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There's a big difference between vegan and vegetarian. Vegans are the people who won't wear anything made of leather, eat cheese/milk/eggs, etc.
Vegetarians do represent an important problem. It's been said countless times that the whole world couldn't possibly eat the amount of meat we eat in the US and the most likely alternative is bugs that people eat everywhere but that we find icky in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if the day comes before I die that bacon and burgers are luxury items. And the number of articles I read about people being healthier after they switch is ridiculous.
That said most of the vegetarians I've known aren't vegetarians for those reasons, instead they simply don't want to eat animal life or any animals that have been industrialized in pens (the details are rather unappetizing).
On February 08 2014 16:23 Sufficiency wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2014 16:17 phyvo wrote:On February 08 2014 13:15 Lord Tolkien wrote:I feel a certain schadenfreude when it's Russia we're talking about. There's an entire subreddit dedicated to these problems. http://www.reddit.com/r/sochiproblems That toilet paper in toilet one is actually pretty common in old world countries with ancient plumbing. The pipes just aren't wide enough for toilet paper and you can actually clog up things up big time as a result. A lot of the other stuff is funny but that one I can understand to a certain extent. I seriously, I mean SERIOUSLY, doubt this is still a problem anywhere in Russia. Some people just got so used this that they never change. I recall in Korea they had to ran a campaign to stop people from keeping toilet paper in bins. I've had peers in university doing this in apartments.... IN CANADA. Old tradition dies hard.
Well, keep in mind they were upgrading basically a nowhere town into a city in just 7 years. Obviously they could have done some kind of a better job in many areas but, as I said, as far as plumbing goes I'm not blaming them that much.
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Yeah all vegetarians I've known well just did it for health reasons and not "OMG YOU'RE KILLING ANIMALS HOW DARE YOU MURDERER."
I've met some vegans in college though and they were all the stereotype like Red seems to have met too, where they do say exactly the above. Trying to be on their high horse like they're better than you and that they're making this huge difference in the world while you're just some dirty rotten meat eater. o.e It's like "wtf?"
Although in my one class I have a family of 3 women, all vegetarians, all ~200+ lbs. It's like, my god, do you suck down a tube of ice cream/day?
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has anyone found a way to stream Olympics without having cable?
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being a vegetarian is normally healthier because they automatically think to eat more vegetables and watch their diet
if you just eat ice cream chocolate cake etc all the shit most people eat all the time you'll still be fat
there's no reason to think meat makes you fat its just non-vegetarians are less likely to be food concious.
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How do you know if someone is a vegetarian or a vegan? Don't worry they'll tell you.
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Vegans are pretty much the catholics of all the vegetarian denominations that tell you you're going to hell and gives the other catholics a bad name. As for the family, it all comes down to what the rest of their diet is. I've gained a bit of weight recently, but that's largely because I've gotten a bit addicted to caffeine so I've been drinking hella amounts of soda.
On February 09 2014 02:18 wei2coolman wrote:
How do you know if someone is a vegetarian or a vegan? Don't worry they'll tell you.
I've had people pick up on me being left handed before they picked up on my vegetarianism.
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On February 09 2014 02:18 Gahlo wrote:
Vegans are pretty much the catholics of all the vegetarian denominations that tell you you're going to hell and gives the other catholics a bad name. As for the family, it all comes down to what the rest of their diet is. I've gained a bit of weight recently, but that's largely because I've gotten a bit addicted to caffeine so I've been drinking hella amounts of soda.
Caffeine? TEAAAAAAAAA
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
I can confirm Tea is awesome.
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On February 09 2014 02:19 AsmodeusXI wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2014 02:18 Gahlo wrote:
Vegans are pretty much the catholics of all the vegetarian denominations that tell you you're going to hell and gives the other catholics a bad name. As for the family, it all comes down to what the rest of their diet is. I've gained a bit of weight recently, but that's largely because I've gotten a bit addicted to caffeine so I've been drinking hella amounts of soda. Caffeine? TEAAAAAAAAA
Is there a cherry coke tea? I'd drink the fuck out of that.
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On February 09 2014 02:18 wei2coolman wrote:
How do you know if someone is a vegetarian or a vegan? Don't worry they'll tell you.
I know it's just a meme but having met quiet a few vegans/vegetarians that couldn't shut up about it was super annoying.
I'm fine with everyone chosing their own diet but please stfu about it after you told me.
The worst are, as BlackPaladin said, the vegans that even look down on you as a filthy Meat consumer. The irony is I've met 2 of them that wore Leather shoes while they told me about their vegan lifestyle and one of them said "I'm vegan but I eat fish!" (yeah I know there's a seperate term for that but still...)
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On February 09 2014 02:22 Gahlo wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2014 02:19 AsmodeusXI wrote:On February 09 2014 02:18 Gahlo wrote:
Vegans are pretty much the catholics of all the vegetarian denominations that tell you you're going to hell and gives the other catholics a bad name. As for the family, it all comes down to what the rest of their diet is. I've gained a bit of weight recently, but that's largely because I've gotten a bit addicted to caffeine so I've been drinking hella amounts of soda. Caffeine? TEAAAAAAAAA Is there a cherry coke tea? I'd drink the fuck out of that.
There's any kind of tea you'd want. It's an awesome brewage like that.
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Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
I've had a really different experience. I only found out my co-workers and friends were vegetarian until we went out to a restaurant together and they asked what the vegetarian options were since the menu didn't specify.
I suppose it depends on why people became vegetarian or the like. If people choose a certain lifestyle because of moral superiority and they insist it's their duty try and convert people, they're probably going to be really preachy regardless of what that choice is.
On February 09 2014 02:31 Alaric wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2014 02:22 Gahlo wrote:On February 09 2014 02:19 AsmodeusXI wrote:On February 09 2014 02:18 Gahlo wrote:
Vegans are pretty much the catholics of all the vegetarian denominations that tell you you're going to hell and gives the other catholics a bad name. As for the family, it all comes down to what the rest of their diet is. I've gained a bit of weight recently, but that's largely because I've gotten a bit addicted to caffeine so I've been drinking hella amounts of soda. Caffeine? TEAAAAAAAAA Is there a cherry coke tea? I'd drink the fuck out of that. There's any kind of tea you'd want. It's an awesome brewage like that.
For something with a slight bitter but refreshing kick, barley tea is a good place to start.
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On February 09 2014 02:27 AsnSensation wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2014 02:18 wei2coolman wrote:
How do you know if someone is a vegetarian or a vegan? Don't worry they'll tell you. I know it's just a meme but having met quiet a few vegans/vegetarians that couldn't shut up about it was super annoying. I'm fine with everyone chosing their own diet but please stfu about it after you told me. The worst are, as BlackPaladin said, the vegans that even look down on you as a filthy Meat consumer. The irony is I've met 2 of them that wore Leather shoes while they told me about their vegan lifestyle and one of them said "I'm vegan but I eat fish!" (yeah I know there's a seperate term for that but still...)
The only type of vegetarians I've met that have been quiet about their diet, are my buddhist relatives. But, all the vegetarians in my age group are all jumping on the fad so hard, "OH THIS IS WHY MY RAW VEGAN DIET IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR FACTORY FARMED CHICKEN THAT YOU'RE EATING." "MY ORGANIC RAW BROCCOLI IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT".
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thing is you can eat chicken AND Broccoli
which is what they like feed actors when they're bulking up for a movie
chicken is good
broccoli is good
WHY NOT BOTH
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On February 09 2014 02:16 jcarlsoniv wrote:
has anyone found a way to stream Olympics without having cable?
I just been watching everything online through CBC. I'm sure there is an american equivalent.
Check like BBC's website.
EDIT:
Ez; http://stream.nbcolympics.com/nbcsn-coverage/winter/15452
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Day 2: Still no water. Girlfriend driven away by unshaven face and inability to use the bathroom. Considering peeing in the shower until conditions improve.
One can only hope we can survive the winter.
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On February 09 2014 02:37 Requizen wrote:
Day 2: Still no water. Girlfriend driven away by unshaven face and inability to use the bathroom. Considering peeing in the shower until conditions improve.
One can only hope we can survive the winter.
Better drink your own piss.
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Maybe something about me draws out the worst vegetarians. I am like a walking sign that says 'I eat a lot of meat(gay jokes)' and diet ends up being a pretty common conversational point so perhaps that's it, I'm not sure. Maybe northeast Ohio is some hotbed for judgemental vegetarians that think they are the person to finally convince me that animals are not on this planet for me to consume and I must turn to plant life for sustenance. I mean, I've had some very overweight people try to inform me why what I'm doing in the gym is wrong, this could be the nutritional equivalent.
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the thing is eating less meat just reduces the quantity of animals not the quality of life. its an animal rights problem more than anything.
maybe people work on organic meats they'd at least get business from the hipsters
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On February 09 2014 02:37 Requizen wrote:
Day 2: Still no water. Girlfriend driven away by unshaven face and inability to use the bathroom. Considering peeing in the shower until conditions improve.
One can only hope we can survive the winter.
Where do you live?
Supposed to be a huge snowstorm today (people saying biggest this season for us), yet nothing atm.
Past 2 weeks have been crazy. 3 huge snowstorms, and still no power in some arenas outside of Philly/NJ. Luckily we only lost power of like 4-6 hours (Philly).
I hate this winter.
edit: Also was 8-2 in Arena, I play Deathwing vs. a Rogue with 1 card in hand and 11 life. He draws says gg and passes turn for me to swing. I draw card and Hearthstone crashes on me for some reason.
So salty.
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