Why did the village need Bob to shoot the elephant? What, the villagers do not have guns? or do not know how to use them?
these guys use AK-47 since childhood and those villagers are much better hunters than an american rich guy who just arrived on a helicopter.
The real story is that local villagers are not allowed to kill elephants and are fined if they do so. the american smartass bribed corrupted local government to let him shoot the elephant. Local corrupted head of municipality gets a couple of thousands of dollars (which makes him the richest man in the surrounding are) and the american guy (and his brand) gain cheap publicity back at home. everybody wins, except the elephant, but who cares about the elephant, right?
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#192Look at all these passionate discussions. Positively and negatively charged, both sides full of fiery opinion.
I thought this was supposed to be a terrible publicity stunt. I say it worked.
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Any publicity is good publicity" - tell that to Enron and Lindsay Lohan.
What in the world does Enron have to do with a publicity stunt? They committed fraud and went bankrupt. How is that like shooting an elephant and putting it on youtube? And Lohan, she's still making movies. Where's the problem?
Well, Ms. Lohan has been bounced from a couple of movies now due to her publicity, and the quote didn't have "stunt" in it and Enron certainly became a household name but not in a good way.
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#194GoDaddy damages it's brand daily by overcrowding it's servers to the point where they crawl. Hating animals is just the icing on the cake. Haha
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#195Bad taste, up, down, left, and right. He removed any reverence of the hunt, respect of the animal. Just him, his orange hats, his gun, his camera, his killing, his audio track of choice, his vacation video. Ugly rich guy video #93,275
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I can understand how this might offend vegetarians but even then, it's not like the animal was wasted. I think you're confusing vegetarians with people who dig frugality.
Exactly. Vegetarians have problems with killing...period.
Hitler was a vegetarian
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#197I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner. He does certain things for shock value, such as the super bowl commercials, which by the way caused outage with a completely different demographic of people. Slaughtering an elephant might offen…
I find your reasoning faulty. Frankly, I think it's you without a leg to stand on.
Tu quoque much? Murder, child abuse, blah blah, is widespread everywhere as well. Arguing this is somehow justifiable because something is "widespread" makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever.
And implying that Parson's gutless little stunt is justified simply because this is great for his company puts you squarely in the ends justify the means camp. Inhabiting that miserable landscape, you and he will not mind when I declare open season and cull a few company CEOs and feed a whole village, too. Would you then say that's actually a good thing, too?
It's not like we'd be wasting the fucking meat.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I can understand how this might offend vegetarians but even then, it's not like the animal was wasted. I think you're confusing vegetarians with people who dig frugality.
Exactly. Vegetarians have problems with killing...period.
You could choose to be a vegetarian because you disagree with factory farming and the industrialization of the meat industry. You could become a vegetarian because you don't like the texture of meat.
All 'vegetarian' infers is dietary choice. The reasons for becoming one can vary greatly.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm certainly not moving my domains over this. Me neither. I'm moving my domains because this reminded me of the silent, seething rage I have for Bob Parson's face. When I go to a site that registers and manages domains, I don't want to see your face. I also don't want to see ads about how great your company is. When I buy a domain, I don't want to wade through five pages of bullshit you put up in the hopes that I…
Just out of curiosity where are you going to move your domains? I own just over 30 domains all at GoDaddy and I'd move them over the massive amounts of cross selling and insanely cluttered UI.
Namecheap offers a 4.99 USD transfer special using the "byebyeGD" coupon code, valid until 11:59pm EST 1st of April 2011: http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/03/30/elephants/
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. There are millions of people getting scammed and ruined by fat-cats everywhere, and an elephant is what it takes for people to get mad? Wake up, everyone. I hate asshats like the GoDaddy CEO just as much as you do, but this self-righteous indignation is at The View levels right now.
Perhaps some of us care more about endangered species than those getting scammed around the world? Just a thought.
African elephants aren't an endangered species.