I always figured they felt pain. I Still eat quite a bit of shellfish. Mmm I LOVE dungeness crab (catch it ourselves locally).
Creatures suffer, what can you do? Starve? Go vegan? But there again, plants are living things too. Humans don't photosynthesize, we have to consume other living things to survive. I'll shed a tear over the next crab i eat, someone pass the butter please.

Cute kid, dumb parents. :)

Maybe prestige is like currency. Basic needs are provided for, but you're looked down on (or even perhaps ignored more or less) unless you try to better humanity. Your social ranking goes up (like money) when you try harder, perhaps driving these future star trek people to work more?
Think of it like our buddy the working canines out there. Herding dogs. True they get paid in kibble, but its more than that, that drives them to try harder. They desire approval.
Maybe it works something like that?

Kinda sad that KFC won't offer to fix the roads just to be nice. Nooo, only if they can slap a greasy chicken logo on the work somewhere. If I was a rival and had money to blow, I'd offer to repair for free with no strings attached. It would be good publicity and make you look better than KFC.

Popeyes? Chick-fil-A? Boston market? you guys out there?

Interesting info, but would a parent use such knowledge in a way that would help their childs development, or would they mean well yet hinder a child's development? If you KNEW this was how a toddler interpreted the world, would you still try to get them to remember things ahead of time (helping them develop such skills) or would you just cater to their way of thinking?

Bizzare... hearing a human voice from something that looks so alien.

Wonder how much $$ is going into recreating this scent.
Damnit people, ancient egyptian purfume is IMPORTANT!
We must throw money at this!

OMG this is so sexy, I want to have babies with saggy butt Jean guys!!

No... wait, Nope i don't.Neither do any of my friends. In fact, every girl I know hates that crap.

Food for thought.

damn I knew I should have stocked up on gold when the crisis first started. I just couldn't convince my husband. -_-;

As for China, apparently their motto is: You can't beat them, but you can buy them outright.

So every time they want to sell a back issue, they have to get the person to come in and lay down on the copy machine? :P

There PETA goes again, getting attention in whatever fashion they can, even if its in disgust.

You want to get at PETA? Ignore them. That would make PETA cry.

Currently we're all just playing into their hand. YAY more attention for PETA.

I love how parents feel like they have some sort of argument or foot to stand on in order to convince us about their hellspawn's actions. Your kid is being obnoxious, period. You made him/her that way by treating them like some rare coveted gem.
Don't make excuses for their behavior, deal with the monster you made.
There's a reason kids didn't bounce off the walls 50 years ago...its called discipline you might want to check into that.
The #1 parent excuse I hear all the time?
"You have to pick your battles"
WTF... no you don't. Control your brat, or your brat will manipulate you to get rewards for "behaving".

So true. Not that any of you care that I agree with the clip. :P

Why do we even use lead anymore? I mean, yeah... its cheap/available... but surely the health risks aren't worth the price cut. Oh wait... thats right, money trumps life. Lol what was I thinking?

I don't know what I was doing at the time, but wow...I never knew they blew up and defaced the giant Buddhas. How sad.