Pussy-in-the-Round

[Mr T.]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Porg @ Jan. 20 2004,18:44)]Bren i have a grip!  

Its things like this that make kids pour boling water on the dogs ears to see it yelp, that makes kids stuff fireworks down a cats throat and blow its jaw off, and lock two dogs that hate eachother in the same room and let them fight it out, and those are just examples from the 18 months i have worked at the vets.  

All because someone thought it would be funny.

Porg Darling,

I fail to see how you make the correlation that the film leads to other miscreant acts with animals. The way folks have responded to this has been from the heart and I respect that.

That said, there are two tribes of people exchanging gunfire and worse within earshot of me and I find it massively ironic that folks can laugh themselves hoarse at video of a toddler going head-long into a paddling-pool, or some such, and the moment it comes to animals, they step-change and venerate the beasts - regardless of the circumstances!

The film was a depiction of a mishap (staged or otherwise) and initially, as with folks' reaction to some of the guff which appears on You've Been Framed, prompted in me a titter; but as with seeing the same clip a number of times, you cease to be amused.

OK, an analogy for you. Picture the scene: you're at a funeral of someone you knew only very loosely; you're at the back of the church with the 'not immediate family' brigade; around you, there is the expected, appropriate, requisite and attendant sound of crying and sniffling, given the occasion; then, completely counter to the expected dignity of the sonorous proceedings, someone lets out an enormous (rebounded off and given added resonance by the wooden pew) fart!

If you weren't already concentrating solely on the valedictions to the 'guest of hounour' at this funerary assembly, what might you do? Laugh? Well that's similar to how this film struck me when I first saw it. Repeated watching allows to reflect and take into account other's comments on here.

I am suitably spanked by you dear and look forward to our next meet! Sorry if this has offended anyone, it was not my intention. I should have thought before I posted such material.

Chin-chin.