I'm fairly sure it's fine to own one of those pipes here, in fact, I'm sure there's a retaurant that lets people smoke apple flavoured stuff. I could never go with my mates, tobacco of all kinds gives me a migrane.

 On the PETA topic, I used to be a supporter, until I learned how hypocritical they are, my biology major also helped. I love animals, part of why I want to be a vet, I'm very pro animal rights, but I still eat meat. The way they treat animals for slaughter in this country is very humane, it has to be, to meet oodles of quality standards for export. Besides which fact the human digestive tract was set up for an omnivorous diet, it's too short to be soley vegetarian. We just can't get the nutriants we need out of vegetables. It also pisses me off when they make thier pets go vegan, a dog is supposed to be omnivorous, and cats are built to be carnivores. It should be animal abuse to force a creature to go against it's natural diet just to suit your sensibilities. Mind you, unless kitty is kept inside all the time, it's highly unlikely it'll stay vegan 'because it loves you'.

 All that bull about milk containing puss, pfft, puss is dead white blood cells, sure, milk contains immunoglobulins to help baby cow, but immunoglobulins do not puss make. Besides, cows need to be milked, we've bred them for so long to have higher milk yield they just keep producing, until thier cisternae fill, then milk production stops. It causes the animal extreme discomfort to have full udders, hence why they're all to happy to have them emptied by the milk pumps (which are quite nifty). Also, mastitis (udder inflammation, usually caused by infection) is easily remedied by milking. Sea kittens make me laugh, 'nuff said.
 I'm all for arthropods as well, gotta love wetas  . Where's their 'save me from women with shoes' campaign for them? Or octopuses and native snails for that matter. I see great lack of ethical treatment for any animals that aren't equipped with vertebrae.

 **jumps off soapbox before she gets thrown off**

 I got my partner spore for christmas, because he'd wanted it since it came out. I managed to get a 2nd-hand copy of galactic edition for really cheap (about NZ$40 than in shops at the time), what I didn't realise was that the arse that sold it to me had already registered with that disc online and was on-selling because he didn't need it anymore. We installed it anyway, thinking who needs the net when you can play it without logging on.
 Hubby wasn't bothered until he got the expansion pack. You apparently need to register online to install updates, as well as expansion packs. Needless to say, we were quite miffed.
 We decided to tell EA we now owned the disk with this serial number, so could they transfer it to us, weeks later we got a reply from EA saying that we'd need permission of the seller to do so. Needless to say, seller didn't reply at all to any of our e-mails. The other way was either to send the disk and US$10 to EA to get a new numer, or pay NZ$75 for a new disk. In the end it was cheaper to buy a new disk and onsell that, and when we did it, we were honest. The guy who bought it was over the moon, cheap spore, & he had a valid reason to stop his kid internetting with it.
 Now, we've got everything (supposedly) running all smooth like, his expansion pack parts and textures and whatnot have dissapeared. I've made creatures using them in the past, but the option to edit them is not available, because we don't have the ep. It all makes me so angry...I will definitley be avoiding TS3 if this is the shite I can expect.

 I've just spent the better part of my afternoon trawling through this thread (instead of finishing my assignment) and I can honestly say the content on this 'supposed' PG-13 site makes my skin crawl.
 Don't get me wrong, I'm no saint, or a prude, but that's not the sort of thing I want any sprogs to see. The fact there are wee ones on there oblivious to the dangers also frightens me a little.

 On the topic of the swimsuit/underwear: I don't think they're too bad, unless they're meant as a way of objectifying women in the services. The skull seems to have the word 'Ranger' above it, almost makes me think of DnD.