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Jan 28, 2010 3:27 PM
a robot

Read it in the paper today. PETA says it is cruel to subject the groundhog to all those people and the bright lights.


The head GH honcho responds the GH is treated better than most kids around the country.

What will PETA think of nxt?
Jan 28, 2010 3:27pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:29 PM
A robot groundhog? For some reason I feel like watching old episodes of Futurama.
Jan 28, 2010 3:29pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:30 PM
Give me a break. That groundhog is probably the most pampered groundhog in the world. PETA needs a reality check.
Jan 28, 2010 3:30pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:30 PM
Did you know that there are more kids in this country that have a pet than those that have a father?
Jan 28, 2010 3:30pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:34 PM
Extremist wackos often set back their cause more than any real or perceived enemy ever could.

Animals should not be abused. These people grab that common sense concept and destroy it by taking it a few hundred steps too far.
Jan 28, 2010 3:34pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:38 PM
Exactly, this is why when PETA has a LEGIT gripe, most people just roll their eyes. Because of moronic stuff like this.
Jan 28, 2010 3:38pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:41 PM
One more loveable American Icon down the drain.
Jan 28, 2010 3:41pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:41 PM
Upper90 wrote: Exactly, this is why when PETA has a LEGIT gripe, most people just roll their eyes. Because of moronic stuff like this.
They don't have very many legit gripes. The MAJORITY of their stuff is just Appeal to emotion and appeal to nature fallacies.
Jan 28, 2010 3:41pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:47 PM
They don't have many, but they have had some.
Jan 28, 2010 3:47pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:49 PM
Upper90 wrote: They don't have many, but they have had some.
I've learned that a lot of them are just appeal to nature fallacies that most people don't understand. In learning the psychology, anatomy, etc of animals, a lot of stuff that they call "cruel" really isn't. It's the appeal to nature fallacy because they present it as "cruel" because it doesn't happen naturally, therefore many people who don't understand what is going on see it as being true.
Jan 28, 2010 3:49pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:53 PM
I'd like to drop a dead whale right on PETA's door step!!
Jan 28, 2010 3:53pm
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Jan 28, 2010 3:57 PM
Not that I'm a fan of figure skating or Weir or anything... but I read some yahoo article the other day that PETA was protesting his costume. Apparently it has a fox pelt or something like that as part of it.

His response was great.

There are more important things happening (paraphrase) "There are humans dying every day. There are thousands, if not millions, of homeless people in New York City. Look at what just happened in Haiti."
Jan 28, 2010 3:57pm
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Jan 28, 2010 4:08 PM
Fly4Fun wrote: Not that I'm a fan of figure skating or Weir or anything... but I read some yahoo article the other day that PETA was protesting his costume. Apparently it has a fox pelt or something like that as part of it.

His response was great.

There are more important things happening (paraphrase) "There are humans dying every day. There are thousands, if not millions, of homeless people in New York City. Look at what just happened in Haiti."
Take that PETA!!!!
Jan 28, 2010 4:08pm
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Jan 28, 2010 4:14 PM
PETA=GOAT at bitching
Jan 28, 2010 4:14pm
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Jan 28, 2010 4:28 PM
The_Crosby_Show wrote:
Fly4Fun wrote: Not that I'm a fan of figure skating or Weir or anything... but I read some yahoo article the other day that PETA was protesting his costume. Apparently it has a fox pelt or something like that as part of it.

His response was great.

There are more important things happening (paraphrase) "There are humans dying every day. There are thousands, if not millions, of homeless people in New York City. Look at what just happened in Haiti."
Take that PETA!!!!
When you get owned by a male figure skater, you know your organization is pathetic.
Jan 28, 2010 4:28pm
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Jan 28, 2010 4:32 PM
Went to the OSU-PSU game at Happy Valley back in 1997, got absolutely hammered with my crew, and stupidly let my drunk girlfriend at the time attempt to drive us back to Columbus. We ultimately decided (2 hours later or so) that it was a bad idea, and rolled her shitty car into some bed and breakfast in some podunk Pennsylvania town. When we woke up, we realized we were in Punxatawny, and there were postcards of that rodent everywhere, and he even has this glass covered hangout in the town square, it was as comical as it was sad ...
Jan 28, 2010 4:32pm
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Jan 28, 2010 4:34 PM
Fly4Fun wrote:When you get owned by a male figure skater, you know your organization is pathetic.
No truer words have ever been spoken.
Jan 28, 2010 4:34pm
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Jan 28, 2010 5:07 PM


I'm sick and tired of these nuts
Jan 28, 2010 5:07pm
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Jan 28, 2010 5:14 PM
All of these people should just tell PETA to fuck off, then maybe they'll go away for good.
Jan 28, 2010 5:14pm
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Jan 28, 2010 5:28 PM
HaHa..PETA is crazy. They requested that UGA the bulldog not have to sit on the sidelines anymore for the ball games. That dog probably loves goin to the game....

I'm all for PETA b/c I'm a big animal rights person, and I'm glad there is an organization that fights for animals rights. For the most part animals are treated like shit all over the world, so God knows we need people to look out for them, but in the instances of PUX and UGA those animals are probably very well cared for.

But, I'll take the good w/ the bad from PETA.
Jan 28, 2010 5:28pm