Fish dance abandoned
linkTHERE 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.
Bloody do-gooding miseries. After all it was an ex-fish
I say bring back this ancient (since 1974) and noble British pastime.....
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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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?)
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The animal rights Taliban strikes again!
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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.
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Darn straight. BTW, what's the RNLI? Royal Navy something-or-other?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.
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Ah, well. All good things come to an end. It'll be funny if they figure out who wrote the letter, though.
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