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- DanteShamest, on 07/17/2009, -1/+51"The claw is our master."
"The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." - jba68, on 07/16/2009, -4/+51This is awesome. If Peta folks really wanted to set them free, all they have to do is catch and release.... problem solved
- Hetman, on 07/16/2009, -3/+48"Incarcerating lobsters in filthy crowded tanks in noisy bars, before boiling them to death, is as reprehensible as doing it to a dog or cat," she says. "It's a cruel game where the lobsters always lose."
First thing. I want one with kittens in it. I would not eat them but it would be fun. Cats are sneaky.
While everyone tries for "Hellboy," Kirk says he's only seen two people actually fish a lobster out of the tank with the big robotic claw.
To me it sounds like the lobsters have a better chance surviving here than they do in any other resteraunt. - AmyVernon, on 07/16/2009, -6/+29They're individuals, sure. Individual MEALS. Nom. I love lobster. Especially drenched in butter. Maybe wrapped in bacon. From baby pigs.
- Tulisin, on 07/17/2009, -2/+24Excuse me? Defenseless? Do GIANT ***** CLAWS AND ARMOR PLATING mean anything to you? Lobsters have plenty of defenses, they're just easily defeated by highly evolved predatory species like us.
- Grova, on 07/16/2009, -2/+19Pinchy!?!?
- covertbadger, on 07/17/2009, -4/+18It's a lobster. It's a big ***** sea insect. This is akin to getting up in arms over some fly spray.
- freeridstylee, on 07/16/2009, -2/+16I wish we had one at my office, then I'd spend less time on digg.
- janinekahn, on 07/16/2009, -3/+15Amy, you're making me hungry!
- BigVi, on 07/17/2009, -0/+11Those tanks look pretty clean
- carpsio, on 07/17/2009, -3/+14Seriously: how could you "demean" a lobster? It lives on the bottom of the sea and eats plankton until something bigger comes along and eats it in turn. Dignity's not even on their radar.
- ronindigg, on 07/17/2009, -5/+15***** PETA
- linagee, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10PETA gives lobster game free advertising by making a stink about it? When will I see this game in a restaurant near me?
- tgc1, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10"I've been chosen!"
- Goombellaofgoom, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10"Farewell, my friends! I go on to a better place!"
- drunkCatholic, on 07/16/2009, -8/+17They're goddamn lobsters. Don't these people have anything better to do?
- Disgod, on 07/17/2009, -2/+11Lobsters have a central nervous system about as advanced as cockroaches (aka not that advanced), which isn't shocking considering they're in the same phylum as insects. They sure as hell aren't individuals.
- BigVi, on 07/17/2009, -5/+14Its called the food chain PETA. Quit hating on mother nature.
- sageerrant, on 07/17/2009, -1/+10Look in the mirror. Do you see your own eyes?
Congratulations, predator. You catch things smaller than you and eat them.
That's not to say that I approve of this awesome claw machine, but playing with your food doesn't hurt it much more than eating it will, and we're capable of doing it. You can choose not to, but expecting everyone else to make the same noble choice is just foolish. Have you ever seen how much fun a cat can have trying to catch a cricket? Some of us feel the same way about lobsters in claw machines. - Balanced, on 07/17/2009, -1/+9I'm not sure, but I think people have noted that PETA's top officials both wear leather shoes and were diabetic in the era of animal-extracted insulin. The latter might be a bit excusable, but the former is a bit hard to swallow without the hypocrisy light going off...
- AmyVernon, on 07/16/2009, -3/+11I seem to have that effect on people on Digg.
- nepidae, on 07/17/2009, -0/+8The worst thing about being a lobster is never knowing how tasty you are.
- Dustmuffins, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7***** I love that movie!
- ureshiidesuka, on 07/17/2009, -1/+7WANT!
- linagee, on 07/17/2009, -0/+6Pinchy would have wanted it this way. *cries*
*snaps pinchy in two and sucks out the delicious lobster insides* - jnisme, on 07/17/2009, -0/+6"Cats are sneaky"
Dugg just for this. - GrodyChamp, on 07/17/2009, -2/+8I see the correlation between your bitch ass hippie vegan screen name and your stupid ass post. Amazing how this works, isn't it?
- pstroll, on 07/17/2009, -0/+6***** the arthropods! This is payback for Silurian holocaust.
- LittleDas, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Proper capitalization and grammar are hard, we know. You'll get it someday!
- graemee, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Well they did get their panties in a bunch when President Obama killed a fly. I'm sure he likes lobster too.
- Spire3660, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5I was thinking the same thing. Put a sign up saying "If you catch one, we'll cook it, or give it to you to set free." Win/Win
- brd6644, on 09/01/2009, -0/+4Both seconds of it...
- BottledViolence, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4I don't even like lobster, but seeing this makes me want to try it. The great thing is that unlike after watching Whale Wars I can actually go buy a lobster today!
- Spire3660, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5Thats MR. Pinchy to you
- allisonaxe, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5no, being diabetic, an animal rights activist, and not dying for the animals you protest over is a bit hypocritical. so is killing thousands of adoptable animals each year, but I don't feel like going and digging up that fact booklet so early in the morning.
- Shaggy3, on 07/17/2009, -2/+6I was going to come in here and say how cruel that lobster claw machine is.
But no, it is indeed, awesome. - LiLBiGD1Ck, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5Why is this worse than restaurants that have lobsters on display in a tank about the same size? A claw comes down every now and than and takes a grab at them, and almost everytime it fails (according to one of the waiters, he has only ever seen two people win).
- vizerei, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4FTA: "The Love Maine Lobster Claw is a scream (also similar to a lobster on his way to the boiler)."
I lol'd. I'm sure PETA didn't! - TechnoRabbit, on 07/17/2009, -3/+6No, it's akin to sticking a dog in a claw machine and trying to get it out! Imagine how embarrassed the dog will feel!
/s - sageerrant, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4But they're so cute!
Just like chickens. And then I eat them. - jba68, on 07/16/2009, -3/+6HEY!... no cussin' the lobsters...
they are delectable..... - Matri, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2You know, it's kinda funny. PETA will spend all those millions on their (retarded) advertising, but not a single cent towards actively helping said animals.
Huh. - WaCkYmAk, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2What a delicious idea. It'd be even better if the machine were enhanced to boil the lobster for you and dispense it in a vat of butter.
Bacon vending machine? - heynow21, on 07/17/2009, -3/+5I don't know enough about how lobsters experience life to condemn people who treat them that way, but I wouldn't do it myself and I'm not going to makes jokes about how insignificant lobsters are either.
- Bullislander05, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2I like these machines. True story: My father does general construction and contracting and he went to work for a lady at a restaurant who features one of these machines. The lady said it costs $2/try and her average take is about $75/lobster. The profit margin for the lobsters is incredible. (On another unrelated note since my dad was fixing the machine he brought home 7 full-sized lobsters for dinner that night. All for free. Before PETA comes complaining, they would have died anyway.)
If people are unscrupulous and will pay money to use the machine, why interfere? If PETA doesn't like it they can get involved and catch and release all the lobsters. If they have a higher bid than the people using the machines, it's all good. - omae, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2lets see Sid's dog take a bite outta this
- allisonaxe, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2sonofdarwin, its not a tired argument, and i'm not talking about sheltered euthanasia, i'm referring to the story a while back about how PETA killed the majority of the animals left in their care, and adopted out something like... 9 of them.
my stance: I understand the reason for shelter euthanasia, and I, personally, have donated time and resources to a local no-kill shelter. Being a human being, and thus an omnivore, I eat meat along with (helpless, innocent, defenseless) vegetation, but try to mostly buy product that is labeled as free-range. I love animals, both friendly ones that we befriend, and also the ones that we put on our plates. I hate PETA because they're a bunch of holier-than thou ***** who are repeatedly proven to be hypocrites.
as far as lobsters go? they're cockroaches of the sea. they don't exactly express emotions as we understand them, and despite being huge bugs, they're damned tasty. I see no problem trying to catch one in a claw game, because they're not intelligent creatures. when people start putting, oh, human infants in them, I'll be concerned. - sychotic, on 07/18/2009, -0/+2To be honest it's the lobsters fault for tasting so delicious
- brathe, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Sad...these lobsters will need therapy for the rest of their lives
- Bullislander05, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Nonono! They're sea KITTENS. Actually. Would they be sea gerbils or hamsters?
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