My wife can't get pass this "Christmas dinner scene w/ mom" scene and so we stopped watching the show. The show got increasingly more chaotic and way too loud. The multi-directional conversations/screaming/yelling/smartass one-liners and worse of all, the "Yes. no......Yes... wait, wait... NO!" split second lines are too annoying (or cranked up to 12 if you prefer). My wife and I are too old for this.

Christmas dinner for Tiny Tim family and friends?

I didn't even notice they were butchering the camel until I read the comments. And then I watched it again and I was horrified.

But then I thought about why I was horrified and it really has more to do with the fact that we simply don't see where our meat comes from anymore in society. If I want some turkey for Christmas dinner, I can just head to the grocery store and buy one that's ready to cook (or already cooked). I don't have to go out in the backyard and chop one's head off, bleed it, pluck it, and pull its innards out with my bare hands.

So really, the horror comes from just not seeing it happen everyday (even though I'm guessing millions of animals are butchered for food worldwide every day).

The comments in YouTube suggest this camel was being killed in a Halal fashion (which would require the butchering to be done the way we see in the video--a swift cut to the carotid artery followed by a bleeding out). Turkeys are killed in the same way, I believe (though hung upside down first before having their throat slit).

So to the people who are against this video (or are actually downvoting it) I say: humans are omnivores. It's scientific fact. Most humans eat animals and that usually means killing them first. This video shouldn't be shocking and probably the reason it is to you is that 1) you never thought to eat a camel since you grew up in a country where that wasn't common and/or 2) you've forgotten that animals actually have to be butchered before showing up on your local grocery store shelf and/or 3) you've chosen to be vegetarian (good on you) but forgotten that a large number of other people have chosen to embrace their omnivorism.

(I know omnivorism isn't an actual dictionary word but if vegetarianism can be a word, why not?)

So many Christmas dinners...

Buying a couple of lottery tickets is fun. But I see people who clearly don't have much money buying buttloads of tickets, desperately hoping.

I buy lottery tickets myself. Every December. I buy them for my co-workers to scratch off at our annual Christmas dinner. I even buy one for myself, so I can join in the laughter. And I like that some portion of the proceeds goes to schools.

It is the desperate, low income buyers that I ... mourn for.

I like everyone calling the guy with the camera an asshole. Hey, you know what? I, like most Americans, drive around a lot. I also drink alcohol maybe twice a year, a couple of glasses of wine at Christmas dinner. I don't need a bunch of assholes fucking stopping me in the middle of a road when I'm trying to get somewhere in my fucking car. You want to catch drunk drivers? Here's a fucking tip: not everyone who happens to be driving around at night is drunk, so leave me the fuck alone and go do something USEFUL. Everybody gets up in arms when police racially profile, but I don't see anyone defending me for being fucking driving-at-night profiled.

that'll be awesome for christmas dinner with the family all over.

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I think he's right about charity demoralising the recipient. I haven't been on the receiving end of charity often, but one time ...

We had recently arrived in Australia, and we didn't have anyone around to spend Christmas with - we heard on the radio about a community Christmas dinner for "anyone who doesn't have somewhere to go for Christmas" it sounded good, like a great way to meet some people and make some ties in our new home.

So, it turned out it was a charity event - there were people from homeless shelters and nursing homes and us. There were all these volunteers running around serving turkey and making sure everyone got a Christmas gift. And I have to say, although the people were really nice, I did feel terrible - I had a job, we had plenty of money - but we were treated like a down-and-out family hit on hard times by these throngs of do-gooders. My present was a comb and some cheap soap so I could "clean myself up" I suppose to get a job.

My experience from that dinner was that the volunteers who were helping out finished the day feeling very good about themselves-- while the recipients of their magnanimity and largess left with their self-esteem taken down one notch.

No one wants to be a charity case.

This being my first 3D experience...I left the movie not really sure how I felt about it. I wanted to laugh along with instantly remembered sillies and the like, but when I saw this clip it illustrated and cemented the sensation that a good Burton film should accomplish. Freaky. Outlandish. Altogether fun. Then this dance comes over and puts its dick in my ear when I'm sleeping after a good Christmas dinner. It was like watching the Phantom Menace bundled into about 20 seconds.

*Sob* Stop it! Stop the fighting! Can't you see you're tearing us apart.

>> ^peggedbea:
well, the kids are opening their presents now. were not waiting for your whiskey reaking ass. dont lose all our money again. and be safe the roads are bad, my unemployed bourbon loaded sugar plum.
<div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: left; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"> thinker247 said:<img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: left; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/t/thinker247-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"><div style="position: absolute; margin-left: 52px; padding-top: 1px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">◄</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">I love you, too, honey. I'll be home for Christmas dinner tomorrow after the poker game.
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<div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: right; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"> peggedbea said:<img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/p/peggedbea-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"><div style="position: absolute; margin-top: 1px; right: 52px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">►</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-right: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">i knew you posted this, thinker, you miserable bastard.
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well, the kids are opening their presents now. were not waiting for your whiskey reaking ass. dont lose all our money again. and be safe the roads are bad, my unemployed bourbon loaded sugar plum.
>> ^thinker247:
I love you, too, honey. I'll be home for Christmas dinner tomorrow after the poker game.
>> ^peggedbea:
i knew you posted this, thinker, you miserable bastard.

I love you, too, honey. I'll be home for Christmas dinner tomorrow after the poker game.

>> ^peggedbea:
i knew you posted this, thinker, you miserable bastard.

Not a problem... he is definitely one of the all time greats!

In reply to this comment by highdileeho:
Thanks for putting me on to this guy, Brilliant. i went on youtube. There was a long documentary about 90 minutes. It was the history of his joke telling, with a smattering of an autobiography mixed in. He is a brilliant comic, definitly one of the best, top 3. He had me rolling with laughter for 90 minutes. the 1 when he talks about taking a shit when he worked in the shipyard and beating out his flaming pubic hair with a hammer: so funny ...here's a link to the first bit. . Thanks again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_bFPMZy6Q

Are you kidding me! We didn't actually EAT on them LOL. It sat there looking beautiful for over a week before I boxed them up.

For "Christmas dinner" I cashed in a gift certificate for a Honey Baked Ham, sat it out on the counter, laid out a ton of cheese balls and there. I wasted no time going online to look for more MOARR

I kicked my butt cooking a big Thanksgiving spread.. Christmas day is for playing. Well, now I guess next year they will expect a big spread w/ the good dishes.

I'm so pathetically domestic ha

shoot the cow, and then shoot the calf for the more tender meat for Christmas dinner, that way everyone wins