Change the name to "Ye Old Whining Bitches"
Posted on 05/20/2015 5:52:24 PM PDT by smoothsailing
May 20, 2015
By Katherine Timpf
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to the oldest bar in Britain on Monday demanding that it change its historic name because “Ye Olde Fighting Cocks” is offensive to chickens.
PETA director Mimi Bekhechi said the name should be changed to “Ye Olde Clever Cocks” because that would “celebrate chickens as the intelligent, sensitive and social animals they are,” according to an article in the Mirror.
The pub is Britain’s oldest, according to Guinness World Records, and has had the name since 1872.
According to PETA, however, history just doesn’t matter when it comes to something this serious.
“We understand that the pub has long been called Ye Olde Fighting Cocks and that there may be some resistance to making a name change, but just as many pubs with names tied to slavery changed their names to match modern sensibilities, so it’s high time for The Cocks to change,” the group’s special-projects manager Dawn Carr said in a letter, according to the Herts Advertiser.
(Yes — “slavery.”)
Carr added that the name change would “encourage people to rethink the way that we treat chickens and grant these birds the respect and kindness that they deserve.”
Despite all of these super-compelling arguments, however, the local newspaper St Albans & Harpenden Review is reporting that the pub has no plans to change its name.
“We have a responsibility to preserve the history of this building,” landlord Christo Tofalli said. “We celebrate the fact that cock fighting was banned in the 1800s, but we won’t consider changing our name.”
“We are animal lovers here and are one of the few pubs left that welcomes dogs,” he continued. “And we usually support animal welfare organizations and a lot of the great work they do.”
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.
They should sell fish and PETA chips. “Guaranteed to have absolutely no brains!”
I don’t like the name PETA. I could go on as to why, but I don’t want to be vulgar.
You’re a saint, I refuse to put up with drunk and rowdy chickens. NO BEER! NO TV!
When drunk and rowdy they are definitely a terror....heart attack country for the unsuspecting.
I don’t like the name PETA. I could go on as to why, but I don’t want to be vulgar
So, your first name is Pet and your last name begins with an A?
I’ve heard that if the hens drink too much they lay pickled eggs.
Just another Democrat faction with too much time on their hands.
Have you ever had those dark chocolates with liquor inside?
If you feed them beer, it’s hard boiled with a Guinness center. Would make an Irishman cry....
I would like to introduc you to someone, ye olde fryolator.
An organiztion nemed PETA shouldn’t be casting stones in glass houses. Their name sounds like a phallic symbols itself...
I BARELY got mine calmed down after reading this story to them.
PETA director Mimi Bekhechi said the name should be changed to “Ye Olde Clever Cocks” because that would “celebrate chickens as the intelligent, sensitive and social animals they are,” according to an article in the Mirror.
Hmm..
Notre Dame
“Ye Olde Clever Irish”
Maybe they are on to something!
Doesn’t Norte Dame have a chess club.
Please, PLEASE, tell me that was satire.
Some days I'm so embarrassed by my fellow human beings...
On the one hand, I'm proud that my Nation is so free as to allow these idiots to put on this show. On the other hand, what a pack of idiots.
I think the term "cocks" has the other meaning than what PETA's referring to here.
The problem is that in this day and age, the pub will probably give in to this lunacy.
Lol! No. Sounds too much like WeeWeeTa. That’s the direction I was going. They don’t like the way a name is? I don’t either —— with theirs.
No - It was real.
They had to call the cops to get rid of the PETA creeps.
Change the name to "Ye Old Whining Bitches"
How about “Dueling Phalli”?
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