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

[CarolinaHen]

Completely agree. It's fairly rare that a situation is 100% black and white, and I dislike it when people try to deal in absolutes.

The only thing I am absolutely sure about is that there are no absolutes

 

[Gryphon]

Well, there's death and taxes, but there's always people who try to avoid both!

 

[7 Biddies]

Ok since people insist on bringing this up, I think it's a horrible human being that would wish harm and death on their neighbor just because they disagreed with them. What if tge neighbor was a doctor who took the vow of "do no harm" seriously? Or for that matter, a christian who truly believes in "thou shalt not kill"? Do they deserve to be hurt because of your personal beliefs? How twisted.
Add to this the rest of the posts along this line ...

I believe it's what they call "gallows humor". (Definition: "Any humor that treats serious matters, such as death, war, disease, crime, etc., in a light, silly or satirical fashion.") The signs mentioned earlier would be considered examples of satire. (Definition: "the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.") No one was being serious or seriously suggesting anyone be shot, killed, maimed, or harmed in any way. It's a way of venting. (Definition: "A means of exit or escape; an outlet".)

Some like it, some don't. But, since this IS a humor thread, let's try not to not take things so seriously. OK everyone?

Now. Back to our regularly scheduled programming. (I hope.)

 

[Gryphon]

I'm a huge fan of morbid humor. Not a fan of mean spirited signs that gun nuts go "YEAH THAT'LL LEARN 'EM!" and think it's actually a good idea to put up.

 

[7 Biddies]

I'm a huge fan of morbid humor. Not a fan of mean spirited signs that gun nuts go "YEAH THAT'LL LEARN 'EM!" and think it's actually a good idea to put up.

I'm sure the posters were not actually proposing any harm. Refer to my just edited post, above. The signs are satire, not mean spirited. I just don't understand where this attitude about things being "mean" has come from these days. If you tell a child to sit still in his seat and stop bothering the other students, the culprit goes home and tells his mother the teacher is "mean". If you process a chicken for food, you're told "that's so mean". I told a child his hand might not hurt so much if he held his pencil differently. His mother called my boss to complain about the "mean psychologist". Geez.

Where did this come from????? It's driving me nuts!

Now, if the neighbor built a blind in his yard and sat up there with a shotgun, shooting at trespassers and shooting all survivors again, I can see why someone might have a problem. But, the sign is just a joke ... no real harm is intended or committed. If it was, they wouldn't put up the sign in the first place; it ruins the fun. Lying to your kids about eating all their Halloween candy so you can laugh at their tears when their hearts are broken is mean. But, who was harmed with the sign? No harm, no foul. In order for someone to be mean, there has to be a victim. Who is the victim when someone puts up a sign that, in the perception of most, is comic satire?

Just saying. A very frustrated SEVEN 0>

 

[Gryphon]

I'm sure those parents that told the kids they ate their candy thought they were being funny and not mean. Why did you get so upset about that when it was all in fun?

 

[sepaditty1]

I think we should cut out the middle man. Steal the neighbors Halloween candy while trespassing with a gun. Does that cover all our bases

 

[Gryphon]

Only if it's not malt chocolate candy. I hate that stuff.

 

[lazy gardener]

So, as long as it's not malt chocolate candy, it's ok? Does me sense a bit of sarcastic humor here? No offense taken, and certainly none intended! My own bit of sarcastic humor regarding chocolate: Just give me the dark chocolate, and no one will get hurt! Chicken related: have had a chicken keeper tell me that the chalazae is a developing embryo.

 

[subhanalah]

Don't tell anyone, but I hard boiled some bought eggs, and one of them was partially developed (no discernible chick, just the initial veining/branching).

It was really weird, when I opened it up, the yolk wasn't hard, it was the color of a cooked yolk, but still liquidy, molten grossness. I told my friend that I get my eggs from...she stopped selling her eggs until she gets her broodies in line.

Put me off eggs for a minute, lol.
But if I had never incubated eggs and been familiar with the process, I probably never would have even recognized that's what it was....just.."man, that egg must have been bad or something, that was WEIRD!"