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Animal welfare groups voiced outrage today after the restaurant critic AA Gill said he shot a baboon on safari “to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone”.

In a Sunday Times column, Gill recounted in detail how he shot the creature from 250 yards while hunting in “a truck full of guns and other blokes” in Tanzania. He said he felt the urge to be “a recreational primate killer” before shooting the animal through the lung.

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— AA Gill shot baboon ‘to see what it would be like to kill someone’ | World news | The Guardian

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"I’d recommend everybody try bombing on stage at least once. People are always chasing new highs; what about new lows? Dying on your arse is a low you won’t believe. I heard of a guy who died during a benefit gig for victims of miscarriages of justice. An old guy came up and put his arm round him at the bar. He felt a bit better until he realised he had done so badly he was being consoled by one of the Birmingham Six."

— In a sniper’s sights… : Features 2009 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

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Now this is blogging:

“I mean let’s forget about the fact they’re right wing catholics, let’s forget about the fact they hate women, gays and immigrants. Let’s ignore their lies, their scare tactics, their disinformation. Let’s ignore the pasts of the people involved in Cóir. Let’s look aside as the links to the despicable Youth Defence are brought to the fore and let us implicity trust the motley crew of mentalist, pencil licking helpers, they’ll have at the polling stations on Friday as they ‘monitor’ the amount of votes cast.

“This is like that hilarious film Sideways where they go around touring vineyards. You don’t really give a shit what happens once they all die in the end, the tedious cunts.”

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— Hahaha, I am laughing, but it’s a laugh of not glee | Twenty Major – Still smoking in Dublin bars

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But if weaning means never drinking breastmilk again, then Mongolians are never truly weaned - and here’s what surprised me most about breastfeeding in Mongolia. If a woman’s breasts are engorged and her baby is not at hand, she will simply go around and ask a family member, of any age or sex, if they’d like a drink. Often a woman will express a bowlful for her husband as a treat, or leave some in the fridge for anyone to help themselves.

While we’ve all tasted our own breastmilk, given some to our partners to try, maybe used a bit in the coffee in an emergency - haven’t we? - I don’t think many of us have actually drunk it very often. But every Mongolian I ever asked told me that he or she liked breastmilk. The value of breastmilk is so celebrated, so firmly entrenched in their culture, that it’s not considered something that’s only for babies. Breastmilk is commonly used medicinally, given to the elderly as a cure-all, and used to treat eye infections, as well as to (reportedly) make the white of the eye whiter and deepen the brown of the iris.

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— peaceful parenting: Breastfeeding in the Land of Genghis Khan

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But in one important way, the movie is better than the book. In the book, Max effortlessly controls the Wild Things by taming them with “the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once.”

In the movie, Max wants to control the Wild Things. The Wild Things in turn want to be controlled. They want him to build a utopia for them where they won’t feel pain. But in the movie, Max fails as king. He lacks the power to control his Wild Things. The Wild Things come to recognize that he isn’t really a king, and maybe there are no such things as kings.

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Op-Ed Columnist - Where the Wild Things Are - NYTimes.com

This guy is a fucking nut. “Max fails as king”? WTF dude? Maybe read the book maybe, you think maybe?