h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hey Uncle H. want to go hunting? You know - I personally have no problems with hunting if done for food, or to thin a flock because their natural preditors are no longer present (or if its some annoying little rodent thingy thats leaving little holes in your panty-hose at night!). I do have problems with people who are militant vegitarians - and think that our species got here without eating meat. Get a life (and have a pork chop while you're at it!)
We are carnivores! Meat is good! Eat or be eaten! Once they find out that plants have feelings also - they'll start starving us all to death! Ok, so that's my 1.3 cents worth. It's midnight and I'm rambling. Didn't someone say there was going to be munchies here? Hmmm... I thought for sure there would be peanuts, or ...

right on! thats just what i mean! i dont hunt myself, and im aware its nt perfect. but tis the best of a bad selelction

Just to let you know - it's "steak night" at the bar down the street from my house tonight. Mmmmm...steak and one of God's perfect combinations!

There's nothing like a good rare steak dripping with blood. Yum.

But it's not really honest to thump our chests and call ourselves meat eaters by way of justifying being sick enough to enjoy watching something being torn apart by a pack of dogs. If we're to be honest about our pedigree, we must admit to being merely the best dressed of a long line of nut-munching, berry picking, carcass-gnawing scavengers.

How we ever came to the point of view that watching something die in agony is fun or representative of some sort of cultural ideal is no doubt a fairly central component of the same grand illusion that has most of us convinced that getting out of a nice warm bed and spending all day doing something fairly pointless in order to make someone we don't like anyway rich is sensible.

The idea that what these so-called hunters are doing is in the best interests of the wildlife is a joke so subtle and arcane that only centuries of inbreeding can equip one to see the humour in it.

Tally-ho-ho-ho

JTG

The British public (and please note here that I consider myself to not be part of this public ) are seemingly controlled by their unfortunate inheritance. To quote Walton Simons from the game Deus Ex: 'The real plague, eating at the minds of the [British] people is successionism, regionalism. This new arrogance and sense of entitlement.'
They are perpetually living in the past where traditions and long-held family positions in parliament reighned supreme.
A pity, because this country has a lot to offer. If only it would give up its idea that it's a leading power in the world. (Joining the EU full-time would be a help too. )

Oh, and can I just add that I do rather like all the old speech. Tally-ho and whatnot. You'll often find me greeting someone with a friendly 'what ho', and parting with a 'toodlepip'.

Ra-ther.

yes. do abolish the aristocracy. that would make a lot of sense.