Quote: Rustle T Davis @ September 28 2008, 10:42 PM BSTCarla has dedicated her life to saving animals... She told me a story about how she once let a goldfish live in her bath for weeks. It had damaged fins and every hour she would go and hold it upright in the water, until she taught it how to swim again.
In that case, she's kick ass and I'll never moan about her TV output ever again. 
Quote: SlagA @ September 29 2008, 8:10 PM BSTIn that case, she's kick ass and I'll never moan about her TV output ever gain.
PMSL!
I love your avatar.
Don't go changing!
I liked Butterflies!
Didn't they do a catch up episode a few years back?
Quote: SlagA @ September 29 2008, 8:10 PM BSTIn that case, she's kick ass and I'll never moan about her TV output ever gain.
That is such a lame story I am now going to microwave 2 live goldfish in protest.
And it's good to hear Carla Lan literally and figuratively stinks.
Quote: Winterlight @ September 29 2008, 10:33 PM BSTI liked Butterflies!
Didn't they do a catch up episode a few years back?
I think so, yes.
Quote: sootyj @ September 29 2008, 10:34 PM BSTThat is such a lame story I am now going to microwave 2 live goldfish in protest.
And it's good to hear Carla Lan literally and figuratively stinks.
I've dedicated the majority of my life to saving humans, which I've always found more easy to identify with. The other advantage being, of course, that you can legally f**k them.
I am always a little wary of people who "love" and "respect" animals with such passion. They always strike me as the sort of people who don't really like other humans.
To take this back on-topic, what I find objectionable about Carla's writing is it has tended to be so one-note. Where I sympathise is that hers is probably no worse than a lot of shows that get produced.
I love animals (well, cats), and don't really like other humans! Score!
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 1 2008, 12:38 AM BSTI've dedicated the majority of my life to saving humans, which I've always found more easy to identify with. The other advantage being, of course, that you can legally f**k them.
(not while they're out cold though)
Could you *drum roll for spelling attempt* anaesthetise an animal?
Without you know, deading it?
Like... would a cat need less than a baby?
These are important questions.
Quote: zooo @ October 1 2008, 1:03 AM BST(not while they're out cold though)
Could you *drum roll for spelling attempt* anaesthetise an animal?
Without you know, deading it?
Like... would a cat need less than a baby?These are important questions.
Fair point, that continues to be an ongoing ethical dilemma amongst my speciality. We're auditing it as I speak.
I once (whilst bored with my anaesthetic assistant) found a spider in theatre one evening and put it under the ENT microscope in theatre, before gassing it to sleep. Seeing a spider twitch under the microscope was actually incredibly funny. Then my assistant got incredibly worried I'd killed it. Turned off the vapours and oxygenated (after a couple of minutes) and it woke-up, scuttling around happily. (We released it safely into the wild, for any animal rights activists reading. No animals were harmed in the writing of this post.)
Do you know I don't think he's taken my question seriously...
Anyway yeah, Carla Lane, eh! She's got... big, hair.
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It depends what sort of life they've had. If someone's been badly treated by people, for most of their life, then I don't blame them for preferring animals.
Can't say I completely agree. I was pretty badly treated by humans growing-up and this makes me more sympathetic to others (I think) rather than being wary of them. I'm not saying I don't like animals, it's just that in my experience those who care more about animals than humans tend to be a bit remote and misanthropic (e.g. Morrissey, despite the fact he's one of my greatest living Englishmen.)
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 1 2008, 1:10 AM BSTI once (whilst bored with my anaesthetic assistant) found a spider in theatre one evening and put it under the ENT microscope in theatre, before gassing it to sleep. Seeing a spider twitch under the microscope was actually incredibly funny. Then my assistant got incredibly worried I'd killed it. Turned off the vapours and oxygenated (after a couple of minutes) and it woke-up, scuttling around happily. (We released it safely into the wild, for any animal rights activists reading. No animals were harmed in the writing of this post.)
I'm glad my National Insurance is being well spent...
On the animals v. people debate, I must say a lot of people are arseholes, quite frankly and fewer animals are.
Dan
My neighbour's dog is an arsehole.