Poll

[shipperx]

[Poll #973844]

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[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

You forgot "All of the above".

[rainkatt.livejournal.com]

You gave me ticky boxes, so I chose a few. :-) I should have checked them ALL. :-)

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

I agree, it's so very hard to decide...

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

People are all going nuts, therefore I chose all but two or three of the above.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Votes for an all the above option.

Melamine? Seriously? That makes the 80's feeding of ground up sheeps brains to cows look smart and sensible.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

You guys haven't heard about that over there? It's been huge here. A bunch of pet foods have had to be recalled since there have been a lot of pet deaths (Gee, eating plastic kills dogs and cats). This followed by the discovery that the recalled pet food has subsequently been sold... to pig farmers. ::head desk::

It's reached the point that I don't know what in the hell to feed my poor cat.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

I'd seen there'd been a big recall of pet-food, as it affected some people on my FL who posted about it, but I didn't see any real details of the contamination so I assumed it was rat-poison from pest control measures in the plants or something similar. It's not been on the news here either.

Tinned tuna?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

They did initially say it was rat poison, then several days later they admitted that it was a melamine additive to wheat gluten bought from a company in China. China has denied it. And round they go arguing who is responsible. Saw in the news today that Congress is calling for a review of the Federal Drug and Foods Administration with perhaps a separation of the food from the drugs so that they'll be more focused on food.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I heard some reports (and I have no way of knowing if they're true) that adding melamine boosts the perceived measurement of protein in the gluten (IOW, melamine shows up as a "protein" in testing).

[paratti.livejournal.com]

America doesn't produce enough wheat gluten to use instead?

I'm thinking improved testing for purity and traceability of the ingredients might be the better place to start than messing around with the FDA, which disruption is bound ot create snafrus with the inspectorate.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

And only today I heard that people shouldn't be drinking soy milk because there might be something in that now. Arrgh!

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I've heard as well.

It has my mom so freaked she took her cat to the vet today.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Protein shakes, as well.

[jerrymcl89.livejournal.com]

It's really rather difficult to trump that "black hole" one. :)

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can chalk up the Gere thing to extreme cultural differences, who really cares about Rosie, the Donald, Sanjaya, Baldwin et al anymore anyway AND I'm more frightened by the "so long, and thanks for all the pollen!" disappearing honeybees than the prospect of a black hole, but the "origin of Jack's tattoo" episode on Lost was the single stupidest thing I've seen anywhere in years (and I'm counting Beer Bad and all of Will and Grace). As I watched it I thought, "The writers have to be yanking our chains -- this is too idiotic even for Lost. And Bai Ling, for God's sake!"

So Wrongda fixed the outcome of the SOS poll? Who won? No, wait - let me guess: Veronica Mars! Heh.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It ended with both the GG and the VM fandoms cheating like bats out of hell, but the VMers just couldn't cheat quite enough and the poll ended with VM behind... by 300,000 votes. Wrongda declared that a 'virtual tie' (which gives you an idea about exactly how much cheating was going on that she could say that 300,000 was a negligible difference). Anyway she declared both GG and VM the winner (because why be picky about 300,000 votes! Heh.)


And yeah, the Jack's tattoo episode was both mind numbingly dull and jaw-droppingly stupid.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

THEY CANCELLED DRIVE?!? NO!!!!!

Seriously, hard to choose here.

[kitmarlowescot2.livejournal.com]

Other...that no professional could go and help Seung Shu Cho, otherwise 32 people won't be dead right know.
And our very very stupid gun laws, any person with any mental illness including depression should not be allowed to buy a gun.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I thought about that, but it was far too serious and too tragic to put in a silly poll including Wrongda and the cancellation of a TV show.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. I made the list so it counts as 'all of the above' for me.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much what I felt when I made the list.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

very hard. :)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. It's like the world has gone nuts.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

It's the FDA that's in charce of the testing and traceability, though.

And, yeah, you would think we'd produce enough of our own. It makes no sense.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

True that. Of course I also think the scientist who came up with the idea of drilling a hole in the bottom of the ocean all the way down to the mantle deserves a smack in the head. I mean, don't we have those things, and aren't they called volcanos? And why would we think this would be a good idea? Thankfully, someone finally pointed out that there's no way in hell to a) drill that deep b)pay for it even if you could.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Its ratings were pretty astoundingly bad.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose it didn't help that even though they advertised it heavily, the ads were terrible and did nothing to make one realize what the show was really about, or that it was actually pretty good...

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

That and I think the premise was a tough sell. I kept thinking "Canonball Run with a mytharc? WTH???"

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Well, that part was the Fox execs, and they bought it (and considering SOME of the shows that Fox has bought, not that long a shot) - but I knew really absolutely nothing about the show itself from the ads; I only tuned in because of the names "Minear" and "Fillion."