"Never put jam on a magnet" isn't *that* weird - it's a quote from a very funny Eddie Izzard sketch about the 10 Commandments. You should also never put your granny in a bag or suck all the juice out of a vampire....
Abdulhamid - Banzai was a British-aired TV show and we don't have rabies over here (at least, very very rarely and it's a massive deal if it ever happens and is dealt with quickly). So we can fish away safely :)
Very true, BikerRay, but horses are now humanely trained to perform stunts/falls in films, so it *is* possible. It may well not have been voluntary, true, but there's always the immediate assumption that if an animal is doing something other than standing about, eating grass, it must have been beaten to within an inch of its life to do it.
I come from a family of farmers, with highly trained dogs who respond to all sorts of calls to perform all kinds of 'unnatural' duties, even including diving into lakes etc to rescue livestock. Not once has any of them been beaten.
Yep, I hate being forced to do unnatural things myself. The amount of beatings it took before I was able to ride a bike, fly in a plane, wear shoes, play videogames....doesn't bear thinking about.
Not to say that it *definitely* wasn't cruel, but I think to always assume that animals have to be beaten into submission to do something different is also a little shortsighted.
"Is rape of a minor not a serious offense in those two countries?"
Well, in both these countries the age of consent is much lower than most of the US or UK - at 15. In many areas of Europe it is 14. I'm not condoning or condemning, and obviously 13 is still a legal minor, just that attitudes are slightly different in different places. Is all.
To be fair, we only ever get this much snow in the South of the UK once every 20 years or so, so we don't have snowploughs on hand to get us dug out! Many of those adults haven't seen snow like this since they were too tiny to remember, hence the fun!
Just because something involves booze it's promoting alcoholism? How much do I NOT want to get stuck at a dinner party with you killjoys.
I come from a family of farmers, with highly trained dogs who respond to all sorts of calls to perform all kinds of 'unnatural' duties, even including diving into lakes etc to rescue livestock. Not once has any of them been beaten.
Not to say that it *definitely* wasn't cruel, but I think to always assume that animals have to be beaten into submission to do something different is also a little shortsighted.
Well, in both these countries the age of consent is much lower than most of the US or UK - at 15. In many areas of Europe it is 14. I'm not condoning or condemning, and obviously 13 is still a legal minor, just that attitudes are slightly different in different places. Is all.
Nice to see the US version :)
House is great. But Hugh is a legend of British comedy in his own right.
*climbs off soapbox*