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Room 101 meme
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dougs, where I saw it.
For those that haven't seen the UK TV show: Select just three things that the world (or just you)
would be better off without. Dump them into Room 101 and they will be eradicated. Your readers
must then try to persuade you that you're being unreasonable and that there might be unforeseen
consequences if your choices were allowed.
If you do this meme - increment the letter in the title so that 'Room 101-a' becomes 'Room 101-b', and
so on. Copy and paste the above text into your own journal.
People who believe their cats never catch birds
I love cats as individuals. As a species, I've come to really dislike them, or rather their owners. Cats, on average, kill 30 small mammals and birds per year. That's an enormous toll on wildlife, especially given the density of cats in the average housing estate.
Most owners (apart from those who have indoor cats) have a touching, but misplaced faith in their beloved moggies. Few bother with bells (which reduce kills by around 30% and almost none use sonic collars (which reduce kills by a further 10%)
Aviation fuel
There is an international agreement forbidding tax on aviation fuel. The net result is effectively an artificial subsidy for the least environmentally friendly form of transport.
TV Advertising
TV advertising drives much of our consumer culture. It encourages greed, lack of responsibility (ads for endless easy credit) and encourages people to spend money on 'food' with close to zero nutritional value. It substitutes the sound-bite for genuine information.
As lifted from <[info]>melston and <[info]>nisaba and <[info]>swisstone by
dougs, where I saw it.For those that haven't seen the UK TV show: Select just three things that the world (or just you)
would be better off without. Dump them into Room 101 and they will be eradicated. Your readers
must then try to persuade you that you're being unreasonable and that there might be unforeseen
consequences if your choices were allowed.
If you do this meme - increment the letter in the title so that 'Room 101-a' becomes 'Room 101-b', and
so on. Copy and paste the above text into your own journal.
People who believe their cats never catch birds
I love cats as individuals. As a species, I've come to really dislike them, or rather their owners. Cats, on average, kill 30 small mammals and birds per year. That's an enormous toll on wildlife, especially given the density of cats in the average housing estate.
Most owners (apart from those who have indoor cats) have a touching, but misplaced faith in their beloved moggies. Few bother with bells (which reduce kills by around 30% and almost none use sonic collars (which reduce kills by a further 10%)
Aviation fuel
There is an international agreement forbidding tax on aviation fuel. The net result is effectively an artificial subsidy for the least environmentally friendly form of transport.
TV Advertising
TV advertising drives much of our consumer culture. It encourages greed, lack of responsibility (ads for endless easy credit) and encourages people to spend money on 'food' with close to zero nutritional value. It substitutes the sound-bite for genuine information.
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Domestic cats are predators, but not reliant on catching prey. Nevertheless, they still hunt, and what's more they're in better shape to hunt successfully. At least sometimes - some moggies are so fat they'd have trouble catching an unusually lethargic toad.
I don't know if domestic cats have a smaller hunting range than wild ones. Probably they do, but that would be in part because of the higher density of cats per square mile than there would be in the wild. More cats = more hunting = more prey taken.