Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[Alia]

There's always a scapegoat to foot the bills...like smokers paying 3 times the amount for health insurance, when the obese don't have too.
Discrimination will always be alive and kicking some folks in the teeth as long as human beings exist.

I don't think you should have to pay more into insurance whether you smoke, drink, or fatten yourself to 500lbs. I do think, however, that if you had the chance not to have a particular illness, then you should have to pay for treatment yourself - including "stupid accidents", cigarette smoke induced lung cancer, and obesity-related ailments. And if someone is just naturally fat, Uncle Sam can give them a free gym membership and a punch card. If the card gets punched they ride. If not... oh well when they get heart problems.

Anything else just isn't fair to the responsible people.

I was talking to a friend on the phone today, explaining how, when I cut my hair this morning, the scissors snagged the skin on the back of one of my knuckles, giving me a good full skin thickness cut, and it bled for quite a bit. So, after a minor bit of sympathy, she said, "I hope you didn't get any chicken poop in that cut." Huh????????? Doesn't every chicken owner go out and drag their knuckles through the chicken poop????

There is a definite popular conception that chickens are "filthy" by definition. Parrots can carry any disease chickens can carry, they can't "hold it" any more than a chicken can (because ALL birds lack sphincters) and yet parrots aren't "filthy" to people.

 

[PrairieChickens]

You know something that has always kind of puzzled me? How come broody hens can hold it, but chickens who aren't broody can't? Where does the magical poo-once-a-day power come from?

 

[subhanalah]

I believe people think what they do about chickens "they are JUST chickens" and "chickens are stinky/filthy/dirty" due to aggro business needing to keep them in squalid/inhumane conditions.
If people viewed them as they do cats, dogs or even parrots, there would be no factory eggs.
I like my chickens better than any parrot I've met, or had as a pet.

 

[Blooie]

I don't think you should have to pay more into insurance whether you smoke, drink, or fatten yourself to 500lbs. I do think, however, that if you had the chance not to have a particular illness, then you should have to pay for treatment yourself - including "stupid accidents", cigarette smoke induced lung cancer, and obesity-related ailments. And if someone is just naturally fat, Uncle Sam can give them a free gym membership and a punch card. If the card gets punched they ride. If not... oh well when they get heart problems.

Anything else just isn't fair to the responsible people.

Well, thank you. I pay my bills on time. I don't drink or do drugs. I show up on time for appointments. I've raised 3 amazing kids, and have 6 grandkids and one great grandchild. I worked my backside off to make Navy housing units into homes, even when they were so bad that the only thing holding them up was the roaches in the walls linking arms and the pea green paint. I supported my husband's career for the entire 26 years he was in the military, from his beginnings as a Seaman Recruit to his retirement as a Lieutenant Commander. I kept our family going through his 36 months in Chu Lai, Viet Nam, and welcomed him home at his retirement just weeks before the battleship he helped recommission, the USS Wisconsin, fired her tomahawks in Desert Storm. We raised two of our grandchildren because of our daughter's illness, and the grandson we raised - the father of my great grandson and a wonderful husband to his wife - is now a Nuclear Reactor Operator on board a US Submarine. My granddaugher, who happens to be named after this irresponsible woman, is now almost 20 years old, has a good job, and an awesome fiance.

My husband and I have been married 46 years. We take care of each other when we're sick, we celebrate our good times and we hold each other through our bad times, such as the death of one of our grandsons when he was only 22 years old and had only been married for 9 months. We laugh, we cry, and we never stop loving each other. First and only marriage for both of us. We have faith that we are stronger than anything that can be thrown at us, and we have scrimped, worked and stood shoulder to shoulder when times were hard.

I served on our community's Planning and Zoning Commission, and I currently serve on our Town Council. I write a political column for our local newspaper and Senator Mike Enzi has used my columns on the floor of the US Senate at least 4 times. Every time he does, he has them entered into the official Congressional Record. I am a prize winning quilter. I taught adult literacy in the state of Mississippi when we were stationed there. I have friends that I've known and loved for over 40 years. My sisters and my brother are my greatest treasures.

I usually don't get angry at posts and forums and social media. I am so easy going that I tend to ignore things folks say rather than get into a battle of wits with them. I've found that sometimes when I think things through, I can just as easily be wrong on a topic as right, and it's harder to pull your foot out of your mouth when you've made a fool of yourself besides. But your comment - your judgement of me as not being a responsible person because of one thing - just hit me wrong. Please do not pontificate (you can look that word up later) about my worthiness to share this planet with you. You don't know me, and I don't know you. But neither I, nor anyone else you just insulted by calling us"irresponsible", has to put up with that here or anywhere else. How dare you?

 

[Beekissed]

Quote:
Is this serious or an April Fool's Day joke?

So skinny nonsmokers who don't drink but are kind of wound tight should have to pay for any stress related illnesses...and if they don't eat a diet that boosts their immune system then they should have to pay for any treatment given for contracted illnesses like colds, flu, inflammatory hepatitis, etc., and, of course, anyone foolish enough to get pregnant should also foot the bill themselves and God forbid that child have a birth defect that requires surgery because having that child was their own fault, to be sure.

Why, the criteria could be endless and pretty soon no one can have insurance because most health problems or difficulties are voluntary if you look at the big picture. But, by golly, those skinny responsible people will feel better about the whole thing and can sleep better at night when they don't have to blame having no health insurance on the fat, the smokers, and the drunks because the "responsible" people are likely to blame too.

I've been a nurse for nigh on 20 yrs and can honestly say that the majority of my patients were slender, "responsible" people who, just like anyone else, develop health issues due to lifestyle habits that are not so prominent in the media...one of which is trying to fruitlessly control those around them, resulting in stress related illnesses.

And, yes, I'm fat...and have no health issues related to that. Actually I'm one of nine fat children all well past middle age who have no health issues whatsoever that are related to obesity. You may want to take the preconceived stereotypes and file them under "stupid accident".

 

[TheKeeper]

The more people I meet, the more I like my chickens.

X a milion! Lol!

 

[TheKeeper]

Dumbest thing any one asked about my chickens is they asked what are they? Are they a bird? (I have silkies) for fun I say they are Chinese Ground Parrots! People believe me! Lol. Most the time when I'd say they are chickens they would say, that's a chicken? So that's when I decided to just say they were Chinese Ground Parrots. Gives them something to talk about till they figure out there is no such creature! Lmao!

So clever! I must borrow this one.

 

[Scott H]

Not chickens but our two nieces (they were 3 and 6 at the time) wanted to know what kind of dog we had. We have a black standard poodle and he was sitting at attention looking at them. I said "that's not a dog, it's a north Idaho Lowland Gorilla." He does look kinda apish. They looked at him....he looked at me and back at them......then they looked at me and said "NO HE ISN'T!" Had 'em for a minute, tho.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I Like the Chinese Ground Parrots. So funny.

 

[Alia]

I guess I should apologise for my post. I didn't intend to call anyone irresponsible for smoking. I said I was responsible (in this one thing) for not doing it. This was the attitude when I was young and made the choice not to smoke, so I get a little upset. The truth is it's a choice, like any other. My choice not to smoke isn't any more or less responsible than the choice to smoke. I just wish I'd known that when I was still young.

What I do think is that all choices should come with positives and negatives. I'm trying to take you seriously about analysing my perspective and pulling my foot out of my mouth. This is what I see as it. I'm just peeved that I made the choice that didn't come with any benefits, so I guess I'm trying to say there should be negatives to smoking - impose negatives on smoking when they aren't endemically there - because I made a decision that made me unhappy. I'm guilty of the same kind of discrimination as the insurance companies.

You know something that has always kind of puzzled me? How come broody hens can hold it, but chickens who aren't broody can't? Where does the magical poo-once-a-day power come from?

It was my understanding that they barely eat anything at that time.