kerble wrote:

n.c. wrote: I'm also at work and I find really long posts really boring.

Betcha if we did a word count, your post would be just as long as Mr. Chimp's. It's no big deal if you have work to do, but don't act like the argument isn't valid because you don't have time for it. That's lazy.

Thank you, Faiz.

You know, I originally chose to pass over this comment , but I will say this:

Posts on this thread by me, Mr. Chimp, have not once argued for the pure meat diet, or that eating vegetables is stupid or any of that bullshit.

Here. Allow me to quote from my first post:

Mr. Chimp, he done wrote:My hope is to not have alienated anyone who chooses to eat more meat than me, or no meat at all.

Vegetarianism is only crap if you are not eating what you want.

The point of this statement was that I affirm anyone who eats what they want to.


Allow me to quote from my second post:

Mr. Chimp, again he done wrote:So, in conclusion, be a vegetarian or a vegan, or eat only squid or silt or sandstone or monkey breast and opossum head soup if you like.

Just please get your facts straight.

The point of this statement was twofold:
that I affirm anyone who eats what they want to.
And if they are going to discuss it, to discuss it with their facts straight.

There was no challenge issued to defend a choice of lifestyle, this was purely a factual-based response to a statement.

Perhaps, in the context of "omnivorism", humans are herbivores as much as they are carnivores.

But to base a whole "argument" on the thought that vegetarians don't eat meat because "humans are herbavores" - all the derogatory words in the world will not change that into an accurate statement.

Mr. Chimp wrote:

Mr. Chimp, he done wrote:My hope is to not have alienated anyone who chooses to eat more meat than me, or no meat at all.

Vegetarianism is only crap if you are not eating what you want.

The point of this statement was that I affirm anyone who eats what they want to.

Absomolutely. Which is why I find arguments like those put forth by folks like 'copters, that try to point out some supposed logical inconsistency in my fucking choice of what I, as an adult omnivore with the capacity to make choices, have decided to eat and to not eat, so tiresome.

Eat whatcha want. I won't piss on your burgers if you dont give me shit for not wanting to go to Dairy Queen with you. All must live and die in their own way. Natch, I'd love it if more would choose to eat like me, if only because then more restaurants would have vegan choices, but I dont see any reason to push that.

Salut, Mr. Chimp! May you live a long and prion-free life!

Mr. Chimp wrote:The point of this statement was that I affirm anyone who eats what they want to.

but what if all i wanna eat is toddlers?

ad absurdum THAT! HA!

PS - endofanera, you gotta admit, you had to tap-dance a little when i pointed out that you wear a leather coat all the time. admit it. c'mon.

toomanyhelicopters wrote:PS - endofanera, you gotta admit, you had to tap-dance a little when i pointed out that you wear a leather coat all the time. admit it. c'mon.

All the time? I dunno if you noticed, but it's summer out.

And no, I didnt tap dance at all. My reasons for my dietary choices are quite different than the ones youre prolly used to hearing. Hell, my shoes are suede! SUEDE, I tell you! The cruelest of all leathers!!! And I wear them with pride!!!



Well, as much pride as they deserve, that is.

see, those shoes really aren't so good for tap. you might wanna rethink them and go more for something like, i dunno, this?



just sayin. hippie.

Being able to do whatever you want because you want to is definitely an intelligent reason to do it.

That herbivoures are incapable of digesting meat is a good one, too. What happens to it when they swallow it? It just sits there forever? Where'd we get mad cow disease from? Cuz I'm pretty sure it came from feeding Cows cow meat.

That all studies are inconclusive and not to be trusted because you can always find a study proving the oposite is also very intellegent rationale.

Can you concede that eating meat, eggs, and dairy contributes to high blood pressure? Can we agree that high blood pressure contributes to heart disease?

I don't recall telling anyone not to eat meat. It's your choice absolutely. But there are drawbacks to a meat based diet. I think that pointing out these drawbacks in a post that started out anti-vegetarian is pretty ok, right?

I mean fuck. shit. Do you want to fight?

-n

I quote myself in your general direction.

kerble wrote:But really, as long as I don't have to put up with some diatribe about my decision to feast on flesh, NOT CRAP.

Otherwise, get bent. What're you gonna do? Kick my ass with the awesome power of carrots?

All the love,

Faiz

By the by, I just like arguing.

No blood, no fowl, right?




Faiz

Hey - still vegan here.

But who cares?

I just got a new mixing board - a Soundcraft 600 16x8x2. I like it. Anone else owned one of these?

Also - I was helping my father shop for some new speakers a couple weeks ago. For whatever reason, we were using Baba O'Reily by The Who as our reference song at one place. During the part at the very beginning when the piano chords first come in there was what I thought was distortion in the recording on the fist set of 2-way speakers, but then, when we listened to the same thing on a set of full-range floorstanders, I could distinctly hear it as a rattling somewhere in the original acoustic source (the piano). Has anyone else noticed this? How do you feel about it? Is it an asset to the recording that was left in on purpose, or a mistake someone should have noticed and fixed?

vegan, n.c.

I've got a fever right now..editing this message..didn't make much sense..will update with how I feel about the subject later. WHEE!