My letter to Animal Planet

[Lootifer]

Is it wrong that I laughed quite a bit in Fitzs' rant?

I mean I empathise with you but I also find the rant very funny.

[AAFitz]

No, you are simply heartless for not understanding why some are touched by the death of an animal, or possibly sociopathic even...impossible to know....

a man died in hanoi today. he was old. he had a few family members, who loved him. do you feel like crying? i feel this is more upsetting than the dead cat you cried over. yet will it make you cry? i feel not.

i eat meat. forgive me for not giving a snivel over the cow or pigeon before i put it in my mouth. it's an animal. do you mourn for the loss of the civil rights movement that this kitten will never become a prominent activist? do you cry for the mother cat that it will never see its child go away to university?

much as in the thread on gay marriage, i merely question why a dead animal on a television programme is a force in your life that makes you cry. there is no need to answer that question by attacking me personally, which you did.

I have never attacked you personally. I simply answered your questions and made perfectly reasonable suggestions about your possible personality. As to why I have empathy when I see a creature in pain and suffering, its because Ive chosen to have empathy for that creature, and fully understand what I would be feeling if I were in its....little itty bitty paws.

So yes, while you consider them just animals and not worthy of empathy, I happen to do so. And because you so passionately claim that this is beyond your understanding, I have simply made the suggestion that perhaps you are heartless and sociopathic. If you choose not to cry before you put a pigeon in your mouth however, that I can sympathize with....they peck like badasses when you blow them from what I understand.

[AAFitz]

Is it wrong that I laughed quite a bit in Fitzs' rant?

I mean I empathise with you but I also find the rant very funny.

I thank you for that, and I would certainly cry if you didnt.

[oVo]

Fitzy is such an emotional softy. I think the carpet dude should petition
for a name change if the moniker Frank Burns is still available.

[Woodruff]

Fitzy is such an emotional softy. I think the carpet dude should petition
for a name change if the moniker Frank Burns is still available.

FERRET FACE!!!!

[AAFitz]

Fitzy is such an emotional softy. I think the carpet dude should petition
for a name change if the moniker Frank Burns is still available.

FERRET FACE!!!!

That's remarkably close to what many call me now.

[KoolBak]

You started this bullshit rugdude; "you have to get upset about dead cats?". What an ass; you're hitting my foe list right after this post so I won't have to read any more of that crap.

Do you realize that close to 50 BILLION dollars a year are spent on pets in the US? I assume a significant portion of that is on CATS. My sister is a vet and has never had children; she treats her animals better than a lot of people treat their kids....she gets "upset" when one dies. I assume you are some sort of cyborg?

Good riddance.

[the carpet man]

such emotion over your kitty cat, koolbak. i can only assume you rode ponies as a child.

[the carpet man]

by the way, it was a genuine question when i asked do you eat meat. do you?

if so, why do you get upset about the cat but not the meat you eat? i get the feeling you would not eat cat, despite eating cow, pig, duck and other meats. which is odd to say the least.

[navi-boy]

they're just cats on television, get over it.
you shouldn't get all emotional about some cat dying, if you do, then you should be depressed 24 hours a day.

[oVo]

Did you notice a zoooooooooooom sound just then? That was the content of this thread flying right over your head. It's a good thing there are no jokes being made about mental health here or you might replace the welcome mat as a punch line.

[AAFitz]

such emotion over your kitty cat, koolbak. i can only assume you rode ponies as a child.

I can only assume you get ridden by them now.

[KoolBak]

damn...I had to see something he wrote.....

My first pet was a cat (38 years ago)...I loved him - I cried wen he died.

I was dragged to horseshows all my life as my sister trained them; I worked with a percheron logging for years....

Thats all i can think of right now; hope I answered your question, foe-boy

[AAFitz]

they're just cats on television, get over it.
you shouldn't get all emotional about some cat dying, if you do, then you should be depressed 24 hours a day.

Thanks. Ive been talking with my therapist since the episode aired, and we are pretty close to a breakthrough in dealing with my grief.

[natty dread]

they're just cats on television, get over it.
you shouldn't get all emotional about some cat dying, if you do, then you should be depressed 24 hours a day.

Yeah, it's much more reasonable to get emotional over imaginary blue dudes on an imaginary other planet, NAVI-BOY.

[oVo]

Good Grief!

[navi-boy]

they're just cats on television, get over it.
you shouldn't get all emotional about some cat dying, if you do, then you should be depressed 24 hours a day.

Yeah, it's much more reasonable to get emotional over imaginary blue dudes on an imaginary other planet, NAVI-BOY.

irrelevant.

[natty dread]

they're just cats on television, get over it.
you shouldn't get all emotional about some cat dying, if you do, then you should be depressed 24 hours a day.

Yeah, it's much more reasonable to get emotional over imaginary blue dudes on an imaginary other planet, NAVI-BOY.

irrelevant.

LOOK GUYS, I HIT A HOME RUN!


(wait, that's a baseball thing, right? should I have used something more European, like I don't know, a football analogy or something?)

[AAFitz]

they're just cats on television, get over it.
you shouldn't get all emotional about some cat dying, if you do, then you should be depressed 24 hours a day.

Yeah, it's much more reasonable to get emotional over imaginary blue dudes on an imaginary other planet, NAVI-BOY.

irrelevant.

LOOK GUYS, I HIT A HOME RUN!


(wait, that's a baseball thing, right? should I have used something more European, like I don't know, a football analogy or something?)

No, no. What is the name for a home run they play on the avatar planet?...use that.

Navi? Help us out here. What do those big blue bastards play? Or is it it still too soon?

[navi-boy]

I've actually never seen that movie, i actually don't plan to.
If you can only associate navi with some movie, then you're not using your brain power at all.

[Timminz]

Seriously guys! Avatar was a movie for losers. Zelda games are where we cool kids get our inspiration.

[the carpet man]

tomb raider is the best game.

[natty dread]

tomb raider is the best game.

OH, haha, I get it! Cause it has like, tits, right?

I've actually never seen that movie, i actually don't plan to.

YOU ARE LYING, stop lying.

[neanderpaul14]

heh. i always wonder why people shed tears over animals. is it not enough to cry about the death of a loved human, you have to get upset about beached whales or dead cats as well? it is only an animal.

You mean like a human?

[The Bison King]

I've been convinced for a long time that animal planet has no idea why anyone tunes into animal planet.