So, I thought I would bring this to your attention. Most of the users here love baby animals, right? Well, read this.
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/alt-news/meet-chris-p-bacon-a-piglet-who-cant-use-his-back-legs-luckily-he-has-a-wheelchair.html
I would love to hear your thoughts on this. I also give you a nosedive pig. http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/images/chris-p-bacon-1.jpg Sorry if you guys don't approve of this thread. I just thought I'd share it.

Seen it. So daaaaaaaaaw. =^.^= They will have a race pig soon.

Meh.

Back legs that don't work means he's easy to catch and kill so he can be eaten. Tender little pork pieces...mmmm...

Digital_Kindness said:
Back legs that don't work means he's easy to catch and kill so he can be eaten. Tender little pork pieces...mmmm...

D:

Digital_Kindness said:
Back legs that don't work means he's easy to catch and kill so he can be eaten. Tender little pork pieces...mmmm...

Digital kindess, y u no kind? D:

Xch3l said:
Digital kindess, y u no kind? D:

This.

Xch3l said:
Digital kindess, y u no kind? D:

I am, but pork is too tasty to let that little hors d'ouevres live.

Seems like a waste of time and resources. If there's nothing else particularly special about the pig, why not slaughter and replace it with a more valid specimen instead of investing all that energy to barely bring the defective one up to par?

MaShCr said:
Seems like a waste of time and resources. If there's nothing else particularly special about the pig, why not slaughter and replace it with a more valid specimen instead of investing all that energy to barely bring the defective one up to par?

He'll get far less exercise throughout his life, and so his flesh will be swathed in fat, and as we all know, pork fat is best fat. Soft, delicious, porky fatty fat fat. I say let him live his life of leisure, then bring him to the slaughter.

Also, the title of this thread just clicked with me.

I posted this thread to show people a cute pig and you guys are talking about killing it. Are you guys seriously derailing this thread? Really? -_-

JoeX said:
I posted this thread to show people a cute pig and you guys are talking about killing it. Are you guys seriously derailing this thread? Really? -_-

White meat disagrees.

Oh, I got the name!

Chris P. Bacon = Crispy Bacon

Mmm....bacon

It may be cute now, but when it grows up and the wheels don't support anymore.. off to the slaughter house he goes.

At least, if he were my pig.

They named him Chris P. Bacon, so he's reminded of his impending fate of being eaten every time someone calls his name.
How are we the cruel ones for wanting to eat him and get it over with?

JoeX said:
I posted this thread to show people a cute pig and you guys are talking about killing it. Are you guys seriously derailing this thread? Really? -_-

Someone obviously doesn't have an appreciation for a blt, hold the l and t.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WubRA1-t9H8/Tyveao3PL-I/AAAAAAAAFoI/-DnlvgBBi0Q/s640/food_porn_10418.jpg
http://www.slashfood.com/media/2006/1/bacon5.jpg
http://www.thatsnerdalicious.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/bacon-bacon-taco-e1333685005741.jpg?cb5e28

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxsmy8F4kt1qg1xmxo1_400.jpg
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQp2841iwd9xa9svadApRzo4dd5RIuIhfpBRz0ao_nQQyZQ5PpL2Q
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VOmQQfs2B4k/TkVhrduhChI/AAAAAAAAHOY/QI173uivMIM/s1600/Haute+Khuuture_Food+Porn+Friday_South+Coast+Winery+%25289%2529.JPG

MaShCr said:
Seems like a waste of time and resources. If there's nothing else particularly special about the pig, why not slaughter and replace it with a more valid specimen instead of investing all that energy to barely bring the defective one up to par?

I don't think it's particularly taxing on any sort of resources. The wheelchair was initially made out of K'nex in a single night; it probably cost less than 20$ and a few hours of work. Even taking the upgraded chairs into account, I'm sure the total amount of energy put into that pig is no greater than the amount of resources required to raise, say, a dog.

"Valid specimen" is subjective. If someone decides the purpose of their pig is to be a companion rather than food, that's their prerogative. In this case, Chris is already a "valid specimen" for a pet because his owner is emotionally invested in him.

Oh, and for the record I love pork (I'm Filipino. I pretty much have to). But when a person owns a pig, they get to decide what happens to it. You can call whatever they do with it a waste, but in the end it's theirs.

KloH0und said:
I don't think it's particularly taxing on any sort of resources. The wheelchair was initially made out of K'nex in a single night; it probably cost less than 20$ and a few hours of work. Even taking the upgraded chairs into account, I'm sure the total amount of energy put into that pig is no greater than the amount of resources required to raise, say, a dog.

"Valid specimen" is subjective. If someone decides the purpose of their pig is to be a companion rather than food, that's their prerogative. In this case, Chris is already a "valid specimen" for a pet because his owner is emotionally invested in him.

Oh, and for the record I love pork (I'm Filipino. I pretty much have to). But when a person owns a pig, they get to decide what happens to it. You can call whatever they do with it a waste, but in the end it's theirs.

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I'm very particular about my syntax and diction.

AP Language and Composition is hard to shake.

KloH0und said:
I'm very particular about my syntax and diction.

AP Language and Composition is hard to shake.

You know, you can fix all of that before you click on the "Post" button...

Hammie said:
You know, you can fix all of that before you click on the "Post" button...

I can fix grammar and spelling.

I can't "fix" style and prose.

KloH0und said:
I can fix grammar and spelling.

I can't "fix" style and prose.

Well if you can't fix it pre-posting, then you can't fix is after either.

Writing is iterative. What do you think drafts and editions are for?

Marketing.

That's an awfully pessimistic view.

Who sells drafts, anyways?

Well, editions are marketing.
And I prefer to think of myself as a cynic, not a pessimist.

Drafts are certain rough versions of an eventually published work, but personally I'd look at the post button as the analog of publishing.
You can always re-read your post and fix it prior to posting.

Guys, we're getting away from how delicious this piglet would be slaughtered and turned into prosciutto. Get back on track.

Country style ribs.
Loin roast braised in white wine and a mirepoix(substituting shallots for the onions).
Pork Butt slow cooked and pulled in a mustard based sweet barbecue.
Tenderloin marinated and grilled whole, finished in an oven and sliced into medallions.

Hammie said:
Well, editions are marketing.
And I prefer to think of myself as a cynic, not a pessimist.

Same thing, fancier word.

Also, meals on wheels. Tasty

CamKitty said:
Same thing, fancier word.

Also, meals on wheels. Tasty

Not quite.
Pessimism is always seeing the worst in any situation.
Cynicism is always assuming the worst in people's motivation.
It's a set/sub-set sort of relationship, a pessimist is a cynic, but a cynic isn't always a pessimist.

Part of the food chain.~

Hammie said:
Not quite.
Pessimism is always seeing the worst in any situation.

There's an old joke about a Polish optimist meeting a Polish pessimist: "Things are so bad, so terribly bad, that they couldn't possibly get any worse", says the pessimist, to which the optimist replies: "Don't worry my friend, they could, they really could."

Keats said:
Part of the food chain.~

"There's always a bigger fish."

furballs_dc said:
"There's always a bigger fish."

Not compared to the whale shark.

Swim Swim Hungry, Swim Swim Hungry.

and yet, no one mentions the goldfish with a special prosthetic on the bottom of the page. That's some coool shiznit.

swamprootwolf said:
and yet, no one mentions the goldfish with a special prosthetic on the bottom of the page. That's some coool shiznit.

Pigs are tastier than goldfish.

Hammie said:
Not compared to the whale shark.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Megalodon_scale1.png
(Rhincodon typus = Whale shark FYI)

MaShCr said:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Megalodon_scale1.png
(Rhincodon typus = Whale shark FYI)

Megalodon no longer exist.

Digital_Kindness said:
Pigs are tastier than goldfish.

Well, I've never eaten a goldfish, aside from those bland crackers, but, touche'.