Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Pork is the most widely eaten meat in the world.

pork was banned by jews and muslims for excellent reasons of health ... indeed, even in my youth, it was not found in uk butchers in the summer months .... why? because at that time, it had a tendency towards harbouring tapeworm, and due to lower standards of hygiene and refrigeration, it also had a propensity to going off too quickly for comfort

the rules of halal and kosher dictate that the animal should have its throat cut as this allows the blood, the main carrier and cause of disease and similar, to drain from the body

for jews, though i'm uncertain about muslims, the rear quarters of animals are also effectively deemed not kosher due to the problem of ensuring that all the blood has properly drained out

as far as jews are concerned , this ban also extends to fish without scales - eg shellfish - for similar reasons

personally, i think this whole thing is a nonsense in today's age
however, if someone wants to follow those rules, then good luck to them

cynic
I know you are only a few months older, but there was no problem getting pork in summer months when I was young. I lived in London from birth, but maybe you came from a more rural area.

By Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor11:17AM GMT 01 Feb 2015 Comments205 Comments
Douglas Alexander has poured cold water on the prospect of a power-sharing deal between Labour and the SNP after the general election after rejecting Nicola Sturgeon’s “priority” demand for the scrapping of Trident.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary said that a minority Labour government would exclude Britain’s nuclear deterrent from any negotiations with other parties if there is a hung parliament.
He echoed Ed Miliband by refusing to categorically rule out a deal with the SNP but told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that “defending this country” would not be the subject of political horse-trading.
In a further blow to Ms Sturgeon, he also rejected her demand that Scotland be granted full fiscal autonomy, arguing this would mean the end of the Barnett formula and Scottish public spending being cut by at least £4 billion.
The intervention by Mr Alexander, who is coordinating Labour’s general election campaign, came a week after Ms Sturgeon made scrapping Trident the “absolute” red line for her party propping up a Miliband government.



Alex Salmond, her predecessor as First Minister and SNP leader, today confirmed that the party’s price for supporting Labour would be not renewing the nuclear deterrent and full “home rule” for Scotland.
But Mr Alexander said: “As a prospective Foreign Secretary in an incoming Labour Government, the responsibility of defending this country is not something that is the subject of simply trading away interests one way or the other.
“Let her play that game. My responsibility is to work to deliver a Labour government. The responsibility of a Labour government would be to keep this country safe.”
He said Ms Sturgeon was in the “rather curious position” of stating she wants a Labour Government but arguing the best way of achieving that was to vote SNP instead.



But he argued what she really wanted was a Tory victory and an in-out referendum on Europe as this would create the best circumstances for her to push for the break-up of Britain
Ms Sturgeon has previously argued that another independence referendum could be triggered by UK voting to leave Europe but a majority of Scots wanting to stay.
Mr Alexander said the reality was that “every one less Labour MP in Scotland” increases the chances of another Tory Government led by David Cameron.
Questioned about a Tory election poster showing Ed Miliband and Mr Salmond together on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, he said Mr Cameron’s “last best hope is now to split the Centre-Left vote in the United Kingdom and that’s why I’m simply not going to play that game.”
The Paisley and Renfrewshire South MP said Ms Sturgeon’s demand for full fiscal autonomy would “rob” Scotland of £4 billion hole of public spending even before the impact of the collapse in the oil price is taken into account.
If this is included, the impartial Institute of Fiscal Studies has warned Scotland would be £7 billion worse off as the sharp decline in oil revenues would not be absorbed by the wider UK.
Mr Alexander rejected the SNP’s third demand, the end of austerity, saying this was incompatible with the Nationalists’ desire to cut corporation tax by 3p in the pound.
He said he backed calls from Jim Murphy, the Scottish Labour leader, that Scottish MPs need to return to their constituencies and “campaign like fury”.
Mr Salmond told Sky News’s Murnaghan programme that a formal coalition with Labour would be “unlikely” and the party would instead use a hung parliament to extract concessions on an issue-by-issue basis.
He added: "Instead of another bout of austerity from Labour or Conservative the cancellation of the renewal of the Trident missile system and diverting that funding, £30 billion over the next ten years, into health and education and something useful and productive and I think that will have a lot of support in England as well as in Scotland."

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That is truly gruesome dc, makes the first pic look benign.

Must remember I have the dentist in the morning. :-))

And the bum doctor.

lol

Why?

the quran states that a true follower of the faith should not have blood form a non muslim because of contamination it is a sin .

read the quran then post facts I have . a non muslim is in the words of their prophet
a infidel and dirty and like a pig

ts a funny old world when you can bend the rules of your religion to go and have bllod of a infidel go into a betting shop to gamble go in to a pub to drink beer.
and many more evils in the quran .

i eat both pork and shellfish (yummy yummy!), but i am no less a jew for that
it would of course be singularly hypocritical were i to berate others for so doing

cynic I like jews and always have a kind people and do support Israel .
I would like to go to Israel next year

now funnily enough, and to the horror of many, i have no great desire to go, other than perhaps for some scuba, and am exceedingly angry with the way the elected(!) israeli gov't treats the palestinians

it's a shame or even shameful that i hear no uk rabbis speaking out similarly, even my own highly-regarded and liberal one

Manuel,

Check the life cycle of Taenia solium.

Check the transmission pathway of "disease".

Check Cysticercosis.

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