The Bat Show

[Stoker]

But still...you should not hurt wild animals...just for fun. It just makes you look like a moronic mouth-breather who is trying to do his best to act "cool"....even though his concept of "cool" is considered "cool" only amongst the most ignorant of circles.

Killing ants and spiders is different.
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"It just makes you look like a moronic mouth-breather who is trying to do his best to act "cool"....even though his concept of "cool" is considered "cool" only amongst the most ignorant of circles." Coming from a grown man who actually uses a picture of a young girl as his avatar to represent himself online this sounds just a wee bit hypocritical. Do you think posing as some sort of freakish pedophile is cool? Or is that what you really are? Get a fucking grip dude.

I have shot some Bats and just about every other type of critter as a child, and I don't need nor want your validation for having an outdoor oriented childhood.  I am also certainly not going to let a woman that knows nothing about me come into a conversation out of nowhere and call me an asshole without responding.....

[Amazing Richard]

But still...you should not hurt wild animals...just for fun. It just makes you look like a moronic mouth-breather who is trying to do his best to act "cool"....even though his concept of "cool" is considered "cool" only amongst the most ignorant of circles.

Killing ants and spiders is different.

"It just makes you look like a moronic mouth-breather who is trying to do his best to act "cool"....even though his concept of "cool" is considered "cool" only amongst the most ignorant of circles." Coming from a grown man who actually uses a picture of a young girl as his avatar to represent himself online this sounds just a wee bit hypocritical. Do you think posing as some sort of freakish pedophile is cool? Or is that what you really are? Get a fucking grip dude.

I have shot some Bats and just about every other type of critter as a child, and I don't need nor want your validation for having an outdoor oriented childhood.  I am also certainly not going to let a woman that knows nothing about me come into a conversation out of nowhere and call me an asshole without responding.....
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LOL. What kind of use of the "quote" button is that? Are you just totally high off some crazy ass drug that you figure that yer formatting is acceptable?

"Outdoor oriented childhood" !?!??

Shit, man...You need to pull yerself together before you feel like writing shit on the internet.

EDIT: Stoker did such a massacre on his quote that it's somehow messing with my quote.

[Amazing Richard]

Stoker...do you think you are "cool"? Give us some more tips on how to kill wild animals for fun, based on yer "outdoor oriented childhood"....and just totally blow us away with yer extreme awesome coolness.

[Bill Brasky]

I killed a grizzly bear with my bare hands, just so I could stand on it and swat the bats with my tennis racquet. 

When it attracts vultures, I'll kill them too. 

[Turd Ferguson]

I killed a grizzly bear with my bare hands, just so I could stand on it and swat the bats with my tennis racquet.  

When it attracts vultures, I'll kill them too.  

You must be one of the ignorant mouth breathing sickos that brags about hurting animals............. unlike upstanding citizens like the Princess who merely suffocates gerbils up his ass.............. but thats different

PS: Make sure you kill the grizzlies babies too and save me their paws(I'll trade you a dead puppy for your troubles)............. i only need 8 more for a set of 16!!!!

[Bill Brasky]

I killed a grizzly bear with my bare hands, just so I could stand on it and swat the bats with my tennis racquet.  

When it attracts vultures, I'll kill them too.  

You must be one of the ignorant mouth breathing sickos that brags about hurting animals............. unlike upstanding citizens like the Princess

PS: Make sure you kill the grizzlies babies too and save me their paws............. i only need 4 more for a set of 12

Naw, man.  Don't be that way.  Hunting is a sport.  I just don't pay attention to permits and seasons, or use conventional methods. 

You haven't lived until you've killed a moose with a fire axe. 

[Turd Ferguson]

Stick a glass thermometer up a polar bears dick and step on it 5 times and well talk about sport.

[Bill Brasky]

Stick a glass thermometer up a polar bears dick and step on it 5 times and well talk about sport.

Thats cruel.  And it also violates manlaw. 

I don't toy with my prey.  Dispatch it swiftly, conquer the beast, and move along. 

Besides, decimating an entire forest requires you to move swiftly.  One fatal blow and you can be ten feet down the path before the goddamn thing hits the ground.  You simply don't stop to play with the animals dicks when you're mid-frenzy in a full-tilt woodland murder spree, six-guns blazing, flinging arrows into the sides of wild boar, and chopping your way through a herd of caribou with a battle axe. 

I learned my craft at the side of my great grandpappy the indian fighter, he was a rugged man of few words and a propensity for carnage.  He rode a buffalo, steered it by the horns, and stood atop it at full charge swinging a broadsword, cutting down great herds the now-extinct Wild Prairie Lummox.  He wore the spike of a Narwhal as a peg-leg, and could kill an elephant with one punch directly through the eye, shoulder deep, and scramble its brains by sloshing his fist around inside its head.  A truly frightening man.  To him, it was necessary and he gained no pleasure from his arduous task.  So many animals, so little time. 

Then at the end of the day, we'd return home, and he'd sit by the fire smoking his monkey skull pipe, shake out his match, and ask me "what did you learn today, Boy?"  I'd reply "Nothing", and he'd say "Thats good, lad, because it was nothing more than senseless killing, and theres nothing to be learned from that.".

Twenty years, we slaughtered the wildlife on six continents, in a grim, blood-soaked orgy of senseless killing.  Or so I thought.  Then one day, I asked when we were going, and he said we were done with that.  I asked why?  And he said, "Because you're enjoying it, and its time you went out to carry on our work, until you no longer enjoy it. - then you have to carry on for ten more years, killing all of natures creatures with no sense of enjoyment.  Only then, will you appreciate life."

So I carry on in his legendary footsteps, and I have -as of yet - not stopped enjoying it.  I'll begin the ten years of grim work when I reach that time I stop the enjoyment.  Until then, I find great pleasure in the slaughter of nature, but I don't touch their fucking dicks. 

[TimeLady Victorious]

whoever stoker is, he has absoutely no idea what he's talking about

[Stoker]

whoever stoker is, he has absoutely no idea what he's talking about

Oh? I know that you jump into random discussions of which you are not part and sling random insults at people you don't know. I also know that I might respond to such insults if the mood strikes me. If you don't like people responding to your blatant unprovoked insults, perhaps you should stop insulting people. What exactly is it that I have no idea about?

@ Drifter- That was an incredibly touching story. My lighter is held high as the sacred flame sparkles from an unstoppable small tear rolling down my face. I love you man!

[Rillion]

What exactly is it that I have no idea about?

Well, maybe the fact that you acknowledged that what you did was cruel but still got into a big strop about being called an asshole for it.  What are assholes, if not cruel people?  What are cruel people, if not assholes?

[Ecolitan]

I have shot some Bats and just about every other type of critter as a child, and I don't need nor want your validation for having an outdoor oriented childhood.

 

I had an outdoor oriented childhood too.  I always thought having an outdoor oriented childhood meant eating what you kill w/ senseless killing left for the city kids.  I shot a bird off a power line once just to see if I could, I felt awful.  Never did anything like that again.  Was it the same for your peers?  Where did you get the idea an outdoor childhood means poor firearm discipline?  I'd like to speak to your father.

[Turd Ferguson]

I have shot some Bats and just about every other type of critter as a child, and I don't need nor want your validation for having an outdoor oriented childhood.

 

I had an outdoor oriented childhood too.  I always thought having an outdoor oriented childhood meant eating what you kill w/ senseless killing left for the city kids.  I shot a bird off a power line once just to see if I could, I felt awful.  Never did anything like that again.  Was it the same for your peers?  Where did you get the idea an outdoor childhood means poor firearm discipline?  I'd like to speak to your father.

Nah, that city kids being the bad ones stuff is just in the movies. My dad grew up in rural Tennessee and had MANY a story about real life Hank Williams Sr listening country fuckers who did things like tying each end of a rope to two cats tails and hanging it over a clothes line and letting the cats freak out and kill each other. They did this apparently out of boredom from living in the country (no good drugs to do, no movie theatres, arcades, whorehouses, sports arenas or shopping malls) kids do fucked up stuff when theyre bored, city or country doesnt really matter.

[TimeLady Victorious]

Well, for one thing, all message boards are all random conversations. Unless it's on a private board on a forum, it's open for all to jump in on and talk about.

For another thing, it is an objectively cruel thing to fuck with a wild animal for the lulz.

For yet another thing, the house I live in was built in the turn of the 20th century, and probably used local building materials in building the house. I also do not own a car nor do I have access to a car, I grow and hunt some of my food myself, and the closest thing I ever go to a mall at is at this local shitstain of a strip mall near my house that I only go to because it has a dollar store in it.

But regardless of all of that, I don't randomly fuck with animals for the lulz. That is what makes you, Stoker, an asshole.

[Bill Brasky]

Arrite, serious time.  It seems to have gone that way...

When kids are kids, they are pretty stupid about the basics of life, and some are mean spirited, and some are just experimental.  When boys get their first BB gun, they almost invariably shoot a few birds and squirrels.  This is totally natural, part of the learning curve, and mixed with the nurture of parenting and the peer group of childhood friends, it takes a little while for the equation to assemble itself int he great moral dilemma of a kid. 

That doesn't mean they are sociopaths and will grow up to be serial killers.  And often, those associations prolong the destruction of animals simply because of how peer groups work, a boy doesn't want to be considered a pussy among his friends even if he's arriving at the conclusion that his actions are wrong.  It takes a little while for all that to shake out, and they have to feel those emotions and wrestle with them before they understand them fully.  Thats called learning, and its what children do.  Some of their best learning is self-instruction through experience, and you can't get it in a classroom. 

If the boy comes from a family of knuckle-draggers who hunt heartily during every season, he's being taught its okay, and a fair bit of it is sport.  A lot of his conclusions are pre-determined, they are learned before he can learn on his own.  Submersed into that world, he may never overcome it, and will simply gravitate towards the rule-oriented aspect of adult society - you can only hunt with a permit, but then its perfectly fine.  They may give the meat away, and use words like "overpopulation", as if they are biology experts.  That is nothing more than finding excuses to operate within the bounds of societies rules, while simultaneously satiating their killing urge.  For people who claim to love the nature and outdoors, I never could fully understand the cognitive disconnect of an outdoors aficionado legitimizing the wanton destruction of its natural inhabitants. 

This is actually why I don't hunt now, because I shot a few rabbits and squirrels as a kid, and realized it was wrong.  I wouldn't trade those learning experiences for anything, considering a few years later kids are growing up in front of video game consoles and never have the opportunity to learn things like guilt and remorse first-hand,  but instead have the neural pathways developed of point and click to solve a dilemma or feed the entertainment jones with no ramifications in a sterile environment.  Desensitization is a very real thing, and one of the few negative aspects of modern gaming - which I feel is otherwise healthy for intelligence, problem solving, and hand/eye coordination. 

TL/DR, no, I don't kill animals.