5 Reasons Zombies Rock!

August 17, 2012 in Health, Humour, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Society

Last week Tamsin wrote a highly inflammatory post about how to survive the Zombie apocalypse. In that post, full of human prejudice and spite, she describes how she and her husband practised their Zombie Evacuation Plans, even suggesting that “a machete will serve you well, especially if you know how to swing it.” Yes that’s right – she was advocating violence against innocent Zombies. Zombies are a hugely misunderstood population in our society. There are so many myths perpetuated by the human-biased media about how evil Zombies are and how they must be stopped. Well, it’s about time all this anti-Zombie bigotry stopped. To try and [...]

I Am Not A Human Being, I Am An Animal!

May 29, 2012 in Film & TV, People, Self, Society

It’s one of the best known lines in cinema history – John Hurt, playing John Merrick (the Elephant Man), being chased along a railway station by a voyeuristic mob – “I am not an animal, I am a human being,” he pleads in frustration to the crowd pursuing him. It is one of the most powerful scenes in cinema history, but I think it’s also wrong. Why do we humans always place ourselves separate from the rest of the animal kingdom? Why do we treat ourselves as something special, something different? Yes, I know. We can speak. We can alter our environment [...]