OT: And you thought the world was sane... - Page 3

DavidG · #21 August 25th, 2003, 04:35 AM

Yea whatever. So I guess all you guys (assume for a second you have kids) wouldn't mind if say your neighbour kept a half starved Tiger in his backyard and thought it was adequate safety to put up a "Warning Tiger!" sign on the gate.

Fyron · #22 August 25th, 2003, 05:03 AM

As long as he could keep it locked up, nope.

Tigbit · #23 August 25th, 2003, 05:18 AM

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Originally posted by DavidG:
Yea whatever. So I guess all you guys (assume for a second you have kids) wouldn't mind if say your neighbour kept a half starved Tiger in his backyard and thought it was adequate safety to put up a "Warning Tiger!" sign on the gate.

Well, if the animal was half starved it would have to eat something.

Fyron · #24 August 25th, 2003, 05:24 AM

Of course, you have to keep in mind that tigers can most likely just leap over normal walls and fences, so he would have to have a much higher fence/wall (preferably a wall). As long as sufficient safety precautions are taken, it is not a problem.

narf poit chez BOOM · #25 August 25th, 2003, 10:13 AM

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Especially as it is VERY doubtful what "correct" eating habits are. All this diet stuff, sugar-free sugar, salt-free salt, fat-free fat and other chemical stuff that seems to be so popular among health fanatics in the US is definitely NOT healthy.

seconded.

define fitest. Einstien wouldn't fit into the classical definition, but our world would be a lot different without him. as an addition, i have never met an 'ordinary' person.

General Woundwort · #26 August 25th, 2003, 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by Roanon:
Especially as it is VERY doubtful what "correct" eating habits are. All this diet stuff, sugar-free sugar, salt-free salt, fat-free fat and other chemical stuff that seems to be so popular among health fanatics in the US is definitely NOT healthy.

A lot of the problems in the US on this score could be solved in two steps.

1) Unplug the idiot box.

2) Go OUTSIDE.

Suicide Junkie · #27 August 25th, 2003, 04:41 PM

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Originally posted by DavidG:
Yea whatever. So I guess all you guys (assume for a second you have kids) wouldn't mind if say your neighbour kept a half starved Tiger in his backyard and thought it was adequate safety to put up a "Warning Tiger!" sign on the gate.

Well:
1) The animal couldn't get out
2) The parent "sending him [child] in the yard"
3) The parent sues.

Sounds like a perfect murder, plus whatever was received in court.

If I had a young child, I wouldn't send him into a construction zone, I wouldn't let him on the roof of the house, and I wouldn't let him roam near Niagara Falls, and I wouldn't let him go into a yard with an unfriendly or unknown dog in it.

Why don't we just put those electric collars on people?
(I tried one with the guys on Saturday; we were testing it, and planning to map out the line with flags. Its fun when you pass it around after being zapped and watching the others get hit too

)

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DavidG · #28 August 25th, 2003, 05:52 PM

Well I guess no ones about to agree with me but I think keeping a dangerous animal in a yard near where kids are playing is criminally stupid. There are numerous 'what if' scenarios where a child could get into the yard. Having a young boy "torn appart" by a dog seems like a pretty harsh penalty for a minor tresspass.
Also seems a bit harsh to call this 'survival of the fittest' Hey we are talking about a young kid here right?
I have kids comming into my yard all the time to retrieve balls. Is it annoying? Hell yes? But I think there are people who seem to think it would be OK for me to say put a board of nails at the bottom of the fence were they hop over. Perhaps I should sit on the deck with a 12 gauge and nail em when then come over??

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As long as he could keep it locked up, nope.

Key word locked. Not just a closed and unlocked gate.

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Who's job is it to protect the stupid?

With the number of morronic parents around someone has too.

[ August 25, 2003, 16:53: Message edited by: DavidG ]

DavidG · #29 August 25th, 2003, 05:58 PM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
City people should all get happyfluffypuppy dogs. Where the worst they do is slobber on you

Exactly kind of like this guy: DavidG's Dog

Omnicron1 · #30 August 26th, 2003, 04:37 AM

Well I think two things-- One im only posting here cause i want a promotion and Two:

Criminally stupid is hard to define, putting nails at the bottom of the fence...only if those nails are like a part of your family a part that you fight for and that you sometimes let into the house despite their questionable hygiene. Besides which aren't the parents equally as stupid for not saying don't go into the yard with the dangerous doggy and then maybe trying something many Americans are fatally terrified of Discipline.

Hate to sound like the biracial pentecostal I am but "spare the rod spoil the child" did you ever think that maybe little johnny wouldn't have to have a glass eye if you had just spanked him for trying to cross the fence in the first place instead of saying "I'm very disappointed" the moronic kid has to have a sense of right and wrong instilled into him before you can expect him to care if your dissapointed or not...sigh but alas we've come so far beyond that today we know that everyone is born good, that good is like an instinct...BS good is what you grow up with if you grow up with some smutty mother and drunk father you gonna be one of the two-humans dont have instincts we have the ability to learn hence the weak and dependent state of our young they learn by watching and how you act is how they're gonna act...and if HTML is enabled how come my text won't display red when I tell it to?

Thanks to Pheonix-D for specifying it was brackets

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