6/6/2002: PETA advertisement
 

http://cellar.org/2002/petaadvert.jpg

UK readers will be familiar with this already, I'm guessing. It's a frame from a PETA advertisement that was set to run in cinemas, but was pulled when people felt it was... inappropriate.

The ad features the woman being clubbed to death for her fur coat. Bright folk will see the analogy they're trying to make...

Morons...

... PETA or the censors? :confused:

You, nic. :)

PETA...they just irritate the fuck out of me. It shouldn't have been censored, although I can see why. It could "inspire" people to start beating up on fur-wearers. Perhaps they could have put a disclaimer at the bottom.

If people want to wear fur, that's their right. If I owned one, and someone threw paint on me, it would take all the willpower I have to keep from beating the living fuck out of the vandal.

All depends where the fur comes from as far as i'm concerned.

Oh, my misunderstanding. I thought the image was of a dead PETA vandal who had sprayed paint on that pimp's fur coat. ;)

Please extrapolate. So, if I legally went out and killed a bear, and decided to make a coat out of it, would you throw paint on me?

One day I AM going to own a fur coat in an attempt to be cool. :)

I remember cracking up to an early Bobcat Goldwaith bit:

"Oh no, I dont eat beef. But I'd kill a cow in second for a cool coat."

I wonder if our righteous dude is striding away in his fine Italian leather shoes...just out of frame.

Uh...wouldn't it work better to own a fur coat in an attempt to be *warm*?

*groan* :)

Rather like the f*ckwits who think it's funny to stage a driveby shooting with a paintball gun. Is the victim supposed to make a split second asessment as to whether they've just been assaulted with a firearm, or if the stuff they've been doused with is toxic, caustic or contagious?

I do notice that this sort of "good goof" or "political statement" happens mostly in jurisdictions like New York and California where law-abiding folks have been disarmed. One guy who tried the paintball stunt in Utah found out the hard way that some folks there are packing heat. :-)

One in america would shooting someone with a painball gun give you the the justification to blow their head off *sighs*

Depends on the bear, if it was an endangered species, yes, i'd probably ignite it and you along with it but something like foxfur coats etc, why not? Same applies for croc-skin handbags etc. All depends where the fur is coming from, ehre we have croc farms purely for this stuff.

I was watching some show on TLC earlier this week. It showed some juveniles driving around town on a 3-day rampage, destroying car windows and mail boxes. But what shocked me was that these kids (during said spree) were shooting at people with paintball guns and hitting people with bats. And they videotaped all of it. Now THAT'S stupid. IIRC, they started shooting at this guy on a bike...not only did he get hit by paintballs (which hurts from what I hear) but he went face first into the side mirror of a van. Ouch.

lol now that is amazingly dumb. There are two types of painball, liquid capsules which are pretty harmless and the hard-ball powderpaint ones which can be muchos nasty.

If one is armed with a gun, and they're being hit by something that appears to be a gun, you don't think that they would try to defend themselves by shooting? I'm not a fan of guns, but even I could see a self-defense rationale in that.

Hence why I said "legally." And PETA would hate the croc farms. :)