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Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 3:14pm
by JennyB
tepista wrote:
JennyB wrote: Yes, they do get to run, but it's on the track's terms, and the other 23 hours of the day they are kept in crates.
I don't know, they have to train if they want to win. You couldn't let veal out for an hour and expect it to win a race.
True, but I still don't think it's like a normal dog getting playtime at the dog park, you know?

BTW, did I tell everyone that we helped shut down a pet store that was a front for puppy mills? Yay!

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 3:17pm
by Dr. Medulla
JennyB wrote:
tepista wrote:
JennyB wrote: Yes, they do get to run, but it's on the track's terms, and the other 23 hours of the day they are kept in crates.
I don't know, they have to train if they want to win. You couldn't let veal out for an hour and expect it to win a race.
True, but I still don't think it's like a normal dog getting playtime at the dog park, you know?

BTW, did I tell everyone that we helped shut down a pet store that was a front for puppy mills? Yay!
In these tough economic times, JennyB brags about putting people out of work. JennyB: wrong on jobs, wrong for America.

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 3:31pm
by JennyB
Dr. Medulla wrote:
JennyB wrote:
tepista wrote:
JennyB wrote: Yes, they do get to run, but it's on the track's terms, and the other 23 hours of the day they are kept in crates.
I don't know, they have to train if they want to win. You couldn't let veal out for an hour and expect it to win a race.
True, but I still don't think it's like a normal dog getting playtime at the dog park, you know?

BTW, did I tell everyone that we helped shut down a pet store that was a front for puppy mills? Yay!
In these tough economic times, JennyB brags about putting people out of work. JennyB: wrong on jobs, wrong for America.
It's all a part of my Zoggy plot.

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 3:49pm
by Wolter
tepista wrote:
JennyB wrote: Yes, they do get to run, but it's on the track's terms, and the other 23 hours of the day they are kept in crates.
I don't know, they have to train if they want to win. You couldn't let veal out for an hour and expect it to win a race.
That made me chuckle. Because I'm an ass.

By the way, I am opposed to veal. But when I truly examine my opposition, it's largely because I prefer a regular steak. Eating veal is like eating a vegetable before it's ripe. When you add the fact it's inhumanly* cruel, it's just stupid.




*Actually, it's all-too-humanly cruel.

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 3:52pm
by tepista
Wolter wrote:
Eating veal is like eating a vegetable before it's ripe.
I have a plate of Chinese right now, and not 2 minutes ago, when I bit into some baby corn, I thought "wouldn't this corn serve a better purpose had it been full grown?"

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 3:52pm
by Wolter
tepista wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Eating veal is like eating a vegetable before it's ripe.
I have a plate of Chinese right now, and not 2 minutes ago, when I bit into some baby corn, I thought "wouldn't this corn serve a better purpose had it been full grown?"
I almost mentioned baby corn.

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 4:08pm
by Dr. Medulla
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Eating veal is like eating a vegetable before it's ripe.
I have a plate of Chinese right now, and not 2 minutes ago, when I bit into some baby corn, I thought "wouldn't this corn serve a better purpose had it been full grown?"
I almost mentioned baby corn.
Isn't this just like the time travel question where you ponder what would happen if you killed baby Hitler? Sure, what if you let the cow or corn grow up? Maybe the world would be worse? What if they started a world war? Huh?

(Wow, five questions in a row. I'm like a five-year-old.)

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 4:11pm
by Wolter
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Eating veal is like eating a vegetable before it's ripe.
I have a plate of Chinese right now, and not 2 minutes ago, when I bit into some baby corn, I thought "wouldn't this corn serve a better purpose had it been full grown?"
I almost mentioned baby corn.
Isn't this just like the time travel question where you ponder what would happen if you killed baby Hitler? Sure, what if you let the cow or corn grow up? Maybe the world would be worse? What if they started a world war? Huh?

(Wow, five questions in a row. I'm like a five-year-old.)
Frankly, I for one would love to live in a world with Cow Hitlers.

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 4:15pm
by tepista
Wolter wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Eating veal is like eating a vegetable before it's ripe.
I have a plate of Chinese right now, and not 2 minutes ago, when I bit into some baby corn, I thought "wouldn't this corn serve a better purpose had it been full grown?"
I almost mentioned baby corn.
Isn't this just like the time travel question where you ponder what would happen if you killed baby Hitler? Sure, what if you let the cow or corn grow up? Maybe the world would be worse? What if they started a world war? Huh?

(Wow, five questions in a row. I'm like a five-year-old.)
Frankly, I for one would love to live in a world with Cow Hitlers.
Sieg Moo

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 4:15pm
by Wolter
tepista wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote: I have a plate of Chinese right now, and not 2 minutes ago, when I bit into some baby corn, I thought "wouldn't this corn serve a better purpose had it been full grown?"
I almost mentioned baby corn.
Isn't this just like the time travel question where you ponder what would happen if you killed baby Hitler? Sure, what if you let the cow or corn grow up? Maybe the world would be worse? What if they started a world war? Huh?

(Wow, five questions in a row. I'm like a five-year-old.)
Frankly, I for one would love to live in a world with Cow Hitlers.
Seig Moo
I smell a photoshop opportunity!

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 4:16pm
by Dr. Medulla
tepista wrote:
Wolter wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:
tepista wrote: I have a plate of Chinese right now, and not 2 minutes ago, when I bit into some baby corn, I thought "wouldn't this corn serve a better purpose had it been full grown?"
I almost mentioned baby corn.
Isn't this just like the time travel question where you ponder what would happen if you killed baby Hitler? Sure, what if you let the cow or corn grow up? Maybe the world would be worse? What if they started a world war? Huh?

(Wow, five questions in a row. I'm like a five-year-old.)
Frankly, I for one would love to live in a world with Cow Hitlers.
Sieg Moo
It'd be rather ironic if the Nazi cows decided that pigs were the enemy within the farmyard.

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 4:17pm
by eumaas

Re: Hey Jen - Ballot Question on Dog Racing.

Posted: 29 Oct 2008, 4:24pm
by Dr. Medulla
Communist cow - 2p
A friend of mine was in a Latin American history seminar, and one of the students was from, I think, Nicaragua. During one discussion, he became rather animated while talking about what sounded like "Communist cows." Which confused the hell out of my friend. After about five minutes of hearing about Communist cows, she finally interrupted/blurted out, "How do cows become Communist in your country?" The guy paused, confused, before telling her in heavily enunciated syllables that he was talking about Communist chaos. End of the term, he bought her a little plastic cow figurine that he spray painted red.