Polish politician fumes over 'gay' elephant
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A Polish politician has criticised his local zoo for acquiring a "gay" elephant named Ninio who prefers male companions and will probably not procreate, local media reported today.
"We didn't pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there," Michal Grzes, a conservative councillor in the city of Poznan in western Poland, was quoted as saying.
"We were supposed to have a herd, but as Ninio prefers male friends over females how will he produce offspring?" said Grzes, who is from the right-wing opposition Law and Justice party.
The head of the Poznan zoo said 10-year-old Ninio may be too young to decide whether he prefers males or females as elephants only reach sexual maturity at 14.
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Come to think of it, this might throw a new light on the Julian Tuwim's delightful poem "Mr. Trabalski the Absent-Minded Elephant", which all Polish children used to know by heart. Perhaps Trabalski's mind was just on other things. Like his forthcoming prosecution for cottaging.
As a general point, walking the path less travelled does seem to be more common than you'd think in the rest of the animal kingdom. I well remember when I worked in the Ministry of Agriculture many years ago that we had one farmer very irate because the stud bull which he'd just shelled out a large sum of money to acquire just wasn't interested in girls (this was in the days before AI). As I left the farm the bull was standing with his front legs propped on two upturned buckets while they backed a cow towards him. But even that didn't work it seems, so the poor animal had to be turned into Bovril.
there is only Poland which has got a problem with catholic bigotry in central and eastern Europe.
Czechs are atheists, Slovakians are moderate. Any other countries in eastern europe are orthodox religion countries.
Can agree with Balkan states, however religion is one of the many issues dividing these nations and causing problems in this part of the world.
Noddy was said to be gay! The purple teletubby as well!
Do these people have nothing else in their pathetic little lives?
So if you want to be hung up on Polish catholic bigotry you have to find better topic because this one makes no sense
AN ELEPHANT THAT GOES SLAM-BANG-THANK-YOU-MA'AM:
GIVE THE JUVENILE SOME CREDIT AND TIME FOR GOD'S SAKE. NO, HE'D RATHER COMPLAIN ABOUT THE NON-EXISTENT ANIMAL'S SEXUAL PERFORMANCE. WHY HAVE THEY BOUGHT A JUVENILE IN THE FIRST PLACE , THAT IS, IF THEY ARE THIS IMPATIENT ? MY HUMBLE GUESS IS THAT THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH THE ELEPHANT. NOTING THAT THE POLITICIAN IS A RIGHT-WINGER,PERHAPS IN A FEW YEARS TIME WE HEAR AGAIN OF SUCH POLITICIAN EMBROILED WITH SOME NAUGHTY BUSINESS. GOOD FOR HIM AND GAY OR NOT, BLESS THE ELEPHANT.