Amusing Finds 2

0.o I want one of those!! (Klein bottle)

Ooh. Klein bottles figure in the workings of Trinity (text game by Infocom, the folks you brought you Zork and "Hello sailor!").

'Today Programme' cartoons, referring to the recent British Government/BBC controversy, and/or parodying various characteristics of the Today programme.

The Helsingin Sanomat is running a guide to the life of a cute little piggy, right up until they cut his cute little neck, drian his blood and make cute little sausages out of him.

*Whimper.*

James and the Giant... Cherry.

Ugh pigs. *sheds a mock-tear at the thought of a hog being executed*

Roald Dahl was a bloomin' genius. Wow. *reads article several times*

If I exclaim "YUM! Pork chops!" and smack my lips you are all going to disown me, aren't you?

*shuts up*

I'm with you on this one, Rina. I was just about to ask if everyone on here was, in fact, a vege.

I was a pisco for about 18 months, but I'm told this didn't count.

I try to keep my carnivorous habits to myself in order not to offend my vegie-eating friends. :-)

What is a pisco?

All of us, vegetarians? Nay! I am an inveterate carnivore, known to disdain "rabbit food" and make disparaging comments about those who would replace good red meat with soy product (i.e. tofu).

Of course, there's no such thing as Mad Tofu Disease, so who's more sensible is probably obvious. *sullenly scarfs meatloaf anyway*

"Pisco" probably refers to a vegetarian who eats fish. There are veggos who will tell you that fish have no place in a vegetarian diet. I agree, but then I don't eat seafood. Anyone who asks me to do so more than once gets sick of my standard reply: I'm a land person. I eat land food. (There's a longer version wherein I point out that I am not a mermaid and such, but I've largely forgotten it for disuse.)

I'm a bloody carnivore and proud of it. I love meat, have little moral qualms about it and for the most part, dislike veggies.

I'm quite careless about food in other ways, too. I figured early on this; if I watch carefully what I eat I'll live longer, but I will have spent all that extra time watching what I eat. What's the damn point? x)

As the Vegetarian Society would say, "I've been a market gardener for twelve years, and I never knew a fish was a vegetable!!" They ran an awareness campaign on this issue.

Fish are animals, so pescivores aren't 'vegetarian'. It isn't really a question of whether eating fish is 'as bad' as meat. If it has eyes and isn't a potato, it counts. I confess I utterly missed the logic in the opposing theory. Hell, oysters and earthworms don't have eyes anyway and they... but never mind.

As far as I know Slen and I are the only veges here. *blinks*

I liked meat when I used to eat it. Apparently at four years old or so, I rebelled and went veggie on learning that 'the lamb on your plate' is the same as the lambs in the fields. I've had mad dead-flesh cravings recently, which is kind of disturbing.

But I hate tofu. I like the textured mushroom protein called Quorn, but apparently it doesn't exist in Merka...

And I won't evangelise. I was trying to be funny with the sensationalist schtick, but if peeps are sensitive, then I won't.

Offended?
Absolutely not!
Go ahead and post the funnies!

My health conscious Office Manager swears I'm a roach. I eat nothing but crap and yet still manage to survive. She on the other hand, has a superior diet and loves nutritious things (like green food) and catches every blasted germ that comes her way. And her kidney's like to grow stones too.

My diet offends her.


"Yer a ROACH!" She screams at me.

I beam at her and reply, "And my people have been around for millenia....."

I was very good and ate all my yucky green things and drank the juice of the orange when I was preggers with Stephanie. I was even known to actually consume water that wasn't sugared, caffinated or carbonated during that time. Thankfully, pregnancy only lasts 10 months (oh, they tell you it's 9 but ask any pregnant woman. By my math 40 weeks is 10 months!)


Chocolate is a food group, I tell you!

People who are overly-healthy make me feel so BAD! There's a girl in my year who's a vege and she's also top junior pole-vaulter in England and the stuff she brings into school... Well, you'd probably lose weight by just looking at it.

I never went down the road of arguing that fish wasn't meat, but that didn't really matter as I went pisco for different reasons.

I did a piece of coursework on it for HE GCSE and found that, provided you kept the fish in, it was easily a lot healthier. Less fat and more fibre and so on. Especially if I just replaced what would have been meat with Quorn.

It's possible for it to be much healthier if you don't eat fish as well, but it's a little more complicated to get your B12 in there and there's usually a deficiency in EFAs too, causing stuff like behavioural problems, dyslexia and ADD. (There's tonnes of stuff on this on the internet, but I'm actually copying this from one of my mum's books. She's a nutritional advisor.)

However, since the other three members of this family didn't go vege with me, I ended up eating a lot of vege ding-ding dinners. Since these were actually loaded with salt, fat and sugar I gave up and went back to good old meat!

And funnily enough felt a lot better for it. I'd had massive liver cravings when I was a vege.

And to my knowledge I've never seen Slen eat a vegetable.

"That depends. Is ketchup a vegetable?"

That's very cool how you researched the pisco diet, Julia. I always admire people who can do that.

Me, I'm a roach. *sucks on a bit of chocolate and glances around for empty Coke bottles* In middle school or so, I once tried going a week without red meat. Fish, chicken, everything was fine except beef.

By day six I learned to operate the range for the express purpose of fixing some beef to assuage the cravings. *burps* 'Scuse me.

A cat dies and goes to Heaven. God meets him at the gate and says, "You've been a good cat all of these years. Anything you desire is yours, all you have to do is ask."

The cats says, "Well, I lived all my life with a poor family on a farm and had to sleep on hardwood floors."

God says, "Say no more."

And instantly, a fluffy pillow appears.

A few days later, 6 mice are killed in a tragic accident and they go to Heaven. God meets them at the gate with the same offer that He made the cat.

The mice said, "All our lives we've had to run. We've been chased by cats, dogs and even women with brooms. If we could only have a pair of roller skates, we wouldn't have to run anymore."

God says, "Say no more." And instantly, each mouse is fitted with a beautiful pair of tiny roller skates.

About a week later, God decides to check and see how the cat is doing. The cat is sound asleep on his new pillow. God gently wakes him and asks, "How are you doing? Are you happy here?"

The cat yawns and stretches and says, "Oh, I've never been happier in my life. And those Meals on Wheels you've been sending over are the best!"

*sob* Went to Liv's on Saturday and on the way to the Chinese takeaway we drove past a dead badger. =,(
And then, to make matters worse, after I took Slen home I drove back to Hartford and passed another one.

Oh! By the way, my dad's getting a new car soon. Actually it's the same car in a slightly different design. We had the Agulia Enjoy, we're getting the Aguila Design. Check out the features:

Air-conditioning
CDR 2005 stereo radio/CD player
Driver's seat height adjuster
Front passenger's airbag
Remote control central locking!!!!!!
Electrically operated front windows
Electrically adjustable door mirrors
Multi-function display panel
Height-adjustable outer rear head restraints
Roof rails
Interior pollen filter (Julia and Paul friendly)
Air recirculation system
Flush wheel covers
Chrome-plated exhaust tailpipe
Leather-covered steering wheel and gear knob

I like this car already. Wonder if Daddykins will get it in purple...

*dies* Adore the joke, MommyRina.

(Baskerville wants to comment about leather-covered gear knobs. Oh dear dog.)