One shot. One kill. *graphic image*

**Busyman** · 01-01-2006, 06:22 PM

Originally Posted by hobbes

Originally Posted by manker

Do you have a point, hobbes, or have you completely missed why Skizo got the pish ripped out of him.

I live in Texas and it is filled with people reared in families with hunting traditions. These people are not simply red-necks, but bankers, doctors, lawyers and the like. They really get excited about all the different hunting seasons, like you might get excited about upcoming sporting events.

Hunting is highly regulated, with strict rules and strict enforcement, so it is not like some free-for-all shooting fish in a barrel mayhem. A successful hunt is not common, in fact, a kill is "big deal" stuff down here in Texas and it might make someone post something out of excitement. Unlike soccer in which a goal is rare but you know that someone will eventually score, in hunting sometimes you don't even a single shot on goal.

My take was that his post was his excitement overflowing onto the forum, like a fisherman holding his trophy bass. I don't look at the picture so cynically as I am immersed in a culture of people who would be excited to see his picture and talk about their experiences.

If I had to bet, I would imagine that Skizo is wondering why such a positive event in his mind has become such as negative thing.

His picture is rather status quo down here, and something I can't fathom, but I did not grow up hunting since the age of 4 like many have.

It is like your passion for soccer, you can't explain it to me and expect me to embrace it in the same way you do. It is part of how you were brought up and who you are.

We may look at the same picture and have completely different responses to it based on our upbringing. We may also suspect the poster of that picture as having different motivations in posting it.

You might think he wanted to wax his phallus, I might think he was just excited.

When I see a fishing show I can see the genuine excitement on the fishermans face, but all I see is that fish suffocating on a hook as it is admired for it's colors. I think of how I would feel if after running a hundred yard dash I was held underwater. Then he sticks it back it the water and it just kind of floats off camera.

Sometimes we may do things that others, raised differently view as barbaric and we don't even give it a second thought.

Yup. I'm a black fella that grew up in the inner city that never really gave a second thought to hunting and thought nothing negative about Skizo's pics.

Not a big deal unless one wants to make special effort at being a dick.

edit: See almost that entire thread as examples. It's not just a differing of opinion. It's an attack.

**JPaul** · 01-01-2006, 06:27 PM

I suppose it's a taste thing. Some people find it to be in bad taste, not the hunting, posting the pictures. Some people find it to be acceptable, I don't think it makes members of either group "a dick", just of differing opinions.

It's other things that make people a dick. Like stealing for your Mother, then bragging about it on the internet. Now that's a dick.

**maebach** · 01-01-2006, 06:47 PM

Busyman's black?

**Busyman** · 01-01-2006, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by maebach

Busyman's black?

Hilarious!!!

Absolutely. A rarity on the forum methinks.

**JPaul** · 01-01-2006, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by maebach

Busyman's black?

He claims to be, but I'm really dubious. I think his whole persona is a fabrication.

**hobbes** · 01-01-2006, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by JPaul

Exactly, he's a redneck who wanted to brag and show pictures of the animal he shot. The fact that it's his culture doesn't change anything.

I think that cutting a person's hand off as a punishment for stealing is barbaric. That fact that it is someone else's culture doesn't change my opinion.

I didn't know that bragging was barbaric.

**JPaul** · 01-01-2006, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by hobbes

Originally Posted by JPaul

Exactly, he's a redneck who wanted to brag and show pictures of the animal he shot. The fact that it's his culture doesn't change anything.

I think that cutting a person's hand off as a punishment for stealing is barbaric. That fact that it is someone else's culture doesn't change my opinion.

I didn't know that bragging was barbaric.

It isn't, did someone tell you it was, don't listen to them.