Fish dance abandoned

[InsaneApache]

THERE was outrage and sadness in a Dorset fishing town yesterday as locals mourned the death of a cherished tradition, killed off after complaints from animal rights activists.

link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2289961,00.html)

Bloody do-gooding miseries. After all it was an ex-fish (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2002541459944162494)

I say bring back this ancient (since 1974) and noble British pastime.....:2thumbsup:

[Banquo's Ghost]

link (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2289961,00.html)

Bloody do-gooding miseries. After all it was an ex-fish (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2002541459944162494)

I say bring back this ancient (since 1974) and noble British pastime.....:2thumbsup:

I can't say it's a cultural loss, but it does all seem a bit petty. There's always some lonely person who will interfere in other's fun on a 'moral' kick, but the real downside here is that the RNLI ran scared.

What's next to be banned from their fund-raising - baked bean baths after protests from the Vegan Popular Front (Flatulence Armed Wing)?

(And I thought immediately of the Fish Dance sketch too - does that make us sad or just old?) :bounce:

[Dâriûsh]

The animal rights Taliban strikes again! ~:dizzy:

[Red Peasant]

I'm surprised that they were cowed by a single, anonymous threat. They should have stuck two fingers up in the time-honoured English tradition.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Ken Whetlor, the Mayor of Lyme Regis, pointed out that the conger eels used werecaught accidentally in fisherman’s nets and frozen for the event. “The writer of that letter is a gutless troublemaker with nothing better to do than stop people enjoying an innocent event that helps to raise money to save lives,” he said.

Darn straight. BTW, what's the RNLI? Royal Navy something-or-other?

Crazed Rabbit

[GoreBag]

Ah, well. All good things come to an end. It'll be funny if they figure out who wrote the letter, though.

[thrashaholic]

Darn straight. BTW, what's the RNLI? Royal Navy something-or-other?

Crazed Rabbit

Royal National Lifeboat Institution