Roguish Lawyer
02-19-2008, 16:56
Conversation today between my wife and five-year-old son:
"Mommy, I don't want to eat liver. You know why? Because liver come from animals and I don't want to eat animals."
"But you eat all kinds of animals -- turkey, chicken, steak . . ."
"But those are yummy animals. It's OK to eat animals as long as they're yummy!"
Now that last line would make a great t-shirt! :D
Now that last line would make a great t-shirt! :D
Especially if you send them to members of PETA. :D
112thSOLCA
02-19-2008, 19:08
One of my favorite billboards :D
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On the topic of PETA.... we have, shall I say one extremely 'special' member of my medical school class who loves to dress, talk, and behave in ways which flaunt his homosexuality and exxtremely liberal viewpoints.
One day in a lecture on wound healing our professor, and also accomplished researcher, after giving his lecture shows us a video of the new quick clotting powder that his lab helped develop and I believe now is coming to a soldier near you. Woundstat.
The video was of an anesthetized pig with its thigh dissected down to clearly expose the femoral artery. The surgeons then used a punch to deliver a carefully measured hole to the artery and let the pig bleed till it had lost some enormous quantity of blood, the clotting powder was dumped in, packed, and in seconds completely stauched the flow of blood.
End video clip.
Now I sit right up front and am chatting with the prof after the video, and honest I joke with him about how I bet you get really get to piss PETA off with that, and then he says this is what I give them, and hands me a business sized card out of his wallet.
On the front it reads "I have no problem if you disagree with using animals in research, but.."
On the back it says " Then you must refuse treatment from any medical field which has benefitted from their use, and the card lists every specialty.
So I see our special friend coming in at high speed, and I know what is about to happen... I say, watch out, and stand back to watch the fireworks.
Our special friend goes off on the professor, telling him not to show 'that trash in my medical school class' and other such bullshit. The professor calmly relays that the experment was done in a controlled fashion within all regulations and the pig was euthanized afterwards. The kid continues to push it, and the prof hands him the card!!
Oh the kid flipped out, it was the funniest thing I have ever seen, threw the card in the professors face and stormed off.
Then the professor was kind enough to quickly say before our next lecturer began to speak that he just wanted to let everyone know that the experiment was preformed to the highest specifications of animal testing.
Our special friend stands up and yells that our professor is a liar, and that he knows its murder.
Now that is a true story ;)
Think of all the poor kids that guy beat for a slot into medicine. Not to mention his facebook profile says his goal is to become a 'radical queer doctor'
Ah the irony, that idiot can lambast a professor like that, want to be a radical queer doctor and no faculty says a word, while they preach tolerance and teach us cultural sensitivity.
Although I did post on the class messageboard about what an asshat that clown was and that I had just boughten some new sharp broadheads for deer hunting. Of course my post was promptly deleted by faculty, but I was greeted that afternoon by handshakes, and Don wins 'man of the year' emails for having the balls to call that guy out, by the conservatives in my class.
Now back to studying the 500 pages of material I will be tested on tommorow