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| quote: | Originally posted by Rodrico
Hunting is stupid, hunters who feel proud about killing an animal with a gun should be castrated before having any children, and if they do have children, their children should be hunted like little animals infront of them. |
Cruel...but awesome. 
Ok, concerning the culture thing, It's obvious that Britain and America have very different dialects (like the 2nd Austin Powers movie being named 'The Spy Who Shagged Me' - I remember 'shagged' was bleeped out in England everywhere you went because it has a different connotation there), so it's only natural that we can become offended at very different things. The thing about "white trash" or "rednecks" in America, is that they are *proud* of it. I of all people here should know - I live with a cheap beer-swigging, Nascar-watching, swamp buggy-driving self-proclaimed lower-class road-raging redneck. *gasp* It's just how he is, and it's how all of his friends are as well - they all love to be rednecks, they embrace the lifestyle because it suits them. Now, it doesn't necessarily mean that they go and burn black people (don't stick to that connotation), but the modern redneck is one who sticks to tradition...he is most likely a total simulacra of his father, but at least he is cogniscient of what he is in life and at least there is a shred of pride there. It's probably this exact pride that makes the rest of the world hate America, but whatever - I'm having a hard time caring. There's something very admirable and something supremely despicable about the American redneck - they are the ultimate contradiction. 
In any case, I hate hunting. Some people take it to a very zen-like state (those few who still hunt with spears or bows), but most are just out to say they've killed something. I don't know what people's allure towards killing animals is, maybe they just weren't breast-fed long enough - who knows? All I know is that I find it stupid and boring, or at least, that's how my Pheasant-hunting experiences have been. And yet, it seems so much better than herding animals through a meat-packing plant on a conveyor-belt of doom. So there's something admirable and yet something supremely despicable about hunting as well.
Ultimately, I can't make up my mind about either of these things - I just know that I don't like hunting, and I'm not a redneck, so I couldn't care less about either one. 
Just change the channel, Floorfiller.
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