Dumb Shit To Worry About
The dumbest stuff I see on the Internet and TV is obviously created by people with too much time on their hands and no real problems (or in the case of TV, people who think you have too much time on your hands). For example, who wants to watch shows about “The Boy With A Tumor For A Face” (real show, btw) or people whose houses are dirtier than one would have thought possible. (Okay, I do crack up just seeing the adverts for those “you people are filthy” shows, and it makes me feel good that someone’s house is dirtier than mine, but I can’t see watching an entire episode, much less viewing for 1/2 an hour multiple times a week!)
And it’s not like I’m saying my time is oh-so-much-more valuable than anyone else’s. In fact, I’m a champion at frittering, procrastinating and faffing about. It’s just that I get annoyed at the overwhelming volume of utter crap that gets shoved in our faces and called entertainment.
I think the absolute pinnacle of “Things I Do Not Have Space In My Life To Worry About” though was this story below. No, it’s not entertainment, but, um, “science” (ish), but still I think it falls into the right category to go with this mini-rant.
Wild animals should not be filmed for television shows because it breaches their privacy rights, according to a leading academic.
Brett Mills, of the University of East Anglia, claims documentary producers are ignoring the fact that animals try to hide from humans, which implies they do not consent to being filmed.”It might at first seem odd to claim that animals might have a right to privacy,” Dr Mills wrote in the journal Continuum.
“We can never really know if animals are giving consent, but they often do engage in forms of behaviour which suggest they’d rather not encounter humans, and we might want to think about equating this with a desire for privacy,” he added.
Read the full article on SkyNews
There’re lots of people and even creatures who need to have their rights worried about. I shudder at the growing list of extinctions in the animal kingdom, and the way human beings treat each other makes my heart clutch up sometimes.
But, honest to fuck I cannot possibly give a flying frijole about animals having their pictures taken, and whether that violate their tiny sensibilities. Let’s stop killing them, mutilating them, torturing and burning down their homes. THEN we can worry about if they’re feeling bothered by a flashbulb.
Priorities, science-lords. Priorities.
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Oh my Lord. I cannot believe this – it’s mental! Made me snort.
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Totally agree!!
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Yes, that’s taking it way too far. I wish people would be more concerned about each other than worrying about whether an animal wants its picture taken or not.
WTF? I’m a member of the so-called Academic Community and nothing these fatheads say gets past my callouses. I wanted to see how far East Anglia is from Angola, just fer grins, so Binged this guy. On eastanglia.academia.edu/BrettMills, his Research Interests are described as, “Identity, Cultural Studies, Television Studies, Stand Up Comedy, Screen Comedy and Comedy.”
I’m betting this is stand-up. Jackass.
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Oh god, I hope you’re right! I saw this article on Sky News website. They’re the biggest cable news tv station here in the UK, so I sorta expected “news” on their site to not be comedy!
They also had an article today about a woman who is having a child with her own (adult) grandson, so maybe I should re-think their credibility!
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Couldn’t have said it better myself!!! I love that you speak your mind!
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We need to take those pictures of animals because it just might save their lives someday when someone votes in their favor because they saw the species on Animal Planet!
Who knows, India & all? Since Rupert Murdock got got of so much American media, it has gone straight up in the ratings and, otherwise, to hell in a handbasket. Goes to show you how many millions of stupid people follow this gar-bodsze.
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That does it!
You go on my Favourite’s List immediately!
I did mention that R Murdock owns Sky News, didn’t I? Heh.
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I agree with you. I’m sure those animals have it made. There are endangered species and neglected animals we can take care of first.
This is freaking hilarious. People have too much time on their hands…