davidphogan: What's grosser than a dead baby?

The same dead baby in 1000 144 slow release capsuls.

FTFY

jst3p: Proper dead baby flesh storage container:

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or at the very least they could dispose of them using the proper receptacles:

Anal: Can I get them in suppository form?



Good news!

xanadian: So, Soylent Green is a Chinese product.

lulz.

chuckufarlie: What kind of a monster chops up dead babies.

One that doesn't have time to slow-cook the baby until the meat falls off the bone? Sheesh. We aren't all Paula Dean you know. Some of us can't afford to spend all day in the kitchen.

The comments to the article are pretty great.

I mean... not in a "these are good comments" way, but, rather, a "somehow, people on the Internet still manage to find a way to make comments that are lower in quality that the lowest quality article."

I've often commented on witchcraft-related murders and assaults from Africa. Africa is currently going through the type of religious enthusiasm (as they called it in the C of E in the late 1700s) which plagued much of Great Britain and Europe during the 1600s.

Your ancestors were not so different from modern African "christians" in "Megachurches" in Nigeria or South Africa. They are responding to the same political, economic, cultural and religious currents in the same way.

This superstition is part-pagan, part-Christian, perhaps part-Muslim aand part-Jewish depending on country and the religious groups involved. It is often class warfare or ethnic-cleansing disguised or at least mixed with religous fervour and superstition and cults lead by the kind of men and women who lead cults every place and time.

As a rationalist (more or less) and an atheist I can only deplore witchhunts, pograms and the vicious repression of women and children and sometimes (but less frequently) men (many of them "gay" or marginalized in some other way). But I've been fortunate to have read several very good books which show the modernity of ancient superstitions and the ancient roots of modern superstitions.

I hope that governments and societies which cling to such monstrous errors will come around, as liberal democracies have mostly done, mostly of the time, mostly. If you recognize that these insane outbreaks of violence and fear and superstition are not something that only happens in other climes and other times, you can find your way to understanding why they happen and how they can and should be prevented.

I may be an atheist but I have a low opinion of paganism as well as the authorized montheistic religions of today, no matter how "modern" their theology. Witchcraft, witch-hunting, and other stupidities and monstrosities of human minds and societies need to be addressed today as much as in the Middle Ages.

As Umberto Eco observed, independently of Faulkner perhaps, the Middle Ages never ended. We are still living in the Middle Ages as much as "modern times". He did a great job of translating medieval religious disputes into modern politics and vice versa in The Name of the Rose. But then he is a scholar--a medievalist in fact--and he is paid to understand the cultures of those times as well as his own world.

It's odd how much of my "fortean" reading about strange events and strange people and things turns out to be useful for the understanding of normalcy.

As if there were such a thing as normalcy. Nietzche and Fred understood that normal and totally insane blend into each other imperceptibly at their margins, just as Charles Hoy Fort believed that all phenomena blend together, even if you would never give your sweetheart a bouquet of hippopotami rather than violets.

And that's why Fark.com can be a real education if you happen to be a real student or a real teacher. (Or at least a close approximation of one.)

BiffDangler: Saw this story earlier today.. basically I don't believe. I bet we will find out in some months that this is bullshiat.

Yeah, this is right up there with Egypt letting their husbands fark their dead wives after they die.

I'm guessing that some con men just bought or stole a bunch of waste/scraps from a meatpacker, loaded it into capsules and marketed it as "baby pills."

offmymeds: And these are the same people we owe $1159.5 billion dollars to as of January of this year. Go figure.

Excellent point. We could lower that number if we sell them some of our excess dead babies.

HailRobonia: Hey, all you alternative medicine supporters: anyone care to defend this? It's Ancient Chinese Medicine after all.

I support you in your effort to troll. But be aware that because we use cherry juice to treat gout and caffeine to treat asthma attacks DOESN'T MEAN I'M GOING TO EAT A FARKING DEAD BABY. You imbecile.

Try harder.

bim1154: For a country that was so ahead of it's time when the rest of the world was still backwards centuries ago, I just don't get it.

Complacency. They got a big head-start and they thought their victory was inevitable and their way of life obviously superior, so they should never change anything. Thus the Industrial Age came as a fairly rude shock to them. They have not, however, ceased believing that the "Chinese way" is still the superior one for nearly everything.

umad: chuckufarlie: What kind of a monster chops up dead babies.

One that doesn't have time to slow-cook the baby until the meat falls off the bone? Sheesh. We aren't all Paula Dean you know. Some of us can't afford to spend all day in the kitchen.

amen to that. crock pot FTW.

umm_Sure: Well after you get all the baby oil out of the fetus why not grind it up into a pill..

/What? Baby oil doesn't come from squeezing babies?
//What about olive oil then???

Olive oil doesn't come from squeezing babies, either.

Branch Dravidian: I'm guessing that some con men just bought or stole a bunch of waste/scraps from a meatpacker, loaded it into capsules and marketed it as "baby pills."

Are you suggesting it's some sort of "mock" baby?

mpfjr: Smoky Dragon Dish: And before anyone brings this up, it's been disproven by snopes.

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Snopes Link: Link

Read the last paragraph of that Snopes article.

Indeed. It appears the story was hushed in order to not interfere with our selling ourselves to the King of All Markets: China. Someone else mentioned the Egyptians farking their dead wives story and here's the nub: We were willing to believe that. We are also willing to believe the Chinee would eat encapsulized dead baby. If you'd said that people were going to iceland to eat dead baby, or perhaps that the Belgians were farking their wives up to six hours post-mortem, we'd say it was nonsense, even funny. But we recoil in horror, ready to believe, when we hear such tales of the Chinaman or the Mohammedan because of the already bizarre stuff the really do do.

Rhetorical Man is Rhetorical!

offmymeds: BurnShrike: chuckufarlie: What kind of a monster chops up dead babies.

This.

They should be ground, not chopped.

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