You can no longer boil a lobster alive in Switzerland, unless you stun it first:
The Swiss government has ordered an end to the common culinary practice of throwing lobsters into boiling water while they are still alive, ruling that they must be knocked out before they are killed.
As part of a wider overhaul of Swiss animal protection laws, Bern said that as of 1 March, "the practice of plunging live lobsters into boiling water, which is common in restaurants, is no longer permitted". Lobsters "will now have to be stunned before they are put to death," the government order read.
According to Swiss public broadcaster RTS, only electric shock or the "mechanical destruction" of the lobster's brain will be accepted methods of stunning the animals once the new rule takes affect.
Also at BBC.
(Score: 5, Touché) by fyngyrz on Saturday January 13 2018, @01:06PM (5 children)
How long a queue should we assemble them in? Or are you wanting to braid their hair?
Please help me with this, I need a cue.
(Score: 3, Funny) by acid andy on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:02PM (4 children)
Dammit! I had a hunch I'd got that wrong but I just went with it. Touché Sir, touché!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday January 15 2018, @10:59PM (3 children)
Our kingdoms for a post editing function, eh? :)
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday January 15 2018, @11:51PM (2 children)
Absolutely but such a feature, if ever implemented, should have a timeout of a couple of minutes at most or I fear it would be greatly misused on a site like this for rewriting history and self-censorship. I can just see someone for fear of losing an argument, hastily pasting in extra points or altering their post just enough to render an objection invalid!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:12AM
Yes, agreed. Many's the time I've edited and edited, certain that I've caught all of it (and believe me, there's usually a lot of it, I'm a sloppy typist these days among other failings) but... no. There it is, with errors that would shame a 6th grader. Unfixable. Phbbbbt.
An editable post with a short (5-10 minutes or so, I think) timeout would be a blessing, IMHO.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday January 16 2018, @12:51AM
Also, as on Reddit, if a post's been edited, a little asterisk somewhere to indicate that.