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rightwingprof
Tuesday 21/11/06 20:45
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Uh, I saw that, though that didn't squick me out nearly as much as this or this.

I hope you get a good super nanny.

Squander Two
Tuesday 21/11/06 21:25
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"Squick"?

rightwingprof
Wednesday 22/11/06 18:15
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Slang, from some teen movie, I think. Squicked out. I think it's passe now -- I have a hard time keeping up with my students' lingo.

Rob
Wednesday 22/11/06 20:29
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The newspaper's wrong when it says "trading standards' officers warned the manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon". Trading Standards weren't complaining that the label said "dragon", but that it didn't say "pork". This struck me as reasonable - you ought to tell people what meat a sausage is made from - until I realised that presumably "pork" appears prominently on the list of ingredients, which can be read by anyone who wants to know what they're made from. It's all very silly.

Squander Two
Thursday 23/11/06 09:29
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> Trading Standards weren't complaining that the label said "dragon", but that it didn't say "pork".

I must admit I suspected as much, but went ahead and posted anyway for shallow entertainment reasons.

You're right, though, Rob: the real complaint, though less obviously hilarious than the not-made-out-of-dragons thing, is even more stupid:

A spokesman for Powys Council said: "The product Welsh Dragon Sausage was not sufficiently precise to inform a purchaser of the true nature of the food.

"I don't think anyone would imagine that dragon meat was being used but we would not want vegetarians to buy the sausages believing they were meat free."


Like I said in the post, officials defend their immensely stupid actions by appealing to imaginary people who are even more stupid. Would any vegetarian buy a sausage without reading the ingredients? Vegetarians don't buy anything without reading the ingredients. And since when is it the state's job to protect vegetarians from accidentally breaking their diet, anyway? Vegetarianism is a personal choice, not a human right.

I notice this law doesn't seem to extend to hamburgers, for some reason. I can buy products called "burgers" or "hamburgers" in my local supermarket; "beef" doesn't always feature in the product's name. So what's so special about sausages that the state needs to intervene to prevent them being inadvertently purchased by fucking idiots?

Andrew Duffin
Saturday 2/12/06 15:34
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When a stupid man is doing something he knows is wrong, he always claims that it is his duty.

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