3 Things China Should Stop Doing ASAP

Not to pick on the Chinese - but ..... I'm going to pick on the Chinese. I know our Western society does a lot of sick things, but I keep hearing about these 3 very disturbing really unnecessary things. Why do they have to do such silly and evil things!

These things are so disgusting that I can not go into detail here. But you can look up the gory details yourself on the web and get involved in some movements against these practices.

Eating Monkey Brains

This is disgusting! While researching this topic on the web I found that most pictures and details of eating monkey brains are too disturbing for this blog. I can't go into the details - look it up yourself if you dare. It is still being done today! Amazing.

Bear Bile

Bottle of Bear Bile

Bear bile? Come on - disgusting! Wikipedia says bear bile is

a digestive juice produced by the liver and stored in the gall bladder

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How to they obtain bear bile? That is the bad part. They have cruel farms with bears in small cages. They suck bile from their gall bladder ... I can't go into the details, they are too sick, the stuff of nightmares.

Note: Bear bile is not used to cure impotence.

Shark Fins

Shark fins - yum yum!

This is totally ridiculous. Shark fins are used for shark fin soup. This soup is considered a delicacy and can cost $80/bowl. What is bad about this is how the shark fins are obtained. The process is known as shark finning. Fishermen catch a shark, cut off it's fin, and throw it back into the water to die without the fin.

Millions of sharks die this ghastly death and it is decimating the shark population.

I hear the arguments for these practices to continue:

• Cures impotence
• It is traditional

My rebuttal this: 1 - The Chinese government had to institute the One Child Policy because they were making too many babies. I don't think they need to do these weird things for impotence. Anyway, if they do, aren't there pills for this? And, aren't there factories in China making cheap knock-offs of these pills that would be better than bear bile? 2 - As adults you need to sometimes cast off some of your society's traditions that don't make sense. Grow up!


Image sources:
http://www.squidoo.com/MONKEY-BRAIN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bear_bile_01.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shark_fins.jpg

Bad Accident

What happened? What is that a picture of? How did his wife explain this to the police?

On July 30, 2011, Leroy Luetscher of Tuscon Arizona, dropped his pruning shears while gardening. The shears stuck into the ground blade first, the handle sticking up. He bent down to pick them up and slipped.

It may be a good time to have all young children leave the room - before you read the next few sentences...

Yes, he slipped, lost his balance. His head came down full force on the handle and the pruning shears handle went through his eyeball socket all the way to his neck. See the picture, the handle is inside his skull!

The doctors were able to reconstruct the eye socket and save the eye. He now has some minor eye lid swelling and a bit of double vision in he eye.

It is a miracle! Here is a joke he could tell all the neighborhood kids:

Q: What's worse that a pruning shears blade rammed into your eye socket?
A: A pruning shears handle rammed into your eye socket!

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I hope he goes out and gets a tattoo to commemorate his miracle. Maybe he should try some of these:

Get your tattoos for the elderly!

Or maybe just an Oprah Winfrey tattoo will suffice. See Oprah Winfrey Tattoos

With a tattoo like this, it would be as if Oprah was constantly reminding him:
"Hey! Don't fall on the pruning shears handle!"

Addiction: Wet, Slimy hair

This is one of the strangest things.

This man has an obsession with pulling wet hair from people's drains. He really only likes shower drains. Long brown hair is his favorite. Above all, it has to be slimy and wet! He performs this ritual about 100 times a year. This involves scouting for drains that have not been picked at before.

This is the way it goes:

• Stress builds up...God knows, life is stressful...
• He finds someone with a drain that he has not mined before.
• He gets a coat hanger or something similar and works to pull out hair from their shower drain.
• He fondles the hair. His stress disappears!
• Several seconds later he is disgusted by the hair and throws it away

We must wonder - After having his addiction broadcast on TV and the internet, will he ever be able to get a date? Probably so, there are people out there, like this woman, for example:


Her favorite is eating TV remote controls!