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| MORRISSEY MAD Photograph: Rex Features/Brian Rasic via |
Epic troll and erstwhile Smiths frontman Morrissey, the only person who ever really understood me, is well known for his role as an outspoken vegetarian and colossal dick. He proved it yet again this week when he compared the massacre in Norway to fast food practices during a concert in Poland, in what is probably the worst thing that has ever happened in Warsaw.
"Just before performing his single Meat is Murder,' the Guardian UK writes, "he reportedly told the crowd: 'We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 [sic] dead. Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried shit every day.'
"His comments, reported in the Daily Mirror, led to condemnation on websites and Twitter."
Oh goodness, not condemnation on websites and Twitter.
One fan tweeted: "I've been veggy for 22 years. Today Morrissey's made me want to start eating meat." Another concluded: "Jesus Christ, Morrissey, you utter, utter bell-end".
All very alarming stuff, but the point is this: Aren't the British so cute with all their different ways they have for calling people a penis? Haha, bell-end. Also, why do the British put the period after the quote? That's odd.
Where was I? The real point is this: Yiiiiikes, is that really what happens to someone's face when they get old. :/ He used to be so handsome!
Or maybe it's this: Just because someone who believes in one thing has a shitty way of talking about it does not therefor mean their point is invalid. It's like the old Al-Gore-lives-in-a-super-space-station-that-orbits-the-moon-so-therefor-global-warming-doesn't-exist fallacy I like to trot out all the time. Or how people approaching 40 start to become conservative once they realize how stupid everyone under 30 sounds whenever they talk about anything. Don't blame the message for the messenger's ineptitude. 99% of indignant vegetarians are utterly insufferable, but that doesn't mean the industrial torture farms we have set up to make sure no one in the country is ever at any point in their day any further than 50 yards away from a hormone and disease patty for 99 cents aren't worth criticizing.
So maybe Morrissey over-reached on that one (-Johnny, hearing the "Miserable Lie" vox for the first time), but let's not throw the bathwater out with the babies, like they do at abortion clinics I've been told in various e-mail forwards from my aunt.
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2 comments:
So sad. He looks like Robin Williams now. Definitely not a poster child for the benefits of a vegetarian diet.
Ha, so he does. Wait, not ha, :(
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