read the link. My immediate thought was "He was trying to tell me something and now I'm never going to know what it was"
Damn him!
-Abashed |
Citizen Premier
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Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 | 04:06 PM
The only real threat to insect populations is the introduction of foreign species, and possibly genetically engineered crops. It's sad to see a species of insect disappear, but I don't think humans can do more than dent their biodiversity.
And as I remember, scientists have recently discovered the evolution of a new mosquito species that lives in underground railways and feeds on rat blood; and it only took it about 100 years to evolve. Somehow I think that even if we destroy thousands of species, the same diversity will reappear a few millenia after we cease our damage (or our existence). |
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 | 08:32 AM
There are quite a number of mosquito control systems, all of them effective; with so many types at your disposal; it is often confusing, to say the least, in finding the right one,specific to your needs. Find out more about mosquito control at goodbye mosquitoes. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 | 08:44 AM
mosquito control |
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 | 12:46 PM
I once knew a woman who'd done her masters work on some variety of fruit fly behaviour. She told me that when she went to the school's lab building there were often animal right's protestors. As she approached the building, they would approach her. When she told them she worked with fruit flies they would let her pass without harassing her. |
