Tock's Scrapbook - Eccentric Ramblings

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

How To Destroy The Earth

[Nira'lia]

So, apparently some crazy lady decided, all on her own, without bothering to ask anyone from the Church, to try and restore a century-old oil painting of Christ. A painting on a column inside the church. And she wasn't a professional artist. Wasn't hired to do it. Just thought it would be a good idea to make alterations to a one hundred year old piece of art.

Someone in the article was quoting as calling her results "a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic."

So. Yeah. Stupid people in this world.

I know this is going to sound odd, but I feel REALLY bad for the girl. >.>

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

Today is a sad day... Sesame Street's The Count has died. While I'm sure the character will live on, the fabulous man who voiced him for 40 years is no longer with us. I hope you'll all join me in honoring him in the only way proper... "One, ah, ah, ah! Two, ah, ah, ah! THREE! Three cheers for the Count, ah, ah, ah!!!"

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

Another sad day... Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, has passed away. There are no words...

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

Someone needs to teach the reporters at MSN how to write headlines... This is what I saw when I logged on to the MSN homepage today to check the news: No other information is given without clicking on it. But upon clicking on the article link, you find out it's just this: "A man wandering around a Delmar, Md., poultry farm in a drunken stupor turned off the power to three chicken houses, causing the deaths of nearly 70,000 chickens, sheriff’s officials said." They couldn't fit the word "chickens" onto the headlines page? *sigh*

[Pauk]

OH MY GOD THOSE POOR CHICKENS OH MY GOD.

THEY COULD HAVE BEEN A DELICIOUS MEAL.

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

Well, I hate to be callous about it...

But, it says they were going to be slaughtered like, the next day anyway. I don't see why they're not still edible...

o.o

[Phoenix]

Cause when chickens are slaughtered, they aren't left to suffocate/die of heat stroke. They are also processed directly afterwards, including being immediately refrigerated.

Would YOU really eat chicken if it had laying with other dead animals for hours and hours? We don't even eat it when it drops on the floor (hopefully...)

[Phoenix]

Well, that's what they taught me in my classes anyway (I realized reading this again that I typed that like I was angry)

(though the eating off the floor part was in kindergarten)

...( just trying to share all this useless animal knowledge I have stored away!)

[Minerva Agatha Zipporah]

I don't think the "three second rule" applies to this situation

Nor do I have any idea what the 'process' is behind animal slaughter. My stomach prefers I stick with the 'don't ask don't tell' policy on where my food comes from. Otherwise I'd never be able to go to KFC again (though I worked there one summer... didn't much like it when they, occasionally, still needed some plucking >.> )

The 'lying there for hours' aspect is a good point though. While I don't know much of anything about the slaughter processes, I do know from working in a restaurant that uncooked meat of any sort has a very low 'safe' shelf life at room temperature. I don't remember all the exact numbers, but I do know most places I've worked dictated that if something goes from the heat table to the fridge, it needs to get from the hot ( >140° ) range down all the way to the cold ( <40° ) range within less than an hour. Otherwise things can go bad just sitting in the fridge because it's taking too long to get cold enough.