EID Mubarak - Quitting quitting (temporarily)

Venial Sin - Greetings: "In other news, Eid is coming up (AGAIN). Islam and it�s two Eids, known�affectionately and in literal translation�as �Big Eid� and �Little Eid�, are really beginning to get my goat. No pun intended, since this is the Eid during which all good Muslims are supposed to go nuts and slaughter livestock at home in order to symbolise�well, slaughter and sacrifice. Quite frankly, the smell and sight of raw goat/cow/camel intestines and offal cooling slowly on the back lawn, next to my orchids, and the resultant hours spent in the kitchen trying desperately to package and distribute said meat to friends, family members and the �deserving�, is all rather abhorrent. Not to mention unhygienic. Sadly though, my family refuses to adopt our otherwise-tried-and-true technique of dealing with most matters; namely, throw money at the problem until it goes away. I don�t see why we don�t. The damn mounds of tripe and flesh reek, they taste awful, and it�d just be much more convenient to pay out the cost of the fucking livestock to a charity that may actually do some good with it. Poor people who can�t afford housing, or medical care, will, I suspect, not benefit greatly from being given five kilos of raw goat/cow/camel."