I'm pretty pissed right now. I don't know how well you all follow the news, but I'm guessing most of you have seen or read about the plane that had an emergency landing in the Hudson yesterday.
The television announcers are repeatedly saying that it was so fortunate that nobody died. Fuck that, and fuck them. At least two murders occurred. Not just accidental deaths, but murders! I think serious attention needs to be drawn to the fact that it is definitely, most assuredly murder. It is callous and uncaring murder for the sake of profits and convenience. Many, many cultures define murder as killing that has nothing to do with survival. The Hebrew translations of the Bible say as much. The deaths of these birds, which happens daily and in large numbers, serves to feed nobody, and you can sure as Hel bet that these murdering airline companies don't work to preserve and better fowl habitats. No bellies are being filled with goose meat from these poor creatures tonight, while so many human people starve and eat poisonous filth. This the perfect example of the natural world being ground down in the machines of civilization, in this case quite literally.
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Yeah, we made them fly in front of the plane...
Seriously, have a cup a tea and chill out
Are you a goose, dan? Do you believe you are a goose? Is this belief fueling your avian sympathies?
You must remember, poor dan, that people - like geese - who eat poisonous filth, die. They do not have a chance to starve.
What was that about two murders, again?
Hey, pagan fundie! A rare delicacy indeed.
Just as weird and disconnected from reality as, say, an Abrahamic fundie, but weird in a whole different way.
"I'm pretty pissed right now."
Stop drinking otherwise you'll end up posting gibberish.
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"The Hebrew translations of the Bible say as much"
You know this how?
Oh yes, the Hebrew to cartoon pictures translation.
"The deaths of these birds, which happens daily and in large numbers, serves to feed nobody, and you can sure as Hel bet that these murdering airline companies don't work to preserve and better fowl habitats." Errr... yes they do.
Riker's Island, for example. It's in the flight path for La Guardia airport, which was where the Hudson flight was headed. It's home to a crapton of Canadian geese.
Anyone wanna hazard a guess at what species of goose was sucked into the engines?
Like with everything else in life it's always important to get your prorities right. And you're doing a marvellous job. Here's another couple of things that you may not know but are definitely worth losing sleep over:
- When they built Auschwitz they accidentally displaced a colony of toads from their original habitat.
- When the WTC towers came down, two hamsters perished in the offices of Lehman Brothers.
- The British government refuses - to this day - to acknowledge and honour the hundreds of rats and other rodents on board the Titanic.
- Don't even get me started on the pidgeons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Outrage!!
Murder most foul, and you should go into a hunger strike until those historical inequities are put right.
I'm sure this pagan fundie has never stepped on an ant, hit a small mammal with his car, or used antibiotics.
The holocaust of penicillin...
Wow. A Pagan fundie with a bird fetish. I've been Pagan for a long time myself and I must admit, that's a new one.
While I'm sad that a few birds did die, I'm so glad and relieved that the people in the planes made it out. Brother Dan needs to cut back on the bong water.
I love animals. Even geese that hiss at me if I get to close to them. I'm sad that they died. I can barely handle seeing a dead gopher on the side of the road.
However...
That no humans died in that plane crash was amazing, and something to be happy about.
Murder also involves intent you wingnut. The birds that died were tragic, of course, but purely accidental. It's not like the fucking pilot said to the co-pilot, "Hold my beer, and watch this!"
Fuuuuuck. I'm all for animal rights, but ye gods, like any ideal, some people take it beyond an unhealthy extent.
And geese that get eaten by a fox, are they a tragedy, too? Well, not for the fox, obviously.
I had goose once. Too greasy, man. I prefer duck.
Oh, Dan, how could you?
Two wonderful birds give their lives to raise the plight of our feathered brethren in an act of ultimate sacrifice and you reduce them to the role of hapless victims of a human crime.
Your disrespect for these avian heroes only highlights your own patronising attitude to our co-passengers on Spaceship Earth. You think they are helpless little chicks for you to save, not masters of their own destiny like you or I.
Pah! You are the symptom not the cure, Dan, and you should learn to view your equals with proper regard!
Eco-fundie! For some reason, whenever I submit them they never get through, but kudos to whoever sumbmitted this!
*goes off to peta2 to trawl for quotes*
Pagan...fundie...? Finally! This Pagan finally gets to see a Pagan fundie!! *dances* The birds dying is a little sad. D:
However, if they support PETA I will die a little inside. PETA annoys me.
I agree that I feel sad about the birds, and that the airlines aren't doing enough to help them, but seriously, dude, you need to calm down...
@ #920789: Be careful with your "as if the lives of animals are as important as people" arguments, you'll start to sound like a Xtian!
I think this was a bit extreme but it does kind of piss me off too that animals are seen as so expendable.
Nifty. An eco-fundie!
Probably Petarded, too.
'The television announcers are repeatedly saying that it was so fortunate that nobody died. Fuck that, and fuck them."
Yeah, fuck the innoncent people on that plane, including the children. THe poor wittle geese got hurt!
Wow...an eco-fundie, that's original!
Your definition or murder is screwed up. Murder has to be the result of a deliberate choice, nobody chose to hurt the geese, nobody wanted the geese to be hit, it was an unfortunate accident is all.
"No bellies are being filled with goose meat from these poor creatures tonight, while so many human people starve and eat poisonous filth."
A couple of geese ground up in a greasy, dirty jet engine, mmm them's good eatin!!
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