Right now, a substantial amount of people are looking up “The Shocker” on Google….but it’s all a jumbled mishmash of uses. “Political Shocker,” “RUnway fashion shocker,” “animal cruelty shocker,” “internet friend social profile shocker,” etc.

Let me solve this confusion. There is one and one only shocker.

If you’re really adventurous, you’ll try the “one in the pink” variation.

Mark E. Smith was frontman of the legendary indie/post-punk group The Fall (John Peel’s favorite band). In a recent interview with Uncut, Smith made the following comments:

“Squirrels mean nothing to me. I killed a couple last weekend actually. They were eating my garden fence,” and added that he wouldn’t have an issue “running over seagulls” for fun.

Kind of a stupid thing to say in a national magazine, and guess what? Mark E. Smith is now being investigated by the RSPCA in regards to animal cruelty.

All of Daniel’s animal death and destruction posts seem to be influencing me. It turns out that MARS, the company responsible for making M&Ms, Snickers, and other candies you can plant a razor blade into while high on meth the night before Halloween, has been testing on animals. Cute little animals. The ones that star in Disney animated features.

From PETA2:

Mars has funded cruel experiments in which mice were fed a candy ingredient and forced to swim in a pool of paint. The mice had to find a platform to try to avoid drowning, only to be later killed and dissected. In another gruesome experiment supported by Mars, rats were fed cocoa and then sedated with carbon dioxide so that blood could be collected through a needle that punctured their hearts.

Wow. I never want to eat Mars products again.
WARNING: This video contains sensitive material that will make you stop eating Snickers bars, and possibly cry yourself to sleep.