There's no need to make fun of people.

Like I said, I could have done the same about poemless' crush on Putin and her diary today justifying her belief that he cheats on his wife to keep her hopes alive.  But I didn't.

I have been well behaved and wanted to work on the stop Blair campaign and to make sure it hit the 100,000 mark by going out into the streets of the major cities of Europe, at my expense, and handing out leaflets.

And, when I heard he was going to try to make a run as Foreign Affairs Minister, offered to start a campaign for that, and also to do a lot of leg work.

It's a very accepted principle in the circles that I travel in that cats have decimated the bird population so I thought this would be a good time to make the issue known.

And to be made fun of like this is just trollish and immature.  

Whenever one finds oneself at a disadvantage in an argument, make fun of one's adversary, is just a great way to run a blog.  

What a minute.

zoe:

So why get little animals killed for no reason?  Especially since the neighbour seemed to enjoy the pigeons.

This seems a perfectly reasonable perspective to me.  I live in a town with pigeons, too, and I don't have any great desire to send cats out to kill them all.  And, having lived in Britain with plenty of pigeons around town, my first inclination if I didn't want to be near them was to, you know, move.

Poemless's comment and picture weren't worthy of a troll rating, but, at the same time, there's some real inconsistency here.  I seem to recall poemless's issues with the term "broad church" leading to many (who were clearly in the right on the term's meaning) getting chewed out for continuing to push the issue.  There, Jerome said to us, "Hey, poemless says it's hurts her, so stop," and people obliged.

Well, here I think the issue clearly bothers zoe, and not for an unforgivable reason.  But, rather than disagreeing with some reasoned response or dropping it, poemless (always clever) mocks zoe.  Not worthy of a troll-rating, but still obnoxious and insensitive.

Personally, even if killing animals were necessary in a given case, I wouldn't get excited about it, certainly not to the extent that I'd cheer the cats on, and certainly not given the neighbor's response.  (Honestly, that strikes me as cruel and a bit disturbed.)  Not really a "team" sport in my book, but, silly asshole that I am, I would tend to associate that kind of perspective with being just a few steps above the likes of Michael Vick.

Just a thought.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin