Does this mean we can look forward to the NSPCC (National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Crustaceans)

they are ok if they are cooked.

Surely anything with a brain feels pain?

...but then, don't trees feel pain too? Isn't that why some people have taken to hugging them?

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Originally posted by Lucibee:
...but then, don't trees feel pain too? Isn't that why some people have taken to hugging them?

Having worked as an experimental lab cat for some time, i am quite qualified to answer this kind of question. i have rubbed ankles with many scientists and professors.

nah. trees don't have a central nervous system so they don't have anywhere to interpret their interactions with the environment. therefore they cannot feel pain as such, although there is often chemical response to the environment, such as in an aphid attack/drought etc.

:strokes cat:

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Originally posted by Lucibee:
:strokes cat:

what is more, feeling a sensation and interpreting it as pain are different things intirely.

For example when i go to the vet and the vet clips my claws it does not hurt, but i react to it in exactly the same way as when a clumsy research student (probably drunk) inadvertently steps on my tail. that is, i try to get away from the source of discomfort.

A person watching, probably interprets my reactions by your human interpretations of my behaviour.

oh, and thank you for stroking me. it was a most pleasurable sensation.

I have six shy shrimps.

Try saying that more than once!

i got my meows muddled.

have you heard, ken dodd's dad's dog's dead?

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Originally posted by The Little Cat:
i got my meows muddled.

have you heard, ken dodd's dad's dog's dead?

The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.

(that's supposedly the hardest one in the English language - try saying it once, slowly. I can't even do that!!)

i can even understand it, let alone say it!!