Thread: Is there Stuff you won't buy on Principle?

Jaffa oranges.

Peat based compost.

Supermarket eggs.

Originally Posted by Bower

Jaffa oranges.

How about Jaffa Cake Biscuits, though? Israel could start their own fucking Holocaust against their neighbours, and I'd still fight like a pig for the last one in the packet.

Originally Posted by Bower

Peat based compost.

Why..?

all the op's i agree with and would add

a brand new car,
white socks.

teddy bear biscuits.


thats just cruel.

Rice. We don't grow any ourselves, but various cousins and aunties do- and we feed them regularly. It would be a major loss of face for us to have to buy plain rice. It's kind of nice to know where your rice was grown, and by whom. It's nice too that this staple of life is not a cash transaction, in our case. And our rice is tastier anyway. Better for you too, I wager.

We do have to buy sticky rice though, or barter for it.

Sharks' Fin soup. Utter waste. Fucking up a whole marine eco-system by"finning" sharks just to make a tasteless soup for equally tasteless, ostentatious wankers.

Oxtail Soup. I'm hedging my bets that the harvesting of ox's tails is equally wasteful and cruel.

Originally Posted by kmart

Oxtail Soup. I'm hedging my bets that the harvesting of ox's tails is equally wasteful and cruel.

At least they can still run around with no tail....dunno if they can swim but

Originally Posted by sabang

It's kind of nice to know where your rice was grown,

I agree. Some of my SIL's land is where the town sewage water runs to when we are moderately flooded. So come harvest time, I hit the potatoes.
At least I don't know how they were grown

Originally Posted by Nawty

Originally Posted by kmart

Oxtail Soup. I'm hedging my bets that the harvesting of ox's tails is equally wasteful and cruel.

At least they can still run around with no tail....dunno if they can swim but

They are unable to swish away flies as they try and take a dump.

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

Originally Posted by Bower

Peat based compost.

Why..?

Peat extraction destroys acres of natural bogs and wetlands.
Its just the usual explotation of the land for money and in this case its not at all necessary.

[quote=kmart;1472604]Sharks' Fin soup. Utter waste. Fucking up a whole marine eco-system by"finning" sharks just to make a tasteless soup for equally tasteless, ostentatious wankers.quote]

I completly agree with you, i haven't eaten in my favorite chinese resturant in Brighton for 3 years as they will not take it off the menu. My group of friends have joined me in a mini boycott but to no avail so far.

^I'm surprised they're allowed to sell it in this country.

Originally Posted by Bower

Originally Posted by ItsRobsLife

Originally Posted by Bower

Peat based compost.

Why..?

Peat extraction destroys acres of natural bogs and wetlands.
Its just the usual explotation of the land for money and in this case its not at all necessary.

Interesting, thanks.

Originally Posted by kmart

Sharks' Fin soup. Utter waste. Fucking up a whole marine eco-system by"finning" sharks just to make a tasteless soup for equally tasteless, ostentatious wankers.

Oxtail Soup. I'm hedging my bets that the harvesting of ox's tails is equally wasteful and cruel.

So I suppose you think it would just be better to kill the whole shark then ?

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

Originally Posted by kmart

Sharks' Fin soup. Utter waste. Fucking up a whole marine eco-system by"finning" sharks just to make a tasteless soup for equally tasteless, ostentatious wankers.

Oxtail Soup. I'm hedging my bets that the harvesting of ox's tails is equally wasteful and cruel.

So I suppose you think it would just be better to kill the whole shark then ?

You realize the shark dies a slow, lingering death once its fin is removed, right...?

Really ??....thought they swam off and grew a new one....like those lizards that grow a new tail

Originally Posted by sabang

Diamonds. Forget the bullshit marketing, a diamond isn't forever- and you're certainly not. It's an overpriced 'precious stone', and the price is far more than it should be because of a sleazy cartel known as de Beers. Then you've got 'blood diamonds'- money off the diamond industry finances a lot of civil war and assorted violence. Most often, you don't know where the diamond you buy comes from. Coloured gemstones, no problem. I think they look better anyway.

It's why I exclusively prefer synthetic (also known as 'cultured') Diamonds, that are human made, and in my opinion represent something far more precious that 'natural' diamonds.

Same reason why I prefer titanium, to stuff like gold or noble metals, but I digress...

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

Originally Posted by kmart

Sharks' Fin soup. Utter waste. Fucking up a whole marine eco-system by"finning" sharks just to make a tasteless soup for equally tasteless, ostentatious wankers.

Oxtail Soup. I'm hedging my bets that the harvesting of ox's tails is equally wasteful and cruel.

So I suppose you think it would just be better to kill the whole shark then ?

Do you mean 'use' the whole shark? Yes, probably better than just cutting the poor fukcers' fins off so it sinks to the seabed and dies.
Sharks are also "by-catch" meaning they are caught during fishing for other species, therefore no data exists about how many are being caught. Numbers are thought to be getting low already.

I was joking about ox's tails, btw.

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

So I suppose you think it would just be better to kill the whole shark then ?

You realize the shark dies a slow, lingering death once its fin is removed, right...?

I bet you 1 satang the guy has no clue - par for the course.

Originally Posted by slackula

If animals are going to be caught and eaten we should attempt to make use of all of it, not just some appendage that has mythical chinese bullshit medical/aphrodisiac properties imho.

There's a whole slew of other animals these fuckers kill, just for a single part, that alleges given them the usual -- aphrodisiac properties, or impotence treatment.

I'd suggest herding up the hunters, and the customers, cutting off their tender parts, and throwing them into the sea - let's see what happens. Videotape the whole carnage, and the rebroadcast and website membership fees alone will make you rich. Everyone wins.

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Originally Posted by FailSafe

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

So I suppose you think it would just be better to kill the whole shark then ?

You realize the shark dies a slow, lingering death once its fin is removed, right...?

I bet you 1 satang the guy has no clue - par for the course.

Originally Posted by slackula

If animals are going to be caught and eaten we should attempt to make use of all of it, not just some appendage that has mythical chinese bullshit medical/aphrodisiac properties imho.

There's a whole slew of other animals these fuckers kill, just for a single part, that alleges given them the usual -- aphrodisiac properties, or impotence treatment.

I'd suggest herding up the hunters, and the customers, cutting off their tender parts, and throwing them into the sea - let's see what happens. Videotape the whole carnage, and the rebroadcast and website membership fees alone will make you rich. Everyone wins.

The only animal that the Chinese seem to revere for other than body-part usage is the Giant Panda.
Someone should maybe go lop Lin Ping's paws off and make some soup out of them?

Originally Posted by kmart

The only animal that the Chinese seem to revere for other than body-part usage is the Giant Panda.
Someone should maybe go lop Lin Ping's paws off and make some soup out of them?

Good point - if I didn't like animals that much, I would be interested to see how the Chinese would react to having their beloved Panda's AK47'd.

I bet they would go apeshit -- while chewing on penguin beak, and grizzly snout (left snout only has magical properties).

Originally Posted by kmart

The only animal that the Chinese seem to revere for other than body-part usage is the Giant Panda. Someone should maybe go lop Lin Ping's paws off and make some soup out of them?

Could make ashtrays out of them, they used to do that with gorilla hands in Congo not so long ago, not sure they still do now though.

A MINI you can get two fortuners for the same price

Khrong Thip cigarettes there full of additives that are banned in most countries

Lays crisps all air & no potato
Thai lottery tickets the prize money is shit
Any Thai whisky cause its only flavouring
MSG its banned in the US a spoon of sugar has the same results