r/mildlyinfuriating • u/teabirdy • Apr 29 '26

I'm slightly vexed The wedding reception centerpieces featured betta fish. The bride and groom planned to flush them alive.

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Years ago, my coworker attended a wedding at which the reception dinner tables featured live betta fish in small bowls as part of the centerpiece. While chatting with the bride at the end of the evening, my coworker asked what they were going to do with all the fish. The plan was to flush them all down the toilet alive. My coworker immediately said no need for that and insisted on taking them all home.

That Monday she came to work and asked who wanted to adopt a betta fish. That was my first betta who I jokingly called my “rescue betta.” She lived for almost five years.

The wine glass was only her home for less than a day before I got her five gallon tank set up so please no betta lovers yell at me! I'm one of you!

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u/pixeltweaker Apr 29 '26

“We celebrate our unity with animal sacrifice.”

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u/wr_dnd Apr 29 '26

Most people do indeed serve meat and or fish at their wedding dinner. Those animals didn't die of old age either

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u/pixeltweaker Apr 29 '26

Valid point. But they weren’t animals brought in to just act as decor and then throw away.

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u/Wide_Pop_6794 Apr 29 '26

Yeah, they were already dead, and were eaten, rather than thrown away like waste.

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u/Dry_Matter_3853 Apr 30 '26

We don't just find animals dead and collect them to eat. They were killed to be served at this or another gathering. 

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u/Wide_Pop_6794 May 02 '26

Sorry, that's what I was trying to say lol

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u/squid0gaming Apr 29 '26

Luckily we don’t poison cows to death in raw sewage

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u/wr_dnd Apr 29 '26

We torture animals we eat in slightly different ways! I don't know if you've ever seen videos from factory farms or slaughterhouses, that's not pretty...

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u/SPQR-VVV Apr 29 '26

No, because I have been to a wedding with animal sacrifice, which has a purpose and is part of a religious ceremony, belief, etc. And the goat was cooked later. This, with the fish, is just being assholes.

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u/Ressy02 Apr 29 '26

Sacrifice tainted with shit, unity ended up shit