Dress made from meat

Jia Jem made a dress out of real meat.

I chose salami because it's thin, keeps in one piece, and is quite cheap, and bacon because it looks very, um, meaty. I considered somehow vacuum-sealing sheets of meat with those sealers they have on the markets now, but the machines were too expensive for a one-time-only disposeable dress. I ended up using the K.I.S.S. method of construction, which involved a basic shift dress out of thick cotton. I layed the meat on top, then put clear vinyl over it and sewed tracks with clear thread. I used a wide stitch length to avoid perforating the meat to the point it might just... uh, slide down the bottom of the dress. I also blotted it all before sewing to get rid of as much grease as possible to avoid clouding the vinyl. Lastly, I made sure to bind the bottom of the dress with a strip of clear vinyl to catch drips. (I love talking about this; it's so disgusting.) The whole project took about 6 hours, and I kept it refrigerated until the party. Good times.

Meat Dress

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TroofSeeker

Nicely put, Tak, but doesn’t it burn your fingers when you touch the Holy Bible? {snicker}
Daedalus

My Mouth: Made Moist!

Marry me, magnificent meat maiden!

(totally worth looking internet weird for the alliteration)
Takuan

how is killing a pig for art different than killing a pig for a thousand more calories than you need to get through a day?
humanpower

I’d be a lot more impressed if she had fed a hungry family with the equivalent amount of food. People starve on the streets of our own cities every day and this dizzy bitch is making clothes from meat for a frickin’ party? Wow.
alowishus

Nobody? Really? Okay, I guess I’ll have to say it:

Now alls we need is a tanning booth set to 11.

Bacon-wrapped cutie, anyone?
overunger

Holy friggin’ christ!!! You people all sound like little nit-picky old ladies at a church sewing circle.
Here’s a news flash : IT’S ART!!!!!

It’s a one time art piece to make a bizarre and fun, weird statement.

That’s it! That’s all!!

RE-F**KING-LAX !!! Holy god……….

Sometimes the readers here just don’t get it;

ENTROPY ,friends, ENTROPY. Have some, it’s good for evolution!

and……yeah, she is quite effing cute :}
nanuq

Great, now that you’ve given this idea publicity, some French designer will steal it and put out a new line of meat dresses. I hope you’re proud of yourself for launching the Meat n’ Greet craze.
Bob Doles Communist Doppelganger

@13:

I’d be a lot more impressed if you had spent the time and electricity that it took to make that post feeding hungry families instead. People starve on the streets of our own cities every day and this dizzy jerk is posting about making clothes from meat for a frickin’ party? Wow.

Anything I don’t like is a waste of energy and wrong, no matter how tiny the expenditure. Anything I like is justifiable, no matter how great the extravagance.
bobhughes

what’s the middle shot supposed to portray? nose-on-wrist = some kewl new pose all the hott ppl do? or is it supposed to look all uber-candid without being racy?
Takuan

spare me (or bite me). The trivial amount of resource expended on this art piece would do what exactly to end world hunger? How about if we all immediate sacrifice anything even slightly unrelated to bare survival until every social problem on the planet is solved? The energy spent here concern-trolling about “waste” is the real criminal misuse of resources. Plus it’s boring – if you’re assassinating someone, pleas, a little style?
GammaBlog

Putrid!
Takuan

I always liked the classics anyway
http://image56.webshots.com/156/5/49/62/2445549620085400608UmwbaM_fs.jpg
Brett Burton

Admit it. You did this just to piss off Morrissey.
Lobster

#16, I think she’s just covering her nose from the meat smell.
humanpower

@15:

Likewise.
Anonymous

makes me hungry. she’s smelling her meatsmell. she’s cute. meat is good.
bobhughes

i like how feigned criticism over using up a couple kb of bandwidth on transmitting text is somehow greater-than-or-equal to intentional criticism of using up ~$20 of food to produce hideous, temporary clothing
Takuan

what if….what if….what if there were a whole level beyond?
Junglemonkey

I love the “does this make me smell weird” shot in the middle. That’s really the first thing I thought – EW! What does this smell like?
Bender

@13 I think you’ll be wildly impressed with me. I’m going to fry up a couple of packages of bacon, then walk around the neighborhood calling for hungry people. “BACON HERE! FREE BACON!”

I’ll probably have to do it naked though, because I’ll be giving away the material that I was going to make pants with.
Takuan

cripes, can’t even wipe an itchy nose?
Takuan

stupid link
http://images3.makefive.com/images/200904/06bbdf26f70f60d9.jpg
humanpower

I mean: @17: Likewise.

Stoopid interwebz.
jimh

Oh Takuan, resident contrarian, I won’t bite you. Or spare(rib) you.

An astounding amount of food in the United States ends up in landfills. We see food as disposable, or in cases like this, decorative- while people are hungry. I don’t consider this justifiable.

You may not like my “concern-trolling” any more than I like your “apathy-trolling”. But, as meat dressmakers know, it’s a free country. You have the right to waste all the food you want.

But sorry for boring you Takuan, because I realize that is the worst crime evar, here.
Takuan

fingers?
Takuan

effing cute? indeed. I have questions for the model. Many questions. I would never miss an opportunity to… grill a bacon-wrapped trollop! (jest kiddin’ m’dear, no disrespect intended.)
ScottTFrazer

Wicker Park, Chicago. A most appropriate place for a meat dress, in many ways.

Also: Cosplay. With meat.

If you click through to the original page, her first lines describing the dress are:

“This is the most awesome, disgusting thing I have ever made. I reeked of salty bacon and salami, which I found out is actually quite alluring to guys.”

So I imagine that’s the reason for the middle pic.
Takuan

stinking mortals…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj35tAZ8c7o&feature=PlayList&p=8320F40B577B0B83&index=5
Anonymous

Yeah, saw this over 20 years ago in Toronto at the Power Plant.

http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/sterbak.html
Piers W

More meat dresses:

http://islandsinstitute.pbworks.com/Activism-as-Art
Takuan

oh, and Jimh? It’s correct form to be kneeling. Thanks so much.
GregLondon

Jim, do you do anything for fun? If so, how do you justify spending money on frivolous pursuits when people are starving?

Do you really need a TV? Wouldn’t that money be better spent on food for starving people? Do you really need a computer? Wouldn’t that money be better spent on foog for hungry people? Do you really have time to read BoingBoing? Wouldn’t your time be better spent volunteering at a soup kitchen?
Takuan

and take that damned cap off!
Anonymous

“how is killing a pig for art different than killing a pig for a thousand more calories than you need to get through a day?”

That is ridiculous. You’re making an incorrect assumption that anyone who eats pork is eating more of it than they need.
nutbastard

i want to marry(nade) this chick.
nutbastard

I’m only going to say this once:

Takuan for President 2012.
planettom

We’re having a meatwave, a tropical meatwave…
Takuan

one humilation was enough
http://bookstoysgames.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/cthulhu4prez-preview1.png?w=420&h=420
nearlycanadian

Art that makes you think? Well that makes it ART.

#15 HUMANPOWER – everything we consume or create beyond our immediate needs could have gone to help others. Why no one. Absolutely no one. Voluntarily lives at subsistence levels to give all they don’t need to others is a very different debate.

Definitely not a “dizzy bitch”. She has inspired admiration, reflection, revulsion and debate.

Personally I think she’s cute as hell but I’m repelled by the frock!
Bob Doles Communist Doppelganger

@Greglondon:

He justifies it because a person’s sense of proportion and outrage is radically skewed by their attachment to the thing that they’re evaluating. He doesn’t enjoy making clothes out of meat, so that’s outrageous and unacceptable. But he likes posting things on the internet, so that makes the use of a device made of toxic chemicals in a sweatshop somewhere, powered by coal-generated electricty to the tune of probably 500W the whole time it’s on, perfectly OK.

Not to say that we should embrace apathy; the problem of wasted food is a large one. But this project is not part of that problem; the motivations and particulars are different; there is not, nor is there likely to be, any significant wastage of food due to the fabrication of salami clothing.

It’s outrage as a hobby, I guess. Pretty popular, too.
WarEagle

JIMH, the entertainment i derived from your comments have more than justified this dress.
ill lich

I’ll stick with the edible panties, thanks.
Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwSToDl5TyI&feature=related
Bob Doles Communist Doppelganger

At least she didn’t do anything really horrible, like painting on the sidewalk with a bucket of water and a brush.
Takuan

Gentlemutants: I give to you the pinnacle of western civilization!

http://www.listen2unclejay.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/bacon%20bra.jpg
Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwb1s1DYnDU
Anonymous

This was done again recently in 1991 by Jana Sterbak. See http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp

Also I recall seeing one at a Marcel DuChamp retrospective in Minnesota. He was part of the Dada movement in the early 1900′s. It had been dried out for preservation. So I guess it’s now a jerky dress. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
dbarak

Three things:

I’m not impressed with using dead animals for whimsical purposes. Eating is okay in my book, even though I don’t eat meat.

I’m not impressed with using wasting any kind of food for whimsy. Too many “starving children” in Asia or wherever.

Making “stuff” out of meat is so yesterday it’s no long hip.

Okay, start the flamethrowers.
Jeeb

This has been said, but I feel like chiming in so I will…
it may be art, and it may not be contributing to world hunger, but it is, in my opinion, really REALLY bad art, and it is offensive for many reasons. It does not make one a “troll” to point that out.

ls, ‘m jst ntcng tht sm ppl wh pst hr lt r qt th sshls.
jimh

GREGLONDON: Come on, really? Whether or not I am an ascetic has nothing to do with throwing away food for fun. I know some dumpster divers who rescue food for fun, though usually they stay away from the meat products…

I’m not perfect. I make my best effort in a lot of the areas you mentioned. But if I have any spare time or savings, does that mean I’m not allowed to point out the conspicuous food waste in our society, and that I consider this “dress” an example of that?

See: Ad hominem abusive
Anonymous

There is no food shortage. Ask any American farmer. I doubt anyone would be so upset, though, if the dress were made of wheat grass, or plankton. Causes like food waste are entirely based on emotion.

My emotion: I applaud the artist and would like to invite myself over for dinner.
Takuan

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/13/taxidermy-casemod.html
Brainspore

Nice going, Takuan. That undergarment you linked to just gave me an eating disorder.
jimh

@WAREAGLE: Glad I could oblige.
apoxia

Geez Takuan, you eat a kilo of meat a day?
Takuan

(heh! I’m a vegan double agent!)
santellana

Hey baby, do fries come with that steak?
TroofSeeker

I wasn’t eating my yucky liver. “Don’t you know there are children starving in India?” Mom said, one time too many.
“Here, send ‘em this!” I pushed my plate toward her.
That got me a slap upside the head and a hungry evening alone in my room.
So maybe Jia Jam can send the dress to India. Uh- no, that doesn’t work- maybe Kenya.
stegodon

@33 I used to live in Wicker Park (Ukie Village FTW), and I don’t think this would go over so well – I’m pretty sure it’s not even from American Apparel and there’s nowhere to put your cigarettes! Plus it’s too short to cruise the fixed gear with. Total bummer. That being said, I am afraid of running into this girl for fear my dog would have a meatgasm and explode.
Takuan

on the hour
Brainspore

@ Takuan: I didn’t mean that kind of eating disorder. I meant that I’m probably going to develop some kind of bacon fetish and die of clogged arteries.

@ The “animal parts aren’t for whimsical purposes” crowd: Where were you when BoingBoing was showcasing those claw mittens and other such useless leather products?
Anonymous

though it’s been done for decades, as everyone has pointed out, i think this is pretty well put together for a meat dress. her construction process was well thought out, at least.
jimh

@BOB DOLES RED TWIN: Yes, we humans are liable to have pet issues, and one of mine (by far) is throwing away perfectly good food. We could start talking about bicycle helmet laws instead, right Takuan?
Takuan

sometimes I kill it first.
noen

I can’t believe no one has gone there yet:

She’s made out of meat.

There, now I feel better.
Moriarty

It’s not like there’s a fixed amount of food in the world and not enough to go around. Food production is limited only by area of arable land (and to a lesser extent, water). Obviously we’re not even remotely using every last acre for food production, so buying a bunch of meat and “wasting” it has zero relevance to world hunger. That meat wouldn’t have gone to Kenya or wherever no matter what. If there is a sudden nationwide disposable meat-dress craze, not one single extra person will go hungry. Instead, more animals will be raised for slaughter.
Anonymous

Hot and Absolutely EATABLE!!!
arkizzle / Moderator

“wasting food is never ok../ food for non-food purposes.. etc”

What? No more custard pie slapstick moments? No more egging politicians? Yoghurt enemas?

I don’t want anything to do with this new nightmare world you propose!
Anonymous

@moriarty

Right generally, wrong specifically. If there’s a nationwide meat dress trend then at least one more person will go hungry, I can’t afford to put meat on the table and on my body at the same time, but you know fashion hurts. Sometimes you’ve just got to suck it up and starve so you can afford your meat dress.
Ian70

What, this again?

Every few years, I guess.
TroofSeeker

Tak: “How about if we all immediate sacrifice anything even slightly unrelated to bare survival until every social problem on the planet is solved?”

Acting swiftly on Takuan’s suggestion, I did it! House, cars, all that crap- gone! Man, I feel great! Okay, who’s next?
jimh

Nope, not talking about ending world hunger. Talking about looking at food as necessary to sustain life, and at the people around you who don’t have enough. I’ll bet there are hungry people in Wicker Park, too.

But, you know, fuck them. Ima wear a meat dress, then throw it away, bia!
Anonymous

I’m sure every one at the party laughed at her and made her cry.
Mark Frauenfelder

Bob Doles Communist Doppelganger@44: Very well put. I’m going to bookmark it as a stock reply to concern trolls.
Moriarty

Yes, and the point still remains that that meat wouldn’t have been eaten by a hunry person, no matter what. It’s no different than spendin money and time on anything else that doesn’t feed the hungry. Which you’re still doing. I bet there are hunry people near where you live, too. But, you know, fuck them, I’m going to read some blogs, then self-righteously comment on them!
Antinous / Moderator

You know, every single non-food product that we use is grown/manufactured on land that could have been used to grow food instead. So your cotton frock takes food out of people’s mouths just like this carpaccio one.
Tdawwg

It’s good to see that oxygen isn’t as scarce as food is believed to be these days….
wylkyn

The money that she spent on this meat wasn’t slated for a soup kitchen, for crying out loud, and she didn’t take the packet of salami that was destined to be donated to a starving orphan. She used her own money to buy a product sold at a market and used that product to create a work of art. Stop pretending that this food would have gone to feed the hungry otherwise. That pretense is either moronic or disingenuous. I applaud concern for the hungry, but your outrage would be better spent elsewhere.
Beanolini

#72, Antinous:

You know, every single non-food product that we use is grown/manufactured on land that could have been used to grow food instead.

Apart from those that are food byproducts, e.g. leather and wool; or those produced on land unsuitable for food production.

My (hypothetical) cotton frock lasts a lot longer than this meat one.
Xopher

Noen 63: And besides, she has hardly any tits, right Noen? (In case anyone wonders why I’m saying something so rude, I’m referring to this thread, specifically this comment. Noen was far from the only offender; she’s just the only one posting in this thread too.)
my_belly

If there’s grease on her meat, she needs to find a new butcher.
Anonymous

Autobulb: You ask another anonymous sort if it would be okay to buy all the jugs of milk in the supermarket and pour them out. My answer is: absolutely. It would be expensive, but she worked for that money, and spending that money after it has been earned in turn allows the store she bought it from to keep more employees on the clock, which does more to help them feed their families than living a minimalist lifestyle ever would. If people weren’t wasteful with their food, supermarkets would hire half as many people, and all those people would be unable to feed their families.
Tdawwg

And doesn’t Amartaya Sen’s work tell us that nearly all modern-day famines, food shortages, etc., have been largely political at root? Maybe this is abetted by folks whining over bacon underwear while famines rage? Think on it.
Slicklines

I… um… think maybe it would have been better to use harp seal meat. And then put a few eagle feathers in it. Anyway, this certainly beats the clothes made from fold-out sofas idea that I had.
Takuan

next dress, she can layer it thicker and seed it with blowfly eggs. That way you could watch the hatchlings feed under the clear outer layer while she whirls on the dance floor. Might need a small fan and charcoal filter though…
Gilbert Wham

Tak: “How about if we all immediate sacrifice anything even slightly unrelated to bare survival until every social problem on the planet is solved?”

That would be, definitively, the most fucking awesome thing the human race has ever done though, innit?

#40: I find the idea of ‘more pork than you need’ troublesome. How is it possible to have that much pork? I found some belly pork at the chinese store the other day that was pickled in sherry dammit.
Anonymous

w00t Jia!
<3
Awesome Meatwad!

~Daz chan
Takuan

safe cycling!
http://www.hatsofmeat.com/turkeyhelmetJPG.jpg
Takuan

which leads to

http://www.thehumphries.org/thanksgiving/mr_bean_cooking_turkey.jpg
Takuan

wait, leather products are meat, right?
http://svetpohladnic.sk/pohladnice/obrazky/blaznivy-mr-bean-ate048.jpg
autobulb

@108 noen: “No, the point is that it is offensive to you.” Of course. That is my opinion and I am expressing it by disagreeing with the work presented here and your opinions. Nothing more. I’m not saying that this should be outlawed or something similar, because I believe in freedom. I just think that it’s a dick thing to do.

@114 anon: Just because there’s no food shortage it means that it’s okay to just waste things? I’m starting to feel so confused as to why this is considered acceptable. Is it because it’s labeled as art? If this girl went out and bought all the jugs of milk in a supermarket, and poured them down a sewer, is that just okay?

@113 jeeb: Thank you. When did it become troll behavior to have a differing unpopular opinion? So lame.. Trolling is trying to incite hatred and anger for no reason.
Anonymous

As a vegetarian dumpster-diver, who rarely misses an opportunity to be self-righteous about (a) meat consumption and (b) food wastage, I declare this dress to be fucking awesome. Being unfamiliar with what the hell she’s cosplaying, I can see it only as art, and as art, it’s great. Although I wouldn’t be able to get anywhere near her at a party to tell her so, because the smell of salami turns my stomach.

I like Takuan’s idea of letting fly eggs hatch in there, to observe the life-cycle of carrion-and-rot-consuming insects within the form of a pretty party dress. That would be very beautiful.
mazerrackham

Honestly I think this is disgusting. It’s one thing to have an animal raised and butchered for sustenance, it is another to have an animal raised and butchered so you can look “good” for a few hours at a party.

Have some respect for life…
Jia Jem

#99 – that would feel funny. Maybe I’ll try it.
Anonymous

This was a BIG Miss Steak.
Takuan

yeah? go stand out back of any restaurant and tell me what goes in the dumpster in one hour.
Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ypXgjFv750&feature=PlayList&p=BE58DF9D83612950&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=42
autobulb

Hah. I like how when someone disagrees on a certain topic they can now automatically be labeled a “concern troll.” That “troll” in there automatically discards any validity in a comment. I agree with jimh. This is wasteful/pointless/offensive. Everyone that disagrees with jimh is correct in that it’s not like the meat she wasted would have been sent to a starving family or something. But the point is that the intention is offensive. A few people remarked that maybe we should give away all our things, live at the bare minimum and help the poor. It always has to be one extreme, or the other right? Either you’re wasteful, or a mendicant that dedicates their resources to others. I’m not upset because THOSE particular pieces of food didn’t get fed to the needy, but because it shows the potential for wastefulness, overabundance, and lack of appreciation. It’s basically a big fuck you to people who can’t afford decent food. It’s sort of like saying, I have so much wealth and abundance that I can go and buy things that I don’t need just so I can waste them. That’s what gives me pleasure, wasting. My source of creativity comes from needless destruction. It’s despicable really.

Not to mention the artistic quality is nil, in my opinion, which is probably worthless to most of you anyway. I understand the value of using unique and different substances for the creation of art. Finding new ways to manipulate objects so that you can bring out their best characteristics for the thing you are creating. What does this add to a garment? Absolutely nothing. It’s nasty, smelly, and will rot within a couple of hours. What does that have to do with a garment in any way? My guess is that it’s just another attempt at shock factor.

And by the way, I know you’ll be stabbing at my lifestyle (as if you knew anything about it) so I’d like to mention that yeah, I do every single little thing I can to make sure things I consume are used to their full potential. From food, to electricity to clothing, I do my best to see that they’re not just wasted away. But there is a difference between use and waste. I am sitting here typing on a computer that may have hazardous materials, and am using up electricity for my enjoyment. But that’s different than going out and buying 10 computers, putting them in a room in an ‘artistic’ manner, and running them at 100% load so that I may throw them after a short period of time.
Takuan

meta-concern troll
TroofSeeker

Did I say fingers? I meant tendrils.
Poustman

This is how the Reavers got started, methinks.

Turn me over, I’m done on this side.

Nice to meat you.
Takuan

“Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

8But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

10When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. ”

it’s ALL transitory.
FoetusNail

So, let us say we treat all consumable animals with the utmost respect, raise them free-range and organically, and then dispatch them as humanely as possible, is it then ok to eat meat?

Until there are massive food shortages, meat will be consumed. Would it not then be better to support producers who raise animals humanely and organically, than stop eating meat altogether? Just as buying organic fruits and vegetables has provided incentives for farmers to convert over to organic farms.

Maybe individually some are vegetarian, simply because they believe killing animals is wrong, no matter how humanely done. However, the world is not going to follow your lead.

No, the only reason we will all stop eating meat, excluding the rich, is because it is unsustainable. Meat production is a very inefficient use of sunshine, soil, and water, which produces huge quantities of waste and consumes large quantities of oil.

Also, can any of us, even doing our best, say we don’t waste more food than this over the course of a year.
Takuan

does she own a dog?
mazerrackham

If you are suggesting using meat as a fashion statement is just as wasteful as throwing it in the trash I would agree with you, although “meat fashion” goes a step further and glorifies the act.
Anonymous

this dress smelled pretty bad by the end of the first night. it stuck around in the fridge for a few more days while jia tried to figure out what to do with it. i think she just tossed it in the end, or fed it to our dad… lol!
Anonymous

haha. Eeew, but honestly this is very well done. Wearing meat, makes some kind of odd statement but I’m not sure what just yet. Vanessa Beecroft should be jealous.
gabrielm

That is hawt! (and I’m a vegetarian)
RedShirt77

yuck
Beanolini

I have a vivid memory of seeing the meat dress on The Undertones’ All Wrapped Up album in a shop window when I was but a callow youth.

This one is much neater. I dread to think what it smells like, though.
stegodon

@ 69 There are lots of really skinny people (how else are you supposed to get in those tooth pants man?) but they are generally not hungry thanks to bathroom key-bumps and the nutritive value of PBR.
griffarini

There`s also the Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic.
http://collections.walkerart.org/item/object/957
Brainspore

I prefer wearing the outside of the animal, myself.
jimh

Waste of meat. (and I’m a vegetarian)
jfrancis

I saw a bunch of hipsters wearing those at Satriale’s. What a meat market.
Anonymous

I’m in love.
Takuan

to something as ephemeral as a human, it is difficult to see the relative equality of a kilo of animal protein ingested and shat out to produce energy for a day of what humans call “important activity”, a meat-dress worn once for ceremony or a leather jacket that lasts a half century as a garment.
jackie31337

Love the expression on her face in the second photo! However, I’m starting to think that maybe there are just some things that should not be made of meat. This, and brief jerky top my personal list.
Takuan

waste? The bacteria that will inevitably and and eventually receive it feel otherwise. Or do you think their lives are worthless?
TroofSeeker

Sometimes a girl is excited about a party or an event, and wants to wear a dress that gets her noticed. This very creative gal came up with a very bold, avant-gard idea. Odds are she knew it would be controversial (like so many stories that make their way here to BoingBoing). She sews, she scores!
As far as I know, she neither stole the meat, nor killed the animal(s). If you don’t care for a piece of art, move on to the next piece.
However, suppose the meat was a painting, looking like thick, juicy steak. Reduced likelyhood of a dog attack, increased for man.
piile

what a waste of lives.
noen

autobulb
“But the point is that the intention is offensive.”

No, the point is that it is offensive to you.

“It’s sort of like saying, I have so much wealth and abundance that I can go and buy things that I don’t need just so I can waste them. That’s what gives me pleasure, wasting.”

“Waste” is a value judgment. Very little on earth is actually wasted. The meat in the dress will be consumed by bacteria and returned to the biosphere. The plastic will take longer but it will succumb also. The only real waste is the slight increase in entropy caused by human activity but that won’t last very long. In another few billion years our mother will enter her red giant phase and gather her children home and that will be that.
Takuan

how about wasting perfectly good eggs on a nazi fuck?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/09/article-1191829-054858F5000005DC-344_634x519.jpg

I defy ANYONE to call that a waste.