Virginia Tadrzynski said:"Boron Elgar" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:16:22 GMT, "James Silverton"
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> Venison is disgusting. How can anyone eat that stuff. I can
> not
> stand it. And why is is called venison anyhow? I'd rather
> see the
> deer run in my fields, and even eat my corn than see them
> killed,
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Try using a dictionary for the etymology of venison. You've
obviously never had it cooked properly and it is a very low-fat
meat.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:As far as I am concerned, deer, while pretty animals that are
far too abundant and which can eat damn near anything vegetable.
If I knew a plant that reliably poisoned herbivores I would grow
it for the benefit of the deer.
Quoted message said:We call 'em rats on hooves over where I live.
Quoted message said:Boron
The only thing that quasi-worked on keeping the deer out of the garden was
when Boy#2 took to piddling in the garden. He had overheard some older
gents talking in Home Depot about 'marking territory' and that deer
respected it. It [censored] the neighbor who has three girls (all older
than his 5 years at the time) and she demanded I make him stop, to told her
to tell her girls not to look if it bothered them. The deer population
seemed to avoid the garden whenever he 'went' so I guess it worked,
somewhat.
I don't understand exactly what kind of psychic damage people think
that seeing human genitalia is going to do to people. If some guy was
flashing his penis at her daughters in a provocative way, sure, but
just seeing another person urinating is a non-event. As far as simple
nudity goes, just ask nearly anyone who has ever been to a nude
beach. Even if a person's motives were originally lascivious, or at
least prurient, within a certain amount of time they become
habituated, just like guys from countries where women wear freakin'
bourkas get used to seeing women unveiled in jeans and t-shirts.
There is nothing characteristic enough about the genitals of either
sex or about the portions of female breasts covered by bikini tops
that makes one person's more an object of lust--appropriate or
inappropriate--than another's
If I've ever been uncomfortable about nakedness, it was certainly
never *others'* nudity, but my own, and for reasons that most folks
can relate too that have to do with appearance (am I too fat? how does
my skin look? stuff like that), rather than I'm worried that I'm being
looked on as an object of lust. Social mores about sexuality don't
cease to exist when the clothes get skimpier, and the Free Body
Culture (Germany) movement was anything but highly sexualized, and the
same goes for modern nudists worldwide these days.
Quoted message said:The deer population
seemed to avoid the garden whenever he 'went' so I guess it worked,
somewhat.
It doesn't work for squirrels. I didn't pee in the back yard, but did
pee into a container and pour it around the tomato plants. It didn't
help.
Quoted message said:-ginny
--Bryan