Posted by Hunter [24.1.13.62 - c83540-b.aurora1.co.home.com] on 08 June 2001 at 06.43.47:

In Reply to: Re: Eww, PETA.... posted by BerzerkerTam on 08 June 2001 at 02.17.47:

Personally, I don't like it when pets get mistreated, but there is a point where I have to draw the line, since I currently keep pets that eat other 'pets.' I've nothing against doing labtesting on white mice and rats -- and other animals bred specifically for testing -- in much the same way I have no problem with eating beef, and wearing leather.

I don't like veal -- not because littlebabycalf gets 'tortured' or something, but because it tastes funny. The leather they get from things like littlebabycalf, though, is apparently very nice. Very soft, or something.

...um...to get back to the point: Animal testing = okay in some instances; torture = bad, if you exclude throwing a live mouse to a monitor lizard that paints with it while it's still alive and swallows it before it dies.

~Hunter

Follow Ups:

• Re: Alright.... posted by BerzerkerTam [213.93.128.43 - proxy1.rott.chello.nl] on 08 June 2001 at 13.21.53 (19)
  • anally electrocuted minks make lovely coats. ~nt~ posted by wolfeman_psycho a.k.a. sick fuck [209.143.37.38 - dark-cas6-cs-36.dial.bright.net] on 08 June 2001 at 14.35.23 (18)
    • And people think I'm fucked in the head? ~nt~ posted by Swyndle [24.1.13.62 - c83540-b.aurora1.co.home.com] on 08 June 2001 at 16.35.15 (17)
      • I think we are running out of room ~NT~ posted by wolfeman_psycho [216.201.41.165 - dark-3640-1-cs-35.dial.bright.net] on 09 June 2001 at 23.36.48 (16)
        • NEVER... actually, I am a bit curious as to what one more post will do to the thread... ~no text~ posted by Baron Greenback [24.1.11.192 - c83540-j.aurora1.co.home.com] on 10 June 2001 at 00.20.33 (15)
          • Well, let's see what happens. The worst thing that could happen is for it to crash, right? I call that a stress test. ~nt~ posted by wolfeman_psycho [209.143.37.83 - dark-cas7-cs-30.dial.bright.net] on 10 June 2001 at 03.30.21 (14)
            • We've taken them out much further than this. In fact, we've made the scrollbar at the bottom of the screen [which I'm not seeing yet] get pretty long. At one point, I think we'd managed to make the screen three times as wide as it previously was. Oh, but we've had some fun on this thing.... -nt- posted by Hunter [24.1.13.62 - c83540-b.aurora1.co.home.com] on 10 June 2001 at 09.06.44 (13)
              • whoa... ~nt~ posted by wolfeman_psycho [209.143.37.100 - dark-cas7-cs-47.dial.bright.net] on 10 June 2001 at 15.24.32 (12)
                • Ah, the old days when Hunter and I didn't have each other's ICQ numbers. We got about as close to breaking the thing as you can. Good times.~NT~ posted by Swyndle [63.227.42.115 - dnvr-dsl-gw8-c115.dnvr.uswest.net] on 10 June 2001 at 19.29.50 (11)
                  • And the even older days, like that Janurary when I found the board first and eventually pissed banger off by telling him I wouldn't bring him home a 'not live' grenade. -nt- posted by Hunter [24.1.13.62 - c83540-b.aurora1.co.home.com] on 10 June 2001 at 21.14.17 (10)
                    • Or that one time when I decided to see how much blather I could put into one subject line with a no text tag before the thing would get mad at me? I still have no idea what the cap is, only that Grem said there was one. Maybe one day I'll have another go at it.~nt~ posted by Swyndle [63.227.42.115 - dnvr-dsl-gw8-c115.dnvr.uswest.net] on 11 June 2001 at 10.27.48 (9)
                      • That's happened a *lot*. Utahraptor did it -- his famous 'email gremlin then get your mommy to look it up and stop eating your mommy and no she won't give you a blowjob i'm going to sue you for hurting my feelings just like on Seinfeld' post. And then there was the time, right after Gremlin replaced the board, I forget who posted something excruciatingly long, but Gremlin beat it for length, and it was just really weird. And this one time, at bandcamp, I stuck a flute in my -- oh wait, that wasn't me. Nevermind. -nt- posted by Hunter [24.1.13.62 - c83540-b.aurora1.co.home.com] on 11 June 2001 at 10.39.04 (8)
                        • I'll just be over here writhing with that image.~NT~ posted by Swyndle [24.1.12.150 - c83540-i.aurora1.co.home.com] on 11 June 2001 at 11.22.08 (7)
                          • I win -nt- posted by Hunter [24.1.13.62 - c83540-b.aurora1.co.home.com] on 11 June 2001 at 12.21.12 (6)
                            • Not sure i should contribute to this -nt- posted by Ondoher [205.178.64.171 - GLENN] on 11 June 2001 at 19.59.27 (5)
                              • This is starting to hurt. I'm much too large to fit in such a small place. Maybe if I put on some clown shoes.... -nt- posted by wolfeman_psycho [209.143.37.21 - dark-cas6-cs-19.dial.bright.net] on 12 June 2001 at 18.59.17 (4)
                                • Wolfe, you just keep that imagery to yourself, 'kay?~nt~ posted by Swyndle [24.1.12.150 - c83540-i.aurora1.co.home.com] on 13 June 2001 at 16.31.11 (3)
                                  • Swyndle: like you've never participated in trying to see how many people can fit in a '76 Pacer. ~nt~ posted by wolfeman_psycho [216.201.10.19 - dark-cas1-cs-17.dial.bright.net] on 14 June 2001 at 07.09.24 (2)
                                    • Pacer? no. '89 Oldsmobile? 23 people not including the breeders in the trunk.~NT~ posted by Swyndle [24.1.13.62 - c83540-b.aurora1.co.home.com] on 14 June 2001 at 09.00.42 (1)
                                      • How many were midgets? ~NT~ posted by wolfeman_psycho [216.201.10.182 - dark-cas4-cs-27.dial.bright.net] on 15 June 2001 at 02.09.56 (0)