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Old 18 January 2007, 11:37 PM
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Princess Anne was on TV tonight being filmed in the Antartic campaigning for the environment in the strongest terms...

...wearing a fur hat!!

Seems a little ironic and not quite congruent with the typical environmentalists agenda!
Old 19 January 2007, 12:18 AM
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the eskimo,s live there and wear fur coats....


and your point is???


did the advent of man made fabrics pass you by???

what do you think we wore 60 years ago????


i somtimes think you and lewis are joined at the hip

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Old 19 January 2007, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by mart360
the eskimo,s live there and wear fur coats....



Close - Inuit (calling them eskimos is roughly equivalent to calling them n*ggers) live in the Arctic.

But the basic point is sound: fur protesting is about animal cruelty, not the enviroment, unless the animal in question is endangered.


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Old 19 January 2007, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by _Meridian_
Close - Inuit (calling them eskimos is roughly equivalent to calling them n*ggers) live in the Arctic.

But the basic point is sound: fur protesting is about animal cruelty, not the enviroment, unless the animal in question is endangered.


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pedant

Unless of course you're referring to the native people of the Siberian Arctic or the Alaskan Arctic who you'd obviously refer to as Inupiaq and Yupik - Inuit is just as offensive to them...

/pedant
Old 19 January 2007, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by mad_dr
pedant

Unless of course you're referring to the native people of the Siberian Arctic or the Alaskan Arctic who you'd obviously refer to as Inupiaq and Yupik - Inuit is just as offensive to them...

/pedant
Those Yupik's - splitters the lot of them
Old 19 January 2007, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by _Meridian_
Close - Inuit (calling them eskimos is roughly equivalent to calling them n*ggers) live in the Arctic.
This is untrue. Eskimo isn't an offensive term. You won't offend the Yupik by calling them Inuits either, as they don't even understand the word.
Old 19 January 2007, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Rannoch
Princess Anne was on TV tonight being filmed in the Antartic campaigning for the environment in the strongest terms...

...wearing a fur hat!!

Seems a little ironic and not quite congruent with the typical environmentalists agenda!
Well if she was campaining for animal rights etc. then that'd be ironic. However she was campaining about the environment etc. etc. blah. blah. blah.....
Old 19 January 2007, 10:50 AM
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Her agenda was not the environment per se it was the general pillaging of the planets natural resources - like some poor animals fur

Anyway I only said it seemed a little ironic - which I still think it is!
Old 19 January 2007, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Rannoch
Her agenda was not the environment per se it was the general pillaging of the planets natural resources - like some poor animals fur

Anyway I only said it seemed a little ironic - which I still think it is!
Must be the American version of Ironic
Old 19 January 2007, 10:55 AM
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If it was your fur you wouldn't be thinking it was ironic

American, ironic, that's oxymoronic
Old 19 January 2007, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Rannoch
If it was your fur you wouldn't be thinking it was ironic

American, ironic, that's oxymoronic
If it was my "fur" they could make a ******* tent - or indeed a marquee
Old 19 January 2007, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Rannoch
Princess Anne was on TV tonight being filmed in the Antartic campaigning for the environment in the strongest terms...

...wearing a fur hat!!

Seems a little ironic and not quite congruent with the typical environmentalists agenda!
**

SHOCK HORROR PROBE REPORT: WOMAN WEARS HAT IN COLD WEATHER!

[shrug]

perhaps it was fake fur rannoch. regardless, in a very cold climate fur does the business. and what's the difference between a fur hat and wearing say, a technical mountaineering jacket stuffed with goosedown? not a lot really ...

i have a rabbit fur ushanka for skiing. rabbit went in someone's pot, rabbit's jacket went on my head. no big deal.

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Old 19 January 2007, 11:03 AM
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You lot are a bit serious this morning - I really don't care if it was fur or not - I just thought it was slightly ironic.

I just hope the rabbit pie she made from the rest of it tasted nice
Old 19 January 2007, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Rannoch
You lot are a bit serious this morning - I really don't care if it was fur or not - I just thought it was slightly ironic.

I just hope the rabbit pie she made from the rest of it tasted nice
**

it's windy. it's january. i'm grumpy.
Old 19 January 2007, 11:08 AM
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I prefer baby seal pup fur, it's sooooo soft and keeps my head really warm..... so I'll stick with that,...... well at least until I can find someone who makes baby kitten fur hats...
Old 19 January 2007, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by DCI Gene Hunt
I prefer baby seal pup fur, it's sooooo soft and keeps my head really warm..... so I'll stick with that,...... well at least until I can find someone who makes baby kitten fur hats...
**

that explains why your head smells of fish.

sorry. i don't know why i typed that.
Old 19 January 2007, 01:06 PM
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Rannoch,

I think your scruples are getting the better of you!

Les
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