Can you please put "gross picture" in parenthesis in the Title as a warning? It is going to take me perhaps weeks to get that horrendous picture out of my mind.

I always put a rating in the title when I post a joke because I don't want to offend anyone that way you can choose to read it or not.

I am not exaggerating I am bordering on being physically ill because of that photo.

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I agree and I don't blame you. Just hearing about it would have been more than enough, perhaps too much.

If you are referring to the animal in the beans ( which I am guessing ) then I don't know how you make it through life. It's intact, for one thing, and not burned or disfigured. I wouldn't want to witness your reaction seeing someone in public who is physically not 100% "acceptable" / "normal" if you are this upset over that picture.

Good thing you don't have my job.

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Add me to the "doesn't bother me" list.

Perhaps I have seen way more horrible sights in my life to have even thought twice about the rats and beans combo.....

gross doesn't bother me....picture of spiders make me freak out. I am extremely arachinophobic (sp)!

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I think I'll never be able to stomach pork n beans EVER again as long as I live! Thanks LOADS!

I grew up on a working farm in the 60"s that included a 10,000 capacity broiler chicken house, that little guy didn't even phase me.

Anna I agree with you , it did make me sick , I do feel sorry for the little rodent, but I would have preferred not to have seen the picture. Peace. Catherine

I didn't open the topic but I have to give the OP of this thread the courtesy of agreeing with her. It doesn't make any difference if it bothers YOU, the warning should be there for people to make the choice of opening the thread or not....not having it sprung on them

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I was grossed out by the thought of it being in FOOD. I think that's why the photo disturbed me so much. Just the thought of it... ick.

Blood and guts don't send me over the edge at all, but bean-juice soaked dead rodents do make me a little queasy. We've all got our little list of things, and this is now on mine. lol

I make it through life just fine. And I'm not sure what you are specifically referring to by "I wouldn't want to witness your reaction seeing someone in public who is physically not 100% "acceptable" / "normal" if you are this upset over that picture." because I have no problem with any kind of people no matter how they look. I'm still scratching my head over "someone who is physically not 100% acceptable" In my eyes I have never seen anyone who fits that category because after all what is considered "acceptable"?



Blood and guts don't bother me. My father was from Italy and he butchered animals when I was growing up. I lived on my Uncle and Aunt's farm for a while and helped with the chicken killing.
I have been in situations where I had to help people who have been stabbed and in car accidents.

It was seeing that, as Wow says, in food. Until I can get that picture out of my mind every time I eat something I get nauseous.

I would have preferred not to look at it.

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Seeing a human that is less than perfect is not a problem. You are equating apples and oranges. As has been mentioned, it was in canned food. And I didn't need to see it to know it happened. I realize that our food supply has things in it that aren't what I would choose to eat, and what I don't know doesn't bother me. What I do specifically know does bother me. I refuse to watch TV exposes of food processing problems. I really don't want to know what's in that hot dog. Just leave me in blissful ignorance when it comes to my food. Particularly when it come to pictures. You can tell me nasty stuff a lot easier than you can show me nasty stuff.

She is just like that....and good thing we don't have her job? Maybe because we don't want it, so yes....good thing. I have always been very freaked out by rodents,so yes, it made me feel horrible! Rats just freak me out, but not "physically unacceptable" humans.

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I think it could be with the op. She contradicts herself with her quote about having good sense and she herself has proven the bit about the love of family as a false statement as well. I realize we all have our thresholds but in reference to this, there have been other less than desirable topics and photos here many, many other times.

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You can try to push push peoples' buttons but we're all on to you. I love my family more than anything else in the world. I know what you are referring to and those people were not my family I hadn't seen or talked to them for a couple of years and I haven't seen or talked to them since. And as far as good sense goes obviously you and I wouldn't agree on what that entails.

Oh wait excuse me there's someone walking by who is less than desirable I have to go outside and freak out about it.

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Thank you Anna love what you wrote. It seems lately you cannot have a personal view anymore or if you do you will be torn apart over and over again. Peace dear friend. Catherine

What an unpleasant, ugly post.

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I know nothing about the OP. I don't follow many of the personal postings on here. At least not enough to remember who did what to who and why for more than a few days. Either the other pictures were missed by me or did not cross my threshold of discomfort. I do think if you are posting something that might be a gross out for others, that it is common courtesy to warn people before they look.

Just consider the source. Some people's posts are so consistently insulting and negative that it makes one wonder what kind of a miserable life this poor pitiful creature endures.

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Once again Anna thanks so much you are so right, enjoy your day sweetie and hugs always. Peace. Catherine

warnings should be out of courtesy. like those pictures that are posted where people get up close to "see something" and some thing pops up at them. maybe funny for some but people with heart conditions and stuff it's not. after growing up on a farm stuff like that doesnt bother me

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Valorian I totally agree with you 100 percent, on the warning, and for you who grew up on a farm would be used to viewing certain images that would clearly hurt other people as a animal activist I cannot imagine, but I also have to say if you were brought up with it then you as a person would be used to the images.Thanks for posting. Peace. Catherine

I can't believe some people are beating up Annadrose for a simple, perfectly reasonable request.

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Well if they were fixing to show a picture like that on the news they certainly would warn ahead that you might not want to look! The title "whose beans" gave absolutely no indication that something so gross was about to pop up!

Jujubee I totally agree with you hon thanks. Peace. Catherine

My point wasn't against Anna in any way. It was that many might not consider the picture at all the type that requires a warning. Different people have different sensitivities, and we can't all be aware of particular issues some people might have. I found the photo quite interesting and somewhat amusing. I would never have thought it would bother someone. The odds of that exact situation occuring again are probably slim, so are we to now guess what people might be sensitive to?

I think we can all agree pictures of dead people and graphic porn would offend the majority. But a dead rat in beans would never have entered my radar. Some people don't like spiders -- am I supposed to warn of a spider photo?

Most photos aren't posted by the OP, but by another poster. Is the OP supposed to monitor all posts for added photos?

Anna, now that I know your are physically repulsed by a rat dipped in beans, I will not post a picture of a rat dipped in beans. What else are you physically repulsed by?

Or, perhaps we can ask for a new TOC -- only pictures of cute puppies and smiling babies are allowed?

Nightowlrn you know I like you alot and we agree on many things, perhaps would it be rather better then to just accept that anna was grossed out by that picture and simply move on. I know there are many terrible and sad and tragic views I would not want to see peace to both you and Anna always. Catherine

I abolutely agree that Anna and a few others were grossed out by that photo. I wouldn't have known, so I ask what else those like me should be aware of. I think we can all agree dead people and porn. I would also see mutilated people. But, what else should those of us who are apparently insensitive be aware of?

I would like to think you didn't mean for that to come out the way it sounds?

Well I am to assume that growing up on a farm, the people who do and are raised on a farm are used to seeing images of animals being slaughtered for food it that is what you are saying, that is what I am saying I would never ever want to view anything like that. I did not mind to offend anyone who has grown up on a farm i sincerely realize its a fact of life . I would love to live on a farm and fill it with many animals to raom freely and enjoy their life. Peace. Catherine

I have to shake my head that someone would actually need to be told that posting a picture of a dead animal would not be appropriate! Would it be ok to post "look what my cat brought me this morning" only to open it up and see a picture of the dead bird the cat left on the porch, all bloody and gnawed up?

I agree.

I think if it is something that someone could find disturbing in real life it is a no-brainer that somebody might find a photo of it disturbing. It seems pretty simple to me.

I know if I opened a can of beans in my kitchen and dumped them into a pan and then saw a preserved rodent floating in my stainless steel I'd need to grab a bucket.

I could dissect dead animals in a biology class every day and it would never grow old. I'm fascinated by the way life works. I think it is extremely cool information to know.

I just don't want to have to confront the fact that rodents had opportunity to poop, urinate, and die in a substance that I was going to put in my mouth and chew. lol

Ok, I didn't look at it, glad I didn't since it involves an animal, my thresh hold for animal abuse is very low, although pretty much anything else I can handle, everytime the news comes on and it has to do with animal abuse I have to turn the story off until it's over. Hubby laughs at me, because I used to investigate child abuse and neglect and can deal with beat up bruised, broken bones, raped, dead kids in real life and the offenders that go with them without a problem but give me a starving puppy or kitty and I start crying. I know.........

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Penny, I am not encouraging you to go look, but will tell you what was in the photo. Apparently somewhere overseas somebody opened a can of pinto beans and found a whole dead rat preserved in the beans. It hadn't been abused or anything like that the photo just showed the contents of the can poured out onto a flat surface. It was gross, IMHO.

I'm the same way. The picture disturbed me from the perspective of how the poor rat died. It wasn't intentional abuse, but I'm sure his death wasn't pleasant.

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Penny and Jujubee I agree while I know its a rodent as a huge animal lover I did feel sorry for the poor thing, but I do know while I feel fo it they do spread alot of diseases and like roaches who I do not like will always be around food and they can and will spread diseases. I also can say the same for flies and mosquitos they are bad too bad to mention. Peace. Catherine