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Posted by David Schmader on Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:37 AM
Can I ever attend a circus again after seeing that footage of elephants being brutalized by Ringling Bros. trainers? But elephants in tutus are so cute! What a funundrum!
Also, remember when McDonald's insisted on presenting McCoffee as the down-home, adamantly unpretentious alternative to Starbucks? Now they're getting stuffy.
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People who think circuses are cruel to animals, and I'm one, should not spend their money on them. Let them fade away on their own.
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I can't remember the last time I spent money at Starbuck's or McDonald's. Or a circus, for that matter. They're wasting their ad money as far as I'm concerned.
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Not be outdone, this new ad campaign from another fast food chain...
If coffee at McDonald's is Joseph, consider us John in the Box.
If coffee at McDonald's is Joseph, consider us John in the Box.
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McDonald's coffee is now the stepfather of Jesus. Can't wait for those little Books of Pslams to make their way into the Happy Meal boxes.
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Maybe I'm not understanding what Joseph or the lack of capitalization for Joe means.
Is Joseph supposed to be holier-than-thou?
....
Anyway, McDonald's sucks.
Is Joseph supposed to be holier-than-thou?
....
Anyway, McDonald's sucks.
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Cory, the "Joseph" is attempting to convince people that McDonald's coffee is more sophisticated. I just think it ends up sounding stupid and can't believe that someone actually got paid for the idea.
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Brutalized elephants? Please! I won't deny that some conditions for some working animals are less than ideal and that we should even pay more taxes to enforce proper regulations, but.
The old name for elephant is pachyderm, meaning thick skinned. They just don't feel a blow the same way we do. I know from personal experience just how hard you have to gig a much smaller and much thinner-skinned horse to get the stubborn critter to move in the direction you want it to.
A weak, squishy little human trainer needs to give his elephant a good hard whack with a bull hook just to get its attention. In nature, they're physically coerced by their matriarch, who is biggest and strongest cow in their parade. Elephants do not listen to reason. They do not respond to a gentle tug. Humans have to seem to a naïve observer to be awful damn mean to keep them in line.
Animal rights folks, at best, suffer from a tragic level of anthropomorphism borne from not spending enough time in the company of our animal friends.
The old name for elephant is pachyderm, meaning thick skinned. They just don't feel a blow the same way we do. I know from personal experience just how hard you have to gig a much smaller and much thinner-skinned horse to get the stubborn critter to move in the direction you want it to.
A weak, squishy little human trainer needs to give his elephant a good hard whack with a bull hook just to get its attention. In nature, they're physically coerced by their matriarch, who is biggest and strongest cow in their parade. Elephants do not listen to reason. They do not respond to a gentle tug. Humans have to seem to a naïve observer to be awful damn mean to keep them in line.
Animal rights folks, at best, suffer from a tragic level of anthropomorphism borne from not spending enough time in the company of our animal friends.
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@10 - Oh screw you and your "animal rights folks" generalizations. All it takes is one Google search to verify that Elephants actually have very sensitive skin. Although SOME areas of it are thick, there are still a lot of nerve endings all over, allowing them to feel pressure and pain quite easily. The reason they respond to "a good hard whack" is because they're HURT, you fucker.
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I think Mickey D's means that their coffee is so hardcore that it will ally itself with Hitler and eventually switch sides and join the Americans and Brits in attacking the Nazis
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McCafes in Australia and Asia are actually pretty nice. They're a coffee-shop section of the store, with pastries and decent seats and everything. Take a look: http://www.papascott.de/wordpress/wp-con… They have a good range of coffee drinks too, that are on par with Starbucks for taste.
Here in the US, it's just a McCafe "line of products". Which is sad.
Here in the US, it's just a McCafe "line of products". Which is sad.
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