Life's so drokking fantastic because (the rebirth)

[ZenArcade]

Well done dude, best of luck. Z

[Taryn Tailz]

Well done dude, best of luck. Z

Cheers Zen. 

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Have fun

[Taryn Tailz]

Have fun

I'll keep an eye out for any future Viking invasions. 

[ZenArcade]

Yep, you have a hotline to Thryllseeker filor technical advice. Z

[Tiplodocus]

Ah Tordel I share your epicurean bliss. L'addition....vous? Z

Feck no! It was a voucher frustratingly given in lieu of pay for much overtime, its value clearly unrecognised by giver (or receipient) until the first of 8 mindblowing set courses arrived. I'm still struggling with the idea that gingerbread crisps exist, never mind that you should eat them with chicken liver pate, never mind that chicken liver pate is itself actually edible. How terrifying to think that this sort of thing goes on every day!

Aw! That sounds you had a new and exciting experience. But remember, these things can also be had cruelty free. Don't get sucked  in by it.

[TordelBack]

I've accepted a job offer on the historically renowned (or however you want to describe it) Holy Island. It's going to beat working in a city centre shop, that's for sure. 

https://www.lindisfarne.org.uk/

Wow, that's great Tim! Best of luck!

[Taryn Tailz]

I've accepted a job offer on the historically renowned (or however you want to describe it) Holy Island. It's going to beat working in a city centre shop, that's for sure. 

https://www.lindisfarne.org.uk/

Wow, that's great Tim! Best of luck!

Thank you. 

[Theblazeuk]

Aw! That sounds you had a new and exciting experience. But remember, these things can also be had cruelty free. Don't get sucked  in by it.

I may be entirely wrong but isn't chicken liver pate just pate made out of chicken liver, as opposed to Foie Gras? As in, no more cruel than a (freerange I assume) chicken wing?

Unless of course you mean the cruelty of telling us all about such fine fare but not sharing any of those gingerbread crisps...

[ZenArcade]

It might be down to the means by which the product is grown. I know anecdotally that geese are subjected to a pretty grim force-feeding experience; might be something similar (although chickens are a heck of a lot smaller than geese.) Z

[Theblazeuk]

It is indeed grim for Foie Gras, forcefeeding a goose till it's liver explodes. However that's just foie gras, not goose liver pate in general. Interestingly there is a farmer who simply provides freerange geese with plentiful food, and they eat themselves to death....

[I, Cosh]

I wouldn't want to put words (or anything else) in his mouth, but I think Tips position is that you're just debating over the degree of cruelty here.

[The Legendary Shark]

I tend to agree. Tips certainly influenced me to buy less meat and be more aware of the meat I do buy. I don't think I'll ever give meat up entirely, it tastes too drokking fantastic, but the more gently the animal is killed the better. I reckon old Tips has made me a full quarter less barbaric, which is at least a step in the right direction (but don't tell him or he'll never let me live it down!).

[Satanist]

Funny that as after Tips explained to me how he wants to give animals the vote and let cats marry dogs I make a point of having a dismembered something in every meal I eat. Even cereal.

[ZenArcade]

Cruelty to animals is an abysmal thing. I come from a farming background and would see cruelty as morally wrong and counterproductive in the sense that distressed or maltreated animals are less productive. As for hunting I would be completely opposed as it is cruelty for recreation. With farming it is a necessity (although I guess some would argue the contrary). Z