..to have felt sick when i saw a twat in waitrose walking around with a dead flattened fox on his head

[paisleyII]

i am not usually majorly bothered about someone wearing fur. i don't like it nor would i wear it myself but my take on it is each to their own. if i were in ie norway where it is bloody freezing and snows all the time in the winter somehow seeing someone wearing fur there seems different to wandering around oxford street on a sunny winters day but, it's isn't my business HOWEVER, walking around waitrose this morning i was shocked and offended tbh to see a man wearing a full fox on his head (tail down the back, arms and legs dangling down each side and to top it off, a flattened head/face at the front worn as a trophy). wtf? put me off my fishfingers. he looked a right twat

butwhy I know it a contentious issue. And I do know I am a hypocrite.

It's funny what really pisses us off isn't it? I eat meat, but I hate an animal being killed just for its fur. I do appreciate that it doesn't make sense.

Hmm, wasn't the general consensus though.

cheers diabolo - yes I know I am hypocritical about LOTS of issues, so I'm not one to attack. You know when you have a strong view though and you just want everyone else to agree with you??? I get a bit control-freaky!

YANBU
I agree with other posters that to take a moral stance against fur whilst supporting the meat industry is slightly hypocritical, but wearing something as disgusting as a fur hat with a squashed fox face is upsetting to many others, and therefore YANBU.
I'm a veggie and I can choose to not go to a butchers, but we all have to do our food shopping. That would have upset me and would upset a lot of children too. Yuk.

Butwhy - have one me!

(And I'm having roasted winter vegetables with cheshire cheese and balsamic vinegar for supper). No meat!

on me!

Duh!

Thanks, oddly enough it resembles the one that's right in front of me now!
Your dinner sounds lovely - cheshire is particularly delicious. In fairness, I grew up on a farm so the delights of veggie cooking are lost on me..

Out of interest (sorry for hijacking the fox-head thread) do you bulk out a meal like that with bread or pasta or anything? It does sound lovely but I know I'd still be starving (as I'm greedy)

So, your argument is not with the wearing of fur, it's with the tasteless design of the hat? That's actually quite reasonable.

I'd like to see a hat like that

Fox schmox - it probably had a lovely free range life digging up hillsides and frolicking about in the sunshine before it met it's end.

Why does no-one care about the chickens? Seriously. Hundreds of millions of chickens worldwide treated like vermin in tiny cages, with soft bones and no beaks. Is vile. Or the pigs that can't turn around in their cages? Ad infinitum...

Fluffy furry creatures always seems to trump the Sunday roast.

YABU to be outraged but YANBU to think he looked sartorially deficient. Looks like he got the attention he wanted.

FWIW I eat meat of all kinds (including chickens) but I get all of a lather when people think that wearing fur is worse than the wholesale mistreatment of animals in the marketplace.

actually, i love chickens and get upset when i see then (on tv docu) in a cage. they are sociable creatures, lovely for a cuddle (sil has a farm with lots roaming around). i also get upset when i see birds in cages, especially large ones.....:(

Not my style, but don't think wearing a fox hat automatically makes someone a twat. If you are wearing leather or suede shoes or toting a leather handbag - then you haven't got a leg to stand on either!
Hope you were very careful that all the meat you bought (not just the lumps of fresh stuff but in pasties, pies, frozen food etc) in Waitrose was free range & humanely killed!!!!!

Sorry OP - didn't mean to froth as much as I do I just think the fox probably had quite a nice time of it before it became horrible headgear

I hope it was the fox that shat on my front and back doorsteps and strewed next door's dirty nappies all over my garden.

next doors dirty nappies all over my garden - balls to that, i left the house this morning to find one of my dirty sanitry towels face upwards at the top of the path......still love the buggers, they are what they are, i don't mind clearing up after them (although bloody embarassing about the towel). btw msg to post - i said something in my original post indicating that this bloke specifically looked a twat NOT because he was wearing a fox fur hat but because it was OTT. as for the argument thrown in about eating meat and not liking to see some nutter wearing a ridiculous styled fur hat, balls. just thrown in in an attempt to shut me up, well it won't. i don't see how one equates the other. killing an animal just for its pelt stinks imho,

btw - we rarely eat meat due to high cholesterol :)

i definitely DO think that someone wearing a fox hat is a twat.

I would be soooo tempted to shout
"You've got a filthy ,mange ridden ,dirty scruffy thing stuck to you"

And when he sighs and says "It's a fox "

Say "I was talking to the FOX"

YANBU to think someone walking around with a full fox on their head looks like a twat.

A fox fur hat, on the other hand, could be an expensive, but warm item. Very practical if you live in Russia.

Like it's practical for me to serve roast chicken and wear leather shoes.

Perhaps he was going to or coming from a fancy dress party. He would have looked like Davy Crockett (not that Davy Crockett's hat was a fox though). Anyone remember the film with Fess Parker as the title character?

YABU. It sounds like not liking his hat is just squeamishness, really.

That fox will have run around uncurtailed until the moment it met it's end. The real animal welfare issues rest with the meat and fish we all eat and how they are farmed and where they come from.

Fur is an extremely 'green'/eco thing to wear as it requires so few chemicals for processing and is so effective at keeping us warm. Cotton processing and all the chemicals involved are doing very serious damage to our planet.

hoo - whilst i agree with you in that there are many damaging things going on to bugger our planet, it doesn't take away from the fact that the bloke wearing the fox hat looked an idiot! nothing more, nothing less, simple!

I do wish there was a photo of the squished fox hat and it's proud owner