I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved to be very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Vam wrote:Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Stop sneering. People were appalled by all the circumstances leading up to the slaughter of Cecil the Lion. If some people here want to express how they feel about it, then where's the harm?
Each to their own, eh?
luddite wrote:Vam wrote:Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Stop sneering. People were appalled by all the circumstances leading up to the slaughter of Cecil the Lion. If some people here want to express how they feel about it, then where's the harm?
Each to their own, eh?
People treat dogs as if they're human, I've heard then refer to themselves as the dog's mummy and daddy.
Lions kill and eat other animals and, as far as I know, there are no maudlin threads about the poor little wildebeest.
So get real and stop anthropomorphising animals, sure they don't deserve to end up as a trophy for some rich twat but get real.
Robocop wrote:luddite wrote:Vam wrote:Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Stop sneering. People were appalled by all the circumstances leading up to the slaughter of Cecil the Lion. If some people here want to express how they feel about it, then where's the harm?
Each to their own, eh?
People treat dogs as if they're human, I've heard then refer to themselves as the dog's mummy and daddy.
Lions kill and eat other animals and, as far as I know, there are no maudlin threads about the poor little wildebeest.
So get real and stop anthropomorphising animals, sure they don't deserve to end up as a trophy for some rich twat but get real.
Aw come on Luddite, I don't think this is all that fair really and not sure it's totally accurate, well at least not on here. I do get what you mean re anthropomorphism, and yeah sometimes it is totally OTT, but I don't think it's all that relevant to the main points being made in this instance.
We're not knitting Cecil jumpers and mourning him like we would a close friend or relative- people are more expressing their disgust or annoyance that a magnificent and majestic beast was lured from his protected space so some cowardly cock-womble could shoot him just to try and prove his manliness. It's pathetic really.
A lion eating a wildebeest and people not being similarly appalled, is pretty irrelevant to this discussion though. It is hardly a like for like comparison. If however some idiot lured and killed Willy the Wildebeest, just for their own pleasure and to make them feel big and brave then they should have similar scorn poured on them too.
Holly wrote:Robocop wrote:Aw come on Luddite, I don't think this is all that fair really and not sure it's totally accurate, well at least not on here. I do get what you mean re anthropomorphism, and yeah sometimes it is totally OTT, but I don't think it's all that relevant to the main points being made in this instance.
We're not knitting Cecil jumpers and mourning him like we would a close friend or relative- people are more expressing their disgust or annoyance that a magnificent and majestic beast was lured from his protected space so some cowardly cock-womble could shoot him just to try and prove his manliness. It's pathetic really.
A lion eating a wildebeest and people not being similarly appalled, is pretty irrelevant to this discussion though. It is hardly a like for like comparison. If however some idiot lured and killed Willy the Wildebeest, just for their own pleasure and to make them feel big and brave then they should have similar scorn poured on them too.
Thank you Robocop, you said it better than I could...It really isn't so much about that ONE lion, it's about the fun people have killing such a majestic, graceful animal....No one's interested in hunting a wildebeest unless it's for food ( which no one objects to anyway ) it's the senseless killing for sport only, that pisses people off. I never saw anyone posing with a big grin on their face with a dead cow, pig, sheep or chicken ...why is that I wonder?
luddite wrote:Vam wrote:Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Stop sneering. People were appalled by all the circumstances leading up to the slaughter of Cecil the Lion. If some people here want to express how they feel about it, then where's the harm?
Each to their own, eh?
People treat dogs as if they're human, I've heard then refer to themselves as the dog's mummy and daddy.
Lions kill and eat other animals and, as far as I know, there are no maudlin threads about the poor little wildebeest.
So get real and stop anthropomorphising animals, sure they don't deserve to end up as a trophy for some rich twat but get real.
Robocop wrote:luddite wrote:Vam wrote:Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Stop sneering. People were appalled by all the circumstances leading up to the slaughter of Cecil the Lion. If some people here want to express how they feel about it, then where's the harm?
Each to their own, eh?
People treat dogs as if they're human, I've heard then refer to themselves as the dog's mummy and daddy.
Lions kill and eat other animals and, as far as I know, there are no maudlin threads about the poor little wildebeest.
So get real and stop anthropomorphising animals, sure they don't deserve to end up as a trophy for some rich twat but get real.
Aw come on Luddite, I don't think this is all that fair really and not sure it's totally accurate, well at least not on here. I do get what you mean re anthropomorphism, and yeah sometimes it is totally OTT, but I don't think it's all that relevant to the main points being made in this instance.
We're not knitting Cecil jumpers and mourning him like we would a close friend or relative- people are more expressing their disgust or annoyance that a magnificent and majestic beast was lured from his protected space so some cowardly cock-womble could shoot him just to try and prove his manliness. It's pathetic really.
A lion eating a wildebeest and people not being similarly appalled, is pretty irrelevant to this discussion though. It is hardly a like for like comparison. If however some idiot lured and killed Willy the Wildebeest, just for their own pleasure and to make them feel big and brave then they should have similar scorn poured on them too.
Vam wrote:luddite wrote:Vam wrote:Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Stop sneering. People were appalled by all the circumstances leading up to the slaughter of Cecil the Lion. If some people here want to express how they feel about it, then where's the harm?
Each to their own, eh?
People treat dogs as if they're human, I've heard then refer to themselves as the dog's mummy and daddy.
Lions kill and eat other animals and, as far as I know, there are no maudlin threads about the poor little wildebeest.
So get real and stop anthropomorphising animals, sure they don't deserve to end up as a trophy for some rich twat but get real.
You're really scraping the barrel with your ridiculous comparisons, Ludds, and you're completely missing the point
Animals kill to feed and survive. Hunters kill for the thrill.
Vam wrote:luddite wrote:Vam wrote:Egalabalus wrote:Victoria wrote:I didn't think this thread would make 100 pages, but it's proved very popular and we'll make sure we keep Cecil's memory alive in a second thread.
FFS Vicky, it was a wild animal who would eat you given half a chance.
It wasn't Ghandi or Mother Teresa.
Stop sneering. People were appalled by all the circumstances leading up to the slaughter of Cecil the Lion. If some people here want to express how they feel about it, then where's the harm?
Each to their own, eh?
People treat dogs as if they're human, I've heard then refer to themselves as the dog's mummy and daddy.
Lions kill and eat other animals and, as far as I know, there are no maudlin threads about the poor little wildebeest.
So get real and stop anthropomorphising animals, sure they don't deserve to end up as a trophy for some rich twat but get real.
You're really scraping the barrel with your ridiculous comparisons, Ludds, and you're completely missing the point
Animals kill to feed and survive. Hunters kill for the thrill.
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