Unfortunately the way to blissful ignorance lies in actual ignorance. Difficult to bring that through enlightenment, self or otherwise!
I think we are more engaged in a society full of anosognosia
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Hahaha. No, just had a grumpy Polish guy shout at them.
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One of the most iconic (weirdly) moments since Iāve moved back involved I had a grumpy polish bouncer who was talking to me on a vape break at a comedy club. He kept asking who the comedian was and when I insisted I donāt know it went like this, with complete stoicism
-You do not know
No sorry
-You know
Sorry I donāt I came for the headliner
-So you do not know?
No
-Why you do not know
Iāve just never heard of him
-You do not know?
Sorry no
-You google.
I was actually bigger than the guy but I immediately googled. I have no doubt your plan worked.
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Polish logic tends to work well with silencing drunken fools: They just get confused to death.
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I was last there in 2009 and somehow ending up getting a tattoo as a suggested hangover cure.
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When I first moved to NYC I lived in Queens - basement apartment in a polish familyās home. They made amazing flavoured vodka and when my partner and I split the mother all but adopted me. Surprisingly good food.
Beyond that and a few years later I went to the Polish Cultural Center to see Peeping Tom (Mike Patton project you may want to check out, itās interesting to me as is Lovage). 5 ft from Mike Patton in a white linen suit with accompanying hairnet, amongst others like ragzel, on a 2 ft high stage while eating pierogies from an attached sort of cafeteria was an interesting experience.
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After ranting in the wrong thread. Iāll just paste this here and leave.
I just read a Facebook response (U.K.) in regards to a new puppy that said - āwho wouldnāt be happy if they had that kind of money to spend on a dog? I saw the price and it let me know that a dog isnāt in my future.ā
I wanted to scream at this person - the fact that people are educated to breeding support breaks my heart and makes me want to crack heads open. Itās one of the few Areas of social justice / awareness in which the British are MILES behind the USA.
I had a family member, by marriage, tell me they had to get a Ā£2500 pure bred Pug because āpurebred dogs have fewer health problemsā
Iām going to volunteer for a shelter here as soon as possible but I feel like someone well off should be taking full page ads discussing the level of moronic pet logic
British classism is something Americans do not largely understand as its relatively foreign (itās basically equivalent to American racism in my mind). While classism exists there itās just not the same thing, trust me- not even close. That classism extends to animals. Purebred and unneutered male dogs particularly are used as status. An article in a major fucking paper was written about how a man felt his masculinity was diminished if he fixed his dog, and it wasnāt even an education to alternate ideas.
Ugh. I need to sleep, this really angers me. I would have hoped a poster like this would have made the GD point.
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Outstanding @Aphonic. Iām not into the whole ābreedersā thing, and have been rescuing wayward doggies and kitties for decades. For every one you save, is one LESS that needs to be saved.
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Agree, my wife worked for a shelter for years and it was heartbreaking seeing the amount of animals that were literally discarded. We have always had rescued dogs and would not have it any other way.
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Though Iāve had a couple of āpurebredsā, they were both acquired as rescues. One stolen from a garage (thought it was a baby crying, but it was an adult pitbull someone was starving to make it āmeanā). She turned out to be a sweetheart in every way. Heck, the kids in our neighborhood would leave messages on our answering machine asking if she could come out and play. The other was a retired racing greyhound who, though a bit neurotic (Iād me neurotic if you kept me in a cage 20 hours a day) who turned into a great family dog. He love riding in the car and affection. He was the only dog Iāve had in my life who you could free feed. After we got him, he gained about 10 pounds and stayed at that weight until he died of bone cancer years later. I credit Hero the greyhound with helping through some mental health challenges.
The other dogs Iāve had were mutts and mixes. All were wonderful family members.
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Same with us mate, had a few mutts that were fantastic family dogs. We have also had a pure bred āteacupā Pomeranian that was rescued from a shelter. She was an ex backyard breeding bitch who was kept in a cage for the first 7 years of her life and solely used to produce puppies. We saved her from an almost guaranteed destruction order (they were literally moving her to death row) and she was part of our family for another 8 years until cancer got her.
Our current girl is a purebred (with papers) Pugalier (new registered breed of Pug X Cavalier) who we rescued from a family who kept her short tied in their backyard where she was constantly teased by their 3 young boys. We saved her at 2 years old and she is currently 10 and has been our constant companion all these years.
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This is wonderful. It breaks my heart too but then itās happy. But it makes me think of all the other helpless animals kept in cages and tortured so breeders can churn out multiple litters one after the other after the other.
Everyone who uses a breeder says there āisnāt like thatā / āloves dogsā etc. But the reality is you have absolutely no idea most of the time. Theyāre amazing at deceit and this problem wouldnāt exist if the percentage of breeders aligned with them being so wonderful.
While I love purebreds, like any other dog, I donāt find pure breeding necessary. Bulldogs can barely or canāt mate without human help, pugs canāt breathe properly. Dogs are being born deformed. All from getting āshow qualityā
Itās just heartbreaking. And not to belabour the point but the U.K. is horrible with it. Itās a mission for the rest of my life here to stop the snobbery and bullshit about dog ownership I see and wake people up to the horror.
Lucyās law was a placating move and while Iām grateful something was done, it was the bare minimum and there is no education happening that I see, except maybe Ricky gervais single handed brow beating his fans into not being so stupid.
Anyway good for everyone who saved an animal. Often times youāre saving two, the one in the cage and the one taken from a kill shelter to the no kill shelter.
I really hope we can move past breeders, and macho neutering bullshit.
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Thanks for your post. It warms my heart and beings a smile to my face. I think the ones who have been rescued somehow know it and show their gratitude by becoming wonderful and special family members.
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The by proxy celebrations of football cavemen. If Uri Geller claims this victory, Iāll hunt down that cutlery chiropractor to rescind a prior handshake.
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Excessive heat. Weāve had 4 days this year of 120F or greater. Last year it was 5 days but most of them falling later in the summer. At this rate, 120 will become a regular thing.
I.
Hate.
This.
Summers here are when you get nothing done and go nowhere.
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I feel your pain. I went through that for a long time. There is summer and then there is hell.
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Right you are, brother!
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