Good reply!

Hang on there's something fishy (or should I say pheasant) going on here.

Bin on the sherbet?

I don't think Sherbet would support the weight of a bin. Although now that question has been answered I think everyone is keen to know the outcome.

Let's produce a scientific experiment?

XJAY... What ARE you talking about? You sure you have the right topic?

Shirley if it was frozen it could XJ ?

Why would you want to freeze Shirley, what has she done to you?



Not a clue really. I mean sherbet is normally a powdered substance which doesn't have the ability to support the weight of an object like a bin.

However no I had not consumed any alcoholic beverages.

As has been suggested, it sounds you have been on the sherbet yourself!

Nicked my sherbet dab.

Oh, in that case, she deserves to die. How very dare she steal your Sherbet dab??!! They are irreplaceable.



Sometimes if I want to pretend I am "down with the kids" (in the least pedo way possible) I will snort sherbet and pretend it's another powdered substance. I did it once and my nose stung and I could smell lemon.

I think Bassests now state it's not suitable for nasal ingestion.

Anyway what does Sherbet have to do with Halal meat? Unless we are using the ground up remains of their bones as the Sherbet..

There is always the mystery of Arkle. Bassets suggest not inhaling.
Ill have 250 gms of horse please streetcorner man.
Then there is the controversy of changing the content of Earl Grey,
Marmite seems to taste different if you buy it in different parts of the country.
As fer Branston .... certainly not a nasal medication.

Laudunum looks fun after all the recent Victoriana.

The Halal thread seems to be at the end of the tether. I guess I have eaten it over my childhood.
But I wouldn't wish to enter a butcher's shop with a Halal sign. Or Kosher neither. Cultural I suppose.
The same as I wouldn't wish to visit a French butcher with a sign outside.

I live in an area of strange street markets where foods that are sold are posssibly not legal in the UK.
They are constantly raided. But the trade flourishes.
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This just beggars belief.

Why on earth should religion be allowed to continue such barbaric treatment?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-...y-10019467.html

Quote:-
'The Government has said it has no intention of introducing new controls on the production of halal or kosher meat, a line that David Cameron repeated during a recent visit to Israel. Animals are meant to be stunned before they are killed, but there are exemptions for Muslim and Jewish producers.'

It beggars belief that as a supposedly educated and kind society we allow such barbarity to exist, yes I know what happens in a "normal" slaughter house and no it's not pretty, but halal is so hideously barbaric and cruel that it has no place in modern society. It truly is medieval.

The meat trade is all varying degrees of barbarism. It is difficult to play at being virtuous when we are responsible for a lot of animal abuse too.

Thank you TM, nice to see someone agrees. I suspect there won't be the volume of discussion here as there is in regard to council behaviour(?). I am puzzled as to why, in the 21st century, religion is given so much precedence to the degree it is allowed to skip the general rules of the land. I also suspect there will be a lack of discussion, due to the prevalent PC attitude to open dialogue. Hopefully, now the issue has reached the national level of media, the idiots who purport to represent our population, will do something about it.

I wouldn't deny that, but where obvious abuse is going on, we have to deal with it as best we can. My argument is about the reasons we let it happen. Stop religion from being given preferential treatment and a big dent will be made in the problem

It's rather ironic that the religious slaughterers weren't even following the religious instructions in this case which makes one suspect that the religious rules aren't to be taken seriously anyway.

Seconded (or is it thirded?) most wholeheartedly. And thanks for raising it.
As has been discussed before, sometimes we can be sold halal without even knowing it!

I would hope that there are not many who would condone such behavior but as per our council problems how many will stand up and be counted to add their voices to protest?

As said on other threads, where is the 'like' button!