Considering that loads of modern and contemporary art is essentially about trolling the viewer/art establishment, this “art project” is a legit and kinda brilliant work of art. The meta just ads to this being a great sample for his art school application.

Ugh. No. No pigs. Pigs will eat an entire human, bones and all. They have beady eyes. I got trapped in a bathroom by a pig at a party and had to climb out the window. Fuck pigs.

This isn’t a new scam, it’s been happening for years. Even a local pet store sells “micro pigs” - they grow to be 150+ pounds. Smaller than other hogs, yes. But not teacup sized in the least.

In general, I believe it is bad etiquette to complain about a wedding gift, but when someone gives you a live animal, I think it is totally acceptable to give them hell over it.

I love the “I had no idea pigs could get this big” about a pot-belly, a real pig like Berkshire or a Duroc is three times that size.

That’s because there’s actually no such thing as mini or micropigs. Anything advertised as a mini pig is just a regular pig or potbellly pig that has been starved to stay small. It’s really cruel and mean :(

Yep. She said “they were actually Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pigs, which typically grow to 200 pounds, unlike teacup pigs that top out at about 60 pounds” but that’s really not true. It sounds like she got confused.

Dude, can you please remove that damn link to pigs for sale?! For f*cks sake, let’s not encourage idiots who think it sounds fun for 5 seconds to have a pig! There’s actually a growing number of pigs entering animal shelters and once former pets being sold at auction for slaughter after the dumb humans who bought them…

This happens all the time. I visited Edgar’s Mission, a local farm sanctuary, and they said they get calls every day from people trying to find a home for unexpectedly enormous pigs. And micro-pigs aren’t even available in Australia.

Tea cup pigs don’t even exist. They are only that small as babies. People started selling them and telling people that as long as they don’t feed them a lot, they will stay tiny forever. Well yeah, they won’t grow because you are essentially starving them.

My two-houses-down neighbor (in SF, not the countryside) has an enormous pot bellied pig that he takes on frequent walks. I LOVE this pig. It is just enough pig in my life. I’m pretty certain I don’t need any more pig in my life.

Pot-bellied pigs are adorable! In someone else’s house.

Not down to fax without permission.

Kesha has amazing talent. She’s going to get through all this shit with her ex-producer* and be one of the greats.

Oh my god, this! People who have never been poor do not understand how important it often is to present themselves as well as possible, to be the
“good” poor person who is clearly “trying.” If you can scrounge up the clothes and make yourself look presentable, maybe that job will hire you, or at the very least maybe…

I’m a big blubberer. I cry at the drop of a hat - emotional movies, any amount of frustration, seeing my sister for the first time in months, listening to Disney movie songs from my childhood, reminiscing about my grandparents, you name it. I just well up.

This is the first thing I tell anyone who expresses doubts about a woman’s rape claim. Serial predators target the disenfranchised or the isolated. They seek out women who will have trouble being believed and some get sickeningly good at it. I think once people wrap their heads around this it becomes a lot easier to…

Totally agree. I’m an anger person or a silence person depending on the situation and i just know in anything like this I’d come off as the “unhinged liar” because I wouldn’t be able to stop myself from hurling obscenities and demeaning him in any way possible.

“During her testimony, she became very emotional and cried. You could just see something different in her when she started talking about the rape and when it happened,” said Speaks.