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The Spectacle Blog
One thing I guarantee your friends will never say to you at dinner time is, “Lets go out for some English.” Anyone faced with the challenge of keeping body and soul together while on a visit to the auld sod will know why. So it’s particularly odd that “Sir” Paul McCartney (apparently all superannuated rockers in the UK now carry the appellation “Sir” before their names) has urged Americans not to eat turkey for Thanksgiving, but instead to substitute tofu and yard clippings.
Our Paul, a vegetarian himself, put his message in the form of an ad for the upscale animal worship cult, PETA. I don’t know what would make McCartney think Americans would take his advice and forswear turkey today. We had a chance to reject a national turkey on Nov. 6, but didn’t take it.
One more thing to be thankful for today is that nutters like McCartney aren’t setting the national menu. Yet. But look for Nanny Bloomberg to hire McCartney as a dietary consultant.
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Seek| 11.22.12 @ 1:56PM
Paul McCartney isn't a "nanny." He's merely expressing, as a vegetarian, a preference. Though I am not of their number, I don't think vegetarians should be written off as cranks. Their view is valid.
As for the snarky jab at Macca's O.B.E., hey fella, he's earned it for decades of musicianship. So have Mick Jagger, Ray Davies and any number of other "superannuated" Brit rockers still getting it on.
spike59| 11.23.12 @ 5:26AM
McCartney is a typical celebtard scold...as for what he's earned, he squandered any 'musicianship points' he earned as a Beatle on crap like 'Wings' and 'sim-ply ha-ving, a wonderful Christmas time, ding-dong ding-dong...'
Kilgore Trout| 11.23.12 @ 10:31AM
Suh Pau not only SOUNDS like a little ol yenta, he LOOKS like an old lady now.
Eat my shorts, suh Paul. I had EXTRA turkey yesterday in YOUR honor.
Seek| 11.23.12 @ 12:06PM
Maybe you're not listening to Paul's whole catalog. His career has spanned 50 years, not 20. Cherry-picking a tiny handful of examples to "prove" a conclusion is easy sport. He has a gift for marrying melody and lyrics in the framework of a three-minute pop-rock song that few have equalled.
As for that Christmas song that so exercises your indignation, it's entertaining, if lightweight. That's more than I can say for any number of heard-it-a-thousand-times-before Christmas ditties cluttering the airwaves every December. God bless Paul McCartney.
Dai Alanye | 11.23.12 @ 1:14PM
No doubt McCartney has some valid opinions on music. His opinions on social matters, including the animal worship that certain vegetarians often promote, have no more validity than yours or mine. In fact, less than mine, because he's a nitwit, and I am not.
spike59| 11.26.12 @ 5:41AM
I have ATTEMPTED to listen to Paul's whole catalog; however, I was overcome by an overdose of schmaltz and fluff; I believe John Lennon said it best:
"So Sgt. Pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother's eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
You live with straights who tell you you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you're gone you're just another day
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they'll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?"
FastJohnny| 11.23.12 @ 8:52AM
Well, being knighted for singing and doing drugs (and incidentally getting caught overseas with drugs) isn't making me stand up and salute. I suppose we could call him a poet, but that is stretching it....I don't see McCartney up there in the ranks of Sir Lawrence Olivier, but apparently you think Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney with their used up, drug abused minds and bodies are qualified to serve up their opinion to us. They are not just giving an opinion, they are telling us what to do. This is the same as Dave Matthews telling us we should ride our bikes to work...ok, are we living on the same planet? I am sure that Paul has the best interests of us unwashed masses that were so generous to buy the Beatles records making him rich (Wings...well, they weren't so good, something about them made me feel ill), however as he tells us not to eat meat he has a limo bring him to the airport and a crew already has his private jet warmed up for him.....see what I mean?
mike 3/505| 11.24.12 @ 1:57PM
"I don't think vegetarians should be written off as cranks. Their view is valid."
No it isn't. Any animal that has pointed incisors (fangs) like humans and wolves do, is meant to grab something by the neck, kill it and eat it. "Sir Paul" and others of his ilk (Sir Elton), are the same idiots who take their sick dogs to the vet after putting them on vegan diets and wonder why they get sick. If you wish to eat nothing but sprouts and insert your sex organ into another man's anus, all well and good. Please don't try and demand such of me. It's all part and parcel of the same reasoning.
spike59| 11.26.12 @ 5:42AM
If God hadn't wanted man to eat animals, He wouldn't have made them out of meat
Lady Disdain| 11.22.12 @ 2:55PM
I wonder that you will still be talking, Signor Pinhead. Nobody marks you.
jhkjhk| 11.22.12 @ 3:08PM
I've heard vegetarianism is healthier than omnivorous, especially that meat and its preparation can cause cancer. But Lady Linda died of cancer anyway, and rather young! Waiter, another bacon cheeseburger, if you please!
FastJohnny| 11.23.12 @ 8:55AM
Yeah, just try to build muscle tissue on veggies....Soy protein just doesn't cut it.
Mnestheus| 11.22.12 @ 3:52PM
What a snarlywow is Goody Thornberry.
He should be put on a diet of succotash for slandering the gentle Sir Paul.
Roscoe| 11.23.12 @ 8:44AM
That would be the "gentle Sir Paul" who slandered the immediate past US President, when at a an early 2009 group worship at the White House for his beloved obama, he inferred that G.W.Bush wasn't educated enough to read?
Occam's Tool| 11.23.12 @ 2:19AM
Well, I disagree with Paul on this one.
But Paul McCartney, OBE, played in Israel and told the Israel bashers in the UK where to get off. I'd have a salad bowl with the man anytime. And G-d Bless Him.
Occam's Tool| 11.25.12 @ 1:01AM
Oh, Paul is an airhead Liberal, sure. He's just not an Islamist nor a dhimmi.
TLP| 11.23.12 @ 7:33AM
CONTEST, AT THE COMMUNITY BANKS!
minktulip| 11.23.12 @ 8:57AM
Even if his music isn't your style (and it isn't mine) it would be foolish not to recognise that the lad has a talent for melody.
Compared to some of the time serving duds who get gongs PM looks pretty good.
spike59| 11.26.12 @ 5:43AM
"the lad has a talent for melody."
so does Hallmark; but with them, you get a card, too
Hardcard| 11.23.12 @ 12:33PM
Paulie smokes dope, I eat turkey.
Vance P. Frickey| 11.24.12 @ 12:46AM
Having lived in England three months, I can testify that vegan cuisine has advantages there it'll NEVER have over OUR native cooking. I lost forty pounds in Britain, not because I was on a diet. I loved Britain, the people are friendly and hospitable, and when I went out to eat, it was either Chinese or that wonderful Turkish addition to the English diet, the kebab.
spike59| 11.26.12 @ 5:44AM
all the chefs in Hell are English
STV| 11.24.12 @ 9:59PM
I hate to point this out but killing a large bird and roasting it for a special occasion IS very 'English', as were the pilgrims.
Bumr50| 11.25.12 @ 6:38AM
Observation : I find it increasingly difficult to defend people on the Right who leave knee jerk remarks about "drugs" every time someone from the world of popular culture says something controversial.
You guys sound like schoolmarms, and many of you are probably drinking while you type.
Stop it. Seriously.
Stan Redmond| 11.25.12 @ 4:29PM
I find Paul McCartney's music great. This article is a bit curmedgeonly. He asked Americans not to eat turkey for Thanksgiving. What horrible sin has he commited? Is he perpetuating the global warming scam and making billions of dollars like Algore? I didn't here it proclaimed across the world media outlets There aren't legions of politicians forcing us to pay for vegetarians like we have to pay for brid slaughtering windmills. Besides, you can still eat ham.
spike59| 11.26.12 @ 5:48AM
Besides, you can still eat ham.
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apparently, you missed the PETA/Paul connection??????
not surprising for someone who 'finds' McCartney's music 'great'...which, if on a scale of Britney Spears to the Jonas Brothers, i guess a case might be had...
Nancy in NC| 11.26.12 @ 8:20AM
Just because someone can sing a little ditty doesn't give him the right to tell the rest of us how to live or what to eat. Who asked him? And I, for one, don't care. Take a hike, sir paul.
LarryK| 11.26.12 @ 9:57AM
Douche bag! Lennon was a better songwriter!